2023 2024 MBA - Barkatullah University PHD Course

As you have required the syllabus of the entrance exam of PHD in English of Barkatullah University, Bhopal here I am giving you its syllabus as given below:-

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.