CREDIT BASED TEACHING MECHANISMPOST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ENGLISH (TOTAL CREDITS-40)

SUBJECT – ENGLISH

A candidate has to complete 40 creditsFIRST SEMESTER 20 CREDITS

Paper Title of the Paper Credit Pattern Pre-requisiteENG 101 1.1 Communicative English-I 4(3+1) The pre-requisite

to join P.G Diploma in English programme is that a candidate should have completed a Bachelors Degree.

ENG 102 1.2 Communicative English - II 4(3+1)ENG 103 1.3 Prose –I 4(3+1)ENG 104 1.4 Poetry – I 4(3+1)ENG 105 1.5 The Short Story 4(3+1)

TOTAL CREDITS – 20POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ENGLISHSECOND SEMESTR 20 CRDITS

Paper Title of the Paper Credit Pattern Pre-requisiteENG 106 2.1 Communicative English-II 4(3+1)ENG 107 2.2 Communicative English - IV 4(3+1)ENG 108 2.3 Poetry – II 4(3+1)ENG 109 2.4 Prose –II 4(3+1)ENG 110 2.5 Drama 4(3+1)

TOTAL CREDITS – 20

I Semester = 20 creditsII Semester = 20 credits

……………40 credits

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1.1Communicative English - I

1. Introduction to Language Varieties of English

2. The parts of Speech : A Preliminary Outlinea. Nounb. Pronounc. Adjective d. Adverbe. Verbf. Prepositionsg. Conjunctionsh. Interjectionsi. Articlesj. Punctuation

3. Using Dictionaries4. Building Vocabulary 5. Idiomatic Expressions and Proverbs

1.2Communicative English – II1. Phrase, Clause and the Structure of Kernal clauses 2. Tense, Aspect, Modality and Phrasal Verbs3. Direct and Indirect Speech, Degree of Comparison, Active and Passive

Voice4. Transformation of Sentences 5. Note –taking and Note –Making, Editing

1.3Prose – I2. Francis Bacon : Of Travel3. Francis Bacon : Of Studies4. Oliver goldsmith : National Prejudices5. Addison : “Ladies Hair Dress”6. William Hazlitt : “The Fight”7. A.G. Gardiner : “On Possession”

8. G.K. Gardiner : “On Running After one’s Hat”9. George Orwell : “Shooting an Elephant”10.Bertrand Russel : “The Functions of a Teacher”11.Hillarie Belloc : “Books”12.John F. Kennedy : “ Ask no t what your Country”13.J.B.S. Haldane : “The Scientific Point of view”14.C.V. Raman : “Physics of the Countryside Water”15.Gandhi : “Some Reminiscences of the Bar”16.Jawaharlal Nehru : “The Light has Gone”

1.4Poetry – I

1. J. Donne : “The Sun Rising”2. G. Herbert : “The Collar”3. W. Wordsworth : “The Solitary Report”4. P.B. Shelly : “Ozymandias”5. Tennyson : “Ulysses”6. Byron : “The Prisoner of Chillon”7. M. Arnold : “Dover Beach”8. Walt Whitman : “A Noiseless Patient Spider”9. Thomas hardy : “the Walk”10.W.H. Auden : “The Unknown Citizen”11.W. B. Yeats : “The Lake Isle of Innesfree”12.R. Tagore : “Where the Head is Held High”13.Sarojini Naidu : “The Indian Weavers”14.Kamala Das : “An Introduction”15.N. Ezekiel : “The Night of the Scorpion”16.Ogden Nash : “There are 366 days in a leap year”

1.5 The Short Story

1. Premchand : “The Thakur’s Well2. Mulk Raj Anand : “The Tractor and the Corn Goddess”3. R.K. Narayan : “A Horse and Two Goats”4. Anita Desai : “A Devoted Son”

5. Kamala Das : “Birthday Doll”6. Ismat Chugtai : “Lighting the Veil”7. R. L. Stevenson : “Rajah’s Diamond”8. R. Kipling : “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat”9. Somerset Maugham : “The Last Leaf”10.Hawthorne : “David Swan”11.O Henry : “The Last Leaf”12.E. Hemingway : “Fifty Grand”13.Tolstoy : “How Much Land does a man need?”14.Katherine Mansfield : “A Cup of Tea”15.Raja Rao : “The Cow in the Barricades”16.Guy De Maupassant : “Happiness”

SEMSTER II2.1 Communicative English – III

1. Word – Formationa) Suffixesb) Prefixesc) Roots d) Abstract Nounse) Compound Adjectivesf) Compound Nounsg) Words with interesting Originsh) Onomatopoetic words i) Words commonly misprouncedj) Homonyms

2. Sentence Formationa) Order and Cohesionb) Problems of Agreementc) Problems of cased) Topic Sentencee) Some Basic Sentence Patterns

3. Paragraph Writinga) Unity of Thoughb) Orderc) Coherence and Relevance

d) Variety4. Essay Writing

a) Descriptiveb) Narrativec) Discursived) Dramatice) Imaginative or Creative

2.2 Communicative English – IV1. Critical Prose Comprehension2. Writing Reports3. Writing 4. Letter Writing5. Precise Writing

2.3 Poetry – II

1. Shakespeare : “Put out Light” (From Othello)2. Milton : “On His Blindness”3. Blake : “Tyger”4. John Keats : “When I have Fears”5. Rudyard Kipling : “if”6. E. Dickinson : “Because I Could Not Stop for

Death”7. T.S. Eliot : “Prelude”8. Dylan Thomas : “Fern Hill”9. Toru Dutt : “Lotus”10.A.K. Ramanujan : “Obituary”11.Jayanth mahapatra : “A Monsoon day Fable”12.Arun Kolatkar : “An Old Woman”13.Robert Frost : “Mending Wall”14.A.D. Hope : “Australia”15.Wole Soyinka : “Telephone Conversation”16.Seamus Heaney : “Digging”

2.4 Prose – II1. Abraham Lincoln : “Gettysburg Address”2. Stephen Leacock : “How we Keep the Mother’s Day”3. G.B. Shaw : “Freedom”4. D.H. Lawrence : “The Spinner and the Monks”5. E.M. Forster : “Notes on the English Character”6. Aldous Huxley : “Jagadish Chandra Bose”7. Harold Nicolson : “Men’s Clothes”8. J.B. Priestley : “On Travel by Train”9. Virginia Woolf : “The Two Cultures”10.C.P. Snow : “The Two Cultures”11.Italo Calvino : “Philosophy and Literature”12.E.F. Schumaker : “The Problem of Production”

(Chapter 1 of Small is Beautiful)13.R. Tagore : “The Babus of Nayanjore”14.Jawaharlal Nehru : “Animals in Prison”15.S. Radhakrishnan : “Science and Religion” (Speech delivers at

the centenary Convocation of the madras University January 1957)

16.Seamus Heaney : “ Digging”2.5 Drama

1. J.M.Synge : Riders to the Sea2. Anton Chekhov : The Proposal3. Ravindranath Tagore : The Post Office4. Girish Karnad : Nagamandala5. Bernard Shaw : Arme and the Man

M.A ENGLISHDetailed Syllabus

FIRST SEMESTERHARD CORE : 8 CREDITS

POETRY (2 CREDITS)a) W.B. Yeats : “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Second Coming” and “Easter1916b) T.S. Eliot : “The Wasteland”

c) W.H. Auden : “Museum of Fine Arts”d) Seamus Heaney : “Digging”, “The Tollund Man and Casually”e) Philip Larkin : “Church going”, “I remember”, “I remember”, “I remember”f) Ted Hughes : “Thought fox and Hawk roosting”g) Ezra pound : “In a station of the metro” “The return and the garden”

UNIT –I Dramaa) Aeschylus : Agamemnonb) Sophocles : The Wastelandc) Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godotd) Bertolt Brecht : Mother Courage & Her Childrene) Henrik Ibsen : The Master Builderf) Anton Chekov : The Cherry Orchard

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2 credits)Poetry Robert Frost : “Mending Wall”, “Stopping by the Woods”Walt Whitman : “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” “A

Noiseless Patient Spider”Emily Dickinson : “The Soul selects her own Society” “I Heard a Fly Buzz” “My Life closed twice before its close”Wallace Stevens : “Emperor of Ice cream” “Anecdote of the jar”

FictionNathanael Hawthorne : The Scarlet LetterMark Twain : Huckleberry FinnAlice Walker : Color Purple

Drama (2 credits)Arthur Miller : CrucibleTennessee Williams : Glass MenagerieEdward Albee : Zoo Story

CriticismRalph Waldo Emerson : The American Scholar

Henry James : The Art of FictionHenry James : Gates Junior

UNIT – IV New Literatures in English (Commonwealth Literature)PoetryAustralianA.D. Hope : “Death of the Bird”

CaribbeanEdward Kaman Braithwaite: “Starvation” and “Blues”Derek Walcott : “A Far Cry from Africa” The Almond TreesDavid Diop : Africa

Drama

Wole Soyinka : “Death and King’s Horseman”Derek Walcott : “Dream on the monkey Mountain”

a) Fiction Chinua Achebe : “Arrow of god”Margaret Atwood :Patrick White : “Voss”

Criticism

Wilson Harris : “Tradition & the West Indian Novel”Chinua Achebe : “Colonialist Criticism”Northrop Frye : “Anatomy of Criticism (Selections)”

SECOND SEMESTER UNIT I EUROPEAN CLASSICS

POETRYa) Homer : Odyssey Book Ib) Dante : Purgatory Book I

c) Baudelaire : Flowers of Evil

FICTIONa) Franz Kafka : The Trialb) Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime & Punishmentc) Leo Tolstoy : Anna Kareninad) Gustav Flaubert : “Madame Bovary”

DRAMAEugene Ionesco : The Lesson

CRITICISMJean Paul Sartre : What is Literature?Michael Fovucoult Albert: Discourse AnalysisCamus : Myth of Sisyphus, The RebelRoland Barthe : Death of the Author?

INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Part – II

Poetry1) Nissim Ezekiel : In India

“Very Indian Poem in Indian English”2) A.K. Ramanujam : “History”

“A River”3) Kamala Das : “An Introduction”

“The Old Playhouse”4) Arun Kolatkaar : “Three cups of Tea”

“An Old Woman”5) Syed Amanuddin : “Don’t call me Indo-Anglican’6) Eunice D’Souza : “Women in Dutch Painting”7) Sitakant Mahapatra : “The Election”

Autobiographies1) M.K. Gandhi : My Experiments with truth2) Jawaharlal Nehru : Discovery of India3) Nirad C Chaudhuri : Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Drama1) Mahesh Dattani : Final Solutions

Fiction 2) Amitav Ghosh : Sea of Poppies

B.A. HonoursDetailed Syllabus

FIRST SEMESTERHARD CORE PAPER 8 CREDITS

UNIT- 1: POETRY

a) Chaucer- : Nun/Prioress-Talesb) Shakespeare’ Sonnets- : (Sonnet No.5.6 and 103,105)c) Donne, John : “The Good Morrow”

“The Canonization”“At The round Earth’s Imagined Corners” “A Hymn to Christ”

d) Herbert George : “Redemption”, “Virtue”“To his joy mistress”“Thoughts in a Garden”

e) Marvel Andrew :f) Milton John : Paradise lost (Book-1)g) Spenser : Prothalamianh) Sidney : (Selected sonnets)

UNIT-2: DRAMAa) Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustusb) Shakespeare : Richard-IIc) Congreve- : The way of worldd) Ben Jonson : Volpone

UNIT-3: FICTIONa) Jonathan Swift : Gulliver’s Travels, Books-IVb) Jane Austen : Emmac) Charles Dickens : Great Expectation

d) Thomas Hardy : Tess of D’ ubervillese) D.H. Lawrence : St. Mawrf) Joseph Conrad : Nostromog) Virginia woolf : To the Lighthouse

UNIT-4: CRITICISMa) Aristotle : Poeticsb) Longinus : On the sublimec) Matthew Arnold : The function of Criticismd) T.S. Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talente) F.R. Leavis : Literature and Philosophyf) I.A. Richards : Two Uses Languageg) Raymond Williams : Base and superstructure

SECOND SEMESTER UNIT-1 POETRY

a) Alexander pope : “The rape of the lock”

b) Wordsworth William : “Resolution and Independence”c) Keats John : “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

“Ode to Autumn”d) Coleridge : “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”e) William Blake : “Tiger &Chimney Sweeper”f) Shelley : “Ode to the west wind”g) Tennyson Alfred : “The Lotus Eaters”h) Browning, Robert : “My last Duchess”

“Andrea del Sarto”UNIT-2 DRAMA

a) Bernard Shaw : St’Johnb) Synge : Riders to the seac) Edward Bond : Bingod) T.S. Eliot : Murder in the cathedrale) Harold Pinter : The caretaker

UNIT-IV CRITICISM

a) Terry Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism & Postmodernism

b) Derrida : Structure, Sign & Play

c) Geralld Geanette : Structuralism & Literary Criticism

d) Roland Barthes : Death of the Author

e) Helen Cixous : Laugh of the Medusa

f) Elaine showalter : Female Tradition

g) Baudrillard : The Processsion of Simulacra

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH-I

Poetry

1) Aurobindo: : “Savitri” (canto I and II)2) Toru Dutt: : “prahlad”, “Jogadhya Uma”3) Sarojini Naidu : “Vasantha Panchami”

“Coramandala Fishers”4) Rabindranatha Tagore : “Geethanjali” (Selection)5) Jayanth Mahapatra : “Temple”

Prose

1) Raja Ram Mohan Roy : “Letter of Lord Amherst”2) T.B. Macaulay : “Minute on Indian Education”

Fiction

1) Raja Rao: : Cat and Shakespeare2) R K Narayan : “Grand Mother Tale 3) Mulk Raj Anand : Gowri

Criticism

1) Hiriyanna : Art Experience1) C.D.Narasimaiah : Towards an Understanding of the

species called Indian writing In English2) Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Anxiety of Indianness3) Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha : Introduction from Women Writing in

India: 600 BC to The Present

CREDIT BASED TEACHING MECHANISMM.A HONORS DEGREE PROGRAMME

SUBJECT- ENGLISH (TOTAL CREDITS-32)

A Candidate has to complete 32 credits covering hard core/ soft core and Dissertation

Hard Core- 12 credits

Semester Paper code

Title of the paper Credit Pre-requisite

I Semester

Research methodology –part-1Literature and philosophy in India part-1Theoretical approaches – part-1“Indian critical Traditional In English

3(2+1)

3(2+2)

The pre requisite to Join a M A Honors Degree programme is that a candidate should have completed a B.A Honors (40 credits) M.A In English(36 credits)

II SemesterTheoretical approaches – part-IIPost colonial Literary Theories

TOTAL-12 CREDITES TOTAL -76 credits to Become eligible

ELECTIVES- 12 CreditsNOTE: A candidate should not repeat the same elective subject of honors, M.A English degree programme)

Paper code paper Credit patternI semester “Holocaust Literature”

“Afro American Classics”“Myth, Folklore and Literature”“Indian Classics in Translation”Postcolonial Poetry/ The Hybrid poetry post-war American Drama

3(2+1)

3(2+1)

II Semester “Contemporary English Poetry”Indian Expatriate women writers

3(2+1)3(2+1)

British Women’s DramaMigrant Voices in Literatures in EnglishMulti Cultural Women Writers Essays in Criticism

Dissertation = 8 creditsTotal Credits – 12 (Head core)

12 (Electives)8(Dissertation)

. . . . . Total: 32 credits

KTSPost colonial Poetry

1) Derek Walcott’s omeros2) Okot Bitek’s Songs3) Louisie Bennett’s Anancy Poetics4) A.K.Ramanujam’s Selects Poems

Migrant Voices in English 1) The Ganges and its Tributaries by Christopher Cyrill2) The Australian Finace by Simone Lazaroo3) George Lamming : The Emigrants4) A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S.Naipaul

TS Post- war American Drama

1) Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf2) Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman3) Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class4) August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson

British Women’s Drama.1) Ann Jellicoe’s The Knack2) Cary Churchill’s Objections to Sex and Violence3) Pam Gem’s Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi4) Louise page’s Golden Girls

Multicultural Women Writers:1) Sula : Toni morrison2) The Palace of Illusions : Chitra Bannerjee3) Lajja : Tuslima Nasreen4) Margart Atwood : Lady Oracle

Essays in Criticism : Selected Essays

1) New Black Feminist Criticism : Barbara Christian2) Colonialism / Post Colonialism : Anita Loomba3) Sexual politics : Kate millet4) New Feminist Criticism : Elaine Showalter