Wednesday 11 February 2015

SYLLABUS B.A. ENGLISH LIT.

II Semester 


Jacobean to Augustan Age 
(GMEN21)

Unit I

            Age of Milton and Dryden


Unit II

Poetry
            John Donne : A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
            George Herbert : The Collar
            John Milton : On His Blindness
            Henry Vaughan : The Retreat

Unit III
Prose 
            Swift : The Spider and Bee Episode from The Battle of Books

Unit IV
            John Dryden  - All For Love

Unit V
Fiction
            Daniel Defoe  - Robinson Crusoe



American Literature
(GMEN22)

Unit I
            Introduction to American Literature
               " The Rise of a National Literature" and an American Renaissance
                       (Chapter 3     from An Outline of American Literature. Peter B. High)
                       (Chapter 4 from An Outline of American Literature. Peter B. High)
Unit II
Poetry
            Edgar Allan Poe : The Raven
            Emily Dickinson : Arcturus is his other name
            Robert Frost : After Apple Picking
            Sylvia Plath : Lady Lazarus

Unit III
Prose and Short Stories
             V.K. Chari :Indian Thought in EMERSON, THOREAU and WHITMAN
            Allen Tate : The Man of Letters in the Modern World
            Hawthorne : Young Goodman Brown
            Mark Twain : Tom meets Becky

Unit IV
Drama 
            Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie

Unit V
Fiction 
            Earnest Hemmingway : Farewell to Arms



Communicative Grammar and Usage
(GAEN21)

Unit I 
            The sentence : Different Types
            The Structure of Sentences
            Transformation of Sentences

Unit II
            Tenses
            Auxiliary Verbs

Unit III
            Word Classes : Form Class
            Word Classes : Function Class

Unit IV 
            Concord 
            Linkers 
            Punctuation
            Letter Writing
            Messages through E-mail and Fax

Unit V 
            Report Writing
            Note Making
            Advertisements, Telegrams
            Notices, Agenda, Minutes
            Circulars
            Essay Writing
            Precis Writing 







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