CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TAMIL NADU
Tiruvarur
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
SYLLABI
for
M. A. in English Studies
English for Integrated Sciences
Communicative English (M.A. Classical Tamil)
Ph. D. in English Studies
2014
1
I Semester
Sr. No. Semester
Course
Marks
Credits
Academic Reading and Writing
40
4
Code
1.
ENG 071
60
2.
ENG 072
American Literature I
40
4
60
3.
ENG 073
British Literature I
40
4
60
4.
ENG 074
Philosophical Concepts
40
4
60
5.
ENG 075
Introduction to Indian Literatures
40
60
2
4
ENG 071: Academic Reading and Writing (ARW)
Credits: 4
Course objectives:
To introduce the learner to the important reading techniques
To enable the learner to understand the important aspects of an academic text
To enable the learner to write correctly, coherently and effectively
To introduce the fundamental conventions of academic writing
Unit - I.
Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Barriers to critical thinking
Reading – different types
Unit - II
Book survey
Texts – different types
Comprehension of texts – analysing different forms and styles
Fallacies
Facts, opinions
Arguments – different types.
Unit - III
Sourcing information – primary , secondary, tertiary
Collecting data
Organising the data
Forming the argument, sequencing ideas
Critiquing, editing
Unit - IV
Research paper – key features
Methodology
Figurative language
Hypertext
Plagiarism
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ENG 072: AMERICAN LITERATURE I
Credits: 4
Course objectives:
1. To familiarize the learner with the major texts and authors from the Seventeenth to the
Nineteenth centuries
2. To help the learner situate the prescribed texts in their own socio-historical contexts and
see how they represent their respective ages.
Unit I: Poetry
Introduction to American Literature
American Indian Poetry
Walum Olum
Unit II: Poetry
Anne Bradstreet: “Prologue”
Whitman: “Song of Myself” Lines 1-50
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”
Emily Dickinson: “The Soul Selects Her Own Society,” “A Narrow Fellow in the
Grass,”“Because I could not stop for Death,” “My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun”
E.A. Robinson: “Richard Cory”
Unit III: Poetry
Afro-American Ballads, “We raise de wheat,” “Me and My Captain,” “The Signifying
Monkey,” “Spiritual,” “Swing Lo Sweet Chariot”
Phyllis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To the University of
Cambridge in New England”
Dubois: “The Song of the Smoke”
Unit IV: Prose
Thomas Jefferson: “Declaration of Independence”
Emerson: “The American Scholar”
Thoreau: “Where I Lived”
Unit V: Fiction
Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown”
Melville: “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Cask of Amontillado”
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
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ENG 073: BRITISH LITERTURE I
Credits: 4
Course objectives:
1. To introduce the learner to the basic texts of the Middle Ages and The Renaissance
(excluding Milton)
2. To show the learner how the prescribed texts represent the Spirit of the Age
3. To facilitate an intertextual reading of the texts
4. To bring out the contemporary relevance of the texts
Unit 1: Poetry
Chaucer: “The Prologue” (Lines1-100; 118-162 (Nun) or Wife of Bath)
Spenser: “One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand”
Unit 2: Poetry
John Donne: “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” & “Canonisation”
George Herbert: “The Collar”/ “Easter Wings”
Richard Lovelace: “To Lucasta Going Beyond Seas” & “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
Robert Herrick: “The Vine”/ “To the Virgins, to make much of time”
Unit 3: Prose
Francis Bacon: “Of Studies,” “Of Death,” “Of Revenge”
Unit 4: Drama
Introduction to British Drama
Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Unit 5: Drama
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure & Othello
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ENG 074: PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
Credits: 4
Course Description:
An introductory course in philosophy for non-philosophy majors. Concepts from the major
philosophical areas of World, Mind and Body, Knowledge, Faith, Ethics and Aesthetics, and
Society are introduced with a view to enabling the learners to apply them to literary texts.
Traditional Tamil philosophical ideas are also introduced wherever appropriate.
Course Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To introduce the learner to the fundamentals of philosophy
To enable the learner to appreciate better the philosophical dimension of the literary text.
To introduce early Tamil philosophy
To enable the learner to see how literature and philosophy converge
To foster a spirit of inquiry
Unit1: World
Reality, Physical World, Aristotle, Plato, Idealism, Perception, Locke and Berkeley,
Phenomenology, Cause and Effect.
Unit 2: Mind and Body
Truth, Mind, Consciousness, Self, Free Will, Feelings and Emotions, Life and Death.
Unit 3: Knowledge
Knowledge, Scepticism, Relativism, Science, Induction and Deduction, Pragmatism, Rationality.
Unit 4: Faith
Faith and Reason, God, Atheism and Agnosticism, Evil, Meaning of Life, Existentialism,
Morality, Conscience.
Unit 5
Art, Society, Democracy, Freedom, Rights, Crime and Punishment Equality, Ownership,
Marxism, Globalization.
Course Book
David, ed. Philosophy. London: Duncan Baird, 2004.
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ENG 075: INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURES
Credits: 4
Course description:
This is a course which introduces the student to the literatures of India. Texts from languages
of all the four language families in India – Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto Burmese, Dravidian and
Indo-Aryan – represent each linguistic culture group.
Course objectives:
1. To introduce the learner to some of the representative texts of the four major language
families of India.
2. To sensitize the learner to the similarities and dissimilarities among the four literary
traditions.
Course Schedule:
Unit 1:
Dravidian Literature
Introduction to Dravidian Literature
Unit 2:
Telugu Literature
Nannayabhatta
Palkuriki Somanatha
Tyagaraja
Unit 3:
Tamil Literature
Tinai theory
Tolkaappiyam
Cankam Literature (Excerpts)
Tirukkural (Excerpt)
Cilappatikaaram (Excerpt)
Unit 4:
Malayalam Literature
Cherusseri’s Krishnagatha
Ezhuttachan’s Mahabharatam
Swati Tirunal
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Unit 5:
Kannada Literature
Kavirajamarga III. 187-197
Pampa “Draupadi’s Vow and After”
Purandaradasa
Unit 6:
Indo-Aryan
Introduction to Indo-Aryan literatures
Unit 7:
Bengali
Rabindranath Tagore – Chandalika (1933) In Three Plays.
Unit 8:
Hindi
Maitreyi Pushpa – “The Verdict.”
Bhasha, “The Shattered Thigh.”
Bhimshan Sahani – “We Have Arrives in Amritsar.” The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Stories
Unit 9:
Urdu
Ismat Chugati – “The Quilt.” Women Writing in India. Vol. 2 Ed. Susie Tharu and K Lalitha
Unit 10:
Gujarathi
Varsha Das, “I Am Complete” Separate Journeys. Ed. Geetha Dharmarajan. Katha and
Garutman
Unit 11:
Sindhi
Lekhraj Tulsiani – “Manjri.”Contemporary Indian Short Stories. Series II. Ed. Bhabani
Battacarya. Sahitya Academy.
Unit 12:
Sino-Tibetan
Introduction to Sino-Tibetan literatures
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Unit 13:
Manipuri
Krishnamohan Singh – “Meitei Woman.”
Unit 14:
Mizo
Samarendra Singh – “My State”
Unit 15:
Austrosiatic
Introduction to Austroasiatic literatures
Unit 16:
Santali
Any folk tale of Santal Parganas from Folklore of the Santal Parganas. Trans. Cecil Henry
Bompas. London: David Nutt, 1909
Unit 17:
Savara
Any folk story of instructor’s choice from Saora Folk Tales and Songs. Ed. Mahendra Kumar
Mishra. Sahithya Academy, 2006
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Sr. No. Semester
Course
Marks
Credits
British Literature II
40
4
Code
1.
ENG 081
60
2.
ENG 082
Introduction to Comparative Literature
40
4
60
3.
ENG 083
Introduction to English Linguistics
40
4
60
4.
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ENG 084
Literary Criticism
40
4
60
5.
ENG 085
Indian Writing in English
40
4
60
ENG 081: BRITISH LITERATURE II
Credits: 4
Course objectives:
1. To familiarize the learner with the major texts and authors from the Seventeenth to the
Nineteenth centuries
2. To help the learner situate the prescribed texts in their own socio-historical contexts and
see how they represent their respective ages.
3. To enable the learner to appreciate the contemporary significance of the texts.
4. To help the learner make intertextual connections with texts from other periods and
writers from other traditions.
Unit 1: Poetry
The Renaissance (1500-1660): Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (1649-1669)
Milton:
An excerpt from Paradise Lost Bk. IV
The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745)
Pope:
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot – An excerpt
Dryden:
Absalom and Achitophel – An excerpt
Francis Thompson:
Hound of Heaven – An excerpt
The Age of Sensibility (The age of Johnson/pre-Romantic transitional period, 1745-1785)
Thomas Gray:
Ode: On the Death of a Favourite Cat
The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
Burns:
William Blake:
William Wordsworth:
John Keats:
P.B. Shelley:
John Anderson My Jo, John
London
Sonnets or excerpts from Prelude, Book 4.
Ode: To Nightingale, Ode: To Autumn
Ode: To The West Wind
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
Matthew Arnold:
Dover Beach
Robert Browning:
Fra Lippo Lippi - An excerpt
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese No. XV
Christina Rossetti:
Sonnet No.2 (“I wish I could remember that first
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Day”) Monna Innominata
Unit 2: Drama
The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745)
The Age of Sensibility (The age of Johnson/pre-Romantic transitional period, 1745-1785)
Oliver Goldsmith:
She Stoops to Conquer
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
Oscar Wilde:
The Importance of Being Ernest
Unit 3: Fiction
The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745)
Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Crusoe
The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
Charlotte Brontë:
Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens:
Hard Times (excerpt)
Unit 4: Prose
The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785): The Augustan Age (1700-1745)
Addison and Steele:
Any 2 Essays
The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
Charles Lamb
"A dissertation upon roast pig”
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Credits: 4
Course objectives:
1. To help the learner understand the nature of comparative literature and some of its major
concerns
2. To enable the learner to apply the concepts In the area to texts
3. To foster a comparative perspective in the learner
Unit 1: Definition
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Welleck, Rene. “General, Comparative and National Literature.” Theory of Literature. Rene
Wellek and Austin Warren. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. Chapter 4.
Unit 2: Influence Study
Pammal Sambanda Mudaliyaar’s Amaladitya (An Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet). 3rd ed.
Madras: The Author, 1931.
Unit 3: Thematology
Some Texts on War
Sun Tzu. “Estimates.” The Art of War. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. 1998, 21-22.
(Chinese, 403-221 BC)
Livy. Hannibal’s Crossing Of the Alps. Trans. Aubrey De Selincourt. Penguin Books, 1995, 2328. (Latin, 59 BC-AD 17)
Tirukkural. Trans. Rev.G.U.Pope. New Delhi and Madras: Asian Educational Services, 1999,
Verses 771-780 (“On Valour”). (Tamil, 200 AD)
Kautilya. “Open and Deceptive Battles.” Arthasastra. Chapter XV.vi. (Sanskrit, 400 BC- AD
300)
Hemingway. “Oldman at the Bridge.” (English; American, 1899-1961)
Denise Levertov. “Watching Dark Circle” *(English; American, 1923-)
Unit 4: Genology
Sonnet
Select sonnets from Vi.Ko. Curiyanaaraayana castriyaar. Tanippaacurat tokai. (An anthology of
Lyrics) I part. Trans. G.U.Pope. Notes. N.Palaraama Aiyar. Maturai and Cennai:
V.Cu.Cuvaaminaatan. 3rd ed., 1957.
Unit 5: Mutual Illumination of the Arts
Literature and Painting (Discussion of Poems based on Paintings)
W.H.Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” based on Pieter Breughel’s Icarus
William Carlos Williams’s “The Dance” based on Pieter Brueghel’s The Kermesss
Literature and Music (Discussion of four illustrative cankam songs)
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ENG 083: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
Credits: 4
Course objectives:
1. To foster a scientific approach to language
2. To introduce the learner to some basic concepts of English linguistics.
3. The enable the learner to apply linguistic knowledge to everyday language use.
Unit 1: Linguistics and English
Studying Linguistic structure; the development of English; genetic classifications of languages;
the development of English; typological classification of languages; why languages change.
Unit 2: The Syntax of English
Introduction to English syntax; formal versus notional definitions; structuring of constituents;
word classes and phrases; verb phrase; clauses and sentences.
Unit 3: Semantics of English
The structure and meaning of English words; the morpheme; lexical semantics; dictionaries;
componential analysis; semantic relations; creating new vocabulary; referential and spatiotemporal deixis.
Unit 4: The Speech Sounds of English
The Speech sounds of English; phonetic alphabet; transcription; consonants; vowels;
suprasegmentals; stress and intonation.
Textbook:
Meyer, Charles F. Introducing English Linguistics. CUP, 2009.
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ENG 084: LITERARY CRITICISM
Credits: 4
Course objectives:
1. To familiarise the learner with the major texts in the area from the classical to the modern
times
2. To help the learner comprehend the basic critical concepts in each text.
3. To train the learner to apply the critical concepts to literary texts.
Unit 1: Technical Terms
Abrams, “Orientation of Critical Theories”
Unit 2: Classical Criticism
Aristotle, Poetics. Chapters VI-X
Application: Text of Instructor’s choice
Unit 3: Renaissance Criticism
Philip Sidney, Excerpt from An Apology for Poetry. See Criticism: The Major Texts. Ed. Walter
Jackson Bate. New York and Burlingame: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1952, 86-89.
Application: Historical, Philosophical and Literary Texts of Instructor’s Choice
Unit 4: Neo-Classical Criticism
Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare
Application: Text of Instructor’s Choice
Unit 5: Romantic Criticism
Wordsworth. “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.”
Application: Cleanth Brooks’ criticism of Wordsworth’s Lucy poem in his “Irony as a Principle
of Structure.”
Unit 6: Victorian criticism
Mathew Arnold. Excerpt from “Function of Criticism at the Present Time.”
Unit 7: Modern Criticism
T.S.Eliot. “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”
I. A. Richards, Excerpt from Practical Criticism (Four Kinds of Meaning)
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Allan Tate. “Tension in Poetry.”
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ENG 085: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Credits: 4
Objectives:
To make the students familiarise with the writings in English by Indian writers of pre and postIndependence.
To enable the students understand and appreciate its unique status it enjoys along with the other
continental literatures.
To help the students acquire sufficient knowledge for comparative analysis, evaluation,
understanding and appreciation with the other regional writings.
Unit –I
Poetry:
Background: Origin, growth and development
1. Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree, Lakshman
2. Sarojini Devi Naidu: Village Song, The Indian Weaver
3. Sri Aurobindo: Savitri , Canto – I The Symbol Dawn
4. Nissim Ezekiel: Enterprise, Night of the Scorpion
5. A.K.Ramanujan: Looking for a Cousin on a Swing, A River
6. Kamala Das: An Introduction, After the Summer
7. Mamta Kalia: Tribute To Papa
Unit – II
Prose:
Background: Origin, growth and development
1. First Chapter of Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indian
2. Sri Aurobindo: “The Renaissance in India”
3. M.K.Gandhi : Selected Writings
4. Hiriyanna: “Art Experience” or Tagore’s “What is Art?”
Unit – III
Fiction:
Background: Origin, growth and development
1. Mulk Raj Anand. Coolie
2. Raja Rao. Kanthapura
3. R. K. Narayan, The Guide
4. Anita Desai. Cry The Peacock
5. Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children
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Unit – IV
Drama:
Background: Origin, growth and development
1.Asif Curimbhoy. Refugee
2. Mahesh Dattani, Final Solutions
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III Semester
Sr. No. Semester
Course
Marks
Credits
American Literature II
40
4
Code
1.
ENG 091
60
2.
ENG 092
British Literature III
40
4
60
3.
ENG 093
New Literature I
40
4
60
4.
ENG 094
Ecocriticism
40
4
60
5.
ENG 095
Translation Studies
40
60
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4
ENG 091: AMERICAN LITERATURE II
Credits – 4
Course description: American literature II is a continuation of AL I offered during the
first semester of this programme. Since AL I covered the period up to the 19th century,
AL II will deal with the subsequent period under the heads, Modern American Fiction,
Modern American Poetry, Modern American Drama, and Modern American Non-Fiction.
Course objectives:
1. To introduce the learner to some important texts of Modern North America.
2. To familiarize the learner with modern American history.
3. To show how multiculturalism and individualism are recurring themes in American
literature.
Unit I: Modern American Fiction
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Flannery O’Connor: “Everything that Rises Must Converge”
Unit II: Modern American Non-Fiction
Alice Walker: “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”
Toni Morrison: “Nobel Lecture”
Amy Tan: “Mother Tongue”
Unit III: Modern American Poetry
Ezra Pound: “Pact”
Robert Frost: “Home Burial,” “After Apple Picking”
Wallace Stevens: “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Emperor of Ice Cream”
E E Cummings: “In Just,” “Somewhere I have Never Travelled,” “Cambridge Ladies”
Robert Lowell: “Skunk Hour”
Anne Sexton: “Wanting to Die”
Sylvia Plath: “Lady Lazarus”
Denise Levertov: “Mutes,” “Theatre of War”
Adrienne Rich: “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law”
May Swenson: “Women”
Maya Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”
Langston Hughes: “Dream Deferred”
Unit IV: Modern American Drama
Tennessee Williams: A Street Car Named Desire
Lorraine Hansberry: Raisin in the Sun
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
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ENG 092: BRITISH LITERATURE III
Credits – 4
Course description: Following up on BL II which was offered in the second semester,
BL III covers the literature of the 20th century and after. The enormous literary output of
Great Britain can only be sampled under the generic categories, Modern British Fiction,
Modern British Poetry, Modern British Drama and Modern British Non-Fiction. Learners
will be encouraged to view the texts through the prism of modernism since this
movement has inflected Western literature significantly.
Course objectives:
1) The learner will be introduced to some important texts of modern British literature.
2) The course intends to show how modernism colours the literary texts of the 20th
century.
3) To call attention to the significant social and historical undercurrents of the age.
Unit I: Modern British Fiction
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
Anita Brookner: Hotel du Lac
Unit II: Modern British Non-Fiction
D. H. Lawrence: “Why the Novel Matters”
A. Huxley: “Wordsworth in the Tropics”
George Orwell: “Politics of the English Language”
E. M. Forster: “What I Believe”
Unit III: Modern British Poetry
Hopkins: “Windhover”
T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land” / “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
W. B. Yeats: “Second Coming,” “Easter 1916”
W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
Philip Larkin: “Toads”/ Next Please
Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Gentle Into That Good Night”
Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roasting,” “Thought Fox”
Seamus Heaney: “Digging” / “Death of A Naturalist”
Carol Ann Duffy: “Standing Female Nude”
Vicki Fever: “Judith”
Gillain Clarke: “Catrin”
Eavan Boland: “Domestic Violence”
Simon Armitage: “My Father Thought it Bloody Queer”
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Unit IV: Modern British Drama
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Shelagh Delaney: A Taste of Honey
Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
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ENG 093: NEW LITERATURES I
4 Credits
Course description: New Literatures is also known as Postcolonial Studies, and Commonwealth
Literature. These literatures emerge from countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
India, Sri Lanka, and also from several African and Caribbean nations which were colonized
mainly by the European powers. The literatures from these ex-colonies reflect the colonial and
post-colonial experience adopting traditional and non-traditional literary techniques. Some
important texts from this corpus as well as key concepts in postcolonial studies will be
introduced to the learners. New Literatures I will confine to the texts from Asian, African and
Caribbean countries.
Course objectives:
1. To introduce the learner to some major texts in the area of New Literatures, especially
from the Asian, African and Caribbean countries.
2. To encourage the learner to understand the history of the people of the colonized
countries.
3. To foster an understanding of global issues such as class, caste, race and gender.
4. To introduce some key concepts in postcolonial literature.
Unit I: Asian Literature
Sri Lanka:
Patrick Fernando: “The Fisherman Mourn by His Wife”
Syam Selvadurai: From Funny Boy
Bangladesh:
Nasreen Taslima: Lajja
Pakistan:
Kishwar Naheed: “I am not that Woman”
Faiz Ahmed Faiz: “Loneliness”
Fahmida Riaz: “Chadur and Char-diwari”
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Malaysia:
Lee Kok Liang: “Five Fingers”
Mohamad Bin Haji Salleh: “Do Not Say”
Singapore:
Philip Jeyaretnam: “Making Coffee”
Unit II: African Literature
Oral Tradition
East Africa:
Adventures of Abunuwas, Trickster Hero
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: “Deloconising the Mind”
Okot p’Bitek: “Song of Lawino”
North Africa:
The Shipwrecked Sailor
West Africa:
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, “What Has Literature Got To Do With It?”
Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel, “Telephone Conversation”
Leopold Senghor: “Night of Sine,” “All Day Long”
David Diop: “Africa”
Kofi Awoonor: “Song of War,” “The Weaver Bird,” “Easter Dawn”
Unit III: Caribbean and British Guyanese Literature
V.S. Naipaul: “Man-man”
Derek Walcott: “A Country Club Romance”
Grace Nichols: “Tropical Death,” “In My Name”
Lean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
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ENG 094: ECOCRITICISM
Credits – 4
Course Description: Ecocriticism has found its place in the Indian academy only in the last
twenty years or so. It familiarizes the students with ecological, deep ecological and oikopoetic
principles and shows them how these could be effective critical tools. Students will be exposed
to ecocritical concepts and texts which will challenge conventional attitudes and values
detrimental to the well-being of our planet.
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Objectives:
1. To introduce the learners to one of the major postmodern critical trends.
2. To familiarize the learners with some key ecocritical concepts.
3. To train the learners in the application of the critical concepts to various literary texts.
Unit 1:
Ecology
J.L.Chapman and M.J.Reiss. “Introduction.” Ecology: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed.
Cambridge UP, 1999, 2-4.
Unit 2:
Deep Ecology
Bill Devall and George Sessions. Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine
Smith Books, 1985, 65-73.
Unit 3:
Ecocriticism: Definitions and Types
1. William Rueckert, “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism.” The
Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold
Fromm. Athens and London: U of Georgia Press, 1996, 105-123.
2. Cheryll Glotfelty.“Introduction.” The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary
Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens and London: U of Georgia
Press, 1996, xv-xxv.
3. Jonathan Bate. “Introduction.” Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental
Tradition. London & New York: Routledge, 1991, 1-11.
4. Nirmal Selvamony. “Introduction.” Essays in Ecocriticism. Ed. Nirmal Selvamony,
Nirmaldasan and Rayson K. Alex. New Delhi: Sarup and Sons and Chennai: OSLEIndia, 2007, xii-xxi.
Unit 4:
Symbiosis
Film: “The Queen of Trees.”
Film: “The Story of Mudugar.”
Unit 5:
Biome
J. L. Chapman and M. J. Reiss. “Biomes.” Ecology: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed.
Cambridge UP, 1999, 217-234.
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Bioregion
Peter Berg and Raymond F.Dasmann. “Reinhabiting California.” Home! A Bioregional Reader.
Eds. Van Andruss and others. Gabriola Island, Canada: New Catalyst Books, 2007, 35-38.
Unit 6
Theory of Tinai
Nirmal Selvamony. “Towards an Alternative Social Order.” Value Education Today:
Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J. T. K. Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Madras: Madras
Christian College and New Delhi: All-India Association for Christian Higher Education, 1990,
215-236.
tiNai poetics
Nirmal Selvamony, “tiNai poetics and Tamil Poetry.” Horizons: Critical Perspectives on
Language and Literature. Ed. Suresh Frederick. Thanjavur: Amirthamani Publications, 2011, 115.
Pastoral Tinai
Ainkurunuuru 401
Montane Tinai
Kuruntokai 18
Arid Tinai
Kuruntokai 37
Plains Tinai
Ainkurunuuru 95
Coastal Tinai
Ainkurunuuru 177
Unit 7
Application of Concepts to Texts
Mandatory Field Study
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ENG 095:TRANSLATION STUDIES
Credits – 4
Course description: This course introduces the student to the theory and practice of translation
including basics of communication and theories of meaning. The paper will also include study
and review of texts and translations both in English and Tamil.
Course objectives: The objective is to familiarize the students with the history, theories,
methods and practice of translation. Theories of language, meaning and of communication, to the
extent necessary for a sound grasp of the subject, will also be included in the course work. These
would help the students assess the merits of translation and to explain failures in terms of
translation theories.
Unit 1:
Translation field and types – Definition of translation – Nida’s and that of J.C.Catford –
Phonological and Graphological translation- Transliteration – Grammatical and lexical
translation.
Unit 2:
Theory of language-levels and level shifts – meaning and translation- transference and
translation (J.C.Catford)
Unit 3:
Nida’s theory of translation – Kernels and transforms – Equivalence in translation –
correspondence – Nida’s discussion of meaning- referential and emotive meanings
Unit 4:
Adjustments in translation- Theory of communication in its bearing on translation- Decoder’s
abilities – Fit, noise, Communication load- lexical and structural – Culture and translationEthno-linguistic model of translation
Unit 5:
Qualifications and motives of translator – language varieties – Limits of translatability – Formal
equivalence and poetry translation – Translation in Indian context – History of translation theory.
Books for Reference:
Catford, J.C. (1965), A Linguistic Theory of Translation. London: OUP.
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Bassnett, Susan (1980), Translation Studies. London/NY: Routledge.
Bassnett, Susan & Lefevere, A. (eds.) (1990), Translation, History and Culture. London:
Pinter.
Campbell, S. (1998), Translation into the Second Language. Harlow: Longman Delisle,
J. Woodsworth, J. (eds) (1995), Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia.
Halliday, M.A. K. and Hasan, R. (1976) Cohesion in English. London: Longman.
Katan, D. (2004), Translating Cultures. An Introduction for Translators, Interpreters and
Mediators. Manchester: St. Jerome.
Newmarke, P. (1998), A Textbook of Translation. NY/London: Printice Hall.
Nida, E.A. (1964) Toward a Science of Translating. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Nida, E.A. and Taber, C.R. (1969), The Theory and Practice of Translation. Leiden: E.J.
Brill.
Steiner, G. (1975), After Babel. Oxford: OUP.
Venuti, L. (2004), The Translation Studies Reader. London/NY: Routledge.
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Semester
Course
Marks
Credits
Dalit Literature
40
4
Code
ENG 101
60
ENG 102
English Language Teaching
40
4
60
ENG 103
Language and Media
40
4
60
ENG 104
New Literatures II
40
60
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4
ENG 105
Critical Theory
40
4
60
ENG 101: Dalit Literature
Credits: 4
Dalit Literature will introduce several dalit writings to the learner in order to sensitize her/him to
the condition of being a dalit in India. These writings include poems, short stories, essays and a
novel.
Course objectives:
1. To introduce the literary genre, dalit literature to the learners
2. To sensitize the learners to the human condition known as “dalitness”
3. To train the learners to critique dalit writings competently
Unit 1: Poetry
Poikayil Appachan, “Songs by Poikayil Appachan.”
Vijila. “A Place for Me.”
Indran. “Wall-Posters,” “The City of Burning Slum.”
Thai Kandasamy. “A Possibility.”
S.Sukirtharani. “Portrait of My Village.”
Unit 2: Essay
Gail Omvedt. “Ambedkarism: The Theory of Dalit Liberation.”
Eleanor Zelliot. “The Folklore of Pride: Three Components of Contemporary Dalit Belief.”
KanchaIlaiah. “Class and Caste,” “Women.”
Raj Kumar. “Caste, Culture and Politics: Towards a Definition of Dalit Autobiography.”
Unit 3: Short Story
Ravi Kumar. “On Knowing the Truth.”
Bama. “Events.”
P.Sivakami. “The Paper Door.”
Unit 4: Fiction and Autobiography
Vemula Ellaih. “She Fastened her Chastity with a Hearty Hope.” (Excerpt from Kakka)
Omprakash Valmiki. Joothan: A Dalit Life.
Unit 5: Speech
Thirumavalavan. “Rule of Caste is the Rule of India.”
P.Sivakami. “Land: Woman’s Breath and Speech.”
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Sunny M. Kappikkad. “The Dalit Presence in Malayalam Literature.”
Unit 6: Interview
S. Sankaranayanan. “An Interview with Bama.”
K.Purushotham. “Our Exit from the Left was the Beginning of the Dalit Writing: An Interview
with Vemula Ellaiah.”
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Credits: 4
Course Description: ELT will deal with the history of English in India, the methods for ELT,
Teaching spoken English, vocabulary, grammar, study skills and reference skills, tests and
testing and also common errors and remedial English.
Course Objectives:
1. To introduce the learner to the teaching of the different aspects of the English language –
speech, vocabulary and grammar
2. To introduce the learner to the teaching of English as a discipline and hence the topics
study skills and refernece skills
3. To familiarise the learner with a brief history of English Language in India
4. To contextualise English language learning
5. To equip the learner with the skills necessary for English Language teaching.
Unit I: English in India−Past, Present and Future
English as an international language, English as a link language, Commissions on the teaching of
English in India, English in post-independence India
Unit II: Methods
Grammar-translation Method, Reform Method
Unit III: Approach, Method and Technique
Structural Approach, Bilingual method, Communicative Language Teaching, Eclectic method
Unit IV: Teaching Spoken English: Some Techniques
Songs and rhymes for teaching spoken English, Usage of limericks and tongue twisters,
Developing listening skills
Unit V: Teaching of Vocabulary
Reading and vocabulary expansion, Active and passive vocabulary, Direct and indirect
vocabulary, Methods of teaching vocabulary to young learners
Unit VI: Study Skills and Reference Skills
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Using reference books, Study skills and their usefulness, Reading and making notes, Listening
and taking notes
Unit VII: Tests and testing
Various types of language tests, Characteristics of a good test, types of questions that can be set,
Ways of testing writing, speaking and communicative abilities, Usage of technology for testing
Unit VIII: Common errors and Remedial English
Language variations and errors, Common errors in English, Usefulness of error analysis
Course Book:
Krishnaswamy, N and Lalitha Krishnaswamy. Methods of Teaching English. New Delhi:
Macmillan, 2006. Print.
——ENG 103: Language and Media
Credits: 4
Language and Media includes eight units – newspaper, radio, magazines, television, film and epublishing.
Course Objectives:
1. To introduce the learners to various theories of language as a communicative medium
2. To introduce the students to the newest manifestations of language
3. To give a brief idea of how knowledge is created in various media, print, radio,
television and new
Unit 1: Defnitions – Language, Media
Stages of the course of the news – news value – newspaper writing – terms used in
news gathering, newspaper organisation, copy writing and copy editing – truth telling, agenda
setting – opinion forming – media as a democratic institution
Unit 2: Print Media – Copy writing and copy editing
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Copy Writing - writing for mass circulation – diversity of the audience – elements of
readability – vocabulary and structural simplicity – units of thought and sentence – fog
index – inverted pyramidal structure of news stories – editorializing – headlines and lead
paras – different types of stories
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Copy Editing – editing to make meaning – editing to save space - cutting, trimming,
boiling – developing angles – objectivity and fairness – coverage – making stories legally
safe
Westley H., Bruce. News Editing. New Delhi: Oxford IBH, 1975.
Unit 3: Radio and Television
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Narrative, pause, dramatic silence, voice, points of view, sound, atmos, music in
documentaries and plays (BBC & AIR).
Primary Texts:
 Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
 John Biewen’s Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound.
 Kevin Branigan’s Radio Beckett.
 Evolution and change in language, voyeurism, hurried mode of narrative, ‘flow’,
space and culture in Documentaries, plays and soap operas.
Primary Texts:
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Theodore Adorno’s “How to look at Television”.
Raymond William’s Television : Technology and Cultural Forms.
Unit 4: Film Language
I.
The development of film narrative with reference to:
Evolution of film techniques,The Silent Era, Film movements, Film Noir, Asian
cinema
II.
Language of films in four forms:
Mis-en-scene, Cinemetography, Sound and light, Editing
Primary Texts:
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Andre’ Bazin’s “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”.
Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative”.
References:
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Theodore Adorno’s The Culture Industry
Sergei Eisenstein’s Film Forms: Essays in Film Theory.
James Monaco’s How to Read a Film.
Andre’ Basin’s What is Cinema?
.Gilles Deleuze’s The Movement Image.
Recommended viewing:
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Griffith: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Eisenstein: Battleship Potempkin (1925)
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Chaplin : Modern Times (1936)
Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)
De Sica: Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Kurosawa: Rashomon (1950)
Bergman: Wild Strawberries (1957)
Godard: Breathless (1960)
Ray : Charulatha (1964)
Ghatak: Subarnarekha (1965)
Patwardhan: Bombay our City (1985)
Unit 5: SMS and Blog Language
Texting:

Vocabulary, grammar - Different text languages - Effect on spoken and written
languages - Positive sides to texting
Primary text:
David Crystal’s Textin : The Gr8 Db8
Blog Language:
 Metaphor of web – Virtual communities - Blogs and News reports – Narratives in
blogs (case studies) – Political ethos for blogging, facebooking and twittering –
Informality & Coloqualisms – Language Choice and Code-switching
Huffaker, David A. and Sandra L. Calvert. “Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage
Blogs.” <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html>.
“Blogging Linguists II.” <http://thelanguageofblogs.typepad.com/>.
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ENG 104: New Literature II
Credits: 4
New Literatures II is sequel to New Literatures I which includes Asian and African literary texts.
The present course will introduce the learner to some of the important texts in this genre from
Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Students will be encouraged to read the texts in the light of
postcolonial concepts.
Course Objectives:
1. To introduce some of the important post colonial writings from canada, Australia and
New Zealand
2. To enable the learner to criticize the texts using postcolonial concepts
3. To foster a historical understanding of literary cultures other than British and American
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Unit I: Australia
Drama
Jane Harrison: Stolen
Louis Nowra: Radiance
Fiction
Sally Morgan: My Place (an excerpt)
Henry Lawson: “The Drover’s Wife”
James Cook: An Account of a Round Voyage of the Endeavour (an excerpt)
Dick Roughsey: from Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal (an excerpt)
Babara Baynton: “The Chosen Vessel”
Kate Grenville: The Secret River
Poetry
Banjo Paterson: “Waltzing Matilda”
Mary Gilmore: “Australia”
Henry Kendall: “The Last of His Tribe”
Judith Wright: “At Cooloolah,” “For New England,” “Bora Ring”
Oodgeroo Noonucacal (Kath Walker): “We Are Going,” “No More Boomerang”
Unit II: Canada
Drama
George Ryga: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Drew Hayden Taylor: Someday
Poetry
Pauline Johnson: “The Cattle Thief”
Rita Joe” “I Lost My Talk”
Margaret Atwood: “Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer”
Fiction
Alice Munro: “The Photographer”
Jeannettte C. Armstrong: “This Is a Story”
Lee Maracle: I Am Woman (excerpt)
Beatrice Culleton Moisinier: In Search of April Raintree
Maria Campbell: Halfbreed
Unit III: New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield: “The Garden Party,” “Miss Brill”
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ENG 105: CRITICAL THEORY
Credits: 4
Theory and Cultural Criticism introduces to the learner some of the major post 60's theories such
as structuralism, post-structuralism, reader-response criticism, feminism, new historicism,
cultural studies, orientalism and ecocriticism. Learners are expected to be familiar with the major
theoreticians, their works and key concepts.
Course Objectives:
1. To introduce the learner to major variety of critical theory that emerged after the II World
War
2. To introduce the learner to the major texts in the field of critical theory
3. To enable the learner to apply some of the key concepts to literary and cultural texts
Unit 1
THEORY
Jonathan Culler, “What is Theory?” (2000)
Unit 2
STRUCTURALISM
Jonathan Culler, “Poetics of the Lyric” (1975)
Unit 3
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” (1967)
Unit 4
READER-RESPONSE
Stanley Fish, “Is there a Text in This Class?” (1982)
Unit 5
FEMINIST THEORY
Elaine Showalter, “Towards a Feminist Poetics” (1979)
Unit 6
NEW HISTORICISM
Stephen Greenblatt, “Invisible Bullets” (1988)
Unit 7
POSTCOLONIALISM
Edward Said, Excerpt from “Orientalism” (1978)
Unit 8
CULTURAL STUDIES
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adornov, “Culture Industry as Mass Deception.” (1944)
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SOURCES:
Culller, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP, 2000. (for “What is
Theory?)
----------------------- Structuralist Poetics. Routledge, 2002. (for “The Poetics of the Lyric”)
Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, eds. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Prentice Hall,
2008. (for essays of Derrida, Fish and Showalter)
Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, ed. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers,
1998. (for essays of Greenblatt; Horkheimer and Adornov)
Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979.
Seturaman, V.S., ed. Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Chennai and other places:
Macmillan Publishers, 1989.
----TESTING AND EVALUATION (For all the courses)
Internal Assessment and End of Semester Exam: 40 marks+60 marks = 100 marks
Model Exam/End of Semester Examination time: 3 hours
Marks distribution
Internal Assessment – 40 marks
Seminar – 10 marks
Assignment – 10 marks
Model exam – 20 marks (the test will be for 60 marks which will be reduced to 15 marks)
Total – 40 marks
End of Semester Exam – 60 marks
Question paper pattern (Model exam and End of Semester exam):
Part A
Six questions are to be answered out of ten, each in about 100-150 words.
Part B
Three questions are to be answered out of six, each in about 200-250 words
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SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH FOR INTEGRATED SCIENCES
4 Credits
Semester I (ENG 011)
Unit 1: Speaking
Role Playing with stress and modulation; interview skills
Unit 2: Writing
Expository Writing; reading comprehension (pictograms, graphs); precis writing; letter writing
(business letters); grammar and vocabulary
Unit 3: Listening
Listening to a passage being read out and answering relevant questions
Unit 4: Reading
Reading with stress and intonation
Semester II (ENG 021)
4 Credits
Unit 1: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
Expository and descriptive writing; precis writing; letter writing (business letters);
grammar and vocabulary; listening, reading and comprehension; reading with stress and
modulation.
Unit 2: Prose, Poetry, Short-Story and One-Act Play
Aravindakrishnan. T.Y. Reading Literature in English. Foundation Books (CUP, 2012).
Semester III (ENG 031)
4 Credits
Unit 1: Speaking, Writing, Listening, Reading
Speaking for and against a topic,Writing; Vocabulary (Word games, synonyms, antonyms, word
puzzles), argumentative writing; Letter writing (Letters of complaint), Hints development, filling
Railway forms for journey following the rules for concession
Unit 2: Poetry, Prose, Short Story and One Act Play
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Reading Literature in English (CUP. Foundation Books, Cambridge House, New Delhi –
110002 (Second volume)
Semester IV (ENG 041)
4 Credits
Unit 1: Civic consciousness
Secularism, Sustainable Environment
Unit 2: Speaking
Speak extempore, Play reading, Poetry reading
Unit 3: Writing
Topical essays, Formal letters
Unit 4: Poetry, Prose, Short Story and One Act Play
Course book: INSIGHT, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.
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M. A. Classical Tamil
Communicative English (5 credits)
Objectives: The attainment of students indicates the administration of a course that would
introduce them to the basics of English grammar and usage. Reading practice can be combined
with introduction to English speech sounds. A brief remedial work can be done at the end of the
course. The syllabus is devised with these objectives.
Unit I – conjugation of verbs in simple present, past and future and in their continuous forms.
Unit II- uses of tenses and of gerundial functions – sentence structure – subject, object, predicate
and complement functions.
Unit III- Classes of words – verbs of doing and being- nouns of abstract and concrete natureconcordance of number and plural forms.
Unit IV – Sentence types – transformation of sentences.
Unit V – speech sounds – stress and intonation – Reading practice – remedial work – common
errors in grammar and usage.
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Ph.D. ENGLISH STUDIES
I Semester Coursework
ENGR01: Research Methodology (4 Credits)
ENGR02: Broadfield (4 Credits)
ENGR03: Literature Survey (4 Credits)
II Semester Coursework
ENGR04: Research Methodology (Writing) (4 Credits)
ENGR05: Specific Area (4 Credits)
ENGR06: Literature Survey (4 Credits)
Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 20
Terminal Examination: 80
The Internal and Terminal Examinations on Literature Survey Courses (ENGR03 and ENGRO6)
may be based on assignment for each examination.
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