MADURAI
KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY
(University
with Potential for Excellence)
B.A.
English Literature - Semester
Revised
Syllabus for Part III English/Choice Based Credit System)
(For
those students who join B.A., Branch XII (b) English Literature from June 2018 and
afterwards)
Objectives:
1. To enable students to gain presidency in the use
of English language.
2. To expose them to classics in English literature.
3. To enable them gain knowledge of the social and
literary history of England, the literary genres, the literary movements, and
the various schools of thought in literary criticism.
4. To develop their vocabulary and English language
skills so as to enable them perform well in competitive examinations, like
Public Service Commission Examination, TOEFL & GRE.
5. To expose them face challenges in mass media.
6. To help the students to develop career-oriented
skills through elective courses.
7. To develop the skills the students really like to
develop through choice based credit system.
8. To enable the students through skill based
elective courses and non-major elective subjects to have a good deal of freedom
and to be employable immediately on completion of their degree programme.
V
SEMESTER
CORE
PAPER 8
DRAMA
Objective:
To expose the students to the various socio-economic
and political scenario of the world through the study of modem drama of
different continent and also to appreciate the literature.
UNIT – I
Girish Karnad - The Dreams of Tipu Sultan
UNIT – II
Asif Currimbhoy - Goa
UNIT – III
Osborne - Look Back in Anger
UNIT – IV
Eugene O’Neill - Mourning becomes Electra
UNIT – V
Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
V
SEMESTER
CORE
PAPER — 9
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
Objectives:
1. l. To help learners get acquainted with the
richness of American literature through representative works of poets,
essayists and novelists.
2. To introduce learners to important aspects in
various genres of American literature
UNIT – I PROSE
Henry David Thoreau - The Battle of Ants
Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address
UNIT – II POETRY
West Running Brook - Robert Frost
On the Beach at Night alone - Walt Whitman
Happiness - Carl Sandburg
I Felt a Funeral - Emily Dickinson
Brahma - Emerson
Book recommended:
Prose & Poetry — Mainspring Publishers, Chennai
UNIT – III SHORT STORIES
The little Match girl - Hans Christian Anderson
An Angel in disguise - S. Arthur
UNIT – IV DRAMA
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
UNIT – V FICTION
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Books recommended:
Anuchitra Publications, Chennai
V
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT — 10
NEW
LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Objectives:
1. l. To introduce students of English to the great
body of contemporary world literature beyond the Western literature.
2. To expose them to the ideas of Colonialism and
Post-colonialism and their effects through literature.
3. To develop their awareness about
multi-culturalism and contemporary global politics.
4. To administer a student centric, skill based
curriculum in literature that involves participatory learning.
UNIT – I PROSE
Decolonising the Mind - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain - Langston
Hughes
UNIT – II POETRY
A far cry from Africa - Derek Walcott
Siren Song - Margaret Atwood
Woman to Man - Judith Wright
Words - Edwin Thamboo
UNIT – III SHORT STORIES
The Wild Buffalo - Piyaseeli Wijemanne
How we fled when I was a girl - Molly Nungarrayi
Dear Life - Alice Munro
The Man to send rain clouds - Leslie Marmon Silko
UNIT – IV DRAMA
Kongi’s Harvest - Wole Soyinka
UNIT – V POST COLONIALISM IN PRACTICE
Translation:
Translate modern Tamil
English poems
Folk songs
Short stories
Essays into English/Tamil
Study the reasons for difficulties in the process
Comparative study:
Identify a story or poem similar to the ones in
Tamil literature and study the similarities and reasons behind such similarities.
Report:
Prepare expository essays
Short reports on your local festival
Special sport
Custom
Food
Arts
Disappearing nature (plants, insects, fish, etc)
Customs
Tradition
Culture
Travel experience, etc.
Books recommended:
1. ‘Wordscapes: An Anthology of New Literatures in
English’, Ed. S. Annapoorni, Aparna Srinivas, Mainspring Publishers, Chennai
2016.
2. Colonial & Post-colonial Literature, Elleke
Boehmer, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008, Price Rs. 195/-.
3. ‘Ch. 24 Post colonialism, Ch.25 Race, nation, and
Ethnicity, an Oxford Guide, Literary Theory and Criticism’, Ed. Patricia Waugh,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2007.
4. Kongi’s Harvest, Wole Soyinka.
V
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT — 11
WOMEN’S
WRITING IN ENGLISH
Objectives:
1. To sensitize students of both genders about
issues surrounding Women’s life
2. To create awareness about feminism as a
socio-political ideal through literature.
3. To help students understand human rights from
gender point of view and develop empathy towards Women’s emotional needs.
4. To help promote gender sensitivity and equality
among student
UNIT – I PROSE
Introduction to the Second Sex - Simone De Beauvoir
UNIT – II POETRY
Lot’s Wife - Kristine Beatty
Draupati - Supata Bhattacharya
Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
Combing - Gladys Cardiff
UNIT – III FICTION
Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
UNIT – IV DRAMA
Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
UNIT – V NON-FICTION-GENDER AND SOCIETY
Biography: Study the successful life and works of
personalities like Anne Frank, Indra Nooyi, Kalpana Chawla, boxer Mary Korn,
first Woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi, Wangari Mathaai (A Kenyan environmentalist
who won Nobel for peace for afforestation), Malala, etc. Third/transgender
& their problems: Successful transgender, persons in Tamil Nadu.
Right & Violations:
Gender rights in Universal Declaration of Human
rights, Indian Constitution, female foeticide & infanticide, rape, domestic
violence, public violence against women & third gender, eve teasing, dowry,
sexual harassment at work & public places, dowry problem, etc.
Portrayal of women and transgender in media:
Advertisements, cinema, TV, soaps, etc.
Books recommended:
1. l. Shifting Perceptions: An Anthology of Women’s
Writings’ — Ed. S. Annapoorni, V. Bharathi Harishankar, Mainspring Publishers,
Chennai 20l6,.Price Rs. 155/ —
2. Feminist Criticism: Beginning Theory: An
introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory’. Peter Barry. Mancheter University
Press, Chennai 2006, Price 295/-.
3. Ch.23 ‘Feminisms’, Ch. 32’Mixing Memory and
Desire: Psychoanalysis, and trauma theory’ & Ch. 33 Theories of Gaze’, An
Oxford Guide: Literary Theory and Criticm, Ed. Patricia Waugh, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi 2007, Price 345/ -.
V
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT - 12
JOURNALISM
AND MASS COMMUNICATION
Objectives:
1. l. To introduce the students to one of the most
applicable areas of English language and literature studies.
2. To stimulate their interest in Journalism and
Mass Communication for higher studies and / or for a career
3. To develop transferable skills in writing which
would be useful for employment.
4. To administer a student centric curriculum that
involves participatory learning
UNIT – I PRINCIPLES OF JOURNALISM
Introduction
Inside a Newspaper
What is News?
The Reporter
The Sub-Editor
Language and Style
UNIT – II PRINCIPLES OF MASS COMMUNICATION
Advertisements
Websites/blogs
Social media, film & documentation
UNIT – III PRINCIPLES OF WRITING
Note making
Pre-writing
Different ways of presenting information
Maps, tables, charts, expository essays
UNIT – IV JOURNALISTIC WRITING
Articles
Reports
Advertisements
Books and film reviews
Social media
Web content
UNIT – V MASS COMMUNICATION PROJECTS
Prepare a 5 page report on any one of the following:
Pulitzer Prize
Man Booker Prize 3
Nobel for Literature
Addison & Steele and birth of journalism with
images, tables, charts, diagrams, where necessary
(Teachers may choose more topics)
Read English / Tamil newspapers and magazines and
analyse the various sections, including the EDITORIAL, and discuss in the class.
Collect different advertisements from newspapers,
magazines and TV and discuss their l.
Appeal, 2. Effectiveness, 3. Reasons for your likes
or dislikes for them 4 Parts and Sections
Books recommended:
1. ‘Basic Journalism’ — Rangaswamy Parthasarathy Trinity
Press, Bengalureu 2016, Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 & 11, Price Rs.l58/-.
2. ‘Creative Writing’ — Board of Editors, Orient
Blackswan Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore 2014, Chapters 5, 6, 7, 9, l0 Price Rs.60/-
3. ‘Written Communication Skill in English’ — Sarah
Freeman, Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd,
4. Bangalore’Cambridge English for the Media’. Nick
Ceramella, Elizabeth Lee. CUP, New Delhi 2008. Price Rs.420/-.
ELECTIVE
SUBJECT - III
LITERARY
CRITICISM I
Objectives:
1. l. To introduce the students to the origin and
development of literary criticism.
2. To help them understand the critical evaluation
from ancient to the modern.
3. To make the students to demonstrate an ability to
grasp and synthesize ideas.
4. To enable the students the critical ability to
analytically evaluate literature.
UNIT – I
The contributions of Plato and Aristotle to literary
criticism
UNIT – II
The contributions of Horace, Quintilian, Longinus
and Dante to the development of literary criticism.
UNIT – III
The contributions of Elizabethan critics: Sir Philip
Sydney and Ben Johnson
UNIT – IV
The contributions of Neo-classicist, John Dryden,
Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope and Dr. Samuel Johnson
UNIT – V
The contributions of Romanticist: William Wordsworth
and ST Coleridge
Books recommended:
1. An Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism,
Anand B. Kulkarni and Ashok G. Published by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd,
Chennai.
2. An Introduction English Criticism by Prasad,
Trinity Press
VI
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT — 13
SHAKESPEARE
Objectives:
1. l. To help students get a bird’s eye view of the
Shakespearean canon
2. To expose the students to the types of
Shakespearean plays — Tragedy, comedy and
History…
3. To enable students gain knowledge of the
socio-political scenario as manifested in the plays
4. To sensitize the students on Shakespeare’s
contribution to the realm of English language
5. To help learners understand the evolution of
drama with special reference to the features of Shakespearean theatre
UNIT – I
The Tempest
UNIT – II
Richard II
UNIT – III
Macbeth
UNIT – IV
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
UNIT – V
General Shakespeare
Books recommended:
General Shakespeare, Anna Kurian, Orient Black Swan
Pvt. Ltd, Chennai
VI
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT - 14
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE TEACHING
Objectives:
To expose learners to various approaches and
methods, aspects and strategies of teaching English
1. To help learners understand the essential
components and concepts of language teaching
UNIT – I
Introduction Strategies:
1. Lesson Plan Preparation
2. Teaching / Learning material preparation
UNIT – II
The Teaching of Prose, Composition and extensive
reader
UNIT – III
The Teaching of reading and writing and the Teaching
of listening and speaking
UNIT – IV
Activities in English Teaching:
Work sheets preparation
Question paper setting
Teaching Practice
UNIT – V
a) Equipment and sources of English Room: Charts,
flash cards, PPTS
b) Audio Visual Aids: Using Mobile phones &
Speakers
Books recommended:
1. The Teaching of English: Dr. S. Vincent
2. Approaches and methods in Language Teaching: A
Description and Analysis Cambridge University Press.
3. Baruah. T. C. The English Teacher’s Handbook,
Sterling Publishers, 1991 New Delhi
V
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT — 15
TRANSLATION
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Objectives:
1. To introduce translation as a kind of genre to
enable the students appreciate the total essence of literature with aesthetic
pleasure.
2. To enable the student to translate any given
passage or stanza without any literary inhibition.
UNIT – I
Introduction to translation (Pl-9)
History of translation (P10-27)
UNIT – II
Kinds of translation (P.28-29)
Problem of translation
UNIT – III
The qualities of a translator (P.97-103)
Translator and the act of translating (P. 104-1 l 1)
UNIT – IV
Translation Theories — An introduction
Translation Theory in the Indian, Context
UNIT – V
Tirukkural English translations (first two chapters)
கடவுள்
வாà®´்த்து
வான்
சிறப்பு
Abridged Version of Shakespeare’s plays
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Books recommended:
1. Das Bijay Kumar, ‘A Handbook of Translation
Studies’, 2013 Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi
2. Lamb, Charles & Mary Lamb ‘Tales from
Shakespeare’.
VI
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT — 16
HOURS-3
CREDIT-3
I
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORIES
Objectives:
To make the students understand the different avenues
and perspectives in reaching the genre by
Way of various literary theories propounded by
leading creative writers of different ages.
To enable the learner appreciate the theories of
modern literature.
UNIT – I
Contemporary Theory and Structuralism Criticism
UNIT – II
Post Structuralism and Deconstruction
UNIT – III
Post Modernism
UNIT – IV
Post-Colonial Criticism
UNIT – V
Reader Response Criticism and Feminist Criticism
Cultural studies
Digital humanities
Books recommended:
1. M.S. Nagarajan: English Literary Criticism and
Theory — An Introductory History, Orient Blackswan.
2. Peter Barry: Beginning Theory : An Introduction
to Literary and Cultural Theory, Viva Books
VI
SEMESTER
CORE
SUBJECT — 17
ENGLISH
FOR EMPLOYMENT
Objectives:
By the end of the course the students would be aware
of the patterns of various competitive examinations and would improve the
skills needed for employment in various sectors.
Specific objectives:
The students will be aware of the competitive exams
that would enable them to make entry into jobs.
UNIT – I
SPOTTING ERRORS
1. Concord / Subject Verb agreement
2. Sentence splice / run-on sentence
3. Fragments
4. Misplaced / dangling modifiers
5. Rambling / Long sentences
UNIT – II
PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING
UNIT – III
VOCABULARY
1. Idiomatic Expressions
2. Synonyms
3. Antonyms
4. Homonyms, homophones
5. Portmanteau
6. Neologisms
UNIT – IV
SENTENCE FORMATION
1. Sentences with Jumbled Words
2. Passages with Jumbled sentences
3. Sentence Completion, Conversion (active, passive,
etc.)
UNIT – V
COMPREHENSION & COMPOSITION
1. Comprehension Cloze (reading comprehension)
2. Paragraph and Essay Writing
3. Resume Preparation
Books recommended:
1. Lewis, Norman. Word Power Made Easy. New Delhi:
GOYL Saab Publishers and Distributors- Millennium edition revised &
expanded, 2006.
2. Murphy, Raymond. Intermediate English Grammar.
New Delhi: Cambridge University Press- Second Edition, 1994.
3. Hashem, Abul & RPH Editorial Board .Gupta R.
General English For all Competitive Exams Ramesh Publishing House. ISBN
978-93-5012-834-3.
4. R. Gopalan,V. Rajagopalan & Roopkumar
Balasingh: General English for Competitive examinations McGraw-Hill Education.
India Pvt. Ltd. UP.2008
ELECTIVE
PAPER IV
LITERARY
CRITICISM II
Objectives:
1. To introduce the students to the origin and
development of Literary Criticism
2. To help them understand the critical evaluation
from ancient to the modern
3. To make the students to demonstrate an ability to
grasp and synthesize ideas
4. To enable the students the critical ability to
analytically evaluate literature
UNIT – I
Victorian Critics - Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater
UNIT – II
Modem Critics - T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards and F .R.
Leavis
UNIT – III
Moralistic approach
Biographical criticism
Textual and Formalistic criticism
UNIT – IV
New Criticism
Sociological criticism
Marxism
UNIT – V
Psychological criticism
Archetypal approach
Historical criticism
New Historicism
Books recommended:
An introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism,
Anand B Kulkarni and Ashok G published by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd, Chennai.
An Introduction to English Criticism by Prasad,
Trinity Press
Wilbur Scott: Five Approaches to Literary criticism.
