M.A.English : Syllabus (CBCS) THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY MASTER OF ARTS M.A. ENGLISH DEGREE COURSE UNDER CBCS (with effect from 2012-2013) The Course of Study and the Scheme of Examination Year / Semester I Year I Semester Subject MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN ELECTIVE Paper Paper-1 Paper-2 Paper-3 Paper-4 Paper-1 Title of the Paper Chaucer and the Elizabethan Age The Neo Classical Age The Romantic and the Victorian Ages Twentieth Century Theory and practice of Translation Ins. Hrs/ Week 6 6 6 6 6 30 6 5 6 5 2 6 30 6 6 6 6 6 30 6 6 6 6 6 Credit 4 4 4 4 3 19 5 5 5 5 2 3 25 5 5 5 5 3 23 5 5 5 5 3 Max.Marks Uni. CIA Exam. 25 75 25 75 25 75 25 25 125 25 25 25 25 25 25 150 25 25 25 25 25 125 25 25 25 25 25 75 75 375 75 75 75 75 75 75 450 75 75 75 75 75 375 75 75 75 75 75 Total 100 100 100 100 100 500 100 100 100 100 100 100 600 100 100 100 100 100 500 100 100 100 100 100 I Year II Semester MAIN Paper-5 MAIN Paper-6 MAIN Paper-7 MAIN Paper-8 COMPULSORY PAPER ELECTIVE Paper-2 English Language and Linguistics Indian Literature in English Shakespeare American Literature Human Rights New Literatures English II year III Semester MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN ELECTIVE Paper-9 Paper-10 Paper-11 Paper-12 Paper-3 Commonwealth Literature Literary Theory and Criticism I English Language Teaching Literature, Analysis, Approaches and Applications Film Reviews and Presentation II Year IV Semester MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN ELECTIVE Paper-13 Paper-14 Paper-15 Paper-16 Paper-4 (or) Project Literary Theory and Criticism II Soft Skills, Literature and Movies World Classics in Translation Women’s Writing in English Anatomy of Literature Total 30 23 125 375 500 1 M.A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) Subject Papers Credit Total Credits 76 12 2 90 Marks Total marks MAIN ELECTIVE COMPULSORY PAPER Total 16 4 1 21 4-5 3 2 - 100 100 100 - 1600 400 100 2100 2 M.A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY M.A. ENGLISH SYLLABUS UNDER CBCS (with effect from 2012-2013) SEMESTER I PAPER - 1 CHAUCER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE Objectives Students are : 1. exposed to early English literature with special reference to transition from middle English to the Elizabethan ethos 2. introduced to the earliest English writers through representative texts 3. to gain a deeper knowledge of the writers and their works UNIT-I : POETRY 1. Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales : The Knight, The Prioress, The Wife of Bath and the Doctor of Physic. 2. John Donne : 1) The Canonization 2) Valediction Forbidding Mourning 3) Go and Catch a Falling Star UNIT-II : POETRY 1. Edmund Spenser 2. Wyatt and Surrey 3. Ballads 3 : Prothalamion : As Sonneteers Bacon : Of Truth. Of Parents and Children. The Gospel according to St. Mark (MacMillan Annotated Classics) 3. Of Adversity. Of Ambition 2.M. Thomas More : The Utopia UNIT-IV : DRAMA Webster :The Duchess of Malfi UNIT-V : DRAMA Ben Jonson : The Alchemist 4 . English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-III : PROSE 1.A. 1674) : Paradise Lost Book IX UNIT-II : POETRY 1. 1 .92) (“Know then thyself…. to appreciate the tremendous changes in literary forms 3. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 2 THE NEO CLASSICAL AGE Objectives Students are : 1. Pope (1688 . exposed to the shift to the Classical tradition in literary and political terms 2.M.1695) 3.1678) 2.A. Milton 3. John Dryden (1631 .1744) : To His Coy Mistress : Absalom and Achitophel : The Essay On Man : Epistle II (II. trained to analyze the trends in literary expression of the period UNIT-I : POETRY Milton (1608 . Swift : Areopagitica : The Battle of the Books 5 . Andrew Marvell (1621 . Addison and Steele : The Coverley Papers : Sir Roger at Church Sir Roger at the Assizes 2.Our greatest evil or great good”) UNIT-III : PROSE 1. Swift (1667 .M.A.1745) : Robinson Crusoe : Gulliver’s Travels 6 . Richard Sheridan : All for Love : The Rivals UNIT-V : FICTION 1.1731) 2. English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV : DRAMA 1. Daniel Defoe (1660 . John Dryden 2. S. to appreciate the influence of ever changing trends brought about by social and scientific developments 2. Arnold Ref: Victorian poets. Tennyson : Tintern Abbey : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner : Ode to a Skylark : Ode on a Grecian Urn : Ulysses UNIT-II: POETRY 1. to analyze diverse literary devices of these periods 3. V. to gain indepth understanding of major writers of the 19th century UNIT-I: POETRY 1. Coleridge 3. Blake : My Last Duchess : Night Infant Sorrow : Blessed Damozel : The Scholar Gypsy 3. Seturaman. Keats 5.A. Rossetti 4. D. Shelley 4. ed.M. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 3 THE ROMANTIC AND THE VICTORIAN AGES Objectives Students are : 1. to comprehend and analyze the dialectic between Neo Classicism and Romanticism 4. Wordsworth 2.G. Macmillan Annotated Classics 7 . Browning 2. A.S. Sethuraman) UNIT-IV: DRAMA Oscar Wilde UNIT-V: FICTION 1. Walter Scott : Emma : Pickwick Papers : Jane Eyre : Ivanhoe : Lady Windermere’s Fan 8 . English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-III: PROSE 1. Dickens 3. Charlotte Bronte 4. Thomas Carlyle : From Culture and Anarchy: Sweetness and Light : On Shakespeare (from Victorian Prose ed. Arnold 3.M. Jane Austen 2. Charles Lamb : From Essays of Elia: Dissertation on a Roast Pig : Poor Relations 2. V. S Eliot 3. Eliot : Waiting For Godot : The Family Reunion : Politics and the English Language : Why the Novel Matters : Two Cultures 9 . to analytically appreciate various emerging literary trends and forms 4. W. Orwell 2.S. Wilfred Owen UNIT-II : POETRY 1. Snow UNIT-IV: DRAMA 1. Alfred Prufrock : Strange Meeting UNIT-III: PROSE 1. D. T. T. : Easter 1916 : Sailing to Byzantium : The Love Song of J.A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 4 TWENTIETH CENTURY Objectives Students are : 1. B .Yeats 2. P. introduced to futuristic thinking through a classic science fiction novel UNIT-I : POETRY 1. Beckett 2. 3. C. Lawrence 3.M. trained to acquire a working understanding of the war years and their literary consequences 2. Hopkins Seamus Heaney Thom Gunn Stephen Spender : Wreck of the Deutschland : The Tollund Man : On the Move : I think continually of those who are truly great. H. exposed to dominant literary traditions and authors of the 20th Century 3. 4. 2. Dalloway : Sons and Lovers : Childhood’s End 10 . H.A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-V: FICTION 1. Clarke : Mrs. Virginia Woolf 2. Lawrence 3.M. Arthur C. D. Minutes Translation of Commercial.Newmark UNIT-III : Translation of Literary . in the various theories and techniques of translation 3. English : Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 1 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRANSLATION Objectives Students are trained : 1. to gain a working knowledge of the origin and development of translation 2.M.Nida . Financial documents and Legal texts 11 .Aesthetic Texts Problems and Techniques Translation of Religious Texts in India Translation of Poetry Translation of Fiction Translation of Plays UNIT-IV : Translation of Scientific . to be able to translate literary and non-literary texts from English into an Indian language and vice-versa UNIT-I : History of Translation Origin and development of translation in the West Origin and development of translation in the Indian context UNIT-II : Theories of Translation Catford .Technical Texts Problems and Techniques Translation of Scientific Texts Translation of Social Sciences Texts Translation of Official Circulars. Agenda.A. aided Translation Reference Susan Bassnett . ed.M.A. Approaches to Translation (1981) A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-V : New trends Assessment of Translation Computer . The Third Language (1961) Ayyappa Panicker. Duff. Nida.A. Indian Literature (1995) 12 .C. Nida and C. The Theory and Practice of Translation (1974) Peter Newmark. A Linguistic Theory of Translation E.McGuire.A. Translation Studies J.Taber. Catford. Towards a Science of Translation (1964) E. A. levels of linguistic analyses. preparing them to become effective teachers UNIT-I : THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE Descent of English language. Elision. English Vowels. updating what has been learnt at the UG level 2. Recommended Reading: F. Transcription. the intricacies of articulating English sounds. enabling them to speak better 3.M. Growth of Vocabulary. Recommended Reading T. Middle English. Rhythm and Intonation. Syllable UNIT-III : PHONOLOGY Received Pronunciation and the need for a model. Renaissance & After. Assimilation. Old English Period. Change of Meaning.T Wood An Outline History of English Language UNIT-II : PHONOLOGY Cardinal Vowels. Evolution of Standard English. English : Syllabus (CBCS) II SEMESTER PAPER 5 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Objectives Students are exposed to : 1. Liaison and Juncture. Balasubramanian A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students (Chapter 3-17) 13 . Accent. the evolution of the English language at a deeper level. Diphthongs and Consonants. A. phrases. language. society and culture. A University Grammar of English UNIT-V : SOCIOLINGUISTICS Language varieties. English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV : LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Morphology.M. Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis Recommended Reading Geroge Yule The Study of Language (Chapters 8-13) (Second Edition Cambridge University Press. 14 . Recommended Reading George Yule The Study of Language (Chapter 20 &21) Second Ed. Semantics. 1996) Quirk & Greenbaum. words. phrases and clauses. Sentences and their parts. 1996) Verma and Krishnaswamy Modern Linguistics (Units 42 – 45). CUP. 1993 . enabled to acquire a holistic perception of Indian Literature in English in preparation for a teaching or research career UNIT-I : POETRY 1. Mehotra. Ramanujan : Thought the Paraclete : Poet.M. Penguin India. Nissim Ezekiel 3. OUP (1992) : The Star (from Monkey Shadows.K. A. Daruwalla : Hawk (from The Anthgology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets ed. Rabindranath Tagore UNIT-II : POETRY 1.A. Mamta Kalia : Tribute to Papa (from Nine Indian Women : Gitanjali 2. 29. Lover.p. introduced to a wider range of works in Indian Literature in English 2. A. exposed to a balanced textual study of established and contemporary writers 3. Bird Watcher : Anxiety (from selected poems OUP. The Bus 2.K. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 6 INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Objectives Students are : 1. pp. 124-25) 4. 1995. Sujatha Bhat 15 . A Scratch 5.pp 13-15) 3. Aurobindo 2. Arun Kolatkar : From Jeiury 1. K. B. 1999) UNIT-V : FICTION 1. 47-54) UNIT-IV : DRAMA 1.A.R.2021) UNIT-III : PROSE 1. pp. Nehru 2. R. OUP. Ambedkar : Discovery of India (Ch. 1997. pp. Mulk Raj Anand. Narayan 2. Eunice D’Souza. Delhi: Arnold Publishers. Chetan Bhaghat : The English Teacher : One Night @ the Call Centre 16 . 1990. Mahashweta Devi : Nagamandala : Rudali (Calcutta: Seagull. English : Syllabus (CBCS) Poets ed.M. Karnad 2. 2 and 3) : Extracts 4.5 and 6 (from Annihilation of Caste Ed. trained to identify passages (from the prescribed plays) that can be used as case studies to understand and practice soft and communicative skills. enabled to establish Shakespeare’s contribution to development of English literature and language. UNIT-I : As You Like It UNIT-II : Othello UNIT-III : Richard III UNIT-IV : The Winter’s Tale UNIT-V 1. Trends in Shakespeare Studies 17 .M.A. to identify and explain meaning-making and communicative strategies in the prescribed plays 4. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 7 SHAKESPEARE Objectives Students are : 1. prompted to recognise and appreciate his skills as a wordsmith 6. 2. The Elizabethan Theatre and Audience 2. to gain knowledge and understanding necessary to explain his dramatic skills 3. oriented to a concrete understanding of his ‘universality’ which in this context means his ability to communicate to a far wider spectrum of people 5. e.S. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 8 AMERICAN LITERATURE Objectives Students are : 1. e. Amiri Baraka 3.A. 2. Gwendolyn Brooks UNIT-III : PROSE 1. Thoreau 3.Reliance : Walden (Selected Chapters 1. 3. R.2 and 17) : Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice-Versa (from the Closing of the American Mind 1987) : Any one lived in a pretty how town : An Agony as Now : Kitchenette Building 18 . 4. cummings 2.W. enabled to appreciate mutually beneficial relationship between India and the U..D. Allan Bloom : Self . H. Emerson 2. trained to analyze the American mind in its important facets 3. to explore the uniqueness of American literature at an advanced level 2. introduced to American Science Fiction through one of the most representative texts UNIT-I : POETRY 1. Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Wallace Stevens : Crossing Brooklyn Ferry : Success is counted sweetest : Home Burial : Anecdote of the Jar UNIT-II : POETRY 1.M. through the literary medium 4. Isaac Asimov : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : The Sound and the Fury : The Caves of Steel : Hairy Ape : The Crucible 19 . W. English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV : DRAMA 1. Arthur Miller UNIT-V : FICTION 1.M.A. Mark Twain 2. Faulkner 3. Eugene O’Neill 2. Human Rights and Helsinki Process . Content.European Human Rights System .N . Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution . Human Commissioner.U.National Human Rights Commission.Prescription and Enforcement upto World War II Human Rights and the U .U.A. UNIT-II International Human Rights . Social and Cultural Rights and Optional Protocol.M.International Convenant on Economic.Directive Principles of State Policy .Capital Punishment. .International Human Rights in Domestic courts.O. UNIT-V Contemporary Issues on Human Rights: Children’s Rights .Historical Development of Human Rights.Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights . English : Syllabus (CBCS) HUMAN RIGHTS COMPULSORY PAPER UNIT-I Definition of Human Rights .Regional Developments . 20 . UNIT-IV Amnesty International .Refugees .Women’s Rights Dalit’s Rights . UNIT-III Human Rights Declarations . Human Rights Declarations .African Human Rights System .Bonded Labour and Wages .Nature.Fundamental Duties . Legitimacy and Priority Theories on Human Rights .N.N. Mausice Cranston .Human Rights in India.S. Desai. 7.Constitutional Law. USIS. Bajwa . A Selected Bibliography.Johari . Magazines: 1.Sinha & . U.S. 8. Questions and Answers.C. 11. UN Publication Human Rights Quarterly. 9. 1982 3. Timm. Devasia. UNESCO.What is Human Rights 4. Amnesty International Publication. John Hopkins University.C.Working for Justice and Human Rights. 6. English : Syllabus (CBCS) Books for Reference: 1. 12. .R. Pandey .A. J.Violation of Democratic Rights in India 5. . Bombay Human Rights Today. Human Rights in India. A. . V. International Bill of Human Rights. 2. Human Rights.M. Cheous (Ed) Social Justice and Human Rights (Vols 1-7). Amnesty International.V. 4. R. Human Rights. 3. The Lawyer.W. 2. P. Security K. 21 .Human Rights and New World Order. Columbia University International Instruments of Human Rights. 1988. 10. G.A.Human Rights and Victimology.International Encyclopedia of Peace. pp. Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. English : Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 3 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH Objectives Students are introduced to contemporary and complex writers and their works spanning all the commonwealth countries. Allen Curnow : At Cooloola : The Ikons : House and Land UNIT-II : POETRY 1.Africa.Judith Wright 2.A. when they ask for poems (from Six Women Poets. If selected for study. ace Nichols West Indies . enhancing their reception of the paper on commonwealth literature in the III semester. this paper will enable the student to acquire a highly comprehensive knowledge of commonwealth literature. New Zealand . Judith Kinsman.Kofi Awoonor : Song of War : The Weaver Bird (from Penguin Anthology of Modern Poetry. OUP.) 3. 1992. UNIT-I : POETRY 1. Australia .41 -43) 22 .M.Of course. Africa .Al Purdy : Lament for the Dorsets (Eskimos Extinct in the 14th Century AD) (from Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry) 2.James Baxter 3. and also providing them with sufficient knowledge base for pursuing research or teaching.Grace Nichols . Eds. Ed. Canada . Naipaul-India : A Wounded Civilization UNIT-IV : DRAMA Australia .Clarke : Radiance : Song of a goat UNIT-V : FICTION Africa-Koetzee Canada-Maragaret Laurence Australia-Peter Carey : Disgrace : The Stone Angel : Oscar and Lucinda 23 . English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-III : PROSE 1. Africa .P.Louis Nowra J.V.A.S. West Indies .M.Achebe : Colonialist Criticism (from Post Colonial Studies Reader eds. Helen Tiffin. Chris Tiffin & Bill Ashcroft) 2. Narasimhaiah) UNIT-III : PROSE Sri Lanka .Jessie Mackay Africa .David Rubadiri Dereck Walcott Canada .D. English : Syllabus (CBCS) III SEMESTER PAPER 9 COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Objectives Students are : 1. C.F.Ananda Coomaraswami : The Dance of Shiva 24 . Margaret O’Donnell & An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. Scott : A Negro labourer in Liverpool : Ruins of a Great House : The Canadian Author’s Meet (from Anthology of Commonwealth Verse ed. trained to develop comparative perspectives 4.R.Abioseh Nicol : Australia : The Noosing of the sun-god : The Continent that lies within us UNIT-II : POETRY Africa . exposed to the literatures of the Commonwealth 2. Hope New Zealand . Trained to discuss the question of identity and dominance of landscape in Commonwealth literature UNIT-I : POETRY Australia .D.A. introduced to the postcolonial perceptions of a wide range of people whose second language is English 3.A.M. M.Patrick White : Surfacing : Voss 25 .Margaret Atwood Australia .A.Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel UNIT-V : FICTION Canada . English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV : DRAMA Nigeria . Eliot : Study of Poetry : Tradition and Individual Talent UNIT-V N. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 10 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM I Objectives Students are : 1. enabled to form a comparative perspective of the Eastern and Western critical traditions UNIT-I Introduction to Classical Literary Criticism UNIT-II Ancient Tamil and Sanskrit Criticism UNIT-III Johnson Wordsworth : Preface to Shakespeare : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads UNIT-IV Arnold T. which is most essential aspect of literary appreciation 3. introduced to one of the most enabling forms of literary study 2. trained to understand and analyze literary writings based on the ever evolving traditions of criticism 4.S.M. exposed to the complexities of literary theory and criticism. Frye : Archetypes of Literature 26 .A. expected to acquire the essentials of teaching English as a second / foreign language 2.A. trained to appreciate the area specific feature of ELT. in the Indian context. Audio-lingual. Attitudes to error. to become able teachers 4. Inter language UNIT-III Approaches and Methods: Grammar Translation. English teaching in India today UNIT-II Theories of language learning: cognitive-theory. First language acquisition and second language learning. Problems and Principles UNIT-I The role of English in India. Communicative and Current Trends UNIT-IV Classroom Management and Teacher .M. to internalize the various methods of English language teaching. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 11 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Objectives Students are : 1.Student Interaction Materials Production 27 . behaviouristic theory. theory as well as practice 3. 3. 1973. Harmondsworth. Cambridge University Press.4. Literature. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. 1983. 1985. Language Tests at School. 1. Prentice Hall. Language Teaching Methodology. Edinburgh Course in Appied Linguistics Vols. Writing. David Nunan. A History of English Language Teaching.R. 2001. Oller J. R. Longman. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. S. 1991. Speaking. London. Introducing Applied Linguistics. English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-V Reading. OUP. 1. 1984. Study Skills. Testimony. Richards. 28 .P. Pit Corder. 1979. Remediation Recommended Reading Howall A. Ellis.M.Jr. OUP. Yalden. J and Rodgers. Penguin. London.2.W. Penguin. The Communicative Syllabus: Evolution Design & Implementations. S.A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 12 LITERATURE.M. introduced to the methodologies of analysis. instructional designers and so on UNIT-I Practical Criticism UNIT-II Journalism and Mass Communication UNIT-III Report Writing and Book Review UNIT-IV Proofreading. exposed to the expected levels of performance required in them 3. ANALYSIS. Manuals. an integral part of literary appreciation 2. Business correspondence 29 . editors.A. directed to the ever widening career options opening to a PG in English. especially in the Knowledge Processing Industry for writers. Editing and Advertising UNIT-V : TECHNICAL WRITING Specs. APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS Objectives Students are : 1. trained to become reviewers. storyline. graphics and special effects 30 . exposed to the newly emerging field of film studies 2.A. costumes. English : Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 3 FILM REVIEWS AND PRESENTATION Objectives Students are : 1. dialogue. music and dance. introduced to the technicalities of making and appreciation of cinema 3.M. visuals. opening up another career option UNIT-I History of Cinema in India UNIT-II Major Landmarks in Indian Cinema UNIT-III What is Film Reviewing? UNIT-IV Actual reviewing by showing film clips UNIT-V The script. acting. enabled to comprehend the dominance of theory in the Postmodern phase 3. English : Syllabus (CBCS) IV SEMESTER PAPER 13 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM II Objectives In addition to the objectives for Literary Theory and Criticism I Students are : 1.A.M. sensitized to the transition from Humanistic to Modern and Postmodern critical traditions 2. introduced to recent contexts. concepts and ideologies UNIT-I Lionel Trilling: Sense of the Past Cleanth Brooks: The Language of Paradox UNIT-II Georg Lukacs: Ideology of Modernism UNIT-III Jacques Lacan : Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject Whatever UNIT-IV Barthes: Death of the Author UNIT-V Simone de Beauvoir : Introduction to “The Second Sex” 31 . self-esteem. Nelli in “Wuthering Heights” UNIT-III : INTERPERSONAL Team work. exposed to the actualities of the various skills grouped under the rubric ‘Soft Skills’ 3. conflict resolution. motivated. taking responsibility. oriented to recognize and locate the role of soft skills in real life situations UNIT-I : INTRAPERSONAL Self-management. through this paper. integrating cognitive and affective skills. problem solving. To Sir with Love (Movie) 3. self-awareness.M. eye contact. giving and receiving feedback. 32 . delegation. to empower themselves with the expected skills for suitable employment 4. tone of voice. humour. Ability to take other’s point of view. persuasion. Rosalind. ability to motivate. self-critique. self-regulation. active listening. Jane Eyre UNIT-II : EMPATHY Honesty. negotiation. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 14 SOFT SKILLS. trained to understand the aspects of soft skills 2. 1. giving praise and appreciation. strategic thinking. cultural diversity. LITERATURE AND MOVIES Objectives Students are : 1. “Things Fall Apart” – Achebe. learning to say no. Dead Poets Society (Movie) UNIT-V : LEADERSHIP Critical. lateral.A. Antony and Cleopatra (Movie) 2. Portia and Viola UNIT-IV : COMMUNICATION Body language. Reading social situations. etiquette. facial expression. 1926. Dale Carnegie. Pocket Books. How to Develop Self Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking. 33 . Working with Emotional Intelligence. 1956.M. rpt.A. English : Syllabus (CBCS) References Daniel Coleman. A.M. UNIT-I : Poetry Homer Virgil Thiruvalluvar UNIT-II : Dante Gibran UNIT-III : PROSE St. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 15 WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION Objectives: Enable the students to appreciate the writings for them literary values. 2 : As Poetria : The Cherry Orchid : Sahuntala : The Clouds . cultural importance. philosophical and socio-political background to facilitate the development of cross-cultural perspectives.Augustine Confucius Harace UNIT-IV : DRAMA Anton Chekov Kalidasa Aristophanes UNIT-V : FICTION Leo Tolstoy Thomas Mann : Anna Karenina Books (1 & 2) : Magic Mountain 34 : The Sliad Book III : The Aeveid Book IV (438-563) : Thirukkural Book II : The Inferno (Canto III) : The Prophet : The Confessions Book – I : Analects 1. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 16 WOMEN’S WRITING IN ENGLISH UNIT-I: POETRY Elizabeth Barret Browming Ways.A.M. Sylvia Plath Maya Angelou Kamala Das Toru Dutt : How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the : Lady Lazarus : Phenomenal Woman : Introduction : Sita UNIT-II: PROSE Virginia Woolf Arundhathi Roy : A Room of One’s Own : The Algebra of Infinite Justice. UNIT-III: DRAMA Mahashweta Devi Caryll Churchill : Mother of 1084 : Top Girls UNIT-IV: FICTION Jhumpa Lahiri Margaret Atwood : The Namesake : The Handmaid’s Tale UNIT-V: GENERAL Mary Woolstone craft Elaine Showalter : The Vindication of the Rights of Women : Toward a Feminist Poetics 35 . internal pattern .M.A.traditional verse forms .objective and subjective abstract and concrete .the use of associations .the point of view .rhyme .illustrations .plot . English : Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 4 ANATOMY OF LITERATURE Objectives Students are : 1.the science of rhetoric writing prose UNIT-II : THE ANATOMY OF POETRY The importance of form . UNIT-III : THE ANATOMY OF NOVEL The concept of fiction .scene and background . romance and unreality .prose rhythm .metre .the paragraph .individual and common style .logical sequence .onomatopoeia .form in intonation .twentieth .conversation .dominant themes the experimental novel 36 .patterns of imagery . enabled to acquaint themselves with the major generic divisions in English literature 2.free verse .repetition .common style and cheap style .the physical form of poetry .realism.vocabulary .cautions .grammar and idiom written and spoken prose .the main types of poetry .simplicity and ornamentation .character character revealed .the historical approach .acknowledged conventions of literary research and documentation UNIT-I : THE ANATOMY OF PROSE The form of prose .the choice of words .special inventions prose for its own sake .century techniques.verisimilitude .variation . trained in the universally . the mechanics of writing .dialogue and conversation . 6th Ed.documentation: preparing the list of works cited . The Anatomy of Poetry (1953) Marjorie Boulton.A. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.verse and prose .documentation: citing sources in the text .abbreviations Reference Marjorie Boulton.plots .types of drama drama and history . English : Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV : THE ANATOMY OF DRAMA Live literature . 37 . The Anatomy of Prose (1954) Marjorie Boulton.the format of the research paper .M.interpretation UNIT-V : LITERARY RESEARCH Research and writing .use of notes .action . The Anatomy of Drama (1960) Joseph Gibaldi.conventional divisions . The Anatomy of Novel Marjorie Boulton.direct experience of characters . Analysis 5. Review of Literature 4. Introduction 2.M. Summary. English : Syllabus (CBCS) PROJECT DISSERTATION Objective Project Work is a preparatory exercise for research writing. findings and suggestions. Students are introduced to the basics of research and trained to write academically following the framework given below: 1. ******* 38 . Statement of the problem 3.A.