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1 M.A. DEGREE COURSE- STRUCTURE Sem Course CCI Sub. Code 11KP1E01 Sub Title The Age of Chaucer to the Jacobean Hrs Credit Marks I.A 2 Marks E.A 7 Total CCII 11KP1E02 The Puritan to the Neo- Classical 2 7 I CCIII 11KP1E03 The Romantic Age 2 7 CCIV 11KP1E04 Indian Writing in English 2 7 CCV 11KP1E0 Literary Criticism- I 2 7 CCVI 11KP2E0 Total Victorian Literature CCVII 11KP2E07 The Modern Age 2 7 II CCVII I 11KP2E08 English Language Teaching 2 7 CCIX 11KP2E09 Literary Criticism- II NME 1 11KP2EE LO1 English For Mass Media-I 2 7 Total CCX 11KP3E10 Language and Linguistics CCXI 11KP3E11 New Literatures III CCXII NME 2 11KP3E12 11KP3EE LO2 Shakespeare Intro. To Comparative Literature Electiv e-i 11KP3EE LE1 English for Mass Media-II 2 7 Total

2 Sem Course Sub. Code Sub Title Hrs Credit Marks I.A Marks E.A Total IV CCXII I CCXI V Electiv e-ii 11KP4E13 11KP4E14 11KP4EE LE2 11KP4E1 PW Research Methodology American Literature Classics in Translation: Eastern and Western Project Total Grand Total

3 M.A. DEGREE COURSE- STRUCTURE PG Abstract SNO SEM HRS CDTS NO OF CORE PAPERS OPEN ELECTIVE ELECTIVE PAPERS MARKS 1 I 30 2 * * 00 2 II * 00 3 III IV * Project- I

4 I MA ENGLISH THE AGE OF CHAUCER TO JACOBEAN Semester-I Hours: Core Course-I Credits: Code:11KP1E01 a. Chaucer : Prologue to Canterbury Tales. I b. Spenser : Prothalamion. c. John Donne : Valediction Forbidding Mourning Canonization. The Sun Rising d. Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Mistress. e. George Herbert : Pulley. II PROSE V DRAMA DRAMA Francis Bacon : Of Friendship Of Adversity Of Truth Of Love Of Studies Marlowe : Dr. Faustus. Ben Jonson : The Alchemist 4

5 I MA ENGLISH THE PURITAN TO THE NEO- CLASSICAL AGE Semester-I Hours: Core Course-II Credits: Code:11KP1E02 John Milton : Paradise Lost- Book IV I Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel ( lines) Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard William Collins : Ode to Evening II PROSE V DRAMA Joseph Addison and : Sir Roger and the widow. Richard Steele Sir Roger at Church. Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer Sheridan : The Rivals FICTION Jonathan Swift : Gulliver s Travels Bunyan : Pilgrim s Progress.

6 I MA ENGLISH THE ROMANTIC AGE Semester-I Hours: Core Course-III Credits: Code: 11KP1E03 William Wordsworth : Ode on the Intimations of Immortality Upon Westminster Bridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of Ancient Mariner. John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn. I Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to the West Wind. Lord Byron : Don Juan. II PROSE Charles Lamb : Christ s Hospital Dream Children : A Reverie William Hazlitt : My First Acquaintance with Poets. V DRAMA Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books. FICTION Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe. Jane Austen : Emma.

7 I MA ENGLISH INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Semester-I Hours: Core Course-IV Credits: Code:11KP1E04 Nissim Ezekiel : Professor Good Bye Party to Miss Pushpa T.S A. K. Ramanujan : Smallscale Reflections in a Great House. I Sarojini Naidu : Bird Sanctuary Toru Dutt : Laxman Kamala Das : Freak. II PROSE Rabindranath Tagore : Personality : My School, Woman. V DRAMA Mahesh Datani : Dance Like a Man. Girish Karnard : Tughlaq. FICTION Sashi Deshpande : Roots and Shadows Amitav Ghosh : Shadow Line. Reference 1. V. K. Gokak. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Treasury. New Delhi: Sahitya Academy, C. D. Narasimhaiah. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai : Macmillan,

8 I MA ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM I Semester-I Hours: Core Course-V Credits: Code:11KP1E0 An Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Criticism ( pages 1-12) I Aristotle : Poetics Sir Philip Sidney : An Apology For Poetry II John Dryden V William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge : An Essay on Dramatic Poesie. : Preface to Lyrical Ballads. : Biographia Literaria. Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response Theory, Postmodernism, Post colonialism. Reference 1. Birjadish Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. India: Macmillan, R. A. Scott James. The Making of Literature. Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, M. H. Abrahams. Glossary of Literary Terms. th edition. Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Pub, Peter Barry. Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. UK: Manchester University Press, Ramaswamy and Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition : Vol. 1 & 2. India: Macmillan, Jeremy Hawthorn. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Edward Arnold,

9 I MA ENGLISH THE VICTORIAN LITERATURE Semester-II Hours: Core Course-VI Credits: Code:11KP2E0 Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses Robert Browning : Andrea Del Sarto My Last Duchess Mathew Arnold : The Scholar Gipsy. I D. G. Rossetti : The Blessed Damozel A. C. Swinburne : The Chorus from the Atlanta. II PROSE John Ruskin : Sesame and Lillies ( Book II Queen s Garden) V DRAMA Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest George Bernard Shaw : Apple Cart. FICTION Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D ubervilles. 9

10 I MA ENGLISH THE MODERN AGE Semester-II Hours: Core Course-VII Credits: Code: 11KP2E07 William Butler Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land. W. H. Auden : Shield of Achilles I Philip Larkin : Church Going Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting. II PROSE E. M Forster : Notes on the English Character My Wood Tolerance A Book that influenced me. V DRAMA John Osborne : Look Back in Anger Harold Pinter : The Caretaker. FICTION James Joyce : The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory. Reference 1. Michael Roberts. Faber Book of Modern Verse, Faber and Faber,

11 I MA ENGLISH ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Semester-II Hours: Core Course-VIII Credits: Code:11KP2E08 Skills of LSRW I Language Theories S.R. Theories of learning or Behaviourist Theories of Learning Present Day Cognitive Theories. II Teaching of Prose Teaching of Poetry Teaching of Grammar V Teaching of Spelling Teaching of Pronunciation Teaching by Traditional method. Approaches and method. New Methods of Teaching English Error Analysis Evaluation Lesson Plan. Prescribed Text 1. Meenatchisundaram. Teaching English. 11

12 I MA ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM II Semester-II Hours: Core Course-IX Credits: Code:11KP2E09 Percy Byssche Shelley : Defence of Poetry Sigmund Freud : Creative Writers and Day Dreaming I Raymond Williams : Realism and Contemporary Novel Claude Levi Strauss : Incest and Myth II Mathew Arnold : The Study of Poetry T. S. Eliot : Religion and Literature. UNIT- IV Elaine Showalter : Towards Feminist Poetics Edmund Fuller : The New Compassion in the American Novel. UNIT- V Realism, Naturalism, Imagism, Transcendentalism, Surrealism, Expresssionism, Euphemism, Objective Co-relative, Negative Capability. Reference 1. Birjadish Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. India: Macmillan Publishers, R. A. Scott James. The Making of Literature. Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, M. H. Abrahams. Glossary of Literary Terms. th edition. Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Pub, Peter Barry. Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. UK : Manchester University Press, Ramaswamy and Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition : Vol. 1 & 2. India: Macmillan, Jeremy Hawthorn. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Edward Arnold,

13 I MA ENGLISH ENGLISH FOR MASS MEDIA- I Semester-II Hours: NME -I Credits: Code:11KP2EEL01 UNIT- I Understanding Mass media- importance of media literacy- types of media- print mediabook industry- news paper industry- magazine industry.- (Chap :Part-I&III*) I Introduction to Creative writing- creative writing in the world ( Chap-1)** - composition and creative writing( Chap-4)**- writing as art- personal narrative- poetry, drama, fiction and children s fiction- making time to write- writing aurally and visually- drawing on one s experience or relating one s life.(chap 1)*** II Introduction to visual writing- writing not to be read, but to be made- difference between visual writing and that of stage plays ( Chapter- Part-I-3-1)****- writing with dialoguedescribing sight and sound \(Chap-Part II)**** V Introduction to Script writing(chap-23)*****- writing as a therapy( Chap-30)*****- writing as experimental practice ( Chap29)*****- writing for stage (Chap-24)*****- writing for television( Cahp-2)***** Film and literature- cinema as institution- cinema, audience and society-cinema, media and globalization (Chap-1)******- Critical approaches to film- authorship and genre (Chap-3)****** Prescribed Texts 1.* Joseph Turow. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: Routledge, **David Morley. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, *** Adele Ramet. Creative Writing : How to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills and get published. Oxford: How to Books Ltd, ****Anthony Friedmann. Writing for the Visual Media. New York: Focal Press, ***** Steven Earnshaw. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ******Nathan Abrams, Ian Bess, Jaa Udris. Studying Films. New York: Oxford University Press,

14 II MA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Semester-III Hours: Core Course-X Credits: 4 Code:11KP3E10 Place of English in the Indo-European Family Grimm s Law, Verner s Law, i-mutation The rise and Growth of Standard English. I Classification of speech sounds The Description of vowels and consonants Syllable Word Stress and Sentence Stress. Intonation Strong and Weak Forms. II The Change of Meaning The Growth of Vocabulary. V TG Grammar IC Analysis Morpheme Transcription Prescribed Text 1. F.T. Wood. History of English Language. 2. J.D O Connor. Better English Pronunciation. New Delhi: OUP, 3. P. C Wren and H. Martin. High School English Grammar and Composition. S. Chand Publisher, A.C.Baugh. History of English Language. Bombay: Allied Publishers. Pvt. Ltd.,

15 II MA ENGLISH NEW LITERATURES Semester-III Hours: Core Course-XI Credits: 4 Code:11KP3E11 Margaret Atwood : Journey to the Interior. Judith Wright : A Fire at Murdering Hut Dereck Walcott : Ruins of a Great House I Michael- Dei Anang : Africa Speaks. A. D. Hope : Australia F. R. Scott : The Canadian Authors Meet II PROSE Margaret Atwood : Survival V. S Naipaul : A Wounded Civilization V DRAMA George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe Douglas Stewart : Ned Kelley. FICTION Patrick White : Voss Thomas Audrey : Intertidal Life. Prescribed Text 1. C. D. Narasimhaiah. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai: Macmillan India Press,

16 II MA ENGLISH SHAKESPEARE Semester-III Hours: Core Course-XII Credits: 4 Code:11KP3E12 UNIT I Life of Shakespeare and his works, Elizabethan theatre and Critics on Shakespeare I As You Like It. II Hamlet V Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare s poems and Sonnets. 1

17 II MA ENGLISH INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Semester-III Hours: Elective : I Credits: 4 Code:11KP3EELE1 French and American Schools Comparative Literature : Definition and Scope Influence study in Reception I Study of Genre and Forms Thematology Periodisation & Influence Study. II Literature and Other Arts The Study of translation. A Theory of literary translatin Adaptation Abridgement Literal VS Literary rendering V Literature and Other Studies Philosophy Biography Psychology Theory of Translation Scripture Translation Scientific Translation Technical Translation Translating for the Media. Machine Translation ( problems, principles, methods and procedures) Reference 1. Dr. A. Nihamuthullah. Procedures of Translating. Thirunelveli: Shameem Publication, Susan Bassnett. Translation Studies. New York: Routledge, Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace,

18 II MA ENGLISH ENGLISH FOR MASS MEDIA- II Semester-III Hours: NME: II Credits: Code :11KP3EEL02 Types of Media- Electronic Media- Recording Radio industry- *Motion Picture industry- Television Industry- Internet- Advertising Industry.* I Creative Writing-visualizing background-** creating fictional characters- writing about setting and atmosphere- writing realistic dialogue.*** II Visual Writing- writing without dialogue- describing time and place- describing actiondescribing scene/ sequence of events.**** V Script Writing- writing for film- writing for web.***** Film and literature- film as text- film technology- the language of film and early cinema.- film literature and social discourse- visualizing voice/time etc.****** Prescribed Texts 1.* Joseph Turow. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: Routledge, **David Morley. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, *** Adele Ramet. Creative Writing : How to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills and get published. Oxford: How to Books Ltd, ****Anthony Friedmann. Writing for the Visual Media. New York: Focal Press, ***** Steven Earnshaw. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ******Nathan Abrams, Ian Bess, Jaa Udris. Studying Films. New York: Oxford University Press,

19 II MA ENGLISH RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PRESENTATION SKILLS Semester-IV Hours: Elective : XIII Credits: 4 Code: 11KP4E13 Definition of Research- literary research- nature of inquiry in Physical Science- Philosophy and meaning of Research. I Choosing the topic mechanics of writing- punctuation- the colon- the dash- the parenthesis- square brackets- question marks- quotation marks- capitalization- the apostrophe and the hyphen. II Style suited for a thesis- structure and format of the thesis- acknowledging different sources documentation- foot notes and end notes- first draft and final draft. V Note-taking- primary and secondary sources- library and its usesbibliography/works cited- works consulted. Presentation Skills Viva-voce: Its meaning and purpose. Body Langue- posture. Reference 1. Modern Language Association of America (MLA). MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7 th edtn. USA: Modern Language Association of America, The Chicago Manual of Style. 1 th edtn, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, C. J Parsons. Thesis and Project Work. London: George Allen and Unwin, Jonathan Anderson and Millicent Poole. Assignment and Thesis Writing.. Presentation Skills. 19

20 II MA ENGLISH AMERICAN LITERATURE Semester-IV Hours: Elective : XIV Credits: 4 Code:11KP4E14 UNIT- I Walt Whitman : When Lilacs Lost in Dooryard Bloomed Robert Frost : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee Emily Dickinson : I taste a Liquor Never Brew d. I PROSE Ralph Waldo Emerson : Self-reliance. II DRAMA Eugene O Neil : The Hairy Ape. V DRAMA Tennesse Williams : The Street Car Named Desire Edward Albee : Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf? FICTION Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms. Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye. 20

21 II MA ENGLISH CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION : EASTERN AND WESTERN. Semester-IV Hours: Elective :II Credits: Code: 11KP4EELE2 (Detailed) Thirukkural - Chapters on 1. Love 2. Truth 3. Friendship Omar Khayyam- Rubaiyat 1 st five quatrains I (Detailed) Psalms : 1, 4, 23, 91, 121. II (Non- Detailed) Homer : Illiad ( Book I & II ) V Henrik Ibsen : The Wild Duck. Kalidasa : Sakuntala. Herman Hesse : Siddharta. 21

Early Renaissance, Elizabethan and Puritan Age.

OPTIONAL ENGLISH - B.A. FIRST SEMESTER PAPER I Early Renaissance, Elizabethan and Puritan Age. Code: OPT.ENG -101 Univ Code: 101 UNITS:I (Credit Points: 01) Background: Renaissance, Shakespearean theatre,