ENG 4221L Functional English-IV

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1 ENG 4221L Functional English-IV Semester-IV 4 hrs./ wk. General Objective To enable students acquire basic skills in English-Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing Specific Objective To achieve near advanced proficiency in the four skills through complex exercises. Unit-I: Listening 15hrs. Listening to passages, speeches, English news, Watching children s movies Unit-II: Speaking. Short narrations, descriptions Unit-III & IV: Reading and Vocabulary. Reading: Biographies, news stories, magazine articles Vocabulary: Similar words, related words Unit-V: Writing and Grammar. Letter writing, note making and summarizing. Text Material: Hand Book compiled by the department * * * OBJECTIVES To enable students ENG 4321L COMMUNICATION SKILLS THROUGH LITERATURE - IV enhance their communicative skills in English for a successful everyday life use the right word at the right time and talk clearly get acquainted with literary pieces and make them understand literary idioms enrich their vocabulary and power of expression UNIT I : PROSE: 1. Joseph Addison - The Vision of Mirzah 2. A.J. Cronin - When You Dread Failure 4 hrs / wk

2 3. A.G. Gardiner - On Umbrella Morals 4. Ernest Raymond - Boys vs Masters 5. M.K. Gandhi - How a Client was Saved UNIT II : POETRY: 1. Sarojini Naidu - The Gift of India 2. Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting 3. W.H. Auden - Refugee Blues UNIT III : GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION: Writing Advertisements Spotting errors Essay writing Transformation of sentences simple, compound and complex UNIT IV: VOCABULARY Homonyms and Similar words One-word equivalent (for a group of words) UNIT V: EXTENSIVE READER: Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre, (Macmillan abridged edition) TEXTBOOKS for Semester III Literature & Language for Degree Classes. The UG Board of Studies in English, Manonmanian Sundranar Univ, Tirunelveli: Macmillan, India Ltd (rpt) Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (Retold by Margrey Green). Chennai: Macmillan, OBJECTIVES: GENERAL: ENG4421L LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE - IV SEMESTER IV 4hrs/wk. To enrich the students communicative skills in English To train the students to use the right word at the right time and talk clearly and forcefully. SPECIFIC: To acquaint the students with literary pieces and make them understand literary idioms employed in them. To strengthen the students vocabulary and power of expression.

3 COURSE CONTENT: UNIT I: LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Debates Discussion on Prescribed Texts Paper Presentation and Seminar Literary Quiz UNIT II: READING & WRITING: Reading: Extensive Reading Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel Writing: Critical Appreciation of Plays / Poems / Novels / Films General Essays Topics of Current Interest UNIT III: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Figures of Speech Correction of errors Idioms and Phrases Foreign words One-word Substitution UNIT IV: LITERATURE: Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities Rupert Brooke - Lithuania Norman Mckinnel - The Bishop s Candlesticks Macmillan College Prose and Poetry Edited by T. Sriraman & Colin Swatridge. 25 hrs ******

4 ENG 4522M SHAKESPEARE LEARNING OUTCOMES: 5 hrs / wk On successful completion of the course the student will be able to: gain an insight into the age of Shakespeare understand the themes and techniques of Shakespearean plays and sonnets analyse Shakespeare s works critically DETAILED UNIT I : SONNETS Sonnets XII, XVIII, XIX, XXXIII, LV UNIT II : TRAGEDY 30 hrs Othello NON DETAILED UNIT III : COMEDY A Midsummer Night s Dream UNIT IV : SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE Theatre, Audience and Women in Shakespeare s plays UNIT V : TYPES OF SHAKESPEARE S PLAYS Shakespearean Comedy, Tragedy and History plays REFERENCE BOOK(S): Barber, C.L., Shakespeare s Festive Comedy. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, Knight G. Wilson., The Imperial Theme. London: Methuen, Leishman J.B., Themes and Variation in Shakespeare s Sonnets. London: Hutchman, Ribner, Irving. Patterns in Shakespearean Tragedy, London: Methuen, ENG 4523M ROMANTIC AGE LEARNING OUTCOMES: 5 hrs / wk On successful completion of the course the student will be able to understand the salient features of the Romantic period in English literature gain a perspective of the trends and literary aspects of the period critically appreciate the literature of the Romantic age

5 UNIT I: POETRY-DETAILED 13 hrs William Wordsworth - Lucy Gray S.T.Coleridge - Christabel P.B.Shelley - Ode to a Skylark UNIT II: POETRY- DETAILED 12 hrs Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty William Blake - The Lamb The Tiger Robert Burns - Auld Lang Synge A Red, Red, Rose John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn UNIT III: PROSE DETAILED Charles Lamb - In Praise of Chimney Sweepers, - New Year s Eve UNIT IV: PROSE NON DETAILED: William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads (paragraphs1-10, 15-24) William Hazlitt - My First Acquaintance with Poets UNIT V: NOVEL: 20 hrs Oliver Goldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield Walter Scott - Kenilworth REFERENCE BOOK(S): Abrams, M.H.The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford: O.U.P, Bowra C.M. The Romantic Imagination. London: O.U.P, Cameron, Kenneth Neil. Romantic Rebels: Essays on Shelley and His Circle, London: Cambridge: Harvard, Univ., Press,

6 ENG 4522O WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 5 hrs / wk OBJECTIVES To enable students understand and appreciate the aesthetic, moral and cultural trends of Literatures in the English Language gain an understanding of the unique aspects of the diverse literatures of the world UNIT I : DRAMA: Henrik Ibsen - A Doll s House (Norway) Gordon Daviot - Remember Caesar (New Zealand) UNIT II : FICTION: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (Nigeria) Bernard Malamud - The Assistant (New York) UNIT III : SHORT STORIES: 1. Alice Munroe - Who do you think you are? (Canada) 2. Randolph Stow - Magic (Australia) 3. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Blue Carbuncle (Scotland) 4. Tolstoy - God Sees the Truth but Waits (Russia) UNIT IV: PROSE: 1. R.K. Narayan - The Reluctant Guru (India) 2. J.B. Priestly - In Praise of Normal Woman (England) UNIT V : POETRY: 1. E.J. Pratt - The Dying Eagle (Canada) 2. Herbert Price - The Buffalo (South Africa) 3. Zulfikar Ghose - Pheasant (Pakistan) 4. Robin Hyde - Church of the Holy innocents Dunedin (New Zealand) 5. Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Babiyar (Russia) 6. Rainer Maria Rilke - Raising of Lazarus (Austria) 7. Rabindranath Tagore - The First Jasmines (India) 8. Kahlil Gibran - We and You (Lebanon) 9. Czeslaw Milosz - Farewell (Poland) 10. Derek Walcott - Sea Grapes (Caribbean Islands)

7 11. Yasmine Gooneratne - Peace Game (Sri Lanka) REFERENCE BOOKS 1. Ashcrofn, Bills, Griffths, Gareth and Tiffin, Helen, eds. The Post Colonial Studies Reader London: Routledge, Astro, Richard and Jackson J. Benson, ed. The Fiction of Bernard Malamud, New Delhi: EWP, Mack, Maynard, The Norton Anthology of World Literature 1650 to the Present, New York: WW. Norton and Company, Thieme, John, ed. Anthology of Post Colonial Literatures in English. New York: OUP,

FACULTY OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES BACHELOR OF ARTS (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION AND COURSE OF STUDY FACULTY OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES 07-08 BACHELOR OF ARTS (ENGLISH LITERATURE) 1 SCHEME : Two papers (Min. Pass Marks : 72) Max. Marks : 0 Paper I : Duration 3