IGNOU MEG 10 Syllabus - English Studies in India

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IGNOU MEG 10 Course Details

Course Code

MEG 10

Course Title

English Studies in India

Course Type

Optional Course

Blocks

Total 8 Blocks

Programme

MEG : Master’s Degree in English

University

IGNOU ( Indira Gandhi National Open University )

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MEG 10 - Block 1 Syllabus

Block 1 - Institutionalisation of English Studies in India

Unit 1 – Entry of English: A Historical Overview
Unit 2 – Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
Unit 3 – A View of Post Independence Debates
Unit 4 – Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium

MEG 10 - Block 2 Syllabus

Block 2 - Beginnings of Indian English Writing

Unit 1 – The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
Unit 2 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
Unit 3 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
Unit 4 – Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life

MEG 10 - Block 3 Syllabus

Block 3 - Beginnings of The Indian English Novel

Unit 1 – The Contexts of Bankim
Unit 2 – Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-I
Unit 3 – Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-II
Unit 4 – Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s Other Novels

MEG 10 - Block 4 Syllabus

Block 4 - Different Englishes

Unit 1 – Evolution of English
Unit 2 – Nativisation of English in Post Independent India (Functions of English)
Unit 3 – Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
Unit 4 – Intelligibility of Indian English Globally

MEG 10 - Block 5 Syllabus

Block 5 - Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature

Unit 1 – Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Unit 2 – The March of TELI in India
Unit 3 – Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context
Unit 4 – English Teaching in India
Unit 5 – The Lie of the Land: English in India
Unit 6 – Publishing in India and English Studies

MEG 10 - Block 6 Syllabus

Block 6 - Questioning the ‘Canon’

Unit 1 – Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
Unit 2 – The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon
Unit 3 – Possibilities of New Agreements
Unit 4 – Exploding English: Criticism, Theory and Culture
Unit 5 – The Crisis in English Studies
Unit 6 – Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base

MEG 10 - Block 7 Syllabus

Block 7 - Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing

Unit 1 – Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
Unit 2 – Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
Unit 3 – Feminism: Indian English Writers
Unit 4 – The Dalit Canon

MEG 10 - Block 8 Syllabus

Block 8 - Decolonising The Mind

Unit 1 – Orientalism and After
Unit 2 – Literature and Nationalism
Unit 3 – Decolonising the Mind
Unit 4 – Civilisational Conflicts in Literature
Unit 5 – Resisting Colonisation and Re-Colonisation

IGNOU MEG 10 Syllabus – English Studies in India