SRI SANKARA ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE

(AUTONOMOUS)
ENATHUR, KANCHIPURAM – 631 561
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
REGULATIONS
(With effect from the academic year 2016-2017)

1. ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION:

Candidates for admission to the first year of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Course in
English shall be required to have passed the Higher Secondary Examinations (Academic or
Vocational Stream) conducted by the Government of Tamil Nadu or an Examination
accepted as equivalent thereof by the University of Madras.
2. ELIGIBILITY FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE:
A Candidate shall be eligible for the award of the Degree only if he/she has
undergone the prescribed course of study in the College for a period of not less than three
academic years. passed the examinations of all the Six Semesters prescribed earning 140
credits in Parts-I, II, III, IV & V.
3. DURATION:
a) Each academic year shall be divided into two semesters. The first academic year shall
comprise the first and second semesters, the second academic year the third and fourth
semesters and the third academic year the fifth and sixth semesters respectively.
b) The odd semesters shall consist of the period from June to November of each year and
the even semesters from December to April of each year. There shall be not less than
90 working 'days for each semester.

4. COURSE OF STUDY:
The main Subject of Study for Bachelor Degree Course in English shall consist
of the following and shall be in accordance with APPENDIX-A
PART – I TAMIL / OTHER LANGUAGES
PART – II ENGLISH
PART – III CORE SUBJECTS
ALLIED SUBJECTS
ELECTIVES
PART – IV
1.(a) Those who have not studied Tamil up to XII Std. and taken a Non-Tamil
Language under Part-I shall take Tamil comprising of two course (level will
be at 6th Standard).
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(b) Those who have studies Tamil up to XII Std. and taken a Non-Tamil
Language under Part-I shall take Advanced Tamil comprising of two courses.
(c) Others who do not come under a + b can choose non-major elective
comprising of two courses.
2. SKILL BASED SUBJECTS (ELECTIVE) - (SOFT SKILLS)
3. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
4 VALUE EDUCATION
PART – V EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

5. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES:
A candidate shall be awarded a maximum of 1 Credits for Compulsory Extension
Service.
All the Students shall have to enroll for NSS /NCC/ NSO (Sports & Games) Rotract/
Youth Red cross or any other service organizations in the college and shall have to put in
Compulsory minimum attendance of 40 hours which shall be duly certified by the Principal
of the college before 31st March in a year. If a student LACKS 40 HOURS ATTENDANCE
in the First year, he/she shall have to compensate the same during the subsequent years.
Students those who complete minimum attendance of 40 hours in One year will get
HALF A CREDIT and those who complete the attendance of 80 or more hours in Two Years
will ONE CREDIT.
Literacy and population Education Field Work shall be compulsory components in the
above extension service activities.

6. SCHEME OF EXAMINATION:
Scheme of Examination shall be as given in APPENDIX - B.
Model Scheme

Max. Marks
Inst. Hour

Course Component
Credits

Hours
Exam

Name of the course Int.

Ext.mark Total
mark

PART-I 75 25 100
Language

PART-II 75 25 100
English

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PART-III 75 25 100
Core subject :

Core Subject 75 25 100

Allied Subject 75 25 100

PART – IV
1.(a) Those who have not studied
Tamil up to XII Std. and taken a Non-Tamil
Language under Part-I shall take Tamil
comprising of two course (level will be at 6th
Standard).
(b) Those who have studies Tamil up
to XII Std. and taken a Non-Tamil Language
under Part-I shall take Advanced Tamil
comprising of two courses.
(c) Others who do not come under a
+ b can choose non-major elective comprising
of two courses.

2*Skill based subjects(Elective) – (Soft Skill)

The following procedure is followed for Internal Marks:

Theory Papers: Internal Marks 25

INTERNAL MARKS
Tests (2 out of 3) = 10
Attendance* = 5
Seminars = 5
Assignments = 5
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25 marks
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*Break-up Details for Attendance

Below 60% - No marks
60% to 75% - 3 marks
76% to 90 % - 4 marks

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 91% to 100% - 5 marks

Practical: Internal Marks 40

Attendance 5 marks
Practical Test best 2 out of 3 30 marks
Record 5 marks

Project:
Internal Marks best 2 out of 3 presentations 20 marks
Viva 20 marks
Project Report 60 marks

7. REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCEEDING TO SUBSEQUENT SEMESTER:

i. Candidates shall register their names for the First Semester Examination after the
admission in UG Courses.
ii. Candidates shall be permitted to proceed from the First Semester up to Final Semester
irrespective of their failure in any of the Semester Examination subject to the condition
that the candidates should register for all the arrear subject of earlier semesters along the
current (subsequent) Semester Subjects.
iii. Candidates shall be eligible to go to subsequent semester, only if they earn sufficient
attendance as prescribed therefore by the university from time to time.
Provided in case of a candidate earning less than 50% of attendance in any one of the
Semesters due to any extraordinary circumstances such as medical grounds, such
candidates who shall produce Medical Certificate issued by the Authorised Medical
Attendant (AMA), duly certified by the Principal of the college, shall be permitted to
proceed to the next semester and to complete the Course of study. Such Candidates
shall have to repeat the missed Semester by rejoining after completion of Final Semester
of the course, after paying the fee for the break of study as prescribed by the University
from time to time.

8. PASSING MINIMUM:
A candidate shall be declared to have passed:
a) There shall be no Passing Minimum for Internal.
b) For External Examination, Passing Minimum shall be of 40% (Forty Percentage) of
the maximum marks prescribed for the paper for each Paper/Practical/Project and
Viva-voce.
c) In the aggregate (External + Internal) the passing minimum shall be of 40% .
d) He / She shall be declared to have passed the whole examination, if he/she passes in
all the papers and practicals wherever prescribed / as per the scheme of examinations

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 by earning 140 CREDITS in Parts-I, II, III, IV & V. (He/she shall also fulfill the
extension activities prescribed earning a minimum of 1 Credit to qualify for the
Degree).

9. CLASSIFICATION OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES:

PART- I TAMIL / OTHER LANGUAGES
TAMIL/OTHER LANGUAGES: Successful candidates passing the Examinations for the
Language and securing the marks (1) 60 percent and above and (ii) 50 percent and above but
below 60 percent in the aggregate shall be declared to have passed the examination in the
FIRST and SECOND class, respectively. All other successful candidates shall be declared to
have passed the examination in the THIRD Class.
PART – II ENGLISH
ENGLISH: Successful candidates passing the examinations for English and securing the
marks (i) 60 percent and above and (ii) 50 percent and above but below 60 percent in the
aggregate shall be declared to have passed the examination in the FIRST and SECOND
Class, respectively. All other successful candidates shall be declared to have passed the
examination in the THIRD class.
PART – III consisting of CORE SUBJECTS, ALLIED SUBJECTS, PROJECT /
ELECTIVE with three courses:
Successful candidates passing the examinations for Core Courses together and
securing the marks (i) 60 percent and above (ii) 50 percent and above but below 60 percent in
the aggregate of the marks prescribed for the Core courses together shall be declared to have
passed the examination in the FIRST and SECOND Class respectively. All other successful
candidates shall be declared to have passed the examinations in the Third Class.
PART – IV (consisting of sub items 1 (a), (b) & (c), 2, 3 and 4) as furnished in the
Regulations 4 Part-IV supra.
PART – V EXTENSION ACTIVITIES:
Successful Candidate earning of 1 credit SHALL NOT BE taken into consideration for
Classification/Ranking/ Distinction.

10. RANKING
Candidates who pass all the examinations prescribed for the Course in the FIRST
APPEARANCE ITSELF ALONE are eligible for Ranking / Distinction;
Provided in the case of Candidates who pass all the examinations prescribed for the
Course with a break in the First Appearance due to the reasons as furnished in the
Regulations 7. (iii) supra are only eligible for Classification.

11. TRANSITORY PROVISION:

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 Candidates who have undergone the course of study prior to the academic year 2017-
2018 will be permitted to appear for the examinations under those Regulations for a period of
TWO years i.e. upto and inclusive of April May 2022 Examinations. Thereafter, they will be
permitted to appear for the examination only under the Regulations then in force.

Question Paper Pattern

SECTION – A (30 words)
10 OUT OF 12 - 10 X 2 marks = 20 marks

SECTION – B (200 words)

5 out of 7 - 5 x 5 marks = 25 marks

SECTION – C (500 words)

3 out of 5 - 3 x 10 marks = 30 marks
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TOTAL = 75 marks
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APPENDIX - A
COURSE OF STUDY
The Course of Study shall comprise the study of Part-I to Part-V.
PART - I TAMIL / OTHER LANGUAGES comprise the study of:
Tamil or any one of the following Modern (Indian or Foreign) or classical
languages at the optional candidate, according to the syllabi and text-books
prescribed from time to time.
(i) Modern (Indian) - Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu & Hindi.
(ii) Foreign - Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, &
Russian
(iii) Classical - Sanskrit, Arabic & Persian.
PART – II ENGLISH according to the syllabi and text-books prescribed from time to time.
PART – III MAIN SUBJECT Comprise the study of
(a) Core Courses; (b) Allied Subjects (c) Project / Electives with three courses.

(B) ALLIED SUBJECTS:

Each candidate shall choose the Allied Subjects as prescribed in the Scheme of
Examination.

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(C) PROJECT /ELECTIVES with Three Courses
PART – IV
1.(a) Those who have not studied Tamil up to XII Std. and taken a Non-Tamil
Language under Part-I shall take Tamil comprising of two course (level will
be at 6th Standard).
(b) Those who have studies Tamil up to XII Std. and taken a Non-Tamil
Language under Part-I shall take Advanced Tamil comprising of two courses.
(c) Others who do not come under a + b can choose non-major elective
comprising of two courses.
2. SKILL BASED SUBJECTS (ELECTIVE) - (SOFT SKILLS)
3. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
4 VALUE EDUCATION
PART – V EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

I SEMESTER

Int. Marks
Ins Hrs

Credits

Ext. M
Course

Total
arks
Component Name of the Course

PART I Language Paper I 4 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper - I 4 3 25 75 100
Core Paper-I:British Literature I 5 4 25 75 100
PART III Core Paper – II:Indian Writing in English 5 4 25 75 100
Allied Paper –I :Background to the Study of
6 5 25 75 100
English Literature I
PART IV * Basic Tamil / Advanced Tamil / NME 2 2 25 75 100
Soft Skill - I 2 2 50 50 100

II SEMESTER
Int. Marks

Course
Ins Hrs

Credits

Total

Componen Name of the Course

Marks

t
Ext.

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 PART I Language Paper II 4 3 25 75 100
PART II English Paper II 4 3 25 75 100
Core Paper-III: British Literature II 5 4 25 75 100
Core Paper– IV:Regional Indian Literature in
PART III 5 4 25 75 100
Translation
Allied Paper – II: Background to the study of
6 5 25 75 100
English Literature II
PART IV *Basic Tamil / Advanced Tamil / NME 2 2 25 75 100
Soft Skill - II 2 2 50 50 100

* (a) Non-Tamil Students upto XII Std must be studied “ Basic Tamil “ comprising of two
course in degree level
(b) Tamil Students upto XII Std, taken Non-Tamil Language under Part-I at degree level
shall
be taken “ Advanced Tamil “ comprising of two courses.
(c) Tamil Students upto XII Std and taken Tamil under Part-I Language at degree level
shall
be chosen “Non- Major Electives “ at degree level

THIRD SEMESTER
Ext. Marks

Int. Marks
Ins Hrs

Credits

Course

Total
Componen Name of the Course
t

PART I Languages Paper III 6 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper III 4 3 25 75 100
Core Paper-V: British Literature III 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – VI: Modern English Language
6 4 25 75 100
PART III and Usage
Allied Paper III : Myth and Literature 6 5 25 75 100

Soft Skill - III 2 3 50 50 100

PART IV
Environmental Studies Examination will be held
in IV semester

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 FOURTH SEMESTER

Ext. Marks

Int. Marks
Ins Hrs

Credits

Total
Course
Name of the Course
Component

PART I Languages Paper IV 6 3 25 75 100

PART II English Paper IV 4 3 25 75 100
Core Paper-VII: American Literature I 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – VIII:Film and Literature (or)
6 4 25 75 100
PART III Green Studies
Allied- Paper IV: Introduction to the Study
6 5 25 75 100
of Language and Linguistics
Environmental Studies
2 25 75 100
PART IV
Soft Skill IV 2 3 50 50 100

FIFTH SEMESTER

Ext. Marks
Int. Marks
Ins Hrs

Credits

Total
Course
Name of the Course
Component

Core Paper – IX: American Literature II 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – X:Post Colonial Literature in
6 4 25 75 100
English I, Australian Literature
Core Paper-XI: Women’s Writing 6 4 25 75 100
PART III
Core Paper – XII: Introduction to Literary
6 4 25 75 100
Theories
Elective Paper – I:
1.Introduction to Translation Studies (or)
6 5 25 75 100
2. Practical Approach to Technical
Writing
PARTV
Value Education 2 25 75 100

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 SIXTH SEMESTER

Ex Marks
Ins. Hrs

Credits
Int. arks

Total
Course
Name of the Course
Component

Core Paper – XIII: Contemporary Literature 6 4 25 75 100

Core Paper – XIV: Post – Colonial
6 4 25 75 100
PART III Literature in English II Canadian Literature
Core Paper- XV: Shakespeare 6 4 25 75 100
Elective Paper II:World Literature in
6 5 25 75 100
Translation
Elective Paper III:Journalism 6 5 25 75 100
PART V
Extension Activities 1
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 SYLLABUS
(With effect from the academic year 2016-2017)

B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH

REVISED SYLLABUS
Semester I
Core Paper – I British Literature I

UNIT-1: Introduction
The Renaissance and its Impact on England, The Reformation - causes and effects,
The Commonwealth of Nations, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their social
relevance
UNIT-2: Prose
1. On Revenge - Francis Bacon
2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison
3. A City Night-Piece - Oliver Goldsmith
UNIT-3: Poetry
1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser
2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? - William Shakespeare
3. A Valediction: of Weeping - John Donne
4. Paradise Lost (Book IX) - John Milton ( lines 795 - 833)
5. The Rape of the Lock: Canto III - Alexander Pope (lines 125 -178)

UNIT-4: Drama
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
UNIT- 5: Fiction
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
Prescribed Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for UNIT I)
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlowe
Ed. William-Alan Landes (Revised). Players Press, 1997.
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - Ed. Stephen Coote (Penguin UK, 2004)

Recommended Texts:
Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Professor M L Stapleton, Dr
Sarah K Scott (Revised) - Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.

Relevant Videos on YouTube:

S. No. Video URL
1 History of the Renaissance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhd-uwFonog
2 The Restoration and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Jzp4Ywuek
Enlightenment
3 The English Reformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDhYS5lk3c
4 17th Century British Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGestYnQPA
5 Doctor Faustus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4_oBsuX5g
6 The Vicar of Wakefield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fm9jy5F3EE

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 Core Paper – II - Indian Writing in English

UNIT-1: Introduction
 Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact
 History of Indian Writing in English
 Nativisation of English
 Introduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay's speech)
 Indian Diasporic writers

UNIT-2: Prose
1. The World CommUNITy - S. Radhakrishnan
Prescribed:Links - Balram Gupta
2. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
Prescribed: The Diaspora and the World – Chapter 4 only
UNIT-3: Poetry
1. The Tiger and the Deer - Sir Aurobindo Ghosh
2. Summer Woods - Sarojini Naidu
3. In India - Nissim Ezekiel
Prescribed (for poems 1-3): An Anthology of Indian English Poetry - Orient Longman
4. Crab - Arun Kolatkar
5. Evening wheat - Vikram Seth
6. Fireflies - Manohar Shetty
Prescribed (for poems 4-6): Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets
UNIT-4: Drama
Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani
Prescribed: Dance like a Man – Penguin Publications
UNIT-5: Fiction
1. Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan

Prescribed Texts:
Links – Balram Gupta
The Diaspora and the World (Chapter 4)
Anthology of Indian English Poetry – Orient Longman
Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets
Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani - Penguin Publications
Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
A.K. Mehrotra's Illustrated History of Indian Literature - Introductory chapter
Indian Writing in English - K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Modern Indian poetry in English - Bruce King

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. No. Video URL
1 English: An Indian Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRK-
m82bGM
2 The Rise of English in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYqYIwdMNU

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 Allied Paper – I Background to the Study of English Literature I

UNIT-1: Drama - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Heroic Comedy, Revenge
Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce, Masque
UNIT-2: Poetry - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms
 Subjective and Objective poetry
 Narrative poetry: The Epic, the Mock-epic, the Ballad
 Lyrical: The Ode, the Sonnet, the Elegy
 Dramatic Monologue
 Poetic Drama
 Prosody: Rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor and allegory

UNIT-3: Prose - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms

 The Essay and its types (Aphoristic, Periodic, Satirical, Critical)
 The Short Story
 The Biography and the Autobiography
 Travel Writing
UNIT-4: The Renaissance Period (1350 – 1660)
 An Introduction to Bible Translation - Tyndale, Coverdale
 The University Wits
 Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
 Comedy of humour
UNIT-5: The Late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (1660 - 1800)
 Comedy of Manners
 Neo-Classicism
 Sentimental and Anti-sentimental comedies
 Pre-Romantics
Prescribed Texts:
History of English Literature – 5th edition – Edward Albert
A History of English Literature – Compton Rickett

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. No. Video URL
1 18th Century Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAc1YNROLg
2 The Novel in 18th Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNzns759wqM
Britain
3 Types of Drama: Tragedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQqPlDE_b8
4 Types of Drama: Farce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0LOcjs-hQ
5 Types of Poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9FbQ6cvy4

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 Semester II
Core Paper – III - British Literature II

UNIT-1: Introduction
Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian and the French Revolutions on the English society,
Humanitarian Movements in England, the Reform Bills and the spread of education

UNIT-2: Prose
1. Dream-Children, A Reverie - Charles Lamb
2. On Going a Journey - William Hazlitt
3. Of King's Treasuries - John Ruskin (An Extract from Sesame and Lilies)
UNIT-3: Poetry
1. Lucy Gray - William Wordsworth
2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
3. Ozymandias - Shelley
4. Ode to a Nightingale - Keats
5. Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson
6. Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
7. My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
UNIT-4: Drama
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
UNIT-5: Fiction
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Prescribed Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – Chaucer to Queen Victoria – G M
Trevelyan (for Unit I)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - Ed. Peter Raby - Oxford University Press.
2008.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Margaret Cardwell - Clarendon Press. 1993.

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. Video URL
No.
1 The Agrarian Revolution in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWYm0T8R
England Lo4
2 Reform Bill - 1832 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DuXT5g0
X4
3 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXx2A6Cs
NM
4 Ode to a Nightingale - I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRMbiQ8
Ry0

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 5 Ode to a Nightingale - II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplVF2wiH
NQ
6 The Importance of Being Earnest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgofZX1PQs
k
7 Ulysses : Tennyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA0BWxZ
5Mg

Core Paper – IV - Regional Indian Literature in Translation

UNIT-1: Introduction
Concept of Indian Literature, , Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in
Indian Aesthetics
Prescribed: Translator's note to Poems of Love and War by AK Ramanujam (Oxford),
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy
Bharathamuni from Natyashastra
UNIT-2: Poetry
1. Is Poetry always worthy when it's old? Kalidasa (Malavikagnimitram)
Website references for topic 1:
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/brough-1977-poems-from-sanskrit.html
2. What She Said - Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3(Tamil)
3. What She Said to her Girlfriend - Kapilar, Akanaanooru 82 (Tamil)
Prescribed for topics 2 and 3: Translation of Sangam Age Poetry by A.K.Ramanaujan
Website references for topics 2 and 3:
http://www.poetrynook.com/poem/what-she-said-7
https://sangampoemsinenglish.wordpress.com/sangam-tamil-scholar-a-k-ramanujan/
4. Gitanjali –(1-5) - Rabindranath Tagore
5. Six Rubaiiyats - Mirza Arif (Urdu)
UNIT-3: Prose
1. Roots - Ismat Chughtai (Urdu)
2. The Shroud - Munshi Premchand (Hindi)
3. Sita Brand Soapnut Powder - Sundara Ramaswamy (Tamil)
Prescribed: Waves, Manas publications
4. Poovan Banana - Vaikom Mohammad Basheer (Malayalam)
Prescribed: Poovan Banana and Other Stories

UNIT-4: Drama
Wedding Album – Girish Karnad
UNIT-5: Fiction
Beasts of Burden – Imayam (Tamil)
Prescribed Texts:
Waves - Manas Publications
Poems of Love and War – AK Ramanujam
Texts and Their Worlds - Foundation Books
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation–GN Devy
Bharathamuni from Natyashastra
Beasts of Burden – Imayam
Poovan Banana and Other Stories – VM Basheer
Wedding Album – Girish Karnad - OUP

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RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
Plays of Girish Karnad
Chandalika - Rabindranath Tagore - or Post Office (Bengali)
Gora - Tagore
The infinity of Grace - O.V. Vijayan
Dharmapurana Short stories of Paul Zachariah.
Lalithambika Antarjanam, Ambai, CS Lakshmi Chudamani Raghavan Krishna Sobti
Poems of Nirala
I will meet you yet again - Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. No. Video URL
1 Theory of Nine Rasas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBx0BH77L3E
2 Indian Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbaww4Uxlw

Allied Paper – II - Background to the Study of English Literature II

UNIT-1: Drama (Continued)

Well made play (Drama of Ideas - Shaw and Ibsen), Existential Drama, Comedy of
menace, Kitchen-sink drama, Problem Play, Didactic Drama(Propaganda play), One-act
play
UNIT-2: The Novel
Epistolary, Picaresque, Gothic Fiction, Historical Novel, Detective Novel,
Bildungsroman, Stream of Consciousness, Avant-garde, Science Fiction
UNIT-3: The Romantic Age (1798 - 1832)
Romanticism with respect to
 Prose - Lamb, Hazlitt
 Poetry - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley , Keats
 Novels - Jane Austen
UNIT-2: The Victorian Age (1832 - 1901)
Pre-Raphaelite movement - D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti
 Humanitarian Movement - Methodist, Anti Slavery and Salvation Army
 Aesthetic Movement - Walter Patter
 Victorian Poets - Tennyson, Browning
 Victorian Novelists - Charles Dickens, Thackeray
 Victorian Writers - Carlyle, Ruskin
 Impressionistic Writers- Proust, Joyce
 Symbolist Movement - Yeats
UNIT-3: The Modern Age(Post 1901)
 Imagist Poetry- Ezra Pound
 Poets of the Thirties – Wilfred Owen, Auden
 Essay - Huxley
 Drama – GB Shaw
 Novel - HG Wells, Virginia Woolf

Prescribed Texts:
An Introduction to the Study of Literature – WH Hudson – Atlantic Publishers
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English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers - R. J. Rees
A Background to the Study of English Literature – B Prasad, Haripriya Ramadoss –
Macmillan

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. No. Video URL
1 The Romantics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSm2acUXB8
2 The Victorian Poets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBG6-BtCnxQ
3 The Victorian Era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHspj1pZ3Y
4 Understanding Virginia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTrFoCLMGs
Woolf
5 Understanding W H Auden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvezOvM_VgQ
6 Understanding Imagism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gU4F6ePhcM
through Ezra Pound
7 World War I poetry in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMmDCUYJ1o
England

Semester III
Core Paper-V British Literature III

UNIT-1: Introduction
Social impact of the two world wars, the Labour Movement, the Welfare State
UNIT-2: Prose
1. Tradition and Individual Talent – TS Eliott
2. The Art of Fiction – Henry James
UNIT-3: Poetry
1. The Wreck of the Deutschland - G.M. Hopkins
2. Easter, 1916 - W.B. Yeats
3. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
4. The Unknown Citizen - W.H. Auden
5. The Thought-Fox - Ted Hughes

UNIT-4: Drama
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
UNIT-5: Fiction
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2007
Animal Farm – George Orwell

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RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. Video URL
No.
1 Impact of World War I on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1RJgfdDU
Britain A
2 Pygmalion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJlgdKMeq
k
3 Easter, 1916 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-83rZ5YLI
4 Animal Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TFxG19C
Rk

Core Paper VI - Modern English Language and Usage

UNIT-1: Introduction
The Evolution of Standard English
Prescribed: An Outline History of the English Language [(Chapter- 8) (Pages 196-
209)]
UNIT-2: Language and Regional Variation
 The Standard Language
 Accent and Dialect
 Dialectology
 Regional Dialects
 Style, Slang and Jargon
Prescribed: The Study of Language (3rd edition) by George Yule
UNIT-3: Areas of Difficulty in the Usage of English Language for the II Language Users
Basic Grammar
 Parts of speech and agreement (voice, tense, number)
 Modals and Auxiliaries
 Types of sentences (Interrogatives, Declaratives, Exclamatory and Imperative)
 Direct and Indirect speech
 Question Tags
UNIT-4: Language for specific Speech events
 Drafting an invitation
 Drafting the minutes of a meeting
 Addressing a gathering (welcome address)
 Proposing vote of thanks

UNIT-5: English in the Internet Era

 The Internet and English Vocabulary
 Role and Scope of Online English Dictionaries
 Language and the Advent of Technology
 Useful online resources such as YouTube, Google Scholar
Prescribed Texts:
The Study of Language (3rd edition) - George Yule
An Outline History of the English Language – F T Wood
Practical English Grammar – A J Thomson and A V Martinet (OUP)
Language and the Internet – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press

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English as a Global Language – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press

Allied Paper – III - Myth and Literature

UNIT-1: Introduction
Beginnings of myth, Natural Phenomena as Myth, Myth and Legends
Prescribed: The Norton Reader-Ed by Linda H.Petrson, Johin C. Brereton:
Chapter – Mythology Robert Graves (Pages 1150-1154)

UNIT-2: Greek and Roman Mythology

1. Hercules (Cleaning of Aegean Tables, Atlas and Hercules)
2. Ulysses & Cyclops, Ulysses & Circe, the story of Penelope.
3. The Story of Romulus and Remus
4. The Story of Dido, Queen of Carthage
5. The Story of Cupid & Psyche
6. The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice
7. The Story of Echo & Narcissus
UNIT-3: Celtic Mythology
1. Oisin in the Land of Forever Young
UNIT-4: Legends
1. Arthurian Cycle (The Holy Grail)
2. Robin Hood Cycle
UNIT-5: Hindu Mythology
1. Stories from Ramayana
 The Story of Mareecha
 The Burning of Lanka
2. Stories from Mahabharatha
 Kurukshetra - The Battle & The Deception of Bheema
 The Dog
 The Bhagavad Gita
3. Stories from Puranas, Epics and Vedas
 The Story of Nala and Damayanthi
 The Story of Nacheeketa and Yama
 The Story of Ganga
 The Story of Sakuntala

Prescribed texts:
1. The Norton Reader - Ed by Linda H.Petrson, Johin C. Brereton
2. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita
(Chapters III and VII only)

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Reference texts:
1. The Encyclopedia of World Mythology
2. Bulfinch’s Mythology
3. Myth and Me

Semester IV
Core Paper – VII - American Literature I

UNIT-1: Introduction
Puritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolition of Slavery

UNIT-2: Prose
1. Self-Reliance – R.W. Emerson (an extract)
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For – H.D. Thoreau
3. Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln
UNIT-3: Poetry
1. Nature – H.W. Long fellow
2. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment – Anne Bradstreet
3. Brahma – R.W. Emerson
4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking – Walt Whitman
5. O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman
6. There’s a certain Slant of light – Emily Dickinson
UNIT-4: Short stories
1. The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe
2. Bartleby, the Scrivener – Melville
3. Let Me Feel Your Pulse – O Henry
4. Pigeon Feathers – John Updike
UNIT-5: Fiction
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Prescribed Texts:
The Scarlet Letter: A romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Samuel E. Cassino, 1892
RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE
S. No. Video
1 American Puritanism
2 American War of Independence
3 Gettysburg Address
4 O Captain! My Captain!
5 The Cask of Amontillado
6 The Scarlet Letter

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Core Paper VIII: 1.Film and Literature

UNIT-1: Introduction
 Adaptation
Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter1 - "Beginning
to theorize adaptation"
 The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre (narrative film , avant-garde film, film
noir, documentary), Themes tropes - cue - suspense - themes - functions - motif -
parallelism -development - UNITy / disUNITy
 Film Narrative: Title - Story - Plot - narration (Restricted and omniscient) - duration -
motivation - motif- parallelism - character traits - cause and effects – exposition -
climax - point of view
UNIT-2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction
 Danny Boyle's Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)

UNIT-3: Adaptation of Fantasy / Science Fiction

 Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005)
UNIT-4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films
 Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)
 Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (Tamil)
UNIT-5: Components of a Film Review
Plot, Genre, Role of actors, Background information, condensed synopsis,
argument/analysis, evaluation, recommendation, opinion
Core Paper VIII: 2.Green Studies

UNIT 1: Introduction
Introduction to Eco-criticism - Definition Scope and importance of Ecocriticism
Prescribed: Garrard, Greg, Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2004)
Introducing concepts of Indian ecocriticism –Tinai - significance- ecoregions
Prescribed: Nirmal Selvamony -Tinai in Primal and Stratified Societies

UNIT 2: Bioregionalism and Ecofeminism (Greg Gaard)

 Community, Region, Home
Prescribed: Carson Rachel, The Silent Spring (Chapter One-‘A Fable for Tomorrow’)
 Letter to President Pierce,1855 -Chief Seattle (Norton Reader)
 Selected tale from Flowering Tree - A.K Ramanujan (Ecofeminism)
 Ecology
 Deep Ecology Basic Principles-Biocentric Equality- Naess and George Sessions
 Self-Realization: The World is too much with us (Wordsworth)
UNIT 3: Environment and Literature
Symbiosis, Mutation, Parasitism Biodiversity
 Wordsworth, ‘Nutting’
 Dylan Thomas –‘The sap that through the green fuse runs’
 The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh (Man and the Environment)
Unit 4: Indian Ecocriticism(Tinai- Kurinchi, Neidal, Mullai Marutam and Palai)
 What She Said - Kapilar,Akananooru 318 A,k.Ramanujan p.14

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  What Her Girl Friend Said, the Lover within Earshot, Behind a Fence- Uloccanar.
Narrinai 63
Unit 5: Oikopoetics - Oikos, Integrative, Hierarchic Anarchic Oikos
‘The Fly’ - D.H. Lawrence and ‘Snake’

Allied Paper – IV: Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics

Unit-1: Introduction
 Definition of language, spoken and written language
 Diachronic & synchronic approaches of language study
 Linguistics - definition, nature and scope
Unit-2: English Phonetics and Phonology
 Speech Organs
 Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs)
 Syllables, Stress and Intonation
 Transcriptions (exercises)
Unit-3: Grammar
 Definition of Grammar
 Different Approaches of Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional

Unit-4: Syntax
 Structural analysis ( I.C. analysis)
 Deep and surface structure.

Unit-5: Semantics
 Word, morphemes
 Word meaning association (semantics)
Prescribed Texts:
An Introductory textbook of linguistics, phonetics – Rathe L Vashney
The Study of Language – George Yule
English for Research: Usage, Style and Grammar – Adrian Wallwork
Grammar - Frank Robert Palmer

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 Semester V
Core Paper IX- American Literature II UEGM51B

UNIT-1: Introduction
Harlem Renaissance, World War II and its aftermath, Post-modern impulse,
Multiculturalism

UNIT-2: Poetry
1. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson
2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
3. In a Station of the Metro – Ezra Pound
4. The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens
5. A Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes
6. Mirror – Sylvia Plath
7. Mr. Edwards and the Spider – Robert Lowell
8. An Agony. As Now. – Amiri Baraka
UNIT-3: Drama
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
UNIT-4: Short Stories
1. This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona – Sherman Alexie
2. Something to Remember Me By – Saul Bellow
3. Separating – John Updike
4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
UNIT-5: Fiction
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

Prescribed Texts:
The Crucible. Arthur Miller. Penguin, 2003.
The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros. 2nd ed. Arte Publico Press, 1983.

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

S. NO. VIDEO
1 Harlem Renaissance
2 The Road Not Taken
3 A Dream Deferred
4 Mirror
5 The Crucible
6 The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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Core Paper-X- Post-Colonial Literature in English I: Australian Literature UEGM52B

UNIT-1: Drama
Ned Kelly – Douglas Stuart
UNIT-2: Short Stories
Mate – Kate Greenville
One Sunday in February 1942 – Thomas Keneally
UNIT-3: Poems
 Waltzing Mathilda – Banjo Patterson
 No more Boomerang – Kath Walker
 The Immigrant Voyage – Les Murray
 For New England – Judith Wright

UNIT-4: Novels
Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
UNIT-5: Myths and Legends
The Aboriginal Song Cycle - The Djanggawul Song Cycle
The Wild Colonial Boy
Reference Texts:
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature – Elizabeth Webby – Cambridge
University Press – 2000
The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature – Ken Goodwin and Allan Lawson,
Macmillan – 1990
Online References:
Australian Government – www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-stories
Creative Spirits – www.creativespirits.info
Austlit: The Australian Literature Resource – www.austlit.edu.au

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Core Paper XI - Women’s Writing UEGM53B

UNIT-1: Introduction
Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz
society, theories and concepts of feminism (liberal, social, radical feminism),
patriarchy, stereotyping
UNIT-2: Prose
1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral
Subjects - Mary Wollstonecraft
(Restricted to Chapter 13 – Pages 273-275 only)
2. Ain’t I a woman? - Sojourner Truth (Speech)

UNIT-3: Poetry
1. Persephone, Falling - Rita Dove
2. Journey to the Interior - Margaret Atwood
3. Request to a Year - Judith Wright
4. Medusa - Sylvia Plath
5. A Sunset of the City - Gwendolyn Brooks
6. Words for father- Shirley Lim
UNIT-4: Drama
1. Trifles - Susan Glaspell
UNIT-5: Short Stories
1. Draupathi - Mahasweta Devi
2. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilmar
3. Forest - Ambai
Prescribed Texts:
Trifles - Susan Glaspell. Baker's Plays, 2010

Recommended Texts:
Feminism: A Very Short Introduction. Margaret Walters. Oxford University Press, 2005.
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Ellen Rooney. Cambridge
University Press, 2006.

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Core Paper-XII- Introduction to Literary Theories UEGM54B

UNIT-1: Introduction
Literary theorizing from Aristotle to F.R. Leavis, some key moments, the transition to
‘theory’, some recurrent ideas in critical theory
(Pages 21 – 36 of the prescribed text)
UNIT-2: Structuralism
 The Scope of Structuralists, What Structuralist Critics do
(Pages 46 – 63 of the prescribed text)
 Post-structuralism and Deconstruction
(Pages 73 – 79 of the prescribed text)

UNIT-3: Post-Modernism and Psychoanalytic Criticism

 Post Modernism
(Pages 81-85 and 91-94 of the prescribed text)
 Psychoanalytic Criticism
(Pages 96-101 and 105-108 of the prescribed text)
UNIT-4: Feminist and Marxist Criticism
 Feminist Criticism
(Pages 121 -126 and 134-136 of the prescribed text)
 Marxist Criticism
(Pages 156-159 and 167-170 of the prescribed text)
UNIT-5: Post-Colonial Criticism
 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
(Pages 172-184 of the prescribed text)
 Post Colonial Criticism
(Pages 192-194 and 199-201 of the prescribed text)
 Ecocriticism
(Pages 248-269 of the prescribed text)
Training in Practical Criticism with an unknown passage in the classroom is recommended

Prescribed Texts:
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Peter Barry –
Manchester University Press, Second Edition
Recommended Texts:
M. H. Abrams - A Glossary of Literary Terms -7th Ed. Heinle & Heinle, 1999
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary terms and Literary Theory 1999, J.A. Cuddon revised by
C.E. Preston, Penguin Books, London, 6th edition.

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Elective Paper – I: 1.Introduction to Translation Studies UEGA51B

UNIT-1: Introduction
Definition and Scope of Translation, Translation and Culture, Types of Translation
UNIT-2: History
A Brief History of Translation

UNIT-3: Issues in Translation

Decoding and Recording, Problems of Equivalence, Loss and Gain, Gender and
Translation
UNIT-4: Formal and Dynamic Equivalence
Formal and Dynamic Equivalence, Translation Shift
UNIT-5: Comparative Analysis
A Comparative Study of Two Translations of Thirukkural by G U Pope and Rajaji
(First Chapter Only)

Prescribed texts:
Translation Studies (1980) Susan Bassnett: Routledge Publishers
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation - Lawrence Venuti
The Translation Studies Reader - Lawrence Venuti
Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation – Umberto Eco
In These words(A Course book on Translation) – Mona Baker, Routledge
A Linguistic theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics - John C Catford: OUP
Translation – R A Brower, Cambridge (On Linguistic aspects of translation - Roman
Jakobson Pages 232-239 only)
Towards a Science of Translating – Eugene Nida (E J Brill)
The theory and practice of Translation - Eugene Nida and C R Taber (E J Brill)
Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook - Andre Lefevre, Routledge Publishers (1992)

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Elective Paper – I: 2.Practical Approach to Technical Writing

UNIT-1: Introduction
Introduction to technical writing, objectives and importance of technical writing
UNIT-2: The Technical Writing Process
The technical writing process - examining purpose, determining goals, considering
audience and gathering data, determining the context, formatting, pre-writing, writing
and rewriting

UNIT-3: Examples of Technical Writing

Preparing marketing material, composing promotional material, describing products
services and incorporating facts for homepages on websites, press releases, brochure,
product descriptions
UNIT-4: Ethics and Technical Writing
Legalities, practicalities, ethicalities, guidelines for ethical standards, strategies for
making ethical decisions, multicultural communication
Reference texts:
Technical writing, Process and Product - Shaaron J Gerson and Stevan M Gerson, 5th edition
Writing for the Web – Faye Hoffman

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 Semester VI
Core Paper – XIII - Contemporary Literature

Background
Multiculturalism, diasporic writing, displacement and alienation and identity crisis, theme of
acculturation, assimilation, globalisation, hybridity

UNIT-1: Prose
1. Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie (an extract)
2. The Bomb and I - Arundati Roy (an Extract)
UNIT-2: Poetry
1. Black Berry Picking - Seamus Heaney
2. A Far Cry from Africa - Derek Walcott
3. Hamlet - Wole Soyinka
4. I know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
UNIT-3: Drama
1. Harvest- Manjula Padmanabhan

UNIT-4: Short stories

1. Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
2. The Eye - Alice Munro
3. The Medicine Bag - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
4. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

UNIT-5: Fiction
1. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Prescribed Texts:
Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie - Knopf Canada, 2012.
Harvest - Manjula Padmanabhan - Aurora Metro, 2003.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003
Recommended Texts:
Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix. Trans. William Rodarmor. University of California Press:
London, 2008.
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. Floyd Collins. University of Delaware Press, 2003.
Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study. Narendra Kumar. Pinnacle Technology, 2009.
Caribbean Panorama: An Anthology from and about the English-speaking Caribbean with
Introduction, Study Questions, Biographies, and Suggestions for Further Reading. ed.
Kathleen Kelley Ferracane. La Editorial, UPR, 1999.
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Biodun Jeyifo. Univ. Press of Mississippi.

Relevant Videos on YouTube

S. No. Video
1 What is multiculturalism?
2 Joseph Anton : A Memoir
3 Black berry picking
4 A Far Cry From Africa
5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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 6 Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
7 Life of Pi

Core Paper – XIV :Post-Colonial Literature in English II: Canadian Literature

UNIT-1: Poetry
 First Neighbours – P K Page
 Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga – A M Klein
 The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson
 Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A J M Smith
UNIT-2: Prose and Fiction
Godzilla vs. Post-colonial – Thomas King
DisUNITy as Unity: A Canadian Strategy - Robert Krotesch
The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
Unit-3: Drama
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga
Unit-4: Short Stories and Legends
Face – Alice Munro
“The Hostelry of Mr Smith” (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) – Stephen Leacock
Cannibal Woman – Ron Geyshick
Unit-5: Autobiography / Autoethnography
In Search of April Raintree – Beatrice Mosonior Culleton
Prescribed Texts:
History of Canadian Literature - W H New
Canadian Culture: An Introductory Reader – Ed. Elspeth Cameron
An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry – Ed . C D Narasimhiah
New Contexts of Canadian Criticism – Ed Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee and J R
Struthers
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature – Ed. Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie -
2nd Edition

Websites:
Canadian Encyclopedia – www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
Canadian Culture - www.culturecanada.gc.ca

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Core Paper – XV:Shakespeare
Unit-1: Introduction
Life of Shakespeare, Shakespearean theatre, Shakespearean audience, Shakespearean
players, comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, problem-plays
Unit-2: Tragedy
Macbeth

Unit-3: Comedy
Twelfth Night
Unit-4: History
Henry IV – Part I
Unit-5: Critical Essays
1. Shakespeare in a Changing World – Arnold Kettle
2. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare – Charles Lamb

Prescribed Texts:
English Critical Tradition – S Ramasamy& VS Sethuraman (Vol. VI)
Twelfth Night - Ed. Roger Warren and Stanley Wells - Oxford University Press 2008
Henry IV - Ed. Gary Taylor - Oxford University Press – 2008
Shakespeare in a Changing World - Arnold Kettle – Published by Lawrence and Wishart

Elective Paper-II - World Literature in Translation

Unit-1: Introduction
Goethe’s concept of World literature, Tragedy of Fate, French Revolution, Realistic
drama of Ibsen and Chekhov, Multiculturalism, Realism, Concept of the Absurd,
Postmodernism

Unit-2: Poetry
1. The Trojan Women - Euripides
2. The Gate of Hell : Canto III (Inferno) - Dante Alighieri
3. Ithaca - Constantine Petrou Cavafy
4. The Burning of the Books - Bertolt Brecht
5. Lot’s Wife - Anna Akhmatova
6. The End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska
Unit-3: Drama
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Unit-4: Short Stories
1. War - Luigi Pirandello
2. The Guest - Albert Camus
3. The Convert - Guy de Maupassant
4. The Darling- Anton Chekhov
5. A Hunger Artist – Franz Kafka
6. A Christmas tree and a Wedding - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. One Autumn Night - Maxim Gorky
8. The Snow Storm - Alexander Pushkin
9. The Fairy Amoureuse - Emile Zola

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Unit-5: Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
Prescribed Texts:
Oedipus the King. Sophocles. Trans. David Grene. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

RELEVANT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE

S. NO. VIDEO
1 French Revolution - Impact on Literature
2 The Trojan Women
3 Oedipus Rex
4 A Hunger Artist

Elective Paper – III:Journalism

Unit-1: Introduction
 Introduction to Journalism
 A Short History of Journalism in India
 Ethics of Journalism
Unit-2: The Press
 Freedom of Press and Threats to Press Freedom
 The Government and the Press
 Press Laws: Defamation, Libel, Contempt of Court, Slander, Copyright Laws,
Press Regulation Act, Press Registration Act, Law of Privileges
Unit-3: Reporting News
 Role of the Reporter and the Editor
 Types of News Reports – Straight, Interpretive, Investigative, Scoop, Sting
 Headlines - Editorial, Feature Writing, Personal Column, Reviews, Interviews and
Press Conferences
 Reporting – News Values, Human Interest, Story Angle, Obituaries
Unit-4: Layouts, Advertising and News Agencies
 Make-up of a newspaper - Editing, Proof-Reading
 Photographic Journalism, Cartoons, News Agencies, Press Council of India
 Advertisements – Types and Social Responsibility
Exercises
Editing, Proof-reading, Feature Writing, News Reporting, Planning interviews and Reviews
Reference Texts:
Mass Communication in India – Keval Kumar
The Professional Journalist – M V Kamath
The Press – Chalapathi Rao
Journalism as a Career - Sengupta

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 Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester 1
Major Paper - I - British Literature I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks
3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester I
Major Paper - II - Indian Writing in English
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3-5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
Allied - I
Semester 1
Allied - Paper I – Background to the study of English Literature I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks- 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES
Semester II
Major Paper - III – British Literature II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester II
Major Paper - IV – Regional Indian Literature
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

ALLIED - II
Semester II
Allied – Paper II - Background to the Study of English Literature II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES

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 Semester III
Major Paper - V – British Literature III
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES
Semester III
Major Paper - VI – Modern English Language and Usage
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

ALLIED - III

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 Semester III
Allied – Paper III - Myth and Literature
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES
Semester IV
Major Paper - VII – American Literature - I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

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 CORE COURSES
Semester IV
Major Paper - VIII – Film and Literature or Green Studies
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

ALLIED - IV
Semester IV
Allied – Paper IV - Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester V
Major Paper IX American Literature II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES
Semester V
Major Paper X Post Colonial Literature in English I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester V
Major Paper XI Women’s writing
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES
Semester V
Major Paper XII Introduction to Literary Theories
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
ELECTIVES
Semester V
Electives Paper I Introduction to Translation Studies or Practical Approach to Technical Writing
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

CORE COURSES
Semester V
Major Paper XI Women’s writing
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
Core Courses
Semester VI
Major Paper – XIII Contemporary Literature
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

Core Courses
Semester VI
Major Paper – XIV Post - colonial literature in English II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
Core Courses
Semester VI
Major Paper – XV Shakespeare
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

Question Paper Pattern

Electives
Semester VI
Electives Paper II World Literature in Translation
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V

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 Question Paper Pattern
Electives
Semester VI
Electives Paper III Journalism
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10

Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V

Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – UnitII to Unit V
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