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Unit – I British Literature
Chaucer - Prologue
Spenser - Prothalamion and Epithalamion
Bacon - Of Studies, Of Marriage
Marlowe - Dr.Faustus
Shakespeare - Othollo, As You Like It
John Donne - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
John Milton - Paradise Lost Book IX
Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare
Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock
Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
William Wordsworth -Tintern Abbey
S.T Coleridge - Kublakhan
P.B.Shelley - Ode to the West Wind
John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Charles Lamb - Dream Children: A Reverie
Browning - Andrea Del Sarto
Mathew Arnold - Dover Beach
Tennyson - Ulysses
Charles Dickens - The Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
W.B. Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium, Easter 1916.
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
John Osborne - Look Back in Anger
Unit- II— American Literature
Walt Whitman - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Emily Dickinson - Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Robert Frost - Birches
Sylvia Plath - Mirror
E.E . Cummings - Buffalow Bills Defunct
Langston Hughes - Black Panther
Emerson - The American Scholar
Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie
Eugene O’ Neill - The Hairy Ape
Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Unit – III—Indian Writing in English
Toru Dutt - Our Casuarina Tree
Aurobindo - The Tiger and the Deer
Tagore - Gitanjali
Sarojini Naidu - The Queen’s Rival
Ezekiel - Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher
A.K. Ramanujan - Small-scale Reflection on a Great House
Kamala Das - My Grandmother’s House
R. Parthasarathy - River, Once
Jayanta Mahapatra - Hunger
Jawaharlal Nehru - Discovery of India (Chapter 2&3)
Nirad C. Chaudhuri - Autobiography of An Unknown Indian
Abdual Kalam - The Wings of Fire
Grish Karnad - The Rain and the Fire
Mahesh Dattani - Final Solutions
R. K. Narayan - The English Teacher
Mulk Raj Anand - Coolie
Anita Desai - Cry the Peacock
Arundathi Roy - God of the Small Things
Bharathi Mukerjee - Jasmine
Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
Unit- IV Commonwealth Literature
A.D. Hope -Australia
Derse Wallcott -Ruins of a Great House
Judith Wright - Clock and Heart
Michael Ondatyee -The Einnumon Pealer
Gabriel Okara -Once Upon a Time
Katherine Mansfield -Bliss and other Stories
Chinua Achebe -Things Fall Apart
Margaret Atwood -Surfacing
Patrick White -Voss
V.S. Naipaul -A House for Mr. Biswas
Wole Soyinka -The Lion and the Jewel
Unit-V Phonetics, ELT, and other areas
Received Pronunciation- Vowels- Consonants - Diphthongs- Stress- Consonant Cluster- Syllable Structures- Assimilation- Elision- Liaison – Juncture, Teaching of English (Methods & Approach) Role of Grammar in ELT, Evaluation of Techniques, Teaching the Four Language Skills. Critical Theories, Trends and Movements
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