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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 -----75 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.