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UG TRB English Coaching Classes in Tamil Nadu – Professor Academy

UNIT – I: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

  • The Age of Chaucer
  • The Age of Shakespeare
  • The Age of Milton
  • The Age of Dryden
  • The Age of Pope
  • The Age of Johnson
  • The Age of Wordsworth
  • The Age of Tennyson
  • The Age of Hardy
  • The Present Age

Reference Books:

  • K.R. Ramachandran Nair – History of English Literature
  • W.H. Hudson – History of English Literature

UNIT – II : BRITISH LITERATURE-I

Prose:

Detailed Study:

  • Francis Bacon – Of Revenge Of studies
  • Charles Lamb – Dream Children: A Reverie

Non - Detailed Study:

  • Joseph Addison – Sir Roger at the Theatre
  • Richard Steele – The Spectator Club

Poetry:

Detailed Study:

  • Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion
  • William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18
  • John Milton – Paradise Lost (Book IX) lines (795 – 833)
  • William Blake – The Lamb Non

Non Detailed Study:

  • John Donne – The Bait
  • Sir Philip Sidney – Sonnet I (from Astrophil and Stella)
  • John Dryden – A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
  • Alexander Pope – Ode on Solitude

DRAMA:

Detailed Study:

  • Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
  • George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

Non Detailed Study:

  • Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest

Fiction:

  • Oliver Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
  • H.G. Wells – Time Machine

UNIT – III – SHAKESPEARE

Unit – 1 Introduction

  • Shakespearean Theatre, Audience,
  • Fools and Clowns – Texts: Quortos and Folios
  • Shakespearean Women
  • Shakespearean Comedies, Tragedies,
  • Histories, Romances, Problem plays

II. Plays

Detailed Study:

  • Macbeth
  • Julius Caesar

Non – Detailed

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Richard II

UNIT-IV : BRITISH LITERATURE – II

I Poetry

Detailed Study:

  • William Wordsworth – The Solitary Reaper
  • S.T. Coleridge – Kubla Khan
  • John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale
  • P.B. Shelley – Ozymandias

Non – Detailed Study

  • Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
  • G.M. Hopkins – God’s Grandeur

Prose

Detailed Study:

  • W. Hazlitt – My first Acquaintance with Poets
  • W.R. Inge – Spoon Feeding

Non – Detailed study

  • John Ruskin – Of King’s Treasuries

Drama:

  • Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot

Fiction:

  • Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Unit V: AMERICAN LITERATURE

I Prose

Detailed Study:

  • R.W. Emerson – Self – Reliance
  • Martin Luther King -I have a Dream
  • Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address

Non-Detailed Study

  • H.D. Thoreau – A Battle of Ants
  • R.W. Emerson – The American Scholar

II Poetry

Detailed Study:

  • Robert Frost – West Running Brook
  • Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking
  • Emily Dickinson – I felt a Funeral
  • H.W. Longfellow – Nature

Non-Detailed Study

  • Sylvia Plath – Lady Lazarus
  • Carl Sandburg – Happiness
  • R.W. Emerson – Brahma

III Drama

Detailed Study:

  • Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
  • Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

IV. Short Stories

  • Edgar Allan Poe – The Cask of Amontillado
  • O. Henry – Let Me Feel Your Pulse
  • Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Match Girl
  • T.S. Arthur – An Angel in Disguise

V Fiction

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
  • Toni Morrison – Beloved

UNIT –VI: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

I Prose

Detailed Study:

  • M.K. Gandhi – The Gospel of Non-Violence

Non-Detailed Study

  • S. Radhakrishnan – The World Community
  • A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – The Power of Prayer

II Poetry

Detailed Study:

  • Sir Aurobindo Ghosh – The Tiger and the Deer
  • Sarojini Naidu – Love and Death

Non-Detailed Study

  • Vikram Seth – Evening Wheat
  • Nissim Ezekiel – Good Bye Party
  • Kamala Das – An Introduction
  • A.K. Ramanujam – Of Mothers, Among other Things

III Drama

Detailed Study:

  • Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
  • Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man

Non-Detailed Study

  • Vijay Tendulkar – Silence! The court is in session

IV Fiction

  • Mulk Raj Anand -Coolie
  • R.K.Narayan – Swami and Friends
  • Chetan Bhagat – The Three Mistakes of My Life

UNIT-VII: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE

I Prose

Detailed Study:

  • Robert Wilson Lynd – The Pleasures of Ignorance
  • Bertrand Russell – Knowledge and Wisdom
  • E.M. Forster – Tolerance

Non-Detailed Study

  • R.L. Stevenson – An Apology for Idlers
  • E.V. Lucas – On Finding Things

I POETRY

Detailed Study:

  • T.S. Eliot – Journey of the Magi
  • Dylan Thomas – The Hunchback in the Park

II DRAMA

Detailed Study:

  • G.B. Shaw – Candida

III. NOVAL

  • Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
  • R.L. Stevenson – Treasure Island

UNIT-VIII: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

I. Introduction

Definition of language, spoken and written language -Diachronic & Synchronic approaches of language study – Linguistics – definition, nature and scope.

II. English Phonetics and Phonology

Speech Organs – Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs) – Syllabus, Stress and Intonation – Transcriptions (exercises).

III. Grammar

Definition of Grammar – Different Approaches to Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional.

IV Syntax

Structural analysis (I.C. analysis) -Deep and Surface Structure

V. Morphology and Semantics

Word, Morphemes -Word meaning association (semantics)

UNIT IX: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORIES

  • The Contributions of Plato and Aristotle to Literary Criticism
  • The Contributions of Horace, Quintilian, Longinus and Dante to the development of literary criticism.
  • Orientation of Critical Theories Mimetic Theory – Pragmatic Theories – Sidney – Dryden – Dr. Johnson –Coleridge – Arnold – T.S. Eliot.
  • Five Approaches Moralistic Approach – Psychological Approach – Archetypal Approach – Sociological Approach – Formalistic Approach.

Unit V Recent Trends

  • Feminist Criticism
  • Marxist Criticism
  • New Historicism
  • Eco Criticism
  • Postcolonial criticism

UNIT X: WOMEN’S WRITING IN ENGLISH

I. Prose

Detailed Study:

  • Sojourner Truth – Ain’t I a woman?
  • Non – detailed Study
  • Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

II. Poetry

Detailed Study:

  • Judith Wright – Request to a Year
  • Sylvia Plath – Medusa
  • Kamala Das – The Old Playhouse
  • Supata Bhattacharya -Draupadi

Non- Detailed Study

  • Maya Angelou – Still I Rise
  • Glady Cardiff – Combing
  • Gwendolyn Brooks – A Sunset of the City

III. Drama

Detailed Study:

  • Susan Glaspell – Trifles

Non- Detailed Study

  • Caryl Churchill -Top Girls

IV Fiction

  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -Heat and Dust

V. Short Stories

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
  • Ambai – Forest

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