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CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TAMIL NADU

Tiruvarur

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

SYLLABI

for

M. A. in English Studies

English for Integrated Sciences

Communicative English (M.A. Classical Tamil)

Ph. D. in English Studies

2014

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I Semester

Sr. No. Semester

Code

Course Marks Credits

1. ENG 071 Academic Reading and Writing 40

60

4

2. ENG 072 American Literature I 40

60

4

3. ENG 073 British Literature I 40

60

4

4. ENG 074 Philosophical Concepts 40

60

4

5. ENG 075 Introduction to Indian Literatures

40

60

4

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ENG 071: Academic Reading and Writing (ARW) Credits: 4

Course objectives: To introduce the learner to the important reading techniques To enable the learner to understand the important aspects of an academic text To enable the learner to write correctly, coherently and effectively To introduce the fundamental conventions of academic writing Unit - I.

Critical Reading, Critical Thinking Barriers to critical thinking Reading – different types

Unit - II Book survey Texts – different types Comprehension of texts – analysing different forms and styles Fallacies Facts, opinions Arguments – different types.

Unit - III Sourcing information – primary , secondary, tertiary Collecting data Organising the data Forming the argument, sequencing ideas Critiquing, editing

Unit - IV Research paper – key features Methodology Figurative language Hypertext Plagiarism

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ENG 072: AMERICAN LITERATURE I Credits: 4

Course objectives:

1. To familiarize the learner with the major texts and authors from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth centuries

2. To help the learner situate the prescribed texts in their own socio-historical contexts and see how they represent their respective ages.

Unit I: Poetry Introduction to American Literature American Indian Poetry Walum Olum Unit II: Poetry Anne Bradstreet: “Prologue” Whitman: “Song of Myself” Lines 1-50 Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” Emily Dickinson: “The Soul Selects Her Own Society,” “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,”“Because I could not stop for Death,” “My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun” E.A. Robinson: “Richard Cory” Unit III: Poetry Afro-American Ballads, “We raise de wheat,” “Me and My Captain,” “The Signifying

Monkey,” “Spiritual,” “Swing Lo Sweet Chariot” Phyllis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To the University of

Cambridge in New England” Dubois: “The Song of the Smoke” Unit IV: Prose Thomas Jefferson: “Declaration of Independence” Emerson: “The American Scholar” Thoreau: “Where I Lived” Unit V: Fiction Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown” Melville: “Bartleby the Scrivener” Edgar Allan Poe: “The Cask of Amontillado” Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn Kate Chopin: The Awakening

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ENG 073: BRITISH LITERTURE I Credits: 4

Course objectives:

1. To introduce the learner to the basic texts of the Middle Ages and The Renaissance (excluding Milton)

2. To show the learner how the prescribed texts represent the Spirit of the Age 3. To facilitate an intertextual reading of the texts 4. To bring out the contemporary relevance of the texts

Unit 1: Poetry Chaucer: “The Prologue” (Lines1-100; 118-162 (Nun) or Wife of Bath) Spenser: “One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand” Unit 2: Poetry John Donne: “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” & “Canonisation” George Herbert: “The Collar”/ “Easter Wings” Richard Lovelace: “To Lucasta Going Beyond Seas” & “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress” Robert Herrick: “The Vine”/ “To the Virgins, to make much of time” Unit 3: Prose Francis Bacon: “Of Studies,” “Of Death,” “Of Revenge” Unit 4: Drama Introduction to British Drama Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Unit 5: Drama

Shakespeare: Measure for Measure & Othello

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ENG 074: PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS Credits: 4

Course Description:

An introductory course in philosophy for non-philosophy majors. Concepts from the major philosophical areas of World, Mind and Body, Knowledge, Faith, Ethics and Aesthetics, and Society are introduced with a view to enabling the learners to apply them to literary texts. Traditional Tamil philosophical ideas are also introduced wherever appropriate.

Course Objectives:

1. To introduce the learner to the fundamentals of philosophy 2. To enable the learner to appreciate better the philosophical dimension of the literary text. 3. To introduce early Tamil philosophy 4. To enable the learner to see how literature and philosophy converge 5. To foster a spirit of inquiry

Unit1: World

Reality, Physical World, Aristotle, Plato, Idealism, Perception, Locke and Berkeley, Phenomenology, Cause and Effect.

Unit 2: Mind and Body

Truth, Mind, Consciousness, Self, Free Will, Feelings and Emotions, Life and Death.

Unit 3: Knowledge

Knowledge, Scepticism, Relativism, Science, Induction and Deduction, Pragmatism, Rationality.

Unit 4: Faith

Faith and Reason, God, Atheism and Agnosticism, Evil, Meaning of Life, Existentialism, Morality, Conscience.

Unit 5

Art, Society, Democracy, Freedom, Rights, Crime and Punishment Equality, Ownership, Marxism, Globalization.

Course Book

David, ed. Philosophy. London: Duncan Baird, 2004.

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ENG 075: INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURES Credits: 4

Course description: This is a course which introduces the student to the literatures of India. Texts from languages of all the four language families in India – Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto Burmese, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan – represent each linguistic culture group. Course objectives: 1. To introduce the learner to some of the representative texts of the four major language

families of India. 2. To sensitize the learner to the similarities and dissimilarities among the four literary

traditions.

Course Schedule: Unit 1: Dravidian Literature Introduction to Dravidian Literature Unit 2: Telugu Literature Nannayabhatta Palkuriki Somanatha Tyagaraja Unit 3: Tamil Literature Tinai theory Tolkaappiyam Cankam Literature (Excerpts) Tirukkural (Excerpt) Cilappatikaaram (Excerpt) Unit 4: Malayalam Literature Cherusseri’s Krishnagatha Ezhuttachan’s Mahabharatam Swati Tirunal

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Unit 5: Kannada Literature Kavirajamarga III. 187-197 Pampa “Draupadi’s Vow and After” Purandaradasa Unit 6: Indo-Aryan Introduction to Indo-Aryan literatures Unit 7: Bengali Rabindranath Tagore – Chandalika (1933) In Three Plays. Unit 8: Hindi Maitreyi Pushpa – “The Verdict.” Bhasha, “The Shattered Thigh.” Bhimshan Sahani – “We Have Arrives in Amritsar.” The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Stories Unit 9: Urdu Ismat Chugati – “The Quilt.” Women Writing in India. Vol. 2 Ed. Susie Tharu and K Lalitha Unit 10: Gujarathi Varsha Das, “I Am Complete” Separate Journeys. Ed. Geetha Dharmarajan. Katha and Garutman Unit 11: Sindhi Lekhraj Tulsiani – “Manjri.”Contemporary Indian Short Stories. Series II. Ed. Bhabani Battacarya. Sahitya Academy. Unit 12: Sino-Tibetan Introduction to Sino-Tibetan literatures

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Unit 13: Manipuri Krishnamohan Singh – “Meitei Woman.” Unit 14: Mizo Samarendra Singh – “My State” Unit 15: Austrosiatic Introduction to Austroasiatic literatures Unit 16: Santali Any folk tale of Santal Parganas from Folklore of the Santal Parganas. Trans. Cecil Henry Bompas. London: David Nutt, 1909 Unit 17: Savara Any folk story of instructor’s choice from Saora Folk Tales and Songs. Ed. Mahendra Kumar Mishra. Sahithya Academy, 2006 ----------------

II Semester

Sr. No. Semester

Code

Course Marks Credits

1. ENG 081 British Literature II 40

60

4

2. ENG 082 Introduction to Comparative Literature 40

60

4

3. ENG 083 Introduction to English Linguistics 40

60

4

4. ENG 084 Literary Criticism 40 4

10

60

5. ENG 085 Indian Writing in English

40

60

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ENG 081: BRITISH LITERATURE II Credits: 4

Course objectives:

1. To familiarize the learner with the major texts and authors from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth centuries

2. To help the learner situate the prescribed texts in their own socio-historical contexts and see how they represent their respective ages.

3. To enable the learner to appreciate the contemporary significance of the texts. 4. To help the learner make intertextual connections with texts from other periods and

writers from other traditions.

Unit 1: Poetry The Renaissance (1500-1660): Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (1649-1669) Milton: An excerpt from Paradise Lost Bk. IV The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745) Pope: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot – An excerpt Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel – An excerpt Francis Thompson: Hound of Heaven – An excerpt The Age of Sensibility (The age of Johnson/pre-Romantic transitional period, 1745-1785) Thomas Gray: Ode: On the Death of a Favourite Cat The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Burns: John Anderson My Jo, John William Blake: London William Wordsworth: Sonnets or excerpts from Prelude, Book 4. John Keats: Ode: To Nightingale, Ode: To Autumn P.B. Shelley: Ode: To The West Wind The Victorian Period (1832-1901) Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach Robert Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi - An excerpt Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese No. XV Christina Rossetti: Sonnet No.2 (“I wish I could remember that first

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Day”) Monna Innominata Unit 2: Drama The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745) The Age of Sensibility (The age of Johnson/pre-Romantic transitional period, 1745-1785) Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer The Victorian Period (1832-1901) Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest Unit 3: Fiction The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745) Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice The Victorian Period (1832-1901) Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Charles Dickens: Hard Times (excerpt) Unit 4: Prose The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745) Addison and Steele: Any 2 Essays The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Charles Lamb "A dissertation upon roast pig”

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ENG 082: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Credits: 4

Course objectives:

1. To help the learner understand the nature of comparative literature and some of its major concerns

2. To enable the learner to apply the concepts In the area to texts 3. To foster a comparative perspective in the learner

Unit 1: Definition

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Welleck, Rene. “General, Comparative and National Literature.” Theory of Literature. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. Chapter 4.

Unit 2: Influence Study

Pammal Sambanda Mudaliyaar’s Amaladitya (An Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet). 3rd ed. Madras: The Author, 1931.

Unit 3: Thematology

Some Texts on War

Sun Tzu. “Estimates.” The Art of War. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. 1998, 21-22. (Chinese, 403-221 BC)

Livy. Hannibal’s Crossing Of the Alps. Trans. Aubrey De Selincourt. Penguin Books, 1995, 23-28. (Latin, 59 BC-AD 17)

Tirukkural. Trans. Rev.G.U.Pope. New Delhi and Madras: Asian Educational Services, 1999, Verses 771-780 (“On Valour”). (Tamil, 200 AD)

Kautilya. “Open and Deceptive Battles.” Arthasastra. Chapter XV.vi. (Sanskrit, 400 BC- AD 300)

Hemingway. “Oldman at the Bridge.” (English; American, 1899-1961)

Denise Levertov. “Watching Dark Circle” *(English; American, 1923-)

Unit 4: Genology

Sonnet

Select sonnets from Vi.Ko. Curiyanaaraayana castriyaar. Tanippaacurat tokai. (An anthology of Lyrics) I part. Trans. G.U.Pope. Notes. N.Palaraama Aiyar. Maturai and Cennai: V.Cu.Cuvaaminaatan. 3rd ed., 1957.

Unit 5: Mutual Illumination of the Arts

Literature and Painting (Discussion of Poems based on Paintings)

W.H.Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” based on Pieter Breughel’s Icarus

William Carlos Williams’s “The Dance” based on Pieter Brueghel’s The Kermesss

Literature and Music (Discussion of four illustrative cankam songs)

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ENG 083: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Credits: 4

Course objectives:

1. To foster a scientific approach to language 2. To introduce the learner to some basic concepts of English linguistics. 3. The enable the learner to apply linguistic knowledge to everyday language use.

Unit 1: Linguistics and English

Studying Linguistic structure; the development of English; genetic classifications of languages; the development of English; typological classification of languages; why languages change.

Unit 2: The Syntax of English

Introduction to English syntax; formal versus notional definitions; structuring of constituents; word classes and phrases; verb phrase; clauses and sentences.

Unit 3: Semantics of English

The structure and meaning of English words; the morpheme; lexical semantics; dictionaries; componential analysis; semantic relations; creating new vocabulary; referential and spatio-temporal deixis.

Unit 4: The Speech Sounds of English

The Speech sounds of English; phonetic alphabet; transcription; consonants; vowels; suprasegmentals; stress and intonation.

Textbook:

Meyer, Charles F. Introducing English Linguistics. CUP, 2009.

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ENG 084: LITERARY CRITICISM Credits: 4

Course objectives:

1. To familiarise the learner with the major texts in the area from the classical to the modern times

2. To help the learner comprehend the basic critical concepts in each text. 3. To train the learner to apply the critical concepts to literary texts.

Unit 1: Technical Terms

Abrams, “Orientation of Critical Theories”

Unit 2: Classical Criticism

Aristotle, Poetics. Chapters VI-X

Application: Text of Instructor’s choice

Unit 3: Renaissance Criticism

Philip Sidney, Excerpt from An Apology for Poetry. See Criticism: The Major Texts. Ed. Walter Jackson Bate. New York and Burlingame: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1952, 86-89.

Application: Historical, Philosophical and Literary Texts of Instructor’s Choice

Unit 4: Neo-Classical Criticism

Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare

Application: Text of Instructor’s Choice

Unit 5: Romantic Criticism

Wordsworth. “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.”

Application: Cleanth Brooks’ criticism of Wordsworth’s Lucy poem in his “Irony as a Principle

of Structure.”

Unit 6: Victorian criticism

Mathew Arnold. Excerpt from “Function of Criticism at the Present Time.”

Unit 7: Modern Criticism

T.S.Eliot. “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”

I. A. Richards, Excerpt from Practical Criticism (Four Kinds of Meaning)

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Allan Tate. “Tension in Poetry.”

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ENG 085: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Credits: 4

Objectives: To make the students familiarise with the writings in English by Indian writers of pre and post-Independence. To enable the students understand and appreciate its unique status it enjoys along with the other continental literatures. To help the students acquire sufficient knowledge for comparative analysis, evaluation, understanding and appreciation with the other regional writings. Unit –I Poetry: Background: Origin, growth and development 1. Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree, Lakshman 2. Sarojini Devi Naidu: Village Song, The Indian Weaver 3. Sri Aurobindo: Savitri , Canto – I The Symbol Dawn 4. Nissim Ezekiel: Enterprise, Night of the Scorpion 5. A.K.Ramanujan: Looking for a Cousin on a Swing, A River 6. Kamala Das: An Introduction, After the Summer 7. Mamta Kalia: Tribute To Papa Unit – II Prose: Background: Origin, growth and development 1. First Chapter of Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indian 2. Sri Aurobindo: “The Renaissance in India” 3. M.K.Gandhi : Selected Writings 4. Hiriyanna: “Art Experience” or Tagore’s “What is Art?” Unit – III Fiction: Background: Origin, growth and development 1. Mulk Raj Anand. Coolie 2. Raja Rao. Kanthapura 3. R. K. Narayan, The Guide 4. Anita Desai. Cry The Peacock 5. Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children

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Unit – IV Drama: Background: Origin, growth and development 1.Asif Curimbhoy. Refugee 2. Mahesh Dattani, Final Solutions ------

III Semester

Sr. No. Semester

Code

Course Marks Credits

1. ENG 091 American Literature II 40

60

4

2. ENG 092 British Literature III 40

60

4

3. ENG 093 New Literature I 40

60

4

4. ENG 094 Ecocriticism 40

60

4

5. ENG 095 Translation Studies

40

60

4

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ENG 091: AMERICAN LITERATURE II Credits – 4

Course description: American literature II is a continuation of AL I offered during the first semester of this programme. Since AL I covered the period up to the 19th century, AL II will deal with the subsequent period under the heads, Modern American Fiction, Modern American Poetry, Modern American Drama, and Modern American Non-Fiction.

Course objectives:

1. To introduce the learner to some important texts of Modern North America. 2. To familiarize the learner with modern American history. 3. To show how multiculturalism and individualism are recurring themes in American

literature.

Unit I: Modern American Fiction

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men Toni Morrison: Beloved Flannery O’Connor: “Everything that Rises Must Converge” Unit II: Modern American Non-Fiction Alice Walker: “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” Toni Morrison: “Nobel Lecture” Amy Tan: “Mother Tongue” Unit III: Modern American Poetry Ezra Pound: “Pact” Robert Frost: “Home Burial,” “After Apple Picking” Wallace Stevens: “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Emperor of Ice Cream” E E Cummings: “In Just,” “Somewhere I have Never Travelled,” “Cambridge Ladies” Robert Lowell: “Skunk Hour” Anne Sexton: “Wanting to Die” Sylvia Plath: “Lady Lazarus” Denise Levertov: “Mutes,” “Theatre of War” Adrienne Rich: “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law” May Swenson: “Women” Maya Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman” Langston Hughes: “Dream Deferred” Unit IV: Modern American Drama Tennessee Williams: A Street Car Named Desire Lorraine Hansberry: Raisin in the Sun Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman ---------------

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ENG 092: BRITISH LITERATURE III Credits – 4

Course description: Following up on BL II which was offered in the second semester, BL III covers the literature of the 20th century and after. The enormous literary output of Great Britain can only be sampled under the generic categories, Modern British Fiction, Modern British Poetry, Modern British Drama and Modern British Non-Fiction. Learners will be encouraged to view the texts through the prism of modernism since this movement has inflected Western literature significantly. Course objectives: 1) The learner will be introduced to some important texts of modern British literature. 2) The course intends to show how modernism colours the literary texts of the 20th

century. 3) To call attention to the significant social and historical undercurrents of the age.

Unit I: Modern British Fiction Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim Anita Brookner: Hotel du Lac Unit II: Modern British Non-Fiction D. H. Lawrence: “Why the Novel Matters” A. Huxley: “Wordsworth in the Tropics” George Orwell: “Politics of the English Language” E. M. Forster: “What I Believe” Unit III: Modern British Poetry Hopkins: “Windhover” T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land” / “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” W. B. Yeats: “Second Coming,” “Easter 1916” W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” Philip Larkin: “Toads”/ Next Please Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Gentle Into That Good Night” Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roasting,” “Thought Fox” Seamus Heaney: “Digging” / “Death of A Naturalist” Carol Ann Duffy: “Standing Female Nude” Vicki Fever: “Judith” Gillain Clarke: “Catrin” Eavan Boland: “Domestic Violence” Simon Armitage: “My Father Thought it Bloody Queer”

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Unit IV: Modern British Drama Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Shelagh Delaney: A Taste of Honey Caryl Churchill: Top Girls

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ENG 093: NEW LITERATURES I 4 Credits

Course description: New Literatures is also known as Postcolonial Studies, and Commonwealth Literature. These literatures emerge from countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, and also from several African and Caribbean nations which were colonized mainly by the European powers. The literatures from these ex-colonies reflect the colonial and post-colonial experience adopting traditional and non-traditional literary techniques. Some important texts from this corpus as well as key concepts in postcolonial studies will be introduced to the learners. New Literatures I will confine to the texts from Asian, African and Caribbean countries.

Course objectives:

1. To introduce the learner to some major texts in the area of New Literatures, especially from the Asian, African and Caribbean countries.

2. To encourage the learner to understand the history of the people of the colonized countries.

3. To foster an understanding of global issues such as class, caste, race and gender. 4. To introduce some key concepts in postcolonial literature.

Unit I: Asian Literature Sri Lanka: Patrick Fernando: “The Fisherman Mourn by His Wife” Syam Selvadurai: From Funny Boy Bangladesh: Nasreen Taslima: Lajja Pakistan: Kishwar Naheed: “I am not that Woman” Faiz Ahmed Faiz: “Loneliness” Fahmida Riaz: “Chadur and Char-diwari”

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Malaysia: Lee Kok Liang: “Five Fingers” Mohamad Bin Haji Salleh: “Do Not Say” Singapore: Philip Jeyaretnam: “Making Coffee” Unit II: African Literature Oral Tradition East Africa: Adventures of Abunuwas, Trickster Hero Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: “Deloconising the Mind” Okot p’Bitek: “Song of Lawino” North Africa: The Shipwrecked Sailor West Africa: Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, “What Has Literature Got To Do With It?” Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel, “Telephone Conversation” Leopold Senghor: “Night of Sine,” “All Day Long” David Diop: “Africa” Kofi Awoonor: “Song of War,” “The Weaver Bird,” “Easter Dawn” Unit III: Caribbean and British Guyanese Literature V.S. Naipaul: “Man-man” Derek Walcott: “A Country Club Romance” Grace Nichols: “Tropical Death,” “In My Name” Lean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

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ENG 094: ECOCRITICISM Credits – 4

Course Description: Ecocriticism has found its place in the Indian academy only in the last twenty years or so. It familiarizes the students with ecological, deep ecological and oikopoetic principles and shows them how these could be effective critical tools. Students will be exposed to ecocritical concepts and texts which will challenge conventional attitudes and values detrimental to the well-being of our planet.

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Objectives: 1. To introduce the learners to one of the major postmodern critical trends. 2. To familiarize the learners with some key ecocritical concepts. 3. To train the learners in the application of the critical concepts to various literary texts.

Unit 1: Ecology J.L.Chapman and M.J.Reiss. “Introduction.” Ecology: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed. Cambridge UP, 1999, 2-4. Unit 2: Deep Ecology Bill Devall and George Sessions. Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, 1985, 65-73. Unit 3: Ecocriticism: Definitions and Types

1. William Rueckert, “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism.” The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens and London: U of Georgia Press, 1996, 105-123.

2. Cheryll Glotfelty.“Introduction.” The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens and London: U of Georgia Press, 1996, xv-xxv.

3. Jonathan Bate. “Introduction.” Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental

Tradition. London & New York: Routledge, 1991, 1-11.

4. Nirmal Selvamony. “Introduction.” Essays in Ecocriticism. Ed. Nirmal Selvamony,

Nirmaldasan and Rayson K. Alex. New Delhi: Sarup and Sons and Chennai: OSLE-

India, 2007, xii-xxi.

Unit 4: Symbiosis Film: “The Queen of Trees.” Film: “The Story of Mudugar.” Unit 5: Biome J. L. Chapman and M. J. Reiss. “Biomes.” Ecology: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed. Cambridge UP, 1999, 217-234.

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Bioregion Peter Berg and Raymond F.Dasmann. “Reinhabiting California.” Home! A Bioregional Reader. Eds. Van Andruss and others. Gabriola Island, Canada: New Catalyst Books, 2007, 35-38. Unit 6 Theory of Tinai Nirmal Selvamony. “Towards an Alternative Social Order.” Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J. T. K. Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Madras: Madras Christian College and New Delhi: All-India Association for Christian Higher Education, 1990, 215-236. tiNai poetics Nirmal Selvamony, “tiNai poetics and Tamil Poetry.” Horizons: Critical Perspectives on Language and Literature. Ed. Suresh Frederick. Thanjavur: Amirthamani Publications, 2011, 1-15. Pastoral Tinai Ainkurunuuru 401 Montane Tinai Kuruntokai 18 Arid Tinai Kuruntokai 37 Plains Tinai Ainkurunuuru 95 Coastal Tinai Ainkurunuuru 177 Unit 7 Application of Concepts to Texts Mandatory Field Study

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ENG 095:TRANSLATION STUDIES Credits – 4

Course description: This course introduces the student to the theory and practice of translation including basics of communication and theories of meaning. The paper will also include study and review of texts and translations both in English and Tamil.

Course objectives: The objective is to familiarize the students with the history, theories, methods and practice of translation. Theories of language, meaning and of communication, to the extent necessary for a sound grasp of the subject, will also be included in the course work. These would help the students assess the merits of translation and to explain failures in terms of translation theories.

Unit 1:

Translation field and types – Definition of translation – Nida’s and that of J.C.Catford – Phonological and Graphological translation- Transliteration – Grammatical and lexical translation.

Unit 2:

Theory of language-levels and level shifts – meaning and translation- transference and translation (J.C.Catford)

Unit 3:

Nida’s theory of translation – Kernels and transforms – Equivalence in translation – correspondence – Nida’s discussion of meaning- referential and emotive meanings

Unit 4:

Adjustments in translation- Theory of communication in its bearing on translation- Decoder’s

abilities – Fit, noise, Communication load- lexical and structural – Culture and translation- Ethno-linguistic model of translation

Unit 5:

Qualifications and motives of translator – language varieties – Limits of translatability – Formal equivalence and poetry translation – Translation in Indian context – History of translation theory.

Books for Reference: Catford, J.C. (1965), A Linguistic Theory of Translation. London: OUP.

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Bassnett, Susan (1980), Translation Studies. London/NY: Routledge. Bassnett, Susan & Lefevere, A. (eds.) (1990), Translation, History and Culture. London: Pinter. Campbell, S. (1998), Translation into the Second Language. Harlow: Longman Delisle, J. Woodsworth, J. (eds) (1995), Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia. Halliday, M.A. K. and Hasan, R. (1976) Cohesion in English. London: Longman. Katan, D. (2004), Translating Cultures. An Introduction for Translators, Interpreters and Mediators. Manchester: St. Jerome. Newmarke, P. (1998), A Textbook of Translation. NY/London: Printice Hall. Nida, E.A. (1964) Toward a Science of Translating. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Nida, E.A. and Taber, C.R. (1969), The Theory and Practice of Translation. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Steiner, G. (1975), After Babel. Oxford: OUP. Venuti, L. (2004), The Translation Studies Reader. London/NY: Routledge.

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IV Semester

Semester

Code

Course Marks Credits

ENG 101 Dalit Literature 40

60

4

ENG 102 English Language Teaching 40

60

4

ENG 103 Language and Media 40

60

4

ENG 104 New Literatures II 40

60

4

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ENG 105 Critical Theory 40

60

4

ENG 101: Dalit Literature

Credits: 4

Dalit Literature will introduce several dalit writings to the learner in order to sensitize her/him to the condition of being a dalit in India. These writings include poems, short stories, essays and a novel. Course objectives:

1. To introduce the literary genre, dalit literature to the learners 2. To sensitize the learners to the human condition known as “dalitness” 3. To train the learners to critique dalit writings competently

Unit 1: Poetry Poikayil Appachan, “Songs by Poikayil Appachan.” Vijila. “A Place for Me.” Indran. “Wall-Posters,” “The City of Burning Slum.” Thai Kandasamy. “A Possibility.” S.Sukirtharani. “Portrait of My Village.” Unit 2: Essay Gail Omvedt. “Ambedkarism: The Theory of Dalit Liberation.” Eleanor Zelliot. “The Folklore of Pride: Three Components of Contemporary Dalit Belief.” KanchaIlaiah. “Class and Caste,” “Women.” Raj Kumar. “Caste, Culture and Politics: Towards a Definition of Dalit Autobiography.” Unit 3: Short Story Ravi Kumar. “On Knowing the Truth.” Bama. “Events.” P.Sivakami. “The Paper Door.” Unit 4: Fiction and Autobiography Vemula Ellaih. “She Fastened her Chastity with a Hearty Hope.” (Excerpt from Kakka) Omprakash Valmiki. Joothan: A Dalit Life. Unit 5: Speech Thirumavalavan. “Rule of Caste is the Rule of India.” P.Sivakami. “Land: Woman’s Breath and Speech.”

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Sunny M. Kappikkad. “The Dalit Presence in Malayalam Literature.” Unit 6: Interview S. Sankaranayanan. “An Interview with Bama.” K.Purushotham. “Our Exit from the Left was the Beginning of the Dalit Writing: An Interview with Vemula Ellaiah.” ---------------

ENG 102: English Language Teaching

Credits: 4 Course Description: ELT will deal with the history of English in India, the methods for ELT, Teaching spoken English, vocabulary, grammar, study skills and reference skills, tests and testing and also common errors and remedial English. Course Objectives:

1. To introduce the learner to the teaching of the different aspects of the English language – speech, vocabulary and grammar

2. To introduce the learner to the teaching of English as a discipline and hence the topics study skills and refernece skills

3. To familiarise the learner with a brief history of English Language in India 4. To contextualise English language learning 5. To equip the learner with the skills necessary for English Language teaching.

Unit I: English in India−Past, Present and Future English as an international language, English as a link language, Commissions on the teaching of English in India, English in post-independence India Unit II: Methods Grammar-translation Method, Reform Method Unit III: Approach, Method and Technique Structural Approach, Bilingual method, Communicative Language Teaching, Eclectic method Unit IV: Teaching Spoken English: Some Techniques Songs and rhymes for teaching spoken English, Usage of limericks and tongue twisters, Developing listening skills Unit V: Teaching of Vocabulary Reading and vocabulary expansion, Active and passive vocabulary, Direct and indirect vocabulary, Methods of teaching vocabulary to young learners Unit VI: Study Skills and Reference Skills

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Using reference books, Study skills and their usefulness, Reading and making notes, Listening and taking notes Unit VII: Tests and testing Various types of language tests, Characteristics of a good test, types of questions that can be set, Ways of testing writing, speaking and communicative abilities, Usage of technology for testing Unit VIII: Common errors and Remedial English Language variations and errors, Common errors in English, Usefulness of error analysis Course Book:

Krishnaswamy, N and Lalitha Krishnaswamy. Methods of Teaching English. New Delhi:

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ENG 103: Language and Media

Credits: 4 Language and Media includes eight units – newspaper, radio, magazines, television, film and e-publishing. Course Objectives:

1. To introduce the learners to various theories of language as a communicative medium 2. To introduce the students to the newest manifestations of language 3. To give a brief idea of how knowledge is created in various media, print, radio, television and new

Unit 1: Defnitions – Language, Media Stages of the course of the news – news value – newspaper writing – terms used in news gathering, newspaper organisation, copy writing and copy editing – truth telling, agenda setting – opinion forming – media as a democratic institution Unit 2: Print Media – Copy writing and copy editing

Copy Writing - writing for mass circulation – diversity of the audience – elements of readability – vocabulary and structural simplicity – units of thought and sentence – fog index – inverted pyramidal structure of news stories – editorializing – headlines and lead paras – different types of stories

Copy Editing – editing to make meaning – editing to save space - cutting, trimming,

boiling – developing angles – objectivity and fairness – coverage – making stories legally safe

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Westley H., Bruce. News Editing. New Delhi: Oxford IBH, 1975. Unit 3: Radio and Television

Narrative, pause, dramatic silence, voice, points of view, sound, atmos, music in documentaries and plays (BBC & AIR). Primary Texts: Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall John Biewen’s Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound. Kevin Branigan’s Radio Beckett. Evolution and change in language, voyeurism, hurried mode of narrative, ‘flow’,

space and culture in Documentaries, plays and soap operas.

Primary Texts:

Theodore Adorno’s “How to look at Television”. Raymond William’s Television : Technology and Cultural Forms.

Unit 4: Film Language

I. The development of film narrative with reference to:

Evolution of film techniques,The Silent Era, Film movements, Film Noir, Asian cinema

II. Language of films in four forms:

Mis-en-scene, Cinemetography, Sound and light, Editing

Primary Texts:

Andre’ Bazin’s “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”. Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative”.

References:

Theodore Adorno’s The Culture Industry Sergei Eisenstein’s Film Forms: Essays in Film Theory. James Monaco’s How to Read a Film. Andre’ Basin’s What is Cinema? .Gilles Deleuze’s The Movement Image.

Recommended viewing:

Griffith: The Birth of a Nation (1915) Eisenstein: Battleship Potempkin (1925)

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Chaplin : Modern Times (1936) Welles: Citizen Kane (1941) De Sica: Bicycle Thieves (1948) Kurosawa: Rashomon (1950) Bergman: Wild Strawberries (1957) Godard: Breathless (1960) Ray : Charulatha (1964) Ghatak: Subarnarekha (1965) Patwardhan: Bombay our City (1985)

Unit 5: SMS and Blog Language

Texting: Vocabulary, grammar - Different text languages - Effect on spoken and written

languages - Positive sides to texting Primary text:

David Crystal’s Textin : The Gr8 Db8 Blog Language:

Metaphor of web – Virtual communities - Blogs and News reports – Narratives in blogs (case studies) – Political ethos for blogging, facebooking and twittering – Informality & Coloqualisms – Language Choice and Code-switching

Huffaker, David A. and Sandra L. Calvert. “Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage

Blogs.” <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html>. “Blogging Linguists II.” <http://thelanguageofblogs.typepad.com/>. --------------

ENG 104: New Literature II Credits: 4

New Literatures II is sequel to New Literatures I which includes Asian and African literary texts. The present course will introduce the learner to some of the important texts in this genre from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Students will be encouraged to read the texts in the light of postcolonial concepts. Course Objectives:

1. To introduce some of the important post colonial writings from canada, Australia and New Zealand

2. To enable the learner to criticize the texts using postcolonial concepts 3. To foster a historical understanding of literary cultures other than British and American

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Unit I: Australia Drama Jane Harrison: Stolen Louis Nowra: Radiance Fiction Sally Morgan: My Place (an excerpt) Henry Lawson: “The Drover’s Wife” James Cook: An Account of a Round Voyage of the Endeavour (an excerpt) Dick Roughsey: from Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal (an excerpt) Babara Baynton: “The Chosen Vessel” Kate Grenville: The Secret River Poetry Banjo Paterson: “Waltzing Matilda” Mary Gilmore: “Australia” Henry Kendall: “The Last of His Tribe” Judith Wright: “At Cooloolah,” “For New England,” “Bora Ring” Oodgeroo Noonucacal (Kath Walker): “We Are Going,” “No More Boomerang” Unit II: Canada Drama George Ryga: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe Drew Hayden Taylor: Someday Poetry Pauline Johnson: “The Cattle Thief” Rita Joe” “I Lost My Talk” Margaret Atwood: “Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer” Fiction Alice Munro: “The Photographer” Jeannettte C. Armstrong: “This Is a Story” Lee Maracle: I Am Woman (excerpt) Beatrice Culleton Moisinier: In Search of April Raintree Maria Campbell: Halfbreed Unit III: New Zealand Katherine Mansfield: “The Garden Party,” “Miss Brill” --------------

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ENG 105: CRITICAL THEORY Credits: 4

Theory and Cultural Criticism introduces to the learner some of the major post 60's theories such as structuralism, post-structuralism, reader-response criticism, feminism, new historicism, cultural studies, orientalism and ecocriticism. Learners are expected to be familiar with the major theoreticians, their works and key concepts. Course Objectives:

1. To introduce the learner to major variety of critical theory that emerged after the II World War

2. To introduce the learner to the major texts in the field of critical theory 3. To enable the learner to apply some of the key concepts to literary and cultural texts

Unit 1 THEORY Jonathan Culler, “What is Theory?” (2000) Unit 2 STRUCTURALISM Jonathan Culler, “Poetics of the Lyric” (1975) Unit 3 POSTSTRUCTURALISM Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” (1967) Unit 4 READER-RESPONSE Stanley Fish, “Is there a Text in This Class?” (1982) Unit 5 FEMINIST THEORY Elaine Showalter, “Towards a Feminist Poetics” (1979) Unit 6 NEW HISTORICISM Stephen Greenblatt, “Invisible Bullets” (1988) Unit 7 POSTCOLONIALISM Edward Said, Excerpt from “Orientalism” (1978) Unit 8 CULTURAL STUDIES Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adornov, “Culture Industry as Mass Deception.” (1944)

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SOURCES: Culller, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP, 2000. (for “What is

Theory?) ----------------------- Structuralist Poetics. Routledge, 2002. (for “The Poetics of the Lyric”) Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, eds. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Prentice Hall, 2008. (for essays of Derrida, Fish and Showalter) Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, ed. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers, 1998. (for essays of Greenblatt; Horkheimer and Adornov) Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979. Seturaman, V.S., ed. Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Chennai and other places:

Macmillan Publishers, 1989.

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TESTING AND EVALUATION (For all the courses)

Internal Assessment and End of Semester Exam: 40 marks+60 marks = 100 marks Model Exam/End of Semester Examination time: 3 hours Marks distribution Internal Assessment – 40 marks Seminar – 10 marks Assignment – 10 marks Model exam – 20 marks (the test will be for 60 marks which will be reduced to 15 marks) Total – 40 marks End of Semester Exam – 60 marks Question paper pattern (Model exam and End of Semester exam): Part A Six questions are to be answered out of ten, each in about 100-150 words. Part B Three questions are to be answered out of six, each in about 200-250 words

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SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH FOR INTEGRATED SCIENCES

4 Credits

Semester I (ENG 011)

Unit 1: Speaking Role Playing with stress and modulation; interview skills Unit 2: Writing Expository Writing; reading comprehension (pictograms, graphs); precis writing; letter writing (business letters); grammar and vocabulary

Unit 3: Listening Listening to a passage being read out and answering relevant questions

Unit 4: Reading Reading with stress and intonation

Semester II (ENG 021) 4 Credits

Unit 1: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing

Expository and descriptive writing; precis writing; letter writing (business letters); grammar and vocabulary; listening, reading and comprehension; reading with stress and modulation.

Unit 2: Prose, Poetry, Short-Story and One-Act Play Aravindakrishnan. T.Y. Reading Literature in English. Foundation Books (CUP, 2012).

Semester III (ENG 031)

4 Credits

Unit 1: Speaking, Writing, Listening, Reading

Speaking for and against a topic,Writing; Vocabulary (Word games, synonyms, antonyms, word puzzles), argumentative writing; Letter writing (Letters of complaint), Hints development, filling Railway forms for journey following the rules for concession

Unit 2: Poetry, Prose, Short Story and One Act Play

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Reading Literature in English (CUP. Foundation Books, Cambridge House, New Delhi – 110002 (Second volume)

Semester IV (ENG 041) 4 Credits

Unit 1: Civic consciousness Secularism, Sustainable Environment Unit 2: Speaking Speak extempore, Play reading, Poetry reading Unit 3: Writing Topical essays, Formal letters Unit 4: Poetry, Prose, Short Story and One Act Play

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M. A. Classical Tamil

Communicative English (5 credits)

Objectives: The attainment of students indicates the administration of a course that would introduce them to the basics of English grammar and usage. Reading practice can be combined with introduction to English speech sounds. A brief remedial work can be done at the end of the course. The syllabus is devised with these objectives.

Unit I – conjugation of verbs in simple present, past and future and in their continuous forms.

Unit II- uses of tenses and of gerundial functions – sentence structure – subject, object, predicate and complement functions.

Unit III- Classes of words – verbs of doing and being- nouns of abstract and concrete nature-concordance of number and plural forms.

Unit IV – Sentence types – transformation of sentences.

Unit V – speech sounds – stress and intonation – Reading practice – remedial work – common errors in grammar and usage.

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Ph.D. ENGLISH STUDIES

I Semester Coursework

ENGR01: Research Methodology (4 Credits)

ENGR02: Broadfield (4 Credits)

ENGR03: Literature Survey (4 Credits)

II Semester Coursework

ENGR04: Research Methodology (Writing) (4 Credits)

ENGR05: Specific Area (4 Credits)

ENGR06: Literature Survey (4 Credits)

Distribution of Marks:

Internal Assessment: 20

Terminal Examination: 80

The Internal and Terminal Examinations on Literature Survey Courses (ENGR03 and ENGRO6) may be based on assignment for each examination.

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