1/10/2020
G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty
Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Charles Lamb – Oxford in Vacation, Dream Children
2/10/2020
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
Non detailed study
Module 4
William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Olauda Equiano - The Interesting Narrative (Chapter 4 and 5)
3/10/20
P.B. Shelley – The Cenci
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Ubervilles
4/10/20
Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Module 5
For Detailed Study
W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
5/10/3020
T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland
W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas – Poem in October
Sylvia Plath – Daddy
Philip Larking – Church Going
6/10/2020
Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway
Ted Hughes – Thought Fox
Thom Gunn – On the Move
G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
7/10/20
S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
8/10/20
T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
Virginia Woolf – Modern Fiction
9/10
Non Detailed Study
Module 6
F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition
Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10/10
George Orwell – 1984
John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
Caryll Churchill – Top Girls
11/10
Indian Writing in English
Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali
Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of Waiting
Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel Fishers
Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House, Freaks
12/10
Nissim Ezeliek – Background, Casually
A.K. Ramanujan – A River, The Striders
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
13/10/20
Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest
Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man
14/10
S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory of Rasa
Kunjunni Raja – Theory of Dhwani
15/10
For Non detailed Study
Module 8
Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable
16/10/20
Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope
Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day
17/10/20
R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
Salman Rushdie – Midnighht’s Children
18/10/20
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
19/10/20
A.K. Ramanujan - Is there an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay
American Literature
Module 9
For detailed Study
Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Emily Dickinson – I felt a funeral
Robert Frost – Home Burial
Wallace Stephens – Sunday Morning
20/10/20
Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman
Eugene O Neil – Emperor Jones
21/10/20
Tennesee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
For Non detailed Study
Module 10
Emerson – Self Reliance
Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
22/10/20
Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
E E Cummings – Buffallo Hills
Alln Ginsberg - America
Gertrude Stein – Daughter
23/10/20
Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
24/10/20
Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
25/10/20
Structure of English Language and Linguistics
Module 11
Indo European Family of Languages-Old English, Middle English, Modern
English
Phonetics and Phonology-General phonetics-Phonetic transcription- Stress-
Intonation
Morphology; Traditional Grammar and Modern Grammar- Form class
words-Function Class Words- Fallacies- Saussure- Structuralism
Syntax-PS Grammar-TG Grammar-Deep Structure-Surface Structure-
Chomsky’s Trace Theory- Case Grammar, Systemic,
Stratification and Tagmemics
Semantics- Lexical semantics-Metaphor-Figures of speech
Linguistics- Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
26/10/20
English Language Teaching
Module 12
Key concepts in ELT- ESL- EFL- Mother tongue interference
Methods of teaching – Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio
Visual Method, Suggestopaedia, Community Language
Learning
Learning Theories- Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
Learner Factors, Teaching Aids, ICT
Types of tests- Tools for Evaluation- Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching
27/10/20
Literary Criticism
Module 13
Aristotle – Poetics
Philip Sydney – An Apologie for Poetry
Samuel Coleridge – Biographia Literaria (Chapter 14)
28/10/20
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own.
T. S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
Northrop Fry – Archetypes of Literature
29/10/20
Cleanth Brookes- The Language of Paradox
Edmund Wilson –“Marxism and Literature”.
Elaine Showalter – “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.
Jacques Derrida- “Difference”.
30/10/20
Karl Marx- “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof”
Sigmund Freud – “The Conscious and the Unconscious”; “The Id and The
Ego”; “The Ego and the Super Ego” Beyond the Pleasure
Principles and Other Writings
31/10/20
Jurgen Habermas– “Modernity- An Incomplete Project”
Raymond Williams– “Tradition, Institution, Formations”
Stephen Greenblatt – “Shakespeare and the Exorcists”
1/11/20
Michel Foucault – “Two Lectures” from Power/Knowledge, “The Unities of
Discourse” from the Archaeology of Knowledge and the
Discourse on Language
Edward W. Said – “Introduction to Orientalism”.
2/11/20
Helen Cixous – “The Laugh of the Medusa”
Eve Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet
Module 14
Culture Studies
Theodor W. Adorno – “Culture Industry Reconsidered” (pp 98 -107) in
Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
3/11/20
Stuart Hall – “Encoding/Decoding” from Culture, Media, Language.
Laura Mulvey – “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Judith Butler – “Subject of Sex/Gender/Desire” from Gender Trouble:
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Angela McRobbie – “Postmodernism and Popular Culture”.
4/11/20
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