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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.TitleP. No.
01.Shakespeare’s Biography3
02.Shakespearean Theatre and Audience55
03.Folio and Quarto Texts of Shakespeare’s Plays61
04.Fools and Clowns in Shakespeare Plays67
05.Shakespearean Women 74
06.Shakespearean Comedies84
07.Shakespearean Tragedies85
08.Shakespearean Histories87
09.Shakespearean Problem Plays89
10.Shakespearean Romances92
11.Macbeth94
12.A Midsummer Night’s Dream114
13.Julius Caesar128
14.Richard II143

Unit 4 – British Literature – II

S.No

Title

P. No

Poetry – Detailed

01

William Wordsworth – The Solitary Reaper

03

02

S.T. Coleridge – Kubla Khan

11

03

John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale

21

04

P.B. Shelley – Ozymandias

32

Poetry – Non – Detailed

05

Robert Browning – My Last Duchess

40

06

G.M. Hopkins – God’s Grandeur

48

Prose – Detailed

07

W. Hazlitt – My first Acquaintance with Poets

53

08

W.R. Inge – Spoon Feeding

77

Prose – Non – Detailed

09

John Ruskin – Of King’s Treasuries

81

Drama

10

Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot

94

Fiction

11

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

106

Unit V – American Literature

S. NoTitleP. No
01.R. W. Emerson’s Self – Reliance3
02.Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream17
03.Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address27
04.H. D. Thoreau’s A Battle of Ants32
05.R. W. Emerson’s The American Scholar38
06.Robert Frost’s West Running Brook47
07.Walt Whitman’s Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking55
08.Emily Dickinson’s I felt a Funeral68
09.H. W. Longfellow’s Nature72
10.Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus77
11.Carl Sandburg’s Happiness85
12.R. W. Emerson’s Brahma91
13.Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman94
14.Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie111
15.Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado126
16.O. Henry’s Let Me Feel Your Pulse140
17.Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl157
18.T. S. Arthur’s An Angel in Disguise163
19.Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter173
20.Toni Morrison’s Beloved195

Unit – VI Indian Writing in English

S. No.

Title

P. No.

Prose

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

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

10.

Girish Karnad – Nagamandala

68

11.

Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man

78

12.

Vijay Tendulkar – Silence! The Court is in Session

91

Fiction

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.TitleP. No.
01Robert Wilson Lynd’s The Pleasures of Ignorance03
02Bertrand Russell’s Knowledge and Wisdom11
03E.M. Forster’s Tolerance19
04R.L. Stevenson’s An Apology for Idlers28
                                Treasure Island50
05E.V. Lucas’s On Finding Things77
06.T.S. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi84
07.Dylan Thomas’s The Hunchback in the Park97
08.G.B. Shaw’s Candida103
09.Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway124

 

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. NoTitleP. No
01Plato06
02Aristotle15
03Horace29
04Quintilian36
05Longinus41
06Dante47
07Mimetic Theory54
08Pragmatic Theories55
09Philip Sidney58
10John Dryden62
11Samuel Johnson70
12S.T. Coleridge81
13Matthew Arnold91
14T.S. Eliot100
15Moralistic Approach105
16Psychological Approach106
17Archetypal Approach108
18Sociological Approach112
19Formalistic Approach113
20Feminist Criticism115
21Marxist Criticism119
22New Historicism123
23Eco Criticism125
24Post-Colonial Criticism127

Unit X – Women’s Writing in English

S. No

Title

P. No

 

Prose

 

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

 

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

 

Drama

 

10

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

59

11

Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls

82

 

Fiction

 

12

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust

106

 

Short Stories

 

13

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

115

14

Ambai’s Forest

134