Paavai Guide for B.A., English British Literature- V

SYLLABUS

THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR OF ARTS

B.A. ENGLISH DEGREE COURSE

CBCS PATTERN

(With effect from 2017-2018)

SEMESTER VI

PAPER - 14 - BRITISH LITERATURE V

Objectives:

·       To give the students knowledge of the literary accomplishments and an exposure to twentieth century writers

·       To familiarize them with the writers of the modern era

UNIT I: POETRY (Detailed Study)

W. B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Philip Larkin: Church Going

Wilfred Owen: Insensibility

UNIT II: PROSE (Detailed Study)

George Orwell: Why I Write

D.H. Lawrence: Why the Novel Matters

UNIT III: DRAMA (Detailed Study)

T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

UNIT IV: POETRY (Non-Detailed Study)

Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill

W. H. Davis: Leisure

UNIT V

DRAMA

J.M. Synge: Riders to the Sea

FICTION

E. M. Foster: A Passage to India

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Books for Study and Reference

David, Green. The Winged Word. London: Macmillan, 1974

Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India.OUP, 1998

Sherry, Vincent, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War CUP, 2005

Mukherjee, Sipra. Literary Contexts: Modern English Literature 1890-1960. Orient BlackSwan, 2016

Web Resources

Literary Texts – Prose, Poetry and Fiction:

<http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/works.html>

George Orwell – Why I write –Text:

<http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw>

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