M.A. English Literature

The Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth offers M.A. English Literature course to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

English Literature from Chaucer to 1660 Excluding Shakespeare
Shakespeare
English Literature from 1660 to 1798
English Literature from 1798 to 1832
English Literature from 1832 to 1900
English Literature in the Twentieth Century
Literary Criticism
Optional Papers
I. Authors for special study - Any one of the following
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) R.K. Narayan
II. American Literature
III. Elementary Linguistics and the Structure of English
IV. Indian English Literature
V. Indian English Women Novelists
VI. Tragedy
VII. Sanskrit Poetics in English Translation
VIII. Russian Literature in English Translation
IX. Essay

This paper is aimed at preparing the students for NET examinations. So, the
questions will be set from both M.A. Previous and M.A. Final courses.