APPENDIX – AE17
MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY
Tirunelveli-627012
Directorate of Distance and Continuing Education
M.A. ENGLISH
(Effective from the Academic Year 2016-2017 onwards)
Title of the paper
Eligibility : Any Degree with Part – II English
Credits
Paper - 1 Modern Literature - I
Paper - 2 Modern Literature – II
Paper - 3 Modern Literature - III
Paper - 4 Commonwealth Literature
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Paper - 5 Modern Literature - IV
Paper - 6 Shakespeare
Paper -7 American Literature
Paper - 8 Language and Literary Theories
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GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE SYLLABUS FOR M.A.ENGLISH – DD&CE
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To provide an exposure to a wide range of literature in English – from Chaucer's works
to contemporary literary theories.
To promote the reading and comprehensive skills.
To facilitate an insight into the literature of commonwealth countries.
To familiarise the phonetic components of the English language.
MODERN LITERATURE - I
Poetry : Detailed
Geoffrey Chaucer :
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- The Knight
- The Clerk
- The Wife of Bath
Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Poetry : Non-Detailed
Thomas Wyatt
Andrew Marvell
Prose : Detailed
Philip Sidney
Francis Bacon
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Epithalamion
For whom the Bell Tolls
– The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse
– To His Coy Mistress
– Apology for Poetry
– of Marriage and Single life, of Friendship, of Anger, of
Ambition, of Vain Glory
Prose : Non-Detailed
Thomas More
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The Bible
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Drama : Detailed
Christopher Marlowe –
Drama : Non-Detailed
Ben Jonson
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John Webster
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Utopia
The Gospel According to Mark
Edward II
Volpone
The Duchess of Malfi
MODERN LITERATURE - II
Poetry: Detailed
John Milton
Alexander Pope
Poetry : Non-Detailed
John Milton
Thomas Grey
William Blake
Prose : Detailed
Joseph Addison
Samuel Johnson
Prose : Non-Detailed
Jonathan Swift
Oliver Goldsmith
John Bunyan
Drama : Non-Detailed
John Dryden
Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
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Paradise Lost Book II
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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On His Blindness
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
The Lamb
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Selected essays from The Coverly Papers – Of the Club,
Sir Roger at Home, Sir Roger at Church
Preface to Shakespeare
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Gulliver’s Travels – Voyage to Lilliput
The Vicar of Wakefield
The Pilgrim’s Progress – Part I
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All for Love
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The Rivals
MODERN LITERATURE - III
Poetry : Detailed
William Wordsworth
P.B. Shelley
John Keats
Poetry : Non-detailed
S.T. Coleridge
Lord Byron
John Keats
P.B. Shelley
Prose : Detailed
William Wordsworth
Charles Lamb
Prose : Non-detailed
S.T. Coleridge
P.B. Shelley
Thomas De Quincey
Walter Scott
Jane Austen
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The Prelude - Book I
Ode to a Skylark
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Kubla Khan
When We Two Parted
Ode on Melancholy
The Cloud
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Theory of Poetry
Selections from Essays of Elia
All Fools‟ Day,
A Bachelor‟s Complaint,
In Praise of Chimney Sweepers
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Biographia Literaria (Chapters XIV & XVII)
Defence of Poetry
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
The Heart of Midlothian
Mansfield Park
COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
Poetry : Detailed
Nission Ezekiel
Wole Soyinka
Rabindranath Tagore
Poetry : Non-Detailed
Kamala Das
Michael Ondaatje
Henry Lawson
Ravi Sathasivam
Prose : Detailed
Chinua Achebe
Prose : Non-Detailed
Dr. Radhakrishnan
Mulk Raj Anand
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Goodbye party for Miss. Pushpa T.S.
I Think it Rains
Endless Time
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My Grandmother‟s House
Speaking to You (From Rock Bottom)
The Blue Mountains
My Lord, When You Sit on MyThrone.
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The Novelist as Teacher
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An Ideal Before the Youth
Two Leaves and a Bud
Jhumpa Lahiri
Kiran Desai
Drama : Detailed
Sharon Pollock
Drama : Non-Detailed
Mahesh Dattani
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The Namesake
The Inheritance of Loss
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Walsh
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Tara
MODERN LITERATURE - IV
Poetry: Detailed
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Matthew Arnold
Poetry: Non Detailed
Robert Browning
Thomas Stearns Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Ted Hughes
Prose: Detailed
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Prose: Non Detailed
Thomas Carlyle
Robert Louis Stevenson
James Joyce
Thomas Hardy
Drama : Detailed
Oscar Wilde
Drama: Non Detailed
Bernard Shaw
Henrik Ibsen
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The Lotos Eaters
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If Contend
Dover Beach
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Andrea Del Sarto
The Hollow Men
Easter 1916
Hawk Roosting
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The Metaphysical Poets
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“Hero as Poet” (Chapter III) from
Heroes and Hero Worship
Treasure Island
Dubliners
The Return of the Native
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Pygmalion
A Doll‟s House
SHAKESPEARE
Detailed
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Non-Detailed
Henry V
King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
General Study
Elizabethan Theatre and Audience
Great Tragedies
Women in Comedies & Tragedies
Fools and Clowns
Folios and Quartos
Sonnets
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry : Detailed
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
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Robert Frost
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Poetry : Non-detailed
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Crowe Ransom
Theodore Roethke
Prose : Detailed
Edger Allan Poe
Prose : Non-detailed
O‟ Henry
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Ernest Hemingway
Drama : Detailed
Eugene O „Neill
Drama : Non-detailed
Arthur Miller
John Synge
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Because I could not stop for Death
Some Keep the Sabbath going to church
After Apple Picking
The Road Not Taken
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The Raven
Brahma
Blue Girls
The Meadow Mouse
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The Philosophy of Composition
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The Duel
Walden
Moby Dick
Farewell to Arms
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The Emperor Jones
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All My Sons
The Playboy of the Western World
LANGUAGE AND LITERARY THEORIES
Section – A
1. English phonology & Phonetic Theory
Phonetic Transcription – Words
2. The Descent of the English Language [Indo-European Family of Languages]
3. Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law
4. Semantics :
1. Generalization
2. Specialisation
3. Association of Ideas
4. Polarization or Colouring
5. Metaphorical Application
6. Euphemism
7. Prudery
5. The Growth of Vocabulary (Word-making)
1. By Imitation
2. By Adding Suffixes and Prefixes
3. By Abbreviation
4. By Syncopation
5. By Telescoping
6. By Metanalysis
7. Portmanteau Words
6. Contributions to English by
(1) The Bible
(2) William Shakespeare
(3) John Milton
7. Foreign Influences on English : (1) Latin (2) French
8. Standard English
Section – B
LITERARY THEORIES
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Northrop Fyre
Elaine showalter
Edward Said
Terry Eagleton
Jarques Derrida
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The Archetypes of Literature
Towards a Feminist Poetics
Orientalism (Introduction)
“Capitalism, Modernism and Post Modernism”.
“Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the
Human Sciences”.
Reference Books :
Daniel Jones
Dr. P. Iyadurai
F.T. Wood
A.C. Baugh
Otto Jesperson
David Lodge
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A Pronouncing Dictionary
Phonetics for Beginners
An Outline History of the English Language
A History of the English Language
Growth and Structure of the English Language
20th Century Literary Criticism
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