Extra Ordinary Gazette Date: 11.12.2019
Last Date : 15.01.2020
English – Category No. 287/2019
From Early English Literature to 18th century
Module 1
For detailed study
John Donne – Batter My Heart, Canonization
Milton – Lycidas, Paradise Lost – Book 9
John Dryden – Macflecknoe
Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country churchyard
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Sonnets No 18, 30, 116
Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
Francis Bacon – Of Books, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth
Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books
Robert Burns – A Red, Red Rose
William Blake – The Tyger, The Lamb
Module 2
Non Detailed Study
Beowulf
Ballads – Sir Patrick Spence, Chevy Chase
Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal
Sir Thomas More – Utopia
Samuel Richardson – Pamela
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
The Romantic and Victorian Period
Module 3
For Detailed Study
William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections
of Early Childhood
Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan
John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale
P B Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon
Lord Tennyson – Ulysses, Lotos Eaters
Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach
Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto
G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty
Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Charles Lamb – Oxford in Vacation, Dream Children
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
Non detailed study
Module 4
William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Olauda Equiano – The Interesting Narrative (Chapter 4 and 5)
P.B. Shelley – The Cenci
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Ubervilles
Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
Twentieth Century British Literature
Module 5
For Detailed Study
W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland
W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas – Poem in October
Sylvia Plath – Daddy
Philip Larking – Church Going
Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway
Ted Hughes – Thought Fox
Thom Gunn – On the Move
G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
Virginia Woolf – Modern Fiction
Non Detailed Study
Module 6
F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition
Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
George Orwell – 1984
John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
Caryll Churchill – Top Girls
Indian Writing in English
Module 7
For detailed Study
Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali
Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of Waiting
Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel Fishers
Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House, Freaks
Nissim Ezeliek – Background, Casually
A.K. Ramanujan – A River, The Striders
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest
Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man
S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory of Rasa
Kunjunni Raja – Theory of Dhwani
For Non detailed Study
Module 8
Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable
Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope
Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day
R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
Salman Rushdie – Midnighht’s Children
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
A.K. Ramanujan – Is there an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay
American Literature
Module 9
For detailed Study
Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Emily Dickinson – I felt a funeral
Robert Frost – Home Burial
Wallace Stephens – Sunday Morning
Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman
Eugene O Neil – Emperor Jones
Tennesee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
For Non detailed Study
Module 10
Emerson – Self Reliance
Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
E E Cummings – Buffallo Bills
Allen Ginsberg – America
Gertrude Stein – Daughter
Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
Structure of English Language and Linguistics
Module 11
Indo European Family of Languages-Old English, Middle English, Modern English
Phonetics and Phonology-General phonetics-Phonetic transcription- Stress- Intonation
Morphology; Traditional Grammar and Modern Grammar- Form class words-Function Class Words- Fallacies- Saussure- Structuralism Syntax-PS Grammar-TG Grammar-Deep Structure-Surface Structure- Chomsky’s Trace Theory- Case Grammar, Systemic, Stratification and Tagmemics
Semantics- Lexical semantics-Metaphor-Figures of speech
Linguistics- Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
English Language Teaching
Module 12
Key concepts in ELT- ESL- EFL- Mother tongue interference
Methods of teaching – Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Visual Method, Suggestopaedia, Community Language Learning
Learning Theories- Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
Learner Factors, Teaching Aids, ICT
Types of tests- Tools for Evaluation- Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching
Literary Criticism
Module 13
Aristotle – Poetics
Philip Sydney – An Apologie for Poetry
Samuel Coleridge – Biographia Literaria (Chapter 14)
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own.
T. S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
Northrop Frye – Archetypes of Literature
Cleanth Brooks- The Language of Paradox
Edmund Wilson –“Marxism and Literature”.
Elaine Showalter – “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.
Jacques Derrida- “Differance”.
Karl Marx- “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof”
Sigmund Freud – “The Conscious and the Unconscious”; “The Id and The Ego”; “The Ego and the Super Ego” Beyond the Pleasure Principles and Other Writings
Jurgen Habermas– “Modernity- An Incomplete Project”
Raymond Williams– “Tradition, Institution, Formations”
Stephen Greenblatt – “Shakespeare and the Exorcists”
Michel Foucault – “Two Lectures” from Power/Knowledge, “The Unities of Discourse” from the Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language
Edward W. Said – “Introduction to Orientalism”.
Helen Cixous – “The Laugh of the Medusa”
Eve Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet
Module 14
Culture Studies
Theodor W. Adorno – “Culture Industry Reconsidered” (pp 98 -107) in
Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
Stuart Hall – “Encoding/Decoding” from Culture, Media, Language.
Laura Mulvey – “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Judith Butler – “Subject of Sex/Gender/Desire” from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Angela McRobbie – “Postmodernism and Popular Culture”.
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2. Eco Criticism
3. Queer Theory
4. Trauma Theory
5. New Feminisms
6. New Historicism
7. Culture Studies
8. Diasporic Writing
9. Public Sphere
10. Meta Narratives, Hyper Reality & Simulacra
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