University of Madras

UNOM BA. English Syllabus with effect from 2020-21

University of Madras Chepauk, Chennai 600 005

[Est. 1857, State University, NAAC ‘A’ Grade, CGPA 3.32, NIRF 2019 Rank: 20]

Website: www.unom.ac.in, Tel. 044-2539 9561

Undergraduate Programme in English

Curriculum and Syllabus for

B.A. English

(With effect from the Academic Year 2020-21)

February 2020

Based on Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework uploaded in the UGC website for UG Degree Programmes.

http://www.unom.ac.in/


Content

1. Preamble

2. Programme Learning Outcome

3. Course Structure

4. Course Learning Outcomes and Syllabus

(i) Core Courses

(ii) Allied Courses

(iii) Elective Courses

5. Examination and Evaluation (Existing System) or Changes can be suggested

for (i) and (ii) only

(i) Assessment Methods

(ii) Question Paper pattern

(iii) Grading System


Model Curriculum and Syllabus for B.A. English

(With effect from the Academic Year 2020-21)

1. Preamble Literature makes sense of the world through works of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. It is a

gateway to the varied human experiences, both past and present. Therefore it brings focus to

human nature, their values, morals, beliefs, ideologies, culture and practices. It fosters social

justice and equality and teaches the need to think logically and critically. Studying Literature in

a STEM world remains relevant as it alone can offer an understanding of the many forces that

shape and rule human lives and appreciate them, to bring about a balance in societies.

Literature as a field of study involves the study of texts and thus differs from reading literature

for pleasure. A study of English Literature refers to the study of literatures in English and in

translation, from around the world. This allows knowledge of social and political history,

philosophy, ideologies, culture, aesthetics and literary traditions across the world.

Literary texts also offer linguistic inputs to help learners acquire the skills for English language

development and improvement. It facilitates one to interpret language better and enhance

communication skills in English. The transferable skills thus developed are competencies

required globally in the 21century workplace.

With the digital era ascertaining the presence of the English language, it has once again

established itself as a world language and therefore an appreciable proficiency in using it can

leverage life skills and career opportunities. Reading and studying English Literature will

continue to stay relevant as long as human experiences and the English Language dominate the

world.

2. Programme Learning Outcome

By the end of the B.A. programme, the students will be able to

● acquire critical temper, creative ability, and realisation of human values

● cultivate humaneness, respect, empathy and openness to the varied affiliations in

different contexts across the world

● employ the knowledge gained, in criticism, interpretation and in the different modes of

writing and oral communication

● interpret historical and cultural forces that shaped humanity through literary texts

● formulate the interconnectedness of all areas of knowledge and its synthesis, and get

inspired by great minds, thoughts, and actions.

Nature and Extent of the Programme

The BA English Programme includes relevant core courses that are progressively introduced

to acquire an overall exposure to English Literature from Britain to the Literatures in the

English Language across the world, including India. At the same time, each course based on

nationality distinguishes one literature from another. Allied courses will give the required

background knowledge for an effective understanding of the core courses offered. Basic

critical theories and approaches required to evaluate literature are also introduced. Courses in

the various aspects of the English Language will introduce the students to its origin, structure

and linguistics, grammar and usage that help to develop comprehensive written and

communication skills. The Electives will enable the students to make choices in areas of


research and career opportunities. A few of them are skill-based and encourage internship for

hands-on learning to enable the students acquire twenty-first century employability skills

needed in the global environment.

Aim of the Programme

The Programme aims at providing a holistic understanding of the discipline and equips the

students with life and transferable skills to pursue higher education or a career.

Graduate Attributes

By the end of the B.A. (English) programme, the students will be able to

● demonstrate knowledge of literature as a discipline by studying a range of literary

texts written in English or translated into English from the past to present times

● show an understanding of the significant historical, political, and social backgrounds

relevant to the literary texts studied

● derive an understanding of a variety of literary forms, styles, and structures for close

analysis of texts

● appreciate literature as a source of understanding ideologies, practical wisdom, and

aesthetic pleasure

● apply language in academic and non-academic contexts and in a standardised system

for communication.


3. COURSE STRUCTURE

SEMESTER I

Course

Component

Name of the Paper

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PART I Language Paper -I

3 4 25 75 100

PART II BP2-ENG01-Communicative English

3 3 25 75 100

PART III

BEN-DSC01:British Literature-I 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSC02:Shakespeare 4 5 25 75 100

BEN-DSA01:Background to English Literature-I 5 6 25 75 100

PART IV

Basic Tamil / Adv. Tamil / * NME 2 2 25 75 100

BP4-EASS-English for Arts and Social Sciences 4 4 25 75 100

SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 24

*NME; Choose any one from other Department

SEMESTER II

*NME; Choose any one from other Department

Course

Component

Name of the Paper

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PART I Language Paper – II

3 4 25 75 100

PART II English Paper-II

3 4 25 75 100

PART III

BEN-DSC03:British Literature- II 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSC04:Indian Writing in English 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSA02:Background to English Literature – II 5 6 25 75 100

PART IV Basic Tamil / Adv Tamil / NME*

2 2 25 75 100

Soft Skills 3 2 50 50 100



SEMESTER III

Course

Component

Name of the Paper

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Max.Marks

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Part I Language - Paper III 3 4 25 75 100

Part II English Paper-III 3 6 25 75 100

Part III

BEN-DSC05:British Literature - III 4 5 25 75 100

BEN-DSC06:Aspects of English Language-I 4 5 25 75 100

BEN-DSA03:Background to English Literature – III 5 6 25 75 100

Part IV

Soft Skills 3 2 25 75 100

Environmental Studies 2 Examination will be held in IV

Sem.


SEMESTER IV

Course

Component

Name of the Paper

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Max.Marks

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Part I Language Paper IV 3 4 25 75 100

Part II English Paper-IV 3 6 25 75 100

Part III BEN-DSC07:American Literature - I 4 5 25 75 100

BEN-DSC08:Aspects of English Language – II 4 5 25 75 100

BEN-DSA04:Background to European and American Literature 5 6 25 75 100

Part IV Soft Skills 3 2 25 75 100

Environmental Studies 2 2 25 75 100



SEMESTER V

Course

Component

Name of the Paper

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Part – III

BEN-DSC09:American Literature- II 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSC10:World Classics in Translation 4 5 25 75 100

BEN-DSC11:Aspects of English Language – III 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSC12:Introduction to Literary Theory

and Criticism 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSE1A:Introduction to Journalism (or)

BEN-DSE1B:English Language Teaching (or)

BEN-DSE1C:Writing Skills for the New Media

5 5 25 75 100

Part –I V Value Education 2 2 25 75 100


SEMESTER VI

Course

Component

Name of the Paper C

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Part IV

BEN-DSC13:Postcolonial Literatures in

English 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSC14:Contemporary Literature 4 6 25 75 100

BEN- DSC15:Indian Literatures in English 4 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSE2A:Creative Writing (or)

BEN-DSE2B:Women’s Writing (or)

BEN-DSE2C:Literatures from the Margin

5 6 25 75 100

BEN-DSE3A:Green Studies (or)

BEN-DSE3B:Introduction to Translation Studies (or)

BEN-DSE3C:Film and Literature

5 6 25 75 100

Part V Extension Activities 1



4. Course Learning Outcomes and Syllabus (Attached separately)

(i) Core Courses

(ii) Allied Courses

(iii) Elective Courses

5. Examination and Evaluation

5.1 Assessment Methods

Alignment of Programme Learning Outcomes and Course Learning Outcomes with assessment

methods should be prioritized to determine learners’ achievement. They may be done at two

levels:

Formative Assessment: Internal Assessment (25 marks)

CIA Tests- 10 marks | Assessment Tasks & Activities: 10 Marks | Attendance: 05 Marks

Summative Assessment: End Semester University Examination (75 marks)

Formative Assessment Methods- Internal Assessment:

It will be required to prioritize formative assessments, that is, In-semester tasks and

activities including Continuous Internal Assessment Tests.

Diversity in assessment methods is encouraged to ensure that the objectives of the

courses are clearly aligned to learning outcomes.

Assessment requirements must be clearly communicated to all students at the

commencement of the semester.

Any subsequent change or minor modification necessary for fuller realization of learning

outcomes must be arranged with due notice and communicated to the learners effectively.

Progress of learners towards achieving learning outcomes may be internally assessed

making creative use of the following, either independently or in combination.

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i) Internal Assessment Tasks/Activities (10marks) Students may be assigned ANY TWO or more tasks/activities indicated,

based on learning-levels, credit load and

class size.

All students need not necessarily do the same task or activity.

Core Courses:

BEN-DSC01, BEN-DSC03, BEN-DSC04, BEN-DSC05, BEN-DSC07, BEN-DSC09,

BEN-DSC10, BEN-DSC13, BEN-DSC14, BEN-DSC15

Classroom Simulations

Oral presentations, including seminar presentation

Poetry Recitation/Performance

Role Play

Individual or Group Quiz


Individual or Group Term Papers

Literary Chart/Poster Presentations

Library Visits (Individual or Group Reports to be submitted)

Core Courses: BEN-DSC02

Enactment of Scene/Play

Recitation of Passages

Memorizing Quotes


Individual or Group Term Papers on Film Adaptations of Shakespeare


Core Courses: BEN-DSC06, BEN-DSC08, BEN-DSC11

Language in Use – Tasks as indicated in the Course Components

Core Course: BEN-DSC12


Computerized adaptive testing for MCQ

Application- oriented Assignment





Elective Courses

BEN-DSE1A: Internship

The internship can be with any print/online media for 20 hours

Tasks to be aligned with Unit 5 in Course Components

A journalistic article/report/digital story to be written and published

A comprehensive report of the internship to be submitted.

BEN-DSE1B: Internship

The internship should be related to the student's career goals

Students should have sufficient background and maturity to learn from the experience

Students must have a well-prepared Resume

Orientation-Lesson Plans- Teaching Learning Materials – Execution –

Setting Question Paper – Administering Test – Correction – Submitting a Report.


BEN-DSE1C: Internship

Hands-on –training from a recognized print/digital media for 20 hours.

Publish an article in an print/digital media



BEN-DSE2A:

Each student to write a creative article

Class Magazine with the articles and publish

Interview with creative writers

BEN-DSE2B and BEN-DSE2C

Case Studies with reports ( 500words)

Problem based Assignments/Problem solving Activities

Real life simulations

Team Project with Reports (500 words)

Awareness Campaigns/Posters/Rally

BEN-DSE3A

Application-oriented Assignments

Case Studies

Field Visit with Report (500 words)

BEN-DSE3B


Individual or Group Project- Translate any writing/talk

Translate and Write subtitles of films/documentaries

Publish the Translations

Interview translators

BEN-DSE3C


Review a Film

Team Project with Report (500 words)

Field Visit

Allied Courses: BEN-DSA01, BEN-DSA02, BEN-DSA03, BEN-DSA04


Computerized adaptive testing for MCQ






Non-Major Elective Courses BEN-NME01 and BEN-NME02: Spoken English I & II

Observation of practical skills (speaking and listening, within a peer group or a class)

Rubrics for Speaking Assessment

Fluency Pronunciation

and accent

Vocabulary Grammar Details

5 Smooth and

fluid speech; few

to no hesitations;

no attempts to

search for

words; volume is

excellent.

Pronunciation is

excellent; good

effort at accent

Excellent control

of language

features; a wide

range of

wellchosen

vocabulary

Accuracy &

variety of

grammatical

structures

Excellent level

of description;

additional details

beyond the

required

4 Smooth and

fluid speech; few

hesitations; a

slight search for

words; inaudible

word or two.

Pronunciation is

good; good

effort at accent

Good language

control; good

range of

relatively well-

chosen

vocabulary

Some errors in

grammatical

structures

possibly caused

by attempt to

include a variety

Good level of

description; all

required

information

included

3 Speech is

relatively

smooth; some

hesitation and

unevenness

caused by

rephrasing and

searching for

words; volume

wavers.

Pronunciation is

good; Some

effort at accent,

but is definitely

non-native

Adequate

language

control;

vocabulary

range is lacking

Frequent

grammatical

errors that do not

obscure

meaning; little

variety in

structures

Adequate

description;

some additional

details should be

provided

2 Speech is

frequently

hesitant with

some sentences

left

uncompleted;

volume very

soft.

Pronunciation is

okay; No effort

towards a native

accent

Weak language

control; basic

vocabulary

choice with

some words

clearly lacking

Frequent

grammatical

errors even in

simple structures

that at times

obscure

meaning.

Description

lacks some

critical details

that make it

difficult for the

listener to

understand

1 Speech is slow,

hesitant &

strained except

for short

memorized

phrases; difficult

to perceive

continuity in

speech;

inaudible.

Pronunciation is

lacking and hard

to understand;

No effort

towards a native

accent

Weak language

control;

vocabulary that

is used does not

match the task

Frequent

grammatical

errors even in

simple

structures;

meaning is

obscured.

Description is so

lacking that the

listener cannot

understand


BEN-NME03 and BEN-NME04: English for Competitive Examinations –Paper I & II Internal Tests – verbal and reasoning, vocabulary, grammar exercises, different reading materials

for comprehension, writing tasks

BEN-NME05 and BEN-NME06 Individual Writing Tasks- Create a website and publish – Class Magazine/Blogs

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(ii) Question Paper Pattern: End Semester University Examination

For Core Courses: BEN-DSC01/03/05: British Literature- Paper I, II & III - 75 Marks

SECTION A (From Unit 1: Detailed Poetry only) I.Annotate FIVE of the following: (5 out of 8) 5x2= 10 marks

SECTION B (From Poetry (non-detailed), Prose and Drama)

II. Analyse any THREE of following passages and answer the questions given below:

(3 out of 5) 3x5=15 marks

(5-7 lines to be given and three questions to be asked for each passage)

[1. textual question (1mark) 2. Word meaning/allusion (1 mark) 3. Explanation (3marks)

]

III. Answer any FOUR of the following questions in about 100 words (from Units 3,4,5)

( 4 out of 6) 4x5 = 20 marks

SECTION C (from all Units)

IV. Write essays on any THREE of the following in 300 words. ( 3 out of 5)

3x10=30 marks

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For Core Courses:

BEN-DSC04:Indian Writing in English

BEN-DSC07&09: American Literature- Paper I, & II,

BEN-DSC10:World Classics in Translation

BEN-DSC13:Postcolonial Literatures in English

BEN-DSC14:Contemporary Literature

BEN- DSC15:Indian Literatures in English

Total Marks: 75


SECTION A (From Poetry only) - I. Annotate FIVE of the following: (5 out of 8) 5x2= 10

marks

SECTION B (From Prose) (3 out of 5) II. Analyse any THREE of following passages and answer the questions given below:

3x5=15 marks

(5-7 lines to be given and three questions to be asked for each passage)

[1. textual question (1mark) 2. Word meaning/allusion (1 mark) 3. Explanation (3marks)]

III. Answer any FOUR of the following questions:

(from Drama/Graphic Fiction & Short Stories) (4 out of 6) 4x5 = 20

marks

SECTION C ( From all units) (3 out of 5)

IV. Write essays on any THREE of the following in 300 words. (from all Units)

3x10=30 marks

For Core CourseBEN-DSC02: Shakespeare - 75 Marks

SECTION A I. Annotate any FIVE of the Following without omitting any Group

5x2= 10 marks Group –A (3 passages from Henry IV Part I)

Group –B (3 passages from Twelfth Night)

Group –C (3 passages from Macbeth)

Group –A (3 passages from Tempest)

SECTION B (5 out of 7)

(Theoretical questions from Unit divisions-1.2, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2 and Unit V )

II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 5x5 = 25

marks

SECTION C

III. Answer any FIVE of the following in 250 words without omitting any Group.

5x8=40 marks

Group –A (3 questions from Unit 1)

Group –B (3 questions from Unit 1I)

Group –C (3 questions from Unit 1II)

Group –D (3 questions from Unit 1V)

Group –E(3 questions from Unit V)

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For Core Course BEN-DSC06:ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER I 75

marks

SECTION A

MCQ- Questions1 - 20 – Based on Language in Use indicated in all Units

I. Choose the correct answer. 20x1= 20 marks

SECTION B

Short answers – Q 21- Q27 – Theoretical questions from all Units (5out of 7)

II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words. 5x 5 = 25 marks

SECTION C

III. Answer the following

Q 28 or Q 29 - (internal choice) – Essay Question from Unit 1 – Introduction – 10 Marks

Q 30 – (Grammar - Higher Order Applications/ practice) 5x2 = 10 marks

a. Rewrite the sentence in the right order (jumbled words) - (5)

b. Rewrite the paragraph by writing the sentences in the correct sequence - (5)

Q 31 – (Higher Order Applications/ practice) 2 x 5 =10 marks

a. Conversion (Change the voice, direct vs reported speech) – 2 sentences - (2)

b. Transformation of sentences (simple- compound- complex, linkers)- 2 sentences

(2)

c. Error correction - 4 errors – tense, concord, preposition, pronoun

- (2)

d. Rewrite the sentences by changing the tense– 2 sentences

- (2)

e. Rewrite the sentences by changing the pronoun and number - (2)

Note – Unit divisions 5.3, 5.4 & 5.5 are not for testing in the End Semester Examination.

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Core Course BEN-DSC08:ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER II-75 marks

SECTION A

MCQ Q1 - Q20 – all Units - as given in Language in Use

I. Choose the correct answer: 20x1=20 marks

SECTION B

( short answers from all units, transcription, morphological analysis)

II. Answer the following. 25 marks

Q 21 – Q25 –- Answer any 3 out of 5 – (3 x 5 = 15)

Q26. Phonetic transcription – short sentences - 2 sentences (5)

Q 27. Morphological analyses – tree diagram – 2 sentences (5)

SECTION C

(Essays – Internal choice – Choices should not be from the same unit)

III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words. 10x 3=30 marks

Q28. a. or b.

Q 29. a. or b.

Q 30. a. or b.

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Core Course BEN-DSC011:ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER III - 75 marks

SECTION A

MCQ –Q1. – Q10 (from Unit 1 – Introduction only )

I. Choose the correct answer: 10 marks

SECTION B

(short answers, disambiguation of sentences, IC Analysis)

II. Answer the following 35 marks

Q 11- Q 17 – Answer any 5 out of 7 – All Units – (5 x 5 = 25)

Q18. IC Analysis (5)

Q 19. Disambiguate the following sentence – (5 sentences) - (5)


SECTION C

(Internal choice – theoretical question (or) Writing in Practice)

III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words. 3x 10 = 30 marks

Q20. a. Theoretical Question (10)

(or)

b. Writing in Practice


(or)



(or)


Core Course BEN-DSC12: Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

SECTION A

(MCQ from all the Units)


SECTION B

II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 5x5=25 marks

SECTION C

III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 10x3=30

marks


For ALL ELECTIVE Courses 75 marks

BEN-DSE1A: Introduction to Journalism

BEN-DSE1B: English Language Teaching

BEN-DSE1C: Writing Skills for the New Media

BEN-DSE2A:Creative Writing

BEN-DSE2B:Women’s Writing

BEN-DSE2C:Literatures From The Margin

BEN-DSE3A: Green Studies

BEN-DSE3B: Introduction to Translation Studies

BEN-DSE3C: Film and Literature

SECTION A

(MCQ from all the Units except Unit V)


SECTION B

I. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 6x5=30 marks

SECTION C

II. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 10x3=30marks

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For ALLIED Courses: 75 marks

BEN-DSA01/02/03: Background to English Literature –Paper I,II &III

BEN-DSA04: Background to European and American Literature

SECTION A

(MCQ from all the Units)

I. Choose the correct answer; 20x1=20 marks

SECTION B

II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 5x5=25 marks

SECTION C

III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 10x3=30

marks

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For All Non-Major-Elective Courses

SECTION A

I. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 6x5=30 marks

SECTION B

II. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 15x3=45 marks

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iii) Grading System:

Existing

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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS

B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH

(With effect from the academic year 2016-2017 onwards)

Revised Scheme of Examinations

I SEMESTER

II SEMESTER

Course

Component Name of the Course

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PART I Language Paper I 4 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper - I 4 3 25 75 100

PART III

Core Paper-I:British Literature I 5 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – II: Indian Writing in English 5 4 25 75 100

Allied Paper –I :Background to the Study of

English Literature I 6 5 25 75 100

PART IV * Basic Tamil / Advanced Tamil / NME 2 2 25 75 100

Soft Skill - I 2 3 50 50 100

PART I Language Paper II 4 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper II 4 3 25 75 100

PART III

Core Paper-III: British Literature II 5 4 25 75 100

Core Paper– IV: Regional Indian Literature

in Translation 5 4 25 75 100

Allied Paper – II: Background to the study of

English Literature II 6 5 25 75 100

PART IV Basic Tamil / Advanced Tamil / NME 2 2 25 75 100

Soft Skill - II 2 3 50 50 100

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THIRD SEMESTER

Course


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PART I Languages Paper III 6 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper III 4 3 25 75 100

PART III

Core Paper-V: British Literature III 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – VI: Modern English Language

and Usage 6 4 25 75 100

Allied Paper III : Myth and Literature 6 5 25 75 100

PART IV

Soft Skill - III 2 3 50 50 100

Environmental Studies Examination will be held in

IV semester

FOURTH SEMESTER

Course


Ins

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PART I Languages Paper IV 6 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper IV 4 3 25 75 100

PART III

Core Paper-VII: American Literature I 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – VIII: Film and Literature (or)

Green Studies 6 4 25 75 100

Allied- Paper IV: Introduction to the Study

of Language and Linguistics 6 5 25 75 100

PART IV

Environmental Studies 2 25 75 100

Soft Skill IV 2 3 50 50 100

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FIFTH SEMESTER

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PART III

Core Paper – IX: American Literature II 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – X:Post Colonial Literature in

English I, Australian Literature 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper-XI: Women’s Writing 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – XII: Introduction to Literary

Theories 6 4 25 75 100

Elective Paper – I:

1.Introduction to Translation Studies (or)

2. Practical Approach to Technical

Writing

6 5 25 75 100

PART V

Value Education 2 25 75 100

SIXTH SEMESTER

Course


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PART III

Core Paper – XIII: Contemporary Literature 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – XIV: Post – Colonial

Literature in English II Canadian Literature 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper- XV: Shakespeare 6 4 25 75 100

Elective Paper II: World Literature in

Translation 6 5 25 75 100

Elective Paper III: Journalism 6 5 25 75 100

PART V

Extension Activities 1

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AC.F’16

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(With effect from the academic year 2016-2017 onwards)

REVISED SYLLABUS Semester I

Core Paper – I British Literature I

Unit-1: Introduction

The Renaissance and its Impact on England, The Reformation - causes and effects,

The Commonwealth of Nations, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their social

relevance

Unit-2: Prose 1. On Revenge - Francis Bacon

2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison

3. A City Night-Piece - Oliver Goldsmith

Unit-3: Poetry 1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser

2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? - William Shakespeare

3. A Valediction: of Weeping - John Donne

4. Paradise Lost (Book IX) - John Milton ( lines 795 - 833)

5. The Rape of the Lock: Canto III - Alexander Pope (lines 125 -178)

Unit-4: Drama Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

Unit- 5: Fiction The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith

Prescribed Texts:

English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlowe

Ed. William-Alan Landes (Revised). Players Press, 1997.

The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - Ed. Stephen Coote (Penguin UK, 2004)

Recommended Texts:

Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Professor M L Stapleton, Dr

Sarah K Scott (Revised) - Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.

Relevant Videos on YouTube:

S. No. Video URL

1 History of the Renaissance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhd-uwFonog

2 The Restoration and Enlightenment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Jzp4Ywuek

3 The English Reformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDhYS5lk3c

4 17th Century British Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGestYnQPA

5 Doctor Faustus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4_oBsuX5g

6 The Vicar of Wakefield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fm9jy5F3EE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhd-uwFonog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhd-uwFonog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Jzp4Ywuek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Jzp4Ywuek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDhYS5lk3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDhYS5lk3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGestYnQPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGestYnQPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4_oBsuX5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fm9jy5F3EE

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Core Paper – II - Indian Writing in English

Unit-1: Introduction Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact History of Indian Writing in English Nativisation of English Introduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay's speech) Indian Diasporic writers

Unit-2: Prose 1. The World Community - S. Radhakrishnan

Prescribed: Links - Balram Gupta 2. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen

Prescribed: The Diaspora and the World – Chapter 4 only Unit-3: Poetry

1. The Tiger and the Deer - Sir Aurobindo Ghosh 2. Summer Woods - Sarojini Naidu 3. In India - Nissim Ezekiel

Prescribed (for poems 1-3): An Anthology of Indian English Poetry - Orient Longman 4. Crab - Arun Kolatkar 5. Evening wheat - Vikram Seth 6. Fireflies - Manohar Shetty

Prescribed (for poems 4-6): Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets Unit-4: Drama

Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani Prescribed: Dance like a Man – Penguin Publications

Unit-5: Fiction 1. Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan

Prescribed Texts: Links – Balram Gupta The Diaspora and the World (Chapter 4) Anthology of Indian English Poetry – Orient Longman Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani - Penguin Publications Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan Recommended Texts: A.K. Mehrotra's Illustrated History of Indian Literature - Introductory chapter Indian Writing in English - K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar Modern Indian poetry in English - Bruce King


S. No. Video URL

1 English: An Indian Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRK-m82bGM

2 The Rise of English in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYqYIwdMNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRK-m82bGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYqYIwdMNU

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Allied Paper – I Background to the Study of English Literature I

Unit-1: Drama - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Heroic Comedy, Revenge

Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce, Masque

Unit-2: Poetry - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

Subjective and Objective poetry

Narrative poetry: The Epic, the Mock-epic, the Ballad

Lyrical: The Ode, the Sonnet, the Elegy

Dramatic Monologue

Poetic Drama

Prosody: Rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor and allegory

Unit-3: Prose - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

The Essay and its types (Aphoristic, Periodic, Satirical, Critical)

The Short Story

The Biography and the Autobiography

Travel Writing

Unit-4: The Renaissance Period (1350 – 1660)

An Introduction to Bible Translation - Tyndale, Coverdale

The University Wits

Elizabethan and Jacobean drama

Comedy of humour

Unit-5: The Late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (1660 - 1800)

Comedy of Manners

Neo-Classicism

Sentimental and Anti-sentimental comedies

Pre-Romantics

Prescribed Texts:

History of English Literature – 5th edition – Edward Albert A History of English Literature – Compton Rickett


S. No. Video URL

1 18th Century Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAc1YNROLg

2 The Novel in 18th Century Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNzns759wqM

3 Types of Drama: Tragedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQqPlDE_b8

4 Types of Drama: Farce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0LOcjs-hQ

5 Types of Poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9FbQ6cvy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAc1YNROLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNzns759wqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQqPlDE_b8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0LOcjs-hQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9FbQ6cvy4

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Semester II

Core Paper – III - British Literature II


Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian and the French Revolutions on the English society,

Humanitarian Movements in England, the Reform Bills and the spread of education

Unit-2: Prose

1. Dream-Children, A Reverie - Charles Lamb

2. On Going a Journey - William Hazlitt

3. Of King's Treasuries - John Ruskin (An Extract from Sesame and Lilies)

Unit-3: Poetry

1. Lucy Gray - William Wordsworth

2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley

4. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats

5. Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson

6. Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold

7. My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

Unit-4: Drama

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Unit-5: Fiction

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Prescribed Texts:

English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – Chancer to Queen Victoria by G M

Trevelyan (for Unit I)

The Importance of Being Earnest - A Readers companion Ed. BY Peter Raby - Oxford

University Press. 2008.

Great Expectations - A Readers Companion- Margaret Cardwell - Clarendon Press. 1993

(expansion in the title of the Secondary Sources)


S. No. Video URL

1 The Agrarian Revolution in England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWYm0T8RLo4

2 Reform Bill - 1832 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DuXT5g0X4

3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXx2A6CsNM

4. Ode to a Nightingale - I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRMbiQ8Ry0

5. Ode to a Nightingale - II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplVF2wiHNQ

6. Ulysses : Tennyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA0BWxZ5Mg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWYm0T8RLo4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DuXT5g0X4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXx2A6CsNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRMbiQ8Ry0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplVF2wiHNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA0BWxZ5Mg

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Core Paper – IV - Regional Indian Literature in Translation

Unit-1: Introduction Concept of Indian Literature, , Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in Indian Aesthetics Prescribed: Translator's note to Poems of Love and War by AK Ramanujam (Oxford), Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy Bharathamuni from Natyashastra

Unit-2: Poetry

1. Is Poetry always worthy when it's old? Kalidasa (Malavikagnimitram) Website references for topic 1: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/brough-1977-poems-from-sanskrit.html

2. What She Said - Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3 (Tamil) 3. What She Said to her Girlfriend - Kapilar, Akanaanooru 82 (Tamil)

Prescribed for topics 2 and 3: Translation of Sangam Age Poetry by A.K.Ramanaujan Website references for topics 2 and 3: http://www.poetrynook.com/poem/what-she-said-7 https://sangampoemsinenglish.wordpress.com/sangam-tamil-scholar-a-k-ramanujan/

4. Gitanjali – (1-5) - Rabindranath Tagore 5. Six Rubaiiyats - Mirza Arif (Urdu)

Unit-3: Prose

1. Roots - Ismat Chughtai (Urdu) 2. The Shroud - Munshi Premchand (Hindi) 3. Sita Brand Soapnut Powder - Sundara Ramaswamy (Tamil)

Prescribed: Waves, Manas publications 4. Poovan Banana - Vaikom Mohammad Basheer (Malayalam)

Prescribed: Poovan Banana and Other Stories

Unit-4: Drama Wedding Album – Girish Karnad

Unit-5: Fiction Beasts of Burden – Imayam (Tamil)

Prescribed Texts: Waves - Manas Publications Poems of Love and War – AK Ramanujam Texts and Their Worlds - Foundation Books Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy Bharathamuni from Natyashastra Beasts of Burden – Imayam Poovan Banana and Other Stories – VM Basheer Wedding Album – Girish Karnad - OUP Recommended Texts: Plays of Girish Karnad Chandalika - Rabindranath Tagore - or Post Office (Bengali) Gora - Tagore The infinity of Grace - O.V. Vijayan Dharmapurana Short stories of Paul Zachariah. Lalithambika Antarjanam, Ambai, CS Lakshmi Chudamani Raghavan Krishna Sobti Poems of Nirala I will meet you yet again - Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/brough-1977-poems-from-sanskrit.html

http://www.poetrynook.com/poem/what-she-said-7

https://sangampoemsinenglish.wordpress.com/sangam-tamil-scholar-a-k-ramanujan/

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S. No. Video URL

1 Theory of Nine Rasas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBx0BH77L3E

2 Indian Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbaww4Uxlw

Allied Paper – II - Background to the Study of English Literature II

Unit-1: Drama (Continued)

Well made play (Drama of Ideas - Shaw and Ibsen), Existential Drama, Comedy of

menace, Kitchen-sink drama, Problem Play, Didactic Drama(Propaganda play), One-act

play

Unit-2: The Novel

Epistolary, Picaresque, Gothic Fiction, Historical Novel, Detective Novel, Bildungsroman,

Stream of Consciousness, Avant-garde, Science Fiction

Unit-3: The Romantic Age (1798 - 1832)

Romanticism with respect to

Prose - Lamb, Hazlitt

Poetry - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley , Keats

Novels - Jane Austen

Unit-2: The Victorian Age (1832 - 1901)

Pre-Raphaelite movement - D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti

Humanitarian Movement - Methodist, Anti Slavery and Salvation Army

Aesthetic Movement - Walter Patter

Victorian Poets - Tennyson, Browning

Victorian Novelists - Charles Dickens, Thackeray

Victorian Writers - Carlyle, Ruskin

Impressionistic Writers- Proust, Joyce

Symbolist Movement - Yeats

Unit-3: The Modern Age (Post 1901)

Imagist Poetry- Ezra Pound

Poets of the Thirties – Wilfred Owen, Auden

Essay - Huxley

Drama – GB Shaw

Novel - HG Wells, Virginia Woolf

Prescribed Texts:

An Introduction to the Study of Literature – WH Hudson – Atlantic Publishers

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

A Background to the Study of English Literature – B Prasad, Haripriya Ramadoss – Macmillan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBx0BH77L3E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbaww4Uxlw

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S. No. Video URL

1 The Romantics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSm2acUXB8

2 The Victorian Poets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBG6-BtCnxQ

3 The Victorian Era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHspj1pZ3Y

4 Understanding Virginia Woolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTrFoCLMGs

5 Understanding W H Auden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvezOvM_VgQ

6 Understanding Imagism through Ezra Pound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gU4F6ePhcM

7 World War I poetry in England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMmDCUYJ1o

Semester III

Core Paper-V British Literature III


Social impact of the two world wars, the Labour Movement, the Welfare State

Unit-2: Prose

1. Tradition and Individual Talent – TS Eliott

2. The Art of Fiction – Henry James

Unit-3: Poetry

1. The Wreck of the Deutschland - G.M. Hopkins

2. Easter, 1916 - W.B. Yeats

3. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen

4. The Unknown Citizen - W.H. Auden

5. The Thought-Fox - Ted Hughes

Unit-4: Drama

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Unit-5: Fiction

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Texts:

English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2007

Animal Farm – George Orwell


S. No. Video URL

1 Impact of World War I on Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1RJgfdDUA

2 Pygmalion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJlgdKMeqk

3 Easter, 1916 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-83rZ5YLI

4 Animal Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TFxG19CRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSm2acUXB8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBG6-BtCnxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHspj1pZ3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTrFoCLMGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvezOvM_VgQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMmDCUYJ1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1RJgfdDUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJlgdKMeqk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-83rZ5YLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TFxG19CRk

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Core Paper VI - Modern English Language and Usage


The Evolution of Standard English

Prescribed: An Outline History of the English Language [(Chapter- 8) (Pages 196-209)]

Unit-2: Language and Regional Variation

The Standard Language

Accent and Dialect

Dialectology

Regional Dialects

Style, Slang and Jargon

Prescribed: The Study of Language (3rd edition) by George Yule

Unit-3: Areas of Difficulty in the Usage of English Language for the II Language Users

Basic Grammar

Parts of speech and agreement (voice, tense, number)

Modals and Auxiliaries

Types of sentences (Interrogatives, Declaratives, Exclamatory and Imperative)

Direct and Indirect speech

Question Tags

Unit-4: Language for specific Speech events

Drafting an invitation

Drafting the minutes of a meeting

Addressing a gathering (welcome address)

Proposing vote of thanks

Unit-5: English in the Internet Era

The Internet and English Vocabulary

Role and Scope of Online English Dictionaries

Language and the Advent of Technology

Useful online resources such as YouTube, Google Scholar

Prescribed Texts:

The Study of Language (3rd edition) - George Yule

An Outline History of the English Language – F T Wood

Practical English Grammar – A J Thomson and A V Martinet (OUP)

Language and the Internet – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press

English as a Global Language – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press

Allied Paper – III - Myth and Literature


Beginnings of myth, Natural Phenomena as Myth, Myth and Legends

Prescribed: The Norton Reader-Ed by Linda H.Petrson, Johin C. Brereton:

Chapter – Mythology Robert Graves (Pages 1150-1154)

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Unit-2: Greek and Roman Mythology

1. Hercules (Cleaning of Aegean Tables, Atlas and Hercules)

2. Ulysses & Cyclops, Ulysses & Circe, the story of Penelope.

3. The Story of Romulus and Remus

4. The Story of Dido, Queen of Carthage

5. The Story of Cupid & Psyche

6. The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice

7. The Story of Echo & Narcissus

Unit-3: Celtic Mythology

1. Oisin in the Land of Forever Young

Unit-4: Legends

1. Arthurian Cycle (The Holy Grail)

2. Robin Hood Cycle

Unit-5: Hindu Mythology

1. Stories from Ramayana

The Story of Mareecha

The Burning of Lanka

2. Stories from Mahabharatha

Kurukshetra - The Battle & The Deception of Bheema

The Dog

The Bhagavad Gita

3. Stories from Puranas, Epics and Vedas

The Story of Nala and Damayanthi

The Story of Nacheeketa and Yama

The Story of Ganga

The Story of Sakuntala

Prescribed texts:

1. The Norton Reader - Ed by Linda H.Petrson, Johin C. Brereton

2. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita

(Chapters III and VII only)

Reference texts:

1. The Encyclopedia of World Mythology

2. Bulfinch’s Mythology

3. Myth and Me

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Semester IV

Core Paper – VII - American Literature I


Puritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolition of Slavery

Unit-2: Prose

1. Self-Reliance – R.W. Emerson (an extract)

2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For – H.D. Thoreau

3. Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln

Unit-3: Poetry

1. Nature – H.W. Long fellow

2. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment – Anne Bradstreet

3. Brahma – R.W. Emerson

4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking – Walt Whitman

5. O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman

6. There’s a certain Slant of light – Emily Dickinson

Unit-4: Short stories

1. The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe

2. Bartleby, the Scrivener – Melville

3. Let Me Feel Your Pulse – O Henry

4. Pigeon Feathers – John Updike

Unit-5: Fiction

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Prescribed Texts:

The Scarlet Letter: A romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Samuel E. Cassino, 1892

Relevant Videos on YouTube

S. No. Video

1 American Puritanism

2 American War of Independence

3 Gettysburg Address

4 O Captain! My Captain!

5 The Cask of Amontillado

6 The Scarlet Letter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j4ZJ0WTwSo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3KZhcjV71o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EboYQXY4FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QL2o6O7s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utOm0Pw9pe4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uen92KjCSsg

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Core Paper VIII: 1. Film and Literature


Adaptation

Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter1 - "Beginning to

theorize adaptation"

The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre (narrative film , avant-garde film, film

noir, documentary), Themes tropes - cue - suspense - themes - functions - motif -

parallelism - development - unity / disunity

Film Narrative: Title - Story - Plot - narration (Restricted and omniscient) - duration -

motivation - motif- parallelism - character traits - cause and effects – exposition -

climax - point of view

Unit-2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction

Danny Boyle's Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)

Unit-3: Adaptation of Fantasy / Science Fiction

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005)

Unit-4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films

Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (Tamil)

Unit-5: Components of a Film Review

Plot, Genre, Role of actors, Background information, condensed synopsis,

argument/analysis, evaluation, recommendation, opinion

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Core Paper VIII: 2. Green Studies

Unit 1: Introduction

Introduction to Eco-criticism - Definition Scope and importance of Ecocriticism

Prescribed: Garrard, Greg, Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2004)

Introducing concepts of Indian ecocriticism –Tinai - significance- ecoregions

Prescribed: Nirmal Selvamony -Tinai in Primal and Stratified Societies

Unit 2: Bioregionalism and Ecofeminism (Greg Gaard)

Community, Region, Home

Prescribed: Carson Rachel, The Silent Spring (Chapter One-‘A Fable for Tomorrow’)

Letter to President Pierce,1855 -Chief Seattle (Norton Reader)

Selected tale from Flowering Tree - A.K Ramanujan (Ecofeminism)

Ecology

Deep Ecology Basic Principles-Biocentric Equality- Naess and George Sessions

Self-Realization: The World is too much with us (Wordsworth)

Unit 3: Environment and Literature

Symbiosis, Mutation, Parasitism Biodiversity

Wordsworth, ‘Nutting’

Dylan Thomas –‘The sap that through the green fuse runs’

The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh (Man and the Environment)

Unit 4: Indian Ecocriticism (Tinai- Kurinchi, Neidal, Mullai Marutam and Palai)

What She Said - Kapilar,Akananooru 318 A,k.Ramanujan p.14

What Her Girl Friend Said, the Lover within Earshot, Behind a Fence- Uloccanar.

Narrinai 63

Unit 5: Oikopoetics - Oikos, Integrative, Hierarchic Anarchic Oikos

‘The Fly’ - D.H. Lawrence and ‘Snake’

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Allied Paper – IV: Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics


Definition of language, spoken and written language

Diachronic & synchronic approaches of language study

Linguistics - definition, nature and scope

Unit-2: English Phonetics and Phonology

Speech Organs

Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs)

Syllables, Stress and Intonation

Transcriptions (exercises)

Unit-3: Grammar

Definition of Grammar

Different Approaches of Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional

Unit-4: Syntax

Structural analysis ( I.C. analysis)

Deep and surface structure.

Unit-5: Semantics

Word, morphemes

Word meaning association (semantics)

Prescribed Texts:

An Introductory textbook of linguistics, phonetics – Rathe L Vashney

The Study of Language – George Yule

English for Research: Usage, Style and Grammar – Adrian Wallwork

Grammar - Frank Robert Palmer

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Semester V

Core Paper IX- American Literature II


Harlem Renaissance, World War II and its aftermath, Post-modern impulse,

Multiculturalism

Unit-2: Poetry

1. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson

2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

3. In a Station of the Metro – Ezra Pound

4. The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens

5. A Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes

6. Mirror – Sylvia Plath

7. Mr. Edwards and the Spider – Robert Lowell

8. An Agony. As Now. – Amiri Baraka

Unit-3: Drama

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

Unit-4: Short Stories

1. This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona – Sherman Alexie

2. Something to Remember Me By – Saul Bellow

3. Separating – John Updike

4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway

Unit-5: Fiction

The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

Prescribed Texts:

The Crucible. Arthur Miller. Penguin, 2003.

The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros. 2nd ed. Arte Publico Press, 1983.


S. No. Video

1 Harlem Renaissance

2 The Road Not Taken

3 A Dream Deferred

4 Mirror

5 The Crucible

6 The Snows of Kilimanjaro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0URpI9nKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDkG7_QHq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoYhw0GtEkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJn0ZPd6mYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpxwzlEzeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13ngTs9nVA

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Core Paper-X- Post-Colonial Literature in English I: Australian Literature

Unit 1: Introduction:

Theory: Colonialism/Settler Colonialism Concept of Identity, Insider/Outsider, Home,

Displacement, Assimilation, Nationhood

Australian History: Confrontation and Conflicts between Settlers / Aboriginal

Cultures.

Literature: Oral Traditions, Aboriginal Writings, Bush Culture, Convictism- Australian

Legend, The national Myths (e.g. The Wild Colonial Boy etc.), Pre-War and Post-War

Immigration to Australia, Immigrant Experience, Recent Developments in Australian

Writing.


Mate – Kate Grenville

One Sunday in February 1942 – Thomas Keneally Unit-3: Poetry

1. Waltzing Matilda – Banjo Paterson

2. No more Boomerang – Kath Walker

3. The Immigrant Voyage – Les Murray

4. For New England – Judith Wright

5. Myths and Legends

The Aboriginal Song Cycle - The Djanggawul Song Cycle (Part ONE- Song 1

from Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature)

The Wild Colonial Boy

Unit-4: Drama

Ned Kelly – Douglas Stuart

Unit-5: Novels

Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner

Reference Texts:

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature – Elizabeth Webby – Cambridge

University Press – 2000

The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature – Ken Goodwin and Allan Lawson,

Macmillan – 1990

Online References:

Australian Government – www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-stories

Creative Spirits – www.creativespirits.info

Austlit: The Australian Literature Resource – www.austlit.edu.au

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-stories

http://www.creativespirits.info/

http://www.austlit.edu.au/

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Core Paper XI - Women’s Writing


Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz

society, theories

Ecriture Feminine

Female, feminist, femininity

Waves of Feminism, Post feminism

Tenets of Feminism- Liberal, Radical, Socialist, Cyber feminism

Patriachy, Androgyny, Double marginalization, Stereotyping, male gaze,

objectification

Womanism

Language and gender

Unit-2: Prose

1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral

Subjects - Mary Wollstonecraft

(Restricted to Chapter 13)

2. Ain’t I a woman? - Sojourner Truth (Speech)

Unit-3: Poetry

1. Persephone, Falling - Rita Dove

2. Journey to the Interior - Margaret Atwood

3. Request to a Year - Judith Wright

4. Medusa - Sylvia Plath

5. A Sunset of the City - Gwendolyn Brooks

6. The old Playhouse- kamala Das

Unit-4: Drama

1. Trifles - Susan Glaspell


1. Draupathi - Mahasweta Devi

2. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilmar

3. Forest - Ambai

Prescribed Texts:

Trifles - Susan Glaspell. Baker's Plays, 2010

Recommended Texts:

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction. Margaret Walters. Oxford University Press, 2005.

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Ellen Rooney. Cambridge University

Press, 2006.

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Core Paper-XII- Introduction to Literary Theories


Literary theorizing from Aristotle to F.R. Leavis, some key moments, the transition to

‘theory’, some recurrent ideas in critical theory

(Pages 20 – 35 of the prescribed text)

Unit-2: Structuralism

The Scope of Structuralists, What Structuralist Critics do

(Pages 38 – 58 of the prescribed text- Excluding ‘Stop and Think’ portions)

Post-structuralism and Deconstruction

(Pages 59 – 65; 68-70 of the prescribed text)

Unit-3: Post-Modernism and Psychoanalytic Criticism

Post Modernism

(Pages 78-88 up to What postmodernist critics do (Excluding ‘Stop and Think’

portions)

Psychoanalytic Criticism

(Pages 92- 97 and 100 ( What Freudian Psychoanalytic critics do ) of the prescribed

text (Excluding ‘Stop and Think’ Portions)

Unit-4: Feminist and Marxist Criticism

Feminist Criticism

(Pages 118 -124 of the prescribed text)

Marxist Criticism

(Pages 150-154 of the prescribed text)

Unit-5: Post-Colonial Criticism

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism


Post Colonial Criticism

(Pages 185-192 of the prescribed text Excluding ‘Stop and Think’ portions)

Ecocriticism


Training in Practical Criticism with an unknown passage in the classroom is recommended

Prescribed Texts:

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Peter Barry – Viva Books

Pvt. Ltd., 2017.

Recommended Texts:

M. H. Abrams - A Glossary of Literary Terms -7th Ed. Heinle & Heinle, 1999

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary terms and Literary Theory, J.A. Cuddon revised by C.E.

Preston, Penguin Books, London, 6th edition. 1999.

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Elective Paper – I: 1. Introduction to Translation Studies


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 Recoding, 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

( Selected verses as attached* )

(Selected verses as attached)*

1.

Pope: The men of household virtue, firm in way of good, sustain

The other orders three that rule professed maintain.

Rajaji: The householder so-called helps the other orders in the proper fulfillment of their

duties.

2.

.

Pope: 'The pipe is sweet,' 'the lute is sweet,' by them't will be averred,

Who music of their infants' lisping lips have never heard.

Rajaji: They speak of the sweet tones of the flute and of the harp, who have not had children

and heard them lisp their newly learnt words.

3.

Pope: When mother hears him named 'fulfill'd of wisdom's lore,'

Far greater joy she feels, than when her son she bore.

Rajaji: Hearing words of appreciation uttered by people about her son, the mother feels greater joy

than what she felt on the day he was born.

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4.

.

Pope: To sire, what best requital can by grateful child be done?

To make men say, 'What merit gained the father such a son?'

Rajaji: The son’s greatest filial service is so to conduct

5.

Pope: The loveless to themselves belong alone;

The loving men are others' to the very bone.

Rajaji: Those who have not a loving disposition, belong wholly to themselves. The tender-

hearted belong to other even in their bones.

6.

.

Pope: When pleasant words are easy, bitter words to use,

Is, leaving sweet ripe fruit, the sour unripe to choose.

Rajaji: When gentle words are available, why do men choose the words that hurt? Is it not

foolish to pick unripe berries when ripe ones can be had for the plucking?

7.

.

Pope: A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,

The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth.

Rajaji: By itself the help rendered may be a trifle, but the hour of need when it was given

makes it bigger than tha whole world.

8.

Pope: As earth bears up the men who delve into her breast,

To bear with scornful men of virtues is the best.

Rajaji: Does not the earth support the man that is engaged in digging it? It is proper that we too bear

with those who wrong us.

9.

.

Pope: You ask, in lips of men what 'truth' may be;

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'Tis speech from every taint of evil free.

Rajaji: Truthfulness is attained if one’s speech is such that it harms no being in the world.

10.

.

Pope: To punish wrong, with kindly benefits the doers ply;

Thus shame their souls; but pass the ill unheeded by.

Rajaji: The best punishment for those who do evil to you, is to shame them by returning good

for evil.

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)

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Elective Paper – I : 2. Practical Approach to Technical Writing


Introduction to technical writing, objectives and importance of technical writing

Unit-2: The Technical Writing Process

The technical writing process - examining purpose, determining goals, considering

audience and gathering data, determining the context, formatting, pre-writing,

writing and rewriting

Unit-3: Examples of Technical Writing

Preparing marketing material, composing promotional material, describing products

services and incorporating facts for homepages on websites, press releases,

brochure, product descriptions

Unit-4: Ethics and Technical Writing

Legalities, practicalities, ethicalities, guidelines for ethical standards, strategies for

making ethical decisions, multicultural communication

Reference texts:

Technical writing, Process and Product - Shaaron J Gerson and Stevan M Gerson, 5th edition

Writing for the Web – Faye Hoffman

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Semester VI

Core Paper – XIII - Contemporary Literature

Unit 1: Introduction

Multiculturalism

Diasporic Writing

Displacement and Alienation and Identity crisis

Theme of Acculturation, Assimilation, Globalization, Hybridity

Unit -2: Prose:

1. Joseph Anton- A Memoir: An Extract- Chapter II-Manuscripts Don’t Burn(Paragraph

beginning: “ On the day he received the bound proofs of The Satanic Verses…….’

Paragraph ending “It was Valentine’s Day”) Edition : Jonathan Cape, 2012.

2. The Bomb and I- Arundathi Roy

3. The Medicine Bag- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

4. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World- Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

5. Unaccustomed Earth- Jhumpa Lahiri

Unit-3: Poetry

1. Black Berry Picking - Seamus Heaney

2. A Far Cry from Africa - Derek Walcott

3. Hamlet - Wole Soyinka

4. I know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Unit-4: Drama

Harvest- Manjula Padmanabhan

Unit-5: Fiction

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Prescribed Texts:

Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie - Knopf Canada, 2012.

Harvest - Manjula Padmanabhan - Aurora Metro, 2003.

Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Recommended Texts:

Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix. Trans. William Rodarmor. University of California Press:

London, 2008.

Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. Floyd Collins. University of Delaware Press, 2003.

Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study. Narendra Kumar. Pinnacle Technology, 2009.

Caribbean Panorama: An Anthology from and about the English-speaking Caribbean with

Introduction, Study Questions, Biographies, and Suggestions for Further Reading. ed.

Kathleen Kelley Ferracane. La Editorial, UPR, 1999.

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Biodun Jeyifo. Univ. Press of Mississippi.

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S. No. Video

1 What is multiculturalism?

2 Joseph Anton : A Memoir

3 Black berry picking

4 A Far Cry From Africa

5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

6 Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing

7 Life of Pi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwDEEm-C2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQ7e_TCIZc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bhIFlWbmzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK3pPU-2luI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ33vFSHq9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZOiCLb7sQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3-NEG8uoiE

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Core Paper – XIV :Post-Colonial Literature in English II: Canadian Literature

Unit 1; Introduction:

Post-Colonial Literature

Origins of Canadian Literature

Oral traditions including myths, folklore, and legends

The First nations: Native Literature

Colonization and the Colonizers: British and French and economically colonized by

the Americans

The Garrison mentality as a common theme in Canadian literature

Recent developments and mainstream writers.

Unit-2: Prose

Godzilla vs. Post-colonial – Thomas King

Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy - Robert Krotesch

Unit-3: Poetry

First Neighbours – P K Page

Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga – A M Klein

The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson

Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A J M Smith

Unit-4: Drama

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga

Unit-5: Short Stories and Fiction Face – Alice Munro “The Hostelry of Mr Smith” (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) – Stephen Leacock Cannibal Woman – Ron Geyshick Fiction The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood

Prescribed Texts:

History of Canadian Literature - W H New

Canadian Culture: An Introductory Reader – Ed. Elspeth Cameron

An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry – Ed . C D Narasimhiah

New Contexts of Canadian Criticism – Ed Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee and J R

Struthers

An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature – Ed. Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie - 2nd

Edition

Websites:

Canadian Encyclopedia – www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com

Canadian Culture - www.culturecanada.gc.ca

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/

http://www.culturecanada.gc.ca/

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Core Paper – XV: Shakespeare


The Age of Shakespeare

Life of Shakespeare

Shakespearean theatre

Shakespearean audience

Shakespearean players

Shakespeare Canon

Shakespeare’s Texts: Quartos and Folios

Shakespeare and Classical Conventions

Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, problem-plays

Unit-2: Tragedy

Macbeth

Unit-3: Comedy

Twelfth Night

Unit-4: History

Richard II

Unit-5: Critical Essays

1. “ From Hamlet to Lear” from Shakespeare in a Changing World – Arnold

Kettle

2. “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare” – Charles Lamb from the English Critical

Tradition – Ed. S. Ramasami & V.S. Sethuraman (Vol.1)

Prescribed Texts:

The English Critical Tradition – Ed. S. Ramaswami & V.S. Sethuraman (Vol. I)

Macbeth (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night - Ed. Roger Warren and Stanley Wells - Oxford University Press 2008

Richard II- Ed by Frances E. Dolan (Editor, Introduction), Stephen Orgel (Series Editor), A. R.

Braunmuller (Series Editor)

Shakespeare in a Changing World- Arnold Kettle- Published by Lawrence and Wishart.

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Elective Paper-II - World Literature in Translation


Goethe’s concept of World literature

Tragedy of Fate

French Revolution

Realistic drama of Ibsen and Chekhov

Multiculturalism

Realism

Concept of the Absurd

Postmodernism

Unit-2: Poetry

1. The Gate of Hell : Canto III(Inferno)-Dante Alighieri

2. Ithaca - Constantine Petrou Cavafy

3. The Burning of the Books - Bertolt Brecht

4. Lot’s Wife - Anna Akhmatova

5. The End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska

Unit-3: Drama

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles


1. The Guest - Albert Camus

2. The Convert - Guy de Maupassant

3. A Christmas tree and a Wedding - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. One Autumn Night - Maxim Gorky

5. The Blizzard- Alexander Pushkin

6. The Fairy Amoureuse - Emile Zola

Unit-5: Fiction

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas

Prescribed Texts:

Oedipus the King. Sophocles. Trans. David Grene. University of Chicago Press, 2012.


S. No. Video

1 French Revolution - Impact on Literature

2 The Trojan Women

3 Oedipus Rex

4 A Hunger Artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwRXlSgiSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkXdizKpRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7R36s4dbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mraE5_TFXDQ

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Elective Paper – III: Journalism


Introduction to Journalism

A Short History of Journalism in India

Ethics of Journalism

Unit-2: The Press

Freedom of Press and Threats to Press Freedom

The Government and the Press

Press Laws: Defamation, Libel, Contempt of Court, Slander, Copyright Laws, Press

Regulation Act, Press Registration Act, Law of Privileges

Unit-3: Reporting News

Role of the Reporter and the Editor

Types of News Reports – Straight, Interpretive, Investigative, Scoop, Sting

Headlines - Editorial, Feature Writing, Personal Column, Reviews, Interviews and

Press Conferences

Reporting – News Values, Human Interest, Story Angle, Obituaries

Unit-4: Layouts, Advertising and News Agencies

Make-up of a newspaper - Editing, Proof-Reading

Photographic Journalism, Cartoons, News Agencies, Press Council of India

Advertisements – Types and Social Responsibility Exercises Editing, Proof-reading, Feature Writing, News Reporting, Planning interviews and Reviews

Unit 5 : Electronic and New Media Electronic Media, Radio, Television Emergence of New Age Media-Definition & Conceptualization of New Media, Future

of New Media Ethics and Social Responsibilities of New Media

Reference Texts: The Professional Journalism – M V Kamath

The Press – Chalapathi Rao

Journalism as a Career - Sengupta

Mass Communication: Principles and Concepts (2nd Edition, Kindle Edition )- Seema Hasan

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Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES

Semester 1

Major Paper - I - British Literature I

Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks

Section A

Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10

Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V

(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B

Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25

Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C

3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks 3x10=30

Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V

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CORE COURSES

Semester I

Major Paper - II - Indian Writing in English


Section A




Section B



Section C

3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3-5 Marks - 3x10=30


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Allied - I

Semester 1

Allied - Paper I – Background to the study of English Literature I


Section A

Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20

Section B

Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks- 5x5=25


Section C

3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks 3x10=30



CORE COURSES

Semester II

Major Paper - III – British Literature II


Section A




Section B



Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V

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Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES

Semester II

Major Paper - IV – Regional Indian Literature


Section A




Section B



Section C

3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30



ALLIED - II

Semester II

Allied – Paper II - Background to the Study of English Literature II


Section A


Section B



Section C



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Semester III

Major Paper - V – British Literature III


Section A




Section B



Section C




Semester III

Major Paper - VI – Modern English Language and Usage


Section A




Section B



Section C



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ALLIED - III

Semester III

Allied – Paper III - Myth and Literature


Section A


Section B



Section C




Semester IV

Major Paper - VII – American Literature - I


Section A




Section B



Section C



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Semester IV

Major Paper - VIII – Film and Literature or Green Studies


Section A




Section B



Section C



Question Paper Pattern ALLIED - IV

Semester IV

Allied – Paper IV - Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics


Section A


Section B



Section C



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CORE COURSES

Semester V

Major Paper IX American Literature II


Section A




Section B



Section C




Semester V Major Paper X Post Colonial Literature in English I Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks

Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V


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Semester V Major Paper XI Women’s writing Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks





Semester V Major Paper XII Introduction to Literary Theories Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks




Question Paper Pattern ELECTIVES

Semester V Electives Paper I Introduction to Translation Studies or Practical Approach to Technical Writing Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks




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Semester V Major Paper XI Women’s writing Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks




Question Paper Pattern Core Courses

Semester VI Major Paper – XIII Contemporary Literature Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks





Semester VI Major Paper – XIV Post - colonial literature in English II Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks




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Semester VI Major Paper – XV Shakespeare Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks




Question Paper Pattern Electives

Semester VI Electives Paper II World Literature in Translation Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks




Question Paper Pattern Electives

Semester VI Electives Paper III Journalism Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks



Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30

Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V *****

AC.F’16

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SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021

Title of the Course ALLIED: BEN- DSA01 -BACKGROUND TO ENGLISH LITERATURE-I

Category of the

Course

Year & Semester

First Year & First Semester

Credits

5

Subject Code

BEN-DSA01

Hours: 90

Objectives:

To introduce basic concepts about English history, literary forms and literary periods

with linguistic, historical and Legendary background

To enable students, understand the contexts and background from Medieval British

literature up until the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age

Course

Introduction

(to be considered for

internal assessment

only)

Why study the social, political and literary history of England, their legends and the ways

in which they have had an impact on the writers and their works?

What are literary forms? What is Prosody?

What is the importance of the evolution of English Language?

What is the significance of this course as an allied to understand the core courses?

How should this course be integrated with the study of literary texts?

Course

Components

BEN-DSA01

Unit 1: I. Literary Forms

1.1 Poetry – Metrical Romance, Ballad [Folk, Literary, Mock], Lyric, Sonnet

[ Petrarchan, Spenserian, Shakespearean]

1.2 Drama [Mystery and Morality Plays, Tragedy [Classical, Senecan, Romantic,

Heroic, Neo-Classical,], Masque and Anti-Masque

1.3 Prose- Fable, Parable, Essay [Aphoristic, Personal, Periodical, Critical]

1.4 Fiction [Short-story, Novel], Non- Fiction [Biography, Auto-Biography]

1.5 Periods of English Literature – (pages 279-285)

II. Literary Elements 1.6 Poetry – Rhyme, Metre, Stanza, Verse [ Blank Verse, Heroic /Couplet, Quatrain

etc] Refrain 1.7 Drama- Plot- Prologue, Acts, Scenes, Epilogue, subplot, Unity of Time, Place,

Action. Action – Conflict, Reversal of Fortune, Crisis, Rising Action,

Climax, Denouement - Character – Hero [tragic flaw], Heroine, Villain,

Stock Character, Foil Dialogue - Aside/ Soliloquy, Monologue, Choric

Function - Stage/Setting – Proscenium Arch, Box set, Scenery, Props, dues ex

machina 1.8 Prose – Fiction: Plot, Narration, Characterization [flat/ round characters], Setting

[Text - A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

Eleventh Edition. Cengage,2019 (Indian Reprint)]

Unit 2: Impact of the History of English Language on Literature from 11th to

17th Century

2.1 The Descent of the English Language

2.2 The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period

2.3 The Middle English Period

[Text. History of English Language by F.T. Wood. Trinity Press. Revised edition,

2016]

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Unit 3: Impact of Socio- Political History on Literature from 11th

to 17th

Century

3.1 ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND – (pages 138 -139)

3.2 MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

The Norman Conquest [1066] –( pages 80-84).

A Struggle for Power –Magna Carta [1215] – (pages 126-128).

Henry VI and the Wars of Roses [1421- 71] – (pages 199-212)

3.3 TUDOR DYNASTY Henry VIII and the Break with Rome. –( pages 231- 253).

Queen Mary–(pages 261-264)

3.4 ELIZABETH I AND THE SUCCESSION – (pages 265-274)

The Conquest of the Armada– (pages 275- 286).

The English Renaissance – pages 287-291. Elizabethan England – (pages 292- 310)

3.5 CIVILWAR AND CROMWELL [1642 – 58]

Charles I and Parliament – pages 311-317. Civil War – (pages 326-340)

[Text Book: A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith.

AITBS Publishers, India. 2012]

Unit 4: Literary History

4.1 Anglo-Saxon Literature – Romanized Britons, Arthurian romance,alliterative

verse, development of English Christianity – (pages 3- 6). Development of

Middle English Prose and Verse”- The Norman conquest, Anglo-French

language, French cultural domination of Europe, French as the courtly language,

west Saxon dialect – (pages 31- 35).

4.2 Middle English Literature - Courtly French romance, the fable as a famous

medieval literary form –( pages 68 – 70). Chaucer –( pages 89 – 91); Gower –

(pages 121 – 123)

4.3 The Early Tudor Scene – new geographical discoveries and their impact on

literature, beginning of the idea of national state – (pages – 147 – 148). Spenser

and his Time – ( pages 165 – 166 first paragraph). Drama from the Miracle

Plays to Marlowe - English poetic drama, dramatic elaborations of the liturgy,

transition from liturgical drama to miracle play – (pages 208 – 210); “University

Wits” – Elizabethan popular drama –(page 226); “Christopher Marlowe” –

„Tamburlaine, the Great‟ – (page 235). Shakespeare – professional man of the

theatre - (page 246) Drama from Jonson to the Closing of Theatres –

Shakespeare and Ben Jonson – (pages 309 – 311 first paragraph);Analysis of

English Poetic drama – (page 344-last paragraph).

4.4 Poetry after Spenser: The Jonsonian and the Metaphysical Traditions–

(page 360); Donne‟s influence –( page 368). John Milton – seventeenth century

political background, effects of Civil war, Milton‟s formative years –( pages 390

– 392).

4.5 Prose in the 16th

and 17th

Centuries - pamphleteering, colloquial prose

formalised – (pages 458-459); Bible translations – (pages 461-472); Holinshed‟s

„Chronicles‟ – (page 474); Walter Raleigh‟s „History of the World‟ – (page 475);

Francis Bacon – (pages 485 – 488); Thomas Hobbes – (pages 495-496)

[Text - A Critical History of English Literature- Volume I – From the Beginning to Milton by

David Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers.]

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Unit 5: Impact of European and British Legend on Literature 5.1 Valhalla – the Valkyrior – page 179. Thor‟s Visit to Jotunheim – page 183.

The death of Baldur – the Elves – Runic Letters – Skalds – Iceland –

page 186.

5.2 The Druids – Iona - page 193: 3 King Arthur and the Knights of the

Round Table – page 198

5. 3 Arthur – page 212, Sir Gawain –page 222, Launcelot of the Lake – page

229, Tristram and Iseult – page 241, Perceval – page 256

5.4 Beowulf- page 329

5.5 Robin Hood and his Merry Men – page 334

[Text - Bulfinch’s Mythology:The Classic Introduction to Myth and Legend. Complete

and Unabridged by Thomas Bulfinch.Penguin, 2014]

Learning

Outcomes:

At the end of this course students will be able to:

Identify and define basic terms and concepts which are needed for advanced

courses in British literatures

Describe the distinct periods of British literature

Write brief notes on seminal literary forms and devices

Write brief essays on seminal writers and their period from Medieval Europe up

to the Britain of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age

Write brief essays on the historical background of the same period

Prescribed Texts

A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harpham. Eleventh Edition.

Cengage,2019 (Indian Reprint)

History of English Language by F.T. Wood. Trinity Press. Revised edition, 2016. Unit 1: 1-67

A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India. 2012

A Critical History of English Literature- Volume I – From the Beginning to Milton by David Daiches.

Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers

Bulfinch‟s Mythology

The Penguin History of Europe by J.M.Roberts, 1996 Unit 3: pages: 120- 138

European Renaissance, Reformation and Counter- Reformation– pages 222 – 230

Modernity and modern history[ End of Medieval Period] – pages 233-238

Enlightenment – pages 267-271

A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India. 2012.

History of English Language: British Council Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJiHmR85cU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJiHmR85cU

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BOOKS AND WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE ( to be considered for internal assessment only)

Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland.

Routledge, 2001.

Childs, Peter and ‎Roger Fowler ed. The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Routledge. 6002

Rees, R. J., English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers, Macmillan.

Periods of English Literature | Online Education | Paradigm Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZ0wHgogjc

RECOMMENDED MOOC

History of English Language and Literature: Dr.Prof.Merin Simi Raj. Co-ordinated by IITM

(NPTEL)

https://nptel.ac.in/content/syllabus_pdf/109106124.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghgTDWSyQM TEDX TALKS

Claire Bowern: Where did English come from?

https://www.ted.com/talks/claire_bowern_where_did_english_come_from/transcript?langua

ge=en

How the Normans changed the history of Europe - Mark Robinson

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-normans-changed-the-history-of-europe-mark-robinson

*****



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghgTDWSyQM

https://www.ted.com/talks/claire_bowern_where_did_english_come_from/transcript?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/claire_bowern_where_did_english_come_from/transcript?language=en

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-normans-changed-the-history-of-europe-mark-robinson

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Title of the

Course

ALLIED -BEN-DSA02-BACKGROUND TO ENGLISH LITERATURE-II

Category of the

Course

Year & Semester

First Year & Second Semester

Credits

5

Subject Code

BEN-DSA02

Hours: 90

Objectives:

This paper aims at introducing basic concepts about English history, literary

forms and literary periods with linguistic, historical and background to enable

students understand the contexts and background of British literature of

Augustan and Romantic and Victorian Age

Course

Introduction

(to be considered

for internal

assessment only)

The American war of Independence.

The French Revolution.

The Beginning of Democracy.

Printing Press.

The growth of Literary Forms, English Vocabulary

Darwin‟s theory of evolution. The Growth of Science.

Course

Components

BEN-DSA02

Unit 1:

I. Literary Forms

1.1 Poetry: Ode [Pindaric, Horatian, English ], Elegy, Pastoral

1.2 Epic and Mock Epic, Dramatic Monologue

1.3 Drama: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Farce

1.4 Drama: Sentimental Comedy, Melodrama, Comedy of Humours, Tragi- Comedy

1.5 Prose: Novel -– Gothic, Picaresque, Sentimental, Epistolary, Domestic,

Historical

II. Literary Devices

1.6 Poetry - Alliteration, Assonance, Metaphysical Conceit, [ Epic] similes,

Metaphor, Hyperbole.

1.7 Drama – Irony [ Verbal, Dramatic, Situational, Cosmic], Pun, Metonymy,

Malapropism, Anachronism

1.8 Fiction- Cliché, Paradox, Connotation, Epigram, Euphemism, Allusion [Text - A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

Eleventh Edition. Cengage,2019 (Indian Reprint)]

Unit 2: Impact of the History of Language on Literature

2.1 The Renaissance and After – pages 68-81

2.2 The Growth of Vocabulary – pages 82-113

2.3 Change of Meaning – pages 114-147

[Text. History of English Language by F.T. Wood. Trinity Press. Revised edition,

2016. ]

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Unit 3: Impact of Socio-Political History on Literature

3.1 Restoration England - Charles II – pages 351- 365. James II and William III& the

Glorious Revolution [1685-88] – pages 366-376. Queen Anne [1702-7] –

pages 377 – 389

3.2 The Foundation of the British Empire – pages 411-418. The Industrial Revolution

– pages 429-437. Britain and French Revolution – pages 438-445

3.3 Reactionary and Enlightened – pages 454-462. The Reform of Parliament– pages

463- 470. The Whigs and Reform [17th – Mid 19

th Century]– pages 471- 481.

The Chartists and Robert Peel – pages 482-489

3.4 Victorian England [1854-6] – pages 492-496. Imperialism: The Last Years of

Victorian England – pages 515-523

3.5 Britain and the First World War – pages 532-540. Irish Independence, General

Strike and the Economic Crisis” – pp. 541-549

[Text Book: A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith.

AITBS Publishers, India. 2012]

Unit 4: Literary History I – 18th

and early 19th

c

4.1The Restoration – pages 537 – 541; Restoration comedy - pages 541-549; Dryden

– page 558; John Bunyan‟s „Pilgrim‟s Progress‟ – pages 587 – 588. The

Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope – pages 590 – 594; Joseph Addison and

the Spectator – page 595; Daniel Defoe – pages 598 -599; Jonathan Swift -

pages 602 – 603; Alexander Pope‟s „Rape of the Lock‟ – page 628;

4.2 The Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen – pages 700 – 701; Richardson‟s

Pamela – page 703; Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones – page 720; Laurence

Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy– page 733; Gothic novel – page 741; Jane Austen‟s

Pride and Prejudice – pages 750 – 754

4.3 Eighteenth Century Prose – pages 768 – 769; George Berkeley – page 772;

David Hume – page 772; Dr. Johnson‟s „Preface to Shakespeare‟ – pages 782-

783; „Life of Dr. Johnson‟ by Boswell – page 795; Goldsmith – page 796;

Edmund Burke‟s „Reflections on the revolution in France‟ – page 799;

Thomas Paine – „The Rights of man‟ – page 803; Gibbon‟s „Decline and Fall

of the Roman Empire‟ – page 807.

4.4 Scottish Literature&The Romantic Poets – page 809; Robert Burns – page 817;

Walter Scott and his attitude to Scotland – page 836. Period of transition –

pages 856-857; The Romantic Movement – page 860; William Blake‟s „Songs

of Innocence and Experience‟ – page 863; Wordsworth‟s „Lyrical Ballads‟ –

page 875; Coleridge‟s „Ancient Mariner‟ – page 893.Shelley‟s „Prometheus

Unbound‟ – page 909; Keats‟ „Endymion‟ – page 917; Byron‟s „Childe

Harold‟ – page 923

4.5 Prose of early and Middle 19th

century – autobiographical creative works of

theRomantic writers – page 935; Charles Lamb‟s „Essays of Elia‟ and „Tales

from Shakespeare‟ – page 937; Hazlitt – page 939

[Text - A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II– The Restoration to

the Present Day by David Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova

Publishers.]

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Unit 5: Literary History II -Victorian Age

5.1Victorian Prose – Macaulay‟s „History of England‟ – page 949; Thomas

Carlyle‟s „French Revolution‟ – page 955; “Victorian Prose” - Ruskin‟s

„Modern Painters‟ – page 968; Mathew Arnold‟s; Arnold‟s „Essays in

Criticism‟ – p. 977

5.2 Victorian Poets:An introduction to the age – page 993; Tennyson‟s „In

Memoriam‟ – page 1001; Robert Browning‟s dramatic monologue – page

1003; Browning‟s optimism – page 1007; Elizabeth Barrett Browning – page

1007; Mathew Arnold‟s „Scholar Gypsy‟ – page 1013; Pre-Raphaelite

Brotherhood – page 1017

5.3 Edward Fitzgerald‟s „Omar Khayyam‟ – page 1027; George Meredith‟s

„Poems and Lyrics‟ – page 1028; Algernon Charles Swinburne‟s

choruses – page 1030; Thomas Hardy‟s poetry – page 1037; Gerard

Manley Hopkins‟ „God‟s Grandeur‟ – page 1045

5.4 Victorian Novels: An introduction – page 1049; Charles Dickens‟ Pickwick

Papers – page 1051; William Makepeace Thackeray‟s Vanity Fair –

page 1060; Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre – page 1065; George Eliot‟s

Mill on the Floss- page 1069; Thomas Hardy‟s Mayor of Casterbridge–

page 1076;

5.5 Victorian Drama: Oscar Wilde‟s Importance of being Earnest – page 1104;

Bernard Shaw‟s well-made play – page 1105; [Text - A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II– The Restoration to the

Present Day by David Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers.]

Learning

Outcomes:

At the end of this course students will be able to:

Identify and define basic terms and concepts which are needed for advanced

courses in British literature

Describe the distinct periods of British literature

Write brief notes on literary forms

Write brief essays on seminal writers from Britain of Augustan and Romantic and

Victorian Age

Write brief essays on the historical background of the same period.

Prescribed Texts A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II – The Restoration to the Present Day by David

Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers.

The Penguin History of Europe by J.M.Roberts, 1996.

A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H.Abrams.

A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India. 2012

A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H.Abrams.

English Literature In Context by Paul Poplawski. CUP

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Western-philosophy/Ancient-Greek-and-Roman-philosophy

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Western-philosophy/Ancient-Greek-and-Roman-philosophy

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BOOKS AND WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE ( to be considered for internal assessment only)

Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland.

Routledge, 2001.

Childs, Peter and ‎Roger Fowler ed. The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Routledge. 6002

Rees, R. J., English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers, Macmillan.

https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/

Periods of English Literature | Online Education | Paradigm Change


Victorian Novel and the Late Victorian Period: nptel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NDuqI4zaU

RECOMMENDED MOOC

History of English Language and Literature: Dr. Prof. Merin Simi Raj. Co-ordinated by IITM

(NPTEL) https://nptel.ac.in/content/syllabus_pdf/109106124.pdf


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PART II - ENGLISH

(Effective from the academic year 2014 - 2015)

COMMON TO ALL UNDER GRADUATE COURSES AND POST GRADUATE FIVE YEAR INTEGRATED

COURSES WHO STUDY PART II - ENGLISH FOR FOUR SEMESTERS ONLY

First Year- First Semester

Text - Catalyst A Multilevel English Refresher by Anu Chithra Publications Rs. 90/-

Test 05 Hours

Unit - I Preparatory Lessons 10 Hours

Unit - II Prose 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in

class in the text itself)

Unit - III Poetry 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - IV Short Story 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - V Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in

class)

Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives Yes or No, Wh

Questions) Tag questions, Completing the sentences, Common errors, Synonym, Antonym,

Word class, Use in sentences of words. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text Book)

Part -I from Spring Board by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.95/-

Sound Right

Introduction to the Sounds of the English Language, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms,

Sentences Stress and Intonation, Voice Modulation.

Second Semester

Text - Panorama English for Communication by Emerald Publishers Rs.89/-

Test 05 hours

Unit - I Prose 10 Hours

Unit - II Poems 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - III Short Stories 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - IV One-Act Plays 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - V Communicative Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in

class. Refer to the Text Panorama and Spring

Board) and

Part -III from Spring Board by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.95/- and Watch Your English

from Panorama Grammar, Framing Questions, Common errors, More Grammar, Word

Building: Prefixes and Suffixes.

2

Third Semester

Text - Reflections by Foundation Books Cambridge University Press. Rs.105/-

Inspiring Lives by Maruthi Publications Rs.60/-

Test 05 hours


Unit – II Poetry 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in class in the

text itself)

Unit - III Short Stories 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in class in the

text itself)

Unit - IV Biographies 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in the class)

Unit - V Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in class)

Refer to Grammar exercises given in the Text - Reflections and also

Part -V from Spring Board by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.95/-

Face-to-Face

Preparing for an Interview, Win the Game of Life, The First Written Encounter: Writing Skills.

Fourth Semester

Text - Six One - Act Plays by Pavai Publications Rs.50/-

Gifts to Posterity An Anthology of Short Stories by Anu Chithra Publications (the collection

which has got six short stories only) Rs. 32/-

Building Competency A Course in Reading and Writing English by Maruthi Publications. Rs.

50/-

Test 05 Hours

Unit - I Six One-Act Plays 20 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - II Short Stories 20 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - III Prose and Scenes from 20 Hours (including all exercises Shakespeare to

be done in class in the text itself)

Unit - IV Writing Skill Exercises 10 Hours

Letter Writing (Formal & Informal)

Précis Writing

Paraphrasing

Comprehension

Report Writing

For Communicative and Presentation Skills classroom exercises can be given

from Part II and Part IV sections from Spring Board.

3

First Year

First Semester

Text - Catalyst A Multilevel English Refresher by Anu Chitra Publications Rs. 95/-

Unit - I Preparatory Lessons

1. Competition Matters - Suzanne Sievert

2. A Personal Crisis May Change History - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

3. Why Preserve Biodiversity - Prof. D.Balasubramanian

4. A Call to Action - Adapted from Hillary Rodham Clinton's address.....

Unit - II Prose

1. My Greatest Olympic Prize - Jesse Owens

2. If You are Wrong Admit it - Dale Carnegie

3. Monday Morning - Mark Twain

4. The Unexpected - Robert Lynd

Unit - III Poetry

1. Pulley or Gift of God - George Herbert

2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats

3. The Night of the Scorpion - Night of the Scorpion

4. The Death of a Bird - A.D. Hope

Unit - IV Short Story

1. Mrs. Packletide's Tiger - Saki

2. A Snake in the Grass - R.K. Narayan

3. Three Questions - Leo Tolstoy

4. The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry

Unit - V Grammar

Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives Yes or No, Wh

Questions) Tag questions, completing the sentences, Common errors, Synonym, Antonym, Word

class, Use in sentences of words. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text Book) and Part I

from Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.105/-

Part -I

Sound Right



4

QUESTION PATTERN

FIRST SEMESTER

Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks

SECTION – A (15x1=15)

I. Answer all the Questions

a. Writing two words pronounced with /a:/ sound.

b. Marking the stress of the words.

c. Marking the strong and weak forms.

d. Writing sentences with contracted forms.

e. Marking the stressed words in sentences.

f. Rewriting sentence using an introductory it or there.

g. Filling the blanks with suitable articles.

h. Using appropriate preposition given in brackets.

i. Framing suitable question.

j. Filling the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.

k. Filling the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.

l. Antonyms of the words without using prefixes.

m. Changing the sentences into negative.

n. Filling the blank with connective.

o. Reported Speech.

SECTION – B (5x3=15)

II. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 30 words.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b

Short Stories a or b

Prose & Poetry a or b

Prose or Poetry or Short Stories a or b

SECTION – C (3x5=15)

III. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


SECTION – D (3x10=30)

IV. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


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First Year- Second Semester


Unit - I Prose

1. The Refugee - K.A. Abbas

2. The Lion and The Lamb - Leonard Clark

3. The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank R. Stockton

4. The Sky is the limit - Kalpana Chawla

Unit - II Poems

1. The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth

2. Gift - Alice Walker

3. O What is that Sound - W. H. Auden

4. Ode to the West Wind - P.B. Shelly

Unit - III Short Stories

1. The Fortune-Teller - Karel Capek

2. The Postmaster - Rabindranath Tagore

3. The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde

4. The Dying Detective - Arthur Canon Doyle

Unit - IV One-Act Plays

1. The Death Trap - Saki (H.H. Munro)

2. The Dear Departed: A Comedy in ONE-ACT- Stanley Houghton

3. The Sherif's Kitchen - Ronald Gow

4. The Anniversary - Anton Chekkov

Unit - V Communicative Grammar

Refer to the Text Panorama and Part III from Spring Board by Orient

Blackswan Pvt. Ltd Rs.105/-

Watch Your English

Grammar, Framing Questions, Common Errors, More Grammar, Word


6

QUESTION PATTERN

SECOND SEMESTER




a. Arranging words in order.

b. Pick out the correct alternative.

c. Filling the gap with appropriate word to ask question.

d. Using correct preposition.

e. Filling the blank with missing preposition.

f. Correct the error.

g. Completing the analogy with the correct word.

h. Choosing the correct phrasal.

i. Completing the sentence with phrasal verb.

j. Writing the appropriate expression.

k. Arranging the sentence according to the order of adjectives.

l. Filling the blank with connective.

m. Filling the blank with proper verb.

n. Changing the sentence into negative.

o. Completing the statement by selecting the best alternative.


II. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


One-Act Plays a or b


III. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b



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Second Year- Third Semester

Text - Reflections by Foundation Books Rs.105/-

Inspiring Lives by Maruthi Publications Rs.60/-

Unit - I Prose

1. Dress in Communication -

2. Fusion Music - Pt. Ravi Shankar

3. About "An Inconvenient Truth" - Davis Guggenheim

4. A Speech - N.R. Narayana Murthy

5. A Speech - Barack Obama

6. Unity of Minds - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Unit - II Poetry

1. The Justice of Peace - Hillari Bellock

2. A Different History - Sujata Bhatt

3. Digging - Seamus Heaney

4. I Love You Mom -

5. Ozymandias of Egypt - Percy Bysshe Shelly

6. Leave this Chanting and Singing and Telling of Beads - Rabindranath Tagore


1. Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde

2. The Story of Stanford -

3. Engine Trouble - R.K. Narayan

4. After Twenty Years - O. Henry

5. Two Gentlemen of Verona - A.J. Cronin

6. The Avenger - Anton Chekhow.

Unit - IV Biographies from Inspiring Lives

1. Madam Curie

2. Mother Teresa

3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

4. Dr. Amartya Kumar Sen

5. Gertrude Elion

6. Vikram Sarabhai

7. Charles Chaplin

8. Wangari Maathi

Unit - V Grammar

Refer to the exercises given in the text and Part -V from Spring Board by

Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.105/-

Face-to-Face

Preparing for an Interview, Win the Game of Life, The First Written Encounter:

Writing Skills.

8

QUESTION PATTERN

THIRD SEMESTER



I. Answer Four Questions in 100 words selecting one from each.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


Biographies a or b


II. Answer Four Questions each in 200 words selecting one from each.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


Biographies a or b


III. Answer Two questions selecting one from each.


IV. Answer all the Questions.

Grammar

9

Fourth Semester

Text - Six One - Act Plays by Pavai Publications Rs.50/-

Gifts to Posterity by Anu Chithra Publishers (the collection which has got six short stories

only) Rs. 32/-

Building Competency A Course in Reading and Writing English by Maruthi Publications. Rs.

50/-

Unit - I Six One-Act Plays

1. The Bishop's Candlesticks - Norman McKinnell

2. The Two Corporals - Val Gielgud

3. Wurzel-Flummery - A.A. Milne

4. Old Man River - Dorothy Deming

5. Hewers of Coal - Joe Corrie

6. Five at "The George" - Stuart Ready

Unit - II Short Stories

1. Comrades - Nadine Gardiner

2. Games at Twilight - Anita Desai

3. Gateman's Gift - R. K. Narayan

4. Open Window - Munro (Saki)

5. Some Words with a Mummy - Edgar Allan Poe

6. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Somerset Maugham

Unit - III Prose and Scenes from Shakespeare

Scenes from Shakespeare:

1. Merchant of Venice - Lines on Quality of Mercy

2. Julius Ceaser - Antony's Funeral Oration

3.* Macbeth - Line from Sleep Walking Sign

*Instead of Macbeth- line from Sleep Walking Sign the following Amendment occurs w.e.f.

2016-17(batch of candidates admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-:-

3. Macbeth-Murder Scene in the same text Building Competency

Prose:

1. Little Girls are Wiser than Men - Leo Tolstoy

2. The Last Clock - James Thurber

3. How far is the River - Ruskin Bond

Unit - IV Writing Skill Exercises

Letter Writing (Formal & Informal)

Précis Writing

Paraphrasing

Comprehension

Report Writing.

Part II and Part IV from Spring Board can be used for Class room exercises to enhance the

students' communicative and presentation skills.

10

QUESTION PATTERN

FOURTH SEMESTER



I. Answer Four questions selecting not less than one from each.

Either or Questions



Prose and Scenes from Shakespeare a or b


II. Answer Four questions selecting not less than one from each.

Either or Questions



Prose and Scenes from Shakespeare a or b


III. Answer Three of the following.

Writing Skills

11

COMMON TO ALL UNDER GRADUATE COURSES AND POST GRADUATE FIVE YEAR

INTEGRATED COURSES WHO STUDY PART II - ENGLISH FOR TWO SEMESTERS ONLY

First Year-First Semester


Test 05 hours

Preparatory Lessons 10 Hours

Unit - I Prose 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - II Poetry 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - III Short Story 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - IV Abridged Novel 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - V Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in

class)

Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives

(Yes or No, Wh Questions) Tag questions, Completing the Sentences,

Common errors, Synonym, Antonym, Word class, Use in sentences of the

given words, phrases or idioms. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text

Book)

Part -I from Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/-

Sound Right

Introduction to the Sounds of the English Language, Word Stress, Strong and

Weak Forms, Sentences Stress and Intonation, Voice Modulation.

Second Semester

Text - Panorama English for Communications by Emerald Publishers Rs.89/-

Test 05 hours


Unit - II Poems 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - III Short Stories 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - IV One-Act Plays 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - V Drama 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in


Unit - VI Communicative Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in

class Refer to the Text Panorama) and

Part -III from Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/- and

Watch Your English from Panorama

Grammar, Framing Questions, Common errors, More Grammar, Word


12

First Year= First Semester


Preparatory Lessons

1. Competition Matters - Suzanne Sievert

2. A Personal Crisis May Change History - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

3. Why Preserve Biodiversity - Prof. D.Balasubramanian

4. A Call to Action - Adapted from Hillary Rodham Clinton's address.....

5. If Only there Were More like Him - Revathi Seshadri

Unit - I Prose

1. My Greatest Olympic Prize - Jesse Owens

2. If You are wrong admit it - Dale Carnegie

3. Monday Morning - Mark Twain

4. The Unexpected - Robert Lynd

Unit - II Poetry

1. Pulley or Gift of God - George Herbert

2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats

3. The Night of the Scorpion - Night of the Scorpion

4. The Death of a Bird - A.D. Hope

Unit - III Short Story

1. Mrs. Packletide's Tiger - Saki

2. A Snake in the Grass - R.K. Narayan

3. Three Questions - Leo Tolstoy

4. The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry

Unit - IV

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (An Abridged Novel) by Emerald Publishers.

Unit - V Grammar

Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives (Yes or No,

Wh Questions) Tag questions, completing the sentences, Common errors, Synonym, Antonym,

Word class, Use in sentences of words. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text Book)

Grammar Reference Book Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/-

Part -I

Sound Right



13

QUESTION PATTERN

FIRST SEMESTER




a. Writing two words pronounced with /a:/ sound.

b. Marking the stress of the words.

c. Marking the strong and weak form.

d. Writing the sentences with contracted forms.

e. Marking the stressed words in sentences.

f. Rewriting the sentence using an introductory it or there.

g. Filling the blanks with suitable articles.

h. Using appropriate prepositions.

i. Framing suitable question.

j. Filling the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.

k. Filling the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.

l. Antonyms of the following without using prefixes.

m. Changing the following sentences into negative.

n. Filling the blank with connective.

o. Reported Speech.



Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


Abridged Novel a or b



Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b


Abridged Novel a or b

14

Second Semester


Unit - I Prose

1. The Refugee - K.A. Abbas

2. The Lion and The Lamb - Leonard Clark

3. The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank R. Stockton

4. The Sky is the limit - Kalpana Chawla

Unit - II Poems

1. The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth

2. Gift - Alice Walker

3. O What is that Sound - W. H. Auden

4. Ode to the West Wind - P.B. Shelly


1. The Fortune-Teller - Karel Capek

2. The Postmaster - Rabindranath Tagore

3. The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde

4. The Dying Detective - Arthur Canon Doyle

Unit - IV One-Act Plays

1. The Death Trap - Saki (H.H. Munro)

2. The Dear Departed: A Comedy in ONE-ACT- Stanley Houghton

3. The Sherif's Kitchen - Ronald Gow

4. The Anniversary - Anton Chekkov

Unit - V Drama

Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw (Drama) by Orient BlackSwan.

Unit - VI Communicative Grammar - Refer to the Text - Panorama

Part III from Spring Board by Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/-

Watch Your English

Grammar, Framing Questions, Common Errors, More Grammar, Word Building:

Prefixes and Suffixes.

15

QUESTION PATTERN

SECOND SEMESTER




a. Arranging words in order.

b. Pick out the correct alternative.

c. Filling the gap with appropriate word to ask question.

d. Using correct preposition.

e. Filling the blank with missing preposition.

f. Correct the error.

g. Completing the analogy with the correct word.

h. Choosing the correct phrasal.

i. Completing the sentence with phrasal verb.

j. Writing the appropriate expression.

k. Arranging the sentence according to the order of adjectives.

l. Filling the blank with connective.

m. Filling the blank with proper verb.

n. Changing the sentence into negative.

o. Completing the statement by selecting the best alternative.



Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b



Drama a or b


III. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.

Either or Questions

Prose a or b

Poetry a or b



Drama a or b

16

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

COMMON TO ALL UNDER GRADUATE COURSES AND POST GRADUATE FIVE YEAR INTEGRATED

COURSES WHO STUDY PART II - ENGLISH FOR FOUR SEMESTERS ONLY

FIRST SEMESTER



I. 1. Answer all the Questions

a. Write two words pronounced with / a: / sound.

b. Mark the stress of the words.

1) Always 2) Account

c. Mark the strong and weak form.

1) That ice cream looks nice. Do you want some?

2) I'm really thirsty. There is some orange juice in the kitchen.

d. Write the following sentences with contracted forms.

1) I will call you back in half an hour.

2) We would like to get an early reply.

e. Mark the stressed words in the following sentences.

1) Swimming is one of the healthiest forms of exercise.

2) Necessity is the mother of invention.

f. Rewrite the following sentence using an introductory it or there.

1) To inform him is important.

g. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.

1) ______ encyclopaedia is _______ useful book.

h. Use appropriate preposition given in brackets.

1) He is confident ________ (of / about) his success.

i. Frame suitable question to the following.

1) This is Radha's bag.

j. Fill in the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.

1) Cancer ________ (cure) if detected early.

k. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.

1) This type of transistors _______ (be) no longer available.

l. Give the antonymn of the following without using prefixes.

1) Voluntary 2) Inhale.

m. Change the following sentences into negative.

1) The showman walked by the side of the caravans.

n. Fill in the blank with connective.

1) The Supermarket made a profit last year.________ it had to close down this year

because of poor sales.

o. Rewrite in reported speech.

1) "Please close the door, Selvi", I said.

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2. a) Why did Owens become hot under the collar before the trials.

Or

b) Why Harvey's boss treat him with respect?

3. a) Why does God call rest the jewel of blessings?

Or

b) Where did the knight meet the beautiful lady?

4. a) Why did the villagers agree to help Mrs. Packletide?

Or

b) Why did Dasa triumphantly ask, "Where was the snake"?

5. a) What was picturesque about Pickett?

Or

b) Where did the scorpion hide itself?

6. a) "I watched the flame feeding on the mother" - Comment.

Or

b) Why did the family wonder whether there were two snakes in the grass.


III. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.

7. a) How did Luz Long help Jesse Owens?

Or

b) How did Harvey handle a tense situation and win the admiration of his boss?

8. a) How does Herbert play with the word rest?

Or

b) What were the effects of scorpion sting on the mother and on other around her?

9. a) What were the questions that the king wanted to be answered?

Or

b) How did the villagers help Mrs. Packletide?


IV. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.

10. a) How Luz Long exemplify the true sporting spirit?

Or

b) How does the grand plan of Tom on a Monday fail?

11. a) How does Herbert project Nature, God of Nature and man?

Or

b) Narrate the sad tale of the Knight at arms?

12. a) Consider Mrs. Pakletide's Tiger as a social satire?

Or

b) Describe the search for the snake and how it ended?

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SECOND SEMESTER



I. 1. Answer all Questions

a) Form affirmative statement using the given word or phrase by arranging them in proper

word order.

am practising I basement the drums in the

b) Pick out the correct alternative.

Everyone _____ to parties

d like going

loves going

loves to go

c) Fill the gap with appropriate word to ask question.

___________ time will get there, Sir? asked Ram.

d) Fill in the blank with the correct preposition chosen from those given in brackets.

We will be gone ______ two days (for, since)

e) Fill in the blank with the missing preposition we made our report _______ triplicate.

f) Correct the error in the following sentence.

In the class, children were having arithmetic lesson.

g) Complete the analogy by writing the correct word on the blank line.

Open is to close as near is to ________ (far, close, shut)

h) Choose the correct phrasal to fill in the blank.

Thieves broke ________ and stole all the valuables.

i) Complete the following sentence, using the phrasal verb given in brackets.

Here is another pair of shoes. You can ______ (try on).

j) Write the appropriate expression to ask for permission.

Brother: Am I permitted to use your computer/

Sister: Sure: But stop talking like a grammar book.

k) Arrange the following into a sentence according to the order of adjectives.

i) a leather, black, bag

ii) a black, old, wooden , toy.

l) Fill in the blank with a connective.

The supermarket made a profit last year _____ it had to be closed down this

year because of poor sale.

m) Fill in the blank with proper form of a verb.

I think you ought _______ told me.

n) Change the following into the negative.

The boy was really awed by the story.

o) Complete the following statement by selecting the best alternative from the bracket.

Mary bought four __________ (loaf/loaves) of bread.

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II. Answer Four Questions in 100 words, selecting one from each.

2. a) What were Maanji's thoughts when she moved out of Rawalpindi?

Or

b) Who were the people who went in search of the lion as soon as it escaped.

3. a) Describe the song of the solitary reaper?

Or

b) Give a descriptive of the sound heard by Auden.

4. a) How was Macheary able to book Mrs. Myers.

Or

b) List the merits and demerits of Hughie Erskine.

5. a) How did the ole man punish the daughters for their greed?

Or

b) How did the prince take revenge on the treacherous guards?


III. Answer Four Questions in 200 words, selecting one from each.

6. a) Narrate the story of "The Lion and the Lamb"?

Or

b) How did the semi barbaric king refine the people?

7. a) How does the poet bring out the pathos of lost-love being not so painful as the

accusation was charged against her?

Or

b) Write a summary of the poem what is the sound bringing out the feeling of the lady?

8. a) Friendship and separation are an inevitable part of life. Comment referring to the story

“The Postmaster”?

Or

b) Explain title of the story "Model Millionaire"?

9. a) Write an essay on the appropriate of the title " Death Trap"?

Or

b) Write an essay on the element of humour in the play The Dear Departed?

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THIRD SEMESTER



I. Answer Four questions in 100 words selecting one from each.

1. a) What in this world can break you in many situations. Do you agree with this view?

Give reasons?

Or

b) How did Narayanan Murthy convert the negative experience in Bulgaria into

something positive?

2. a) How does the speaker challenge his opponent? What is his strength over the opponent?

Or

b) What does the oppressors language do to the oppressed people according to Sujatha

Bhatt?

3. a) How did the narrator come to own a road engine?

Or

b) What kind of relationship did the narrator have with his friend Jimmy wells?

4. a) Write about the oppression of Polish people by the Czar of Russia?

Or

b) How did Vikram Sarabhai set up physical Research Laboratory?


II. Answer Four questions in 200 words selecting one from each.

5. a) Comment on the three facts of George's personality - human, religious and

professional as seen through Pandit Ravishankar memoir?

Or

b) What is Obama's perception of change and message?

6. a) The poem Digging is about man's reaction doing a certain job. Discuss.

Or

b) Write a Character sketch of Ozymandia based on your reading of the poem?

7. a) How were the couple in the story of Stanford different form most rich people?

Or

b) In which ways in The Happy Prince" different form the conventional fairy tale?

8. a) Write an essay on the experiences of Subramanyan Chandrasekar?

Or

b) Give an account of the achievement of Amarty Sen?

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III. Answer Two questions selecting one from each.

9. a) List out the things that you have to take for an interview.

Or

b) What may be the few possible reasons for rejection.

10. a) Draft a resume for the job of a manager in a company.

Or

b) Write an essay on learning a second language.


IV. Answer all questions

11. a) We stayed over time and completed the project (Change into a simple sentence)

b) He makes it a point to go to Tripathi.................. (Complete the sentence with a

subordinate clause)

c) We don't know why he was absent (Change the underline clause into a phrase)

d) Use one of the phrases in sentences of your own As soon As. In Spite of.

e) Use one of the phrases in sentences of your own Get rid of, In connection with.

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FOURTH SEMESTER



I. Answer Four questions in 100 words selecting not less than one from each.

1. a) Describe the Bishop's encounter with thief?

Or

b) "Learn from my failure", says Napoleon. What was his failure?

2. * a) Describe the meeting between Madame Loisel and Madame Forestner after ten

years.

Or

b) What is the Conjurers final effort to salvage his reputation?

* Instead of a)or b) Questions the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17(batch of

candidates admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-:-

2. a) Describe the mad behaviour of the Gateman?

Or

b) Describe the attempts of doctor Ponnuonner and his friends to revive the life in the

mummy?

3. a) Describe how Sir Ensor Doone became an outlaw. Where did he decide to settle and

why was the place so suitable for the Doones?

Or

b) Why does Crawshaw accept the legacy?

4. a) Describe the reaction of the girls to the flood?

Or

b) Why was Lorna a prisoner not daring to leane her own house even to send John a

signal?


II. Answer any Four in 200 words of the following.

5. a) How is Dick a public hero number one?

Or

b) Narrate the circumstances leading to the discovery of the murderer in "Five at

Geroges".

6. a) How did Quinquart win Suzanne?

Or

b) What were the circumstances that compelled the authorities of St. Austin's college to

alter the rules for the sixth form poetry prize.

* Instead of a)or b) Questions the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17(batch of

candidates admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-:-

6. a) Justify the title of Tolstoy’s story (or)

b) How do you Justify the behaviour of Tom Ramsay at the end of the story?

7. a) Describe the powerful message of Antony's funeral oration Speech.

Or

b) Describe the speech of the Sleep Walking Scene.

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* Instead of a) Question the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17(batch of candidates

admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-

7. b) How did the absence of clocks impact the town?

8. a) Bring out the humour in Wuzzel Flummery?

Or

b) Narrate the story of Open Window by Munro?

Or

c) What happened in the church, in her marriage ceremony

* Instead of c) Question the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17:-

Excess choice, hence the question 8 (c) be deleted.

SECTION – C (3X5=15)

III. 9. Write a Précis for the following passage. (5)

Most of the new homes being built in the U.S. are low one-story structures that hug the

ground and blend with their natural setting, and follow contemporary architectural concepts that

stress simplicity, space, comfort, efficiency, beauty and ease of care. Many are designed to

reveal the intrinsic beauty of their construction materials, such as wood and stone, and have

patios o other areas for indoor-outdoor living. Although some of the new houses have smooth

lines and expanses of glass, others are more conservative, and include in their exterior design

touches of older traditional architectural forms.

The invention of the skyscraper in America came as an answer to crowded city space and

high land costs. It was engineered and invented by a succession of architects who realized that

steel framed buildings did need to have one story piled atop another for support, but that walls

could be fitted onto a steel frame. The invention of structural steel made possible the skeleton

steel frame, an d together with the elevator, made possible the skeleton steel frame, and together

with the elevator, made possible the invention of the skyscraper. The highest skyscraper in the

U.S. today is the Empire State Building in New York which has 102 stories and is 1,472 feet

(449 meters) high.

10. Write a Paraphrase of the following poem. (5)

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils:

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They sgtreched in neve-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in springly dance.

11. a) Write a report of an accident that you seen in your area. (5)

Or

b) Sum up your views on barriers of communication and suggest your tips for

overcoming it.

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MODEL QUESTION PAPER

FOR UG / INTEGRATED P.G STUDENTS WHO STUDY PART - II ENGLISH FOR TWO SEMESTER ONLY

FIRST SEMESTER




a. Write two words pronounced with / a: / sound.

b. Mark the stress of the words.

i) Always ii) Account

c. Mark the strong and weak form.

i) That ice cream looks nice. Do you want some?

ii) I'm really thirsty. There is some orange juice in the kitchen.

d. Write the following sentences with contracted forms.

i) I will call you back in half an hour.

ii) We would like to get an early reply.

e. Mark the stressed words in the following sentences.

i) Swimming is one of the healthiest forms of exercise.

ii) Necessity is the mother of invention.

f. Rewrite the following sentence using an introductory it or there.

i) To inform him is important.

g. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.

i) ______ encyclopaedia is _______ useful book.

h. Use appropriate preposition given in brackets.

i) He is confident ________ (of / about) his success.

i. Frame suitable question to the following.

i) This is Radha's bag.

j. Fill in the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.

i) Cancer ________ (cure) if detected early.

k. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.

i) This type of transistors _______ (be) no longer available.

l. Give the antonymn of the following without using prefixes.

i) Voluntary ii) Inhale.

m. Change the following sentences into negative.

i) The showman walked by the side of the caravans.

n. Fill in the blank with connective.

i) The Supermarket made a profit last year.________ it had to close down this year

because of poor sales.

o. Rewrite in reported speech.

i) "Please close the door, Selvi", I said.

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SECTION – B (4X5=20)


2. a) How did Luz Long help Jesse Owens?

Or

b) How did Harvey handle a tense situation and win the admiration of his boss?

3. a) How does Herbert play with the word rest?

Or

b) What were the effects of scorpion sting on the mother and on other around her?

4. a) What were the questions that the king wanted to be answered?

Or

b) How did the villagers help Mrs. Packletide?

5. a) Why was Henfrey taken aback on seeing the stranger in "The Invisible Man"?

Or

b) How did the Iping humorists tease the stranger in "The Invisible Man"?

SECTION –C (4x10=40)


6. a) How Luz Long exemplify the true sporting spirit?

Or

b) How does the grand plan of Tom on a Monday fail?

7. a) How does Herbert project Nature, God of Nature and man?

Or

b) Narrate the sad tale of the Knight at armas?

8. a) Consider Mrs. Pakletide's Tiger as a social satire?

Or

b) Describe the search for the snake and how it ended?

9. a) Describe about the burglary at the vicarage in "The Invisible Man".

Or

b) Explain about the Griffin's adventure in the Emporium in "The Invisible Man".

26

SECOND SEMESTER



I. 1. Answer all Questions

a)Form affirmative statement using the given word or phrase by arranging them in proper

word order.

am practising I basement the drums in the

b) Pick the correct alternative.

Everyone _____ to parties

d like going

loves going

loves to go

c) Fill the gap with appropriate word to ask question.

___________ time will get there, Sir? asked Ram.

d) Fill in the blank with the correct preposition chosen from those given in brackets.

We will be gone ______ two days (for, since)

e) Fill in the blank with the missing preposition we made our report _______ triplicate.

f) Correct the error in the following sentence.

In the class, children were having arithmetic lesson.

g) Complete the analogy by writing the correct word on the blank line.

Open is to close as near is to ________ (far, close, shut)

h) Choose the correct phrasal to fill in the blank.

Thieves broke ________ and stole all the valuables.

i) Complete the following sentence, using the phrasal verb given in brackets.

Here is another pair of shoes. You can ______ (try on)

j) Write the appropriate expression to ask for permission.

Brother: Am I permitted to use your computer/

Sister: Sure: But stop talking like a grammar book.

k) Arrange the following into a sentence according to the order of adjectives.

i) a leather, black, bag

ii) a black, old, wooden , toy.

l) Fill in the blank with a connective.

The supermarket made a profit last year _____ it had to be closed down this

year because of poor sale.

m) Fill in the blank with proper form of a verb.

I think you ought _______ told me.

n) Change the following into the negative.

The boy was really awed by the story.

o) Complete the following statement by selecting the best alternative.

Mary bought four __________ (loaf/loaves) of bread.

27


II. Answer Five Questions in 100 words, selecting one from each.

2. a) What were Maanji's thoughts when she moved out of Rawalpindi?

Or

b) Who were the people who went in search of the lion as soon as it escaped.

3. a) Describe the song of the solitary reaper?

Or

b) Give a descriptive of the sound heard by Auden.

4. a) How was Macheary able to book Mrs. Myers.

Or

b) List the merits and demerits of Hughie Erskine.

5. a) how did the ole man punish the daughters for their greed?

Or

b) How did the prince take revenge on the treacherous guards?

6. a) Examine the relationship between Louka and Nicola in "Arms and the Man".

Or

b) What effect does the entry of Bluntschli have on the petkoffs in "Arms and the

Man"?

SECTION – C (5X8=40)

III. Answer Five Questions, selecting one from each.

7. a) Narrate the story of "The Lion and the Lamb"?

Or

b) How did the semi barbaric king refine the people?

8. a) How does the poet bring out the pathos of lost-love being not so painful as the

accusation was charged against her?

Or

b) Write a summary of the poem what is the sound bringing out the feeling of the lady?

9. a) Friendship and separation are an inevitable part of life. Comment referring to the story

“The Postmaster”?

Or

b) Explain title of the story "Model Millionaire"?

10. a) Write an essay on the appropriate of the title "Death Trap"?

Or

b) Write an essay on the element of humour in the play The Dear Departed?

11. a) Discuss Arms and the Man as a social satire.

Or

b) Is Bluntschli the hero of the play in "Arms and the Man"? Discuss.

*****

UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH


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Title of the Course Core Course BEN-DSC01: BRITISH LITERATURE- PAPER I

Category of the

Course

Year & Semester


Credits

4

Subject Code

Hours 90

Objectives: To introduce the students to the rich legacy of Literature from Britain that remains the

fundamental body of literature written in English.

To introduce prominent English writers and their styles from the sixteenth to the eighteenth

century Course

Introduction

(for internal

assessment only)

Renaissance and its impact on England

Reformation- causes and effects

Restoration England

Commonwealth England

Coffee houses and their Social Relevance

Course

Components

UNIT 1: Poetry (Detailed)

1.1 “My galley charged” Sir Thomas Wyatt

1.2 “Alas, so all things now” Henry Howard

1.3 “Tell me, thou skilful shepherd’s swain” Michael Drayton

1.4 “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”: William Shakespeare (Sonnet 55)

1.5 “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne

1.6 “How soon hath time” John Milton

1.7 “The Pulley” George Herbert

1.8 “The Retreat” Henry Vaughan

UNIT 2: Poetry (Non-Detailed)

2.1 “Prothalamion” Edmund Spenser

("CALM was the day...end my song" (Stanzas 1&2))

2.2 “Astrophel and Stella” Philip Sidney

(Sonnet XXXI: With how sad steps, O Moone, ...)

2.3 “Paradise Lost” (Book I - lines 1 - 83) John Milton

2.4 “The Garden” Andrew Marvell

UNIT 3: Prose (Detailed)

3.1 “On Revenge” Francis Bacon

3.2 “Of Studies” Francis Bacon

UNIT 4: Prose (Non-Detailed)

4.1 Book of Job: Prologue (chapters 1–2)

and The Bible [King James Version]

Epilogue (chapter 42:7–17)

UNIT 5: Drama (Detailed)

5.1 Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe

Learning

Outcomes:

By the end of the course, students will be able to understand the impact of social and historical events of 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries on

English writers and their works

analyse the themes and styles in English poetry, prose and drama written in the

Elizabethan and Jacobean Age

assess different works of the same author(s) as well as compare and contrast works of

different authors of the same literary period



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Prescribed Texts: i) An Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford UP, Fourth impression–

2002.[ 1.1to 1.4]

ii) Six Ages of English Poetry edited by H. M. Williams, Blackie & Sons, Tenth impression–1976.[1.5] iii) The Winged Word edited by David Green, Macmillian, 2016 edition.[ 1.6 to 1.8]

iv) An Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford UP, Fourth impression–

2002.[2.2]

v) Paradise Lost Books 1 & 2 Edited by Vrinda Nabar. Orient BlackSwan Annotated Study Texts, 2011

edition [2.3]

vi) Epic and Mock-Epic Anamika Chakraborty OUP.

vii) The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Tenth Edition) (Vol. Package 1: Volumes A, B, C)

Tenth Edition

FURTHER READING ( to be considered for internal assessment only)

“The Flaming Heart” – Richard Crashaw

“Another Grace for a Child” – Robert Herrick

“Epithalamion” – Edmund Spenser

“Faerie Queene” – Edmund Spenser

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” – Christopher Marlowe

“Definition of Love” – Andrew Marvell

“The Garden” – Andrew Marvell

“On Shakespeare” – John Milton

“Lycidas” – John Milton

“Easter Wings” – George Herbert

“Volpone” - Ben Jonson

BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE English Poetry from the Elizabethans to the Restoration by Pramod K. Nayar. 2012.

Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry by Alastair Fowler.

Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship by Ilona Bell. Cambridge University

Press, 2010.

The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (History of Early Modern

England) by Norman L. Jones. Blackwell Publishers, 1995.

British Literary Periods. https://www.thoughtco.com/british-literary-periods-739034

Poems for all the semesters with a detailed introduction to the author.

https:/www.poetryfoundation.org/

Renaissance Love Poetry. https://www.thoughtco.com/renaissance-love-poems-1788871

Elizabethan Age. https://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance/elizabethan_era.php

Milton. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-milton

“Reading English : Why and How.” Dr. Sandie Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xbBa-sy-Tc.

Canterbury Tales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZrBr9DOwA.

John Bunyan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByKbrzm5gI.

Edmund Spenser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpzer-OuQo.

RECOMMENDED MOOC

NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 1 - The Renaissance An Introduction -

Part-1 and 2 https://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109106120/L01.html

NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 13: The Age of Chaucer

http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L13.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/british-literary-periods-739034

https://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance/elizabethan_era.php

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-milton

https://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109106120/L01.html




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NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 15: Milton and his Times


TED TALKS

Anne Lamott·TED2017.

https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing.

Joshua Prager·TEDActive 2015.

https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prager_wisdom_from_great_writers_on_every_year_of_life


https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing

https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prager_wisdom_from_great_writers_on_every_year_of_life


B.A.ENGLISH

WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021

ENG- DSC02

Title of the Course Core Course ENG- DSC02:SHAKESPEARE

Category of the

Course

Year & Semester


Credits

4

Subject Code

Hours: 90

Objectives: To expose the students to the vitality and robustness of drama in the Elizabethan Age as exemplified

in Shakespeare

To appreciate Shakespearean language and its influence in the making of modern English

Course

Introduction

(to be considered

for internal

assessment only)

Outline the life and works of Shakespeare

His contribution to English Literature and Language

The relevance of Shakespeare in the 21st century

Course

Components

UNIT 1: History

1.1Henry IV Part 1 - [For Annotations: Act I-Scene 1; Act II Scene 4;

Act III-Scenes 1&3; Act IV - Scene1; Act V Scene 4

1.2 Shakespeare’s Histories - Historical Sources-Common Features- Language-

Reflection of the English social class

UNIT 2: Comedy

2.1 Twelfth Night - [For Annotations: Act I - Scenes 1 & 2;

Act II - Scenes 1& 4; Act III -Scene 2;

Act IV - Scene 2] Act V - Scene 5]

2.2 Shakespearean Comedies - Sources- Common features- Comedy through

language- Themes-Complex plots-Mistaken

Identities- Fools and Clowns- Use of songs-

Dramatic devices

UNIT 3: Tragedy

3.1 Macbeth - [For Annotations: Act I - Scenes 1, 3 & 5;

Act 2 - Scenes 1& 2; Act III - Scenes 2 & 4;

Act IV - Scene 1;Act V - Scenes 1& 8]

3.2 Shakespearean Tragedies - Sources-Elements of Shakespearean

Tragedies – Themes – Language-Dramatic

aspects-Tragedy and Modern Dramatists

UNIT 4: Tragicomedy

4.1 The Tempest - [For Annotations: Act I - Scene 2;

Act 2 - Scene 2; Act III - Scene 1;

Act IV - Scene 1; Act V - Scene 1]

4.2 Shakespearean Tragicomedy - genre of play-dramatic elements-

characters- Functions-Influence on the

Romantics and on 19th

& 20th

century

dramatists

UNIT 5: Shakespeare’s Theatre

5.1 Playhouses and the Globe Theatre - Staging of the Play-Audience-Actors,

Costumes- Influences


B.A.ENGLISH


ENG- DSC02

Prescribed Texts: i) Henry IV, Part II The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014

ii) Twelfth Night The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014

iii) Macbeth The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014

iv) The Tempest The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014

FURTHER READING [to be considered for internal assessment only]

Complete Works of Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE Birch, Dinah. ed. “William Shakespeare” The Oxford Companion to English Literature. OUP

Dobson, Michael. & Stanley Wells eds. "Shakespeare, William" in The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.

Kurian Anna, Shakespeare, Orient Blackswan,2016

Leggatt, Alexander. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy, 2002.

Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, 2016.

Clapp, Larry. A Complete Critical Analysis of Shakespearean Plays: With A Reference To Elizabethan

Theatre (Reprint) Hardcover – 1993 by (Author)

https://www.britannica.com

www.encyclopedia.com

https://www.britannica.com/art/chronicle-play

https://www.thoughtco.com/shakespeare-histories-plays-2985246

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-identify-a-shakespeare-comedy-2985155

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature/Shakespeares-tragic-art

https://www.thoughtco.com/introducing-shakespeare-tragedies-2985293

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature/Tragedy-and-modern-drama

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragicomedy

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Globe-Theatre/images-videos

The power of imagination: Lessons from Shakespeare

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_bolton_the_power_of_imagination_lessons_from_shakespeare#t-

21959

VIRTUAL TOUR: Google Earth

i.https://earth.google.com/web/@51.50808974,-0.09712407,19.29451181a,25.00298886d,35y,-

0h,60t,0r/data=KAI

ii. https://earth.google.com/web/@52.19664585,-

1.7129966,44.1944912a,14249.33519552d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=ClYaVBJOCiUweDQ4NzBjNTIzZjgxODg

wMzc6MHhhZjMxODg2ZGNmNDE5OTc3Gb_Uz5uKGEpAIcMnnUgwVfu_KhNTdHJhdGZvcmQtdX

Bvbi1Bdm9uGAIgAQ

iii. Shakespeare; The Globe Theatre London tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI&feature=youtu.be

Learning

Outcomes:

After doing this course the students will be able to

recollect features of Elizabethan theatre along with Shakespeare’s life and works

identify the generic diversity in Shakespearean plays and describe significant features of

Shakespearean oeuvre

analyse prominent themes in Shakespearean plays appreciate Shakespearean language, literary

elements and conventions

synthesise acquired knowledge to critique plays and enact

https://www.britannica.com/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/tempest

https://www.britannica.com/art/chronicle-play

https://www.thoughtco.com/shakespeare-histories-plays-2985246

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-identify-a-shakespeare-comedy-2985155

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature/Shakespeares-tragic-art

https://www.thoughtco.com/introducing-shakespeare-tragedies-2985293

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature/Tragedy-and-modern-drama

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragicomedy

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Globe-Theatre/images-videos

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_bolton_the_power_of_imagination_lessons_from_shakespeare#t-21959

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_bolton_the_power_of_imagination_lessons_from_shakespeare#t-21959

https://earth.google.com/web/@51.50808974,-0.09712407,19.29451181a,25.00298886d,35y,-0h,60t,0r/data=KAI

https://earth.google.com/web/@51.50808974,-0.09712407,19.29451181a,25.00298886d,35y,-0h,60t,0r/data=KAI

https://earth.google.com/web/@52.19664585,-%20%201.7129966,44.1944912a,14249.33519552d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=ClYaVBJOCiUweDQ4NzBjNTIzZjgxODgwMzc6MHhhZjMxODg2ZGNmNDE5OTc3Gb_Uz5uKGEpAIcMnnUgwVfu_KhNTdHJhdGZvcmQtdXBvbi1Bdm9uGAIgAQ




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI&feature=youtu.be


B.A.ENGLISH


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RECOMMENDED MOOC

NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature Lecture 3 - Shakespeare's Life and Times


NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 14: The Age of Shakespeare


TEDx TALKS:

TED TALKSlivepage.apple.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVubNIgS0o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVubNIgS0o



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Title of the Course Core Course BEN-DSC03: BRITISH LITERATURE- PAPER II

Category of the Course Year & Semester


Credits

4

Subject Code

Hours: 90

Objectives: To introduce a few seminal texts of mainstream writers to students, to enable them to understand

and interpret literary works of the Augustan and Romantic Ages.

Course Introduction

(to be considered for

internal assessment

only)

Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian, French Revolution on the English Society

Humanitarian Movement in England,

The Reform Bills

The Spread of Education

Course Components UNIT 1: Poetry (Detailed)

1.1 “Macflecknoe” John Dryden

1.2 “Tyger” William Blake

1.3 “For A’ That And A’ That” Robert Burns

1.4 “Three years she grew” William Wordsworth

1.5 “Kubla Khan” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.6 “From Childe Harolde’s Pilgrimage” Lord Byron

1.7 “Ozymandias” Percy Bysshe Shelley

1.8 “Ode to a Nightingale” John Keats

UNIT 2: Poetry (Non - Detailed)

2.1 “ The Rape of the Lock: Canto III”

(lines 125 -178) Alexander Pope 2.2 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” S.T. Coleridge

2.3 “Essay on Man From Epistle II” Alexander Pope

2.4 “The Deserted Village” Oliver Goldsmith

UNIT 3: Prose

3.1 “Dream-Children: A Reverie” Charles Lamb

3.2 “Sir Roger at the Theatre” Joseph Addison

UNIT 4: Drama

4.1 The Rivals R. B. Sheridan

UNIT 5: Fiction

5.1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course students will be able to

identify and define basic terms and concepts which are needed for advanced courses in

British literature

write brief essays on the important works of mainstream writers from Augustan and

Romantic Age

describe the distinct features of British literature of the same period

analyze and interpret seminal poetry of the period with close reading

Prescribed Texts:

i) The Winged Word edited by David Green, Macmillian, 2016 edition.

ii) Six Ages of English Poetry edited by H. M. Williams, Blackie & Sons, Tenth impression–1976

iii) The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Tenth Edition) (Vol. Package 1: Volumes A, B, C)



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Tenth Edition

FURTHER READING [Can be considered for Assignments & Presentations]

John Dryden – “Absalom and Achitophel”

Alexander Pope – “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Rivals

James Boswell – “Life of Samuel Johnson”

Dr. Samuel Johnson – “Preface to Shakespeare”

John Keats – “Ode to Grecian Urn”

William Wordsworth – “Tintern Abbey”

William Wordsworth – “Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge”

Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

William Blake - The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow

“The Foundation of British Empire” pages 411- 419 - from A History of England. Eds.

John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India.

BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II – The Restoration to the Present Day by David

Daiches. Revised edition. Indian edition 2010. Supernova publishers. (“Romantic Poetry”- pages 856-935;

“Restoration, Augustan Age, rise of novel, 18th century prose”- pages 537-766 )

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. 2011.

Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom) by Aidan Day. 1995.

Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Ferber. Oxford, 2010.

Romanticism: An Oxford Guide by Nicholas Roe. 2005.

Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (Routledge Concise Histories of Literature) by Carmen

Casaliggi and Porscha Fermanis. 2016.

The Romanticism Handbook (Literature and Culture Handbooks). Edited by Joel Faflak and Dr. Sue

Chaplin. 2011.

The Age of Dryden. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm.

Alexander Pope. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alexander-pope.

Eighteenth Century. https://www.britannica.com/art/English -literature/The-18th-century.

Age of Restoration. https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/neoclassicism.

Romanticism. https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism.

Romanticism. https://www.theartstory.org/movement/romanticism/.

Romanticism. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm.

Romanticism. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/English /melani/cs6/rom.html.

Romanticism.https://wordsworth.org.uk/wordsworth/daffodils-and-other-poems/what-is-romanticism/.

Shelley. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley.

Wordsworth. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45559/three-years-she-grew.

“The Age of Reason and the Age of History.” Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YEr8ZiZhY.

Enlightenment. The Age of Reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0B28_gwj0M.

RECOMMENDED MOOC

NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature.Lecture 16: The Augustans

http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L16.html NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature.Lecture 17: The Romantics

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alexander-pope

https://www.britannica.com/art/English-literature/The-18th-century

https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/neoclassicism

https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism

https://www.theartstory.org/movement/romanticism/

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45559/three-years-she-grew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YEr8ZiZhY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0B28_gwj0M




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http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L17.html Swayam: English Literature of the Romantic Period 1798-1832

https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_hs31/preview

TEDx Talks:

Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein·TED2012. The long reach of reason.

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_and_rebecca_newberger_goldstein_the_long_reach_of_reason?langu

age=en


https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_hs31/preview

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_and_rebecca_newberger_goldstein_the_long_reach_of_reason?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_and_rebecca_newberger_goldstein_the_long_reach_of_reason?language=en



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Title of the Course Core Course BEN-DSC04: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Category of the

Course

Year & Semester


Credits

4

Subject Code

Hours: 90

Objectives: To give an understanding of the evolution of Indian Writing in English and appreciate its literature from

the period of western colonization to the twenty first century.

Course Introduction

( to be considered for

internal assessment

only)

Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact

History of Indian Writing in English

Introduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay's minutes)

Nativisation of English

The Postcolonial experience

Diaspora Writers

Course Components UNIT 1: Poetry 1.1.“Our Casuarina Tree” Toru Dutt

1.2. “Coromandel Fishers” Sarojini Naidu

1.3. “ Night of the Scorpion” Nissim Ezekiel

1.4. “Introduction” Kamala Dass

1.5. “The Bus” Arun Kolatkar

1.6.“The Frog and the Nightingale” Vikram Seth

1.7. “Her Garden” Meena Alexander

1.8. “Narcissus” Easterine Kire

UNIT 2: Prose

2.1“The Secret of Work” - Swami Vivekananda

2.2 “India and Greece” & “The Old Indian Theatre” - Jawaharlal Nehru

(Selection from The Discovery of India)

2.3. “Religion in a Changing World” - Dr.Radhakrisnan

(Religion,Science and Culture)

2.4. Passages from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian- Nirad C.Chaudhuri

(Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature – Amit Chaudhuri

UNIT 3: Drama

3.1 Dance Like a Man Mahesh Dattani

UNIT 4: Short Story

4.1“Under the Banyan Tree” R.K Narayan

4.2 “The Night Train at Deoli” Ruskin Bond

4.3 “ Unaccustomed Earth” Jhumpa Lahiri

4.4 “Laburnum for my Head” Temsula Ao

UNIT 5: Fiction

5.1 Kanthapura Raja Rao



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Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to

understand the evolution of Indian Writing in English identify the influence of Classical Indian tradition and the impact of western colonisation on

Indian English writers

analyse Indian ethos found in the representative texts

evaluate Indian English texts from the postcolonial perspective

Prescribed Texts: i) Gokak V.K, The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Akademi, 2006

ii) Mehrotra, A.K. , The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Indian Poets , OUP,1993

iii) Peeradina, Salem , Contemporary Indian Poetry in English ,Macmillan 1972

iv) Nehru, Jawarhalal , The Discovery of India,1946

v) Vivekananda, Karma Yoga , Advaita Ashrama Publication,2012

vi) Radhakrishnan,Religion, Science and Culture, Orient Paperback

vii) Chaudhuri, Amit, Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. 2001

viii) Davidar, David, A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces, Aleph Books, 2016

ix) Ao Temsula, Laburnum for my Head ,Penguin India, 2009

x) Lahiri, Jhumpa,Unaccustomed Earth, Random House India,2008

xi) Collected Plays - Mahesh Dattani , Penguin, India.

FURTHER READING ( to be considered for internal assessment only)

Henry Derozio - “The Harp of India”

Sri Aurobindo - “TheTiger and the Deer”

Mamta Kalia - “ Tribute to Papa”

Jeet Tayil - “The Penitent”

Anjum Hasan -“A Place like Water”

Arundhathi Subramamiam - “Another Way”

Amartya Sen – “ Diaspora and the World” from The Argumentative Indian

Arundhathi Roy - “Capitalism :A Ghost Story” from Broken Republic

Novels by Mulkraj Anand, R.K.Narayan , Manoghar Malgonkar,Anitha Desai, Shashi Deshpande , Arvind

Adiga,

BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English . Revised edition, Sterling

King, Bruce: Modern Indian Poetry in English . Oxford University Press, 2005.

M. K., Naik. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2009.

Mehrotra, A. K. An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English . New Delhi:Permanent Black, 2003.

Dharwadkar Vinay and A.K.Ramanujam,The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry

A.K.Mehrotra,The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Indian Poets

Thieme John, The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Literatures in English

Singh Umeed,Sharma Pankaj ed. Reading a Novel:Kanthapura & An Exercise in Language Use,

Macmillan, 2016.

Chaudhuri Amit, Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, Picador

https://cafedissensus.com/2017/06/15/easterine-kires-six-poems/

http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2013/03/a-place-like-water-by-anjum-hasan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHr4FIKIU6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCE2_LoAXg

https://cafedissensus.com/2017/06/15/easterine-kires-six-poems/

http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2013/03/a-place-like-water-by-anjum-hasan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHr4FIKIU6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCE2_LoAXg



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RECOMMENDED MOOC

NPTEL: Indian Fiction in English https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106135/

TEDX TALKS

Indian Writing in English: Literary Texts – Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAMk6akP5I

Significance of Salman Rushdie’s The Midnight’s Children

https://www.ted.com/talks/iseult_gillespie_why_should_you_read_midnight_s_childre

n

Significance of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_wright_why_should_you_read_the_god_of_small_thi

ngs_by_arundhati_roy

https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106135/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAMk6akP5I

https://www.ted.com/talks/iseult_gillespie_why_should_you_read_midnight_s_children

https://www.ted.com/talks/iseult_gillespie_why_should_you_read_midnight_s_children

https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_wright_why_should_you_read_the_god_of_small_things_by_arundhati_roy

https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_wright_why_should_you_read_the_god_of_small_things_by_arundhati_roy

Communicative English

UG First Year (First Semester) Syllabus

Unit I (20 hours)

1. Listening and Speaking

a. Introducing self and others

b. Listening for specific information

c. Pronunciation (without phonetic symbols)

i. Essentials of pronunciation

ii. American and British pronunciation

2. Reading and Writing

a. Reading short articles – newspaper reports / fact

based articles i. Skimming and scanning

ii. Diction and tone

iii. Identifying topic sentences

b. Reading aloud: Reading an article/report

c. Journal (Diary) Writing

3. Study Skills - 1

a. Using dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesaurus Grammar in Context:

Naming and Describing

• Nouns & Pronouns

• Adjectives

Unit II (20 hours)


a. Listening with a purpose: b. Effective Listening:

c. Tonal Variation: d. Listening for information

e. Asking for Information f. Giving Information:


1. a Strategies of Reading:

Skimming and Scanning b. Types of Reading :

Extensive and Intensive Reading

c. Reading a prose passage d. Reading a poem

e. Reading a short story

2. Paragraphs: Structure and types

a. What is a Paragraph?

b. Paragraph structure c. Topic Sentence

d. Unity e. Coherence

f. Connections between Ideas: Using Transitional

words and expressions

g. Types of Paragraphs 3. Study Skills II:

Using the Internet as a Resource

a. Online search: b. Know the keyword:

c. Refine your search: d. Guidelines for using the Resources:

e. e-learning resources of Government of India f. Terms to know

4. Grammar in Context Involving Action-I

a. Verbs b. Concord

Unit III (16 hours)


a. Giving and following instructions

b. Asking for and giving directions

c. Continuing discussions with connecting ideas

2. Reading and writing

a. Reading feature articles (from newspapers and magazines)

b. Reading to identify point of view and perspective (opinion pieces, editorials etc.)

c. Descriptive writing – writing a short descriptive essay of two

to three paragraphs. 3. Grammar in Context:

Involving Action – II • Verbals - Gerund, Participle, Infinitive • Modals

Unit IV (16 hours)


a. Giving and responding to opinions


a. Note taking

b. Narrative writing – writing narrative essays of two to three paragraphs

3. Grammar in Context:

Tense • Present

• Past

• Future

Unit V (18 hours)


a. Participating in a Group Discussion


a. Reading diagrammatic information – interpretations

maps, graphs and pie charts b. Writing short essays using the language of comparison and

contrast

3. Grammar in Context: Voice (showing the relationship

between Tense and Voice)

2

CONTENTS

Unit Pages

Unit I (18 hours)


a. Listening and responding to complaints (formal

situation)

b. Listening to problems and offering solutions

(informal)


a. Reading aloud (brief motivational anecdotes)

b. Writing a paragraph on a proverbial

expression/motivational idea.

3. Word Power/Vocabulary

a. Synonyms & Antonyms

4. Grammar in Context

● Adverbs

Prepositions

Unit II (20 hours)


a. Listening to famous speeches and poems

b. Making short speeches- Formal: welcome speech and vote of thanks.

Informal occasions- Farewell party, graduation

speech


a. Writing opinion pieces (could be on travel, food,

film / book reviews or on any contemporary topic)

b. Reading poetry

b.i. Reading aloud: (Intonation and Voice

Modulation)

b.ii. Identifying and using figures of speech -

simile, metaphor, personification etc.

3. Word Power

a. Idioms & Phrases

4. Grammar in Context

Conjunctions and Interjections

Unit III (18 hours)


a. Listening to Ted talks

b. Making short presentations – Formal presentation

with PPT, analytical presentation of graphs and

3

reports of multiple kinds

c. Interactions during and after the presentations


a. Writing emails of complaint

b. Reading aloud famous speeches

3. Word Power

a. One Word Substitution

4. Grammar in Context: Sentence Patterns

Unit IV (16

hours)


a. Participating in a meeting: face to face and online

b. Listening with courtesy and adding ideas and

giving opinions during the meeting and making

concluding remarks.


a. Reading visual texts – advertisements

b. Preparing first drafts of short assignments

3. Word Power

a. Denotation and Connotation

4. Grammar in Context: Sentence Types

Unit V

(18 hours)


a. Informal interview for feature writing

b. Listening and responding to questions at a formal

interview


a. Writing letters of application

b. Readers’ Theatre (Script Reading)

c. Dramatizing everyday situations/social issues

through skits. (writing scripts and performing)

3. Word Power

a. Collocation

4. Grammar in Context: Working With Clauses

University of Madras

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