arul anandar college (autonomous), karumathur – 625 514

ARUL ANANDAR COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), KARUMATHUR – 625 514

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Class

Semester

: B. A. English Literature

: I

Part : III Core – 1

Hours : 90

Sub. Code : 19UELC11 Credits: 5

CORE PAPER: I – BRITISH PROSE – I

(Shakespearean age to Victorian age)

(Outcome Based Syllabus under CBCS Structure for students admitted from the

Academic Year 2019 - 2020)

1. Course Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of the Course the student will be able to:

Apply knowledge and wisdom to practical life.

Explore the societal culture in 17th

century England.

Trace the self-revealing observations on human life.

Immerse in the beauty of nature and appreciate it.

Examine the nature and duties of men and women in the 19th

century.

UNIT – I * (Detailed) (18 hours)

Francis Bacon : Of Travel

: Of Studies

UNIT – II (Non -Detailed) (18 hours)

Richard Steele : Of Club

Joseph Addison : Sir Roger at Church

UNIT – III* (Detailed) (18 hours

Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie

Dissertation upon Roast Pig

UNIT – IV* (Detailed) (18 hours)

William Hazlitt : On Going on a Journey

UNIT – V (Non- Detailed) (18 hours)

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies (Part –I)

2. Books for study:

Myers O.M (Ed), The Coverley Papers from The Spectator, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927.

Bacon, Francis. The Essays, Atlantic Publishers, 2011.

Lamb, Charles. The Essays of Elia, Nabu Press, 2012.

Hazlitt, William. Selected Essaysof William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830, Kessinger Publishing,

2004.

Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies, ARC Manor, 2008.

3. Books for Reference:

Walkers, Hugh. The English Essay and the Essayists, J.M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1915.

Humphreys, A.R. Steele, Addison and their periodical essays. Longmans, 1959.

Robb, Cuthbert. W (Ed), English Essays: A Representative Anthology, Blackie & Sons, 1948.

Bush, Doughlas. English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600- 1660, Oxford

University Press, 1962.



Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Core – 2

Semester : I Hours : 75


CORE PAPER –II: ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND ITS USAGE





Acquaint with basic knowledge of grammar.

Understand the usages of the Tenses and Voices.

Make well-structured sentences, clear points of view in well-linked paragraphs.

Practice report writing in college magazines.

Write variety of formal and informal letters.

UNIT – I (25 Hours)

Parts of speech – Nouns – Countable – Uncountable – Number – Gender – Articles –

Prepositions

UNIT – II (15 Hours)

Tenses – Active and Passive voice – Question Tags

UNIT – III (10 Hours)

Degrees of comparison – Direct and Indirect speech

UNIT – IV (15 Hours)

Phrases and clauses – simple, compound and complex sentences Synthesis –

Transformation of sentences

UNIT – V (10 Hours)

Paragraph writing - Essay writing – Letter writing (formal and informal)

2. Books for study:

Joseph K. V., A Textbook of English Grammar and Usage, Tata McGraw-Hill

Education India, 2013.


Raja, Manickam. A. Every Man’s English Grammar, New Century Book House, 2009.

Eastwood, John. Oxford Practice Grammar, Oxford University Press; New edition,

2000.

Titus P. Remedial English, New Century Book House, 2007.

Wood F. T., A Remedial English Grammar for foreign Students, Trinity, 2015.

Krishnasamy N., English Grammar for College Students, Macmillan India Limited,

2000.

Soundararajn, Francis, Speaking and Writing for Effective Business Communication,

Laxmi Publications, 2015.

Raana, Aradhana, English Communication Made Easy, ANE Books, 2011.


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE &LITERATURE

Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Allied - 1


Sub. Code : 19UELA11 Credits: 4

ALLIED PAPER: I – LITERARY FORMS AND TERMS





Know the different kinds and manners of poetry.

Familiarize the concepts of prose and its types.

Differentiate various kinds of drama.

Learn and interpret the basic literary terms.

Analyze and compare the prescribed terms on their own.

UNIT – I (Poetical Types) (15 hours)

The Lyric – The Ode – The Sonnet –The Elegy – The Epic

UNIT – II (Prose Types) (15 hours)

The Essay – The Novel – The Short story –Biography – Autobiography

UNIT – III (Dramatic Art) (15 hours)

Tragedy – Comedy – Tragi-comedy – Farce -The Masque

UNIT –IV (Literary Terms - I) (15 hours)

Allegory – Alliteration – Blank Verse –Dramatic Monologue –Fable - Imagery –

Metaphor – Simile - Pathetic Fallacy - Oxymoron - Parable – Parody – Personification

UNIT – V (Literary Terms - II) (15 hours)

Comic Relief - Objective Correlative – Poetic Diction – Poetic Justice - Picaresque

Novel – Satire – Stream of Consciousness – Aside - Soliloquy - A Dramatic Irony -

Tragic Flaw - Three Unities

2. Books for study:

Abrams, M H, and Geoffrey G. Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston, Mass:

Thomson Wadsworth, 1999.

Prasad, B. and Hari Priya Ramadoss. A Background to the study of English

Literature: Revised Edition. Chennai: Trinity Press, 2016.


Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2008.

Cuddon, J A, Claire Preston. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary

Theory.London: Penguin Books, 1999.

Rees, R. J. English Literature- An Introduction for Foreign Readers. New Delhi:

Macmillan Publishers India Ltd, 1973.




Semester : II Hours : 90


CORE PAPER: III – BRITISH POETRY – I

(Spenser to the Age of Wordsworth)





Familiarize with English poetry and its kinds especially sonnets.

Understand the nuances of poetry in the Restoration period.

Summarize the poetry of the pre romantic period.

Analyze the romantic tendencies prevailed in the 19th

century.

Compare and interpret lyrics and odes.

UNIT – I * (Detailed) {Elizabethan and Puritan} (20 hours)

Spenser : Sonnet No: 75 (from “The Amoretti”)

Shakespeare : Sonnet No: 116

John Milton : On His Blindness

UNIT – II * (Detailed) {Restoration} (20 hours)

Henry Vaughan : The Retreat

John Dryden : Song for St. Cecilia‟s Day

UNIT – III (Non-Detailed) [Pre Romantic} (15 hours)

William Blake : The Tyger

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard

Oliver Goldsmith : The Village School Master

UNIT – IV (Non-Detailed) {Romantic} (15 hours)

William Wordsworth : Daffodils

Coleridge : Kubla Khan

UNIT – V *(Detailed) (20 hours)

Byron : She Walks in Beauty

Percy B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind

John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn

2. Books for study:

Palgrave. The Golden Treasury, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997.

Leeson, Edward. The New Golden Treasury of English Verse, Trans-Atlantic Publications,

1994.

Robert, Michael(Ed), The Faber Book of Modern Verse, Faber, 2003.


Bateson. F. W. Selected Poems of William Blake, Penguin Classics, 2006.

Gosse, Edmund. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature, University Press of the Pacific,

2004.

Lewis, F. R. New Bearings in English Poetry, Faber, 2008.

Paley, D. Dorton. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Songs of Innocence and of Experience,

Prentice- Hall, 1969.





Sub. Code : 19UELC42 Credits : 4

CORE PAPER: IV – BRITISH PROSE – II (MODERN PERIOD)





Acquaint with the rhetorical style of English Prose in modern period

Understand the British culture and society

Appreciate the literary sensibility of modern prose.

Compare fictional and non-fictional prose

Experiment the influence of modernism in prose.

UNIT – I * (Detailed)

A.G. Gardiner

Bernard Shaw

: On Saying Please

: Spoken English and Broken English

(15 Hours)

UNIT – II (Non-Detailed) (15 Hours)

C.E. Joad : Our Own Civilization

George Orwell

UNIT – III (Non-Detailed)

: Shooting an Elephant

(15 Hours)

E.M. Forster : Tolerance

D. H. Lawrence

UNIT – IV* (Detailed)

: Why the Novel Matters

(15 Hours)

Virginia Woolf : Professions for Women

Betrand Russell

UNIT – V (Non-Detailed)

: What is the Soul?

(15 Hours)

Somerset Maugham : The Luncheon

Jean Rhys : On Not Shooting Sitting Birds.

2. Books for study:

Arthur, M. Eastman. Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose, WW Norton & Co Inc,

1988.

Chellappan, K. Creative Communication, Emerald Publishers, 2008.

Jagadisan, S. Avenues To English Prose, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Robb,W. Cuthbert (ed). English Essays: A Representative Anthology, Blackie, 1946.

Thomas, C.T. (ed). Prose for Communication, S Chand, 1977.


Boulton, Marjorie. Anatomy of Prose, Routledge Revivals, 1954.

Dilip, K. Das. Anthology of Modern English Prose, Trinity Press, 2016.

Fletcher, C.L.T. The Development of English Prose Style, Forgotten Books, 1881.


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Allied - 2


Sub. Code : 19UELA22 Credits: 4

ALLIED PAPER: II - SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND





Familiarize themselves with the history of England from Renaissance to the World

Wars.

Acquire the social and historical background of England with reference to important

incidents and movements in English history.

Know the social, economic and political background of England.

Infer and interpret how the works of a writer were influenced by the time he /she lived

in.

Read cultural context and develop a critical understanding.

UNIT – I (15 hours)

Renaissance

Reformation

Dissolution of Monasteries

The Spanish Armada

UNIT – II (15 hours)

The East India Company

Colonial Expansion

Civil War and Its Significance

The Restoration England

UNIT – III (15 hours)

Coffee House Life in London

Industrial Revolution

Agrarian Revolution

The American War of Independence

UNIT – IV (15 hours)

The French Revolution

The Reform Bills

The Age of Queen Victoria

The Oxford Movement

UNIT – V (15 hours)

Emancipation of Women Slave Trade

Transport and Communication

The Trade Union

The Impact of the Two World Wars

2. Book for Study:

Xavier, A. G, The Social History of England, Visvanathan (Printers & Publishers) Pvt. Ltd,

2015.


Ashok, Padmaja. The Social History of England, Bangalore, Orient Blackswan, 2011.

Travelyan,G.M. A Social History of England, UK, Penguin, 1987.



Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Core - 5

Semester : III Hours : 75

Sub. Code : 18UELC53 Credits 5

CORE –V: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - I

(For Students Admitted from the Academic Year 2018- 2019 onwards under the CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To expose learners to the vitalities of Indian English poetry, prose, drama and fiction which

provide a prominent role in nourishing Indian literature in the map of world literature.

2) To help learners understand and recognize the emergence of Indian Literatures.

UNIT – I Poetry* (Detailed) (15 hours)

Rabindranath Tagore : Gitanjali (Song 1 & 2 )

Sarojini Naidu : Coromandal Fishers

Nissim Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion

A. K. Ramanujam : River

UNIT – II Poetry (Non-Detailed) (15 hours)

Toru Dutt

Kamala Das

: Our Casuarina Tree

: My Grandmother’s house

Gieve Patel : Servants

Jeyanta Mahabhatra : Indian summer

UNIT – III Prose * (Detailed) (15 hours)

Swami Vivekananda : Work and its Secrets (p.no. 1-9).

Jawaharlal Nehru : Kamala

UNIT – IV Drama *(Detailed) (15 hours)

GirishKarnard : Hayavadana

UNIT – V Fiction (Non-Detailed) (15 hours)

R. K. Narayan : Swami and Friends

Books Prescribed:

Gokak, V. K. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry. New Delhi: Sahitya

Akademi,1970.

Parthasarthy, R. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Delhi: OUP, 1976.

De Souza, Eunice. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. London: Oxford

University

Press, 2001.

Karnad, Girish. Hayavadana, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Narayan, R. K. Swami and Friends. New Delhi: Indian Thought Publications, 2010.

Books for Reference:

Iyengar, Srinivasa.K.R. Indian Writing in English, New Delhi: Sterling, 1994

Naik, M.K.A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademy, 1999.



Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Allied–III


Sub. Code : 15UELA33 Credits : 4

ALLIED PAPER – III: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - I (For students admitted from the academic year 2015 - 2016 onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To familiarize the learners to the history of literature and great writers in English

2) To expose learners to the different ages in literature


1. An Introduction to English Literature

2. English Literature before Chaucer


1. Age of Chaucer (1340-1400)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – 1400)

John Gower (1442 – 1408)

John Barbour (1316 – 1395)

John Wycliff (1331 – 1384)

William Langland (1340 – 1400)


1. Age of Shakespeare (1557 – 1625)

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599)

Ben Jonson (1573 – 1637)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586)

Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)

University Wits


1. Age of Milton (1625 – 1660)

John Milton (1608 – 1674)

The Caroline Poets

The Metaphysical Poets

The Caroline Prose Writers


1. Ages of Dryden (1660 – 1700)and Pope (1700 – 1745)

John Dryden (1631 – 1700)

John Bunyan (1628 – 1688)

Samuel Butler (1612 – 1680)

Alexander Pope (1688 – 1745)

Daniel Defoe (1661 – 1731)

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)

Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)

Sir Richard Steele (1672 – 1729)

Book Prescribed:1. William Henry Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature.

Publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2008.



CORE ELECTIVE - I: BRITISH FICTION - I

(Neo-Classical to Age of Tennyson)


Objectives:

1) To introduce learners to different periods of British Fiction.

2) To acquaint the learners to narrative styles of British writers.

UNIT – I

Henry Fielding

: Joseph Andrews

(12 hours)

UNIT – II

Horace Walpole

: The Castle of Otranto

(12 hours)

UNIT – III

Jane Austen

: Northanger Abbey

(12 hours)

UNIT – IV

Sir Walter Scott

: Kenilworth

(12 hours)

UNIT – V

Charles Dickens

: Hard Times

(12 hours)

Books Prescribed:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. London: Little, 2007.

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.

Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews. London: Rutland, 1991.

Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. London: Penguin Revised edition, 1999.

Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. New York: Collier Books, 1963.


Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Penguin, 2005.

Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. New York: IMPACT Global Publishing, Inc. USA,

2015.

Muir, Edwin. Structure of the English Novel. London: Read Books, 2006.

Class : B. A. English Literature Part III : Core Elective - 1


Sub. Code : 18UELE13 Credits : 3



Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III NME-1


Sub. Code : 15UELN13 Credits : 2

NON-MAJOR ELECTIVE – BUSINESS ENGLISH (For students admitted from the academic year 2015- 2016 onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To offer learners career skills

2) To equip and hone writing and spoken skills

UNIT – I 10Hours

1. Note-making

2. Précis writing

3. Email etiquette

UNIT – II 15Hours

1. Report writing

2. Circular writing

3. Business Correspondence (Formal Letters)

UNIT – III 10Hours

1. Paragraph writing

2. Reading comprehension

3. Essay writing

UNIT – IV 10Hours

1. Interview Techniques

2. Resume writing

3. Mock interviews

UNIT –V 10Hours

1. Do‟s and Don‟ts of Group Discussion

2. Mock Group Discussion

3. Interpersonal and Negotiation Skills

Book Prescribed:

Bhatnagar, R. P. : English for Competitive Examinations


Ahuja, B. N. : Diction of Synonyms and Antonyms

Sasikumar, V. et al : Oral Communication Skills

Ayothi, V&R. Vedavalli : English for Competitive Examinations

Syamala, V. : Effective Communication for You



Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Core - 6

Semester : IV Hours : 75


CORE PAPER –VI: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – II (For Students Admitted from the Academic Year 2018- 2019 onwards under the CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To intensify the studies of Indian Writing in English.

2) To expose the students to Indian thoughts.

UNIT – I Poetry * (Detailed) (15 Hours)

Gieve Patel : On Killing a Tree

C. N. Srinath : Then Came Gandhi

Jayantha Mahabhatra

Aurobindo Gosh

: Dawn at Puri

: The Life Divine

Adil Jusswala : Sea Breeze

Pichamurti : National Bird

UNIT – II Prose * (Detailed) (15 Hours)

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam : My Visions for India

UNIT – III Short Stories (Non-Detailed) (15 Hours)

Anita Desai : A Devoted Son

Prem Chand : lottery

Tiger in the house : Ruskin bond

UNIT – IV Drama (Non-Detailed) (15 Hours)

Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session

UNIT – V Novel (Non-Detailed) (15 Hours)

Thakazhi Sivasankaranpillai : Chemmeen

Books Prescribed:

Gokak, V. K. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry. New Delhi: Sahitya

Akademi, 1970.

Parthasarthy, R. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Delhi: OUP, 1976.

De Souza, Eunice. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. London: Oxford

University

Press, 2001.

Tendulkar, Vijay. Kamala, Silence! The Court is in Session. New Delhi: Oxford

.University Press, 2003.

Pillai, Thakazhi Sivasankara. Chemmeen (Shrimps). Kottayam: SPCS, 1956.


Iyengar, Srinivasa.K.R. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling, 1994.

Naik, M.K.A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademy, 1999.



Class : B. A. English Literature Part : III Allied – 4


Sub. Code : 15UELA44 Credits : 4

ALLIED PAPER – IV: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - II (For students admitted from the academic year 2015 - 2016 onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To familiarize the learners to the history of literature and great writers in English

2) To expose learners to the different ages in literature


1. Age of Johnson (1745 – 1798)

Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

Oliver Golsmith (1728 – 1774)

R. B. Sheridan (1751 – 1816)

Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761)

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)

Thomas Grey (1716 – 1771)

Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)

William Cowper (1731 – 1800)


1. Age of Wordsworth (1798 – 1832)

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

S. T. Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

Sir Walter Scott ((1771 – 1832)

Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)

P. B. Shelley (1792 – 1822)

John Keats (1795 – 1821)

William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)


1. Age of Tennyson ( 1832 – 1887)

Alfred Lord Tennyson(1809 – 1892)

Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)

Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)

Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)

John Ruskin (1819 – 1990)

Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)

W. M. Thackeray (1811 – 1863)

George Eliot (1819 – 1880)


1. Age of Thomas Hardy (1887 – 1928)

Oscar Wilde (1856 – 1900)

Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)

G. B. Shaw (1856 – 1950)

Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924)

H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)


1. The Present Age (1930 – 1955)

G. M. Hopkins (1844 – 1889)

T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

James Joyce (1882 – 1941)

W. H. Auden (1907 - )

W. B. Yeats (1865 – 1939)

Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)

E. M. Forster (1879 - )

D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

Graham Greene (1904 - )

Book Prescribed:

1. William Henry Hudson : An Outline History of English Literature. B.I. Publications Pvt. Ltd,

New Delhi, 2008.



Class : B. A. English Literature Part III : Core Elective - 2


Sub. Code : 18UELE24 Credits 3

CORE ELECTIVE - 2: BRITISH FICTION-II

(Age of Thomas Hardy to Modern Age)


Objectives:

1) To introduce learners to different periods of British Fiction.

2) To acquaint the learners to narrative styles of British writers.


Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd


D. H. Lawrence : St. Mawr


Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness


Graham Greene : Heart of the Matter

UNIT – V (12 hours)

George Orwell : Nineteen Eighty-Four

Books prescribed:

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Charlottesville, Va.: Boulder, Colo.: University of

Virginia Library ; Net Library, 1996. Print.

Greene, Graham. Heart of the Matter. London, Vintage Books, 2001.

Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd, London, Penguin Books, 2004.

Lawrence, D.H. St. Mawr, The Virgin and The Gipsy, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,

1975.

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Noida, Om Books International, 2012.


Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. FQ Classics, 2007.

Muir, Edwin. Structure of the English Novel. Read Books, 2006.

Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Mariner Books, 1956.





Sub. Code : 15UELN24 Credits : 2

NON-MAJOR ELECTIVE – II: CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH (For students admitted from the academic year 2015 - 2016 onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To provide an understanding, skill and professional knowledge about the art of

writing.

2) To help develop the creative ability of those interested in taking up careers as

professional or freelance writers.


General Principles of Writing


Feature Writing


Writing Short Story


Writing Poetry


Writing for Media: Radio and Television


Bulman, Colin : Creative Writing – A Guide and Glossary to Fiction Writing

Marksberry, Mary Lee: Foundation of creativity. Harper‟s Series on Teaching.

Johnson, Burges and

Syracuse University : Creative Writing

Engle, Paul : The Writer and the Place





Sub. Code : 19UELM24 Credits : 2

NON-MAJOR ELECTIVE – ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYABILITY (For students admitted from the academic year 2015- 2016 onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To enhance learners‟ communication skills

2) To fecilitatenuances of business communication


1. Telephonic conversation

2. Public Speech (Welcome and Vote of Thanks)


1. Letter Writing

(Business, Enquiry, Sales, Order, Cancel Letters)

2. Resume Writing


1. Spotting Errors (number, gender, prepositions and articles)

2. Cloze Test


1. Minutes Writing

2. Report Writing

UNIT –V (7 hours)

1. Graph Interpretation

2. Reading Compréhension


1. Prasad, Hari Mohan. : Objective English for Competitive Examinations. Tata-

McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1997.

2. Ajith, Anuradha : Soft Skills for Aspiring Learners. Emerald: Chennai, 2009.

3. Gopalan and Rajagopalan : English for Competitive Examinations. Vijay Nicol Imprints:

Chennai, 2004.

4. S. Kanitha. : English for Employability. New Century: Chennai, 2009.

ARUL ANANDARCOLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), KARUMATHUR– 625 514


(SFC)

Class : B.A. English Literature Part : III

Semester : V Hours : 75

Subject Code : 18UELC75 Credits : 4

CORE PAPERVII – BRITISH DRAMA - I (For students admitted from the academic year 2015-2016onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives: 1) To introduce the learners the select writings in British Drama

2)To familiarize the learners with the main currents of developments in British

Literature

UNIT– I *(Detailed) (15 Hours)

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

UNIT– II (Non-Detailed) (15Hours)

Thomas Kyd : TheSpanish Tragedy

UNIT– III* (Detailed)

JohnWebster : TheWhiteDevil (15Hours)

UNIT– IV * (Detailed)

Sheridan : TheSchool forScandal (15Hours)

UNIT–V (Non-Detailed)

WilliamCongreve : TheWayof theWorld (15Hours)

Books Prescribed:

1. Marlowe, Christopher. : Doctor Faustus

2. Kyd, Thomas. : TheSpanish Tragedy

3. Webster, John. : TheWhiteDevil

4. WilliamCongreve : TheWayof theWorld

5. Sheridan, R. B. : School forScandal

Books forReference:

1. Davison, S. W. : Drama andDramatic

2. Fermor,U. E. : The Frontiers of Drama

3. Allen, J. : Masters of British Drama

4. Fermor,UnaEllis : Jacobean Drama


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE& LITERATURE (SFC)

Class

Semester

: B.A. English Literature

: V

Part : III

Hours : 90

Credits : 5 Subject Code : 18UELC85

CORE PAPER VIII – AMERICANLITERATURE (For students admitted from the academic year 2015-2016onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives: 1)To introduce the learners the select writings in American literature

2)To familiarize the learners with the main currents of developments in

American Literature from its beginning to mid-twentieth century

UNIT– I Poetry (Detailed) (18 Hours)

Edgar Allen Poe : Annabel Lee

Robert Frost : Mending Wall

: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Emily Dickinson :Because I could not Stop for Death

Success is Counted Sweetest

UNIT– II Drama (18 Hours)

EugeneO‟Neill : The Hairy Ape

UNIT– III Prose (18 Hours)

Emerson : The American Scholar

UNIT– IV Prose* (18 Hours)

John F. Kennedy

MartinLuther KingJr.

:Inaugural Address

:I have a Dream

UNIT– V Fiction (18 Hours)

Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea

Books for Study:

Fisher etal. AmericanLiteratureofthe Nineteenth Century. Vol.1.

Fisher etal. AmericanLiteratureofthe Nineteenth Century. Vol.2.

Books forReference:

Charles, F. Jr& P. BrodtkorbJr. Interpretations of AmericanLiterature. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1959. Print.

Forester, Normannet al. Introduction to American Poetryand Prose. New York:

HoughoutonMiffin, 1971. Print.


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE (SFC)

)(S(SFC)

Class

Semester


: V

Part : III

Hours : 90

Credits : 4 Subject Code : 18UELC95

CORE PAPER IX – SHAKESPEARE (For students admitted from the academic year 2015-2016onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To expose the learners to the field of Shakespearean Theatre and Audience

2) To acquaint the learners with dramatic skills of Elizabethan Age

UNIT– I (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Hamlet

UNIT– II (15 Hours)

As You Like It

UNIT– III (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Julius Caesar

UNIT– IV (General Shakespeare) (18 Hours)

Elizabethan Theatre &Audience

Shakespeare‟s Sonnets & Aside

Shakespeare‟s Supernatural Elements

UNIT– V (General Shakespeare) (17 Hours)

Shakespeare‟s Villains

Shakespeare‟sFools & Clowns

Shakespeare‟s Heroines

Books forStudy:

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.

---. Julius Caesar.

---. As You Like It.


Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy.

Charlton, H. B. Shakespearean Comedy.

Tillyard, E. M. W. Shakespeare’sLast Plays.

Dorius, R. J. Shakespeare’s Histories.


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE& LITERATURE (SFC)

Class

Semester


: V

Part : III

Hours : 90

Credits : 5 Subject Code : 18UELD05

CORE PAPER X –BRITISHPOETRY – II

(Age of Tennyson to Modern Age) (For students admitted from the academic year 2015-2016onwards under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To expose the learners to the field of British Poetry from Age of Tennyson to

Modern Age

2) To acquaint the learners to the culture of Britain

UNIT– I (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses

Robert Browning : My Last Duchess

Mathew Arnold : Dover Beach

UNIT– II (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Gerald ManleyHopkins

Wilfred Owen

William Butler Yeats

: TheWindhover

: StrangeMeeting

: Sailingto Byzantium

UNIT– III (17 Hours)

Elizabeth BarrettBrowning

Thomas Hardy

: Cryof theChildren

: TheSelf-Unseeing

UNIT– IV (17 Hours)

T. S. Eliot

W. H. Auden

D.H.Lawrence

: Journeyof theMagi

: TheUnknown Citizen

: Humming-Bird

UNIT– V (16 Hours)

Ted Hughes : Thought Fox

SylviaPlath : Mirror

Books for Study:

Green,David. The Winged Word. New Delhi: Mcmillan, 1974. Print.

Roberts, Michael, ed. Feber Book of Modern Verse. London: Faber &Faver, 1936. Print.

Books forReference:

Leavis, F. R. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto&Windus, 1950. Print.


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE &LITERATURE (SFC)

(SFC) Class : B.A. English Literature Part : III

Semester : V Hours : 75

Subject Code : 18UELD15 Credits : 4

CORE PAPER XI –PHONETICS: ITS THEORY & PRACTICE

(For students admitted from the academic year 2015-2016onwards

under the new CBCS pattern)

Objectives:

1) To expose the learners to English Sounds and accurate pronunciation.

2) To equip the learners to attain proficiency in articulation and pronunciation.

UNIT– I (15 Hours)

TheAir stream Mechanism

Organs of Speech


Consonants– Definition

Differencebetween Consonants and Vowels

Place and Manner ofarticulation


Vowels– Definition

Cardinal Vowels Chart

PureVowels


Diphthongs

Phonology

Syllables

Consonant Clusters


Word Accent

Accented Rhythmin connected speech

Intonation

Practicein Phonetictranscription (Words and Sentences)

BookPrescribed:

Balasubramanian, T. TheText Book ofEnglish Phonetics forIndianStudents. New

Delhi: Macmillan, 1997. Print.

Books forReference:

Bansal, R. K. &J.B. Harrison.Spoken English forIndian Students. Madras: Orient Longman,

1972. Print.



Class : B.A. English Literature Part : III Core-12

Semester : VI Hours : 75

Subject Code : 18UEND26 Credits : 4

CORE PAPER XII – BRITISH DRAMA - II

(For students admitted from the academic year 2015- 2016 onwards under the new CBCS

pattern)

Objectives: 1) To introduce the learners the select writings in British Drama

2) To familiarize the learners with the main currents of developments in

British Literature

UNIT– I* (Detailed)

George Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion (15 Hours)

UNIT– II (Non-Detailed)

Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest (15 Hours)

UNIT– III (Non-Detailed

T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral - Part I (15 Hours)

UNIT IV (Non-Detailed)

T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral – Part II (15 Hours)

UNIT– V *(Detailed) (15 Hours)

Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

Books Prescribed:

Shaw, George Bernard. : Pygmalion

Wilde, Oscar : The Importance of Being Earnest

Eliot, T.S. : Murder in the Cathedral

Beckett, Samuel :Waiting for Godot

Books forReference:

Priestly, J. B.: TheArt ofthe Dramatist

Gascoine,B. : Twentieth Century Drama

Elson, J.: Post War British Theatre



Class : B.A. English Literature Part : IIICore-

13



CORE PAPER XIII – LITERARYCRITICISM (Plato to Modern Times)


pattern)

Objectives:

1) To expose the learners to the field of criticism and to develop their critical mind

2) To familiarize the learners to the type of criticism that influenced the respective

ages

UNIT– I (18hours)

Background of English Criticism

Plato, Aristotle

Sir Philip Sidney

UNIT– II (18hours)

Ben Johnson

John Dryden

Alexander Pope

UNIT– III (18hours)

Dr. Johnson.

William Wordsworth

S.T. Coleridge

UNIT– IV (18hours)

Matthew Arnold

T.S. Eliot

I.A. Richards

UNIT– V (18hours)

Introduction toLiteraryTheories

Structuralism

Marxism

Book for Study:

Prasad, B. AnIntroduction to English Criticism. New Delhi: Trinity Publishers, 1991.

Print.

Books forReference:

Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. London: Manchester University Press, 3rd

edition,

2009. Print.

Saintsbury, George. A HistoryofEnglish Criticism.

Wimsatt,W. K &CleanthBrooks.LiteraryCriticism: A History. New York: Routledge,

1957. Print.



(SFC)

Class : B.A. English Literature Part : III Core 14



CORE XIV – WOMEN’S WRITING


pattern)

Objectives:

1)To introducethe learners to Women Writers

2)To empower the learnerswith theFeminine ethics

UNIT– I Poetry (Detailed) (15 Hours)

KamalaDas

Gwendolyn Brooks

: The Wild Bougainvilla

: The Mother

Judith Wright : Woman to Man

Anne Sexton : Her Kind

UNIT – II Prose (Detailed) (15 Hours)

VirginiaWoolf : From ARoom of One’sOwn (Chapter 2)

Simone De Beauvoir :„Woman as Other‟ from The Second Sex

UNIT– III Drama (15 Hours)

Lorraine Hansbury: A Raisin in the Sun

UNIT– IV Fiction

Jaishree Mishra

: Ancient Promise (15 Hours)

UNIT– V Short Story (15 Hours)

Doris Lessing

Mahaswetha Devi

: To Room Nineteen

: The Breast – Giver

Books for Study:

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own.

Hansbury, Lorraine. The Raisin in the Sun.

Mishra, Jaishree. Ancient Promise. London: Penguin, 2000. Print.

Beauvoir, Simon De. The Second Sex. Paris: Gallimard, 1949. Print.

Books forReference:

Humm, Maggie. FeministCriticism: Women as ContemporaryCritics. Brighton,

England: Penguin Publication, Print.

Showalter, Elaine, ed. Essays on Women,Literatureand Theory.New York: Pantheon

Books, 1985. Print.






CORE XV – NEW LITERATURES


pattern)

Objectives:

1)To acquaint the learners with literatures other than Britain and America

2)To make the learners empathize with the Post-Colonial Stance.

UNIT– I Poetry (Detailed)

Judith Wright : The Harp and the King

P. K. Page : First Neighbours

Langston Hughes : The Negro Speaks of Rivers

A. D. Hope : Australia

Gabriel Okara : Once Upon a Time

(18 Hours)

UNIT– II Prose (18 Hours)

Nadine Gadimer

Margaret Atwood

: Writing and Being

: Nature as Escape

UNIT– III Drama & One-ActPlay (18 Hours)

Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel

(Detailed) Cedric Mount : Never

NeverNest(Non-Detailed)

UNIT– IV Fiction (18 Hours)

ChinueAchebe : Things Fall Apart

UNIT– V Short Stories (18 Hours)

Anton PavlovichTchekhov

Katherine Mansfield

GuydeMaupassant

Books for Study:

: An Incident

: A Cup of Tea

: The Diamond Necklace

Narasimaiah, C. D. An Anthologyof Commonwealth Poetry. Madras: Mcmillan,

1990. Print.

Thiene, John, ed. TheArnold AnthologyofPost-Colonial Literature. London: Arnold,

1996. Print.

Books forReference:

Dhawan, R. K. Commonwealth Fiction. New Delhi: Classical Publication, 1988.

Print.

Tiffin &Ashcroft, eds. TheEmpireWrites Back. London: Routledge, 2005. Print.

Wash, William. CommonwealthLiterature. London: Mcmillan Press, 1979. Print.

Walden, Dennis. Post Colonial Literature in English. Delhi: Blackwell Publication,

1983. Print.






CORE PAPER – XVI: PRINT MEDIA


pattern)

Objectives:

1. To exposethe students to the media

2. To makethe learners develop their creativeability

3. To create opportunityto the learners forfield experience

UNIT– I (18 Hours)

Mass Communication– Definition – Process– Stages – Functions–Impact– Growth

and development of Radio, TV, Newspaper


HistoryofIndian Press–PressLaws – Freedom of Press– Social role –Liable

Investigation Journalism


News – Definition– Sources ofNews – News Agencies– News Types– Headlines–

Lead – News StoryCharacteristics ofagood reporter–Interview –

Reporting(definition, types)


OfficeNetwork –editor– sub-editor roles andresponsibilities– editorials– Types –free

Lancejournalism


FeatureWriting– types –structure–Interviews –Profiles– Advertisements– Types –

Creation – Cartoons

Books Prescribed:

1. J. V. Vilainilam : Mass Communication in India: A Sociological Perspective

2. J. Natarajan : History of Indian Journalism

3. Bob Franklin,et al.,:KeyConcepts in Journalism Studies

4. R.C.S.Sarkar: ThePress in India

Books forReference:

1. Jo. A. Cates : Journalism: AGuideto theReferenceLiterature(3rd

edition)

2. B. N. Ahuja: Audio Visual Journalism

3. Ahuja: Journalism: Theoryand Practice



CORE I – BRITISH LITERATURE – I

(AGE OF CHAUCER TO PURITAN AGE) (For students admitted from June 2019 onwards under the CBCS pattern)

Class : M. A. English Literature Part : III Core - 1


Sub. Code : 19PELC11 Credits : 5

Objectives: 1. To provide a comprehensive view of the literature from the Age of Chaucer to

Puritan Age.

2. To understand the literary sensibility of the Age.

3. To help the students understand the different genres of that Age.

4. To appreciate the texts in terms of themes, techniques and culture. 5. To understand the dramatic and theatrical conventions of Elizabethan and

Restoration plays.

UNIT I - POETRY (Detailed) (20 Hours) Geoffrey Chaucer : The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

(1 to 117)

(In Modern English Translation)

John Milton : Paradise Lost (Book IX) (412 to 794)

UNIT II – POETRY (17 Hours)

Thomas Wyatt : Farewell to Love

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey : My Friend, the Things That Do Attain

John Donne : The Canonization

George Herbert : The Pulley John Suckling : Song: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond

Lover

Edmund Spenser : Prothalamion

UNIT III – PROSE (Detailed) (18 Hours)

Francis Bacon : Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Death

Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature

UNIT IV – DRAMA (20 Hours)

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi (Detailed) Ben Jonson : The Alchemist

UNIT V – FICTION (15 Hours)

Thomas More : Utopia

Books for Study:

Abrams, M. H. (Ed). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume-1, W.W.

New York USA: Norton Company, 3rd Edition, 1974.

Enright, Dennis Joseph& Ernst De Chickera. Ed. English Critical Texts. London:

Oxford University Press, 1962. Print. Green, David. The Winged Words. Chennai: Macmillan, 1974. Palgrave, Francis Turner. The Golden Treasury. New Delhi: Rupa&Co. 2001.

Books for Reference: M. H. Abrams, Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. A Glossary of Literary Terms. United

States: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2005.

Long, J. William.English Literature: Its History and Significance. New Delhi:

Kalyani Publishers, 2007.

Sonia, G. Benson. Elizabethan World Reference Library, New York, USA, 1st Edition, UXL, 2006.

Spencer, T.J.B. Elizabethan Love Stories, Ed. Penguin Publisher, London, 1968.

Ricks,Christoher.Ed., The New Oxford Book of English Verse,Vol. II. New York :

OUP,1987. V. Sachitanandam. Ed. Six English Poets, Chennai, Macmillian.1978.



CORE II – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

(For students admitted from June 2019 onwards under the CBCS pattern)

Class

Semester

: M. A. English Literature

: I

Part : III Core : 2

Hours : 90

Sub. Code

Objectives:

: 19PELC21 Credits : 5

1. To introduce to the students the variety and diversity of Indian writing in English.

2. To create an awareness among the students about the struggles and bounce backs of

writing in English

3. To compose the students keen towards expressing themselves in English.

4. To motivate the students to attempt to write poetry and short stories in English.

5. To make the students understand the concepts of regional and foreign languages.

UNIT I - POETRY (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Rabindranath Tagore : Gitanjali (Songs: 11, 12, 35, 36 and 51.)

A.K. Ramanujan : The Highway Stripper

Sarojini Naidu : Harvest Hymn

Nissim Ezekiel : The Hill / The Patriot

R. Parthasarathy : Home Coming

UNIT II - PROSE (15 Hours) Jawaharlal Nehru : Letters from a father to his Daughter (Letters: 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 18, 19, 22, 25 and 28.)

Sri Aurobindo : The Renaissance in India

A. P. J. Kalam : A Journey through Challenges

UNIT III - DRAMA (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Mahesh Dattani : Bravely fought the Queen

(Non: Detailed)

Girish Karnad : Tughlaq

BadalSircar : Procession

UNIT IV - SHORT STORY (15 Hours)

Rabindranath Tagore : The Man from Kabul

R.K Narayan : The Image

Khushwant Singh : Karma

Manohar Malgonkar : Upper Division Life

Kamala Das : An Introduction

UNIT V- FICTION (20 Hours)

KhushwantSingh : Train to Pakistan Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things

Books for Study:

Dattani, Mahesh, Bravely fought the Queen, Penguin India, 2006. Karnad, Girish, Tughlaq, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Sircar, Badal, Procession, South Asia Books, 1983.

Singh, Khushwant, Train to Pakistan, Penguin India, 2016.

Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things, Penguin India, 2002.

Nehru, Jawaharlal. Letters from a Father to His Daughter: Being a Brief Account of

the Early Days of the World, Written for Children. Oxford University Press, 1989.

Books for Reference: Murugavel, T Frozen Moments, A Collection of Short Stories, Ed. SCITECH

Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd, 2004.

Kumar Raju, Anand „The Last Leaf‟ and Other Short Stories (Anthology of

Short Stories), Blackie Books, 1997.

Narasimhaiah, C.D,An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry, Ed, 2014. Indian Writing in English (An Anthology of Prose and Poetry Selections), Ed.

By Dev,AnjanaNeira&Bhalla, Amrita, Primus Books, 2013.



CORE- III – AMERICAN LITERATURE




Sub. Code :19PELC31 Credits : 5

Objectives:

1. To provide students a broad interdisciplinary exposure to core themes in American

Society, Culture and Literature.

2. To acquaint the students to American poetry. 3. To assess the prose work of the American writers. 4. To evaluate the dramatic style of the American dramatists.

5. To make a critical study of the American novella.


Edgar Allen Poe : The Raven

Walt Whitman : There Was a Child Went Forth

Emily Dickinson : Tell all the truth but tell it slant Robert Frost : Birches

Wallace Stevens : The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Langston Hughes : I, Too, Sing America

Crisosto Apache : My Religion UNITII - PROSE (Detailed) (20 Hours)

R.W. Emerson : Self-Reliance

H.D. Thoreau : Civil Disobedience

Abraham Lincoln : The Gettysburg Address UNIT III - DRAMA (20 Hours)

Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman

Eugene O‟ Neill : Mourning Becomes Electra

UNITIV - SHORT STORY (15 Hours)

Hermann Melville : Bartleby the Scrivener Nathaniel Hawthorne : Young Goodman Brown

William Faulkner : The Bear

Kate Chopin : Regret

Henry James : The Beast in the Jungle

Alice Walker : Everyday Use

UNIT V - FICTION (15 Hours)

John Steinbeck : Grapes of Wrath

Toni Morrison : Sula

Earnest Hemingway : A farewell to Arms

Books for Study: Cunliffe. M: The Literature of the United States,Penguin Books, 1961. Fisheretal.American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Vol.1.

Fisheretal. American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Vol.2.

https://www.poets.org/node/44733

Books for Reference: Paul C. Conkins: Puritans and Pragmatists, Baylor University Press, August, 2006. Charles, F. Jr& P. BrodtkorbJr. Interpretations of American Literature. Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1959.

Forester, Normannet al. Introduction to American PoetryandProse. New York:

HoughoutonMiffin, 1971. Henry, James. The Art of Fiction – American literature of the 19th century, William

J. Fisher, Eurasia Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., Ram Nagar, Delhi 1970.

Ihab Hassan, Radical Innocence Paul B. Newman Ihab Hassan, Critique: Studies in

Contemporary Fiction, 1962.



CORE: IV – LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS


Class

Semester


: I

Part : III Core : 4

Hours : 90


Objectives:

1. To provide learners an insight into the nature of language

2. To introduce students to the important developments in language study

3. To familiarise learners with linguistics forms

4. To expose them to branches of linguistics

5. To enable learners to understand the applied linguistics

UNIT I - LANGUAGE HISTORY AND THE PROCESS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE

(17 Hours) The Origins of Language. Development of Gesture, Sign, Words, Sounds, Speech and Writing

Core Features of Human Language, Animals and Human Language

UNIT II- NATURE OF LANGUAGE (17 Hours)

Pure Vowels, Diphthongs and Consonants

Language Dialects & Varieties, Pidgin and Creole

Language and Gender, Language and Disadvantage

UNIT III - LINGUISTIC FORM (18 Hours)

Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Grammar

UNIT IV- BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS (18 Hours)

Structural Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics

UNIT V- APPLIED LINGUISTICS (20 Hours)

Stylistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Books for Study:

Aitchison, J. Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Atkinson,M., Kilby,D. &Rocca,I. Foundations of General Linguistics. London:

George Allen & Unwin, 1982.


Yule, G. The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Radford, A.et al. Linguistics: An Introduction. UK: Cambridge University Press,

1999.

Wardhaugh, R. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1986.



CORE ELECTIVE I – JOURNALISM AND MASS MEDIA


Class

Semester


: I

Part : III Core Elective : 1

Hours : 90

Sub. Code : 19PELE11 Credits : 04

Objectives:

1. To enable students analyze the trends in contemporary journalism.

2. To acquire knowledge about mass media.

3. To appreciate the history and freedom of press in India.

4. To understand the art of writing, reporting and editing.

5. To understand the role of reporter in global arena.

UNIT I – JOURNALISM (16 Hours)

Definition, Concept and Scope; Responsibilities and Ethics of a Good Journalist;

Freelance Journalism; Investigative Journalism; Yellow Journalism; Sting Operation

UNIT II - MASS MEDIA (14 Hours)

Meaning and Definition; Types of Media and its Role; Growth and Development of

Radio, TV, Internet and New Media; Attributes of a Radio Jockey; Skills of TV

Anchor

UNIT III – PRESS LAW (20 Hours)

History of Indian Press; Press Laws; Press Censorship; Freedom of Press; Salient

features of Article 19 (a); Social Role

UNIT IV – REPORTING (20 Hours)

News: Definitions, Elements and Concepts; Structure of News; Importance of

Headlines; Types of News: Soft News & Hard News; News Agencies, Feature

Writing, Interviews & Reviews

UNIT V- EDITING (20 Hours)

Principles of Editing; Types of Editing; Roles and Responsibilities of News Editor

&Sub:Editor; Editorial: Meaning and Significance; Editorial Policy; Proof Reading;

Articles

Books for Study:

Ahuja, B.N. Theory and Practice of Journalism. New Delhi: Surjeet Publications,

2005.

Sarkar, R.C.S. The Press in India. New Delhi: S.Chand& Company Ltd, 1984.

Srivastava, K.M. News Reporting and Editing. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1995.


Kumar, Keval K. Mass Communication in India. New Delhi: Vikas

Publications,1994.

McQuail, Dennis. Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction. London:

Sage Publication Ltd, 2010.

Mehta, D.S. Mass Communication and Journalism in India. New Delhi:

Allied Publishers Ltd, 1979.

Parthasarathi, Rangaswamy. Journalism in India. New Delhi: Sterling Publishing,

2011.

Raman, Usha. Writing for the Media. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.



CORE V – BRITISH LITERATURE – II

(RESTORATION TO ROMANTIC AGE) (For students admitted from June 2019 onwards under the CBCS pattern)

Class : M. A. English Literature Part : III Core : 5



Objectives:

1. To help the students appreciate the works of writers. 2. To introduce the students to the literary and social climate of the Age.

3. To teach them the various genres of the major writers of the age.

4. To appreciate the texts in terms of themes, techniques and culture.

5. To understand the dramatic and theatrical conventions of Restoration plays.


John Dryden : Alexander‟s Feast

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man (Epistle II)

Thomas Gray : Elegy written in a country Churchyard William Blake : The Human Abstract


William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey

S.T.Coleridge : Dejection: An Ode Lord Byron : When We Two Parted P.B.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind

John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn


Charles Lamb : New Year‟s Eve, The South Sea House

Thomas De Quincey : One the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth


Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer R.B. Sheridan : The Rivals (Detailed)

UNIT V – FICTION (Non - Detailed) (18 Hours)

Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

Books for Study:

Abrams, M. H. (Ed). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume:1, W.W. New York USA: Norton Company, 3rd Edition, 1974.

Enright, Dennis Joseph& Ernst De Chickera. Ed. English Critical Texts. London:

Oxford University Press, 1962. Print.

Green, David. The Winged Words. Chennai: Macmillan, 1974.

Books for Reference: M. H. Abrams, Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. A Glossary of Literary Terms. United

States: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2005.

Long, J. William.English Literature: Its History and Significance, Kalyani

Publishers, New Delhi, 2007.

Wordsworth, Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth, The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry.London:Penguin, 2005.

Ricks,Christoher.Ed., The New Oxford Book of English Verse,Vol. II New York ,

OUP,1987. V. Sachitanandam. Ed. Six English Poets, Chennai,

Macmillian.1978.



CORE VI – SHAKESPEARE


Class : M. A. English Literature Part : III Core : 6



Objectives:

1. To appreciate the versatility and universality of Shakespeare's poetry and sonnets

2. To expose the students to the elements of tragedy. 3. To analyze the aspects of comedy in Shakespeare‟s plays

4. To experiment the change of perspectives in Shakespeare‟s plays

5. To train the students in re-reading of Shakespeare‟s texts.

UNIT I – POETRY (20 Hours)

“Sonnet: 12, 16, 23, 54,116” (Detailed)

“Venus and Adonis”

“The Rape of Lucrece”

UNIT II – TRAGEDY (17 Hours)

King Lear (Detailed)

Macbeth

UNIT III – COMEDY (18 Hours)

Twelfth Night

As You Like It

UNIT IV - CRITICAL APPROACHES TO SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS (17 Hours)

Post-colonial, Feminist, Eco-critical reading of: The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night‟s Dream

UNIT V - SHAKESPEAREAN CRITICISM (18 Hours)

Dr. Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare

A.C. Bradley : Othello Ernest Schanzer : The Tragedy of Brutus

Books for Study:

Bradley. A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Macmillain, 1919.

Barker, Granville &G.B.Harrison. (Ed.) A Companion to Shakespeare Studies.Cambridge University Press. 1966.

Greer, Germaine. (Ed.). Shakespeare Sonnets. London: Vintage Classics. 2009.

Ure, Peter (Ed.). Julius Caesar: A Selection of Critical Essays. London: The

Macmillain Press, 1969.


Brown, John Russel. Discovering Shakespeare: A New Guide to the Plays.

Macmillan, 1981.

Peck, John and Martin Coyle.How to Study a Shakespearean Play.

London:Macmillan. 1985.

Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare, The Globe and the World:OUP, 1979

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare.

Uk: Vintage Digital. 2012.

Lamb, Charles & Mary Ann Lamb.Tales from Shakespeare. London:

Fingerprint Publishing house. 2018.



CORE VII – INDIAN REGIONAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION





Objectives:

1. To give a comprehensive knowledge of the literary works produced all over the India

in

different languages and available in English translation.

2. To familiarize students with variety of literature across the nation and cultures.

3. To enable the students to appreciate the merits of translation.

4. To make the students compare the treatment of major themes by writers of various

Countries.

5. To develop skills in the comparison and evaluation of translations.


Kuruntokai (Sangam Poetry) :

Thirukkural :

Poems 25, 30, 40, 104,231

1.2.1. Domestic Life – 41 -50.

KishwarNaheed : I Am Not That Woman

Avvaiyar : Moothurai

Nalvazhi

UNIT II - PROSE (17 Hours)

Periyar E.V.Ramasamy : Why Were Women Enslaved?

Bhagat Singh : Why I am an Atheist?

Kamala Das : My Life (Chapters 30 & 31)


Kalidasa : Shakuntala (Trans. by Arthur W. Ryder)

Badal Sarkar : EvamIndirajit

Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session


Jayakanthan :

Ambai :

Mahasweta Devi :

Agni Pravesham

A Corner in the Kitchen

Draupadi

UNIT V- FICTION

U. R. Ananthamurthy :

Samskara

(18 Hours)

PerumalMurugan : One Part Woman

O.V. Vijayan : The Legends of Khasak

Books for Study:

Ananthamurthy,U. R. Samskara, Translated by A.K. Ramanujan. London:Oxford,

2012.

Das, Kamala. My Story,New York:Sterling Publishers,1977.

Devi,Mahasweta. Draupadi, Translated by GayatriChakravortySpivak, Chicago:

The University of Chicago Press

Elangovan, M. Moral Aesthetics:An Anthology of Avvaiyar’s Didactic Poetry,

Chennai: Emerald Publishers,2019.

Jayakanthan.Agni Pravesham, Translated byAvvaiSambandan. New Delhi:

Indian Horizons.

Kalidasa.Shakuntala ,Translated by Arthur W. Ryder. Ontario:In

Paranthesis Publications Sanskrit Series,199.

Murugan,Perumal. One Part Woman, Translated byAniruddhanVasudevan.

Penguin; English Edition (December 1, 2014)

Pope. G.U. Thirukkural: English Translation and Commentary, Create

Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

RamasamyE.V.Why Were Women Enslaved?Translated by Dr.K.Veeramani. The

Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution, 2007.

Ramanujan ,A.K.TheInterior Landscape Love Poems from a Classical Tamil

Anthology, London :Bloomington,1967.

SircarBadal.EvamIndrajit, Translated by Girish Karnad.Oxford University Press.

1975

Tagore,Rabindranath. Gitanjali, New York:Dover Publications, 2011.


Shyam, S.John.Ed. World Literature: The Ancient and Modern. Bangalore:

CFCC Publication, 2010.

Indian Literature and the World Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public

Sphere,

Ed RossellaCiocca, Neelam Srivastava, Macmillan UK, 2017.

Short Fiction from South India. Eds. SubashreeKrishnaswamy, K. Srilata,

Oxford Paperbacks, 2007.

Apter, Emily S. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature.

Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

Majumdar, Swapan. Comparative Literature: Indian Dimensions. Calcutta: Payrus,

1987.

Pettersson, Anders, ed. Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective:

Notions of Literature across times and cultures.Vol. 1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,

2006.

Web Sources:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/1930/10/05.htm

http://asuddenline.tumblr.com/post/4834518949/i-am-not-that-woman-kishwar-

naheed

https://www.marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/1930/10/05.htm

http://asuddenline.tumblr.com/post/4834518949/i-am-not-that-woman-kishwar-naheed

http://asuddenline.tumblr.com/post/4834518949/i-am-not-that-woman-kishwar-naheed



COREELECTIVE II – TRANSLATION STUDIES AND PRACTICE (For students admitted from June 2019 onwards under the CBCS pattern)

Class : M. A. English Literature Part : III Core Elective : 2


Sub. Code : 19PELE22 Credits : 4

Objectives:

1. To make students acquire a sound knowledge in the aspects of translation theory.

2. To introduce the students to theoretical concepts relevant to practical translation

3. To provide students with a thorough knowledge of the history of translation and of its

issues.

4. To verify the validity and applicability of the theoretical paradigms through the

analysis of a number of existing translations.

5. To help the students learn the nuances of translation.

UNIT- I (20 Hours) Introduction to Translation History of Translation Definition, Theory and Principle

UNIT- II

Translation: methods, techniques and strategies (17 Hours)

Kinds of Translation

Methods of Translation

Role of the Translator

UNIT- III (18 Hours)

The Problems of Translation

Merits and Demerits of Translation

Cultural and ideological issues in translation

Limits of Translatability

UNIT - IV (17 Hours)

Translation of Literature

Translation of Technical Books

UNIT- V (18 Hours)

Translation Practice: Translating Tamil Poems to English

Translation of Prose from English to Tamil

Books for Study:

Bassnett –McGuire, Susan.Translation Studies. London: Methun, 1980.

Gupta.R.S. Literary Translation. New Delhi :Creative Books, 1999.

Books for Reference: Baker, Mona. ed. The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Translation

Studies,London:Routledge, 1998.

Gentzler, Edwin. Contemporary Translation Theories, London: Routledge, 1993.

Kanagaraj.S. and Samuel Kirubakar.The Anatomy of Translation. India:

Prem Publishers,1995. Trivedi, Harish Susan Bassnet. Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice,

London: Routledge, 1999.

Venuti, Lawrence. ed. The Translation Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 2000.



NON: MAJOR ELECTIVE I – ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS


Class : M. A. English Literature Part : III NME 1


Sub. Code : 19PELN12 Credits : 4

Objectives:

1. To introduce the NME Students to the basics of English Grammar and its Usage.

2. To empower the students to become familiar with the usage of words.

3. To make the student‟s Reasoning Skills at work by reading comprehension. 4. To enable the students to employ their Listening and Reading Skills into writing

Skills.

5. To improve the spoken language of the students by applying the LSRW skills.

UNIT I - GRAMMAR (15 Hours)

Basics in English grammar and usage

Number

Subject Verb Agreement

Articles

Sequence of Tenses

Common Errors & Error Correction

UNIT II - WORD POWER (15 Hours)

Idioms & Phrases One Word Substitutions

Synonyms Antonyms Words Often Confused

Foreign Words and Phrases

Spelling

UNIT III – SPEAKING (10 Hours)

Public Speaking

Group Discussion

Interview Spoken English

UNIT IV – READING AND REASONING (10 Hours) Comprehension Note making Summarizing

UNIT V – WRITING SKILLS (40 Hours)

Paragraph

Precis Writing

Expansion of an Idea

Report Writing

Essay

Letters Reviews (Films and Books)

Books for Study: English for Competitive Examinations, V.Saraswathy, K.Mudbhatkal,

Emerald Publishers, 2005.

English for Competitive Examinations, Dr.V.Ayothi, Dr.R.Vedavalli, New Century

Book House (P) Ltd, 2013.


Raman, M. & S. Sharma, Communication Skills, OUP, New Delhi, India, 2011.

Objective English for Competitive Exams, KunalGupta,Himalaya

Publishing House, Mumbai, 2005. General English for Competitive Examinations, Prof.Garg B.K.D, Surjeeth

Publications, New Delhi, India, 2011.

Objective English for Competitive Examinations, Hari Mohan Prasad, McGraw

Hill Education (India) Private Ltd, 2014.


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

CORE VIII – BRITISH LITERATURE – III

(Victorian to Modern Age)

(Outcome Based Syllabus under CBCS Structure for students admitted

from the Academic Year 2020 – 2021 onwards)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core: 8


Sub. Code : 20PELC83 Credit : 5


Upon completion of the Course the students will be able to:

appreciate the chief exponents of the Victorian Age and Modern Age.

make an analysis of the Victorian morals, values and ideals.

associate with the prose works of the major writers of the Age.

assess the dramatic style of Shaw and Osborne in the Modern Age of English

Literature.

criticize the Novella and texts in terms of themes, techniques and culture.

UNIT I – POETRY (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Robert Browning : Love among the Ruins

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : The Blessed Damozel

G.M. Hopkins : God‟s Grandeur, Pied Beauty

T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land

UNIT II - POETRY (15 Hours)

W.B. Yeats : Easter 1916

W.H. Auden : The Unknown Citizen

Wilfred Owen : Anthem for Doomed Youth

Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting

Philip Larkin : Wants


Matthew Arnold : Study of Poetry

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship Chapter 3: Hero as a

Poet


John Galsworthy : The Silver Box (Detailed)

George Bernard Shaw : Candida

UNIT V – FICTION (15 Hours)

James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2. Books for Study:

Abrams, M. H. (Ed). The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 1, W.W.

New York USA: Norton Company. 3rd Edition, 1974. Print.

Enright, Dennis Joseph & Ernst De Chickera. Ed. English Critical Texts. London: Oxford


Green, David. The Winged Words. Chennai: Macmillan, 1974. Print.


M. H. Abrams, Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. A Glossary of Literary Terms. United States:

Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2005. Print.

Long, J. William. English Literature: Its History and Significance, New Delhi: Kalyani

Publishers, 2007. Print.

Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP,

1976. Print.

Ricks, Christoher. Ed., The New Oxford Book of English Verse. Vol. II. New York: OUP,

1987. Print.

Sachitanandam, V (Ed). Six English Poets. Chennai: Macmillan. 1978. Print.



CORE IX – NEW LITERATURES

(Outcome Based Syllabus under CBCS Structure for the Students admitted

from the Academic Year 2020-2021 onwards)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core : 9


Sub. Code : 20PELC93 Credit : 5



generate an awareness about various issues discussed by different writers with local and

global social conditions.

impart the knowledge of colonial expansions enacted by the British regime.

compose the students understand the East – West cultural conflicts.

make the students differentiate regional and global literature.

enable the students explores various styles of literary genres around the globe.


Ahmed Ali (Pakistan) : Dialogue with Lee San

Jean Arasanayagam (Sri Lankan) : In the Month of July

Chitra Banerjee (Indian-American) : Indigo

Kamala Wjratne (Sri Lankan) : To a Student

Allen Curnow (Australian) : Time

UNIT II - PROSE (15 Hours)

Mathar Hisham (British-Libyan) : “Evidence” from A Month in Sienna

Salman Rushdie (British-Indian) : An extract from Imaginary Homelands

Chinua Achebe (Nigerian) : Thoughts on the African Novel

Ruth Prawar Jhabvale

(American-British-German) : Myself in India

UNIT III- DRAMA (Detailed) (20 Hours)

Wole Soyinka (Nigerian) : Death and King‟s Horseman

UNIT IV- SHORT STORY (15 Hours)

Carold Shield (American-Canadian) : A Scarf

Nasibu Mwanukuzi (Tanzania) : Killing Time

Nadine Gordimer (South African) : Six Feet of the Country

Henry Lawson (Australian) : The Drover‟s Wife

UNIT V- FICTION (20 Hours)

Sheila Watson (Canadian) : The Double Hook

2. Books for Study:

Soyinka Wole. Death and King’s Horseman. Ed. Jane Plastow. USA: Bloomsberry.

1998. Print.

Watson Sheila. The Double Hook. Canada: Penguin Modern Classic Ed. 2018. Print.

Hisham Mathar. A Month in Sienna. Canada: Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. Print.


Thieme John. The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Literatures in English. UK:

Hodder Education, 1996. Print.

Walsh, William. Readings in Commonwealth Literature. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1973. Print.

Narasimhaiah, C.D. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Ed. New Delhi: Macmillan,

2014. Print.

Arvind Krishna, Mehrotra. The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets.

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Print.

Vinay, Dharwadker. The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry. New Delhi: Oxford




CORE X – WORLD LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION

(Outcome Based Syllabus under CBCS Structure for the Students admitted from the

Academic Year 2020-2021 onwards)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core : 10


Sub. Code : 20PELD03 Credit : 5


Upon completion of the Course the students will be able to

acquire the basic knowledge of translated epics in world literature.

understand cross-cultural texts and discern their literary nuances.

classify the psychological nature expressed in world literatures.

appreciate and evaluate in the translated works across the world.

conceive the paradigm shift through literary reading.


Homer : The Odyssey (Book - 9)

Horace : Ode 1.11

Pablo Neruda : If You Forget Me (Extract from The

Captain‟s Verses)

UNIT II – PROSE (17 Hours)

Aristotle : The Poetics

Longinus : On the Sublime


Sophocles : Oedipus Rex

Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House


Franz Kafka : Metamorphosis

Simone De Beauvoir : The Monologue

UNIT V - FICTION (20 Hours)

Jean Paul Sartre : Nausea

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina

2. Books for Study:

Homer. The Odyssey of Homer, Book IX: With Introduction Notes and Appendices,

Palala Press, 2015. Print.

Virgil. The Aeneid. New York: Penguin, 2010. Print.

Khayyam, Omar. The Rubaiyat. United States: Ingram Short Title, 2010. Print.

Neruda, Pablo. Captain’s Verses. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1972. Print.

Aristotle. The Poetics. New Delhi: Fingerprint! Publishing and imprint Fingerprint!

2017. Print.

Longinus. On the Sublime. California: Createspace Independent Pub, 2017. Print.

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Digireads.com, 2005. Print.

Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House. Noida: Maple Press, 2011. Print.

Sartre, Jean Paul. Nausea. New York : Penguin, 2000. Print.

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. New Delhi: General Press, 2011. Print.

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. New Delhi: General Press, 2011. Print.

3. Books for Reference: Damrosch, David. How to Read World Literature, John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Print. Beard, Harry & Henderson, John. Classics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2000.Print. Beaton, Roderick. An Introduction to Greek Literature. Oxford: Oxfords, 1994. Print. Shneidman, N. Russian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Print.



CORE XI – GENDER STUDIES

(Outcome Based Syllabus under OBE Structure for Students

from the Academic Year 2020 onwards)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core - 11




Upon completion of the course the students will be able to

understand and identify the basic concepts of gender and its roles.

distinguish the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity.

analyze gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality from socio-cultural perspectives.

defend the ideologies of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender.

examine the subtle nuances of gender issues for their research.

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER STUDIES (15 Hours)

Types of Gender

Differences between Sex and Gender

Interdisciplinary Nature of Gender Studies

Differences between Gender Study to Women‟s Studies


Sylavia Plath : Daddy

Judith Wright : The Old Prison, Five Senses

Adrienne Rich : Twenty One Love Poems (from 1 to 5 Poems.)

UNIT III - PROSE (20 Hours)

Julia Kristeva : Women‟s Time

Luce Irigaray : Women on the Market

Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak: Three Women‟s Texts and a Critique of

Imperialism

UNIT IV - DRAMA (20 Hours) Mahesh Dattani : Seven Steps around the Fire (Detailed)

Judith Thompson : Lion in the Streets (Non-Detailed)

UNIT V - FICTION (20 Hours) Iris Murdoch : The Bell

Toni Morrison : Beloved

2. Books for Study: Cornell, R. W. Gender. Cambridge: Polity press, 1995. Print.

Lipman-Blumen J. Gender Roles and Power. Jew Jersey: Prentice Hall.1984. Print.

Oakley A. Sex, Gender and Society. London: Temple Smith, 1985. Print.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. 1990. Print.

Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. Print.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel. New York: Knopf. 1987. Print.

Thompson, Judith. Lion in the Street. Toronto: Playwright Canada Press. 2015. Print.

Plath, Sylvia. The Collected Poems. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Print.

3. Books for Reference: Freud, Sigmund. Strachey, James. New Introductory lectures on Psychoanalysis.

(Vol. II) New York: Norton. 1965. Print.

Ryan Michael & Julie Rivkin. Literary Theory: An Anthology. USA: Blackwell

Publishing, 1998. Print.

Abrams. M. H. & Harphman Geoffrey. Glossary of Literary Terms. New Delhi:

Cleanage. 2007. Print.

Jacques Lacan & The Ecole Freudienne. Feminine Sexuality. ed. Juliet Mitchell and

Jacqueline and Trans. Jacqueline Rose. London: Pantheon Books W. W. Norton.

1985. Print.



CORE ELECTIVE III – RESEARCH METHODOLOGY


from the Academic Year 2020 - 2021)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core Elective: 3


Sub. Code : 20PELE33 Credit : 4


Upon completion of the course the students will be able to

recall the fundamental aspects of research writing.

follow the academic integrity in a systematic manner and avoid plagiarism.

apply the Mechanics of research writing.

explore the format of research and the process involved in writing a thesis.

evaluate the literary texts and apply the various techniques required for documentation.

UNIT I (16 Hours)

The purpose of academic writing

Common types of academic writing

The format of long and short writing tasks

The features of academic writing

Some other common text features

Simple and complex sentences

Writing in paragraphs

UNIT II (17 Hours)

Research and its types

Fundamentals of Research

Selecting the topic

Primary and Secondary Sources

Data Collection

Library and Electronic Sources

Working Bibliography

UNIT III (17 Hours)

Note making and Evaluating Sources

Paraphrasing – Summarising

Working out Outline

Thesis Statement

Plagiarism

Avoiding plagiarism

Writing Draft

UNIT IV (20 Hours)

Planning the Dissertation

Mechanics of Writing

Spelling

Punctuation and Capitalization

Italics

Names and Numbers

General Format

Margins

Spacing

Quotations

Page Numbers

Corrections

Insertions

UNIT V (20 Hours)

Documentation

Drafting

Proof Reading

Foot notes

Works Cited

Editing and Evaluating

MLA and APA System

2. Books for Study:

American Psychological Association. 2013. London: Publication Manual of the American

Psychological Association. 6th ed. Print.

Bailey, Stephen. Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. 3rd

ed. Print.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 8th

Edition. New Yokrk:

2009. Print.

3. Books for References:

Moore, Robert H. Effective Writing. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Print.

Anderson, Jonathan. Thesis and Assignment Writing. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1970. Print.



CORE XII –ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN PRACTICE


from the Academic Year 2020-2021)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core – 12





apprehend the fundamental concepts and principles of language teaching.

explore the psychology in language teaching through various methods.

diagnose language structures and acquire the ability to teach the language skills.

assess the strategies, teaching aids, and to prepare the lesson plan to teach and evaluate.

integrate technology, teaching aids and ICT tools for teaching/ learning English.

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION (18 Hours) Basic concepts and Methods- bilingualism, multilingualism, teaching and learning-

language acquisition - principles of language teaching - aspects of language study

UNIT II - METHODS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING (20 Hours)

Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-lingual method, Audio-visual

method, CALL, Structural method, functional notional approach, the Silent Way,

Suggestopedia, Preparation of lesson plan.

UNIT III - TEACHING AND LEARNING SKILLS (16 Hours) Listening- Top-down process and bottom- up listening process

Speaking- Communicative language teaching

Reading- Different types of reading in classroom

Writing- academic writing, drafting, quick writing

UNIT IV - ICT TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND EVALUATION (18 Hours) Basic concepts, ICT enabled teaching- Mobile Assisted Learning, principles and

constructs of classroom-based assessment; different types of tests and testing process

UNIT V –TEACHING PRACTICE (18 Hours)

Peer teaching, Micro teaching, Practical teaching in real time classroom situation

through internships

2. Books for Study:

Ur, Penny. A Course in English Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2015. Print.

Richards, Jack C., and Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language

Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Print.

Howatt, Anthony Philip Reid, and H. G. Widdowson. A History of English Language

Teaching. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Print.

Harmer, Jeremy. The Practice of English Language Teaching. UK: Pearson/Longman,

2015. Print.

Nunan, David. Second Language Teaching and Learning. Heinle & Heinle, 1999. Print.

Thornbury, Scott. The New A-Z of ELT: A Dictionary of Terms and Concepts. UK:

Macmillan Education, 2017. Print.

Fulcher, Glenn, and Fred Davidson. Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced

Resource Book. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.


Dianne Larsen-Freeman. Principles and Techniques in Language Teaching (OUP)

Scrivener, Jim. Learning Teaching. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Print.

Nunan, David. Syllabus Design. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Print.

Richards, J.C. and Lockhart, C. 1996. Reflective Teaching in Second Language

Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Print.

Ellis, R. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: OUP. 1991. Print.



CORE XIII – LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE


from the Academic Year 2020 - 2021)

Class : II M.A. English Part : III Core – 13





understand various language-based theories.

understand the Postmodern culture and texts.

examine the society -based theories and some of the psychoanalytical terms.

analyse Marxist ideologies and apply them in literary texts.

comprehend and interpret some of the gender issues.

UNIT- I (18 Hours)

An Introduction to Structuralism and Post Structuralism

An Introduction to Deconstruction

Jacques Derrida – Structure, Sign, Play in the Discourse of Human Science

UNIT- II (18 Hours)

An Introduction to Modernism and Post Modernism

An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Criticism

Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulations (From Modern Criticism and Theory)

UNIT- III (18 Hours)

An Introduction to Feminism

An Introduction to Marxism

Elaine Showalter – Towards a Feminist Poetics

UNIT- IV (18 Hours)

An Introduction to New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

An Introduction to Post Colonialism

Edward Said – Crisis in Orientalism (From Modern Criticism and Theory)

UNIT -V (18 Hours)

An Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Criticism: Queer Theory

An Introduction to Eco criticism

Gayle Rubin – Sexual Transformation (From Literary Theory: An Anthology)

4. Books for Study:

Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New

Delhi: Viva Books, 2011. Print.

Ryan Michael & Julie Rivkin. Literary Theory: An Anthology. USA: Blackwell

Publishing, 1998. Print.

Wood, Nigel, & David Lodge. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. England:

Pearson, 1988. Print.


Rice, Philip. & Patricia Waugh (eds.) Modern Literary Theory. London: Arnold, 2002.

Print.

Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide. New York and London:

Routledge, 2006. Print.

Habib. M. A. R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. USA:

Blackwell publishers, 2005. Print.

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. New Jersey: Anniversary

Edition, 1983. Print.



CORE ELECTIVE – IV ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR NET AND SET

(Outcome Based Syllabus under CBCS Structure for the Students admitted from the

Academic Year 2020-2021onwards)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III Core Elective - 4


Sub. Code : 20PELE44 Credit : 4



give a historical and social perspective to the different ages in literature.

illuminate the most familiar works and figures in literature.

expose the students to Non- British Literatures.

deal with the different literary movements and schools of literature.

intensify the prominent concepts of literary theories.

UNIT -I ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD TO ELIZABETHAN AGE (15 Hours)

Chaucer – William Langland – Gower – English Chaucerian‟s – Scottish Chaucerian‟s-

Edmund Spenser – Miracle and Morality plays – Shakespeare‟s Predecessors –

Elizabethan drama & prose – Metaphysical & Cavalier poets.

UNIT-II JACOBEAN TO ROMANTIC AGE I (15 Hours)

Jacobean and Caroline drama – Puritan age – John Milton – Restoration Satire –

Restoration comedy – Neo-classical age – Alexander Pope – Jonathan Swift – Age of

Reason – Samuel Johnson – Samuel Richardson – Laurence Sterne – Henry Fielding –

Tobias Smollett – Revival of comedy – Oliver Goldsmith – Sheridan – Pre-Romantic

poetry – Robert Burns – William Blake – First Generation of Romantic poets – Second

Generation of Romantic poets – Romantic Essayists and Critics.

UNIT - III VICTORIAN AGE TO CONTEMPORARY AGE (20 Hours)

Tennyson – Robert Browning – Victorian novelists – George Eliot – Victorian Essayists

– Matthew Arnold – Newman – Georgian poetry – Modern poetry and novel – Twentieth

century novel and short stories – George Orwell – Henry James – Kipling – D. H.

Lawrence – James Joyce – Virginia Woolf – Twentieth Century Drama – Samuel Beckett

– Harold Pinter – Twentieth century poetry – T.S. Eliot – W.B. Yeats – Hopkins.

UNIT - IV AMERICAN AND OTHER NON-BRITISH LITERATURES (20 Hours)

Early American writers – Irving – Cooper – New Englanders – Thoreau – Emerson –

Post-Independence American poetry – Walt Whitman – Emily Dickinson – 20th

Century

American literature – Canadian Literature – Australian Literature – New Zealand

Literature – African Literature – Indian writing in English.

UNIT - V LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM (20 Hours)

The Ancients - Aristotle – Horace - Longinus – Plato – British Critics: Sidney to Dr.

Johnson – The Romantic and Victorian critics: Wordsworth to Arnold – Modern British

Critics: D.H. Lawrence to Derrida – American Critics: Irving Babbitt to John Crowe

Ransom.

2. Books for Study:

Ashok, Padmaja. The Social History of England. Chennai: Orient Blackswan, 2017. Print.

Long, J William. English Literature Its History and Significance. New Delhi: Kalyani

Publishers, 2009. Print.

Prasad B. A Background to the study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity, 2016.

Print.


Chandra, Joseph, and K. S Antony Swamy. Classical to Contemporary Literary

Theory: A Demystified Approach. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2010. Print.

Cuddon J. A and M. A. R. Habib. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and

Literary Theory. New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2015. Print.

Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature: Vol. 1- 4. New Delhi:

Supernova,

2011. Print.

Drabble, Margaret. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. OUP: New York, 1998.

Print.

Nagarajan M.S. English Literary Criticism and Theory. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan,

2006. Print.

Krishnaswamy N, John Varghese and Sunita Mishra. Contemporary Literary Theory:

A Student’s Companion. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2012. Print.



PROJECT WORK

(Outcome Based Syllabus under CBCS Structure for the Students admitted

from the Academic Year 2020-2021 onwards)

Class : II M. A. English Part : III





acquire the fundamental mechanisms of research work.

collect the related literature from the online and offline sources.

develop the academic writing skills.

analyse the observation on literary works.

provide insights into the research work by applying various theories.

2. Structure of the Project Work

1. Synopsis

2. Research Dissertation

3. Viva- Voce

In the General Time Table, Two Hours are allotted on all the orders (from „A‟ to „F‟). The

students will make use of these Project Hours to write their Dissertation under the guidance of

their Supervisors. They will submit the Monthly Progressive Report of their Research to the

respective Supervisors.

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