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7,000 |
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Complete Material Overview
Unit I: Chaucer to Shakespeare (Part – 1)
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess |
10 |
02 |
Edmund Spencer’s Epithalamion |
40 |
03 |
William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (8, 15, 24, 30, 37, 40, 46, 76, 82, 91, 112, 116, 126, 140, 144, 147, 154) |
74 |
04 |
Francis Bacon’s Essays F Of Nobility F Of Travel F Of Friendship F Of Love |
109 |
05 |
Ben Jonson’s Volpone or the Fox |
143 |
06 |
Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus |
180 |
07 |
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia |
211 |
Unit I – Chaucer to Shakespeare (Part – 2)
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
08 |
John Webster’s The White Devil |
3 |
09 |
William Langland’s Piers the plowman |
34 |
10 |
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors |
56 |
11 |
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
81 |
12 |
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet |
107 |
13 |
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII |
144 |
14 |
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost |
177 |
Unit II – Jacobean to Augustan age (Part 1)
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
John Milton’s Paradise Regained |
03 |
02 |
John Dryden’s All for Love |
31 |
03 |
Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock |
59 |
04 |
Andrew Marvell’s Garden |
86 |
05 |
Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
98 |
06 |
Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub |
118 |
07 |
Addison and Steele’s The Spectators and the Coverley Papers (Essays 1-10) |
137 |
Unit II – Jacobean to Augustan age (Part 2)
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
08 |
Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village |
03 |
09 |
Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews |
44 |
10 |
Giles Fletcher’s Christ’s Victorie and Triumph |
80 |
11 |
Sir Thomas Brown’s The Garden of Cyrus |
84 |
12 |
William Blake’s Songs of Experience |
99 |
13 |
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe |
141 |
14 |
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels |
164 |
15 |
Henry Vaughan’s Regeneration |
210 |
Unit III – Romantic Period
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
William Wordsworth’s The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper |
5 |
02 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, Biographia Literaria |
19 |
03 |
P. B. Shelley’s Ode to the west wind |
84 |
04 |
John Keats’ To Autumn |
97 |
05 |
Charles Lamb’s The Essays of Elia (5.1) Oxford in the Vacation (5.2) New Year’s Eve (5.3) Dream Children: A Reverie (5.4) The Price of Chimney-sweeper (5.5) My Relations |
108 113 121 131 136 144 |
06 |
Byron’s Prometheus |
158 |
07 |
Jane Austen’s Emma |
169 |
08 |
Walter Scott’s The Talisman |
198 |
09 |
William Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespeare’s plays |
218 |
10 |
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights |
244 |
Unit IV – Victorian Age
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Princess: A Medley |
06 |
02 |
Robert Browning: F Men and Women F Andrea Del Sarto |
30 33 47 |
03 |
Mathew Arnold: F Rugby Chapel F Dover Beach |
72 76 88 |
04 |
D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel |
97 |
05 |
George Eliot’s Romola |
116 |
06 |
W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair |
139 |
07 |
R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island |
176 |
08 |
John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies |
218 |
09 |
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities |
257 |
Unit V – Modern and Contemporary Periods
S.No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
W.B.Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium |
03 |
02 |
Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders |
15 |
03 |
Virginia Woolf’s Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown |
38 |
04 |
A.L.Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop |
62 |
05 |
E.M.Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread |
78 |
06 |
T.S.Eliot’s Murder in Cathedral |
110 |
07 |
C.P.Snow’s Corridors of Power |
139 |
08 |
G.B. Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple |
158 |
09 |
Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos |
176 |
10 |
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest |
194 |
Unit VI – American Literature
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d |
03 |
02 |
H. W. Longfellow’s The May Queen |
28 |
03 |
Edgar Allan Poe: 3.1. The Haunted Palace 3.2. My Mother 3.3. The Lake |
33 37 41 43 |
04 |
Emily Dickinson: 4.1. A Something in a Summer’s Day 4.2. Bless God, He Went as Soldiers 4.3. How Happy is the Little Stone 4.4. This is My Letter to The World |
50 51 54 55 57 |
05 |
Robert Frost’s Blue Berries |
64 |
06 |
Wallace Stevens’ The Snow Man |
75 |
07 |
Emerson’s The American Scholar |
85 |
08 |
Henry James’s The Lesson of the Master |
102 |
09 |
O’Neill’s The Great God Brown |
114 |
10 |
Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables |
133 |
11 |
Edward Albee’s The American Dream |
169 |
12 |
Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile |
192 |
13 |
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
209 |
14 |
Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea |
250 |
Unit VII – Indian and English Literature
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
Nissin Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion |
03 |
02 |
A.K. Ramanujan’s A River |
10 |
03 |
R. Parthasarathy’s Lines for a Photograph |
18 |
04 |
Toru Dutt’s Our Casuarina Tree |
23 |
05 |
Sarojini Naidu’s The Soul’s Prayer |
31 |
06 |
Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer? |
39 |
07 |
Badal Surcar’s Evam Indrajit |
50 |
08 |
Sri Aurobindo’s Rose of God |
68 |
09 |
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things |
78 |
10 |
Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable |
105 |
11 |
Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror |
144 |
12 |
Kirish Karnard’s Tugulaq |
174 |
Unit – VIII English Language and Linguistics
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
Language |
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01 |
Origin of Language |
03 |
02 |
Family of Indo-European Languages |
10 |
03 |
Characteristics of the Germanic Language |
20 |
04 |
Old English |
24 |
05 |
Middle English |
29 |
06 |
Modern English |
34 |
07 |
Standard English |
37 |
08 |
Foreign Influences |
40 |
09 |
Growth of Vocabulary |
46 |
10 |
Change of Meaning |
54 |
Linguistics |
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11 |
Morphology |
63 |
12 |
Affixes |
71 |
13 |
Phonology |
74 |
14 |
Minimal Pair |
102 |
15 |
Perspectives of Linguistics |
105 |
16 |
Linguistic Terms |
113 |
17 |
Historical Linguistics |
140 |
18 |
Sociolinguistics |
147 |
19 |
Neurolinguistics |
156 |
20 |
Dichotic Listening |
166 |
21 |
Semantics and Pragmatics |
172 |
22 |
Dialects |
184 |
23 |
Lingua Franca and Jargon |
187 |
24 |
Structural Linguistics |
192 |
25 |
Phrase and Structure |
199 |
26 |
Transformational Generative Grammar |
203 |
27 |
Acronyms |
207 |
28 |
Theories of Language Acquisition |
214 |
29 |
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW) |
222 |
30 |
Methods of Teaching |
226 |
IX – Criticism and Literary Theories
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
Plato’s Republic |
03 |
02 |
Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning |
29 |
03 |
Samuel Johnson 3.1 On Fiction 3.2 Preface to Shakespeare |
60 65 69 |
04 |
Mathew Arnold’s The Function of Criticism at the Present Time |
97 |
05 |
I. A. Richards: 5.1 Practical Criticism 5.2 Principles of Literary Criticism |
113 116 122 |
06 |
Northrop Frye’s The Critical Path |
141 |
07 |
T.S.Eliot’s Hamlet and His Problems |
164 |
08 |
Rene Wellek’s Concepts of Criticism |
176 |
09 |
Aristotle’s Poetics |
182 |
10 |
Ezra Pound’s The ABC of Reading |
207 |
11 |
Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction |
213 |
12 |
Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity |
247 |
Unit X – Post-Colonial Literature and European Literature in Translation
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing |
03 |
02 |
Margaret Laurence’s The Fire Dwellers |
28 |
03 |
P.K. Page’s Adolescence |
41 |
04 |
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God |
50 |
05 |
Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests |
68 |
06 |
Wilfred Campbell’s The Winter Lakes |
91 |
07 |
A.G. Smith’s The White House |
97 |
08 |
Ondaatje’s There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to do |
101 |
09 |
George Ryga: 9.1 Portrait of Angelica 9.2 In the Shadow of the Vulture |
109 110 114 |
10 |
Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea |
121 |
11 |
Moliere’s The Comic Pastoral |
135 |
12 |
Sir Thomas More’s The Four Last Things |
143 |
Unit XI – General Knowledge
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
History of Tamil Nadu |
03 |
02 |
Indian History |
20 |
03 |
Indian Constitution |
73 |
04 |
Indian Economics |
105 |
05 |
Geography |
125 |
06 |
World Organizations |
140 |
07 |
General Science |
147 |
08 |
Personalities |
166 |
09 |
Sports and Games |
187 |
10 |
Currrent Affairs |
199 |
General Material
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
History of English Literature – Timeline |
04 |
02 |
List of Poet Laureate |
07 |
03 |
Buried in West Minister Abbey |
07 |
04 |
List of Nobel Laureates |
07 |
05 |
List of Booker Prize Winners |
08 |
06 |
List of Sahitya Academy Award Winners |
08 |
07 |
List of Pulitzer Prize Winners |
08 |
08 |
List of Founders and Fathers |
09 |
09 |
List of Literary movements |
12 |
10 |
Literary Terms |
17 |
KEY ANSWERS (STUDY MATERIAL) |
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Unit No |
Title |
P. No |
I |
Chaucer to Shakespeare |
21 |
II |
Jacobean to Augustan age |
30 |
III |
Romantic Period |
38 |
IV |
Victorian age |
43 |
V |
Modern and Contemporary Periods |
48 |
VI |
American Literature |
53 |
VII |
Indian and English Literature: |
60 |
VIII |
Language and Linguistics |
66 |
IX |
Criticism and Literary Theories |
69 |
X |
Post-Colonial Literature and European Literature |
75 |
UNIT TEST, MODEL TEST, TRB QUESTION PAPERS |
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S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
Unit Test No – 1 |
81 |
02 |
Unit Test No – 2 |
89 |
03 |
Unit Test No – 3 |
97 |
04 |
Unit Test No – 4 |
105 |
05 |
Unit Test No – 5 |
113 |
06 |
Unit Test No – 6 |
121 |
07 |
Unit Test No – 7 |
129 |
08 |
Unit Test No – 8 |
137 |
09 |
Unit Test No – 9 |
145 |
10 |
Unit Test No – 10 |
153 |
11 |
Unit Test No – 11 |
161 |
12 |
Model Test – 1 |
169 |
13 |
Model Test – 2 |
194 |
14 |
Polytechnic TRB 2017 – Question Paper and Key |
219 |
15 |
Polytechnic TRB 2021 – Question Paper and Key |
249 |