St. Peters University
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Years1
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
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
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
Burke : Speeches of Burke (on conciliation with America)
Unit-V: FICTION
1. Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
2. Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
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
Shelley : The Cenci
Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest
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
Carlyle : Hero as Poet
Jane Austin : Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
109PENT04: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
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
George Orwell : Reflection on Gandhi
E.M. Forster : What I Believe
C.P. Snow : Two Cultures
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 (19th Century)
American Novel (20th Century)
Indian Novel
Unit-IV: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
English as a World Language
American English
Teaching of English at the Tertiary Level
Years2
Walt Whitman : Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Ezra Pound : Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Robert Frost : After Apple Picking
Wallace Stevens ; Sunday Morning
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
Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
Eugene O’Neill : The Emperor Jones
Ralph Waldo Emerson : The Poet
Thoreau : Slavery in Massachusetts
James Baldwin : Notes of a Native son
1. Mark Twain : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2. Saul Bellow : The Victim
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
NEW ZEALAND POETRY
Jessie Mackay : The Noosing of the Sun God
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
Origin of Language
Growth of vocabulary
Change of Meaning
Characteristics of American English
What is Language?
Spoken and Written Language
Social Aspects of Language
Standard and Non Standard varieties of Language
Morphology
Syntax (Phrase, Clause and sentences)
Co-ordination and Subordination
Phrase structure and TG Grammar
Phonology- classification and Description of
(i) Vowels and (ii) Consonants
Syllable
Word Stress and Sentence Stress
Intonation
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 (14th edition)
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)
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)
FEMINIST CRITICISM
Elaine Showalter : The Female Tradition (From A Literature of their own)
Kate Full brook : Jane Austen and the Comic Negative
DRAMA
Sophocies : Antigone
Henrick Ibsen : The Doll’s House
FICTION
Dorris Lessing : The Grass is Singing
Kate Chopin : The Awakening
Books For Reference
Warhol Robin R. and Diane Prince Herndl
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