B.A. in English

CORE COURSE I - PROSE
Francis Bacon : Of studies
: Of Travel
Goldsmith - Beau Tibbs
Steele - Spectator Club
Unit III
Charles Lamb - Dream Children
Thomas De Quincey - Literature
Unit IV
Ruskin - King‟s Treasuries
Newman - Knowledge its own end
Unit V
Stephen Leacock - With the Photographer
Bernard Shaw - Spoken English & Broken English
CORE COURSE II - FICTION
I
Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince
W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey‟s Paw
Unit II
Saki - The Open Window
O‟Henry - The Gift of the Magi
Maupassant - The Diamond Necklace
Leo Tolstoy - God sees the truth but waits
Unit III
Dickens - Oliver Twist
Unit IV
R.L. Stevenson : Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Unit V
Emile Bronte : Wuthering Heights
ALLIED COURSE I - SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Unit I
Medieval & Tudor England - Renaissance, Reformation
Unit II
The Civil War & the Restoration England
Unit III
The Age of Queen Anne
Unit IV
Victorian Age
Unit V
Twentieth Century
CORE COURSE III - POETRY I
Unit I
Shakespeare Sonnet No. 116 "Let me not"
Donne - Death Be not Proud
Dryden - The Portrait of Zimri (from Absalom & Achitopel)
Unit II
Goldsmith - The Village Preacher
Keats - Ode to Autumn
Unit III
Tennyson - Tithonus
Arnold - The Forsaken Merman
Hopkins - God‟s Grandeur
Unit IV
W.B. Yeats - Easter 1916
D.H. Lawrence - Snake
Unit V
Larkin - Lines on a young Lady‟s Photograph Album
Ted Hughes - Thrushes
FIRST ALLIED COURSE II : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Unit I
Definition and Scope - National Literature, Comparative Literature - General Literature
- World Literature.
Unit II
The French and American Schools of Comparative Literature
Unit III
Influence and Imitation - Periodization - Epoch, School, Movement.
Unit IV
Genre Studies, Thematology
Unit V
Literature and Other Disciplines
Literature and Other Arts
Books for Reference :
Ulrich Weisstein : Comparative Literature and Other Arts
Wellek & Warren : Theory of Literature (Part II)
S.S.Prawar : Comparative Literature
FIRST ALLIED COURSE III - HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Unit I
Age of Chaucer and Shakespeare
Unit II
Age of Milton & Dryden
Unit III
Age of Pope and Johnson
Unit IV
Age of Wordsworth
Unit V
Victorians and after
CORE COURSE IV - DRAMA I
Unit I : - Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
Unit II: - Ben Jonson - Volpone
Unit III: Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Unit IV: Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy
Unit V: Beaumout & Fletcher - Philaster
SECOND ALLIED COURSE I - LITERARY FORMS
The Scope of study of the paper will be restricted to a knowledge of the topics mentioned
below :
Unit I POETRY - Nature and Elements of Poetry - Definitions; Classifications
of Poetry - Subjective - Objective.
Unit II The Ode, The Lyric, The Sonnet, The Elegy, The Epic, The Ballad
Unit III PROSE - The Essay, Short Story, Biography, Autobiography, Literary
Criticism.
Unit IV DRAMA - Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, One - Act Play, Tragi-
comedy, The Masque, Farce.
Unit V FICTION - Elements of Fiction - Historical Novel, Picaresque Novel,
Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, the Stream of Consciousness Novel.
Books for Reference :
(i) W.H.Hudson : Introduction to the study of English
(ii) R.J.Rees : An Introduction to English Literature for Foreign students
(iii) Prasad : A Background to the study of English Literature
SECOND ALLIED COURSE II - PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
Unit I: Philip Sydney - An Apology for Poetry
Dr. Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare
Unit II: Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballad
Coleridge -Biographia Literaria Chapter XVIII
Unit III: Matthew Arnold - The Study of Poetry
Unit IV: T.S. Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent
Unit V: Sigmund Freud - Psychological Criticism
CORE COURSE V - POETRY II
Unit I & II
Milton Paradise Lost Book IX
Unit III:
Gray : Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
Collins : Ode to Evening
Unit IV:
Wordsworth : Intimations on Immortality
Coleridge : Ancient Mariner
Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn
Unit V:
Browning : My Last Duchess
T.S. Eliot : Journey of the Magi
W.H. Auden : The Unknown Citizen
Core Course VI - DRAMA II
Unit I: Sheridan The Rivals
Unit II: G.B. Shaw : Pygmalion
Unit III: Galsworthy : Justice
Unit IV: T.S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
Unit V: Samuel Becket - Waiting for Godot.
SECOND ALLIED COURSE III - CANADIAN LITERATURE
Unit I - Poetry
Archibald Lampman - The Canadian Authors Meet
Unit II: Short Stories
Collection: Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver
1. Sinclair Ross: The Lamp at Noon
2. Margaret Lawrence: The Loons
Unit III:
George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Unit IV
Sheila Watson : The Double Hook
Unit V:
Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
CORE COURSE VII - SHAKESPEARE
Unit I - A Midsummer Night‟s Dream
Unit II - Henry IV Part I
Unit III - The Merchant of Venice
Unit IV - Othello
Unit V - The Tempest
CORE COURSE VIII - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH I
Unit I:
Toru Dutt - Lakshman
Tagore - Where the mind is without fear . . .
Aurobindo - The Tiger and the Deer
Sarojini Naidu - The Queen‟s Rival
Unit II:
Nissim Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion
A.K.Ramanujam - River
Kamala Das - A Dance of the Eunuchs
Parthasarathy - Home Coming
Unit III
Girish Karnad - The Dreams of Tipu Sultan
Unit IV:
Vivekananda - The Secret of Work
Radhakrishnan - The World Community
Unit V:
Mulk Raj Anand - Coolie
Raja Rao - The Serpent and the Rope
CORE COURSE IX - AMERICAN LITERATURE
Unit I
Emerson - Brahma
Whitman - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard bloom‟d
Emily Dickinson - Success is counted sweetest
Unit II
Frost -Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Wallace Stevens - Anecdote of the Jar
Sylvia Plath - Mirror
Unit III
Abraham Lincohn - The Gettysburg Address
Martin Luther King - I have a dream
Unit IV:
Eugene "O‟ Neil - The Hairy Ape
Unit V
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
CORE COURSE X - WOMEN'S WRITING IN ENGLISH
Unit I:
Margaret Atwood - Circle Game
Kamala Das - Freaks
Jenny Lins - Wonder Woman
Unit II:
Shashi Deshpande - Writing from the Margins - Masks & Disguises
Elaine Showalter - Towards a Feminist Poetics
Unit III:
Dorris Lessing - England vs England
Nadine Godimer - A Correspondence Course
Bharathi Mukerjee - Wife‟s Story
Unit IV:
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Pearl S. Buck - Letter from Peking
Unit V
Anita Nair - The Ladies Coupe
Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel
CORE COURSE XI - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH II
Unit I:
Keki N. Daruwala Boat ride along the Ganga
Gauri Deshpande Prometheus & Orphens
Lakshmi Kannan She
Dom Moraes Glitter of Pebbles
Unit II
Vijay Tendulkar Silence! The Court is in Session
Unit III
Khushwant Singh Travelogues (2 chapters - visit to England and visit
to Italy)
R.K. Narayan Astrologer‟s Day
Unit IV:
Arun Joshi : The Foreigner
Ruth Prawar Jhabwala Heat & Dust
Unit V:
Salman Rushdie Midnight‟s Children
Anita Desai Fire on the Mountain
CORE COURSE XII - COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE
Unit I
A.D. Hope - Australia
Margaret Atwood - Journey to the interior
A.M. Klein - Portrait of my mother
Unit II
J.P. Clark - The Casualties
Roy Lampbell - Poets in Africa
Derek Walcott - A Far Cry from Africa
Unit III:
Margaret Atwood - The Sin Eater
Joyce Marshal - The Old Woman
Unit IV:
Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the Jewel
Unit V:
Chinna Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing
CORE COURSE XIII - DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS
(PRACTICALS)
Unit I:
Listening (News items, Reports, Drama, Poetry & Short stories (preferably from
DVD‟s) Classic Movies, Speeches by International Personalities, Current Affairs)
Unit II
1. Reading Current Prose pieces - Articles from Newspapers
2. Reading Ad‟s & Interpreting from Media
3. Reports
Unit III:
Speaking 1. "Stress on words
2. Intonation
3. Pronunciation
Extempore - Dynamics of Speaking
a) Presentation
b) Poise or body language
c) Subject matter
(Excerpts from famous public speakers)
Unit IV:
Writing Register based vocabulary
Paragraph Writing
Report Writing
Precis Writing
Vocational Writing
Unit V
Testing Listening - 1.Passage reading 2.Comprehension
Reading - 1. Reading a passage 2. Comprehension
Speaking - Topics given and speaking skills evaluated based on the
syllabus
Self Introduction
Reference:
1. Listening, Speaking with CD by Foundation with CD by Upendra
2. Orient Longman
MAJOR BASED ELECTIVE I
TRANSLATION : THEORY & PRACTICE
Unit I
Translation - Definition - types - Principles of Translation - Decoding and Recoding -
Problems of Equivalence - Untranslatability.
Unit II
History of Translation Theory - Period Study - The Romans - Bible Translations - Early
Theorists - The Renaissance - 17th Century 18th Century - Romanticism - Victorians -
20th Century.
Unit III
Problems of Literary Translation - Structures - Poetry & Translations - Translating
Prose - Translating Dramatic Texts.
Unit IV & V
Translation Practice - Students will be trained to translate literary articles of common
interest both from English to Regional language & vice versa.
Books for Reference :
1. Susan Bassnett - Mc Guire - Translation Studies (Methuene)
2. J.C.Catford - A Linguistic Theory of Translation (OUP)
3. Savoury Theodore - The Art of Translation
MAJOR BASED ELECTIVE II
II - ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Unit I
Issues involved in the Teaching of English - Explanation of curriculum, syllabus, course,
methods, approaches, techniques, Teaching English as a second language.
Unit II
Teaching of Pronunciation, Reading and Writing Skills - Teaching of Composition.
Unit III
Teaching of Grammar, Vocabulary, Teaching of Poetry, Prose.
Unit IV
Testing - Characteristics - Types of Questions
Unit V
Use of Audio - Visual Aids in the Teaching of Language
Books for Reference :
1. Introduction to English Language Teaching, CIEFL (OUP), Ghosh, Sastri, Das.
2. Bright, Mc Cregor, Teaching English as a Second Languages (Longman)
3. Paul Verghese - Teaching English as a Second Language.
MAJOR BASED ELECTIVE III
JOURNALISM
Unit I
Definition of Journalism - Role of Journalism - Ethics - Press Laws - Press Council.
Unit II
News - Definition - Kinds - Elements - Sources - News Agencies.
Unit III
Reporting - Quality of Reporters - Beats - Kinds of Reporting with special reference to
court, crime, election - sports - investigative - Reporting.
Unit IV
Editing - News Editor - sub-editors - Anatomy of Editing.
Unit V
Language of Journalism - Writing a News story - Writing opinion pieces - Writing leads
- headlines.
Books for References :
1. Parthasarathy, R. Basic Journalism (Macmillan)
2. Mehta, D.S. Mass Communication and Journalism in India (Allied)
3. Ramachandra Rao : Quest for News (Macmillan)
4. Sethi, Pathanjali : Professional Journalism (Longman)
NON MAJOR ELECTIVE I
PRESENTATION SKILLS
Prescribed Book: Presentation Skills for the upwardly Mobile by ROZ Townsend,
Emerald Publishers, Chennai
Internal Mark:
10 marks for Reading Skills
10 marks for Speaking
5 marks for Presentation
NON MAJOR ELECTIVE II
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Prescribed books
1. Functional Grammar, Spoken and Written Communication in English by Bikram
K.Das
2. Functional English - Dr.B.Shyamala Rao