PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

(A CENTRAL UNIVERSITY)

B.A. ENGLISH
(Choice Based Credit System)

Syllabus

2017-18 onwards
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PONDICHERRY
UNIVERITY
SYLLABUS -
CBCS
Department of English

B.A. ENGLISH

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 Syllabus-2017

Semester-1
DSC-1A ENGL 111 Indian Writing in English

Objectives: To introduce students to different genres of Indian writing in English.

Poetry:- UNIT- 1
1. Sri Aurobindo, ‘The Tiger and the Deer’
2. Sarojini Naidu, ‘Palanquin Bearers’
3. Nissim Ezekiel, ‘Enterprise’
4. Kamala Das, ‘ The Old Play House’
5. Shiv. K.Kumar, ‘Indian Women’

UNIT – 3: Prose –
1. Swami Vivekananda, ‘Work and its Secret’
2. Dr.Abdul Kalam, “My Visions for India”

UNIT-4: Drama: ManjulaPadmanabhan, Harvest

UNIT-5: Short Stories : -R.K.Narayan – ‘An Astrologer’s Day’

Sudha Murthy, ‘Humility in Sahyadri Hills’

DSC-2 A: ENGL 112 Prose

Objectives: To Introduce British prose writings of variousperiods.

UNIT-1 Francis Bacon, Of Studies’
UNIT-2 Oliver Goldsmith, ‘Man in Black’
Joseph Addison, “Sir Roger at Church’

UNIT-3 Charles Lamb, ‘Dream Children’

William Hazlitt,“On Reading Old Books”
UNIT-4 Russell, ‘An Ideal Individual’
G.K. Chesterton, ‘Advantages of Having One Leg’

UNIT-5 Doris Lessing, ‘The Golden Book’

Orwell, ‘Sporting Spirit’

AECC-1: PADM 113 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

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 Semester-2

DSC-1B: ENGL 121 Poetry

Objectives: To introduce students to the poetic thought down the ages.

Selections from the ‘The Winged Word (Ed. David Greene, Macmillan)

UNIT-1 1.William Shakespeare, Sonnet116 ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’
2. John Donne, ‘The Sun Rising’
3. John Milton, ‘How Soon Hath Time’

UNIT-2 4. John Dryden, ‘A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day’

5. William Blake, ‘Chimney Sweeper’

UNIT-3 6. William Wordsworth, ‘On Westminster Bridge’

7. S.T.Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’
8, P.B.Shelley, ‘Ode to the Sky Lark’
9. John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

UNIT-410. Robert Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’

11. Lord Tennyson, ‘Lotus Eaters’

UNIT-5 12.W. B. Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’

13. Ted Hughes, Thought Fox’
14. W.H. Auden, ‘Musee De Beaux Arts’

DSC-2B ENGL 122 Fiction

Objectives: To familiarize students with some master pieces of British Fiction.

UNIT 1:Introducing Fiction
UNIT 2: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
UNIT-3: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
UNIT 4: Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol
UNIT5:Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

AECC- 2:- ENVS123 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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Semester-3

DSC-1C: ENGL 231 History of English Literature

Objective: To facilitate an appreciation of literature by providing a brief survey of British literature

through ages and to introduce students to the best works of each age
UNIT-1: Elizabethan Age.
UNIT-2: Augustan Age.
UNIT-3: Romantic Age.
UNIT-4: Victorian Age
UNIT-5: Modern Age
Ref :1. History of English Literature by E.Albert

2. History of English Literatureby Hudson.

DSC-2C: ENGL 232 English Language and Linguistics

Objective: To introduce students to the sound system and the structure of English Language.

UNIT-1: Introduction
UNIT-2: Phonetics
UNIT-3: Phonology
UNIT-4: Morphology
UNIT-5: Syntax
A Text book of English Phonetics and Structure for Indian Students by V.Shyamala
(Sharath Ganga Publishers, Trivandrum)

SEC-1: ENGL 233 Communication Skills

Objective: To familiarize the students with the patterns of English Language.
UNIT-1: To impart speaking skills.
Effective communication / miscommunication
The secrets of good conversation
UNIT-2: Talking to strangers
Talking to familiar people
UNIT-3: Telephone conversation
Interviews
UNIT-4: Group Discussion
UNIT-5: Public Speech - Compering
Ref: Grand Taylor- English Conversation Practice. Tata McGraw Hill,

RadhakrishnaPillai, G.K Rajeevan- Spoken Englishfor You, Emerald Publishers.

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DSC-1D ENGL 241 British Drama

Objectives: To introduce students to British Drama,

UNIT 1: Introducing Drama - Origin and development of British Drama

UNIT 2: Marlowe,Doctor Faustus
UNIT-3: Oscar Wilde,The Importance of Being Earnest.
UNIT-4: T.S. Eliot,Murder in the Cathedral
UNIT 5: Osborn, Look Back in Anger

DSC-2D ENGL 242 Literary Forms

Objectives: To Introduce students to various types of Drama and Literary Terms.

UNIT – 1: Literary Terms

UNIT – 2: Poetry

UNIT – 3: Prose

UNIT – 4: Drama

UNIT – 5: Fiction

Ref: - 1.English Literary Forms: A Background to the Study of English Literature by Prasad

2. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary terms.

SEC -2 ENGL 243 Writing Skills

Objectives: To impart writing skills.To provide exposure to various types of written

communication.

UNIT -1: Formal and Business communication

UNIT -2: Note Making.
UNIT -3: Abstract
UNIT -4: Report writing (Agenda, Minutes & Reports)
UNIT-5: Paragraph & Digital communication
Ref: Business English, Pearson, 2008

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Semester -5

SEC-3: ENGL 351 ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

UNIT-1: Basics of English
Spotting Errors
UNIT-2: Sentence Completion
UNIT-3: Reading comprehension
Précis Writing
UNIT-4 Foreign Expressions
Idioms and Phrases
UNIT-5 Letter Writing
Writing Reports
General Essays
Ref: 1. F T Wood:A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students. (Macmillan)
2. R.P.Bhatnagar and RajulBhargava: English for Competitive
Examinations(Macmillan)

*DSE-1A, 2A, 3A
ENGL 352 LITERARY CRITICISM
Objective: To introduce students to the evolution of critical thoughts.
UNIT -1: Classical – Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
UNIT-2: Dr. Johnson – Preface to Shakespeare,
UNIT-3: Matthew Arnold -“The Study of Poetry”.
UNIT-4: I. A. Richards - “Four Kinds of Meaning”
UNIT-5: T S Eliot:“Tradition and Individual Talent”
Ref: M.S Nagarajan, English Literary criticism and theory: An Introductory History, 2006.

ENGL 353 Shakespeare

Objective: To introduce students to the works of Shakespeare
UNIT -1: Introduction to Shakespeare
UNIT -2: Macbeth -
UNIT-3: Julius Caesar
UNIT – 4: As You Like it.
UNIT-5: Measure for Measure

ENGL 354 American Literature

Objective: To give an overview ofAmerican writings.
PROSE:
UNIT-1 1.Emerson – ‘Self Reliance’
POETRY
UNIT-2 1. Walt Whitman – “O Captain My Captain”
2. Emily Dickinson – “Success is counted sweetest”
3. Robert Frost – “Birches”
4.Sylvia Plath – “Lady Lazarus”
5. Maya Angelou – “When the Caged Bird sings”
DRAMA
UNIT-3 Eugene O’neil – Hairy Ape
FICTION
UNIT-4 Hemingway – Old Man and the Sea
UNIT-5 Alice Walker –In search of My Mother’s Garden

ENGL 355 Post-Colonial Literature

Objectives: To introduce the literature of the marginalized and the subaltern.
UNIT-1 1.Chapter 1 in New Literatures in English:Cultural Nationalism in a Changing Worldby
BruceKing.
2. Introduction in EmpireWrites Back by Bill Ashcroft,Garreth Griffith and Helen
Tiffins, Routledge, London, 2003.
POETRY
UNIT-2: 1.Atwood – ‘Photograph of me’.
2. Emily Liang – ‘United We Stand’.
3. A.D. Hope – ‘Australia’
4. Allen Curnow –‘House and Land’
DRAMA
UNIT-3 Douglas Stewart – Ned Kelly
FICTION
UNIT-4 ChimamandaAdichi – Purple Hibiscus
SHORT STORY
UNIT-5 Chinua Achebe –‘Marriage is a Private Affair’

ENGL 356 English for Mass Media

1. James Glen Stovall – Writing for the Mass Media, Pearson, 1985.
2. Srivastava-News reporting and Editing, Sterling publishers, 2013.
ENGL 357 Soft Skills
GE-1:
UNIT-1 Team work
UNIT-2 Emotional Intelligence
UNIT-3 Adaptability
UNIT-4 Leadership
UNIT-5 Problem Solving
Ref: -Teaching English-Approaches, methods and Techniques. – Krishnaswamy andLalitha
Krishnaswamy, Macmillan, 2005

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 Semester-6

SEC – 4:
ENGL 361 Translation Studies

Objective: To acquaint the students with theories of Translation.

UNIT-1 Introduction to Translation Theories
UNIT-2 History of Translation
UNIT-3 Key concepts in Translation Studies
UNIT-4 Problems of Translation
UNIT-5 Recent Translation Theories
Ref: A Handbook of Translation Studies, B. K. Das, Atlantic, 2008.

*DSE– 1B, 2B, 3B:

ENGL 362 Literature in Translation

Objective: To introduce students to the art of Translation through works of Literature

To lead them to National and Global Literature through Translation

UNIT-1 A.K.Ramanujan – “Hymns for the Drowning”

V.V.S.Iyer– “Thirukkural“
Pablo Neruda – “Ode to Hope”
Octavia Paz –“No More Clichés”
UNIT-2 Pushkin –“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
UNIT-3 Jayamohan – “The Elephant Doctor“
UNIT-4 ThagazhiSivasankaramPillai – Chemeen
UNIT-5 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry- The Little Prince
Herman Hesse – Siddhartha

ENGL 363 Contemporary Literary Theories

UNIT-1 Marxism
Subaltern Studies
UNIT-2 Post Colonialism
UNIT-3 Post Modernism
UNIT-4 Eco-criticism
UNIT-5 Gender Studies
Ref: - Peter Barry – ‘Beginning Theory’ (Latest Edition)
Bruce King, New National and Post-Colonial Literature; Oxford University Press,
1996. (Chapter – 1: New Centres of Consciousness: New, Post-colonial, and
International English Literature - Bruce King)

ENGL 364 Advanced English Grammar and Usage

Text:Advanced English Grammar by Raymond Murphy (O U P)

 ENGL365 Women Writing
POETRY
UNIT-1 Elizabeth Bishop- ‘I am in Need of Music’
HalinaPoswiatowska- ‘It’s we who gave birth…’
Adrienne Rich – ‘Diving into the Wreck’
GaurieDesponde – ‘Female of the Species’

PROSE : UNIT-2 Leila Seth - Talking of Justice (Chapter on women’s rights)

Chandra Talpade – “Under Western Eye”

SHORT STORYUNIT-3 Mahaswetha Devi –Rudali

FICTION UNIT-4 MonicaAli -The Brick Lane

UNIT-5 – Lights and Shadows(Collection of Short stories)

ENGL 366 Green Literature

Objective: To create Environmental Consciousness through a study of Literature.

POETRY UNIT-1 William Shakespeare – “Sonnet 20”

John Keats – ‘Bright Star, Would I Were’

Wallace Stevens-‘The Snow Man’

Robert Frost – ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

Unit 2Rabindranath Tagore – ‘She Dwelt on the Hill side’

Sarojini Naidu – ‘Autumn Song’

PROSE UNIT-3Thoreau –‘Where I lived and what I lived for’

DRAMA UNIT-4: Chekhov – The Cherry Orchard

FICTION UNIT 5IndraSinha -Animal’s People

GE-2 ENGL 367 Indian Culture Through Literature

Objective: To Introduce the students to notions of Culture and familiarize them with the history
of Indian Culture through Literature.

Prose: UNIT-1 Sri Aurobindo-‘The Renaissance in India’

A.K Ramanujan- ‘Where Mirrors are Windows’

Michel Danino- ‘Effects of Colonisation’

Poetry: UNIT-2 Swami Vivekananda-“Angel Unawares”

Rabindranath Tagore –“Freedom”

Toru Dutt –“Lakshman”

Drama UNIT-3 GirishKarnad - Nagamandala

Fiction UNIT-4 NeelaPadmanaban- Generations

Short stories UNIT-5 DevduttPattanaik -Indian Mythology

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SCHEME FOR CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM IN
B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE) PROGRAMME

To be implemented from 2017-2018 onwards

CREDITS ALLOTED
COURSE SUBJECT CODE TITLE OF THE PAPER Credit/lec TUTORIAL/ LAB
.hrs
SEMESTER – I 20 CREDITS
LBEN / LHIN / LMAL / Bengali / Hindi/Malayalam / Sanskrit/
MIL -I 04 02
LSAN/ LTAM/LTEL 111 Tamil/ Telugu
ENGLISH-I ENGL 112 English – I 04 02
DSC-1 A ENGL 111 Indian Writing in English 04 02
DSC-2 A ENGL 112 Prose 04 02
AECC-1 PADM 113 Public Administration 02
SEMESTER-II 20 CREDITS
LBEN / LHIN / LMAL / Bengali / Hindi/Malayalam / Sanskrit/
MIL -2 04 02
LSAN/ LTAM/LTEL 121 Tamil/ Telugu
ENGLISH-2 ENGL 122 English – II 04 02
DSC-1B ENGL 121 Poetry 04 02
DSC-2B ENGL 122 Fiction 04 02
AECC-2 ENVS 123 Environmental Studies 02
SEMESTER-III 20 CREDITS
LBEN / LHIN / LMAL / Bengali / Hindi/Malayalam / Sanskrit/
MIL -3 04 02
LSAN/ LTAM/LTEL 231 Tamil/ Telugu
ENGLISH-3 ENGL 232 English - III 04 02
DSC-1C ENGL 231 History of English Literature 04 02
DSC-2C ENGL 232 English Language and Linguistics 04 02
SEC-1 ENGL 233 Communication Skills 04 02
SEMESTER-IV 20 CREDITS
LBEN / LHIN / LMAL / Bengali / Hindi/Malayalam / Sanskrit/
MIL -4 04 02
LSAN/ LTAM/LTEL 241 Tamil/ Telugu
ENGLISH-4 ENGL 242 English - IV 04 02
DSC-1D ENGL 241 British Drama 04 02
DSC-2D ENGL 242 Literary Forms 04 02
SEC -2 ENGL 243 Writing Skills 03 02
SEMESTER-V 20 CREDITS
SEC - 3 ENGL 351 English for Competitive Examinations 04 02
ENGL 352 Literary Criticism 04 01
*DSE-1A ENGL 353 Shakespeare 04 01
*DSE-2A ENGL 354 American Literature 04 01
*DSE-3A ENGL 355 New Literatures in English 04 01
ENGL 356 English for Mass Media 04 01
GE-1 ENGL 357 Soft Skills 04 02
SEMESTER-V I 20 CREDITS
SEC - 4 ENGL 361 Translation Studies 04 02
ENGL 362 Literature in Translation 05 01
*DSE-1B ENGL 363 Contemporary Literary Theories 04 02
*DSE-2B ENGL 364 Advanced English Grammar 04 02
*DSE-3B ENGL 365 Women Writing 04 02
ENGL 366 Green Literature 04 02
GE-2 ENGL 367 Indian Culture Through Literature 04 02