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Strengthen your teaching expertise with the Polytechnic TRB English syllabus, featuring British Literature, American Literature, Literary Criticism, Linguistics, and Teaching of English as a Second Language. At Professor Academy, our 100% online coaching equips you with in-depth subject knowledge and exam strategies. 

Polytechnic TRB English Syllabus

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
  • P. B. Shelly: Ode to the west wind
  • John Keats: Ode to Autumn

Charles Lamb: The Essays of Elia

1) Oxford in the vacation
2) New year’s Eve
3) Dream children: A Reverie
4) The price of chimney-sweeper
5) 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
  • R. Parthasarathy: Lines for a Photograph
  • Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree
  • Sarojini Naidu: The Soul’s Prayer
  • Anita Desai: Where shall 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
  • 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
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