IGNOU MEG Syllabus

Candidates will be able to find the latest syllabus structure for the IGNOU MEG program with a comprehensive list of all subjects. The IGNOU MEG Syllabus Structure operates under a credit system, where each course is assigned specific credits. This system aids in course selection during admission and re-registration.

Candidates in the IGNOU MEG program must earn the required number of credits each semester or year to complete the program and qualify for the MEG passing certificate. Course selection can be made during fresh admission or re-registration for subsequent years or semesters. The program includes compulsory and elective courses.

IGNOU MEG Syllabus Highlights

  • Name of the Program: Master of Arts (English)
  • Exam System: Annual
  • Total Credits: 64
  • Category: IGNOU MEG

MEG students can choose elective courses (if available), but there are no choices for compulsory or core courses.

First Year
Course Code    Course NameCredits 
Compulsory Courses
MEG-05 Literary Criticism and Theory8
Choose Any One Module from Optional Modules (3 Courses)24
Second Year
Compulsory Courses
MEG-04 Aspects of Language8
OR
MEG-15Comparative Literature8
Choose Any One Module from Optional Modules (3 Courses)24
Optional Modules
Module-01 British Literature
MEG 01British Poetry8
MEG 02British Drama8
MEG 03British Novel8
Module-02 Writings From India
MEG 07Indian English Literature8
MEG 10English Studies in India8
MEG 14Contemporary Indian Literatures in English Translation8
Module-03 New Literatures in English (Choose Any Three)
MEG 08New Literatures in English8
MEG 09Australian Literature8
MEG 12A survey Course in 20th Century Canadian Literature8
MEG 19Australian Novel8
Module-04 Writings from The Margins
MEG 13Writings From the Margins8
MEG 14Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation8
MEG 16Indian Folk Literature8
Module-05 American Literature (Choose Any Three)
MEG 06American Literature8
MEG 11American Novel8
MEG 17American Drama8
MEG 18American Poetry8
Module-06 The Novel
MEG 03British Novel8
MEG 11American Novel8
MEG 19Australian Novel8
Total Credits64

IGNOU MEG Credit System

IGNOU has implemented a credit system in the MEG program, where candidates must earn a total of 64 credits to obtain the MEG certificate. Each course has an assigned number of credits, which are earned upon completion of the course. Candidates can track the total number of credits they need to earn to be eligible for the IGNOU MEG degree certificate.

Detailed IGNOU MA English Syllabus 2024

IGNOU offers a Master’s Degree in English (MEG), and the duration of the course is two years. The course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of American, English, Australian, Indian, and Canadian Literature.

MEG 01: British Poetry

BlockUnitTitle
Block I: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet ChaucerUnit 1From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems (1370 – 80)
Unit 2A Prelude to the Study of Poetry (Rhetoric & Prosody)
Unit 3The Age of Chaucer
Unit 4Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey
Unit 5The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Unit 6‘A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ I
Unit 7‘A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ II
Block II: Renaissance Poets: Undertaking a Study of SpenserUnit 8The Renaissance Age
Unit 9Edmund Spenser
Unit 10Spenser’s Poetry: The Amoretti Sonnets
Unit 11Spenser’s Poetry – II: The Epithalamion, The Prothalamion
Block III: The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert & MarvellUnit 12British Poetry in the 17th Century (pre-Restoration)
Unit 13John Donne: Thematic and Technical Innovations
Unit 14John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith
Unit 15George Herbert: A Study of His Poems
Unit 16Andrew Marvell: A Study of His Poems
Block IV: Renaissance Poets: Studying MiltonUnit 17The Late Renaissance
Unit 18Milton: The Life
Unit 19A Survey of Milton’s Lesser Poems & Prose
Unit 20On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity & Lycidas
Unit 21L’Allegro, Il Penseroso & the Sonnets 19 & 23
Block V: The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden & PopeUnit 22The Age of Dryden
Unit 23John Dryden
Unit 24Mac Flecknoe
Unit 25Pope: A Background to An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Unit 26Pope: The Study of An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Block VI: The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & ColeridgeUnit 27Introduction to Romantic Poetry
Unit 28William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience
Unit 29Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Book I: A Critical Analysis
Unit 30Coleridge: Kubla Khan & Dejection: An Ode
Block VII: The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & KeatsUnit 31The Volcanic Voice of Hope: P B Shelley
Unit 32A Study of The Triumph of Life
Unit 33Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, I
Unit 34Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, II
Unit 35The Romantic Age: A Review
Block VIII: The Victorian Poets: Robert Browning, D G & Christina Georgiana Rossetti, Oscar WildeUnit 36The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
Unit 37Robert Browning: Life & Aspirations
Unit 38Robert Browning: Two Early Poems
Unit 39Two Poems from Men and Women
Unit 40The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Christina Georgina Rossetti
Unit 41Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Block IX: The Modernist PoetsUnit 42Modern British Poetry: An Introduction
Unit 43W B Yeats: Background, System, and Poetic Career until 1910
Unit 44The Later Poetry of W B Yeats
Unit 45T S Eliot: The Waste Land (I)
Unit 46T S Eliot: The Waste Land (II)
Unit 47T S Eliot: The Waste Land (III)
Block X: The Modernist & Post Modernist PoetsUnit 48Dylan Thomas: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Unit 49Philip Larkin: I Remember, I Remember
Unit 50Sylvia Plath & Confessional Poetry
Unit 51So! Now! What is Poetry? Once Again: A Symposium
Unit 52Essays & Evaluations

MEG 02: British Drama

BlockTitle
Block IMarlowe: Doctor Faustus
Block IIShakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Block IIIShakespeare: Hamlet
Block IVBen Jonson: The Alchemist
Block VJohn Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
Block VIGeorge Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Block VIIT S Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
Block VIIIJohn Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Block IXSamuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

MEG 03: British Novel

BlockTitle
Block IHenry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones A Foundling (1749)
Block IIJane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Block IIIEmily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Block IVCharles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860 -1861, 1861, 1862)
Block VGeorge Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)
Block VIJoseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1898 -1899)
Block VIIJames Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man (1916)
Block VIIIEdward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India (1912-14)

MEG 04: Aspects of Language

BlockTitle
Block IWhat is Language?
Block IIA History of the English Language
Block IIIPhonetics & Phonology I
Block IVPhonetics & Phonology II
Block VEnglish Syntax
Block VILanguage In Use – I
Block VIILanguage In Use – II
Block VIIIThe Spread of English
Block IXStylistics

MEG 05: Literary Theory & Criticism

BlockTitle
Block IAn Introduction
Block IIClassical Criticism
Block IIIRomantic Criticism
Block IVNew Criticism
Block VMarxist View of Literature
Block VIFeminist Theories
Block VIIDeconstruction
Block VIIIContemporary Literary Theory

MEG 06: American Literature

BlockTitle
Block IContexts of American Literature: The Puritans & the Enlightenment
Block IIAmerican Fiction – I
Block IIIAmerican Fiction – II
Block IVAmerican Prose
Block VAmerican Poetry – I
Block VIAmerican Poetry – II
Block VIIAmerican Short Story
Block VIIIAmerican Drama
Block IXToni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

MEG 07: Indian Writing in English

BlockTitle
Block INon- Fictional Prose
Block IIMulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
Block IIIRaja Rao: Kanthapura
Block IVAnita Desai: Clear Light of Day
Block VSalman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Block VIThe Short Story
Block VIIPoetry
Block VIIIMahesh Dattani: Tara

MEG 08: New Literatures in English

BlockTitle
Block IIntroduction
Block IIA Grain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Block IIIA Dance of the Forests: Wole Soyinka
Block IVIce-Candy-Man: Bapsi Sidhwa
Block VA House for Mr Biswas: V S Naipaul
Block VICaribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott & Edward Brathwaite
Block VIIThe Solid Mandala: Patrick White
Block VIIIThe Stone Angel: Margaret Laurence

MEG 09: Australian Literature

BlockUnitTitle
Block I: An Introduction to Australian LiteratureUnit 1Australian Literature
Unit 2Australia – Land and History
Unit 3Australia – People and Culture
Unit 4Literary Beginnings – Oral Literature
Unit 5Early Literature
Unit 6Themes and Trends
Block II: Nineteenth Century Australian PoetryUnit 119th Century Australian Poetry: An Introduction
Unit 2W C Wentworth: Australasia, Wild Colonial Boy
Unit 3Charles Harpur: The Bush Fire, A Mid- Summer Noon in the Australian Forest
Unit 4Henry Kendall: Bell – Birds, After Many Years
Unit 5A L Gordon & A B Paterson: The Sick Stockrider; The Man From Snowy River
Unit 6Ada Cambridge: An Answer
Block III: Introduction to Short FictionUnit 1Introduction to short fiction /story
Unit 2Marcus Clarke: The Seizure of the Cyprus
Unit 3Barbara Baynton: The Chosen Vessel
Unit 4Henry Lawson: The Drover’s Wife; The Union Buries It’s Dead
Unit 5Arthur Hoey Davis: Cranky Jack
Unit 6Christina Stead: The Old School
Block IV: Modern Australian Poetry (1901 -1970)Unit 1Introduction: An Overview
Unit 2Beginnings: Christopher Brennan – Each Day I See the Long Ships Coming Into Port; John Shaw Neilson – The Orange Tree
Unit 3The Notion of Australia: Kenneth Slessor – South Country; R D Fitzgerald – This Night’s Orbit
Unit 4Keepers of the Flame: Judith Wright: Legend, Bullocky; David Campbell – The Australian Dream
Unit 5Coming of Age: James McAuley – Terra Australis; A D Hope – Australia, Moschus Moschiferus
Unit 6The Marginalised Voice: Rosemary Dobson – Cock Crow; Oodgeroo Noonuccal – We Are Going; Rex Ingamells – History, Moorawathimeering; ‘Ern Malley’ – Durer: Innsbruck, 1495; Ania Walwicz – Australia (prose); John Farrell – From Australia; Douglas Stewart –Terra Australis; Bernard O’ Dowd- Australia, The Southern Call
Block V: Voss: Patrick WhiteUnit 1Rise and Development of the Australian Novel
Unit 2As We First Read Voss
Unit 3Romantic Elements in Voss
Unit 4Multiple Themes in Voss
Unit 5Modern Readings: Some Important Areas
Block VI: Contemporary Australian Poetry (1970 Onwards)Unit 1Contemporary Australia
Unit 2Bruce Dawe & Les Murray: At Shagger’s Funeral; The Quality of Sprawl, Blood
Unit 3Chris Wallace- Crabbe & Gwen Harwood: Melbourne; In The Park
Unit 4Ee Tiang & Kevin Gilbert: Coming To; Mister Man
Unit 5Mudrooroo Narogin & Gig Ryan: Harijan; If I Had A Gun
Block VII: Remembering Babylon: David MaloufUnit 1Contemporary Australian Fiction: An Overview
Unit 2The Author, His Creativity and Remembering Babylon
Unit 3Structure, Characters and Metaphors
Unit 4Narrative Strategies and Communication
Unit 5Themes
Block VIII: The Removalists: David WilliamsonUnit 1An Overview of Australian Drama
Unit 2David Williamson’s Dramatic World
Unit 3Reading The Removalists
Unit 4Themes and Techniques

MEG 10: English Studies in India

BlockUnitTitle
Block I: Institutionalisation of English Studies in IndiaUnit 1Entry of English: A Historical Overview
Unit 2Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
Unit 3A View of Post Independence Debates
Unit 4Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium
Block II: Beginnings of Indian English WritingUnit 1The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
Unit 2Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
Unit 3Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
Unit 4Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life
Block III: Beginnings of the Indian English NovelUnit 1The Contexts of Bankim
Unit 2Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife – I
Unit 3Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife – II
Unit 4Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s Other Novels
Block IV: Different EnglishesUnit 1Evolution of English
Unit 2Nativisation of English in Post Independent India (Functions of English)
Unit 3Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
Unit 4Intelligibility of Indian English Globally
Unit 5Debate Over Native and Non- Native Englishes
Unit 6Space of English in the Indian Multilingual Setting
Block V: Problems of Teaching and Learning English LiteratureUnit 1Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Unit 2The March of TELI in India
Unit 3Role and Function of TELI in the contemporary context
Unit 4English Teaching in India
Unit 5The Lie of the Land: English in India
Unit 6Publishing in India and English Studies
Block VI: Questioning the ‘Canon’Unit 1Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
Unit 2The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon
Unit 3Possibilities of New Agreements
Unit 4Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, and Culture
Unit 5The Crisis in English Studies
Unit 6Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base
Block VII: Evolutions of Canons in Indian English WritingUnit 1Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
Unit 2Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand, and Raja Rao
Unit 3Feminism: Indian English Writers
Unit 4The Dalit Canon
Block VIII: Decolonising the MindUnit 1Orientalism and After
Unit 2Literature and Nationalism
Unit 3Decolonising the Mind
Unit 4Civilizational Conflicts in Literature
Unit 5Resisting Colonization and Re- colonization

MEG 11: American Novel

BlockUnitTitle
Block I: James F Cooper: The Last of the MohicansUnit 1The Beginnings
Unit 2The Man, The Milieu, And the Moment
Unit 3The Last of the Mohicans: An Analysis
Unit 4Perspectives on the Novel- I
Unit 5Perspectives on the Novel- II
Block II: Theodore Dreiser: Sister CarrieUnit 1The Literary Context
Unit 2Theodore Dreiser: The Man and the Writer
Unit 3Sister Carrie: A Critical Summary
Unit 4Sister Carrie: A Critical Study of the Major Themes
Unit 5Language and Art in Sister Carrie
Block III: F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great GatsbyUnit 1The Man, The Milieu, And the Moment
Unit 2The Plot and the Self-Improving Hero
Unit 3The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory
Unit 4The Great Gatsby: The Narrative Technique
Unit 5Critics and Criticism: An Overview
Block IV: William Faulkner: Light in AugustUnit 1American Fiction in 1920s and 1930s
Unit 2The Novel in the South
Unit 3Light in August: Structure and Narrative Strategies
Unit 4Characterisation and Critical Approaches
Block V: Henry Miller: Black SpringUnit 1Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
Unit 2The Great Tradition
Unit 3The Outsider
Unit 4The Indelible Impact
Unit 5Henry Miller’s: Black Spring
Unit 6Critical Approaches
Block VI: J D Salinger: The Catcher in the RyeUnit 1The Author and the Plot
Unit 2The Main Themes and Characters
Unit 3The Language in The Catcher in the Rye
Unit 4Critical Interpretations
Block VII: John Barth: Floating OperaUnit 1The Postwar American Novel
Unit 2The Experimental Novel
Unit 3The Floating Opera: An Analysis of the Text
Unit 4Philosophical Formulations and the Farce of Reasons
Unit 5From Modernity to Post Modernity
Block VIII: Scott Momaday: A House Made of DawnUnit 1Native American Literature
Unit 2Native American Fiction
Unit 3The Making of Momaday
Unit 4A House Made of Dawn: An Analysis
Unit 5Critical Perspectives
Block IX: Alice Walker: The Color PurpleUnit 1The Woman, the Moment, And the Milieu – I
Unit 2The Woman, the Moment, And the Milieu – II
Unit 3The Color Purple and its Structure
Unit 4Analysis of Celie’s Letters – I
Unit 5Analysis of Celie’s Letters – II
Unit 6Themes Emerging from Celie’s Letters

MEG 12: A Survey Course in Twentieth Century Canadian Literature

BlockUnitTitle
Block I: Contexts of Canadian WritingUnit 1Canada: Land And People
Unit 2Literary Beginnings
Unit 3English Canadian Theatre and Drama
Unit 4Canadian Discourse on Nature and Technology
Block II: Recent Canadian PoetryUnit 5The Growth of Canadian Poetry
Unit 6Recent Commonwealth Poetry and Canada’s Place in it
Unit 7Two Major Novelists as Poets: Margaret Atwood – A Sibyl and Michael Ondaatje – Letters and Other Worlds
Unit 8Five Other Important Poets
Block III: Surfacing: Margaret AtwoodUnit 9Development of the Canadian Novel
Unit 10Margaret Atwood: Life and Works
Unit 11Surfacing: Theme, Structure, Technique and Characterization
Unit 12Surfacing: Language
Block IV: The Tin Flute: Gabrielle RoyUnit 13French Canadian Writing (Quebec)
Unit 14Gabrielle Roy: Life and Works
Unit 15The Tin Flute: Structure and Theme
Unit 16The Tin Flute: Characterization and Technique
Block V: The English Patient: Michael OndaatjeUnit 17Canadian – South Asian Diasporic Writing
Unit 18Ondaatje: Life and Works
Unit 19The English Patient: Theme, Structure and Characterization
Unit 20The English Patient: Technique
Block VI: Canadian Short StoryUnit 21Short Fiction in General and the Canadian Short Story
Unit 22‘A Mother in India’: Sara Jeannette Duncan
Unit 23‘Sunday Afternoon’: Alice Munro; ‘Where Is The Voice Coming From’: Rudy Wiebe
Unit 24‘Swimming Lessons’: Rohinton Mistry; ‘The Door I Shut Behind Me’: Uma Parameswaran
Block VII: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe: Drama: George RygaUnit 25Canadian Drama: The General Dramatic Scene
Unit 26Introduction to the Writer and the Structure of the Play
Unit 27The Ecstasy of Rita Joe: Theme and Characterization
Unit 28Dramatic Technique in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and the Brechtian Angle
Block VIII: Development of Canadian CriticismUnit 29The Recent Developments of Canadian Criticism
Unit 30Northrop Frye
Unit 31Linda Hutcheon
Unit 32Smaro Kamboureli

MEG 14: Indian Writing in English Translation

BlockUnitTitle
Block I: Background StudiesUnit 1The Concept of Indian Literature
Unit 2The Concept of Indian Literature: Modern Period
Unit 3Comparative Studies in Indian Literature
Unit 4English Translation of Indian Literature
Block II: Samskara: U R Anantha MurthyUnit 1The Writer and his Literary Context
Unit 2Samskara: The Narrative
Unit 3Samskara: Form and Themes
Unit 4Samskara: Characters, Titles, Literary Criticism and Contemporary Relevance
Block III: Tamas: Bhisham SahniUnit 1The Writer and the Partition
Unit 2Getting to Know the Text
Unit 3Making Sense of the Narrative
Unit 4Characters and Characterisation
Unit 5An Overview
Block IV: Short Story – IUnit 1Mahasweta Devi: Salt [Noon: Bangla]
Unit 2Vaikom Muhammad Basheer: Birthday [Janmadinam: Malayalam]
Unit 3Nirmal Verma: Birds [Parinde]
Unit 4Ismat Chughtai: Tiny’s Granny [Nanhi Ki Naani: Urdu]
Unit 5Gopinath Mohanty: Tadpa [Tadpa: Oriya]
Block V: Short Story – IIUnit 1The Empty Chest
Unit 2Very Lonely, She
Unit 3Headmaster, Prawn, Chanchur
Unit 4The Compromise
Block VI: PoetryUnit 1K S Nonkynrih: Requiem (Khasi); Chandra Kanta Murasingh: The Stone Speaks in the Forest (Kokborok); Yumlembam Ibocha Singh: The Last Dream
Unit 2Haribhajan Singh: Tree and the Sage [Rukh Te Rishi/ Punjabi]; Raghuvir Sahay: The Stare [Taktaki/ Hindi]
Unit 3Dina Nath Nadim: The Moon [Zoon/ Kashmiri]; Padma Sachdev: The Moment of Courage [Dogri]
Unit 4Kondepudo Nirmala: Mother Serious [Telugu]; Vimala: Kitchen [Telugu]; K Ayyappa Paniker: I Met Walt Whitman Yesterday: An Interview [Njaan Innale Walt Whitmaane Kandu – Oru Interview/ Malayalam]
Unit 5Ramakanta Rath: Sri Radha [Oriya]; Shakti Chattopadhyay: Just One Try [Akbar Tumi/ Bangla]
Unit 6Sitanshu Yashashchandra: Orpheus [Gujarati]; Namdeo Dhasal: A Notebook of Poems and Autobiography [Kavetechi Vahi; Atmacharithra/ Marathi]
Block VII: Tughlaq: Girish KarnadUnit 1Introducing Contemporary Indian Theatre
Unit 2Introducing the Author and the Play
Unit 3Tughlaq: Structure, Themes and Motifs
Unit 4Characters and Critical Comments on the Play
Block VIII: Non- Fictional ProseUnit 1Amrita Pritam: Premchand: His Life and Times [Kalam Ka Sipahi: Biography/ Hindi]
Unit 2Bama /Faustina Mary Fatima Rani: Karukku [Karukku: Autobiography/ Tamil]
Unit 3Saadat Hasan Manto: On Ismat [Ismat Chugtai: Pen Sketch, Urdu]
Unit 4Umaprasad Mukhopadhyaya: Manimahesh [Manimahesh: Travel Writing/ Bengali]

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