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UNIT I – CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Book of the Duchess Edmund Spencer: Epithalamion
Shakespeare:Sonnet(8,15,24,30,37,40,46,76,82,91,112,116,126,140,144,147,154)
Francis Bacon: of Oxford of Nobility
of Travel
of Friendship of Love
Ben Jonson: Volpone or the Fox Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus Sir Jhomas More: Utopia
John Webster: The White Devil William Langland: Piers the plowman Shakespeare: The comedy of Errors A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet Henry VIII
Love’s Labour Lost
UNIT 2- JACOBEAN TO AUGUSTAN AGE
John Milton: Paradise Regained John Dryden: All for Love
Alexander pope: The Rape of the Lock Andrew Marwell: Garden
Thomas gray: Elegy written in a country churchyard Jonathan swift: A Tale of a Tub
Addison and Steele: The spectators and the coverly papers. (Essays 1-10, Macmillan Edn)
Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted village Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews Samuel Daniel: Christ Victoric
Triumph
Sir Thomas Brown: The Garden of Cyrus William Blake: Songs of Experience Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Henry Vaughan: Regeneration
UNIT 3 – ROMANTIC PERIOD
William Wordsworth: The Daffodils The Solitary Reaper Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads
Biographia Literaria
- B. Shelly: Ode to the west wind John keats: Ode to Autumn Charles Lamb: The Essays of Elia
- Oxford in the vacation
- New year’s Eve
- Dream children: A Reverie
- The price of chimney-sweeper
- My Relations Byron: Prometheus Jane Austen: Emma
Walter Scott: The Talisman
William Hazlit: Characters of Shakespeare’s plays. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
UNIT 4 – VICTORIAN AGE
Tennyson: The princess: A Medley Robert Browning: Men and Women Andrea Del Sarto
Mathew Arnold: Rugby Chapel Dover beach.
D.G.Rosetti : The Blessed Damozel George Eliot: Romola
W.M Thackeray: Vanity Fair R.L.Stevenson: Treasure Island
John Ruskein: Sesame and Lilies Charles Dickens: A Tale of two cities.
UNIT 5 – MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS
W.B.Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium Thomas Hardy: The Woodlanders. Virginia Woolf: Mr.Bennet and Mrs.Brown
A.L. Huxley: Time Must Have a Stop E.M.Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread T.S.Eliot: Murder in Cathedral
C.P.Snow: Corridors of Power
G.B. Shaw: The Devil’s Disciple Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
UNIT 6 – AMERICAN LITERATURE
Whitman: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d H.W.Long Fellow : The May Queen
Edgar Allam Poe: The Haunted Palace To my Mother
The Lake
Emily Dickinson: A something in a Summer’s Day Bless God, he went as soldier’s
How happy is the little Stone This is my Letter to The World. Robert Frost: Blue Berries Wallace Stevens: The Snow man Emerson: The American Scholar
Henry James: The lesson of the master O’Neill: The Great God Brown Hawthorne: A House of the Seven Gables Edward Albe: The American Dream
Alice Walker: By the light of my Father’s smile Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and The Sea
UNIT 7 – INDIAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
Nissin Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
A.K. Ramanujam: A River
- Parthasarathy: Lines for a Photograph Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree
Sarojini Naidu: The Soul’s Prayer
Anita Desai: Where shal we go for this summer? Badal Surcar: Evam Indrajit
Sri Aurobindo: Rose of God.
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable Deshpande: The Dark Holds No Terror Kirish karnard: Tugulaq
UNIT 8 – LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS.
Family of Indo European Languages Historical Linguistics
LSRW
Theories of Language acquisition Dialects
Phonology Affixes
Derivational and inflectional affixes Morphemes
Acronyms
Phrase and structures Phonetics and phonology Minimal Pairs Sociolinguistics Semantics and Pragmatics Neurolinguistics
Dichotic listening Lingua franca Jargon
UNIT 9 – CRITICISM AND LITERARY THEORIES
Plato: Republic
Francis Bacon: The Advancement of learning Samuel Johnson: On fiction
Preface to Shakespeare
S.T Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
Mathew Arnold: The function of criticism at the present time I A Richards: Practical Criticism
Northrop Frye: The critical path T.S.Eliot: Hamlet and his Problems
I A Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism Rene Wellek: Concepts of Criticism Aristotle: Poetics
Ezra Pound: The ABC of Reading Wayne C. Booth: The Rhetoric of fiction Empson: Seven types of Ambiguity
UNIT 10 – POST COLONIAL LITERATURE AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Atwood: Surfacing Lawrence: The Fire Dwellers P.K.Page : Adolescence
Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God
Wole Soyinka: A Dance of the Forests Wilfered Campbell: The Winter Lakes AG.Smith: The White House
Ondaatje: There’s a trick with a knife I’m learning to do George Ryga: Portrait of Angelica
In the shadow of the vulture Ibsen: The lady from the sea Moliere: The comic pastoral
Sir Thomas More: The Four Last Things
