Ph.D. in English

 

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Department of English at Era University focuses on developing the language skills of the students in all courses on Era Campus.It works towards imparting Professional Communication, English Language, Soft Skills and Grammar.
With the advent of the global economy, polity and society, the entire world has come on a single platform. Towards this purpose, there has been global connectivity for which a single language network unites the world. Professional Communication has acquired new dimensions inclusive of English Language Teaching (ELT) forayed into Medical English, Legal English, and English for Business Communication and Technical Communication.
The Department of English offers degrees at Ph.D. level. MA in English is soon to be introduced by 2022.

ELIGIBILITY
  • A candidate should have obtained a Master’s Degree in English with a minimum of 55% marks (50% for SC/ST) in aggregate or equivalent grade.
  • Those candidates who have qualified NET/ SLET shall be exempted from the entrance test.
COURSE DURATION

3½ Years

COURSES OFFERED

Ph.D. in English
MA English (to start in 2022)

SYLLABUS FOR ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

Unit 1:

  • History of English Literature
  • Age of Chaucer
  • Elizabethan Age
  • Caroline and Restoration Age
  • Augustan Age
  • Romantic Age
  • Victorian Age
  • Modern and Postmodern Age

Unit 2:

  • Literary Criticism
  • Aristotle
  • Indian Aesthetics: Alankara, Aucitya, Samiksha, Rasa
  • Modern Criticism: William Wordsworth-Poetry and Poetic diction
  • Tradition and Individual Talent-T.S. Eliot
  • Feminist Criticism
  • Psychological Criticism
  • Psycho-analytic Criticism
  • Structuralism
  • Deconstruction

Unit 3
Literary Forms
Lyric, Ode, Elegy, Epic, Sonnet, Ballad, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Farce, Melodrama, Satire

Unit 4

  • Poetry
  • Fiction, Short Story
  • Drama
  • Novels