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Unit 1: Modern Literature (1400-1600)

Unit 2: Modern Literature (1600-1798)

Unit 3: Modern Literature (1798-1832)

Unit 4: Modern Literature (1832-Present)

Unit 5: Shakespeare

Unit 6: American Literature

Unit 7: Indian Writing in English

Unit 8: Approaches to Literature

Unit 9 & 10: Linguistics & Criticism

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Unit I: ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1400-1600
Poetry: Geoffrey Chaucer (Prologue to the Canterbury Tales - The Book of the Duchess Chapter only), Edmund Spenser (Prothalamion and Epithalamion), Sir Thomas Wyatt (Remembrance).
Prose: Bacon – Essays (Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Adversity, Of Revenge and Of Ambition), Sir Philip Sydney (An Apologie for Poetrie), The Bible (The Book of Job).
Drama: Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus), Thomas Kyd (The Spanish Tragedy), Ben Jonson (Every Man in His Humour).

Unit II: ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1601-1798
Poetry: John Milton (Paradise Lost, Book – 1X), Andrew Marvell (To His Coy Mistress), John Donne (The Canonization), Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock), John Dryden (Absalom and Achitophel), Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard).
Prose and Fiction: Samuel Johnson (Life of Milton), Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels), John Bunyan (The Pilgrim’s Progress), Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe).
Drama: John Dryden (All for Love), Richard B. Sheridan (The School for Scandal), William Congreve (The Way of the World), Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer).

Unit III: ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1798-1850
Poetry: William Wordsworth (Immortality, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude – Book-I), Samuel Coleridge (Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan), John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias, Adonais).
Prose and Fiction: Charles Lamb (Essays of Elia: Christ’s Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream Children, New Year’s Eve), William Hazlitt (My First Acquaintance with Poets), William Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads), Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights).
Lyrical Drama: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Prometheus Unbound).

Unit IV: LITERATURE FROM 1851 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Poetry: Mathew Arnold (Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy), Robert Browning (Andrea Del Sarto), Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses), W.B. Yeats (Byzantium), T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), G.M. Hopkins (God’s Grandeur), W.H. Auden (The Unknown Citizen), Ted Hughes (The Thought Fox).
Prose and Fiction: Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History Lecture III-Shakespeare), Mathew Arnold (The Study of Poetry), George Orwell (You and the Atom Bomb), Charles Dickens (Hard Times), George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss), Thomas Hardy (Mayor of Casterbridge), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway).
Drama: John Osborne (Look Back in Anger), Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage and Her Children), J.M. Synge (Riders to the Sea), Caryl Churchill (Top Girls).

Unit V: PLAYS AND SONNETS BY SHAKESPEARE
Drama: Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, Measure for Measure.
Sonnets: 18, 29, 65, 104, 106, 116, 129, 130.

Unit VI: AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry: Walt Whitman (Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking), Anne Bradstreet (Prologue), R.W. Emerson (Brahma), Robert Frost (Birches, Mending Wall), Paul Lawrence Dunbar (The Sparrow), Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), E.E. Cummings (The Cambridge Ladies), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Anti-Suffragists).
Prose and Fiction: H.D. Thoreau (Where I Lived and What I Lived For), R.W. Emerson (The American Scholar), William Faulkner (Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech), Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake).
Drama: Arthur Miller (The Death of a Salesman), Eugene O’ Neil (Emperor Jones), Tennessee Williams (A Street Car Named Desire).

Unit VII: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH & COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(A) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Poetry: Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali), Nissim Ezeikel (Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa), Toru Dutt (Our Casuarina Tree), Kamala Das (An Introduction), Sujatha Bhatt (A Different History).
Prose and Fiction: Jawaharlal Nehru (An Autobiography), Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Annihilation of Caste), Mulk Raj Anand (Coolie), Kamala Markandeya (A Handful of Rice), Arundathi Roy (The God of Small Things).
Drama: Girish Karnad (Hayavadana), Vijay Tendulkar (Silence! The Court is in Session), Mahasweta Devi (Rudali), Mahesh Dattani (Dance like a Man).
(B) COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
Poetry: Kath Walker (A Song of Hope), Banjo Patterson (Waltzing Mathilda), Wole Soyinka (The Telephone Conversation), E.J. Pratt (The Dying Eagle), Judith Wright (At Cooloolah), Abioseh Nicol (The Meaning of Africa), A.D. Hope (Australia).
Prose and Fiction: Thomas King (Godzilla Vs Post-Colonial), Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart), Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), Patrick White (Voss).
Drama: Wole Soyinka (The Lion and the Jewel), George Ryga (The Ecstasy of Rita Joe), Jane Harrison (Stolen).

Unit VIII: LITERARY CRITICISM
1. Aristotle (Poetics), 2. Dryden (Essay of Dramatic Poesy), 3. Coleridge (Biographia Literaria Ch. XIV and Ch XVII), 4. T. S. Eliot (Metaphysical Poets), 5. I. A. Richards (Four Kinds of Meaning), 6. William Empson (The Seven Types of Ambiguity), 7. Northrop Frye (The Archetypes of Literature), 8. Cleanth Brooks (Irony as a Principle of Structure), 9. Allen Tate (Tension in Poetry), 10. Elaine Showalter (Towards a Feminist Poetics), 11. Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex).

Unit IX: LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND PEDAGOGY
History of English Language: Indo-European Family, Old/Middle/Modern English, Vocabulary Growth, Change in Meaning, Influence of Bible/Shakespeare/Milton/Johnson, Spelling Reform, English Lexicon.
Linguistics: Phonetics/Phonology (Vowels, Consonants, Diphthongs), Morphology, Semantics, Dialect & Idiolect, Grammar (Traditional, TG Grammar, Deep Structure), Applied Linguistics.
ELT: History of ELT, Second Language Acquisition, Designing Syllabus, Materials Production, Language Testing and Evaluation.

Unit X: APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE SKILLS
Phrases, Synonyms, Antonyms, Prefix and Suffix, Tenses, Voice, Parts of Speech, Homophones, Articles and Determiners, Identifying Sentence Patterns, Compound Words, Figures of Speech, Identifying and Correcting Errors, British and American English.

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