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Materials Overview
Unit – I HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
S. No. |
Title |
P. No. |
01. |
Introduction to the History of English Literature |
03 |
02. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
14 |
03. |
John Dryden’s ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ |
18 |
04. |
William Congreve |
22 |
05. |
Samuel Johnson |
27 |
06. |
Henry Fielding |
32 |
07. |
Matthew Arnold |
36 |
08. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
40 |
09. |
Thomas Carlyle |
44 |
10. |
George Eliot |
47 |
11. |
Thomas Hardy |
49 |
12. |
T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ |
54 |
Unit – II British Literature – I
S. No. |
Title |
P. No. |
01 |
Francis Bacon’s Of Revenge, Of studies |
3 |
02 |
Charles Lamb’s Dream Children: A Reverie |
14 |
03 |
Joseph Addison’s Sir Roger at the Theatre |
26 |
04 |
Richard Steele’s The Spectator Club |
38 |
05 |
Edmund Spenser’s Prothalamion |
48 |
06 |
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 |
66 |
07. |
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (Book IX) lines (795 – 833) |
67 |
08. |
William Blake’s The Lamb |
78 |
09. |
John Donne’s The Bait |
84 |
10. |
Sir Philip Sidney’s Sonnet I (from Astrophil and Stella) |
97 |
11. |
John Dryden’s A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day |
102 |
12. |
Alexander Pope’s Ode on Solitude |
114 |
13. |
Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus |
121 |
14. |
George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion |
147 |
15. |
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest |
173 |
16. |
Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield |
195 |
17. |
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield |
226 |
18. |
H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine |
270 |
Unit III – Shakespeare
S. No. | Title | P. No. |
01. | Shakespeare’s Biography | 3 |
02. | Shakespearean Theatre and Audience | 55 |
03. | Folio and Quarto Texts of Shakespeare’s Plays | 61 |
04. | Fools and Clowns in Shakespeare Plays | 67 |
05. | Shakespearean Women | 74 |
06. | Shakespearean Comedies | 84 |
07. | Shakespearean Tragedies | 85 |
08. | Shakespearean Histories | 87 |
09. | Shakespearean Problem Plays | 89 |
10. | Shakespearean Romances | 92 |
11. | Macbeth | 94 |
12. | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 114 |
13. | Julius Caesar | 128 |
14. | Richard II | 143 |
Unit 4 – British Literature – II
S.No |
Title |
P. No |
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Poetry – Detailed |
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01 |
William Wordsworth – The Solitary Reaper |
03 |
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02 |
S.T. Coleridge – Kubla Khan |
11 |
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03 |
John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale |
21 |
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04 |
P.B. Shelley – Ozymandias |
32 |
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Poetry – Non – Detailed |
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05 |
Robert Browning – My Last Duchess |
40 |
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06 |
G.M. Hopkins – God’s Grandeur |
48 |
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Prose – Detailed |
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07 |
W. Hazlitt – My first Acquaintance with Poets |
53 |
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08 |
W.R. Inge – Spoon Feeding |
77 |
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Prose – Non – Detailed |
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09 |
John Ruskin – Of King’s Treasuries |
81 |
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Drama |
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10 |
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot |
94 |
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Fiction |
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11 |
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World |
106 |
Unit V – American Literature
S. No | Title | P. No | |
01. | R. W. Emerson’s Self – Reliance | 3 | |
02. | Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream | 17 | |
03. | Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address | 27 | |
04. | H. D. Thoreau’s A Battle of Ants | 32 | |
05. | R. W. Emerson’s The American Scholar | 38 | |
06. | Robert Frost’s West Running Brook | 47 | |
07. | Walt Whitman’s Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking | 55 | |
08. | Emily Dickinson’s I felt a Funeral | 68 | |
09. | H. W. Longfellow’s Nature | 72 | |
10. | Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus | 77 | |
11. | Carl Sandburg’s Happiness | 85 | |
12. | R. W. Emerson’s Brahma | 91 | |
13. | Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman | 94 | |
14. | Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie | 111 | |
15. | Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado | 126 | |
16. | O. Henry’s Let Me Feel Your Pulse | 140 | |
17. | Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl | 157 | |
18. | T. S. Arthur’s An Angel in Disguise | 163 | |
19. | Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter | 173 | |
20. | Toni Morrison’s Beloved | 195 | |
Unit – VI Indian Writing in English
S. No. |
Title |
P. No. |
Prose |
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01 |
M.K. Gandhi – The Gospel of Non-Violence |
03 |
02 |
S. Radhakrishnan – The World Community |
11 |
03 |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – The Power of Prayer |
26 |
Poetry |
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04 |
Sir Aurobindo Ghosh – The Tiger and the Deer |
37 |
05 |
Sarojini Naidu – Love and Death |
41 |
06 |
Vikram Seth – Evening Wheat |
45 |
07. |
Nissim Ezekiel – Good Bye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S |
49 |
08. |
Kamala Das – An Introduction |
55 |
09. |
A.K. Ramanujam – Of Mothers, Among other Things |
63 |
Drama |
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10. |
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala |
68 |
11. |
Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man |
78 |
12. |
Vijay Tendulkar – Silence! The Court is in Session |
91 |
Fiction |
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13. |
Mulk Raj Anand – Coolie |
112 |
14. |
R.K.Narayan – Swami and Friends |
126 |
15. |
Chetan Bhagat – The Three Mistakes of My Life |
153 |
Unit – VII Twentieth Century Literature
S. No. | Title | P. No. |
01 | Robert Wilson Lynd’s The Pleasures of Ignorance | 03 |
02 | Bertrand Russell’s Knowledge and Wisdom | 11 |
03 | E.M. Forster’s Tolerance | 19 |
04 | R.L. Stevenson’s An Apology for Idlers | 28 |
Treasure Island | 50 | |
05 | E.V. Lucas’s On Finding Things | 77 |
06. | T.S. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi | 84 |
07. | Dylan Thomas’s The Hunchback in the Park | 97 |
08. | G.B. Shaw’s Candida | 103 |
09. | Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway | 124 |
Unit VIII – Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics
S. No. |
Title |
P. No. |
01. |
Introduction to Language 1.1. Definition of Language 1.2. The Place of English in the Indo-European Family 1.3. Spoken Language and Written Language |
03 |
02. |
Introduction to Linguistics 2.1. Definition, Nature and Scope of Linguistics 2.2. Linguistic Terms 2.3. Glossary of Linguistic Terms 2.4. Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches of Language |
18 |
03. |
Phonetics and Phonology 3.1. Phonetics and Phonology – Introduction 3.2. Speech Organs 3.3. Sounds in English 3.4. Transcriptions 3.5. Syllable, Stress, Intonation |
54 |
04. |
Grammar 4.1. Definition of Grammar 4.2. Different Approaches to Grammar 4.3. Prescriptive Grammar 4.4. Descriptive Grammar 4.5. Functional Grammar |
79 |
05. |
Syntax 5.1. Structural Linguistics 5.2. I.C. Analysis 5.3. Transformational Generative Grammar |
92 |
06. |
Morphology |
109 |
07. |
Semantics |
117 |
Unit IX – Literary Criticism and Theories
S. No | Title | P. No |
01 | Plato | 06 |
02 | Aristotle | 15 |
03 | Horace | 29 |
04 | Quintilian | 36 |
05 | Longinus | 41 |
06 | Dante | 47 |
07 | Mimetic Theory | 54 |
08 | Pragmatic Theories | 55 |
09 | Philip Sidney | 58 |
10 | John Dryden | 62 |
11 | Samuel Johnson | 70 |
12 | S.T. Coleridge | 81 |
13 | Matthew Arnold | 91 |
14 | T.S. Eliot | 100 |
15 | Moralistic Approach | 105 |
16 | Psychological Approach | 106 |
17 | Archetypal Approach | 108 |
18 | Sociological Approach | 112 |
19 | Formalistic Approach | 113 |
20 | Feminist Criticism | 115 |
21 | Marxist Criticism | 119 |
22 | New Historicism | 123 |
23 | Eco Criticism | 125 |
24 | Post-Colonial Criticism | 127 |
Unit X – Women’s Writing in English
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
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Prose |
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01 |
Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a woman? |
3 |
02 |
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects |
6 |
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Poetry |
|
03 |
Judith Wright’s Request to a Year |
25 |
04 |
Sylvia Plath’s Medusa |
32 |
05 |
Kamala Das’ The Old Playhouse |
39 |
06 |
Supata Bhattacharya’s Draupadi |
43 |
07 |
Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise |
46 |
08 |
Glady Cardiff’s Combing |
51 |
09 |
Gwendolyn Brooks’ A Sunset of the City |
54 |
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Drama |
|
10 |
Susan Glaspell’s Trifles |
59 |
11 |
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls |
82 |
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Fiction |
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12 |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust |
106 |
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Short Stories |
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13 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper |
115 |
14 |
Ambai’s Forest |
134 |