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Renaissance to Neoclassical Literature

THE TUDOR ERA (THE 16TH CENTURY):
John Skelton, selections; Thomas More, from Utopia (1516)
Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, select sonnets
Edmund Spenser, from The Faerie Queene (1590) - Book I, from Amoretti (1595)
Philip Sidney, from The Defense of Poesy (1590), from Astrophil and Stella (1591)
Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd,” Doctor Faustus (1592)
William Shakespeare, select sonnets, Romeo and Juliet (1595-97).

THE JACOBEAN ERA (THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY):

Aemilia Lanyer, from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614)
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (1613)
Mary Wroth, from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621)
Francis Bacon, New Atlantis (1626)
John Donne, “The Canonization,” The Bait,” “The Flea,” “A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning,” from Holy Sonnets 1633
George Herbert and Andrew Marvell, selections.

THE RESTORATION AGE (1660-1700):

John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), from Books 1, 2 and 9
John Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe,” from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)
Samuel Pepys, from The Diary (1660s)
John Bunyan, from The Pilgrim‟s Progress - Part I (1678)
Aphra Behn, “The Disappointment,” Oroonoko (1688)
John Locke, from Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
Mary Astell, from Some Reflections Upon Marriage (1700).

THE AUGUSTAN AGE (1700-1750):

Jonathan Swift, from A Tale of a Tub (1704), “A Modest Proposal” (1729)
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), from Book IV of The Dunciad
(1743)
Addison and Steele, selections from The Spectator (1711-14)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742);
David Hume, “Of Personal Identity” from A Treatise of Human Nature
(1739)
Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat,” Elegy (1751).
THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY (1750-1790S):
Samuel Johnson, from the Preface to The Dictionary (1755), and Preface to
Shakespeare (1765), from Rambler (1750-52) - Nos. 4 and 60, “Milton” and
“Pope,” from Lives of the Poets (1779)
Edmund Burke, from Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful, Part II (1757)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), “An Essay on the Theatre” (1773)
Richard Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777)
James Boswell, from The Life of Johnson (1791)

Romantic and Victorian Literature

THE REVOLUTION AND THE FIRST GENERATION ROMANTICS:
Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
William Blake: from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789), The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell (1793)
William Wordsworth: Preface to (1802) and selections from Lyrical Ballads, from
The Prelude (1799)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; “Kubla Khan,”
“Frost at Midnight,” “Dejection: An Ode,” from Biographia Literaria (1817).

THE SECOND GENERATION ROMANTICS AND THE WOMEN OF BRITISH

ROMANTICISM:
Lord Byron, “Prometheus,” Manfred (1817), from Don Juan (1819)
P. B. Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," "Ozymandias,” "Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty," “Adonais,” "A Defence of Poetry"
John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci" “Eve of St. Agnes,” “Ode on a Grecian
Urn,” “Letter to George and Thomas Keats.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792);
Anna L. Barbauld, “The Rights of Woman,” “The Mouse’s Petition
Felicia Hemans, “Indian Woman's Death-Song,” “The Homes of England”
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818);
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1823).
THE HISTORICAL NOVEL, OTHER PROSE:
Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)
Charles Lamb, from Essays of Elia (1823, 1833)
William Hazlitt, "My First Acquaintance with Poets," from Characters of
Shakespeare’s Plays (1817)
De Quincey, from Confessions (1821)
INDUSTRIALISM, SOCIALISM, EMPIRE:
Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of the Times” (1829), from Past and Present (1843)
J. S. Mill, from On Liberty (1859)
Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott,” “Ulysses,” “Tithonus,” from In
Memoriam (1850)
Robert Browning, “Andrea Del Sarto,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Caliban upon Setebos”
 Elizabeth B. Browning, “The Cry of the Children,” from Sonnets from the
Portuguese (1850);
Friedrich Engels, “The Great Towns” (1845)
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)
Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1869)
John Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851). Religion, Aestheticism, “The
Woman Question”:
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “Carrion
Comfort,” “Thou art indeed just, Lord”
D. G. Rossetti, “The Blessed Damozel,” “The Portrait,” “The One Hope”
Christina Rossetti, “In an Artist’s Studio,” “Remember,” “Goblin Market”
Mathew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” “The Scholar Gypsy,” “Thyrsis,” “The Buried
Life,” from “The Function of Criticism” (1864)
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847);
J. S. Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Thomas Hardy, “Hap,” “The Ruined Maid,” “The Darkling Thrush.”

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UNIT I: MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY •
Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: „The Pardoner,‟
„The Nun,‟ „The Friar,‟ „The Doctor‟
UNIT II: Elizabethan Poetry
Edmund Spenser: “Epithalamion”
John Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
UNIT III: Seventeenth Century Poetry
John Milton: Paradise Lost (Book IX: Lines 412-794)
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
UNIT IV: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
John Dryden : “Absalom and Achitophel” (Lines150-229)
Thomas Gray : “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Robert Burns : “Auld Lang Syne”
UNIT V: MODERN POETRY
Rupert Brooke : “The Soldier”
Wilfred Owen : “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
W. H. Auden : “Musee des Beaux Arts”
Dylan Thomas : “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Philip Larkin : “Whitsun Weddings”
Ted Hughes : “Hawk Roosting”
Seamus Heaney : “Digging”
Carol Ann Duffy : “Standing Female Nude”
Eavan Boland : “Achilles Woman” For Further Reading
 John Donne : “The Canonization"
Thomas Gray : “The Bard” : “On a Favourite Cat Drowned in a tub of Goldfishes”
Robert Burns : “Holy Willie's Prayer”
W. H. Auden : “Elegy on the Death of W. B. Yeats”
Dylan Thomas : “Poem in October”
Ted Hughes : “Life After Death
Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

UNIT III: Middle Class Novel of Manners

• Jane Austen : Emma
UNIT IV: Women’s Issues
• Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
UNIT V: Liberal Humanism, Individual Environment and Class Issues
• D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
• James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Indian writing
UNIT I: POETRY
Toru Dutt: “The Tree of Life”, “The Casuarina Tree”
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali (Lyrics 11 - 20)
Sri Aurobindo: “Tiger and the Deer”, “Rose of God”
Sarojini Naidu: “Palanquin Bearers”, “Coromandel Fishers”
Kamala Das: “Looking Glass”, “An Introduction”
Parthasarathy: “River Once”, “Under Another Sky”
Nissim Ezekiel: “Morning Prayer”, “Enterprise”
UNIT II: Prose
Sri Aurobindo: “The Essence of Poetry, Style and Substance” (from „The Future
Poetry‟)
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan: “Emerging World Society”
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam: “Orientation” (Wings of Fire)
UNIT III: Short Story
R. K. Narayan: “Engine Trouble”
Khushwant Singh: “The Mark of Vishnu”
Ruskin Bond: “The Tiger in the Tunnel”
UNIT IV: Drama
Asif Currimbhoy: Inquilab
Mahesh Dattani: Seven Steps Around the Fire
UNIT V: Novel
Shashi Deshpande: Roots and Shadows
Salman Rushdie: Midnight‟s Children

Brithish Lit
UNIT I: Poetry (Detailed
1. George Herbert (1593 - 1633) : “The Collar”
2. Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678) : “The Definition of Love”
3. Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695) : “The Retreat”
4. William Cowper (1731 - 1800) : “The Lily and the Rose” Poetry (Non-detailed)
5. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542) : “Remembrance”
6. Henry Howard (1517 -1547) : “The Seafarer”
7. Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595) : “The Burning Babe”
8. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) : “The Rape of the Lock” Canto-1
UNIT II: Drama
9. Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) : Doctor Faustus
UNIT III: Drama
10. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) : The School for Scandal
11. John Dryden (1623 - 1700) : All for Love
UNIT IV: Prose
12. Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) : 1. “Of Love”, 2. “Of Friendship”
13. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) : “The Spectator‟s Account of Himself” ,
14. Richard Steele (1672 - 1729) : “Recollections of Childhood ”
15. Authorized Version of the Bible: The Book of Job
UNIT V: Fiction
16. Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535) : Utopia
17. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) : Pamela
18. Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) : Robinson Crusoe
UNIT I: Poetry
1. William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) : “Tintern Abbey”
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) : “Frost at Midnight”
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) : “Ode to a Skylark”
4. John Keats (1795 - 1821) : “Ode to Psyche”
UNIT II: Poetry
5. William Blake (1757 - 1827) : “Jerusalem
” 6. Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) : “When We Two Parted”
7. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) : “The Brook”
8. Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) : “Two in the Campagna”
9. Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) : “Shakespeare”
10. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) : “The Blessed Damozel”
11. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) : “Pied Beauty”
UNIT III: Prose
12. Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) : “Poor Relations”
13. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) : “The Basis of an Ideal Character”
UNIT IV: Prose
14. Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) : “South Sea House”
15. William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) : “On Criticism”
16. Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859) : "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
UNIT V: Fiction
17. Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) : Ivanhoe
18. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) : Sense and Sensibility
19. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) : Great Expectations
20. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) : Tess of D‟Urbervilles
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) : “Byzantium”
2. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) : “The Waste Land” (Non-Detailed)
3. Carol Ann Duffy (1955-present) : “Valentine”
UNIT II: Drama
4. Edward Bond (1934 - present) : Lear
5. Caryl Churchill (1938 - present) : Far Away
UNIT III: Prose
6. Alfred George Gardiner (1865 - 1946) : “On Saying Please”
7. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) : “Pleasures” (Non-Detailed)
8. Will Durant (1885 - 1981) : “Conditions of Civilization” (From the book The Story of
Civilization - Part -I)
9. Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1914) : “The Death of the Moth”
10. George Orwell (1903 - 1950) : “A Hanging”
UNIT IV: Short Stories
11. Graham Greene (1905 - 1991) : “The Invisible Japanese Gentleman”
12. Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990) : “The Butler”
13. Angela Carter (1940 - 1992) : “The Snow Child”
UNIT V: Novel
14. Dame Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999) : The Bell
15. Kazuo Ishiguro (1954 - present) : Never Let Me Go
16. Zadie Smith (1975 - present) : NW

American lit
UNIT I: Poetry (Detailed) (18 Hours)
1. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) : “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) : “Ode to Ethiopia”
3. Robert Frost (1874-1963) : “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
4. e.e.cummings (1894- 1962) : “somewhere i have never travelled”
5. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) : “The Negro Mother”
Poetry (Non-Detailed)
6. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
7. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) : “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
8. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) : “The Red Wheelbarrow”
9. Claude Mckay (1889-1948) : “America”
10. Maya Angelou (1928-2014) : “Phenomenal Woman”
11. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) : “Mirror”
UNIT II: Drama (Detailed) (18 Hours)
12. Eugene O‟Neill (1888- 1953) : The Hairy Ape
UNIT III: Drama (Non-Detailed) (18 Hours)
13. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) : A Streetcar Named Desire
14. Amiri Barakka (1934- Present) : Dutchman
 UNIT IV: Prose (Non-Detailed) (18 Hours)
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : “Self-Reliance”
16. Richard Wright (1908-1960) : “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
UNIT V: Novel (18 Hours)
17. Saul Bellow (1915-2005) : Herzog
18. Paul Beatty (1962- ) : The Sellout
Gender studies
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) : “The Fly” (Short Story) (New Zealand)
4. Charlortte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) : “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Short
Story)(American)
5. Lynn Nottage (1964- ) : Sweat (Play) (African American)
6. Naomi Wolf (1962- ) : The Beauty Myth (Non-fiction) (AfricanAmerican)
7.Dale Spender (1943-) : Man Made Language
UNIT III
8. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) : “The Wife‟s Letter” (Short Story) (Indian)
9. Munshi Premchand (1880-1936) : “The Chess Players” (Short Story) (Indian)
10. Taylor Mac (1973- ) : Hir (Play) (American)
11. bell hooks (1952-) : We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (African American)
UNIT IV: Transgender Literature
12. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) : Orlando (Novel) (English)
13. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (1979- ) : Me Hijra, Me Laxmi (Autobiography) (Indian)
UNIT V: Lesbian and Gay Literature
14. Chinelo Okparanta (1981- ) : Under the Udala Trees (Novel) (Nigerian)
15. Alice Walker (1944- ) : The Color Purple (Novel) (African American)
16. Vasudhendra (1969- ) : Mohanaswamy (Novel) (Indian)

Postcolonial Literatures
UNIT I: Poetry (Detailed) (21 Hours)
1. Gabriel Okara 1921 - 2019) : “You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed”
2. Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013) : “Refugee Mother and the Child”
3. Derek Walcott (1930 - ) : “A Far Cry from Africa”
4. Margaret Atwood (1939 - ) : “Journey to the Interior”
UNIT II: Poetry (Non-detailed) (21 Hours)
5. A.D. Hope (1907-2000) : “Australia”
6. Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911 - 1984) : “Do not ask, my love”
7. Judith Wright (1915-2000) : “Typists in the Phoenix Building”
8. David Diop (1927- 1960) : “Africa”
9. Arun Kolatkar (1932 -2004) : “The Bus”
UNIT III: Drama (Detailed) (21 Hours)
10. George Ryga (1932-1987) : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe Drama (Non-detailed)
11. Wole Soyinka (1934-) : Death and the King‟s Horseman
12. Girish Karnad (1938 -2019) : Tughlaq
UNIT IV: Prose: (Non-Detailed) (21 Hours)
13. Edward Said (1935-2003) : “Orientalism” (Introductory Part)
14. Ngugi Wa Thiongo (1938- ) : “Decolonizing the Mind” (Introduction)
UNIT V: Fiction (21 Hours) 15. Chinua Achebe (1930- ) : Things Fall Apart 16. Patrick
White (1955 - ) : The Tree of Man

Contemporary World Literature

UNIT I: Poetry
1. Selina Tusitala Marsh (1971 -present) New Zealander : “The Young and the Restless”
2. Kath Walker alias Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993) Australian : “God‟s One Mistake”
3. Kishwar Naheed (1940 - ) Pakistani : “The Grass is Really Like Me”
4. Heather McHugh (1948-present) American : “Webcam the World”
5. Warsan Shire (1988- present) Kenyan : “Home” Poetry (Non-detailed)
6. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Chilean : “The Word”
7. Yehuda Amichai (1924- 2000) Israelite : “I Want To Die In My Own Bed”
8. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) Canadian : “Steer Your Way”
9. Mahmoud Darwish (1941- present) Palestinian : “Passport”
10. Nimah Nawwab (1966-present) Saudi Arabian : “Gentleness Stirred”
UNIT II: Drama
11. Djanet Sears (1959-present) Canadian : Harlem Duet
12. David Lindsay-Abaire (1969-present) American : The Rabbit Hole
UNIT IV: Prose
13. Kenzaburo Oe (1935-present) Japanese :“Japan, The ambiguous and Myself” (The Nobel
Prize Acceptance Speech) Prose (Non-detailed)
14. Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933 - 2015) British : “On Libraries”
UNIT V: Novel
15. Elie Wiesel (1928 - 2016) Romanian : Night
16. J.M. Coetzee (1940- present) Australian : Disgrace
17.Khaled Hosseini (1965- present) Afghan : The Kite Runner

Central University
Anne Bradstreet: “Prologue”
Whitman: “Song of Myself” Lines 1-50
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”
Emily Dickinson: “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” “Because I could not stop for
Death,”
Phyllis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To the University of
Cambridge in New England”
Robert Frost: “Home Burial,” “After Apple Picking”
Wallace Stevens: “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Emperor of Ice Cream”
Sylvia Plath: “Lady Lazarus”
Adrienne Rich: “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law”
Maya Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

Unit III Fiction Hawthorne: “

 Young Goodman Brown”
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Flannery O‟Connor: “Everything that Rises Must Converge”

Non-Fiction Thoreau:
“Where I Lived” Toni Morrison: Nobel Lecture
Amy Tan: “Mother Tongue”
UnitV: Modern American Drama
Tennessee Williams: A Street Car Named Desire
Lorraine Hansberry: Raisin in the Sun
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Brithish Literature
UNIT I OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY
Beowulf: lines from 1to 300 (in translation)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight lines 1 to 200 (in translation)
Chaucer: “The Prologue” (Lines 1-500)
Spenser: The Faerie Queene Book I Cantos xi & xii
Sidney- “Loving in Truth” 12
Unit II Early Renaissance Poetry
John Donne: “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” &“Canonisation”
George Herbert: “The Collar”/ “Easter Wings”
Richard Lovelace: “To Lucasta Going Beyond Seas” &“To Lucasta, Going to the
Wars”
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
Robert Herrick: “The Vine”/ “To the Virgins, to make much of time”
Henry Vaughan: “The Retreat”
Unit III Prose
Francis Bacon: “Of Studies,” “Of Death,” “Of Revenge”
Thomas Browne: “Of the Unicorn‟s Horn”, “Compendiously of the Musical Note
of Swans before their Death . . .”
Hopkins: “Windhover”
T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land”
. Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
. W.B. Yeats: “Sailing to Byzantium”
W.H. Auden: “In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Philip Larkin: “Toads”
Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle IntoThat Good Night”
Ted Hughes: “Thought Fox”
Seamus Heaney “Death of A Naturalist”
Carol Ann Duffy: “Standing Female Nude”
.Eavan Boland: “Domestic Violence”
 .Gillain Clarke: “Catrin”
.Simon Armitage: “My Father Thought it Bloody Queer”
Unit II: Modern British Prose
.Henry James: “The Art of Fiction”
George Orwell: “You and the Atomic Bomb”
E.M. Forster: “Two Cheers for Democracy”
Bernard Russell: “The Road to Happiness”
Unit III: Modern British Drama 1. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot 2. John Osborne: The
Patriot for Me 3. Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
Unit IV: Modern British Short Stories
D. H. Lawrence: “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
Somerset Maugham: “Rain”
Graham Greene: “The Destructors”
Doris Lessing: “To Room Nineteen”
G. K. Chesterton: "The Blue Cross"
Unit V: Fiction
1. VirginiaWoolf: To the Lighthouse 2. James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Angela Carter: Night at the Circus 4. Ian McEwan: Atonement

CRITICISM
Unit 1: Structuralist Linguistics and Anthropology Ferdinand de Saussure: FromCourse in
General Linguistics, (Excerpt from Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh Modern Literary Theory)
Claude Levi-Strauss: “Incest and Myth” (David Lodge: 20th Century Literary Criticism) 12
Unit 2: Structuralist Poetics Roman Jakobson: “Metaphoric and metonymic Poles” (David
Lodge: Modern Criticism and Theory) Roland Barthes : “The Death of the Author” 12 Unit
3: Formalist and Linguistic Poststructuralism Jacques Derrida : “Structure, Sign and Play in
the Discourse of the Human Sciences” Hillis Miller : “The Critic as Host” (From Modern
Criticism and Theory) 12 Unit 4: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Poststructuralism Jacques
Lacan : “Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” Gilles Deleuze : “Repetition for Itself”
(From Difference and Repetition) 12 Unit 5: Historicist Poststructuralism and Postmodernism
Michel Foucault : “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (from Paul Rabinow : The Foucault
Reader) Terry Eagleton: “Capitalism, Modernism and Post modernism” (From Modern
Criticism and Theory)

POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
1. HomiBhabha- The Location of Culture – Chapter 9 “The Postcolonial and the
Postmodern: The Question of Agency”
2. 2. Edward Said- Orientalism“Introduction”
3. 3. Frantz Fanon- The Wretched of the Earth – Chapter V- “Colonial War and Mental
Disorder”
4. 4. Ania Loomba- Colonialism/Postcolonialism – Chapter I – “Situating Colonial and
Postcolonial Studies”
Unit II: Poetry
 1. Srilanka: RudhramoorthyCheran- “A Letter to a Sinhala Friend” - Ebeling, Edited and
translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström and Sascha. A Second Sunrise: Poems
by Cheran. 2012.
2. Pakistan: Alamgir Hashmi- “So What if I Live in a House made by Idiots?”
3. Malaysia:MohamadBinHajiSalleh:“DoNotSay”

4. Africa: Wole Soyinka- “TelephoneConversation”

5. Carribean: Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa”
6. Australia: Henry Kendall: “The Last of His Tribe”
7. Canada: Pauline Johnson: “The Cattle Thief ”
8. India: Prof. Esther Syiem “To the Rest of India from Another Indian”
Unit III: Prose-Art and Theatre
1. Martin Banham- Dramatists in English and the Traditional Nigerian Theatre
2. Kia Lindroos, and Frank Möller -Art as Political DissentChapter 5 “Embodied Witnessing:
Indigenous Performance Art as a Political Dissent”

Unit IV: Drama

1. Africa: Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel
2. Australia: Louis Nowra: Radiance
3. Canada:George Ryga: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Unit V : Fiction 1.
Australia: Kate Grenville: The Secret River
2. Bangladesh: Neamat Imam- The Black Coat
3. Canada: Margaret Atwood- The Edible Woman
4. Sri Lanka: Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient

BDU
Unit – I (Poetry)
Geoffrey Chaucer : The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser : “Prothalamion”

Unit – II (Poetry)
John Donne : “The Flea,” “Canonization,” “Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning”
Andrew Marvell : “To His Coy Mistress,”
George Herbert : “The Pulley,” “The Collar”
Henry Vaughan : “The Retreat,” “Christ‟s Nativity”

Unit – III (Prose)

Francis Bacon : “Of Truth,” “Of Death,” “Of Adversity,” “Of
Revenge,”
“Of Envy”
The Bible : The Book of Job
Unit – IV (Drama)
Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
 John Webster : The White Devil

Unit – V (Drama)
Thomas Dekker : The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Ben Jonson : The Alchemist

Unit – I (Poetry)
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book IX

Unit – II (Poetry)
John Dryden : “A Song for St. Cecilia‟s Day”
Robert Burns : “The Cotter‟s Saturday Night”
William Blake : “Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence
Thomas Gray : “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
William Collins : “Ode to Evening”

Unit – III (Prose)

John Bunyan : The Pilgrim’s Progress (“Proceeds to the
Cross”)
Addison and Steele : From The Spectator
“Of the Club” (Steele)
“Sir Roger at Church” (Addison)
Jonathan Swift :The Battle of the Books

Unit – IV (Drama)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Rivals
William Congreve : The Way of the World

Unit – V (Fiction)
Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Unit – I (Poetry)
William Wordsworth : “Lines Composed a Few Miles above
Tintern Abbey,”
S.T. Coleridge : “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
John Keats : “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
P.B. Shelley : “Ode to the West Wind”
Lord Byron : “Youth and Age”

Unit – II (Poetry)
Robert Browning : “The Grammarian‟s Funeral”
Alfred Tennyson : “Ulysses”
W.B. Yeats : “The Second Coming”
G.M. Hopkins : “The Windhover”
Matthew Arnold : “Dover Beach”
T.S. Eliot : “The Burial of the Dead” from “The
Wasteland”
Wilfred Owen : “The Strange Meeting”
Philip Larkin : “Toads”
 Ted Hughes : “Pike”
Seamus Heaney : “Digging”

Unit – III (Prose)

Charles Lamb : “A Dissertation upon a Roast Pig”
William Hazlitt : “My First Acquaintance with Poets”
John Ruskin : “Of Kings‟ Treasuries”

Unit – IV (Drama)
T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
G.B. Shaw : Arms and the Man

Unit –V (Fiction)
Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations

Feminist Theories
Unit II:
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar : “The Madwoman in the Attic”
Coppelia Kahn : “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”

Unit III:
Luce Irigaray : “Women on the Market”
Laura Mulvey : “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”

Unit IV:
Gayathri Chakravarthy Spivak : “Three Women‟s Texts and Critique of Imperialism”
Audre Lorde : “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining
Difference”

AMERICAN LIT
Unit – I (Poetry)
Edgar Allan Poe : “The Raven”
Walt Whitman : “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom‟d”
Emily Dickinson : “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
: “Hope” is the thing with feathers
Robert Frost : “Birches,”
: “After Apple-Picking”
Unit – II (Poetry)
Hart Crane : “To Brooklyn Bridge”
e.e. cummings : “The Grasshopper”
Wallace Stevens : “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” “Anecdote of the Jar”
William Carlos Williams : “The Yachts”
Sylvia Plath : “Daddy”
Langston Hughes : “Harlem”

Unit – III (Prose)

Ralph Waldo Emerson : “Self-reliance”
Henry David Thoreau : “Where I Lived and What I Lived for?”
From Walden: or, Life in the Woods
 Martin Luther King : “I have a Dream”
John. F Kennedy : “Inaugural Address” (Presidential Inauguration of
John.
F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961 at Washington, D.C)

Unit – IV (Drama)
Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire
Arthur Miller : All My Sons

Unit – V (Fiction)
Harper Lee : To Kill a Mockingbird
Bernard Malamud : The Assistant

PCL
Unit – I (Poetry)
David Diop : “Africa”
Wole Soyinka : “Telephone Conversation”
Judith Wright : “Bora Ring”
A.D. Hope : “Australia”
Gabriel Okara : “Once upon a Time”

Unit – II (Poetry)
Archibald Lampman : “A January Morning”
F.R. Scott : “The Canadian Authors Meet”
Margaret Atwood : “Journey to the Interior”
Leonard Cohen : “If It Were Spring”
P.K. Page : “First Neighbours”

Unit – III (Prose)

Stuart Hall : “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”
Chinua Achebe : “Marriage is a Private Affair
Drusilla Modjeska : “The Emergence of Women Writers Since 1975”

Unit – IV (Drama)
Athol Fugard : Boesman and Lena
Derek Walcott : The Odyssey

Unit – V (Fiction)
Margaret Laurence : The Stone Angel
Buchi Emecheta : The Joys of Motherhood

Asian lit in Eng

Unit – I (Poetry)
Bei Dao (Chinese) : “Moon Festival”
BalKrishna Sama (Nepali) : “The Song”
Maki Kureishi (Pakistani) : “Kittens”
Salah Al-Hamdani (Iraq) : “Baghdad My Beloved”
 Patrick Fernando (Sri Lankan) : “The Fisherman Mourned by his Wife”

Unit – II (Prose)
Lafcadio Hearn (Japanese) : “Mosquitoes”
J. Vijayatunga (Sri Lankan) : “The Village Goes to Town”

Unit – III (Drama)

U Kyin U (Burmese) : Daywagonban
Unknown (Japanese) : Hagoromo [The Feather Mantle]

Unit – IV (Short Story)

Lu Hsun (Chinese) : “A Little Incident”
Bandi (North-Korean) : “Record of a Defection”

Unit – V (Fiction)
NeloferPazira (Afghan) : A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of my
Afghanistan
Frances Cha (South-Korean) : If I Had Your Face
LC
Unit II:
M.H. Abrams : Orientation of Critical Theories
I.A. Richards : “The Four Kinds of Meaning”
Unit III:
Sigmund Freud : Creative Writers and Day Dreaming
Northrop Frye : The Archetypes of Literature
Unit IV
Ferdinand de Saussure : Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Roman Jakobson : Linguistics and Poetics
Unit V:
Elaine Showalter : Towards a Feminist Poetics
Gayatri Spivak : “Three Women‟s Texts and a Critique of
Imperialism”

INDIAN WRITING
Unit – I (Poetry)
Toru Dutt : “The Young Captive”
Kamala Das : “My Grandmother‟s House”
Rabindranath Tagore : Gitanjali – Verses “Where the mind is without fear”,
“Leave this”, “Let me not forget”, “Last curtain”,
“Freedom”
Nissim Ezekiel : “The Professor,”
A.K. Ramanujan : “Of Mothers, among Other Things”
Keki. N. Daruwalla : “The Epileptic”
R. Parthasarathy : “Lines for a Photograph”

Unit – II (Prose)
Jawaharlal Nehru : Chapter V from Discovery of India – “Through the
Ages” (from Nationalism and Imperialism under the
 Guptas to The Old Indian Theatre)
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan : “The World Community”
G.N. Devy : “After Amnesia” (Introduction)

Unit – III (Drama)

Girish Karnad : Tale Danda
Mahesh Dattani : Tara

Unit – IV (Short Story)

Anita Desai : “Devoted Son”
Lakshmi Kannan : “Muniyakka”
Jayakanthan : “Trial by Fire”
Mahasweta Devi : “Breast Giver”

Unit – V (Fiction)
Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
Amitav Ghosh : Sea of Poppies

Gender Studies

Michel Foucault : “The History of Sexuality”

Judith Butler : “Performative Acts and Gender Constitutions”
Judith Halberstam : “Female Masculinity”
Virginia Woolf : Orlando
Octavia E. Butler : Lilith’s Brood
Mahesh Dattani : Seven Steps Around the Fire
A. Revathi : The truth about me: A Hijra Life Story
Noble Laureates
Unit-I: Poems
Nelly Sachs : “The Crooked Line of Suffering”, “Last Night”
Pablo Neruda : “Your Laughter”
Czeslaw Milosz : “A Magic Mountain”
Bob Dylan : “Blowin‟ in the Wind”

Unit II: Short Stories

Isaac BashevisSinger : “A Crown of Feathers”
Rudyard Kipling : “The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo”
Rabindranath Tagore : “Kabuliwala”

Unit III: Plays

Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author
Eugene O‟Neill : Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Unit IV: Novels

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Nadine Gordimer : The Lying Days

Unit V: Novels
Pearl S. Buck : The Good Earth
Orhan Pamuk : Snow