ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
Paragraph- 5 Marks
Either or Pattern
Essay- 10 Marks
I st Year, Semester I: Paper I
UNIT
MODULE
1
History of English
literature †
Old English and Middle English Periods
Philology
history and development of the English language
(Scandinavian, Latin, Greek, French influences, native
resources, other influences)
3
Literary forms
and terms ‡
ballad, epic, romance, lyric, ode, elegy, pastoral elegy,
sonnet, rhyme, metre, mystery/miracle play, morality
play, metaphysical conceit
4
Poetry
John Donne: ‘Death, Be not proud’
5
Prose
Bacon: ‘Of Studies'
2
TOPIC
Internals: 25 Marks
MARKS
Two
Essays
20
Marks
Four
Paras
20
Marks
Three
Paras
15
Marks
One
Essay
10
Marks
One
Essay
10
Marks
Total Marks
100
Prescribed Textbook: Headway (Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd)
Recommended reference books
†
1. A History of English Literature by A. Chowdhury and R. Goswami (Published by
Orient BlackSwan)
2. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova)
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by
Kessinger)
‡
1. A Companion to Literary Forms by Padmaja Ashok (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by MH Abrams (Published by Cengage)
3. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
(Published by Penguin)
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
I st Year, Semester II: Paper II
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
History of English
literature †
Renaissance (Elizabethan & Jacobean/15th & 16th c.)
2
Literary forms
and terms ‡
simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration,
apostrophe, hyperbole, allegory, allusion, anticlimax,
irony, blank verse, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy,
chronicle play, masque, comedy of humours, farce
3
Drama *
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
4
Poetry I
Marvell: ' Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard
5
Poetry II
Milton: extract from Paradise Lost Book IX
(Fall or Adam and Eve)
1
Internals: 25 Marks
Total Marks
MARKS
Two
Essays
20
Three
Paras
15
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
100
Prescribed Textbook : Headway (Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd)
Recommended reference books
†
1. A History of English Literature by A. Chowdhury and R. Goswami (Published by
Orient BlackSwan)
2. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova)
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by
Kessinger)
‡
1. A Companion to Literary Forms by Padmaja Ashok (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by MH Abrams (Published by Cengage)
3.
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
(Published by Penguin)
4.
Twelfth Night: The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
II nd Year , Semester III: Paper III
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
History of English
literature †
Restoration & Augustan periods (17th & 18th c.)
2
Literary forms
and terms ‡
satire, mock-epic, heroic couplet, epistle, heroic
tragedy, comedy of manners, genteel comedy,
sentimental comedy, periodical essay, picaresque
novel, epistolary novel
3
Poetry
Pope: extracts from The Rape of the Lock (Canto 1)
4
Prose *
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
5
Drama *
Congreve: The Way of the World
1
Internals: 25 Marks
MARKS
Two
Essays
20
Three
Paras
15
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
Total Marks
100
Prescribed Textbook : Frontiers (Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd)
Recommended reference books:
†
1. A History of English Literature by A. Chowdhury and R. Goswami (Published by
Orient BlackSwan)
2. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova)
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by
Kessinger)
‡
1. A Companion to Literary Forms by Padmaja Ashok (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by MH Abrams (Published by Cengage)
3. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
(Published by Penguin)
*
1. Robinson Crusoe: Critical Editions series edited by Pramod K. Nayar (Published by
EFL University and Orient BlackSwan)
2. The Way of the World edited by Shrishendu Chakrabarti and Nissim Ezekiel
(Published by Orient BlackSwan)
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
II nd Year, Semester IV: Paper IV
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
MARKS
Two
Essays
20
History of English
literature †
Romantic and Victorian periods
2
Literary forms
and terms ‡
biography, autobiography, melodrama, historical
novel, sentimental novel, gothic novel, regional
novel, flat character, round character, protagonist,
antagonist
3
Poetry I
Keats: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
4
Prose
Austen: Pride and Prejudice
5
Poetry II
Browning: ‘How do I love thee?’
1
Internals: 25 Marks
Three
Paras
15
One
Essay
10
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
Total Marks 100
Prescribed Textbook : Frontiers (Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd)
Recommended reference books
†
1. A History of English Literature by A. Chowdhury and R. Goswami (Published by
Orient BlackSwan)
2. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova)
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by
Kessinger)
‡
1. A Companion to Literary Forms by Padmaja Ashok (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by MH Abrams (Published by Cengage)
3. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
(Published by Penguin)
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
III rd Year, Semester V: Paper V
UNIT
1
2
MODULE
TOPIC
MARKS
Two
Essays
20
History of English
literature †
Literature in English in the 20th century
Literary forms
and terms ‡
free verse, problem play, well-made play, absurd
drama, kitchen-sink drama, social novel, stream of
consciousness novel, bildungsroman, point of view,
setting
3
Poetry
Phillip Lawrkin: Church Going
4
Prose
Orwell: ‘Shooting An Elephant’
5
Drama *
Shaw: Pygmalion
Internals: 25 Marks
Three
Paras
15
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
Two
Essays
10
Total Marks
100
Prescribed Textbook:
Crimson and Gold: A Textbook of Literature (Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd)
Recommended reference books
†
1. A History of English Literature by A. Chowdhury and R. Goswami (Published by
Orient BlackSwan)
2. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova)
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by
Kessinger)
‡
1. A Companion to Literary Forms by Padmaja Ashok (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by MH Abrams (Published by Cengage)
3. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
(Published by Penguin)
*
1. Pygmalion (Revised A.C. Ward series) with notes by Bernadine Joseph (Published
by Orient BlackSwan)
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
III rd Year, Semester V: Paper VI
UNIT
1
2
MODULE
TOPIC
MARKS
Two
Essays
20
History of English
literature †
English literature from America and the
Commonwealth
Literary forms
and terms ‡
biographical criticism, historical criticism,
psychoanalytic criticism, sociological criticism,
Marxist criticism, feminist criticism, archetypal
criticism, postcolonial criticism
3
Poetry
T.S.Eliot: Love song of J.Alfred Prufrock
4
Prose
Woolf: extract from A Room of One’s Own
5
Drama *
T.Williams: A Street Car Named Desire
Internals: 25 Marks
Total Marks
Three
Paras
15
One
Essay
10
Two
Essays
20
Two
Essays
10
100
Prescribed Textbook:
Crimson and Gold: A Textbook of Literature (Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd)
Recommended reference books:
†
1. A History of English Literature by A. Chowdhury and R. Goswami (Published by
Orient BlackSwan)
2. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova)
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by
Kessinger)
‡
1. A Companion to Literary Forms by Padmaja Ashok (Published by Orient
BlackSwan)
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by MH Abrams (Published by Cengage)
3. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
(Published by Penguin)
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
III rd Year, Semester VI: Paper VII (American literature)
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
1
Poetry
(1) Frost: ‘Road not taken’; (2) Hughes: ‘I, Too’; (3) Plath:
‘Barren Woman’
2
Drama
Miller: The Death of a Salesman
3
Prose I
Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4
Prose II
Hawthorne: ‘The Great Carbuncle’
5
Short Story
E.A. Poe: The Tell Tale Heart
Internals: 25 Marks
Total Marks
MARKS
Three
Paras
15
Two
Essays
20
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
100
III rd Year, Semester VI: Paper VIII (American literature)
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
1
Poetry
(1) Dickinson: ‘Success is Counted Sweetest’; (2) Hughes: ‘A
Dream Deferred’; (3) Angelou: ‘Phenomenal Woman’
2
Drama
O’Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night
3
Prose I
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
4
Prose II
Martin Luther King: ‘I have a Dream’
5
Short Story
O.Henry: After Twenty Years
Internals: 25 Marks
Total Marks
MARKS
Three
Paras
15
Two
Essays
20
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
100
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
Recommended reference books:
1. Death of a Salesman by A. Miller (Published by Pearson)
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Published by Dover)
III rd Year, Semester VI: Paper VII (Indian writing in English/translation)
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
1
Poetry
(1) Derozio: ‘The Harp of India’; (2) Naidu: ‘In the Bazaars of
Hyderabad’; (3) Ramanujan: ‘A River’
2
Drama
Dattani: Dance Like a Man
3
Prose I
R.K Narayan: The Guide
4
Prose II
Premchand: ‘The Child’
5
Short Story
Sudha Murthy: How I taught my Grand Mother to Read
Internals: 25 Marks
Total Marks
MARKS
Three
Paras
15
Two
Essays
20
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
100
ANDHRA PRADESH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS (REVISED)
B.A Special English
Part II (1st, 2nd, and 3rd years)  Syllabus Effective from 2015–16
III rd Year, Semester VI: Paper VIII (Indian writing in English/translation)
UNIT
MODULE
TOPIC
1
Poetry
(1) Kamala Das:' An Introduction’; (2) Kolatkar: ‘An Old
Woman’; (3) Chitre: ‘Felling of the Banyan Tree’
2
Drama
Ramanathan: Mahadevbhai
3
Prose I
Mulk Raj Anand: The Untouchable
4
Prose II
Vandana Shiva: ‘Everything I need to Know I learned in the
forest’
5
Short Story
Chitra Banerji Divakaruni: Mrs. Datta writes a Letter
Internals: 25 Marks
Total Marks
MARKS
Three
Paras
15
Two
Essays
20
Two
Essays
20
One
Essay
10
One
Essay
10
100
Recommended reference books:
1. Lights On: Volume One edited by Lakshmi Chandra (Published by Orient BlackSwan)
2. The Guide: A Novel by R.K. Narayan (Published by Penguin Classics)
3. Lights On: Volume Two edited by Lakshmi Chandra (Published by Orient BlackSwan)
4. Mulk Raj Anand- The Untouchable