UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS

INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

MA ENGLISH
Under Choice Based Credits System
(With effect from the academic year 2018-2019)
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
SEMESTER - I MAX

CREDIT

TOTAL
MARKS
COURSE SUBJECTS INT EXT
COMPONENT
Core Paper-I Poetry I - From Chaucer to 17th Century 4 20 80 100
Core Paper-II Drama I - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 4 20 80 100
Fiction I - Origins and Developments upto 4 20 80 100
Core Paper-III
18th Century
Core Paper-IV Indian Writing in English and in Translation 4 20 80 100
Elective Paper-I Classics in Translation 3 20 80 100

SEMESTER -II MAX

CREDIT

TOTAL
MARKS
COURSE SUBJECTS INT EXT
COMPONENT
Core Paper-V American Literature 4 20 80 100
Core Paper-VI Poetry II - Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century 4 20 80 100
Core Paper-VII Drama II - Restoration to Twentieth Century 4 20 80 100
Core Paper-VIII Fiction II - Nineteenth to Twentieth Century 4 20 80 100
Elective Paper-II English for Careers 3 20 80 100

SEMESTER -III MAX

CREDIT

TOTAL
MARKS
SUBJECTS INT EXT
COURSE
COMPONENT
Core Paper- IX Shakespeare Studies 4 20 80 100
Core Paper- X English Language and Linguistics 4 20 80 100
Core Paper- XI Literary Criticism and Literary Theory 4 20 80 100
Core Paper- XII Literature, Analysis, Approaches and Copy Editing 4 20 80 100
Elective Paper- III Film Studies 3 20 80 100

MAX
CREDIT

SEMESTER IV
TOTAL

MARKS
SUBJECTS INT EXT
COURSE
COMPONENT
Core Paper- XIII Twentieth Century Poetry 4 20 80 100
Core Paper- XIV Writings by and on Women 4 20 80 100
Core Paper- XV Introduction to Translation Studies 4 20 80 100
Core Paper- XVI Research Methodology and Project Writing 4 20 80 100
Elective Paper-IV English Literature for UGC NET/SET 3 20 80 100
Examination

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 CREDIT DISTRIBUTION

CREDITS
Core Paper 16 X 4 64
Elective Paper 4 X 3 12
TOTAL 76

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 MA ENGLISH
Under Choice Based Credits System
(With effect from the academic year 2018-2019)
REVISED SYLLABUS
SEMESTER I
Core Paper - I Poetry I- From Chaucer to 17th Century

Objectives of the Course :The Objective of this paper is to familiarize students with English
Poetry starting from Medieval England to 17th Century focusing on the evolution of Poetic
forms such as Sonnet, Ballad, Lyric, Satire, Epic etc.,
UNIT I
Chaucer and Medieval England
1. Geoffrey Chaucer From “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales
The Knight
The Prioress
The Wife of Bath
The Monk
The Doctor of Physic
UNIT 2
Poetic Forms During 16th Century
Lyric, Ballad, Sonnet Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens
Spenser’s Prothalamion
Wyatt and Surrey’s sonnets – 2
Sonnets
UNIT 3
Poetic Forms during 17th Century
Metaphysical Poetry
John Donne The Canonisation
Ecstasy
UNIT 4
Satire
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
UNIT 5
Epic
John Milton Paradise Lost Book IX

Recommended Texts:
1. 1973, The Oxford Anthology of English Literature Vol. I. The Middle Ages
Through the 18th century. OUP, London
2. Standard editions of texts
Reference Books:
1. T.S. Eliot, 1932, “The Metaphysical Poets” from Selected Essay; Faber and Faber
limited, London.
2. H.S. Bennett, 1970, Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, Clarendon Press, London.
3. Malcolm Bradbury and David Palmer, ed., 1970 Metaphysical Poetry,Stratford -
upon – Avon Studies Vol. II, Edward Arnold, London.
4. William R. Keast, ed., 1971, Seventeenth Century English Poetry: Modern Essays
in Criticism, Oxford University Press, London.

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 5. A.G. George, 1971, Studies in Poetry, Heinemann Education Books Ltd., London.
6. David Daiches, 1981, A Critical History of English Literature Vols. I &II., Secker
& Warburg, London.
7. Thomas N. Corns, ed., 1993, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry:
Donne to Marvell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
8. H.J.C. Grierson, “Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century”
OUP, 1983, London.
Website, e-learning resources
http://www.english/.org.uk/chaucer/htm

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 Core Paper - II Drama I -Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with the origin of drama in Britain and
the stages of its evolution in the context of theater and culture through a study of
representative texts from the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods..
UNIT I
Beginnings of Drama Miracle and Morality Plays –
Everyman
UNIT 2
The Senecan and Revenge Tragedy
Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy
UNIT 3
Elizabethan Theatre Theatres, Theatre groups,
audience, actors and conventions
UNIT 4
Tragedy and Comedy
Christoper Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Ben Jonson Volpone
UNIT 5
Jacobean Drama
John Webster Duchess of Malfi

Recommended Texts: Standard editions of texts

Reference Books:
1. Bradbrook, M.C., 1955, The Growth and Structure and Elizabethan Comedy,
London.
2. Tillyard E.M.W., 1958, The Nature of Comedy & Shakespeare, London.
3. Una Ellis-Fermor, 1965, The Jacobean Drama: An Interpretation, Methuen
& Co., London.
4. John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris, eds., Elizabethan Theatre, Stratford -
upon - Avon Studies Vol9., Edward Arnold, London.
5. AllardyceNicoll, 1973, British Drama, Harrap, London.
6. Bradbrook, M.C., 1979, Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan
Tragedy,Vikas Publishing House Pvt., Ltd., (6thed) New Delhi.
7. Michael Hathaway, 1982, Elizabethan Popular Theatre : Plays in
Performance, Routledge, London.
8. Kinney, Arthur .F., 2004, A Companion to Renaissance Drama, Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing.
Website, e-learning resources
http://www.clt.astate.edu/wmarey/asste%
http://eb.com
(Encyclopaedia Britannica – restricted site)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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(qualified search results on Elizabethan Theatre, Restoration Drama, Comedy of Manners,
realism, naturalism, Abbey Theatre, Gaelic Revival, Modern Celts, Epic Theatre, Political
Theatre, Experimental Theatre, etc. and on individual authors.)
http://www.questia.com
(online library for research)

Core Paper – III Fiction I - Origins and Developments upto 18th Century

Objectives of the Course :The aim of this course is to familiarize the students with the origin
and development of the British Novel upto the 18th Century. The contents of the paper are
meant to throw light on various concepts and theories of the novel.
UNIT I
Novel as a Form, Concepts and Theories about the Novel; Poetics of the Novel – definition,
types, narrative modes: omniscient narration.
UNIT 2
Allegorical Novel and Satire
John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
UNIT 3
The New World Novel
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
UNIT 4
Picaresque Novel
Laurence Stern Tristam Shandy
UNIT 5
Middle Class Novel of Manners
Jane Austen Emma

Recommended Texts: Standard editions of texts

Reference Books:
1. Wayne C. Booth, 1961, The Rhetoric of Fiction, Chicago University Press,
London.
2. F.R. Leavis, 1973, The Great Tradition, Chatto&Windus, London.
3. Ian Watt, 1974, Rise of the English Novel, Chatto&Windus, London.
4. Frederick R Karl, 1977, Reader’s Guide to the Development of the English Novel
till the 18th Century, The Camelot Press Ltd. Southampton.
5. Ian Milligan, 1983, The Novel in English: An Introduction, Macmillan, Hong
Kong.
Website, e-learning resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/novel

Core Paper – IV Indian Writing in English and in Translation

Objectives of the Course :The objective of this course is to enable the students to understand
the evolution of Indian Writing in English with its dual focus on the influence of classical
Indian tradition and on the impact of the West on it through representative texts in the
different genres. It also enables them to get a glimpse of the rich diversity of culture and
literature in the regional languages through translation in contemporary times.
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UNIT I
Indian Classical literary Tradition; impact of English Studies on India; Colonialism;
Nationalism; Nativism and Expatriatism; Socio-Cultural issues such as gender, caste and
region
UNIT 2
Poetry
Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali: 12,36,63,
12) The Time my
journey takes is long
36) This is my prayer
to Thee
63) Thou hast made
me known to friends
Nissim Ezekiel “Background Casually”
(Indian Writing in English
ed. MakarandParanjape,
Macmillan 1993, p.112)
K.K Daruwalla “Hawk” fromThe Anthology
of Twelve Modern Indian
Poets Ed. A.K. Mehrotra (OUP, 1992)

ArunKolatkar From Jejuri The Bus

A Scratch
Kamala Das Introduction, Eunuchs
UNIT 3
Drama
Vijay Tendulkar Silence! The Court is in Session
UNIT 4
Prose and Fiction Prose
Sri Aurobindo The Renaissance in India
B.R. Ambedkar Extracts 4, 5 and 6 from
Annihilation of Caste ed.
Mulk Raj Anand (Delhi:
Arnold Publishers, 1990, pp. 47-54)
Fiction
R.K. Narayan The Painter of Signs

ShashiDeshpande Dark Holds No Terror

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UNIT 5
Indian Literature in Translation
Poetry
The following Selections from A.K. Ramanujan’s “Love and War” (TheOxford Indian
Ramanujan, ed., Molly Daniels, OUP, 2004).

Kapilar, Akananooru pg. 82

Purananooru pg. 356
Short Story
The following selections from Routes: Representations of the West in Short Fiction from
South India in Translation eds. VanamalaViswanatha, V.C. Harris, C. Vijayashree and C.T.
Indra (Macmillan 2000).

Kannada
MastiVenkatesaIyengar The Sorley Episode
Malayalam
P. Surendran Synonyms of the Ocean
Tamil
PudumaiPithan Teaching

Recommended Texts: Standard editions of texts

Reference Books:
1. K.R. SrinivasaIyengar, 1962, –History of Indian Writingin English, Sterling
Publishers, New Delhi.
2. Herbert H. Gowen, 1975, A History of Indian Literature, Seema Publications,
Delhi.
3. William Walsh, 1990, Indian Literature in English, Longman, London.
4. Subhash Chandra Sarker, 1991, Indian Literature, and Culture, B.R.
Publishing Corporation, Delhi.
5. M.K. Naik&Shyamala A Narayan, 2001, Indian English Literature 1980-2000:
A Critical Survey ,D.K. Fine Art Press (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
6. TabishKhair, 2001, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian
English Novels., OUP.
7. RajulBharagava Ed., 2002, Indian Writing in English: The Last
Decade,Rawat Publications, New Delhi.
8. K. Satchidanandan, 2003, Authors, Texts, Issues: Essays on Indian literature,
Pencraft International, New Delhi.
9. P.K. Rajan ed., 2004, Indian Literary Criticism in English: Critics, Texts,
Issues,Rawat Publications, New Delhi.
10. Bruce King, 2001, Modern Indian Poetry in English, OUP, New Delhi.
11. AmitChandri, 2001, The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature,
Macmillan, London.
12. A.K. Mehrotra, 2003, An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English.
Permanent Black, New Delhi.

Website, e-learning resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik/indian_wring_in_english

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 Elective Paper – I Classics in Translation

Objectives of the Course :The paper aims at familiarising the students with the Ancient
Indian Theatre and Classical Greek Theatre. It also intends to draw the attention of the students
to the Socio, economic, cultural factors reflected in Indian, European and Russian Literatures.
The parallel growth of the European and Indian Literatures from ancient to Modern periods is
focused for the understanding of the learner.
UNIT 1 Concepts
Religion and literature- Religion as a source of literature- The human sciences- Philosophy
and Literature – concepts of Marxism, Naturalism and Realism in fiction- superstition and
belief reflected in literature – World literature as one.
UNIT 2 Poetry
ThiruvalluvarThirukkural. (Penguin selections translated by Rajaji
UNIT 3 Prose
Plato Portrait of Socrates.
UNIT 4 Prose Fiction
Kalki’s ParthibanKanavu
Camus The Outsider.
Thakazhi
SivasankaramPillai Chemmeen.
UNIT 5 Drama
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Ibsen A Doll’s House.

Recommended Texts: Standard editions of texts.

Reference Books:
1. Lau Magnesm, A Dictionary of Modern Eurpean Literature.
2. Raymond Williams, Drama from Ibsen to Brecht.
3. J.M. Cohen, A History of Western Literature.
Website :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama

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 SEMESTER – II

Core Paper - V American Literature

Objectives of the Course :To familiarize the students with the origin and development of
American Literature from the time of the settlers and colonies to the post modern and multi
cultural literature.
Movements like the flowering of New England, the American Renaissance-the
philosophical attitude of Emily Dickinson, the influence of Indian thought on Emerson,
Urbanization and post-war society, the economic depression, the civil war, the Harlem
renaissance, post modern influences in fiction and drama and multiculturalism also are at the
background of the objectives this paper.
UNIT I
Concepts and Movements: Beginnings of American Literature; Transcendentalism;
Individualism; The American South; The Frontier; Counter – Culture; Harlem Renaissance;
Rise of Black Culture and Literature; Multiculturalism.
UNIT 2
Poetry
Walt Whitman Passage to India
Emily Dickinson Success is Counted Sweetest
The Soul Selects her own society
Because I could not stop for death
Robert Frost Home Burial
Wallace Stevens Anecdote of the Jar
E.E. Cummings Any one lived in a pretty how
town
Gwendolyn Brooks Kitchenette Building
UNIT 3
Drama
Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into the Night
Marsha Norman ‘Night Mother
UNIT 4
Fiction
Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alice Walker The Color Purple
UNIT 5
Prose
R.W. Emerson Self – Reliance(An Anthology: American
Literature of the Nineteenth Century. ed.
Fisher, Samuelson &Reninger, Vaid
Henry David Thoreau Walden (Chapter titled “Pond”)

Recommended Texts:
1. Egbert S. Oliver ed., An Anthology: American Literature, 1890-1965, Eurasia
Publishing House (Pvt) Ltd., New Delhi.
2. Mohan Ramanan ed., 1996, Four centuries of American Literature, Macmillan
India Ltd., Chennai.
3. Standard Editions of texts

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 Reference Books :
1. John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris, ed., 1970, American Theatre, Edward
Arnold.
2. Daniel Hoffman ed., 1979, Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

Owen Thomas, 1986, Walden and Civil Disobedience: Norton Critical Edition ed., Prentice
– Hall & Indian Delhi.
Website, e-learning resources
www.gonzago.edu/faculty/cample/enl311/litfram.html

Core Paper - VI Poetry II Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century

Objectives of the Course :The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with
English Poetry starting from the Augustans to the beginnings of the Romantic Period in
English Literature. In the process it also attempts to sensitise the students to certain exclusive
poetic qualities of these two periods.
UNIT I
Classicism and Augustan Ideals: Wit, Taste, Decorum, Propriety, Purity of Genre and Poetic
Diction; Heroic Couplet; Verse Satire and Urbanism; Romantic Revolt; Pre-Raphaelites
UNIT 2
Augustan Satire
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock,
Canto I (The Rape of the Lock
ed.GeoffreyTillotson. Methun
& Co. Ltd. London. 1941).
UNIT 3
Transitionists
William Blake From Songs of Experience
The Echoing Green
Night
From Songs of Innocence
London
William Collins Ode to Evening
UNIT 4
Romantics
William Wordsworth Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
S.T. Coleridge Dejection: An Ode
P.B. Shelley Ode to Skylark
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

UNIT 5
Victorians
Robert Browning Fra Lippo Lippi
Lord Alfred Tennyson Lotus Eaters
G.M. Hopkins The Windhover
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

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 Recommended Texts:

1. 1973, The Oxford Anthology of English Literature Vol. II. , OUP, London.
2. Standard editions of text.

Reference Books:
1. Douglas Grant, 1965, New Oxford English Series, OUP, Delhi.

2. Shiv K. Kumar, 1968, British Romantic Poets: Recent Revaluations,

University of London Press Ltd., London.
3. A. E. Dyson, ed., 1971 Keats ODES, Case Book series, Macmillan Publication
Ltd., London.
4. Malcolm Bradbury, David Palmer, eds., 1972, Stratford–upon–Avon Studies,
Arnold-Heinemann, New Delhi.
5. Graham Hough, 1978, The Romantic Poets, Hutchinson & Co., London.
6. David Daiches, 1981, A Critical History and English Literature Vols. II& III.
Secker &Warbarg, London.

Website, e-learning resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry

Core Paper - VII Drama II - Restoration to Twentieth Century

Objectives of the Course : The objective of this course is to give students the experience of
different forms of drama from the Restoration period to the Twentieth Century and to
familiarize them with current trends in drama in the context of changing socio-cultural
values
UNIT I
The Revival of Theatre; Comedy of Manners; Decadence in Restoration Drama; Sentimental
Comedy; Decline of Drama in the 19th Century; Realism and Naturalism; Irish Dramatic
Movement; Epic Theatre; Comedy of Menace; Post-Absurd Theatre and Women’s Theatre.
UNIT 2
Restoration
John Dryden All for Love
William Congreve The Way of the World
UNIT 3
Irish Dramatic Movement
J.M Synge The Playboy of the Western
World
UNIT 4
Epic Theatre
Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and her Children
Comedy of Menace
Harold Pinter Birthday Party

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 UNIT 5
Post-Modern Drama
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

Recommended Texts: Standard editions of texts

Reference Books:
1. Raymond Williams, 1968, Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, Chatto&Windus, Toronto.
2. Harold Love, ed., 1972, Restoration Literature; Critical Approaches, Methuen &
Co . Ltd, London.
3. A.C.Ward, 1975, Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature, Second
Edn., Longman, London.
4. Kennedy, Andrew, 1976, Six Dramatists In Search of A Language, Cambridge
University Press, London.
5. Una Ellis – Fermor, 1977, The Irish Dramatic Movement, Methuen and Company
Ltd.
6. G.J. Watson, 1983, Drama: An Introduction, Macmillan, Hong Kong.
7. Banham, Martin, 1995, The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge.
8. Arnold P. Hinchliffe, 1999, The Absurd (The Critical Idiom), Methuen
and Co., London.
Innes, Christopher, 2002, Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
9. Rabey, David Ian, 2003, English Drama Since 1940, Pearson Education Ltd.,
London.
Website, e-learning resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_drama
http://eb.com
(Encyclopaedia Britannica – restricted site)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
(qualified search results on Elizabethan Theatre, Restoration Drama, Comedy of Manners,
realism, naturalism, Abbey Theatre, Gaelic Revival, Modern Celts, Epic Theatre, Political
Theatre, Experimental Theatre, etc. d on individual authors.)
http://www.questia.com
(online library for research)

Core Paper – VIII Fiction – II Nineteenth to Twentieth Century

Objectives of the Course: The scope of this paper is to extend the objectives stated for the paper
Fiction I. The 19th and 20th Centuries by virtue of advancement of knowledge in general have
contributed to the denseness of fiction, particularly during the 20th century. Therefore, this paper
focuses its attention first on several technical issues associated with Fiction per se such as
narrative technique, characterization and space-time treatment and secondly on the rich cultural,
social and political backdrop which contributed to the diversity of fictional writing.
UNIT I
French Revolution – Victorian Social Scene Gender– Industrial Development – Colonial
Expansion – Issues – Class, Liberal Humanism and the Individual – Individual and the
Environment – Man and Fate, realism, multiple narration, stream of consciousness, point of view.

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UNIT 2
The Victorian Socio - Political and Economic Scenario
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness.
UNIT 3
Women’s Issues
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
George Eliot Mill on The Floss
UNIT 4
Liberal Humanism, Individual Environment and Class Issues
D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
UNIT 5
Quest
James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Recommended Texts: Standard editions of texts in Macmillan Classics Series.

Reference Books:
1. Arnold Kettle, 1967, An Introduction to English Novel Vol. II, Universal Book
Stall, New Delhi.
2. Raymond Williams, 1973, The English Novel: From Dickens to Lawrence,
Chatto&Windus, London.
3. Malcom Bradbury and David Palmer. Eds., 1979, Contemporary English
Novel, Edward Arnold Press, London.
4. Ian Watt, 1991,The Victorian Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism, OUP, London.
5. Dennis Walder, Ed., 2001, The 19thCentury Novel; Identities, Roultledge, London.

Website, e-learning resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature

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 Elective Paper – II English for Careers

Category of the Year & Semester Credits Subject Code

Course Elective
First year & Second Semester 2

Pre-requisites Minimum Entry requirements for the course / Eligibility

Objectives of the To equip students with the necessary competence required for emerging
Course areas in the field of Knowledge Management; to develop mastery over
presentation skills.

Course Outline UNIT I

Basic concepts in effective business writing and Knowledge Management

UNIT 2
Editing techniques for Newsletters and Press Releases
UNIT 3
Writing for oral communication, Online CV writing.
UNIT 4
Writing for a website

C – Core; E – Elective; ED – Extra disciplinary

Reference Books :

1. Robert Heller, 1998, Communicate Clearly – Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London.

2. Matthukutty M. Monippnally, 2001, Business Communication Strategies, Tata McGraw
Mill.
3. T.M. Farhatullah, 2002, Communication Skills for Technical Students, Orient Longman.
4. 2004, Write to the top – Writing for Corporate Success; Deborah Dumame; Random
House
5. JayashreeBalan, 2005, Spoken English, Vijay Nicole Imprints.

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 SEMESTER – III

Core Paper IX Shakespeare Studies

Objectives of the Course :The objective of this paper is to make students understand and
enjoy Shakespeare’s plays, Criticism of Theatre. It also attempts to provide the students with
the context of Elizabethan England from the evolving contemporary perspectives down the
ages.
UNIT I
Shakespeare Theatre; Theatre Conventions; Sources; Problems of categorization; Trends in
Shakespeare Studies upto the 19th Century; Sonnet and court politics; famous actors; theatre
criticism; Shakespeare into film & play production.
UNIT 2
Sonnets Sonnets – 12, 65, 86,130
Comedies Much Ado About Nothing
Winter’s Tale
UNIT 3
Tragedy Othello
UNIT 4
History Henry IV Part I
UNIT 5
Shakespeare Criticism
Modern approaches - mythical, archetypal, feminist, post-colonial, New historicist;
A.C. Bradley (extract) Chapter V & VI and the New
Introduction by John Russell
Brown in Shakespearean
Tragedy by A.C.Bradley,
London , Macmillan, Third Edition , 1992
Wilson Knight Macbeth and the Metaphysic of
Evil (1976, V.S. Seturaman&
S. RamaswamyEnglish
Critical Tradition Vol. I.
Chennai, Macmillan).
Stephen Greenblatt Invisible Bullets: Rennaissance
Authority and its Subversion,
Henry IV & Henry V, in
Shakespearean Negotiations.
New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988
Also in Political Shakespeare:
New Essays in Cultural
Materialism. Eds.Jonathan
Dollimore and Alan Sinfield
Manchester University Press, 1994
AniaLoomba Sexuality and Racial Difference in Gender,
Race, And Renaissance Drama,
Manchester UP, 1989.

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 Recommended Texts:
1. Stephen Greenblatt, ed., 1997, The Norton Shakespeare, ( Romances& Poems,
Tragedies, Comedies), W.W. Norton & Co., London.
2. Standard editions of texts.

Reference Books:
1. Bradley, A.C., 1904, Shakespearean Tragedy, Macmillan,London.
2. Spurgeon, 1935, C.F.E. Shakespeare’s, Imagery and what It Tells us,Cambridge
UP, Cambridge.
3. E.M.W. Tilliyard, 1943, Elizabethan World Picture, Chatto and Windus, London.
4. Knight G.W., 1947, The Crown of Life: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare’s
Final Plays, Oxford.
5. Harrison, 1951, G.B. Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Routledge, London.
6. Henn, T.R., 1956, The Harvest of Tragedy, London.
7. Knight G.W., 1957, The Wheel of Fire: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare’s
Sombre Tragedies, New York.
8. Muir K., 1961, William Shakespeare: The Great Tragedies, London.
9. Hunter G.K. William Shakespeare, 1962, The Late Comedies, London & New Year.
10. Knights, L.C., 1962, William Shakespeare: The Histories, London.
11. Eastman A.M. & G.B. Garrison eds., 1964, Shakespeare’s Critics from Jonson to
Auden : A Medley of Judgments, Michigan.
12. Oscar James Campbell, ed., 1966, A Shakespeare Encyclopedia, London, Methuen
& Co.
13. Jonathan Dollimore, ed., 1984, The Radical Tragedy, The Harvester Press,
Cambridge.
14. Shakespeare Surveys, (Relevant Volumes).
15. John f. Andrews, ed., 1985, William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His
Influence, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
16. Stephen Greenblatt, 1988, Shakespearean Negotiations, Oxford University Press .
17. AniaLoomba, 1989, Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama, Manchester, MUP.
18. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, eds., 1994, Political Shakespeare, Manchester
University Press.
Website, e-learning resources
http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/resources

Core Paper - X English Language and Linguistics

Objectives of the course is to enable the students to have a conceptual understanding of the
English Language in a historical perspective; to recognize, identify and use sounds and
structures; to identify and explain process of second language acquisition; to adopt and
practice English Language Teaching approaches.
Unit I – Phonology
1) The Sounds of Language
2) The Sound Patterns of Language
3) Transcription & Reverse Transcription

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Unit II - Linguistics
1) Language and the Brain
2) Language & Regional Variation
3) Language & Social Variation
4) Language & Culture
Unit III - Teaching of English as Second Language (TESL)
• English Language Teaching (ELT), English as Foreign Language (EFL), English as
Second Language (ESL), English for Specific Purpose (ESP)
• ELT Theories, Approaches, and Methods
• Student Diversity and Classroom Management; Teacher as Facilitator or Mentor
• Classroom Observation; Teacher Reflection; Teaching Journals
• Peer Teaching and Group Teaching; Professional Development of Teachers
Unit IV - Curriculum Development and Language Assessment
• Types of Syllabus; Materials Design and Development; Lesson Plans
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning, Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Outcome Based Education (OBE), Bloom’s Taxonomy, ADDIE Model
• Wash-Back Effect; Formative and Summative Assessment
• Test Validity, Reliability, and Practicality; Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), Item
Difficulty, Distractor Analysis
• Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
Unit V - Digital Literacy and Action Research
• Digital Language Labs - Synchronous and Asynchronous language teaching
• ICT tools, Mobile Learning, Video-Conferencing, Podcasting, Digital Story-telling
• Web 2.0 - Language Learning apps, Blogs, Social Networks,
• Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom
• Fundamental Research, Empirical Research, Evaluative Research, Action Research
Recommended Texts:
• Balasubramanian.T. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students . Laxmi
Publications, 2013.
• Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching,
Assessment - http://ebcl.eu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CEFR-all-scales-and-
all-skills.pdf
• Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Blackwell Publishing,
2008
• Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge
University Press, 2003
• David Nunan, Syllabus Design, Oxford U P, 1988.
• Jack C. Richards and Charles Lockhart. Reflective Teaching in Second Language
Classrooms. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Jack C.Richards and Theodore Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Monica and BogdanPatrut (ed.) Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web
2.0, Idea Group, 2013.
• Prabhu, N.S. Second Language Pedagogy. Oxford U P, 1987.

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 • Rod Ellis. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Thomas M. Haladyna. Developing and Validating Multiple-Choice Test Items,
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
• Yule, George. The Study of Language . Cambridge University Press, 201

Core Paper – XI Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

This paper intends to give an overview of the critical trends starting from Aristotle’s
classical criticism to the post-structural and post-colonial theories. Classical, New-classical,
Romantic critics are represented to familiarise the students with aesthetic concepts. Matthew
Arnold and T.S.Eliot lead the way to the humanistic approach while texts from Brooks, Frye,
Said lead the student to structuralist and post-structuralist approaches.

UNIT I
Imitation - Pleasure and Instruction - Myths and Archetypes -Poetic Structure -Diction; Text
–Author-Reader - The ‘Other’ – Formalism – Structuralism – Deconstruction – Post-
Colonialism.
UNIT 2
Classical, Neo - Classical and Romantic Criticism
Aristotle Poetics: Aristotle’s view of Imitation &
Definition of Tragedy
Chapters 1-3,6-12 and 14.
Sir Philip Sidney Apologie for Poetry
William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads
S.T. Coleridge BiographiaLiterariaCh 14
UNIT 3
Humanistic Criticism
Matthew Arnold Study of Poetry
T.S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent
UNIT 4
Formalism and Structuralism
Cleanth Brooks Language of Paradox
Northrop Frye The Archetypes of Literature
Gerard Genette Structuralism and Literary Criticism
UNIT 5
Post Structuralism
Roland Barthes Death of the Author
Edward Said (From “Orientalism” Extract in
A Post Colonial Studies Reader)

Recommended Texts:

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 1. T.S. Dorsch. Tr., 1965, Classical Literary Criticism Penguin Books.
Chapters 1 to 3, 6 to 12 and 14.
2. David Lodge, ed., 1972, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Longman, London.
3. S. Ramaswamyand V.S. Seturaman, 1976,1979 (Two Vols.), English Critical
Tradition, Macmillan, Chennai.
4. David Lodge, ed., 1989, Modern Literary Theory, Longman, London.
5. V.S. Seturaman, ed., 1989 Contemporary Criticism, Macmillan, Chennai.
6. Ashcroft, Griffith & Tiffin, eds., 1995, Post-Colonial StudiesReader, Routledge,
London.

Reference Books :
1. M.H. Abrams, , 1953, The Mirror and the Lamp, OUP,Oxford.
2. Wimsatt and Brooks, ed., 1957, Literary Criticism – A Short History, Prentice-
Hall, Delhi.
3. David Daiches, 1984, Critical approaches to Literature, Revised Edition, Orient
Longman, Hyderabad.

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 Core Paper – XII Literature Analysis Approaches and Copy Editing

Objectives of the Course : To enable the student to experience the practical aspects of
literature studies to utilise the resulting skills in day-to-day life
UNIT I
Practical Criticism – Critique and Book Review.
UNIT 2
Publishing Industry: Concept organisation function.
UNIT 3
Copy Editing : Basics Functions Role and Process;
Copy Editor: Role and Responsibility
UNIT 4
Proof Reading, Editing and E- Publishing
UNIT 5
Technical Writing- Manuals, Business Correspondence
C – Core; E – Elective; ED – Extra disciplinary
Recommended Text:
Rob Kitchin& Duncan Fuller, 2005, The Academic’s Guide to Publishing, Vistaar
Publications, New Delhi.
Reference Books:
1. Practical Criticism : D.H. Rawlinson, The Practice of Criticism V.S. Seturaman
et.al., Practical Criticism C.B. Cox: The Practice of Criticism.
2. Resource books for teachers (eds) Krishnaswamy&Sivaraman. Interface between
Literature and Language (ed) Durant &Fabb. Reading Literature, Gower&
Pearson.
3. Kamath, M.V. The Journalist ‘s Handbook, VaniEductional Books,
New Delhi, 1986.
4. Kamath, M.V. Professional Journalism.
5. Teal, L. and Taylor R. Into the Newsroom: An Introduction to Journalism.
6. Warren, Thomas, L. , 1985, Technical Writing. Purpose, Process and Form,
Wadsworth Publishing Company.
7. Itule, Bruce. D., 1994, News Writing and Reporting for Today’s Media. McGraw
Hill.
8. Gerson, Sharon, J. and Steven, M. Gerson., 2000, Technical Writing: Process and
Product, Prentice Hall.

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 Elective Paper – III Film Studies

Objectives of the Course : To combine the popular interest in films with technical and socio-
cultural dimensions of film appreciation.
UNIT I
History of Cinema in India; Major landmarks in India Cinema
UNIT 2
Kinds of Films
Historical
Patriotic
Documentary
Thrillers etc.
UNIT 3
Art of Film Making: Some Important Techniques
Acting/ Photography/Direction/Scriptwriting etc
UNIT 4
Films and Entertainment
Films and Social Responsibility
UNIT 5
Review of Films
1.Recommended Texts:

1. Ed. Bill Nichols, 1993 ,Movies and Methods Vol. I, Edition

Seagull Books, Calcutta.
2. Ed. Bill Nichols, 1993, Movies and Methods Vol. II, Edition Seagull Books,
Calcutta.
3. Susan Hayward, 2004, Key Concepts in Cinema Studies, Routledge, London.

Reference Books :

1. Louis Giannetti, 1972, Understanding Movies, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

2. Ed. S. Vasudevan, 2000, Making Meaning in Indian Cinema, OUP, New
Delhi.

Website: www.academic info.net/film.html.

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 SEMESTER - IV

Core Paper XIII Twentieth Century Poetry

Objectives of the Course : The aim of this paper is to sensitise the students to various
aspects of British 20th century poetry. It embraces important ideas, movements and systems
of thought that contributed to the rich diversity of 20th century life in England and in Europe.
UNIT I
Edwardian and Georgian Poetry - Modernism – Modernity – Religion – Imagism –
Symbolism – Influence of representational arts in poetry - European influences – Influence of
Marx on World Wars – Welfare State – Free Verse – Montage, Postmodern Poetry and
Politics.
UNIT 2
Classical Modernists
W.B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
T.S. Eliot The Wasteland
UNIT 3
War and Modernist Poetry
Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting
W.H. Auden In Memory of W.B. Yeats
UNIT 4
Anti–Modernism
Movement Poets
Philip Larkin Whitsun Weddings
Ted Hughes Crow’s Theology
Thom Gunn On the Move
Welsh Poets
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
R. S. Thomas Here
UNIT 5
Post-Modern Poetry
Seamus Heaney Digging
Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Post Card Home

Recommended Texts:

1. Michael Schmidt, ed., 1980, Eleven British Poets: An anthology, Methuen& Co.
Ltd., Cambridge.
2. Richard Ellmann& Robert O’Clair, 1988, The Norton Anthology of Modern
Poetry, Norton & Company, New York.
References Books:
1. Cleanth Brooks, 1939, Modern Poetry and the Tradition, University of North
Carolina , Press.
2. T.H. Jones, 1963, Dylan Thomas, Oliver & Boyd Ltd.

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 3. Norman Jeffares, 1971, Yeats: Profiles in Literature, Routledge&Kegan Paul
London.
4. Harlod Bloom, 1972, Yeats, Oxford University Press, London.
5. 1974, Eight Contemporary Poets, Oxford University Press. London,
6. 1976, Poetry of the First World War, J.M. Gregson Studies in English Literature
Series Edward Arnold, London.
7. John Unterecker, 1977, A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats, Thames and
Hudson Southampton.
8. 1978, The Pelican Guide to English Literature: The Modern Age, Penguin Books.
9. P.R. King, 1979, Nine Contemporary Poets: Critique of poetry, Metheun, London.
10. Rajnath, 1980, T.S. Eliot’s The Theory and Poetry, Arnold Hienemann: New
Delhi.

Website, e-learning resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/poetry

Core Paper – XIV Writings by and on Women

Objectives of the Course : The primary aim of this paper is to give space to writings by
women. Even in the syllabus a woman writer is marginalized. However, in the process of
giving adequate space to women writers the paper aims at sensitizing students to the problems
faced by women and how women have responded in their attempt to expose them, in their
writings.
UNIT 1: Varieties of Feminism – concept of gender – androgyny- Language of women –
environment and women- double marginalisation.
UNIT 2: Poetry:
Anne Bradstreet Prologue
Marianne Moore Poetry
Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus.
Maya Angelou Still I Rise
Margaret Atwood Marsh
Languages
Charmaine D’Souza When God
made me a
Whore(Rajani P, V.
Rajagopalan, Nirmal
Selvamony, eds.,
Living & Feeling,
Dept. of English.,
M.C.C.)

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UNIT 3: Prose:
John Stuart Mill On subjection of women (V.S. Seturaman & C.T. Indraed.,
1994, Victorian Prose,Macmillan
India, Chennai. pp-318)
Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own
(chapters 3 & 4) (Jennifer Smith
ed., 1998, A Room of One’s
Own by Virginia Woolf,
Cambridge UP, New Delhi.)
Vandana Shiva “Introduction to Ecofeminism”( Vandana
Shiva &Maria Mies, 1993, Ecofeminism,
Kali for Women, New Delhi.
Alice Walker In Search of Our Mother’s
Garden
UNIT 4: Fiction
Arundathi Roy The God of Small Things
Jean Rhys Wide Sargosa Sea
Kate Chopin The Awakening
UNIT 5: Drama
Lorraine Hansberry Raisin in the Sun
Jane Harrison Stolen

Recommended Texts:

1. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, ed., 1985, The Norton Anthology of
Literature by Women, New York.
2. Rajani P. , V. Rajagopalan, and NirmalSelvamony, Who says my hand a
needle better fits: An Anthology of American Women Writing, Dept. of
English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram.
3. Standard editions of texts.

Reference Books :
1. Lisa Tuttle, 1986, Encyclopedia of Feminism, Facts on File Publications,
New York.
2. Catherine Belsey& Jane Moore, eds., 1977, The Feminist Reader, II
ed., Macmillan, London.
3. Kathy J. Wilson, 2004, Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature, Greenwood
Press, Westport.

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 Core Paper – XV Introduction to Translation Studies

Unit-1: Introduction
Definition and Scope of Translation, Translation and Culture, Types of Translation

Unit-2: History
A Brief History of Translation

Unit-3: Issues in Translation

Decoding and Recording, Problems of Equivalence, Loss and Gain, Gender and
Translation

Unit-4: Formal and Dynamic Equivalence

Formal and Dynamic Equivalence, Translation Shift

Unit-5: Comparative Analysis

A Comparative Study of Two Translations of Thirukkural by G U Pope and Rajaji
(First Chapter Only)

Prescribed texts:
Translation Studies (1980) Susan Bassnett : Routledge Publishers
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation - Lawrence Venuti
The Translation Studies Reader - Lawrence Venuti
Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation – Umberto Eco
In These words (A Course book on Translation) – Mona Baker, Routledge
A Linguistic theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics - John C Catford: OUP
Translation – R A Brower, Cambridge (On Linguistic aspects of translation - Roman
Jakobson Pages 232-239 only)
Towards a Science of Translating – Eugene Nida (E J Brill)
The theory and practice of Translation - Eugene Nida and C R Taber (E J Brill)
Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook - Andre Lefevre, Routledge Publishers (1992)

Core Paper – XVI : Research Methodology and Project Writing

Research Methodology
1. Preparing the Working Bibliography.
2. The Format of the Research Paper
3. Collection of Materials-Note Making-Plagiarism.
4. Planning the Research Paper.
5. Documenting Sources – Parenthetical Documentation
6. Drafting the Research Paper – Use of Quotation – Use of Dictionary And Reference Books
– Revising –Proof Reading.
7. Preparing the List of Work Cited
8. The Format of the Research Paper

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BOOK RECOMMENDED

MLA Handbook 8th Edition: Rethinking Documentation for The Digital Age (MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers).

Elective Paper-IV – English Literature for UGC NET/SET Examinations

Objective type and Essay type questions from Chaucer to Contemporary Age.

This paper intends to train the students to get through NET/SET and other competitive
exams. Can be prescribed preferably in the Fourth Semester. It can also help them to master
the subject and evaluate their knowledge of literature.

The Elizabethan Age / Chaucer to Shakespeare: Historical Perspective and Background;

Origins of Drama; Elizabethan Plays, Prose and Sonnets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, William Gower, Edmund Spenser, University Wits. Philip Sydney,
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd.

The Jacobean Age: Historical Perspective and Background; the Revenge Tragedies; the
Metaphysical Poets; the Cavalier Poets.

John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Heywood, Francis Bacon and John Bunyan .

The Restoration Period: Historical Perspective and Background; Restoration Satire;

Comedy of Manners.

John Dryden, John Milton, John Bunyan, William Congreve, Samuel Butler and William
Wycherley.

The Augustan Age: Historical Perspective and Background; Satire and Sentimental
Comedy.

Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Samuel
Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, George Smollett, Laurence
Sterne and Richard Sheridan .

The Romantic Age: Precursors ; Transitionists; Romantic Poets and Essayists.

Robert Burns, William Blake, Thomas Gray, William Collins, William Wordsworth, S.T.
Coleridge, P.B.Shelley, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Thomas De
Quincey, Ann Radcliffe and Jane Austen.

The Victorian Age: Historical Perspective and Background; Victorian Poets, Pre-
Raphaelites, Essayists, Novelists.

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John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Thackeray,
The Bronte Sisters, Mathew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, D.G. Rossetti,
Charles Swinburne and William Morris.

The Twentieth Century (Modernism & Postmodernism) / Contemporary Period:

Historical Perspective and Background; Edwardian and Georgian Poets; Imagists;
Symbolists; War Poets; Movements; Impact of World Wars I & II on Literature; Modern &
Postmodern writers.
Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph
Conrad, George Orwell, Henry James, E. M. Foster, Aldous Huxley, D.H.Lawrence,
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Somerset Maugham. Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Ted
Hughes, Salman Rushdie, Kurt Vonnegurt, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, William
S.Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov and Italo Calvino.

American and Non British Literatures: Historical Perspective and Background;

Colonization, Colonizers and the Colonized; Commonwealth Literature; Subaltern Literature;
Third World Literature.
American Writers: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.D.Thoreau, Emily Dickinson,
Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, William
Faulkner, Herman Melville, Robert Frost, E.E.Cummings, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner,
Eugene O’Neil, Tennesse Williams, Arthur Miller and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Non - British Literatures: Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, V.S.
Naipaul, Taslima Nasrin, Patrick White, Judith Wright, Margaret Laurence, Margaret
Atwood, Rudy Wiebe, Rohinton Mistry, M.G.Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Walker,
Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Jean Rhys, R.K.Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Kamala Das,
Kamala Markandaya, Girish Karnad, Toru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Eunice De
Souza, Nissim Ezekiel, A.K.Ramanujan, Chetan Bhagat, Vikram Chandra, Vikram Seth,
Amitav Ghosh, Anitha Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.

All Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize Winners

Literary Theory and Criticism: Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, John
Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Mathew Arnold, T.S.Eliot, Northrop Frye, F.R.Leavis, I.A.Richards,
Jacques Lacan, Carl Gustuv Jung, Simone de Beauvoir, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Derrida,
Ferdinand de Saussure,Irving Babbitt, Cleaneth Brooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes,
Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Edward Said, Hayden White and Linda Hutcheon.
Rhetoric and Prosody: Figures of Speech: Alliteration, Antithesis, Apostrophe, Assonance,
Metaphor, Simile, Paradox, Pun, Synecdoche, Metonymy, Hyperbole and Oxymoron.
Rhyme and Metre, Rhythmic Patterns and Literay Terms

Recommended Texts:
Andrew Sanders– An Oxford History of English Literature.
Patricia Waugh- Contemporary Critical Theory.
Peter Barry- Beginning Theory.
M.H. Abrams – A Glossary of Literary Terms.
An Outline History of English Literature by W.H. Hudson.
A Critical handbook of Literature in English by Shubhamoy Das.
History of English Literature by W.J. Long.

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History of English Literature by Edward Albert.
History of English Literature by T.Singh.
An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry.
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by P.K.Nayar.
An Introduction to English Criticism by B.Prasad.
English Literary Objective Questions by Amita Rowley Thaman.
A Textbook for Objective Questions in English Literature by Manoj Kumar.
Lodge, David. Modern Criticism and Theory
Lodge, David. Twentieth Century Criticism

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