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Unit-I  MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600)

Poetry

For Detailed Study

Chaucer'  Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Spenser'  Faerie Queene – Book-I

For Non-detailed Study

Spenser'  Prothalamion and Epithalamion

Wyatt, Surrey:  Selections in Peacock’s English verse, Vol-I

Ballads'  Peacock – Vol-II

Prose

For Detailed Study

Bacon – Essays   Truth, Of Adversity, Of Studies,

Of Revenge, Of Ambition, Of Friendship

Sidney'  Apologie For Poetrie

For Non-detailed Study

The Bible  The Book of Job.

Drama

For Detailed Study

Marlowe  Dr. Faustus

For Non-Detailed Study

Kyd  The Spanish Tragedy

Ben Jonson The Alchemist

Unit-II – MODERN LITERATURE (1600-1798)

Poetry

For Detailed study

Donne  Canonisation, The Ecstasie

Milton Paradise Lost, Book-IX

Pope The Rape of the Lock.

For Non-detailed Study

Milton Samson Agonistes

Gray, Collins & Blake:  Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III

Herbert'  1. Affliction 2. The Pulley

Marvell'  To His Coy Mistress

Prose

For Detailed Study

Johnson  Life of Milton

For Non-Detailed Study

Bunyan'  The Pilgrim’s Progress

Fielding :  Tom Jones

Drama

For Detailed Study

Dryden'  All for Love

Sheridan  The School for Scandal

For Non-detailed Study :

Congreve  The way of the World

Goldsmith  She stoops to conquer

Unit-III – MODERN LITERATURE (1798 – 1832)

Poetry

For Detailed Study

Wordsworth :  Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey

Coleridge  Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan

Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn.

Shelley'  Ode to the West Wind

For Non-Detailed Study

Wordsworth :  Prelude – Book-I

Shelley'  Adonais

Prose

For Detailed Study

Lamb Essays of Elia

Christ’s Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream children, New Year’s Eve

Hazlitt  My First Acquaintance with Poets.

For Non-Detailed Study

Shelley'  A Defence of Poetry

Wordsworth :  Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1850)

Jane Austen'  Emma

Emily Bronte:  Wuthering Heights

Unit-IV – MODERN LITERATURE (1832 to the present day)

Poetry

For Detailed Study:

Arnold  Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy

Browning  Andrea Del Sarto

Tennyson  Morte D’ Arthur

W.B.Yeats  Byzantium

Eliot The Waste land

For Non-Detailed Study:

Hopkins  The Wreck of the Deutschland

The selections from

(i) Owen (ii) W.H.Auden (iii) Stephen Spender in the Faber Book of Modern Verse.

Prose

For Detailed Study:

Carlyle'  The Hero as a Man of Letters

(from “On Heroes and Hero Worship”)

Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry

T.S.Eliot  Tradition and Individual Talent

For Non-detailed Study:

Dickens  Great Expectations

George Elliot   Middle March

Hardy  :  Jude the Obscure

Virginia Woolf  To the Light House

Graham Greene  The Power and the Glory

Unit-V – SHAKESPEARE

Drama

For Detailed Study

Macbeth, The Tempest

For Non-Detailed Study

HenryIV Part-I:  Measure for Measure

Antony and Cleopatra

A general knowledge of the other plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare is expected of the andidates.

Unit-VI AMERICAN LITERATURE

Poetry

Detailed study

Walt Whitman  Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Emily Dickinson  Because I could not Stop for Death

Robert Frost   Mending Wall, Birches, West Running Brook.

Sylvia Plath  Daddy

Non-Detailed Study

Walt Whitman  Passage to India

E.E.Cummings  The Cambridge Ladies

Hart Crane  Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge.

Fiction

Mark Twain  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Melville  Moby Dick

Hemingway  The Old Man and the Sea

Prose

Detailed study

Emerson  The American Scholar

Faulkner  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.

Non-Detailed Study

Thoreau  Walden

James Thurcer  The Owl in the Attic

Drama

Detailed study

Eugene O’ Neil  The Hairy Ape

Arthur Miller  : The Death of a Salesman

Non-Detailed Study

Tennesse Williams  A Street Car named Desire

Edward Albee  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Unit-VII INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Poetry

Detailed Study:

Tagore'  Gitanjali

Aurobindo  Thought the Paraclete

Non-Detailed Study:

Poems of Sarojini Naidu and Toru Dutt from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry.

Poems of A.K.Ramanujam, R. Parthasarathy, Kamala Das and Nissim Ezekiel from “Ten Twentieth entury Indian Poets” ed. R.Parthasarathy.

Fiction

Mulk Raj Anand  Coolie

Raja Rao  Kantapura

R.K.  Narayan :  The English Teacher

Kamala Markandaya: A Handful of Rice.

Prose

Detailed Study:

Ananda Commarasamy Aurobindo:The Dance of Shiva (The Title Essay)

Non-Detailed Study:

Nehru   An Autobiography

Drama

Detailed Study:

Tagore  Muktha Dhara

Girish Karnad  Tughlaq

Non-Detailed Study:

Gurucharan Das  Larine Sahib

Commonwealth Literature

Poetry

Non-Detailed Study:

E.J. Pratt  The Dying Eagle

Judith Wright  Fire in the Murdering Hut, The Cedars

Wole Soyinka  The Telephone conversation

Abioseh Nicoll  The Meaning of Africa

A.D.Hope  Australia

Drama

Detailed Study

Wole Soyinka  The Lion and the Jewel

NonDetailed Study

Douglas Stewart  Ned Kelly

Prose

Chinua Achebe  : The Novelist as Teacher

Fiction

Chinua Achebe  : Things Fall Apart

Alan Paten  : Cry, the Beloved Country

Unit-VIII — APPROACHES TO LITERATURE

1. Modern Drama

2. Modern Fiction

3. Literary Movements

4. Literary Criticism and Theory

5. Feminism

6. Teaching of English in India

7. Journalism and Creative Writing in English

8. Post  Modernism

Unit-IX  HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1. Origin of Language

2. Place of English in the Indo-European family

3. General Characteristics of Old and Middle English

4. The rise and growth of Modern English

5. Growth of Vocabulary Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Scandinavian and other foreign influences  Word Formation.

6. Change of Meaning

7. The Makers of English, The Bible, Spenserm, Shakespeare, Milton and Dr.Johnson.

8. American English

9. Indian English

10. Characteristics of Modern English

11. Spelling Reform

12. The English Lexicon

Books for reference:

1) Henry Bradley:  The Making of English

2) F.T.Wood :  An outline History of the English Language

3) A.C.Baugh :  A History of the English Language

LINGUISTICS

Definitions  The Nature and Scope of linguistics, Speech and Writing,

Form and Meaning

Words, Clause and Phrase  Concord Government Sentence Pattern

Phonology

Morphology

Idiolect, Dialect

Transformational Generative Grammar

Books for Study

Frank Plalee  : Grammar, ELBS

John Lyons  : An introduction to Theoretical linguistics

Unit-X PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Aristotle  : Poetics

2. Dryden  : Essay of Dramatic Poesy

3. Coleridge  : Biographia Literaria Ch.XIV and Ch.XVII

4. Keats  : Letters (from English Critical Tradition-Macmillan)

5. T.S.Elliot  : Metaphysical poets

6. I.A.Richards  : Four kinds of Meaning

7. William Empson  : The Seventh Type of Ambiguity

8. Northrop Frye  : The Archetypes of Literature

9. L.Trilling  : Sense of the Past

10. Brooks  : Irony as a Principle of Structure

11. Allen Tate  : Tension in Poetry