IGNOU MEG 3 Syllabus | British Novel

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Here you will get the full syllabus for the IGNOU MEG 3 : British Novel

The syllabus of IGNOU MEG 3 is divided in 9 blocks and each block is again divided in units.

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A flowchart illustrating the structure of the IGNOU MEG 3 syllabus. A central circle labelled 'MEG 3' is connected to nine boxes, labelled 'Block 1' through 'Block 9', showing the complete course structure.

Block 1 - Henry Fielding: Tom Jones​

  • Unit 1 – Some Aspects of Fiction
  • Unit 2 – As we First Read Tom Jones
  • Unit 3 – Important Thematic Areas in Tom Jones
  • Unit 4 – Characters as Characterisations
  • Unit 5 – Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns?
  • Unit 6 – Feminist Concerns in Fielding
  • Unit 7 – Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones
  • Unit 8 – Narration in Fiction and Thir World Preferences
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Block 2 - Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

  • Unit 1 – The Novel in its Context
  • Unit 2 – Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-I
  • Unit 3 – Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-II
  • Unit 4 – Characters in the Novel
  • Unit 5 – The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice
  • Unit 6 – Critical Perspectives
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Block 3 - Wuthering Heights

  • Unit 1 – Background to Wuthering Heights
  • Unit 2 – The Problem of Narrative
  • Unit 3 – ‘Gift of God’: Heathcliff
  • Unit 4 – ‘You Look Like A Lady Now’: Significance of Catherine
  • Unit 5 – Wuthering Heights: One Hundred and Fifty Years
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Block 4 - Charles Dicknens: Great Expectations

  • Unit 1 – Background
  • Unit 2 – Great Expectations and Self-Improvement
  • Unit 3 – Improvement or Disintegration?
  • Unit 4 – Great Expectations and The Fairytale
  • Unit 5 – Crime and Respectability
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Block 5 - George Eliot: Middlemarch

  • Unit 1 – Approaching the Novel
  • Unit 2 – Themes, Characters, Techniques
  • Unit 3 – Philosophical Underpinnings
  • Unit 4 – Eliot’s Perspectives
  • Unit 5 – The Finale
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Block 6 - Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness

  • Unit 1 – His Story and History
  • Unit 2 – Literary Analysis-I
  • Unit 3 – Literary Analysis-II
  • Unit 4 – Race, Empire, Gender in Heart of Darkness
  • Unit 5 – The Lengthening Shadow
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Block 7 - James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • Unit 1 – Contexts
  • Unit 2 – Genre, Overall Structure and Point of View
  • Unit 3 – Stephen’s Growth and Personality
  • Unit 4 – Technique
  • Unit 5 – Critical Perspectives: A Brief Selective Overview
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Block 8 - Edward Morgan Forester: A Passage to India

  • Unit 1 – Passages to India
  • Unit 2 – Representations of India (A): Approaches to the Novel
  • Unit 3 – History and A Passage to India
  • Unit 4 – Race Class and Gender in a Passage to India
  • Unit 5 – Representations of India (B): Religions in the Novel
  • Unit 6 – Passages from India
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Block 9 - Muriel Sprak: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  • Unit 1 – The English Novel: Modernism and After
  • Unit 2 – Muriel Spark: Her life, her Works, and the Text
  • Unit 3 – Analysing the Text-I
  • Unit 4 – Analysing the Text-II
  • Unit 5 – The English Novel: 1960s and After
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