Department of english

1. To expose the students to the richness and variety of English Literature in all its genres. Chronologically right from Geoffrey Chaucer to Ted Hughes, Christopher Marlowe to. 2. To acquaint the students with the knowledge of western literary criticism from Aristotle to. Cleanth Brooks in addition to the Indian aesthetics to provide him with the necessary. Critical tools to the assessment and enjoyment of literature.. 3. To include Phonetics, Classroom Applications, Teaching of Communicative Skills as core.

Papers to hone the learner’s language skills and Interview skills and thus give careerorientation to the syllabus.. 4. To include New Literatures of different countries as a core paper to give a contemporary. 5. To focus on Women’s Writing in English as a core paper to expose the students to Gender. 6. To give the students a wide choice of electives such as Indian literature, Postcolonial. Literatures, American literature and English Language Teaching..

7. To emphasise the cultural diversity and integration of Indian literature by including the. Indian classics, aesthetics, Bhakti literature as well as regional literatures in English. 8. To impart pedagogical skills to the students by acquainting them with the structure of. Modern English, history of English language, linguistics and methods of teaching English.. 9. To keep the students abreast of latest trends in African, Canadian, African-American, and.

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10. To expose the students to cultural diversity and value education through the humanistic. 11. To orient the students to utilize the fruits of the ICT Revolution for equipping themselves. 12. To empower the students with skills necessary for global placements. 13. To prepare the students to take up latest areas of language and literature for further study. 14. To train both the teachers and the students in the learner-centric, interactive methods of. 15. To impart soft skills, personality development and service-orientation. Middle English, Satire, Lyric, Renaissance Humanism, Empiricism, Revenge. Tragedy, Jacobean Tragedy, Melodrama, Kinds of Essays, Comedy of Humours..

Elizabethan Lyrics: Thomas Wyatt, “The Appeal”; Henry Howard, “The Means to. Attain Happy Life”; Sir Philip Sidney, “Philomela”; Edmund Spenser,. “Prothalamion”; Michael Drayton, “Love’s Farewell” (From S. Rengachary, ed.. Selections From Elizabethan Lyrics (Macmillan 1992). Francis Bacon, “Of Studies”, “Of Truth”, “Of and Single Life”.. Origin and Development of English Drama, Miracles and Mysteries, Morality. Plays, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespearean Tragedy, Shakespearean Comedy,.

Shakespearean Sonnets No.18 Shall I compare thee , No. 22 My glass shall not. Persuade me ,No. 73 That time of year , No. 107 Not mine own fears , No.. Puritanism, Characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry, Metaphysical Conceits,. Syllogisms, Unification of Sensibility, Dissociation of Sensibility, Neo-classicism,. Epic, Mock-epic, Augustan Satire, Different kinds of Allegory. Metaphysical Poetry: (a) John Donne: “Canonization”, “Valediction Forbidding. Mourning,” “Batter my Heart”; (b) Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”,.

Comedy of Manners, Restoration Comedy, Political Satire, Rise of the English. Novel, Parody, Picaresque Novel, Place of women in the Society, The Periodical. Joseph Addison and Steele: Essays from The Coverley Papers-- “The Spectator’s. Account of Himself”, “Of the Club”, ‘Sir Roger at Home”, “On the Shame and the. Speech Organs, Mechanism of Speech Production, Mother. Tongue Interference, Sounds and Syllables, Minimal Pairs, Homophones. (a) General Indian English (GIE) and Received Pronunciation (RP).

(b) Description and Classification of Vowel and Consonant Sounds in English. (a) Structure of English Syllable, Consonant Clusters and Combinatory Restrictions. (b) The Teaching of Phonetics, Weak Forms, Elision and Juncture. (a) Word Stress in Simple, Complex and Compound Words, Stress Shift. (b) Pitch and Rhythm, Tone Groups and Intonation Patterns in English. (b) Transcription of words and dialogues into phonetic script and vice-versa.. Romantic Revival, Influence of French Revolution and Platonic.

Idealism, Lyric, Ode, Theory of Poetic Diction, Drawing Room Novel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. William Wordsworth: “Intimations of Immortality: An Ode”, “Lines composed on. P. B. Shelley: “Ode to Skylark”, “Ode to the West Wind”, “Hymn to Intellectual. John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to Autumn”. Victorian Age, Industrial Revolution, Science Vs. Religion, Victorian. Compromise, Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Social Realism, Optimism, Pessimism..

Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam with special reference to Prologue,. Cantos 1 to 3, 27 to 30, 78 to 80, 104 to 106, 130-131.. Robert Browning: “Andrea Del Sarto”, “My Last Duchess”, “Fra Lippo Lippi”. Matthew Arnold: “Sweetness and Light” from Culture and Anarchy. Modernism, Symbolism, Imagism, Poetry of Disillusionment, Irish Nationalism,. Poetry of the Thirties, Movement Poetry, Free Verse, Myth, Allusions. W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”,.

W. H. Auden: “September 1, 1939” and “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”,. Philip Larkin: “The Church Going”, “Nothing to be Said”. Problem Play, Theatre of the Absurd, Oedipus Complex, Psychological Novel,.