ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY, KARAIKUDI

B.A., ENGLISH LITERATURE PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

(under CBCS with effect from the academic year 2011-12)
Sem Part I II III I IV Subject Code 111T 112E 1BEN1C1 1BEN1C2 1NME1A/ 1NME1B/ 1NME1C Course Name Tamil / other languages I English I Core I Prose Core II Fiction Allied I (1) Non-Major Elective I (a)jkpo; nkhopapd; mbg;gilfs;/ (b) ,f;fhy ,yf;fpak; / (c) Communicative English Total Tamil / other languages II English II Core III Poetry I Core IV Drama I Allied II (3) Environmental Studies Total Tamil / other languages III English III Core V Poetry II Core VI Drama II Allied III (1) Non-major Elective II (a),yf;fpaKk; nkhopg; gad;ghLk;/ (b) goe;jkpo; ,yf;fpaq;fSk; ,yf;fpatuyhWk; / (c) Employability Skills (2) Skill Based Subjects I Extension activities Total Tamil / other languages IV English IV Core VII Shakespeare Core VIII Indian Writing in English I Allied IV 3 3 5 5 5 2 Cr. Hrs./ Marks Week Int. Ext. 6 6 6 6 5 1 25 25 25 25 25 40 75 75 75 75 75 60 Total

100 100 100 100 100 100

I II II III IV I II III

121T 122E 1BEN2C1 1BEN2C2 1BES2 131T 132E 1BEN3C1 1BEN3C2 1NME3A / 1NME3B / 1NME3C

23 3 3 5 5 5 2 23 3 3 4 4 5 2

30 6 6 6 5 5 2 30 6 6 5 5 5 1

-25 25 25 25 25 25 -25 25 25 25 25 40

-75 75 75 75 75 75 -75 75 75 75 75 60

600 100 100 100 100 100 100 600 100 100 100 100 100 100

III IV

V I II IV III

1SBS3A1/ 1SBS3A2 1BEA3 141T 142E 1BEN4C1 1BEN4C2

2 1 24 3 3 4 4 5

2 30 6 6 5 5 4

40 100 -25 25 25 25 25

60 --75 75 75 75 75

100 100 800 100 100 100 100 100

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1SBS4B1/ 1SBS4B2 1BVE4/ 1BMY4/ 1BWS4 1BEN5C1 1BEN5C2

(2) Skill Based Subjects II (4) Value Education / Manavalakalai Yoga / Womens Studies Total Core IX American Literature Core X Womens Writing in English Core XI Commonwealth Literature Elective I Translation Theory and Practice (or) Canadian Literature (2) Skill Based Subjects I (2) Skill Based Subjects I Total Core XII Indian Writing in English II Core XIII Developing Language Skills Elective II English Language Teaching (or) Literary Forms Elective III Journalism (or) Comparative Literature (2) Skill Based Subjects II (2) Skill Based Subjects II Total Grand Total

2 2

2 2

40 40

60 60

100 100

23 5 5 4 5

30 7 7 6 6

-25 25 25 25

-75 75 75 75

700 100 100 100 100

III V

1BEN5C3 1BENE1A/ 1BENE1B 1SBS5A3/ 1SBS5A4/ 1SBS5A5 1BEN6C1 1BEN6C2

IV

2 2 23 5 5 5 5 2 2 24 140

2 2 30 7 7 6 6 2 2 30 180

40 40 -25 25 25 25 40 40 ---

60 60 -75 75 75 75 60 60 ---

100 100 600 100 100 100 100 100 100 600 3900

III VI

IV

1BENE2A/ 1BENE2B 1BENE3A/ 1BENE3B 1SBS6B3/ 1SBS6B4/ 1SBS6B5

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I YEAR I SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN1C1 CORE COURSE I PROSE

Unit I
Baccon Of Truth Of Friendship Of Love

Unit II
Addison Steele Sir Roger at Church The Spectator Club

Unit III
Oliver Goldsmith Charles Lamb Beau Tibbs Dream Children Dissertation upon Roasted Pig

Unit IV
John Ruskin Kings Treasuries (Sesame and Lilies)

Unit V
G.K.Chesterton Robert Lynd On Running after ones Hat Forgetting

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I YEAR I SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN1C2 CORE COURSE II FICTION

Unit I
Oscar Wilde O Henry The Selfish Giant The face of Judas Iscariot

Unit II
Kuswant Singh R.K.Narayan Karma White Flower

Unit III
Charles Bronte Jane Eyre

Unit IV
Charles Dickens Great Expectations

Unit V
George Orwell The Animal Farm

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I YEAR II SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN2C1 CORE COURSE III POETRY I

Unit I
Chaucer Shakespeare Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Introductory Part) (First 100 lines) Sonnet 18

Unit II
John Donne Alexander Pope William Blake The Canonization Ode on Solitude Tyger

Unit III
Goldsmith Thomas Gray The Village School Master Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Unit IV
William Wordsworth S.T. Coleridge Ode on Intimations of Immortality Ode Kublakhan

Unit V
John Keats Shelley Tennyson Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to West Wind Ulysses

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I YEAR II SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN2C2 CORE COURSE IV DRAMA I

Unit I
Marlowe Edward II

Unit II
Webster The Duchess of Malfi

Unit III
Ben Jonson Volpone

Unit IV
Congreve The Way of the World

Unit V
G.B.Shaw Pygmalion

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II YEAR III SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN3C1 CORE COURSE V POETRY II

Unit I
John Milton Paradise Lost Book IX

Unit II
Browning Mathew Arnold Andrea Del Sarto Dover Beach

Unit III
Dante Gabriel Rossetti D.H.Lawrence The Blessed Damozel Snake

Unit IV
W.B.Yeats G.M. Hopkins The Second Coming Gods Grandeur

Unit V
T.S.Eliot Philip Larkin The Hollow Men Church Going

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II YEAR III SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN3C2 CORE COURSE VI DRAMA II

Unit I
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral

Unit II
John Galsworthy Justice

Unit III
J.M.Synge The Play Boy of the Western World

Unit IV
John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Unit V
William Becket Waiting for Godot

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II YEAR IV SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN4C1 CORE COURSE VII SHAKESPEARE

Unit I
General Shakespeare Shakespeares Age Theatre and Audience Women Characters Fools and Supernatural Elements

Unit II

As you Like It

Unit III Unit IV

Julius Caesar

Othello

Unit V

The Tempest

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II YEAR IV SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN4C2 CORE COURSE VIII INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH I
Unit I
Toru Dutt Sri Aurobindo Sarojini Naidu

Poetry
The Casuarina Tree The Tiger and the Deer The Queens Rival

Unit II
Nissim Ezekiel A.K.Ramanujam Kamala Das The Night of the Scorpion River The Old Play House

Unit III

Prose
The Secret of Work Teaching Begins (from the recollections of my early life) The Panorama of Indias Past

Swami Vivekananda Tagore Nehru

Unit IV
Girish Karnad

Drama
Tughlaq

Unit V
R.K.Narayan

Fiction
The Guide

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III YEAR V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN5C1 CORE COURSE IX AMERICAN LITERATURE
Unit I Poetry
When Lilacs in the Dooryard Last Bloomd The Mending Wall Death in the Opposite House Anecdote of the Jar

Walt Whitman Robert Frost Emily Dickinson Wallace Stevens

Unit II
Emerson Thoreau

Prose
The American Scholar The Walden

Unit III
Arthur Miller

Drama
All My Sons

Unit IV
Mark Twain

Fiction
The Prince and the Pauper

Unit V
Hemingway

Fiction
The Old Man and Sea

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III YEAR V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN5C2 CORE COURSE X WOMENS WRITING IN ENGLISH
Unit I Poetry
A Room of ones own Towards a Feminine Poetics

Virginia Wolf Elaine Showalter

Unit II
Kamala Das Sylvia Plath Sarojini Naidu

Poetry
A Hot Noon in Malabar Mirror Daddy The Souls Prayer

Unit III

Drama
A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Unit IV

Fiction
The Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

Unit V
Shashi Deshpande Dark Holds No Terror

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III YEAR V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN5C3 CORE COURSE XI COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE
Unit I
A.D.Hope Allen Curnow Wole Soyinka

Poetry
Australia House and Land Telephone Conversation

Unit II

Poetry
Journey to the Interior Refugee Mother and Child Clock and Heart

Margaret Atwood Chinua Achebe Judith Wright

Unit III

Prose
The Novelist as a Teacher The World Community

Chinua Achebe Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

Unit IV
George Ryga

Drama
The Ecstasy of Rite Joe

Unit V
Patrick White

Fiction
Voss

Books for Reference An Anthology of Commonwealth poetry: E.D. by C.D.Narasimiah An Anthology of Modern Commonwealth Prose Pub. By S.Swaroop Commonwealth University Book Publishers 34, Thirumurugan Salai, Chitlappakkam, Anna Nagar, Chennai 64

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III YEAR V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE1A ELECTIVE I (A) TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
Unit I
Translation Definition Types of Translation

Unit II
Decoding and Recoding Problems of Equivalence History of Translation Theory

Unit III
Specific Problems of Literary translations

Unit IV
Translating Literary Texts Thirukkural First 2 chapters from G.U.Popes translation Bharathiar Our Mother Land

Unit V
Prem chand Resignation T.S.Pillai Chemmeen

Books for Reference

Savoury Theodore The Art of Translation Susan Bassnett, MC Guire Translation Studies (Methuene)

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III YEAR V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE1B ELECTIVE I (B) CANADIAN LITERATURE
Unit I Poetry
The Canadian Authors Meet Towards a poem that cannot be written The Alphabet

F.R.Scott Margaret Atwood James Reancy

Unit II

Prose
Nature as Monster (from Survival)

Margaret Atwood

Unit III

Fiction
The Stone Angel

Margaret Lawrence

Unit IV
George Ryga

Drama
Indian

Unit V

Criticism
The Archytypes of Criticism

Northorpe Frye

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III YEAR VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN6C1 CORE COURSE XII INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH II
Unit I Poetry
An Old woman The Child Under another Sky

Jayanta Mahapatra Tagore Parthasarathy

Unit II
Aurobindo Transformation Gieve Patel Servant Uma Sankar Joshi India The Spirit Survives [from Twenty Indian Poems Ed. by Arvin Krishna Mehrotra (O.U.P)]

Unit III

Prose
The Role of University The Eternal Silence of the Infinite Crowds Education for New India

Jawaharlal Nehru Nirad C. Chaudhuri C.Rajagopalachari

Unit IV
Rabindranath Tagore Chandalika

Unit V

Fiction
A Train to Pakistan

Kushwant Singh

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III YEAR VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN6C2 CORE COURSE XIII DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS
Unit I
Reading and Comprehension Skimming the Text Scanning the Text

Unit II
Greeting and Responding to Greetings Introducing yourself Introducing others

Unit III
Inviting, Accepting and Declining Invitations Asking, Giving and Refusing Permission Apologizing

Unit IV
Writing Agendas Writing Minutes Writing Letters

Unit V
Writing Curriculum vitae Writing Telegrams Group Discussion Book Prescribed: English for Practical Purposes By Z.N.Patil, B.S.Valke, Ashok Thorat and Zeenat Merchant (Macmillan)

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III YEAR VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE2A ELECTIVE II (A) ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Unit I
Issues involved in Teaching of English Explanation of Curriculum, Syllabus, Course, Methods, approaches, Techniques

Unit II
Teaching English as a second Language

Unit III
Teaching of Grammar, Vocabulary, Teaching of Poetry and Prose

Unit IV
Testing Characteristics Types of Questions

Unit V
Use of Audio Visual Aids in Language Teaching

Books for Reference

1. Introduction to English Language Teaching (CIEFL (OUP) Ghosh, Sastri, Das) 2. Teaching English as a Second Language (Long Man), Bright, MC.Gregor. 3. Teaching English as a Second Language Paul Verghese.

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III YEAR VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE2B ELECTIVE II (B) LITERARY FORMS
Unit I
Subjective

Poetry
Lyric, Elegy, Ode, Sonnet

Unit II
Objective Ballad, Epic, Idyll, Dramatic Monologue

Unit III

Prose

The Essay, Short Story, Biography, Autobiography

Unit IV

Drama

Tragedy, Comedy, One Act play, Tragi-comedy, The Masque and Farce

Unit V

Fiction

Historical Novel, Picaresque Novel, Detective Novel, Science Fiction and the Stream of Consciousness Novel

Books for Reference

W.H.Hudson An Introduction to the Study of English Literature R.J.Rees English Literature An Introduction for Foreign Readers Macmillan 1973 K.R.Ramachandran Nair Literary Forms Emerald Publication, Chennai 2003

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III YEAR VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE3A ELECTIVE III (A) JOURNALISM
Unit I
Definition of Journalism Role of Journalism Ethics Press Laws Press Council

Unit II
News Definition Kinds Elements Sources News Agencies

Unit III
Reporting Qualities of Reporters Kinds of Reporting

Unit IV
Editing News Editor Sub Editor Anatomy of Editing

Unit V
Language of Journalism Writing a News Story Writing opinion pieces writing leads Head lines

Book for Reference

R.Partha Sarathy M.V.Kamath Basic Journalism (Macmillan) Professional Journalism (Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 576, Majid Road, Jangpura, New Delhi) K.M.Shrivastava News Reporting and Editing (Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., L.10, Green Park Extension, New Delhi 16)

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III YEAR VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE3B ELECTIVE III (B) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Unit I
Definition and Scope

Unit II
National Literature, Comparative Literature General Literature World Literature

Unit III
The French and American Schools of Comparative Literature

Unit IV
Genre Studies

Unit V
Literature and Other Arts

Books for Reference

Ulrich Weisstein Wellek & Warren S.S.Prawar Comparative Literature and other Arts Theory of Literature (Part II) Comparative Literature

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