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Course programme
FIRST YEAR
PAPER I
MODERN LITERATURE – I
POETRY: Detailed
Chaucer : The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
The Knight
The Prioress
The Wife of Bath
Edmund Spenser : Prothalamion
John Donne : The Canonization
Poetry – Non – Detailed
Wyatt : The Appeal
Surrey : The Means to attain Happy Life
Marvell : Thought in a Garden
Prose –Detailed
Sidney : Apology for poetry
Francis Bacon : Of Truth of Revenge; of studies of Nobility; of : : Marriage and single Life; of Ambition.
Prose: Non –Detailed
Thomas Moore : Utopia
The Bible :The Book of job
Drama: Detailed
Christopher Marlowe : Dr.Faustus
Drama: Non –Detailed
Webster : The White Devil
Ben Jonson : The Alchemist
Dekkar : The Shoe Maker’s Holiday
PAPER II
MODERN LITERATURE – II
I. Poetry: For detailed Study
Donne : A Valediction : Forbidding Mouring Canonisation.
Herberts : Affiction
Marvell : Garden
Milton : Paradise Lost Book
Dryden : Macflecone
Non – detailed Study
Pope : The Rape of the L0ock
Collins : Ode to Evening
Gray : Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
Cowper : On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture.
Blake : Songs of experience
Burns : A Red Red Red Rose
The cotter’s Saturday Night
Tam O’ Shanter
II. Prose: For Detailed Study
Johnson : life of Gray
Steele : selections from the coverly
Papers : ( Macmillan) The first ten Essays
For Non – detailed study
Bunyan : Pilgrim’s progress
Swift : Gulliver’s travel I to IV
Fielding :Tom Jones
III. Drama: For detailed Study
Sheridan : The Rivals
For Non – detailed study
Goldsmith : she stoops to conquer
Congrove : The Way of the World
PAPER III
MODERN LITERATURE – III
CHAPTER TITLE
1. Romanticism: An Introduction
2. William Wordsworth
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. John Keats
6. Robert burns
7. Lord George Gordon Byron
8. William Wordsworth: Ode on Intimations of immortality
9. John Keats: Ode toautumn
10. The Rime of the ancient Mariner-S.T.Coleridge
11. William Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
12. Charles Lamb
13. Dream Children
14. A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
15. Coleridge : Biographia literaria
16. Chapter XVII
17. Shelley :Defence of Poetry
18. Hazlit :My First Acquaintance with poets
19. Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
20. Jane Austen :Emma
PAPER IV
INDIAN AND OTHER COMMONWEALTH LITERATURES
Play Contents
1. Vijay Tendulkar Silence! The Court is Session
2. Girish Karnad Hayavadana
Novel
3. Margaret Laurence The Diviners
4. Sri Aurobindo Renaissance in India.
Short Stories
5. R.K. Narayan Malgudi Days
6. A.R.Ramanujam Death and the Good citizen
7. Nissim Ezekiel Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
Background Casually
8. Jayanta Mahapatra Dawn at Puri
Novel
9. MulkRaj Anand Untouchable
10. Kamala Das Old Playhouse
The Wild Bougainvillae
11. Wole Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel
12. Derek Walcott The Ruins of a Great House
13. Keki Daruwalla The Beggar
Novel
14. Anita Desai Where shall we go this Summer?
15. Rabindranath Tagore The world today is wild Paper Boats
CANADIAN POETRY
16. Margaret Atwpood Journey to the interior
African Poetry
17. John Pepper Clark Night Rain
Australian Poetry
18. Judith Wright Women to man
SECOND YEAR
PAPER V
MODERN LITERATURE – IV
Poetry: Detailed
Lesson 1: Alfred Lord Tennyson : Tithonus.
Lesson 2: Gerald Manley Hopkins : The Windhover.
Lesson 3: Mathew Arnold : The Scholar Gipsy.
Lesson 4: Robert Browning : The Grammarian’s Funeral.
Lesson 5: T.S. Eliot : The Journey of the Magi.
Lesson 6: W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium.
Poetry: Non-Detailed
Lesson 7: T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land.
Lesson 8: W.H. Auden : The Unknown Citizen.
Lesson 9: D.H. Lawrence : Bavarian Gentians.
Lesson 10: Ted Hughes : Thought Fox.
Lesson 11: Philip Larkin : Church Going.
Prose: Detailed
Lesson 12: Mathew Arnold : The study of Poetry.
Lesson 13: T.S. Eliot : Tradition & Individual Talent.
Prose: Non-Detailed
Lesson 14: Ruskin : Lilies.
Lesson 15: E.M. Forster : A Note On English Character.
Lesson 16: Thomas Hardy : Tess of the Durbevilles.
Lesson 17: Charles Dickens : Hard Time.
Lesson 18: Virginia Woolf : To the Light House.
Drama: Detailed
Lesson 19: T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral.
Drama: Non-Detailed
Lesson 20: Osborne : Look Back in Anger.
Lesson 21: Harold Pinter : The Caretaker.
PAPER VI
SHAKESPEARE
LESSON
Lesson 1 : Julius Caesar.
Lesson 2 : As you Like it.
Lesson 3 : Hamlet.
Lesson 4 : The Winter’s Tale.
Lesson 5 : Henry IV, Part I.
Lesson 6 : Measure For Measure.
Lesson 7 : The Merchant of Venice.
Lesson 8 : Othello.
Lesson 9 : General Study: Elizabethan Theatre & Audience.
Lesson 10 : Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Sonnets, Fools, Clowns – In
Shakespeare’s Writing.
References:
1. Hazlitt, W. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays.
2. Baker & Harrison A Companion to Shakespeare Studies.
3. Stoll, E.E. Shakespeare Studies.
4. Wilson, Dover The Essential Shakespeare.
5. Gordon, G. The Age of Shakespeare.
6. Gervinus Commentaries on Shakespeare’s Plays.
PAPER VII
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry: Detailed
What Whitman : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.
Emily Dickinson : Much Madness in Divinest Sense
My Life Closed Twice its Close.
Robert Frost : Mending Wall, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Poetry: Non-Detailed
E.E. Cummings : 1. Nest to of Course God.
2. Some Where I have never travelled.
Wallace Steves : Of Modern Poetry.
The ultimate poem in Abstract.
LESSONS
Lesson 1: An Introduction to American Literature.
Lesson 2: Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892).
Lesson 3: Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886.
Lesson 4: Robert Frost 1874 – 1963.
Lesson 5: Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955).
Lesson 6: Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963).
Lesson 7: The American Scholar Emerson.
Lesson 8: “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luthar King (1939 – 1968).
Lesson 9: Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne.
Lesson 10: Ernest Hemingway (1898 – 1961).
Lesson 11: William Faulkner.
Lesson 12: The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams.
Lesson 13: Drama: Non detailed:
I. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
Lesson 14: The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’ Neill.
Lesson 15: Non-detailed Poems: E.E. Cummings (1894 – 1962).
PAPER VIII
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION SKILLS
SECTION – A
English Phonology.
Phonetics Theory.
Phonetic Transcription.
SECTION – B
Place of English in the Indo-European Family of Languages.
Grimm’s Law & Verner’s Law.
Foreign Elements.
Semantics.
Work Making.
Standard English.
American English.
T. Savory : The Art of Translation.
Peter Newmark : Approaches of Translation.
Susan Bassnett : Translation Studies.