UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS

INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION,

BA ENGLISH
Under Choice Based Credit System
(With effect from the academic year 2018 – 2019 onwards)

SCHEME OF EXAMINATIONS

SEMESTER – I Max.

CREDIT
Marks
SUBJECTS

Total
COURSE

Ext.
Int.
COMPONENT
Part I Paper – I Language 3 25 75 100
Part II Paper – I English 3 25 75 100
Core Paper –I British Literature I 4 25 75 100
Part III Core Paper –II Indian Writing in English 4 25 75 100
Allied Paper–I Background to the Study of English 3 100
25 75
Literature I

SEMESTER – II Max.

CREDIT
Marks
SUBJECTS

Total
COURSE

Int

Ex
t.
COMPONENT

.
Part I Paper –II Language 3 25 75 100
Part II Paper –II English 3 25 75 100
Core Paper –III British Literature II 4 25 75 100
Part III Core Paper –IV Regional Indian Literature in Translation 4 25 75 100
Allied Paper–II Background to the study of English 3 100
25 75
Literature II

SEMESTER – III Max.

CREDIT

Marks
COURSE SUBJECTS
Total
Ext.
Int.

COMPONENT
Part I Paper –III Language 3 25 75 100
Part II Paper –III English 3 25 75 100
Core Paper –V British Literature III 4 25 75 100
Part III Core Paper –VI Modern English Language and Usage 5 25 75 100
Part IV NME-I Digital Literacy: Concepts and Skills 2 25 75 100

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SEMESTER – IV Max.

CREDIT
Marks
COURSE SUBJECTS

Total
Ext.
Int.
COMPONENT

Part I Paper –IV Languages 3 25 75 100

Part II Paper –IV English 3 25 75 100
Core Paper –VII American Literature I 5 25 75 100
Part III Core Paper –VIII Film and Literature 4 25 75 100
Part IV NME-II Indian Constitution 2 25 75 100

SEMESTER – V Max.

CREDIT
Marks
SUBJECTS

Total
COURSE COMPONENT

Ext.
Int.
Core Paper –IX American Literature II 4 25 75 100
Part III Core Paper –X Post Colonial Literature in English I, 100
4 25 75
Australian Literature
Core Paper –XI Women’s Writing 4 25 75 100
Core Elective –I Introduction to Translation Studies 3 25 75 100
Part IV Environmental Studies 2 25 75 100

SEMESTER – VI Max.

CREDIT
Marks
SUBJECTS

Total
COURSE

Int.

Ext
COMPONENT

.
Core Paper - XII Contemporary Literature 4 25 75 100
Part III Core Paper – XIII Post – Colonial Literature in English II 4 100
25 75
Canadian Literature
Core Paper – XIV Shakespeare 4 25 75 100
Core Elective – II World Literature in Translation 3 25 75 100
Part IV Value Education 2 25 75 100

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION
CREDITS
Language Paper 4 x3 12
English 4 x3 12
Core Paper 12x4 48
2x5 10
Allied 2x3 6
Elective 2x3 6
NME 2x2 4
EVS 1x2 2
VE 1x2 2
TOTAL 102

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 BA ENGLISH
Under Choice Based Credit System
(With effect from the academic year 2018 – 2019)
SYLLABUS
Semester I
Core Paper I: British Literature I

UNIT I: Introduction: The Renaissance and its Impact on England, The Reformation -
causes and effects, The Commonwealth of Nations, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their
social relevance

UNIT II: Prose

1. On Revenge - Francis Bacon
2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison
3. A City Night-Piece - Oliver Goldsmith

UNIT III: Poetry

1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser
2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? - William Shakespeare
3. A Valediction: of Weeping - John Donne
4. Paradise Lost (Book IX) - John Milton ( lines 795 - 833)
5. The Rape of the Lock: Canto III - Alexander Pope (lines 125 -178)

UNIT IV: Drama: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

UNIT V: Fiction : The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith

Prescribed Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlowe
Ed. William-Alan Landes (Revised). Players Press, 1997.
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - Ed. Stephen Coote (Penguin UK, 2004)

Recommended Texts:
Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Professor M L Stapleton, Dr
Sarah K Scott (Revised) - Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 History of the Renaissance [Link]
2 The Restoration and [Link]
Enlightenment
3 The English Reformation [Link]
4 17th Century British Literature [Link]
5 Doctor Faustus [Link]
6 The Vicar of Wakefield [Link]

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 Core Paper II : Indian Writing in English

UNIT I: Introduction
Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact
History of Indian Writing in English
Nativisation of English
Introduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay's speech)
Indian Diasporic writers

UNIT II: Prose

1. The World Community - S. Radhakrishnan
Prescribed: Links - Balram Gupta
2. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
Prescribed: The Diaspora and the World – Chapter 4 only

UNIT III: Poetry

1. The Tiger and the Deer - Sir Aurobindo Ghosh
2. Summer Woods - Sarojini Naidu
3. In India - Nissim Ezekiel
Prescribed (for poems 1-3): An Anthology of Indian English Poetry - Orient Longman
4. Crab - Arun Kolatkar
5. Eating wheat - Vikram Seth
6. Fireflies - Manohar Shetty
Prescribed (for poems 4-6): Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets

UNIT IV: Drama

Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani
Prescribed: Dance like a Man – Penguin Publications

UNIT V: Fiction
1. Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan

Prescribed Texts:
Links – Balram Gupta
The Diaspora and the World (Chapter 4)
Anthology of Indian English Poetry – Orient Longman
Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets
Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani - Penguin Publications
Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan

Recommended Texts:
A.K. Mehrotra's Illustrated History of Indian Literature - Introductory chapter
Indian Writing in English - K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Modern Indian poetry in English - Bruce King

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Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 English: An Indian Story [Link]
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2 The Rise of English in India [Link]

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 Allied Paper I: Background to the Study of English Literature I

UNIT 1: Drama - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Heroic Comedy, Revenge
Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce, Masque

UNIT II: Poetry - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

Subjective and Objective poetry
Narrative poetry: The Epic, the Mock-epic, the Ballad
Lyrical: The Ode, the Sonnet, the Elegy
Dramatic Monologue
Poetic Drama
Prosody: Rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor and allegory

UNIT III: Prose - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

The Essay and its types (Aphoristic, Periodic, Satirical, Critical)
The Short Story
The Biography and the Autobiography
Travel Writing

UNIT IV: The Renaissance Period (1350 – 1660)

An Introduction to Bible Translation - Tyndale, Coverdale
The University Wits
Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
Comedy of humour

UNIT V: The Late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (1660 - 1800)
Comedy of Manners
Neo-Classicism
Sentimental and Anti-sentimental comedies
Pre-Romantics
Prescribed Texts:
History of English Literature – 5th edition – Edward Albert
A History of English Literature – Compton Rickett

Relevant Videos on YouTube:

S. No. Video URL
1 18th Century Literature [Link]
2 The Novel in 18th Century [Link]
Britain
3 Types of Drama: Tragedy [Link]
4 Types of Drama: Farce [Link]
5 Types of Poetry [Link]

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 SEMESTER II

Core Paper – III - British Literature II

Unit-1: Introduction
Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian and the French Revolutions on the English society,
Humanitarian Movements in England, the Reform Bills and the spread of education

Unit-2: Prose
1. Dream-Children, A Reverie - Charles Lamb
2. On Going a Journey - William Hazlitt
3. Of King's Treasuries - John Ruskin (An Extract from Sesame and Lilies)

Unit-3: Poetry
1. Lucy Gray - William Wordsworth
2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
3. Ozymandias - Shelley
4. Ode to a Nightingale - Keats
5. Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson
6. Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
7. My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

Unit-4: Drama
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Unit-5: Fiction
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Prescribed Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - Ed. Peter Raby - Oxford University Press.
2008.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Margaret Cardwell - Clarendon Press. 1993.

Relevant Videos on YouTube:

S. Video URL
No.
1 The Agrarian Revolution in [Link]
England Lo4
2 Reform Bill - 1832 [Link]
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3 Dream-Children [Link]
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4 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [Link]
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5 Ode to a Nightingale - I [Link]
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6 Ode to a Nightingale - II [Link]

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7 The Importance of Being Earnest [Link]
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8 Ozymandias [Link]
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9 Great Expectations [Link]
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10 Ulysses : Tennyson [Link]
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 Core Paper – IV - Regional Indian Literature in Translation

Unit-1: Introduction
Concept of Indian Literature, , Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in
Indian Aesthetics
Prescribed: Translator's note to Poems of Love and War by AK Ramanujam (Oxford),
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy
Bharathamuni from Natyashastra

Unit-2: Poetry
1. Is Poetry always worthy when it's old? Kalidasa (Malavikagnimitram)
Website references for topic 1:
[Link]
2. What She Said - Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3 (Tamil)
3. What She Said to her Girlfriend - Kapilar, Akanaanooru 82 (Tamil)
Prescribed for topics 2 and 3: Translation of Sangam Age Poetry by [Link]
Website references for topics 2 and 3:
[Link]
[Link]
4. Gitanjali – (1-5) - Rabindranath Tagore
5. Six Rubaiiyats - Mirza Arif (Urdu)

Unit-3: Prose
1. Roots - Ismat Chugtai (Urdu)
2. The Shroud - Munshi Premchand (Hindi)
3. Sita Brand Soapnut Powder - Sundara Ramaswamy (Tamil)
Prescribed: Waves, Manas publications
4. Poovan Banana - Vaikom Mohammad Basheer (Malayalam)
Prescribed: Poovan Banana and Other Stories

Unit-4: Drama
Wedding Album – Girish Karnad

Unit-5: Fiction
Beasts of Burden – Imayam (Tamil)

Prescribed Texts:
Waves - Manas Publications
Poems of Love and War – AK Ramanujam
Texts and Their Worlds - Foundation Books
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy
Bharathamuni from Natyashastra
Beasts of Burden – Imayam
Poovan Banana and Other Stories – VM Basheer
Wedding Album – Girish Karnad - OUP

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Recommended Texts:
Plays of Girish Karnad
Chandalika - Rabindranath Tagore - or Post Office (Bengali)
Gora - Tagore
The infinity of Grace - O.V. Vijayan
Dharmapurana Short stories of Paul Zachariah.
Lalithambika Antarjanam, Ambai, CS Lakshmi Chudamani Raghavan Krishna Sobti
Poems of Nirala
I will meet you yet again - Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)

Relevant Videos on YouTube:

S. No. Video URL
1 Theory of Nine Rasas [Link]
2 Indian Literature [Link]

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 Allied Paper – II - Background to the Study of English Literature II

Unit-1: Drama (Continued)

Well made play (Drama of Ideas - Shaw and Ibsen), Existential Drama, Comedy of
menace, Kitchen-sink drama, Problem Play, Didactic Drama(Propaganda play), One-act
play

Unit-2: The Novel

Epistolary, Picaresque, Gothic Fiction, Historical Novel, Detective Novel,
Bildungsroman, Stream of Consciousness, Avant-garde, Science Fiction

Unit-3: The Romantic Age (1798 - 1832)

Romanticism with respect to
Prose - Lamb, Hazlitt
Poetry - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley , Keats
Novels - Jane Austen

Unit-4: The Victorian Age (1832 - 1901)

Pre-Raphaelite movement - D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti
Humanitarian Movement - Methodist, Anti Slavery and Salvation Army
Aesthetic Movement - Walter Patter
Victorian Poets - Tennyson, Browning
Victorian Novelists - Charles Dickens, Thackeray
Victorian Writers - Carlyle, Ruskin
Impressionistic Writers- Proust, Joyce
Symbolist Movement - Yeats

Unit-5: The Modern Age (Post 1901)

Imagist Poetry- Ezra Pound
Poets of the Thirties – Wilfred Owen, Auden
Essay - Huxley
Drama – GB Shaw
Novel - HG Wells, Virginia Woolf

Prescribed Texts:
An Introduction to the Study of Literature – WH Hudson – Atlantic Publishers
English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers - R. J. Rees
A Background to the Study of English Literature – B Prasad, Haripriya Ramadoss –
Macmillan
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 The Romantics [Link]
2 The Victorian Poets [Link]
3 The Victorian Era [Link]
4 Understanding Virginia [Link]
Woolf

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5 Understanding W H Auden [Link]
6 Understanding Imagism [Link]
through Ezra Pound
7 World War I poetry in [Link]
England

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 SEMESTER III

Core Paper-V British Literature III

Unit-1: Introduction
Social impact of the two world wars, the Labour Movement, the Welfare State

Unit-2: Prose
1. Tradition and Individual Talent – TS Eliott
2. The Art of Fiction – Henry James

Unit-3: Poetry
1. The Wreck of the Deutschland - G.M. Hopkins
2. Easter, 1916 - W.B. Yeats
3. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
4. The Unknown Citizen - W.H. Auden
5. The Thought-Fox - Ted Hughes

Unit-4: Drama
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Unit-5: Fiction
Animal Farm - George Orwell

Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2007
Animal Farm – George Orwell

Relevant Videos on YouTube:

S. Video URL
No.
1 Impact of World War I on [Link]
Britain A
2 Pygmalion [Link]
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3 Easter, 1916 [Link]
4 Animal Farm [Link]
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 Core Paper VI - Modern English Language and Usage

Unit-1: Introduction
The Evolution of Standard English
Prescribed: An Outline History of the English Language [(Chapter- 8) (Pages 196-
209)]

Unit-2: Language and Regional Variation

The Standard Language
Accent and Dialect
Dialectology
Regional Dialects
Style, Slang and Jargon
Prescribed: The Study of Language (3rd edition) by George Yule

Unit-3: Areas of Difficulty in the Usage of English Language for the II Language Users
Basic Grammar
Parts of speech and agreement (voice, tense, number)
Modals and Auxiliaries
Types of sentences (Interrogatives, Declaratives, Exclamatory and Imperative)
Direct and Indirect speech
Question Tags

Unit-4: Language for specific Speech events

Drafting an invitation
Drafting the minutes of a meeting
Addressing a gathering (welcome address)
Proposing vote of thanks

Unit-5: English in the Internet Era

The Internet and English Vocabulary
Role and Scope of Online English Dictionaries
Language and the Advent of Technology
Useful online resources such as YouTube, Google Scholar

Prescribed Texts:
The Study of Language (3rd edition) - George Yule
An Outline History of the English Language – F T Wood
Practical English Grammar – A J Thomson and A V Martinet (OUP)
Language and the Internet – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
English as a Global Language – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
Reference texts:
1. The Encyclopedia of World Mythology
2. Bulfinch’s Mythology
3. Myth and Me

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 Non-Major Elective - I: Digital Literacy: Concepts & Skills

UNIT-1

Introduction to the Digital Literacy Journey- Digital Literacy, Digitizing Information, Social
Impact of Computing, Communication, Collaboration, Ethics.

UNIT-2

What are digital literacies? Values of Digital Literacy, Digital Literacy in the language
classroom, Focus on language: print and texting literacies, Focus on connections: personal,
participatory and intercultural literacies,

UNIT-3

Information Literacy, Media Literacy, Young People’s Identity Engagement with

Technology, Labelling the Digital Generations,

UNIT-4

Teachers’ Engagement with Digital Literacy, The role of literature in language and
literacy learning, Digital literacy: A conceptual framework for survival skills in the
digital era, Challenges for Digital Literacy in English Curriculum, Digital Literacy and
Digital Literature.

UNIT-5

Socioeconomic Factors in Digital Literacy, Digital Literacy and Composition, Digital

Databases.

Prescribed Texts:
• Introduction to Digital Literacy (2nd Edition) - Mark Bowles,
• Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices - Victoria
Carrington, Muriel Robinson
• Digital Literacy: Different Cultures, Different Understandings – [Link]
• Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood – [Link]
• Makin New Media: Creative Production and Digital Literacies – [Link]
Recommended Text:

• Digital Literacy for Learning – [Link] and [Link]

• Implementing Media Literacy: Empowerment, Participation and Responsibility –
[Link]
• Changing Literacies – [Link]
• Literacy: Reading the word and the word – [Link] and [Link]
• Media Literary in Schools: Practice, Production and Progression – [Link] and
[Link]

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 Semester IV

Core Paper – VII - American Literature I

Unit-1: Introduction
Puritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolition of Slavery

Unit-2: Prose
1. Self-Reliance – R.W. Emerson (an extract)
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For – H.D. Thoreau
3. Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln

Unit-3: Poetry
1. Nature – H.W. Long fellow
2. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment – Anne Bradstreet
3. Brahma – R.W. Emerson
4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking – Walt Whitman
5. O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman
6. There’s a certain Slant of light – Emily Dickinson

Unit-4: Short stories

1. The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe
2. Bartleby, the Scrivener – Melville
3. Let Me Feel Your Pulse – O Henry
4. Pigeon Feathers – John Updike

Unit-5: Fiction
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Prescribed Texts:
The Scarlet Letter: A romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Samuel E. Cassino, 1892

Relevant Videos on YouTube

S. No. Video
1 American Puritanism
2 American War of Independence
3 Gettysburg Address
4 O Captain! My Captain!
5 The Cask of Amontillado
6 The Scarlet Letter

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 Core Paper VIII: Film and Literature

Unit-1: Introduction
Adaptation
Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter1 - "Beginning
to theorize adaptation"
The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre (narrative film , avant-garde film, film
noir, documentary), Themes tropes - cue - suspense - themes - functions - motif -
parallelism - development - unity / disunity
Film Narrative: Title - Story - Plot - narration (Restricted and omniscient) - duration -
motivation - motif- parallelism - character traits - cause and effects – exposition -
climax - point of view

Unit-2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction

Danny Boyle's Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)

Unit-3: Adaptation of Fantasy / Science Fiction

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005)

Unit-4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films

Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (Tamil)

Unit-5: Components of a Film Review

Plot, Genre, Role of actors, Background information, condensed synopsis,
argument/analysis, evaluation, recommendation, opinion

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 NON-MAJOR ELECTIVE II: INDIAN CONSTITUTION

UNIT I: Introduction

Salient features of the constitution – preamble – Federal systems – Fundamental

Rights and Duties – Directive Principles of State Policy – Amendment procedure

UNIT II: Union Executive

Union Executive – President – Elections – Powers – Legislative – Executive –

Judiciary and Emergency – Vice President – Prime Minister – Cabinet

UNIT III: Parliament

Union Parliament – Rajya Sabha – Chairman – Lok Sabha – Speaker – Powers and
functions

UNIT IV: Judiciary

Supreme Court – Appointment and Removal of Judges – Constitutional Remedies –

Independence of Judiciary – Original – appellate – Advisory power – Judicial Review

UNIT V: State Government

State government – governor – Appointment – Removal – Powers – Executive –

Legislative – Judicial and Discretionary – Chief Minister – Cabinet – State legislatures –
High Court.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR STUDY

1. Basu D.D.,- Introduction to the Constitution of India , Prentice Hall of India.

2. Pylee.M.V.,- An Introduction to the Constitution of India, Vikas Publishing House.

3. Siwach.J.R,- Dynamics of Indian Government and Politics Sterling Publishing House.

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 SEMESTER V

Core Paper IX- American Literature II

Unit-1: Introduction
Harlem Renaissance, World War II and its aftermath, Post-modern impulse,
Multiculturalism

Unit-2: Poetry
1. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson
2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
3. In a Station of the Metro – Ezra Pound
4. The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens
5. A Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes
6. Mirror – Sylvia Plath
7. Mr. Edwards and the Spider – Robert Lowell
8. An Agony. As Now. – Amiri Baraka

Unit-3: Drama
The Crucible – Arthur Miller

Unit-4: Short Stories

1. This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona – Sherman Alexie
2. Something to Remember Me By – Saul Bellow
3. Separating – John Updike
4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway

Unit-5: Fiction
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

Prescribed Texts:
The Crucible. Arthur Miller. Penguin, 2003.
The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros. 2nd ed. Arte Publico Press, 1983.
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video
1 Harlem Renaissance
2 The Road Not Taken
3 A Dream Deferred
4 Mirror
5 The Crucible
6 The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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Core Paper-X- Post-Colonial Literature in English I: Australian Literature

Unit-1: Drama
Ned Kelly – Douglas Stuart

Unit-2: Short Stories

Mate – Kate Greenville
One Sunday in February 1942 – Thomas Keneally

Unit-3: Poems
Waltzing Mathilda – Banjo Patterson
No more Boomerang – Kath Walker
The Immigrant Voyage – Les Murray
For New England – Judith Wright

Unit-4: Novels
Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner

Unit-5: Myths and Legends

The Aboriginal Song Cycle - The Djanggawul Song Cycle
The Wild Colonial Boy

Reference Texts:
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature – Elizabeth Webby – Cambridge
University Press – 2000
The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature – Ken Goodwin and Allan Lawson,
Macmillan – 1990

Online References:
Australian Government – [Link]/about-australia/australian-stories
Creative Spirits – [Link]
Austlit: The Australian Literature Resource – [Link]

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 Core Paper XI - Women’s Writing

Unit-1: Introduction
Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz
society, theories and concepts of feminism (liberal, social, radical feminism),
patriarchy, stereotyping

Unit-2: Prose
1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral
Subjects - Mary Wollstonecraft
(Restricted to Chapter 13 – Pages 273-275 only)
2. Ain’t I a woman? - Sojourner Truth (Speech)

Unit-3: Poetry
1. Persephone, Falling - Rita Dove
2. Journey to the Interior - Margaret Atwood
3. Request to a Year - Judith Wright
4. Medusa - Sylvia Plath
5. A Sunset of the City - Gwendolyn Brooks
6. Words for father- Shirley Lim

Unit-4: Drama
1. Trifles - Susan Glaspell

Unit-5: Short Stories

1. Draupathi - Mahasweta Devi
2. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilmar
3. Forest - Ambai

Prescribed Texts:
Trifles - Susan Glaspell. Baker's Plays, 2010

Recommended Texts:
Feminism: A Very Short Introduction. Margaret Walters. Oxford University Press, 2005.
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Ellen Rooney. Cambridge
University Press, 2006.

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 Core Elective – I: Introduction to Translation Studies

Unit-1: Introduction
Definition and Scope of Translation, Translation and Culture, Types of Translation

Unit-2: History
A Brief History of Translation

Unit-3: Issues in Translation

Decoding and Recording, Problems of Equivalence, Loss and Gain, Gender and
Translation

Unit-4: Formal and Dynamic Equivalence

Formal and Dynamic Equivalence, Translation Shift

Unit-5: Comparative Analysis

A Comparative Study of Two Translations of Thirukkural by G U Pope and Rajaji
(First Chapter Only)

Prescribed texts:
Translation Studies (1980) Susan Bassnett : Routledge Publishers
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation - Lawrence Venuti
The Translation Studies Reader - Lawrence Venuti
Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation – Umberto Eco
In These words (A Course book on Translation) – Mona Baker, Routledge
A Linguistic theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics - John C Catford: OUP
Translation – R A Brower, Cambridge (On Linguistic aspects of translation - Roman
Jakobson Pages 232-239 only)
Towards a Science of Translating – Eugene Nida (E J Brill)
The theory and practice of Translation - Eugene Nida and C R Taber (E J Brill)
Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook - Andre Lefevre, Routledge Publishers (1992)

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 SEMESTER VI

Core Paper – XII - Contemporary Literature

Background
Multiculturalism, diasporic writing, displacement and alienation and identity crisis, theme of
acculturation, assimilation, globalisation, hybridity

Unit-1: Prose
1. Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie (an extract)
2. The Bomb and I - Arundati Roy (an Extract)

Unit-2: Poetry
1. Black Berry Picking - Seamus Heaney
2. A Far Cry from Africa - Derek Walcott
3. Hamlet - Wole Soyinka
4. I know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Unit-3: Drama
1. Harvest- Manjula Padmanabhan

Unit-4: Short stories

1. Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
2. The Eye - Alice Munro
3. The Medicine Bag - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
4. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

Unit-5: Fiction
1. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Prescribed Texts:
Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie - Knopf Canada, 2012.
Harvest - Manjula Padmanabhan - Aurora Metro, 2003.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003
Recommended Texts:
Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix. Trans. William Rodarmor. University of California Press:
London, 2008.
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. Floyd Collins. University of Delaware Press, 2003.
Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study. Narendra Kumar. Pinnacle Technology, 2009.
Caribbean Panorama: An Anthology from and about the English-speaking Caribbean with
Introduction, Study Questions, Biographies, and Suggestions for Further Reading. ed.
Kathleen Kelley Ferracane. La Editorial, UPR, 1999.
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Biodun Jeyifo. Univ. Press of Mississippi.

Relevant Videos on YouTube

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S. No. Video
1 What is multiculturalism?
2 Joseph Anton : A Memoir
3 Black berry picking
4 A Far Cry From Africa
5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
6 Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
7 Life of Pi

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Core Paper – XIII :Post-Colonial Literature in English II: Canadian Literature

Unit-1: Poetry
First Neighbours – P K Page
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga – A M Klein
The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson
Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A J M Smith

Unit-2: Prose and Fiction

Godzilla vs. Post-colonial – Thomas King
Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy - Robert Krotesch
The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood

Unit-3: Drama
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga

Unit-4: Short Stories and Legends

Face – Alice Munro
“The Hostelry of Mr Smith” (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) – Stephen Leacock
Cannibal Woman – Ron Geyshick

Unit-5: Autobiography / Autoethnography

In Search of April Raintree – Beatrice Mosonior Culleton

Prescribed Texts:
History of Canadian Literature - W H New
Canadian Culture: An Introductory Reader – Ed. Elspeth Cameron
An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry – Ed . C D Narasimhiah
New Contexts of Canadian Criticism – Ed Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee and J R
Struthers
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature – Ed. Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie -
2nd Edition
Websites:
Canadian Encyclopedia – [Link]
Canadian Culture - [Link]

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 Core Paper – XIV: Shakespeare
Unit-1: Introduction
Life of Shakespeare, Shakespearean theatre, Shakespearean audience, Shakespearean
players, comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, problem-plays

Unit-2: Tragedy
Macbeth

Unit-3: Comedy
Twelfth Night

Unit-4: History
Henry IV – Part I

Unit-5: Critical Essays

1. Shakespeare in a Changing World – Arnold Kettle
2. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare – Charles Lamb

Prescribed Texts:
English Critical Tradition – S Ram & VS Sethuraman (Vol. VI)
Twelfth Night - Ed. Roger Warren and Stanley Wells - Oxford University Press 2008
Henry IV - Ed. Gary Taylor - Oxford University Press – 2008
Shakespeare in a Changing World - Arnold Kettle – Published by Lawrence and Wishart

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 Core Elective Paper-II - World Literature in Translation

Unit-1: Introduction
Goethe’s concept of World literature, Tragedy of Fate, French Revolution, Realistic
drama of Ibsen and Chekhov, Multiculturalism, Realism, Concept of the Absurd,
Postmodernism

Unit-2: Poetry
1. The Trojan Women - Euripides
2. The Gate of Hell : Canto III (Inferno) - Dante Alighieri
3. Ithaca - Constantine Petrou Cavafy
4. The Burning of the Books - Bertolt Brecht
5. Lot’s Wife - Anna Akhmatova
6. The End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska

Unit-3: Drama
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

Unit-4: Short Stories

1. War - Luigi Pirandello
2. The Guest - Albert Camus
3. The Convert - Guy de Maupassant
4. The Darling- Anton Chekhov
5. A Hunger Artist – Franz Kafka
6. A Christmas tree and a Wedding - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. One Autumn Night - Maxim Gorky
8. The Snow Storm - Alexander Pushkin
9. The Fairy Amoureuse - Emile Zola

Unit-5: Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas

Prescribed Texts:
Oedipus the King. Sophocles. Trans. David Grene. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Relevant Videos on YouTube
S. No. Video
1 French Revolution - Impact on Literature
2 The Trojan Women
3 Oedipus Rex
4 A Hunger Artist

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