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FEE STRUCTURE / PG TRB

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CATEGORY

FEE

01

Six course completed candidates

FREE

02

Five course completed candidates

7,000

03

Four course completed candidates

10,000

04

Three course completed candidates

13,000

05

Two course completed candidates

16,000

06

One course completed candidates

19,000

07

Freshers

22,000

Additional Fee Concession for Previous Akshiraa Achievers

1) State First, Second, Third Rank Holders – FREE

2) Top Ten State Rank Holders – Rs. 5000

3) Already Appointed Candidates – Rs. 3000

MATERIALS OVERVIEW

Unit I – Chaucerian Age (1400 – 1600)

S. No Title P. No
Poetry
01 Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales 14
02 2.1 Spenser         2.2 Faerie  Queene – Book-I       2.3 Epithalamion       2.4 Prothalamion 38   43 58 82
03 Wyatt’s Poems (Selections in Peacock’s English verse, Vol-I) 93
04 Surrey’s Poems (Selections in Peacock’s English verse, Vol-I) 99
05 Ballads (Peacock – Vol-II) 106
Prose
06 6.1 Sir Francis Bacon   6.2 Of Truth 6.3 Of Adversity 6.4 Of Studies 6.5 Of Revenge 6.6 Of Ambition 6.7 Of Friendship 120   124 129 131 135 138 142
07 Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetrie 155
08 The Bible – The Book of Job 183
Drama
09 Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus 195
10 Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy      217
11 Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist 243

Unit II – Jacobean Age (1600-1798)

S. No Title P. No
Poetry
01 John Donne’s Canonisation   The Ecstasy 3   13
02 John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book-IX   Samson Agonistes 20   45
03 Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock 57
04 Thomas Gray’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) 80
05 William Collins’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) 95
06 William Blake’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) 103
07 George Herbert’s Affliction    The Pulley 113   121
08 Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress 124
Prose
09 Samuel  Johnson’s Life of Milton 132
10 John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress 144
11 Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones 192
Drama
12 John Dryden’s All for Love 261
13 R.B.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal 272
14 William Congreve’s The Way of the World 298
15 Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer 318

Unit III – Romantic Age (1798 – 1832)

S. No Title P. No
Poetry
01 1.1                      Wordsworth 03
1.2                      Immortality Ode 07
1.3                      Tintern Abbey 20
1.4                      Prelude, Book-I 29
02 2.1 Coleridge 69
2.2 Ode to Dejection 73
2.3 Kubla Khan 84
03 3.1 Keats 88
3.2 Ode on a Grecian Urn 92
3.3 Ode to Autumn 96
04 4.1 Shelley 99
4.2 Ode to the West Wind 104
4.3 Adonais 109
Prose
05 5.1 Charles Lamb 138
5.2 Christ’s Hospital 142
5.3 The South Sea House 156
5.4 Dream children 166
5.5 New Year’s Eve 172
06 Hazlitt’s My First Acquaintance with Poets 182
07 Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry 205
08 Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads 239
Novel
09 Jane Austen’s Emma 276
10 Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights 298

Unit IV – Modern Age (1832 to Present)

S. No Title P. No
Poetry
01     1.1 Matthew Arnold 1.2 Dover Beach     1.3 The Scholar Gypsy 03 07 16
02     Robert Browning’s Andrea Del Sarto 32
03     Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Morte D’ Arthur 53
04     W.B.Yeats’s Byzantium 75
05     T.S. Eliot’s The Waste land 84
06     G.M. Hopkins’s  The Wreck of the Deutschland 120
07     7.1  Owen     7.2  W.H.Auden     7.3  Stephen Spender     The selections from the Faber Book of Modern Verse. 142
Prose
08     Carlyle’s The Hero as a Man of Letters      (from “On Heroes and Hero Worship”) 151
09 Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Poetry 179
10 T.S.Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent 203
Novel
11 Dickens ‘s Great Expectations 209
12      George Eliot’s Middle March 236
13 Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure 266
14 Virginia Woolf ‘s To the Light House 308
15 Graham Greene ‘s The Power and the Glory 344

Unit – V Shakespeare

S. No Title P. No
01 William Shakespeare 03
02 Macbeth 15
03 The Tempest 31
04 Henry–IV   Part-I 44
05 Measure for Measure 57
06 Antony and Cleopatra 70

Unit VI – American Literature

S. No Title P. No
Poetry
01 Walt Whitman’s 1.1 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 03  
1.2 Passage to India 15  
02 Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not Stop for Death 29  
03 Robert Frost’s 3.1 Mending Wall 33  
3.2 Birches 40  
3.3 West Running Brook 44  
04 Sylvia Plath’s Daddy 48  
05 E.E.Cummings’s The Cambridge Ladies 56  
06 Hart Crane’s Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge 61  
Prose
07 Emerson’s The American Scholar 69  
08 Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 82  
09 Thoreau’s Walden 87  
10 James Thurber’s The Owl in the Attic 106  
Drama
11 Eugene O’ Neil’s The Hairy Ape 109  
12 Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman 122  
13 Tennesse Williams’s A Street Car named Desire 139  
14 Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 155  
Novel
15 Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 164  
16 Melville’s Moby Dick 194  
17 Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea 239  

Unit VII – Indian Writing in English

S.No Title P. No
Poetry
01             Tagore’s Gitanjali 03
02             Aurobindo’s Thought the Paraclete 27
03             Sarojini Naidu’s Poems                         (from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry) 31
04             Toru Dutt’s Poems                         (from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry) 45
05             A.K.Ramanujam’s Poems                         (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets” 53
06             R. Parthasarathy’s Poems                         (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets”) 63
07             Kamala Das’s Poems                         (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets”) 72
08             Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems                         (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets”) 80
Prose
09             Ananda Commarasamy’s The Dance of Shiva 94
10             Nehru’s An Autobiography 101
Drama
11             Tagore’s Muktha Dhara 113
12             Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq 120
13             Gurucharan Das’s Larine Sahib 139
Novel
14             Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie 151
15             Raja Rao’s Kantapura 163
16             R.K.Narayan’s The English Teacher 205
17             Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice 253

Unit VIII – Criticism and Literary Theories

S. No Title P. No
01 Literary Terms 3
02 Quotes 13
   03 Key Texts in Literary Criticism and Theory 18
   04 Literary Movements 27
05 Modern Drama 45
06 Modern Fiction 48
07 Aristotle’s Poetics 52
08 Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy 66
09 Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Ch.XIV and Ch.XVII 82
10 Keats’s Letters 102
11 T.S.Eliot’s The Metaphysical Poets 112
12 I.A.Richards’s The Four Kinds of Meaning 118
13 William Empson’s The Seventh Type of Ambiguity 124
14 Northrop Frye’s The Archetypes of Literature 128
15 Lionel Trilling’s The Sense of the Past 144
16 Cleanth Brooks’s Irony as a Principle of Structure 153
17 Allen Tate’s Tension in Poetry 160

Unit – IX Language and Linguistics

S. No Title P. No
Language
01 The Origin of Language 91
02 The Place of English in the Indo-European family 97
03 The Characteristics of the Germanic Language 102
04 Old English 105
05 Middle English 109
06 Modern English 113
07 Standard English 116
08 Spelling Reforms 118
09 English Lexicon 120
10 The Foreign Influences 122
11 The Makers of English 126
12 The Growth of Vocabulary 131
13 The Change of Meaning 139
14 American English 147
15 Indian English 150
Linguistics
16 Morphology 151
17 Phonology 159
18 The Nature and Scope of Linguistics 178
19 Structural Linguistics 191
20 Immediate Constituent Analysis 197
21 Transformational Generative Grammar 200
22 Idiolect, Dialect 203
23 Words, Clause and Phrase 205
24 Sentence Pattern 208
25 Concord and Government 209
26 The Methods of Teaching 210
27 Linguistic Terms 214

Unit X – Commonwealth Literature

S.No Title P. No
Poetry
01 E.J. Pratt’s The Dying Eagle 03
02 Judith Wright’s Fire at the Murdering Hut 10
03 Judith Wright’s The Cedars 17
04 Wole Soyinka’s The Telephone Conversation 19
05 Abioseh Nicol’s The Meaning of Africa 26
06 A.D.Hope’s Australia 34
Prose
07 Chinua Achebe’s The Novelist as Teacher 39
Drama
08 Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel 51
09 Douglas Stewart’s Ned Kelly 58
Novel
10 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart 65
11 Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country 87

Unit – XI Educational Psychology

S. No Title P. No
01 Educational Psychology 3
02 Heredity and Environment 5
03 Growth and Development 9
04 Learning 30
05 Memory 58
06 Forgetting 62
07 Motivation 64
08 Attention 69
09 Perception 72
10 Concept Formation 75
11 Interest 78
12 Aptitude 80
13 Attitude 82
14 Intelligence 84
15 Creativity 94
16 Thinking, Reasoning and Problem-Solving 96
17 Personality 99
18 Individual Differences 109
19 Mental Health 112
20 Guidance and Counselling 115

Unit XII EDUCATION

S. No Title P. No
01 Philosophy and Education 03
02 Indian Philosophy 06
03 Indian Philosophers 10
04 Western Philosophy 17
05 Western Philosophers 23
06 Education Commissions and Committees 32
07 Education in Indian Constitution 43
08 Illiteracy and its Eradication 48
09 Women’s Education and Population Education 55
10 Environmental Education and Health Education 60
11 Universalisation of Primary Education 63
12 Education and Employment 64
13 National Integration 66
14 UNESCO 70
15 State Bodies in Education 74
16 National Bodies in Education 75
17 Educational Management 86
18 Innovations and Education 89
19 Measurement and Evaluation 94
20 Educational Technology 101

Unit XIII – General Knowledge

S.No Title P.No
01 History of Tamil Nadu 03
02 Indian History 21
03 Indian Constitution 62
04 Indian Economics 93
05 Geography 114
06 World Organizations 129
07 General Science 134
08 Personalities 150
09 Sports and Games 168
10 Currrent Affairs 181