BU Bhopal Ph D Entrance Exam

Can you provide me the Syllabus for Ph.D. Entrance Exam English for admission in Barkatullah University, Bhopal as I need it for preparation?

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The Syllabus for Ph.D. Entrance Exam English for admission in Barkatullah University, Bhopal is as follows:

Section A
History of English Literature : 14th century to Present Day

Section B
British Literature
1. Chaucer to Shakespeare
2. Jacobean and Neo-Classical Periods
3. Pre-Romantic & Romantic Period
4. Victorian Period
5. Twentieth Century Literature to Present
All major authors and their works

Section C
American Literature
1. History
2. Major Writers & their works

Section D
Indian Writing in English
1. History
2. Major Writers & their works

Section E
Literary Theories and Criticism – Plato to the Present

Section F
1. Linguistics - Definition of Linguistics, branches, characteristics, Language varieties,
Register & style, Language variation and Sociolinguistics, Language change.
Synchronic, Diachronic & historical linguistics, Minimal and non-minimal pairs.
Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds,
Competence and Performance, Morphology, IC Analysis, Ambiguities.

2. Phonetics - Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of
Speech Sounds, Consonants & Vowels. International Phonetic Alphabet, The
Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory.
International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The
Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory. Transcriptions – Phonetic phonemic, Strong and
weak forms, word Accent, the Word stress rules, intonation and rhythm in connected
speech. Difference between R.P & G.I.E.

3. Stylistics - Nature and scope; Figures of speech; Imagery, Morphology, Linguistic
Analysis, Phonology; Foregrounding, Repetition, Collocation, Collocational clash,
Inversion, parallelism, coupling, embedding.


Recommended Reading
Crompton Ricket, History of English Literature
Albert, E, History of English Literature, Fifth edition
W H Long, History of English Literature
E. A. Baker, History of English Fiction.
G.S.Fraser: The Modern Writer and His World
Hugh Walker, Essays & Essayists
Nicoll, A, Theory of drama
Nicoll, A, Studies in Shakespeare
Kettle, A, Introduction to the English Novel
Neill, D, Short history of the English Novel
Butcher (tr.): Aristotle’s Poetics
Scott James : The Making of Literature
David Daiches: Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader ( Long man)
H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.): Critical theory since 1965 (Florida State University Press)
A. H. Gilbert Literary Criticism Plato to Dryden.
T. Eagleton: Literary Theory an Introduction ( Blackwell Oxford, 1983)
Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)
A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.
Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)
David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)
Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction (OUP 1989).
A. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics.
Mittins : Attitude to English Usage, Oxford.
K.R.S.Iyengar: Indian Writings in English.
Meenakshi Mukherjee Twice Born Fiction.
M.K.Naik(ed): History of Indian English Literature.
Elton, Shakespeare.
C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy
History of American Lietrature Goodman.
Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller.
Aspects of the Novel, E M Forster