BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 24.
B.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
(NON – SEMESTER)
Applicable to the candidates admitted from the academic year 2002-2003
onwards through Centre for Distance Education
Year Paper Marks
I Language Paper – I 100
English Paper – I 100
Major Paper – I – Prose 100
Major Paper – II – Fiction 100
Allied Paper – I – Social History of England & History of 100
English Literature
II Language Paper – II 100
English Paper – II 100
Major Paper – III – Poetry 100
Major Paper – IV – Drama 100
Allied Paper – II – Language & Linguistics & Literary 100
Forms
III Major Paper – V : Grammer & Usage & Writing Skills 100
Major Paper – VI : Common Wealth Literature 100
Major Paper – VII – American Literature 100
Applied Paper – I – Journalism 100
Applied Paper – II : English Language Teaching 100
Total 1500
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MAJOR PAPER – I – PROSE
The following essays from A Galaxy of English Essayists from Bacon to
Beerbohm(ed) [Link] (Macmillan) constitute the Units I – IV .
UNIT – I
1. “Of Great Place” - Bacon
2. “Sir Roger at the Theatre” – Addison
3. “The Trumpet Club” – Steele.
UNIT – II
4. “Poor Relations” – Lamp
5. “The Fight” – Hazlitt
UNIT – III
6. “The Worship of the Wealthy” – [Link]
7. “Lectures” – [Link].
UNIT – IV
8. “In Praise of Mistakes” – Lynd.
9. “A Fellow Traveller” – [Link]
UNIT – V : Selections from [Link](ed) [Link] (Macmillan) and
Essays of Orwall (ed.) [Link] (Macmillan)
From [Link]
10.“The Other Side of the Hedge”
11.“East and West”
12.“A Book that Influenced Me”.
From Orwell (ed) [Link] (Macmillan)
1. “Propaganda and Demotic Speech”
2. “The Writing of History”
3. “The Bookshop Memories”
4. “The English Teacher”
5. “Why I Write”.
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MAJOR PAPER – II – FICTION
The following short stories from Macmillan Stories for Colleges(ed)
[Link].
UNIT – I
1. The Robe of Peace – [Link].
2. Quality – Galsworthy.
UNIT – II
3. Mabel – Somerset Maugham
4. A Cup of Tea – Katherine Mansfield
UNIT – III
5. Half a Rupee Worth - R.K. Narayan
6. A Devoted Son – Anita Desai.
UNIT – IV
7. [Link] : Treasure Island (novel)
8. [Link] : The Time Machine (novel)
9. [Link] : The Guide (novel)
UNIT – V : Dickenus : A Tale of Two Cities
Hardy : Mayor of Castorbridge.
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ALLIED PAPER – I – SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND & HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
UNIT – I - Medievel England
UNIT – II – The Civil War and Cromwellian Revolution
The Restoration, Glorious Revolution
The Age of Queen Anne.
UNIT – III – The Age of Enlightenment
The French Revolution
UNIT – IV – Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions.
UNIT – V – The Victorian Age
The 20th Century and After.
Reference:
1. [Link] : English Social History
2. [Link] : Social History of England
3. [Link] : Introduction to the Social History of England
4. The Peliean Guide Series(ed) Boris Ford
5. The Twentieth Century Mind(ed) Cox and Dyson (Vol.1-3).
Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature.
UNIT – I : Chapters II, III – The Age of Chaucer
UNIT – II : Chapters IV, V – Development of Drama
Chapters VI, VII, VIII – The Age of Shakespeare
UNIT – III : Chapters IX, X – The Age of Milton
UNIT – IV : Chapters XI, XII – The Age of Dryden.
Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature.
Chapters XIII, XIV – The Age of Pope
Chapters XV to XVII – The Age of Johnson
UNIT – V : Chapters XVIII to XXI – The Age Of Wordsworth
UNIT – VI : Chapters XXII to XXIV – The Age of Tenyson
UNIT – VII: Chapters XXV to XXVII – The Age of Hardy & The Present Age.
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MAJOR PAPER – III – POETRY
The following selection from the Silver Cascade(ed) [Link](Oxford
University Press).
UNIT – I : 1. Shakespeare : Sonnet No.*35
2. Donne : Valediction Forbidding Mouring & Holy Sonnet 1.
UNIT – II : 3. Milton : Paradise Lost Book IV (171 lines)
UNIT – III : 4. Marvell : To His Coy Mistress
5. Gray : Elcgy Written in a Country Churchyard
UNIT – IV : Blake :1. The Lamb
2. The Tiger.
3. [Link] : Kubla Khan
4. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
5. Keats : La Belle Dame Sans Merei.
UNIT – V : 1. Browning : My Last Duchess
2. Arnold : Dover Beach
3. Hardy : Darkling Thrush
4. Yeats : Among School Children
5. [Link] : Gerontion.
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MAJOR PAPER – IV – DRAMA
UNIT – I – As You Like It
- King Lear
UNIT – II – Marlowe : [Link]
– Webster : The Duchers of Malti.
UNIT – III : Shaw : Pygmalion
UNIT – IV : [Link] : Murder in the Cathedral
UNIT – V : Synge : Riders to the Sea.
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ALLIED PAPER – II – LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS & LITERARY
FORMS.
UNIT – I : PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH
1. Organs of Speech
2. The Consonants of English
3. The Vowels of English.
UNIT – II : 4. Word Groups, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation.
[Link] : A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian
Students (Macmillon).
UNIT – III : HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The following Chapters from An Outline History of the English Language
[Link] (Macmillan)
Chapter VI – The Growth of Vocabulary
Chapter VII – Change of Meaning.
LITERARY FORMS
The Scope and study of Literary Forms will be restricted to a knowledge of the
topics noted below
UNIT – I : POETRY : a. Nature and Elements of Poetry in General –
Definitions of Poetry.
b. Classification of Poetry – Subjective, Objective
UNIT – II : The Ode, The Elegy, The Lyric, The Sonnet, The Epic, The Ballad
UNIT – III : PROSE – The Essay, Short Story, Biography and Autobiography.
UNIT – IV : DRAMA – Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, One-Act Play.
UNIT – V : FICTION – Elements of Fiction, Historical Novel, Picaresque
Novel, Detective Fiction, Science Fiction.
Books for Reference:
1. [Link] : An Introduction to the Study of English Literature.
2. [Link]: An Introduction to English Literature for Foreign Students.
3. [Link] : A Background to the Study of English Literature (Macmillan).
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MAJOR PAPER – V – GRAMMAR, USAGE & WRITING SKILLS
The scope of the paper as indiented in A Practical Grammer by [Link] &
[Link] (Oxford University Press).
UNIT – I : Chapters 1 to 10
UNIT – II : Chapter 11 to 15
UNIT – III : Chapters 16 to 19
UNIT – IV : Chapters 20 to 24
UNIT – V : Chapters 25 to 29
WRITING SKILLS
UNIT – I : Writing Paragraphs
Writing Letters
UNIT – II : Description and Narration
UNIT – III : Note – Making and Summarising
UNIT – IV : Arguing and Reporting
UNIT – V : Different ways of Presenting Information and Expressing Oneself.
References:
1. Tickoo & Sasikumar :Writing with a Purpose
(Oxford University Press)
2. Sarah Freeman : Written Communication in English
(Longman)
3. [Link] : Strengthen Your Writing
(Longman)
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MAJOR PAPER – VI – COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE
UNIT – I : 1. [Link] : Australia
2. Michael-de-Anang : Africa Speaks
3. [Link] : The Canadian Authors Meet
4. Nissim : Enterprise
UNIT – II : 5. Atwood : Journey to the Interior
6. Alan Cumow : Time
7. Walcott : Ruins of a Great House.
UNIT – III : 8. Soyinka : The Road
9. Ten Dulkar : Silence the court is in
UNIT – IV : 10. Achebe : The Novelist as a Teacher
11. Katherine Mansfield : Short stories – Bliss, Prelude, Picture
UNIT – V : 12. Achebe : Things Fall Apart
MAJOR PAPER – VII – AMERICAN LITERATURE
UNIT – I : 1. Thoreau : Walden
UNIT – II : 2. Whitman : When Lilacs Last
3. Poe : The Raven
4. Dickinson : Because I Could not Stop for Death.
UNIT – III : 5. Frost : Two Tramps in a Mud Time
6. Sylvia Plath : Daddy & Mirror
7. Wallace Stevens : The Emperor of lee Cream.
UNIT – IV : 8. Miller : Death of a Salesman
9. Martin Luther King : I Had a Dream
UNIT – V 10. Hawthrone : The Searlet Letter
11. Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea.
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APPLIED PAPER – I – JOURNALISM
UNIT – I : Definition – Role of Journalism – Ethics – Press Laws – Press
Council
UNIT – II : News – Definition – Kinds – Elements – Sources.
UNIT – III : Reporting – Quality of Reporters – Kinds of Reporters – Gathering
Information – Kinds of Reporting with reference to Court, Cerime,
Election, Sports etc. – Investigative Reporting – Free Lancing.
UNIT – IV : Language of Journalism – style – Qualities of a writer – Writing a
New Story – Writing Opinion Piece – Writing Reviews –
Newspaper and Magazine writing – Leads Headlines.
UNIT – V : Editing – Role of Different Editors.
References:
1. [Link] : Mass Communication and Journalism (Allied)
2. Ramachandra Rao : Quest for News (Macmillan)
3. Pathanjali Sethi : Professional Journalism (Longman)
4. [Link] : The ABC of Mass Media (Blackie & Sons)
5. [Link] : Journalism in India (Sterling Publishers)
6. [Link] : Professional Journalism (Vikas Publishing House)
APPLIED PAPER – II – ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
UNIT – I : Issues involved in the Teaching of English – Curriculum – Syllabus
– Course – Methods – Strategies – Techniques.
Teaching and Learning – Knowledge Vs Skill – Methods for larger
classes.
UNIT – II : Teaching Reading and Writing Skills – Teaching of Composition.
UNIT – III : Teaching of Prose & Poetry.
UNIT – IV : Teaching of Grammar – Teaching of Vocabulary.
UNIT – V : Evaluation – Testing – Characteristics – Types of Questions.
References:
1. Bright, Mc Cregor : Teaching English as a Second Language (Longman)
2. Ghost, Sastri, Das : Introduction to Language Leaching CIEFL (OPP)
3. Howatt : The History of Language Teaching.
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