ENGLISH DETAILS OF SYLLABUS
UNIT I -
CHAUCER TO THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Poetry:
Chaucer and his age-his works- The Canterbury Tales- The contemporaries of Chaucer.
The Sonnet- Philip Sidney-Tottel’s Miscellany.
The Age of Queen Elizabeth- Spenser- Donne and other metaphysical poets.
Prose:
The rise of English prose-William Caxton - Thomas More-Utopia-Philip Sidney-Francis
Bacon- The Authorised Version of the Bible-Thomas Browne-Hobbes
Drama:
The rise of English drama -Miracles- Moralities- Interludes- Gorboduc- Influence of
Seneca- The University Wits – Revenge Tragedy- Spanish Tragedy- Marlowe-his
contribution- Ben Jonson and the Comedy of Humours.
UNIT II – SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare’s England-stage-influence on Shakespeare-sources-different phases of his
literary career- Shakespearean comedies-tragedies-problem plays-the last plays. Sonnet
of Shakespeare -Shakespearean criticism.
UNIT III - MILTON TO 1800, THE ROMANTIC AND THE
VICTORIAN AGE
Poetry:
Milton and his works - Restoration age and the Augustan Era-Dryden and PopeDr.Johnson-
the precursors of Romanticism.
The Romantic Revival -Coleridge and Wordsworth- The Lyrical Ballads-Different phases
of Romanticism-Byron-Shelley - Keats.
The Victorian Era - Conflict between science and religion -Tennyson- In Memoriam and
other poems - Browning - Dramatic monologue - Matthew Arnold - Hardy- Hopkins.
Prose :
Milton’s prose works-John Bunyan - Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy- Jonathan Swift
and his works - Addison and Steele- Dr.Johnson.
Thomas De Quincy -Charles Lamb – Hazlitt - Coleridge- the development of the English
novel-Walter Scott -Jane Austen – Carlyle – John Ruskin - Matthew Arnold -Walter
Pater- Charles Dickens-Thackeray- George Eliot-the Brontes- Meredith- R.L.StevensionHardy
and his works.
Drama:
Oscar Wilde and his plays.
UNIT IV - THE MODERN ERA
Poetry:
The poetry of W.B.Yeats- the Symbolist Movement - The First World War -war poets -
T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound- Modernism- The Waste Land -Eliot’s later poems – Auden,
Spender and others.
The Second World War -the Movement - Philip Larkin - Tom Gunn- New poets of the
fifties-Ted Hughes - Seamus Heany- Andrew Motion- Post modernism.
Prose:
The modern novel - D.H Lawrence -James Joyce- Virginia Woolf- George Orwell -E.M
Foster. Graham Greene - Golding -Kingley Amis -Angus Wilson - Iris Murdoch.
Other prose writers: Russell-Huxley-Orwell- Lytton StracheyDrama:
The influence of Ibsen- Bernard Shaw and his works - Galsworthy- the revival of poetic
drama-T.S.Eliot- the plays of Synge –Sean O’Casey.
Post war plays -Wesker- Osborne and the angry young men - Theatre of the Absurd –
Beckett – Pinter - Bond
Rise of English in America – Realism in American literature – R W Emerson’s Self –
Reliance, Thorean’s Civil Disobedience – Rise of the novel - Mark Twain, Melville -
Hemingway, Ellison and Toni Morrison – Poets - Emily Dickinson, Walt Witman,
Robert Frost – Confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath – Rise of Black feminism.
Indian Writers – Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das – Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s
Children
European works – Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , Ibsen’s Doll’s House
African writing – Wole Soyinka Chinna Achebe - J M Coetzee
Canadian writers - Margaret Lawrence’s Stone Angel
Carribean writers – V S Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas – English as a global
language.
UNIT V - PHONETICS, HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAG AND FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
Aspects of language: phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Family of Languages- Old, Middle and Modern English- characteristics Standard
English-Language variations-loan words-word formation-semantic changes.
Morphemes and words-classification of words- Structural Grammar - T.G.Grammar -
basic concept.
Functional grammar- usages-phrasal verbs-Idioms-Synonyms and antonyms.
UNIT VI - LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM AND TEACHING
OF ENGLISH
Literary theory as a basic discipline-Aristotle- Poetics- Dryden- Matthew Arnold -
T.S.Eliot-I.A.Richards-F.R Leavis-New criticism-structuralism-DeconstructionFeminism-Post
colonial theory.
Theory and practice of language teaching -Conceptual frame work – bilingualism –
multi-lingualism- Principles of language teaching - aspects of socio-linguistics -
communicative approach to language. Psychological approach to language learningLearner
factors- age -aptitude-personality.
Methods of language teaching: Grammar translation method - direct method -audiovisual
method-structural method-functional method-class room procedures-Lesson planselection
and grading - student participation-group work-Seminars-tutorials and library
work.
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