Unit-I: DETAILED POETRY

Geoffrey Chaucer         : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

John Donne                        : (1) The Canonization

                                : (2) Go and Catch the Falling Star

Unit-II: NON- DETAILED POETRY

Edmund Spenser         : Extracts of Faerie Queene (as in Peacock Vol-I)

Wyatt and Surrey                : From Peacock’s English Verse Vol-I

Unit-III: DETAILED DRAMA

Christoper Marlowe      : Edward II

Unit-IV: NON-DETAILED DRAMA

Ben Jonson                 : The Alchemist

John Webster             : The Duchess of Malfi

Unit-V: DETAILED PROSE

Bacon’s Essays           : Of Revenge

                                  Of Truth

                                  Of Adversity

                                  Of Love

                                  Of Marriage

                                  Of Parents and Children

NON-DETAILED PROSE

Gospel according to St. Mark

Bacon: The New Atlantis

Unit-I: DETAILED POETRY

1.     Milton        : Paradise Lost: Book IX

Unit-II: NON DETAILED POETRY

        Dryden       : The Hind and the Panther

        Pope         : Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

        Marvell      : To His Coy Mistress

        Gray          : Elegy Written in a country Churchyard

Unit-III: DETAILED DRAMA

        Sheridan    : The Rivals

NON-DETAILED DRAMA

        Dryden       : All for Love

        Goldsmith  : She Stoops to Conquer

Unit-IV: DETAILED PROSE

        Swift         : A Tale of a Tub

Addison and Steele : (i) The Spectator’s Account of himself

                           : (ii) The Spectator’s Account of the Club

                           : (iii) Death of Sir Roger

NON-DETAILED PROSE

Burke : Speeches of Burke (on conciliation with America)

Unit-V: FICTION

1. Goldsmith       : The Vicar of Wakefield

2. Daniel Defoe   : Robinson Crusoe

Unit-I: DETAILED POETRY

Wordsworth Ode: on the intimations of immortality

        Browning    : (i) Abt Vogler

                        : (ii) Rabbi Ben Ezra

        Arnold       : (i) Dover Beach

                        : (ii) The Forsaken Merman

Unit-II: NON-DETAILED POETRY

1. Coleridge        : The Ancient Mariner

2. Keats             : The Eve of St. Agnes

3. D.G. Rossetti  : The Blessed Damozel

4. Morris            : Haystack in the floods

Unit-III: DETAILED DRAMA

Shelley              : The Cenci

NON-DETAILED DRAMA

Oscar Wilde                : The Importance of Being Earnest

Unit-IV: DETAILED PROSE

Lamb                 : Essays of Elia

(i)                  Christ Hospital Fifty Years Ago

(ii)                New Year’s Eve

(iii)               Old China

(iv)               My Relations

(v)                 Mackery End in Hertfordshire

NON-DETAILED PROSE

Carlyle               : Hero as Poet

Unit-V: FICTION

Jane Austin                : Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens  : Great Expectations

109PENT04: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE

Unit-I: DETAILED POETRY

        Hopkins     : The Wreck of the Deutschland

        W.B. Yeats : Easter 1916

        T.S. Eliot    : The Waste Land

NON-DETAILED POETRY

        Dylan Thomas     : Fern Hill

        D.H. Laurence     : Snake

        W.H. Auden                : Missing

        Ted Hughes                : Hawk Roosting

Unit-II: DETAILED DRAMA

        T.S. Eliot    : Murder in the Cathedral

Unit-III: NON-DETAILED DRAMA

1. G.B. Shaw      : The Apple Cart

2. Harold Pinter   : The Birthday Party

Unit-IV: DETAILED PROSE

        George Orwell     : Reflection on Gandhi

        E.M. Forster        : What I Believe

NON-DETAILED PROSE

        C.P. Snow  : Two Cultures

Unit-V: FICTION

        Virginia Woolf     : Mrs. Dalloway

        William Golding  : Lord of the Flies

Unit-I: POETRY

        Classical and Romantic Poetry

        Twentieth Century British Poetry

        Twentieth Century American Poetry

Unit-II: DRAMA

        Shakespeare (His Comedies, Tragedies, History plays and Romances)

        British Drama

        American Drama

Unit-III: FICTION

        British Novel (19^th Century)

        American Novel (20^th Century)

        Indian Novel

Unit-IV: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

        English as a World Language

        American English

        Teaching of English at the Tertiary Level

Unit-I: DETAILED POETRY

        Walt Whitman    : Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

        Ezra Pound         : Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

        Robert Frost       : After Apple Picking

        Wallace Stevens ; Sunday Morning

Unit-II: NON-DETAILED POETRY

Edward Taylor     : The Soul’s Groan to Christ for Succor

                          Christ’s Reply

                          A Fig for thee, Oh! Death

Robert Lowell     : Skunk Hour Soft Wood

                          For the Union Dead

Sylvia Plath                : Lady Lazarus Daddy

Unit-III: DETAILED DRAMA

        Arthur Miller       : Death of a Salesman

NON-DETAILED DRAMA

        Eugene O’Neill    : The Emperor Jones

Unit-IV: DETAILED PROSE

        Ralph Waldo Emerson  : The Poet

        Thoreau                     : Slavery in Massachusetts

NON-DETAILED PROSE

        James Baldwin    : Notes of a Native son

Unit-V: FICTION

1. Mark Twain     : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

2. Saul Bellow     : The Victim

Unit-I: DETAILED POETRY

CANADIAN POETRY

E.J. Pratt    : The Dying Eagle

F.R. Scott   : The Canadian Author’s Meet

AUSTRALIAN POETRY

A.D. Hope          : Australia

Judith Wright      : Fire at Murdering Hut

INDIAN POETRY

Nissim Ezekiel    : Night of the Scorpion

Unit-II: NON-DETAILED POETRY

NEW ZEALAND POETRY

Jessie Mackay     : The Noosing of the Sun God

INDIAN POETRY

Toru Dutt           : Lakshman

                          Our Casuarina Tree

Unit-III: DETAILED DRAMA: AFRICAN DRAMA

        Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel

NON-DETAILED DRAMA: INDIAN DRAMA

        Girish Karnad: Nagamandala

Unit-IV: DETAILED PROSE: AFRICAN PROSE

        Chinua Achebe    : The Novelist as Teacher

NON-DETAILED PROSE: INDIAN PROSE

        Nirad C. Choudhry       : Passage to England (Chap-1)

Unit-V: FICTION: CARRIBEAN FICTION

        V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas

INDIAN FICTION

        Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable       

Unit-I:

Detailed Study    : The Merchant of Venice

Unit-II:

Detailed Study    : Hamlet

Unit-III:

General Study     : Richard II

Unit-IV:

General Study     : Antony and Cleopatra

Unit-V:

General Study     : Sonnets: 18,30,55,60,65,86,116,129,30 and 146

Unit-I:

        Origin of Language

        Growth of vocabulary

        Change of Meaning

        Characteristics of American English

Unit-II:

        What is Language?

        Spoken and Written Language

        Social Aspects of Language

        Standard and Non Standard varieties of Language

Unit-III:

        Morphology

        Syntax (Phrase, Clause and sentences)

        Co-ordination and Subordination

        Phrase structure and TG Grammar

Unit-IV:

Phonology- classification and Description of

(i)                  Vowels and (ii) Consonants

Syllable

Word Stress and Sentence Stress

Intonation

Unit-V:

        Phonetic Transcription

        Stress Marking of Individual words

Recommended Books:

F.T. Wood: An Outline History of English Language

A.C. Baugh: History of English Language

S.K. Verma and M.Krishnasamy: Modern Linguistics

R.H. Robins: General Linguistics: An Introductory Summary

Quirk and Greenbaum: A University Grammar of English

T.Balasubramanian: A Text Book of English Phonelies

Daniel Jones: English Pronouncing Dectionary (14^th edition)

Unit-I:

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTROY OF IDEAS ON WOMEN

Plato         : Woman as Equal to man in the state

J.S.Mill       : The Subjection of Women (Chapters One and Two)

Unit-II:

VIEWS ON WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION

Mary Woolstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Women

Virgina Woolf          : A Room of one’s own (Chapter one and two)

Unit-III:

FEMINIST CRITICISM

Elaine Showalter : The Female Tradition (From A Literature of their own)

Kate Full brook   : Jane Austen and the Comic Negative

Unit-IV:

DRAMA

        Sophocies          : Antigone

        Henrick Ibsen     : The Doll’s House

Unit-V:

FICTION

        Dorris Lessing     : The Grass is Singing

        Kate Chopin       : The Awakening

Books For Reference

Warhol Robin R. and Diane Prince Herndl

1. Feminism – An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 1996
2. Sue Roe, Women Reading Women’s Writing. The Harvester Press Ltd, 1987

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