Subject: English
Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600)
Poetry
For Detailed Study
Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Spenser : Faerie Queene – Book-I
For Non-detailed Study
Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion
Wyatt, Surrey : Selections in Peacock’s English verse, Vol-I
Ballads : Peacock – Vol-II
Prose
For Detailed Study
Bacon – Essays : Of Truth, Of Adversity, Of Studies,
Of Revenge, Of Ambition, Of Friendship
Sidney : Apologie For Poetrie For Non-detailed Study
The Bible : The Book of Job.
Drama
For Detailed Study
Marlowe : Dr. Faustus For Non-Detailed Study
Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy
Ben Jonson : The Alchemist
Unit-II – MODERN LITERATURE (1600-1798)
Poetry
For Detailed study
Donne : Canonisation, The Ecstasie
Milton : Paradise Lost, Book-IX
Pope : The Rape of the Lock. For Non-detailed Study
Milton : Samson Agonistes
Gray, Collins & Blake: Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III
Herbert : 1. Affliction 2. The Pulley
Marvell : To His Coy Mistress
Prose
For Detailed Study
Johnson : Life of Milton For Non-Detailed Study
Bunyan : The Pilgrim’s Progress
Fielding : Tom Jones
Drama
For Detailed Study
Dryden : All for Love
Sheridan : The School for Scandal For Non-detailed Study
Congreve : The way of the World
Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer
Unit-III – MODERN LITERATURE (1798 – 1832)
Poetry
For Detailed Study
Wordsworth : Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey
Coleridge : Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan
Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
For Non-Detailed Study
Wordsworth : Prelude – Book-I
Shelley : Adonais
Prose
For Detailed Study
Lamb : Essays of Elia
Christ’s Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream children, New Year’s Eve
Hazlitt : My First Acquaintance with Poets.
For Non-Detailed Study
Shelley : A Defence of Poetry
Wordsworth : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1850) Jane Austen : Emma
Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Unit-IV – MODERN LITERATURE (1832 to the present day) Poetry
For Detailed Study
Arnold : Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
Browning : Andrea Del Sarto
Tennyson : Morte D’ Arthur
eats : Byzantium
Eliot : The Waste land
For Non-Detailed Study
Hopkins : The Wreck of the Deutschland The selections from
(i) Owen (ii) W.H.Auden (iii) Stephen Spender in the Faber Book of Modern Verse.
Prose
For Detailed Study
Carlyle : The Hero as a Man of Letters
(from “On Heroes and Hero Worship”) Mathew Arnold : The Study of Poetry
T.S.Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent For Non-detailed Study
Dickens : Great Expectations George Elliot : Middle March Hardy : Jude the Obscure Virginia Woolf : To the Light House
Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory
Unit-V – SHAKESPEARE
Drama
For Detailed Study
Macbeth, The Tempest For Non-Detailed Study
Henry–IV Part-I: Measure for Measure Antony and Cleopatra
A general knowledge of the other plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare is expected of the candidates.
Unit-VI AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry
Detailed study
Walt Whitman : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Emily Dickinson : Because I could not Stop forDeath
Robert Frost : Mending Wall, Birches, West Running Brook. Sylvia Plath : Daddy
Non-Detailed Study
Walt Whitman : Passage to India E.E.Cummings : The Cambridge Ladies Hart Crane : Poem: To BrooklynBridge.
Fiction
Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Melville : Moby Dick
Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
Prose
Detailed study
Emerson : The American Scholar
Faulkner : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Non-Detailed Study
Thoreau : Walden
James Thurcer : The Owl in the Attic
Drama
Detailed study
Eugene O’ Neil : The Hairy Ape
Arthur Miller : The Death of a Salesman Non-Detailed Study
Tennesse Williams : A Street Car named Desire Edward Albee : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Unit-VII INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Poetry
Detailed Study:
Tagore : Gitanjali
Aurobindo : Thought the Paraclete
Non-Detailed Study:
Poems of Sarojini Naidu and Toru Dutt from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry. Poems of A.K.Ramanujam, R. Parthasarathy, Kamala Das and Nissim Ezekiel from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets” ed. R.Parthasarathy.
Fiction
Mulk Raj Anand : Coolie Raja Rao : Kantapura
R.K. Narayan : The English Teacher Kamala Markandaya: A Handful of Rice.
Prose
Detailed Study
Ananda Commarasamy Aurobindo:The Dance of Shiva (The Title Essay) Non-Detailed Study
Nehru : An Autobiography
Drama
Detailed Study:
Tagore : Muktha Dhara Girish Karnad : Tughlaq
Non-Detailed Study
Gurucharan Das : Larine Sahib
Commonwealth Literature
Poetry
Non-Detailed Study:
E.J. Pratt : The Dying Eagle
Judith Wright : Fire in the Murdering Hut, The Cedars Wole Soyinka : The Telephone conversation
Abioseh Nicoll : The Meaning of Africa A.D.Hope : Australia
Drama
Detailed Study
Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel
Non–Detailed Study
Douglas Stewart : Ned Kelly
Prose
Chinua Achebe : The Novelist as Teacher
Fiction
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
Alan Paten : Cry, the Beloved Country
Unit-VIII — APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
- ModernDrama
- ModernFiction
- LiteraryMovements
- LiteraryCriticism and Theory
- Feminism
- Teachingof English in India
- Journalismand Creative Writing in English
- Post– Modernism
Unit-IX – HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Originof Language
- Placeof English in the Indo-European family
- GeneralCharacteristics of Old and Middle English
- Therise and growth of Modern English
- Growthof Vocabulary Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Scandinavian and other foreign influences – Word
- Changeof Meaning
- TheMakers of English, The Bible, Spenserm, Shakespeare, Milton and Johnson.
- AmericanEnglish
- IndianEnglish
- Characteristicsof Modern
- English Spelling Reform
- 12.The English Lexicon
Books for reference:
- HenryBradley: The Making of English
- T.Wood: An outline History of the English Language
- C.Baugh: A History of the English Language
LINGUISTICS
Definitions – The Nature and Scope of linguistics, Speech and Writing, Form and Meaning Words, Clause and Phrase – Concord Government– Sentence Pattern Phonology Morphology Idiolect, Dialect Transformational Generative Grammar
Books for Study
Frank Plalee : Grammar, ELBS
John Lyons : An introduction to Theoretical linguistics
Unit-X PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
- Aristotle :Poetics
- Dryden :Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- Coleridge :Biographia Literaria XIV and Ch.XVII
- Keats :Letters (from English Critical Tradition-Macmillan)
- S.Elliot :Metaphysical poets
- A.Richards :Four kinds of Meaning
- WilliamEmpson : The Seventh Type of Ambiguity
- NorthropFrye : The Archetypes of Literature
- Trilling :Sense of the Past
- Brooks :Irony as a Principle of Structure
- AllenTate : Tension in Poetry