Master of Art in Hindi Literature

OPENG 101 – Language and Communication Skills 1. Sentences (i) Basic Sentence types (ii) Coordination and subordination (only finite Clause) (iii) Different Concepts or Notions (such as request, order, question, condition, purpose, suggestion, wishes, hope, intention, obligation, contrast, concession) 2. Theme Writing 3. Word substitution, Idioms and Phrases, Synonyms and Antonyms OPENG 102 –Elizabethan and Augustan Age I 1. Renaissance and Reformation Movements 2. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi 3. Shakespeare: Othello, The Tempest 4. Bacon: Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Parents, Of Simulation and Dissimulation, Of Single And Married Life, Donne: The Following poems from The Metaphysical Poets (ed. Helen Gardner, Rupa & Company, New Delhi): The Sunne Rising, The Canonization, The Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Valediction: Of Weeping, The Flea, The Relique, Batter My heart OPENG 103 –Pre-Romantic and Romantic Age I 1. French Revolution and Romantic Movement 2. William Collins: Ode to Simplicity, Ode to Evening 3. Thomas Gray: Ode on the Distant Prospect of Eton College, Ode On the Death of a Favourite Cat, 4. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey 5. S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan 6. Shelley: The Cloud, To a Skylark and Keats: