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                                          Paper code: ENG 101
                                           HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE



Unit 1
Indo-European family of languages: languages constantly changing – dialectal differentiation – Grimm’s law and Varner’s law - the Indo- European family, The Dialects of Old English, Old English Pronunciation, Old English Vocabulary, Old English Grammar.
Unit 2
Foreign Influences on Old English : Three Latin Influences on Old English, The Scandinavian Influences, Scandinavian Loanwords and their character – The Norman Conquest – The Origin of Normandy – The year 1066-The Norman Settlement-The Use of French by the Upper Class- French Literature at the English Court.
2. Middle English: Middle English a period of Great Change-From Old to Middle English-Decay of Inflectional Ending-The Noun-The Adjective- The Pronoun-The Verb-Losses among the strong Verbs-Strong Verbs  That Became Weak-Survival of strong Participles-Surviving strong Verbs-Loss of Grammatical Gender-Middle English Syntax-French Influence on the Vocabulary-Governmental and Administrative Words- Ecclesiastical Words-Law-Army and Navy-Fashion, Meals, and Social Life-Art, Learning Medicine-Breadth of the French Influence-Anglo- Norman and Central French-Popular and Literary Borrowings-The period of Greatest Influence-Assimilation-Loss of Native Words.
Unit 3
1:: Middle English to Modern-The Great Vowel Shift-Weakening of Unaccented Vowels-Changing Conditions in the Modern Period- Effect upon Grammar and Vocabulary-Reintroduction and New The Renaissance Meanings-The Method of Introducing New words- Grammatical Features-General Characteristics of the period. .The Renaissance
Unit 4
1. The Appeal to authority: the problem of refining the language – The
Desire to “Fix” the Language-The Example of Italy and France- An English Academy-Objection to an Academy-Substitutes for an Academy-





Johnson’s Dictionary-The Beginnings of Prescriptive Grammar-Attempts to Reform the Vocabulary.
2. The nineteenth century and after: influences affecting the language – Sources of the New Words: Borrowings-Prefixes and Suffixes-Coinages- Common Words from proper Names-Changes of Meaning-Slang- Register-Pidgins and Creoles.
The English Language in America: The settlement of America – uniformity of American English –Archaic Features in American English- Early changes in the Vocabulary-The American Dialects-Present Differentiation of Vocabulary-American English and World English.The Twenty-first Century: The Future of English: Three Circles-How Many Speaker?-Cross-linguistic Influence and the spread of Languages-The Relative Difficulty of Languages-The Importance of Chines-India and the
Second Circle.
Unit 5



Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Albert C. Baugh, Thomas Cable
A History of the English Language 6th Ed
Routledge
2.
Richard Hogg &
David Denison
A History of the English Language
CUP
3.
Crystal, David.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the
English Language
CUP
4.
Wood, F T.
An outline history of the English
language
Macmillan
5.
Momma, Haruko &
Matto, Michael (ed)
A companion to the history of the
English language
Wiley-blackwell
6.
Wrenn
The English language.
AITBS



Paper Code ENG102 
Poetry- I

Details of the syllabus




Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
Chaucer
: Prologue to The Canterbury Tales – Knight’s Portrait, The Squire’s Portrait, Wife of Bath’s Portrait, Nun’s Portrait
John Donne
: The Sun Rising, The Ecstasy.
Unit 3
* John Milton
: Paradise Lost, Book I.
Unit 4
Alexander Pope
: The Rape of the Lock
* John Keats
: Ode on a Grecian Urn, To the
Nightingale.
Unit 5
William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey, Ode on Intimations of
Immortality.
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, Fra Lippi Lippi.
Tennyson                       : Ulysses, Lotus Eaters
Mathew Arnold
: Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
John Milton
Paradise Lost, Book I
Macmillan
2
Chaucer
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Macmillan
3
John Keats
Odes
Macmillan
4
JohnDonne
“ The Sun Rising”, “ The Ecstasy”.
Macmillan
5
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
Macmillan
6
William wordsworth
The Prelude Book – I,
Macmillan
7
Robert Browning
“ My Last Duchess”,Fra Lippi
Lippi.
Macmillan
8
Mathew Arnold
Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach
Macmillan

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Thomas Humprey
Ward
The English Poets(Vol:I to IV)
Macmillan
2.
A. Alvarez
The Shaping Spirit
Oxford University Press
3.
Pratt and Arnold
The English Poets: Chaucer to
Donne
Macmillan


Paper Code – ENG103 
Drama-I


Details of the syllabus




Unit 2
* Christopher Marlowe           : Doctor Faustus

Unit 3
William Shakespeare                : King Lear.
William Shakespeare              : Twelfth Night.
Unit 4

William Shakespeare             :The Tempest.
Unit 5
Ben Jonson                             : Volpone, The School for Scandal Sheridan.


Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Christopher
Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
Macmillan




2
Ben Jonson
Volpone.
Oxford University Press
3
William Congreve
The School for the Scandal
Sheridan.
Oxford University Press
4
John Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
Oxford University Press
5
Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party
Oxford University Press
6
T.S.Eliot
The Cocktail Party
Oxford University Press

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
W.W.Greg
Doctor Faustus
Oxford University Press




2
M. Scott
The Birthday Party
Oxford University Press
3
D.Kirkpatrick
Contemporary Dramatists
Penguin




Paper Code – ENG104 
Prose and Fiction- I

Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
* Francis Bacon
: Select Essays: ( Of Truth, Of Marriage & Single Life, Of Adversity, Of Studies), Of Travel.
* Charles Lamb
: Essays of Elia: (Dream Children, The praise of Chimney sweepers.
Unit 3
Jonathan Swift
: Gulliver’s Travels I Voyage.
Unit 4
Jane Austen
: Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens
: David Copperfield
Unit 5
Joseph Andrews
: Henry Fielding.

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Frances Bacon
Essays
Oxford University Press
2
Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia
Oxford University Press
3
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels I Voyage.
Oxford University Press
4
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Oxford University Press
5
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Oxford University Press
6
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding.
Oxford University Press

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Arnold Kettle
An Introduction to the English Novel
Vols-2
Hutchinson&co.ltd
2

Pelican Guide to Literature
Vols 1to9
Pelican
3
Hugh Walker
The English Essay and Essayists
Kessinger Publishing
4
Allen Walter
The English Novel
E.P.Dutton and co., Inc.,
5
Cecil David Lord
Early Victorian Novels
Bobbs –Merill
6
Dorothy Van Ghent
The English Novel Form and
Function
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
7
E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel
Penguin
8
Edwin Muir
The Structure of the Novel
Harbinger Book




Paper Code – ENG 105 USE OF ENGLISH - I

Unit 1
Parts   of  Speech  -  Sentence    Elements – Pro-forms – Question and
Negation- degree of comparison
Unit 2
Regular verbs and inflectional rules – irregular verbs – auxiliaries – tense
and aspect – modal verbs-concord
Unit 3
The simple sentence – The complex sentence – subordinators and super
ordination
Unit 4
Word-formation – prefixes, suffixes, conversion, compounding – idioms
and phrases – denotative and connotative meaning - collocations
Unit 5
Common Errors: Verbs, Prepositions and Tense.



Text Books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Quirk and Greenbaum
A University Grammar of English
Pearson Education
2.
Leech and Svartvik
A Communicative Grammar of
English
Pearson
3.
Michael Swan
Practical English Usage – Michael
Swan
OUP
4.
George Yule
Advanced Oxford Practice Grammar
OUP




Paper Code – ENG 201 PHONETICS AND LINGUISTICS

Details of the syllabus
Unit 1
The organs of speech – classification of speech sounds - The syllable
Unit 2
Consonant clusters – word-accent – Accent and rhythm in connected speech – Intonation
Unit 3
Phonetic transcription- One out of Two passages ( a prose passage and a dialogue)
Unit 4
Introduction to Linguistics : Human language and Animal communication – Definition and scope of linguistics – Branches of linguistics and Applied linguistics – Traditional approaches to Language study
Unit 5
Modern linguistics – Language varieties: dialect, idiolect, register and style – Notions of correctness and acceptability

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
T. Balasubramaniam
A Text book of English Phonetics
for Indian Students
Macmillan
2.
Daniel Jones
English Pronouncing
Dictionary15thED

3.
Davis Crystal
Linguistics
Penguin
4
Ruth Gairns &
Stuart Redman
Advanced Oxford Word Skills
OUP

Reference books:

Title
Author
publisher
1
Malmberg.B
Phonetics
Dover Publications
2
S.K. Verma
Modern Linguistics: An Introduction
CULT
3
Chomsky and Halle
The sound pattern of English
Harper and Row
4
Bright.J.A and McGregor
Teaching English as a second language
ELBS and Longman
5
Verma,S.K & Krishnaswamy
Modern Linguistics
OUP





Paper Code – ENG 202
Poetry – II
Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of the
Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
*W.B.Yeats
: The Second Coming,
Sailing To Byzantium.
Unit 3
* T.S. Eliot
: The Waste Land
Unit 4
Dylan Thomas

Philip Larkin
: “ Fern Hill”
“ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
: “ Whitsun Weddings” , “Church Going”.
Unit 5
Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney
: “The Jaguar”, “Thrushes”.
: “Death of a Naturalist”, “Digging”.
.

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
W.B.Yeats
The Second Coming,
Sailing To Byzantium.
Oxford University
Press
2
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Faber and Faber
3
Dylan Thomas


Philip Larkin
“ Fern Hill”, “ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”,

“ Whitsun Weddings”, “ Church Going”
Oxford University Press
4
Ted Hughes
“The Jaguar”, “Thrushes”.
Oxford University
Press
5
Seamus Heaney
“ Death of a Naturalist”, “ Digging”.
Oxford University
Press

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
A. Alvarez
The Shaping Spirit
Oxford University Press
2
A.Thwaite
Twentieth Century English Poetry
Oxford University Press
3
B. Morrison
Seamus Heaney:
Oxford University Press
4
Helen Williams
T.S.Eliot – The waste land
Oxford University Press




Paper Code – ENG203 
DRAMA-II
Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.




Unit 2
Gold Smith
*Oscar Wilde
: She Stoops to Conquer
: Importance of Being Earnest
Unit 3
*Bernard Shaw
: Pygmalion
Unit 4
John Synge
Samuel Becket
: Riders to the Sea.
: Waiting for Go dot.
Unit 5
T.S. Eliot
: Murder in the Cathedral.


Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Gold Smith Oscar Wilde
She Stoops to Conquer Importance of Being
Earnest
Macmillan
2
Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw
: Pygmalion
Macmillan
3
John Synge
Samuel Becket
: Riders to the Sea.
: Waiting for Go dot.
Macmillan
4
T.S. Eliot
: Murder in the
Cathedral.
Macmillan

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
T.S.Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral.
Oxford University Press
2
D.Kirkpatrick
Contemporary Dramatists
Penguin
3
Shubha Tiwari,
Maneesha Tiwari
The Plays of T.S. Eliot
Atlantic
4
Bill Naismith
Harold Pinter: "Waiting for Go dot, "Birthday Party", "The
Homecoming"
Faber & Faber





Paper Code – ENG 204 Prose and Fiction- II
Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
* Virginia Woolf     : Room of One’s Own.
Unit 3
Somerset Maugham: The Happy Man, Princess September
Doris lessing            : Flight, No Witchcraft for Sale
Unit 4
Thomas Hardy         Far from the Madding Crowd
William Golding         :Lord of the Files.
Unit 5
D.H. Lawrence        : Sons and Lovers
James Joyce       :After the Race

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher

Virginia Woolf
Room of One’s Own
Oxford University Press

Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd
Oxford University Press

William Golding
Lord of the Files.
Oxford University Press

D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Oxford University Press

James Joyce
After the Race
Mahaveer

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1

A Reader’s guide to the
contemporary English Novel
Oxford University Press
2
Ford Boris(ed)
Pelican Guide to English Literature
Vol-7
Pelican
3
Bernard Blackstone
Virginia Woolf
Hogarth Press
4
Humphreys.R
The Stream of Consciousness in the
Modern Novel 1954
Oxford University Press
5
J.W.Beach
The Twentieth Century Novel
Oxford University Press
6
David Daiches
The Novel and The Modern World
Oxford University Press




Paper Code – ENG 205 USE OF ENGLISH-II

Details of the syllabus
Unit 1
Concepts: referring to objects, substances and materials – concrete and abstract – amount or quantity – definite and indefinite meaning – relations between ideas expressed by nouns – restrictive and non-restrictive
meaning – time, tense and aspect
Unit 2
Concepts: Time-when, duration, frequency –  place, direction and distance
– manner, means and instrument – cause, reason and purpose – condition and  contrast – degree    role, standard and  point of view –  comparison
addition, exception and restriction, subject matter: about and on
Unit 3
Information, reality and belief: statements, questions and responses – omission of information – reported statements and questions – denial and affirmation – agreement and disagreement – fact, hypothesis and
neutrality – degrees of likelihood – attitudes to truth
Unit 4
Mood, emotion and attitude: emotive emphasis in speech – describing
emotions – volition – permission and obligation – influencing people – friendly communications – vocatives
Unit 5
Meanings in connected discourse: linking signals – linking clauses and sentences – general purpose links – cross-reference and omission –
presenting and focusing information – order and emphasis.


Reference books


Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Leech, Geoffrey &
Svartvik
A communicative grammar of
English.
India: Pearson
2.
Swan, Michael.
Basic English Usage.
Oxford: OUP




Paper Code – ENG 301 Literary Theory and Criticism–I
Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Sydney
: An Apology for Poetry.
Unit 2
Dr. Johnson
Wordsworth
: Preface to Shakespeare
: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Unit 3

Matthew Arnold

: Study of Poetry.
Unit 4
T.S. Eliot
I.A. Richards
: Tradition and the Individual Talent
: Four kinds of Meaning
Unit 5
Cleanth Brooks
Northrop Frye
: Irony as a Principle of Structure
: Archetypes of literature

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Sydney
Dryden
Apology for Poetry
An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
O.U.P
2
Dr. Johnson
Wordsworth
Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
O.U.P
3

Matthew Arnold

The Function of Criticism
O.U.P
4
T.S.Eliot
I.A.Richards
Tradition and Individual Talent
Four kinds of Meaning
O.U.P
Macmillan
5
Cleanth Brooks
Irony as a Principle of Structure
O.U.P
6
M. Hirivanna
The Main Aspects of Indian
Aesthetics
Manohar,1997
Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Enwright & Chickera
English Critical Texts
O.U.P
2
I.A.Richards
Poetries and Sciences
O.U.P
3
V.S.Seturaman &
S. Rama Swami(ed)
The English Critical Tradition Vol
I & II
Macmillan
4
M S Nagarajan
English Literary Criticism And
Theory
Orient Blackswan





Paper Code – ENG 302 New Literatures in English- I

Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
Unit 3
Ngugi Wa Thiang’o : The River Between.
Whole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel
Unit 4
V. S. Naipaul    : A House for Mr. Biswas
Unit 5
Buchi Emecheta : The Joys of motherhood.

Text Books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Arnold Heinemann
2.
Ngugi
A Grain of Wheat
Penguin
3.
Whole Soyinka
The Lion and the Jewel
Penguin
4.
V. S. Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
Penguin





Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen
Tiffin
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-
Colonial Literatures
Routledge
2.
John McLeod
Beginning Post-Colonialism
Viva Books
3.
Bill Ashcroft
Postcolonial Studies: Key
Concepts
Prentice Hall
4.
Pramod.k.Nayar
Postcolonial Literature: An
Introduction
Pearson




Paper Code – ENG 303 Indian Writing in English


Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
*  Arundati Roy                : The End of Imagination.
*  Rabindranath Tagore    : The Post Office
Unit 3
Toru Dutt A.K.Ramanujan
Nissim Ezekiel Kamala Das
: Our Casuarina Tree
: Small Scale Reflections on a Great House, Obituary
: Poet, Lover, Bird  Watcher, Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S
: An Introduction, Sunshine cat.
Unit 4
R.K.Narayan
Raja Rao
: The Grandmother’s Tale.
: Kanthapura.
Unit 5
Girish Karnad
: Hayavadana.

Reference Books:

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Arundati Roy

The End of Imagination
O.U.P
2.
Rabindranath
Tagore
The Post Office
O.U.P
3.
Toru Dutt
Our Casuarina Tree
O.U.P./Internet
5.
Raja Rao
Kanthapura
O.U.P.
6.
Girish Karnad
Hayavadana
O.U.P.
7.
K.Srinivasa
Iyengar
Indian Writing in English
Sterling
8.
M.K.Naik
Aspects of Indian writing in
English
Macmillan
9.
Meenakshi
Mukharjee
Twice born fiction
Pencraft
International
10.
Arvind Mehrotra
A concise History of Indian
Literature in English
Macmillan
11.
Bruce King
Modern Indian Poetry in
English
OUP







Paper Code – ENG 304 AMERICAN LITERATURE – I

Details of the syllabus
Unit 1
Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of
the Asterisk marked texts.
Unit 2
* Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson
: “Song of Myself”
Selections from 1 to 5,17, 52.
:  303, 328, 341, 511, 640, 712.
Unit 3
* R.W. Emerson
: “The American Scholar”.
Unit 4
Henry David Thoreau : Walden (8 chapters only)
Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet letter
Unit 5
Mark Twain
: Huckleberry Finn

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Cambridge University
Press
2
Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Oxford University Press
3
R.W. Emerson
Prose selections of Emerson
Cambridge University
Press
4
Henry David
Thoreau
Walden
Macmillan




5
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
The Scarlet letter
Bantam
6
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Oxford University Press

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Borris Ford
The Pelican guide to English
Literature Vol-9
Pelican
2
Robert E. Spiller
Literary History of the United States
of America
Mac Millan
3
Emory Elliott (ed)
Colombia Literary History of the
United States
Columbia
University Press
4
J Cunliffe
A History of the United States
Macmillan





Paper Code – ENG 305 English Language Teaching - I
Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
1. Fundamentals of language teaching – objectives, materials and evaluation- Difference between first language and second language
Unit 2
Theories of language learning- behaviorism and cognitivism
Unit 3
Second language learning models – acculturation, monitor and variable competence models - contrastive analysis, error  analysis  and interlanguage
Unit 4
Introduction     English      language      teaching:      Structural      approach,
communicative language teaching and testing.
Unit 5
Grammar translation method, bi-lingual method, direct method and audio- lingual method.
Testing and Evaluation in ELT : Techniques of Testing, Types of Testing, Techniques of Evaluation.

Text Books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
H.H.Stern
Fundamental concepts in Language
Teaching
O.U.P
2.
Richards, Jack C. &Theodore S.
Rodgers
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
Cambridge University Press
3.
Geetha Nagaraj
English Language Teaching:
Approaches, Methods, Techniques
Orient Longman

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Penny UR,
A Course in Language Teaching
1996, New Delhi, Oxford
University Press
2.
Keith Johnson
Language Teaching and skill
Learning
1966, Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers.
3.
Brumfit, C.J.K.
Johnson (1994)
The Communicative Approach to
Language Teaching
New Delhi, Oxford: Oxford
University Press
4.
Nunan, D. 1988
The Learner-Centred Curriculum
New Delhi: Cambridge
University Press
5.
Saraswathi, V, 2004
English Language Teaching,
Principles and Practice
Chennai: Orient Longman
6.
Tickoo M.L. 2003
Teaching and Learning English
Orient Longman.
7.
Stem, H.H. 1983
Fundamental Concepts of Language
Teaching
Oxford University Press
8.
J Carrol & P. Hall
Make Your Own Language Tests: A
Pergamon Institute of






Practical Guide to Writing Language
Performance Tests.
English


Paper Code - ENG 401 Literary Theory and Criticism –II

Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Frantz Fanon         : The Wretched Of The Earth ( Chapter 3)
Edmund Wilson        : Marxism and Literature.
Unit 2
Gerard Gennette    : Structuralism and Literary Criticism
Jacques Derrida : Sign, Structure, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Unit 3
M.M.Bakhtin        : Introduction To Dialogic Imagination.
Maggie Humm      : In to the Millenium.
Unit 4
Bharatamuni         :On Natya and Rasa :Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience from G.N.Devy’s book
Arjun Dangle        : Dalit Literature : Past, Present, & Future
Unit 5
Vandana Shiva      :Women in Nature(Ch.3).

Text books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
David Lodge.Ed.
Frantz Fanon Edward Said
20th Century Literary Criticism:A Reader The Wretched Of The Earth
Orientalism
-Pearson
-Grove Press
-Penguin
2
Lodge, David. Ed.
Modern Criticism and Theory
-Longman 3rd
ed
3
Mary Jacobus.Ed. M.M.Bakhtin
Women's Writing and Writing About Women Introduction To Dialogic Imagination
-Croom Helm
-University of Texas Press
4
G.N.Devy.Ed.

Arjun Dangle
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation

Dalit Literature : Past, Present, & Future
-Orient Blackswan
-Orient
Blackswan
5
Vandana Shiv
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology & Developmet.
South End
Press


Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Peter Barry
Beginning theory
Viva Books
2
Tim Woods
Beginning Post Modernism
Viva Books
3
K.M.Newton
Twentieth Century Literary Theory
(1988)
Macmillan
4
K.M.Newton
Theory Into Practice (1992)
Macmillan








5
Wilfred L. Guerin
A Handbook of Critical Approaches
to Literature (2005)
OUP
6
Arjun Dangle
Poisoned Bread (1994)
Orient Blackswan
7
Raman Selden,
Peter Widdowson, & Peter Brooker
A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
Pearson
8
Pramod Nayar
Literary Theory Today
Asia Book Club
9.
Heather Eaton
Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies
T&T Clark




Paper Code – ENG 405 New Literatures in English-II

Details of the syllabus
Unit 1
A.D. Hope
Douglas Stewart
: Australia, Standardization
: Ned Kelly
Unit 2
Patrick White
: The Tree of Man
Unit 3
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Laurence
:This is a Photograph of me, Marrying the Hangman
: The Stone Angel
Unit 4
Nadine Gordimer
: July’s People
Unit 5
Athol Fugard
: The Blood Knot.

Text Books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
A.D. Hope
Australia
Internet
2.
Douglas Stewart
Ned Kelly
Angus & Robertson
3.
Margaret Atwood
This is a Photograph of me,
Marrying the Hangman
Internet
4.
Patrick White
Voss
Penguin
5.
Margaret Laurence
The Stone Angel
University of Chicago press
7.
Han Suyin
A Many Splendoured thing
Little Brown & Co





Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Elleke Boehmer
Colonial and Postcolonial
literature:Migrant Metaphors
OUP
2.
Neil Lazarus
The Cambridge Companion to
Postcolonial Literary Studies
CUP
3.
Pramod Nayar
Postcolonial Literature: An
Introduction
Pearson
4.
Bill Ashcroft& Ed.
The Postcolonial Studies Reader
Routledge




Paper Code – ENG 403 Indian Literature in Translation

Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Anandamath
Premchand: Godan
Unit 2
Kesava Reddy : Ballad of Vontillu.
T.Sivasankara Pillai: Chemmen
Unit 3
Mahaswetha Devi : Hazar Churasir Ma(play)
Unit 4
Abburi Chaya Devi : Bonsai Life.
Volga:Ayoni
Unit 5
U.R.Anantha Murthy : Samskara
Bama: Sangati


Text books

Author
Title
Publisher

Chaterjee
Anandamath
OUP

Premchand
Godan
OUP

K.Kutumba rao
Chaduvu
Sahitya Akademi

Ranganayakamma
Volga
Ayoni and the Other Stories edited
by Alladi Uma & Sridhar
Oup

Kesava Reddy
Ballad of Vontillu
OUP

Mahaswetha Devi
Hazar Churasir Ma
Parabaas

Abburi Chaya Devi
Bonsai Life.
Heinman

Bama
Sangati
OUP

U.R.Anantha
Murthy
Samskara
OUP

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
K.Srinivasa Iyengar
Indian Writing in English
Sterling
2
Meenakshi
Mukharjee
Twice Born Fiction
Pencraft
3
Bruce King
Modern Indian Poetry in English
OUP




Paper Code – ENG 404

Unit 1
One question on critical comments on passages from the two texts for detailed study, marked with an asterisk.
Unit 2
* Wallace Stevens     :Sunday morning, Of Modern Poetry
Robert Frost             :After Apple Picking, Road Not Taken, Birches
Unit 3



Unit 4
* Eugene O’ Neill    :The Hairy Ape Sylvia Plath               :Tulips, Daddy.
Edgar Allen Poe        : The Philosophy of Composition prose [essay].

Edward Albee           : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Ernest Hemingway    : The Old Man and the Sea.
Unit 5
Ralph Ellison            : The Invisible Man.

 
                                                       American LiteratureII Details of the syllabus














Text books

Author
Title
Publisher

Wallace Stevens
Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Oxford University Press

Robert Frost
Poetry of Robert Frost
Oxford University Press

Sylvia Plath
Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Oxford University Press

Edward Albee
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wollf?
Macmillan

Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Oxford University Press





Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man
Oxford University Press

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1
Borris Ford
The pelican guide to English
Literature Vol-9
Pelican
2
Robert E. Spiller
Literary History of the United States
of America
Macmillan
3

Emory Elliott (ed)
Colombia Literary History of the
United States
Columbia Univ
Press
4
J Cunliffe
A History of the United States
Macmillan




Paper Code – ENG 402 English Language Teaching-II

Details of the syllabus

Unit 1
Humanistic approaches – the silent way, TPR, community language
learning and suggestopedia
Unit 2
Curriculum and syllabus – predetermined syllabus and emergent syllabus
Unit 3
Teaching language elements – grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
Unit 4
Teaching language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing
Unit 5
Teaching practice – techniques of micro teaching – team teaching
Testing and evaluation


Text Books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
H.H.Stern
Fundamental concepts in Language
Teaching
O.U.P
2.
Richards, Jack C. &Theodore S.
Rodgers
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
Cambridge University Press
3.
Geetha Nagaraj
English Language Teaching:
Approaches, Methods, Techniques
Orient Longman

Reference books

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Penny UR,
A Course in Language Teaching
1996, New Delhi, Oxford
University Press
2.
Keith Johnson
Language Teaching and skill
Learning
1966, Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers.
3.
Brumfit, C.J.K.
Johnson (1994)
The Communicative Approach to
Language Teaching
New Delhi, Oxford: Oxford
University Press
4.
Heaton, J B
Writing English language tests
Longman
5.
Saraswathi, V, 2004
English Language Teaching,
Principles and Practice
Chennai: Orient Longman
6.
Tickoo M.L. 2003
Teaching and Learning English
Orient Longman.
7.
Stem, H.H. 1983
Fundamental Concepts of Language
Teaching
Oxford University Press
8.
J Carrol & P. Hall
Make Your Own Language Tests: A
Practical Guide to Writing Language Performance Tests.
Pergamon Institute of English




Paper Code –  ENG  106 English Language Laboratory Practical

Vocabulary building Lab exercises using printed Book & CD (Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman- Advanced Oxford Word Skills-OUP-2009-pp.01 to 105) and enhancing Public Speaking and presentation skills through practice:
1.  Expanding your Vocabulary
2.  The Body
3.  You and other People
4.  Leisure and Lifestyle
5.  A Changing World
6.  Institutions

Text Books:


Author
Title
Publisher
3.
Ruth Gairns &
Stuart Redman
Advanced Oxford Word Skills
OUP
4.
George Yule
Advanced Oxford Practice Grammar
OUP
5.
Marion Gruss
English for Presentations
OUP

(The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)


Paper Code –  ENG 206 

English Language Laboratory Practical



Vocabulary building Lab exercises using printed Book & CD(Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman- Advanced Oxford Word Skills-OUP-2009-pp.108 to 207) and enhancing Public Speaking and presentation skills through practice:
1.  News and current affairs
2.  Work and finance
3.  Concepts
4.  Spoken English
5.  Written English
6.  Aspects of Language

Books:


Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman
Advanced Oxford Word Skills
OUP
2.
George Yule
Advanced Oxford Practice Grammar
OUP
3.
Marion Gruss
English for Presentations
OUP


(The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)




Paper Code- ENG 306

English Language Laboratory Practical


English for Academic Purposes:

1. Writing skills for academic purposes:
-  Writing: summaries, essays, reports, term papers.
-  Introduction to research, planning and editing skills.
-  Writing abstract and Paper for academic courses/conference.
-  Note-taking.

2.  Reading skills for academic purposes:
-  Skimming, scanning and speed reading.
-  Interpretation of graphs, diagrams and charts.
-  Reading for main points and for specific information.
-  Understanding purpose and intent.

3.  Presentation skills:
-  Introduction to oral & PPT presentation skills.
- 


Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Edward de Chazal, Sam McCarter, Louis Rogers, Julie
Moore
Oxford EAP :A course in English for Academic Purposes with CD
OUP
2.
Martin Hewings and Craig Thaine
Cambridge Academic English
An integrated skills course for EAP Student’s Book Advanced with CD
CUP
3.
Marion Gruss
English for Presentations with CD
OUP

 
Oral paper presentation in seminar/conference. Books & Software:












(The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)










                Paper Code – Eng 406


English Language Laboratory Practical



English for the Media:

1.  Newspaper in the classroom- Writing headlines-Analysing newspaper articles Interview skills-translation-Planning and writing a newspaper article

2.  Radio-Understanding the language of radio presenters- Understanding the production process-Planning a news list-Giving post-production feedback


3.  Magazines- Composing magazine covers-Planning the contents of a magazine- Writing a true life stories-Stylistic devices-freelance writing.

4.  Visual Media-Television & Film-Editing a TV documentary-The language of television Production- writing a screenplay -Writing a film review.


5.  Digital Media- Technical writing -website design-online writing for social network sites-Planning and writing a blog -Creating a podcast.

Books & Software:

Author
Title
Publisher
1.
Nick Ceramella and Elizabeth Lee
Cambridge English for the Media with CD
CUP
2.
James Glen Stovall
Writing for the Mass Media
Pearson
3.
Anthony Friedmann
Writing for Visual Media-3rd Ed
Focal Press




(The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)


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