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Government college for women(Autonomous)
Kumbakonam
PG CBCS 2008-2009 : M.A., ENGLISH
Sem
I
II
III
IV
Course title
Instru hours
Credit
Marks
Int
Ext
25
75
Total
5
Exam
hours
3
CC-I-British literature-I-The Age of
Chaucer & Spenser
6
CC-II-British Literature-II-The
Elizabethan & Jacobean Age
CC-III-British Literature-III-The
Restoration & Neoclassical Age
CC-IV-British Literature-IV-The
Romantic Age
CC-IV-British Literature-IV-The
Romantic Age
Total
CC-V-British Literature V-Victorian
Age
CC-VI-British Literature VI-The
Modern Age
CC-VII-American Literature
EC-II-Single Author Study in World
literary Perspective
EDC-I-Personality
EDC-II=Composition & Conversational
Skill in English
Total
CC-VIII-Indian Writing in English
CC-IX-Afro Caribbean Literature
CC-X-Literary Criticism & theory
CC-XI-Classics: Eastern &
Western(world Literature in
Translation)
CC-XII-Language & Linguistics
Total
CC-X-III- Canadian, Australian &
Newzealand Literature
CC-XIV- Rhetoric & Research
Methodology
Project
Total
Grand Total
6
5
3
25
75
100
6
5
3
25
75
100
6
5
3
25
75
100
6
4
3
25
75
100
30
6
24
5
3
25
75
500
100
6
5
3
26
75
100
6
6
5
4
3
3
25
25
75
75
100
100
3
3
2
2
3
3
25
25
75
75
100
100
30
6
6
6
6
23
5
5
5
5
3
3
3
3
25
25
25
25
75
75
75
75
600
100
100
100
100
6
30
6
5
25
6
3
25
75
3
25
75
100
500
100
6
6
3
25
75
100
18
30
120
6
18
90
3
25
75
100
300
1900
CORE COURSE-I
100
BRITISH LITERATURE-I
THE AGE OF CHUCER AND SPENSER
Instruction Hours: 6
Credits:5
Unit I:
Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Unit II:
William Dunbar: To a Lady
In Honour of the City of London
On the Nativity of Christ
Lament for the Makers
(Oxford Book of English Verse)
Unit III:
Spencer: Prothalamion, Epithalamion
Unit IV:
Ballads: Chevy Chace
Robinhood and the window’s three sons
(Companion to the Ballads Vol.II)
Unit V:
Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
CORE COURSE II
BRITISH LITERATURE II
THE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN AGE
Instruction Hours:6
Unit I:
Credits:5
Sir Thomas Wyatt:
Forget yet Not, To his Lute
Henry Howard, Surrey: Description of Spring,
The Means to attain Happy Life
Unit II :
John Donne: Canonization, The Good-morrow, Death be not Proud
Unit III:
Bacon:
Of truth, Of Death, Of Studies,
Of Unity in Religion, Of Revenge
The Bible:
Unit IV:
The Gospel according to Mark
Christopher Marlowe: Dr.Faustus
Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
Unit V:
Ben Johnson: Everyman in His Humour
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
CORE COURSE III
BRITISH LITERATURE III
THE RESTORATION AND NEOCLASSICAL AGE
Instruction Hours: 6
Credits: 5
Unit I:
Milton :
Paradise Lost (Book IX)
Unit II:
Dryden:
Mac Flecknoe
Pope:
Eplistle to Dr.Arbuthnot
Unit III:
Addison & Steele: 1.Of the Club
2. Character of will Wimble
3. Sir Roger At Church
4. Visit to Westminster Abbey
5. Sir Roger at the Theater
(Selection from the Converley Papers)
Swift: The Battle of Books
Unit IV:
Unit V:
Goldsmith:
She Stoops to Conquer
Congreve:
the way of the world
Fielding:
Bunyan:
Tom Jones
The Pilgrim’s Progress
CORE COURSE IV
BRITISH LITERATURE IV
THE ROMANTIC AGE
Instruction Hours:6
Unit I: Robert Burns:
Credit:5
The Cottar’s Saturday
William Blake:
The Lamb; The Tiger
Thomas Gray:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Collins:
Popular Superstitions
Unit II: Wordsworth:
ode on the Intimations of Immortality
S.T Coleridge:
Ancient Mariner
Robert Southey:
The Scholar
Walter Scott:
Lochinvar
Unit III: P.B.Shelley:
John Keats:
To a Skylark
Ode to Autumn
Ode to Melancholy
Ode to Psyche
Lord Byron:
Unit IV: Lamb:
Hazlitt:
Unit V: Jane Austen:
Walter Scott:
The Prisoner of Chillon
Christ’s Hospital; Dream Children-A Reverie
My First Acquaintance with Poets
Emma
Ivanhoe
ELECTIVE COURSE I
SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Instruction Hours: 6
Unit I:
Types of plays
Unit II:
Types of Poetry
Unit III:
History and Schools of Shakespeare Criticism
Unit IV:
Shakespeare Society and Theatre
Unit V:
Women Characters
Credits:4
CORE COURSE V
BRITISH LITERATURE V
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Instruction Hours: 6
Unit I:
Unit II:
Unit III:
Credits:5
Tennyson:
Ulysses, The Lotos-Eaters
Borrowing:
A Grammarian’s Funeral, Andrea Del Sarto
Arnold:
Dover beach
D.G. Rossetti:
The blessed Damozel
Francis Thomson:
The Hound of Heaven
Ruskin:
Sesame and Lilies
Carlyle:
Hero as Prophet from “On Heroes, Hero-Worship
and the Heroic in History”
Unit IV:
Unit V:
George Eliot:
The Mill on the Floss
Emily Bronte:
Jane Eyre
Dickens:
Oliver Twist
Hardy:
The Returns of the Native
CORE COURSE VI
BRITISH LITERATURE VI
THE MODERN AGE
Instruction Hours: 6
Unit I:
Unit II:
Credits:5
G.M. Hopkins :
The Windhover
W.B.Yeats:
Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Bridges:
Nightingale
Philip Larkins:
Toads Revisited
Ted Hughes:
Thrushes
Geoffery Hill:
Genesis
Seamus Heaney:
Digging
Thom Gunn:
On the Move
Unit III: The Following Essays in selection from E.M. Forster
1. What I Believe
2. The Duty of Society to the Artist
3. Does Culture Matter?
4. The Challenges of Our Time
Unit IV:
Oscar Wilde:
Bernard Shaw:
Unit V:
The Importance of Being Earnest
Pygmalion
D.H. Lawerence :
Women in Love
Virginia Woolf:
To the Lighthouse
CORE COURSE VII
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Instruction Hours: 6
Unit I:
Unit II:
Credits:5
Walt Whitman :
Out of the Cradle endlessly rocking
Emily Dickinson:
Because I could not stop for death
Robert Frost:
Mending Wall
Edger Allan Poe:
The Raven
Sylvia Plath:
Lady Lazarus
Archibald Mac Leish: American letter
Unit III:
Unit IV:
e.e.Cummings :
Little tree
Emerson:
Self-Reliance
Edger Allan poe:
The Philosophy of Composition
Hendry James:
The Art of Fiction
Arthur Miller:
Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Unit V:
Nathaniel Hawthrone: The Scarlet letter
Hemingway:
The Old Man and the Sea
ELECTIVE COURSE II
SINGLE AUTHOR STUDY IN WORLD LITERARY PERSPECTIVE
T.S. ELIOT
Instruction Hours: 6
Unit I:
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
Unit II :
Ariel Poems
Four Quarters
Unit III:
Murder in the Cathedral
Family Reunion
Unit IV:
Tradition and individual Talent
Metaphysical Poets
Essay on Hamlet
Unit V:
Notes towards the Definition of Culture
EXTRA DISCIPLINARY COURSE I
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Credits:4
Instruction Hours: 3
Credits:2
Unit I: What is personality? – What is Character? – The need for a well-developed
personality and character – Theories of personality- Determinants of personality.
Unit II: Indian tradition of theories and Methods of personality development- Yoga,
Meditation and Prayer.
Unit III: Self-Esteem-Motivation for Achievement –need for Goal-setting by the
individual –self-evaluation; How to improve personality –feel good factor – positive
approach –attitude and aptitude -building up Confidence-managing failure
Unit IV: Leadership qualities- problem solving –decision making –emotional quotient –
time management –body language –communication skills- social skills.
Unit V: Success stories for high achievers Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi,
Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Books Recommended:
1. Harsh Kumar: All about Personality Development- Become a Better person. New
Delhi: Goodwill Publishing House, 2004.
2. Shiv Kera: You Can Win
3.Stephen R Cowey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective people
4. Robert A.Schuller: Success is never Ending and Failure is Never Final
5.Anthony Robins: Awaken the Giant Within
EXT A DICIPLINARY COURSE II
COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS IN ENGLISH
Instruction Hours:3
Credits:2
Unit I: Comprehension : A passage of about 600 words given with questions under the
passage.
Multiple choice :5x1=5 marks
Factual
:4x1=4 marks
Reasoning
:2x2=4 marks
Evaluative
:1x2=2 marks
Unit II: Letter Writing: A.Formal Invitation
Reply to formal Invitation
B.Complaint letter (Loss, theft, nuisance, damaged good, received
good, lack of public amenities )
One letter to be written(either A & B)
Unit III: Cohesive Devices: Linkers, their function and use in context.
sequence and Development of Ideas: Jumbled sentences into sequence.
Coherence and Cohesion: Sequenced sentences into ad passage of continuous
writing.
Unit IV: Guided composition: Give sequenced hints to be developed into a paragraph of
200 words.
Free Composition: On a give topic a passage of about 250 words to be written.
Unit V: Conversational skills: Dialogue Writing:
1.Listening Comprehension (Phonetic symbols, transcription of phonemes and
words)
5
2. Write a dialogue on an imaginary situation described
10
3.Responding to the given questions(5 question)
5
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Reference Book: Symala.V Effective English Communication for you,
Any other Book which the course teacher finds adequate
CORE COURSE VIII- INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Unit I:
Tagore
:
Gitanjali
Sri Aurobindo
:
Rose of God
A.K. Ramanujam
:
Still another view of Grace
Kamala Dass
:
The Old Playhouse
Sarojini Naidu
:
Soul’s Prayer
Nissim Ezexiel
:
Poet,Lover,Bird-watcher
Ananda Coomaraswamy
:
’The Dance of Shiva’
V.S.Srinivas Sastri
:
The Women of India
C.Rajagopalachari
:
The Development of Indian
Unit II:
Unit III:
Literature.
Nirad Chaudry
:
Initiation into scholarship[Chapter
IV The Autobigraphy of an
Unkown Indian.]
Unit IV:
Vijay Tendulkar
:
Silence! The Court is in Senssion.
Girish Karnad
:
Nagamandala
Amitav Ghosh
:
The Hungry Tide
Shashi Deshpande
:
Roots and Shawdows
Unit V:
CORE COURSE IX-AFRO CARIBBEAB LITERATURE
Unit –I
Roy Campbell
:
Poets in Africa
R.N.Curvey
:
In Memorium
Francis Carey Slater
:
From Drought
H.H.Dugmore
:
From A Reminiscence of 1820
Kingsley Fairbridge
:
The Song-Maker
Micheal Dei-anang
:
Africa Speaks
Seth Cudjoe
:
Transmigration
Frank Parkes
:
African Heaven
Joseph V.Danquah
:
The Way of Lie
Dennis Osadebay
:
Young African’s Veslove
Achebe
:
Novelist as a Teacher
Naipaul
:
A Wounded Civilization
Soyinka
:
Lion and the Jewel
Wilson Harris
:
Palace of the Peacock
Achebe
:
Things Fall Apart
Nadine Gardiner
:
My Son’s Story
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
Unit-V
CORE COURSE X- LITERARY CRTICISM AND THEORY
Unit-I
Aristole
:
Poetics
Johnson
:
Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth
:
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Arnold
:
The Study of Poetry
D.H.Lawrence
:
Why the novel matters
E.V.Lucas
:
ideology of Modernism
Allan Tate
:
Tension in Poetry
Roland Barthes
:
Criticism as Language
Herald Bloom
:
Poetic Origin and Final Phases
Jacques Derrida
:
Structure, Sing and play in the Discourse of
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
Unit-V
the Human Sciences.
CORE COURSE XI – CLASSICS: EASTERN AND WESTERN
(WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION)
Unit-I
The following Chapters from G.U.Pope’s Translation of Thiruukkural
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The Possession Love.
The Knowledge of Benefits Conferred.
The Possession of Self – restraint.
Veracity.
Not Being Angry.
Unit-II
Homer
:
Illiad (Robert Fitzgerald Book-VI)
Unit-III
From the Bible
:
Gospel, According to St. Mark
Unit-IV
Dubias
Kalidasa
:
:
hunch Back of Nastradom
Sakuntla
Unit-V
Victor Hugo
Leo Tolstoy
:
:
less Miserable.
1.The Three hermits.
2.Little Girl, Wiser Than Men
1. An Inquiry,
2. A Slander.
Anton Chekov
:
:
CORE COURSE XII-LANGUAGE AND LINGUSTICS
Unit-I
The following chapter from An Outline History of the English Language by
F.T.Wood,
1. The Origin of Language,
2. The Descent of the English Language.
Unit-II
1. The Old English Period
2. The Middle English Period
3. The Renaissance and After
4. Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law
Unit-III
Phonetic Transcription of Words, Phrases and Sentences.
Unit-IV
The following Chapter from the Study of Language by George Yule.
1. Morphology
2. Language Varieties
Unit-V
Phrases and Sentences-Grammar
Traditional Grammar – Merits and inadequacies of traditional grammar.
IC analysis, merits limitations as tool of analysis – phrase structure
grammar – Transformation Generative Grammar – Syntax.
CORE COURSE XIII- CANADIAN, AUSTRALIAN &
NEWZELAND LITERATURE
Unit-I
Henry Lawson
:
Song of the
Darling River.
James McCauley
Blis Carman
Wilson Mac Donald
:
:
:
An Art of Poetry.
The Chorister.
john Graylon.
Ferdesick Napies Broome
A.R.D. Fairburn
:
:
Allen Curnow
Ruth Gilbert
:
:
To the Soul.
Yes Please
Gentleman.
House and Land
From: The
Blossoming of the branches.
Jack David
:
Margaret Atwood
:
Aboriginal Writing: A
Personal View
Survival (Chapter I)
Helen Garner
George Ryge
:
:
The Life of Art
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Partrick White
Margaret Lawrence
:
:
The Fringe of leaves
The perfume Sea.
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
Unit-V
CORE COURSE XIV –RHETORIC AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Unit-I
Definitions of research- Sources and Collections (from Encyclopedia to Internet ),
Primary and Secondary Sources.
Literary Research and Research in the Science.
Hypothesis, data collection, analysis.
Unit-II
Choice of area and identification of topic.
Conventions: Abbreviation, punctuation, margin and space, short and long quotations,
acknowledging the source(s), Documentation (parenthetical documentation, and notes,
bibliography, works cited, works consulted). Chapterization. Structure of thesis. Thesis
format.
Unit-III
Jargon, terminology, slang, Colloquialism and formal writing, Vague and Concrete
words, denotation, connotation, verbosity, precision.
Unit-IV
Sentences Structure –Fragmentary sentence, comma space, fused sentences, loose
sentence, periodic sentence, balanced sentence, subordination and coordination.
Unit-V
Description, Deductive Reasoning
Argumentation
Tone, Style, Approach and Topic.
PROJECT WORK
Course Description
The Project is aimed at initiating and providing the student with necessary Cognitive and
writing skills. Inculcation of fundamentals of Research Methodology and Mechanics of
thesis writing as a preparatory step to enable the student take up the more detailed
prospect work in the fourth semester.
Choice of topics
Topics to be Chosen by the individual student as per his/her of interest in English
language and literature.
Length in pages
About 30 to 50 pages as per MLA Hand book Specifications.