UPHESC Assistant Professor Syllabus 2021

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ENGLISH

(Subject Code-10)

An outline of the course content

UNIT-I : Literature and Society in the following periods

(a) Renaissance (b) Reformation (c) Restoration

(d) Neo-classical Period (e) Romantic Period (f) Victorion Period

(g) Modern Period (h) Post-Modern Period

UNIT-II : British Drama

C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta

Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour

W. Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, The Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest, King

Henry IV, Part I & II

John Dryden : All For Love

W. Congreve : The Way of the World

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

John Galsworthy : Strife, Escape

George Bernard Shaw : Candida, Saint Joan, Man and Superman

John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World

T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

Sammuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

John Osborme : Look Back in Anger

Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party

Arnold Wesker : Roots

UNIT-III : British Prose and Fiction

Francis Bacon : ‘Of Truth’, ‘Of Revenge’, ‘Of Studies’, ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’,

‘Of Regimen of Health’

John Milton : ‘Areopagitica’

Addison and Steele : Essays dealing with Coverly Papers from ‘The Spectator’.

Charles Lamb : ‘The South Sea House’, ‘Dream Children’, ‘Christ Hospital Five and Thirty

Years Ago’, ‘The Convalescent’, ‘Poor Relations’, ‘Imperfect Sympathies’

Thomas Carlyle : ‘The Hero as a Poet’

William Hazlitt : ‘Public Opinion’, ‘On Reading Old Books’, ‘On Reading New Books’

T.B. Macaulay : ‘Minutes on Education’ (1835)

Virginia Woolf : ‘A Room of One’s Own’

George Orwell : ‘Politics and the English Language’

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens : Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities

George Eliot : Middle March

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’Urbervilles

D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers

Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory

William Golding : Lord of the Flies

Iris Murdoch : The Sea

UNIT-IV : British Poetry

G. Chaucer : ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’

E. Spenser : ‘The Faerie Queene Book I’

John Donne : ‘The Canonization’, ‘The Flea’, ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’,

‘Goe and Catche a Falling Starre’, ‘A Hymme to God the Father’

J. Milton : ‘Paradise Lost’, Book I & II

J. Dryden : ‘Absalom & Achitophel’

A. Pope : ‘The Rape of the Lock’

William Blake : ‘London’

Thomas Gray : ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

William Wordsworth : ‘The Prelude’ Book I, ‘Tintern Abbey’

S.T. Coleridge : ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’

P.B. Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘Adonais’, ‘England in 1819’

John Keats : ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode to Autumn’

A. Tennyson : ‘Lady of Shallot’, ‘Ulysses’, ‘The Princess’, ‘The Lotos Eaters’

Robert Browning : ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’, ‘Prospice’, ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’, ‘The Last Ride

Together’, ‘My Lat Duchess’

Matthew Arnold : ‘The Scholar Gypsy’, ‘Thyrsis’, ‘Dover Beach’

W.B. Yeats : ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’, ‘Among

School Children’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, ‘Byzantium’

T.S. Eliot : ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Burnt Norton’

W.H. Auden : ‘Petition’, ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’, ‘Consider’,‘The Shield of Achilles’,

‘Partition’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’

Philip Larkin : ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, ‘Ambulances’, ‘Church Going’

Ted Hughes : ‘The Crow’, ‘Hawk Roosting’, ‘The Thought Fox’

UNIT-V : Literary Theory and Criticism

Aristotle : ‘Poetics’

Longinus : ‘On the Sublime’

J. Dryden : ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’

Dr Johnson : ‘Preface to Shakespeare’

W. Wordsworth : ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’

S.T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chaps XIII, XIV, XVIII)

Matthew Arnold : ‘Study of Poetry’, ‘Shelley’, ‘Wordsworth’, ‘Culture and Anarchy’

T.S. Eliot : ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, ‘Hamlet’, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’

I.A. Richards : The Principles of Literary Criticism

F.R. Leavis : ‘Johnson and Augustanism’, ‘Literature and Society’, ‘Literary Criticism

and Philosophy’

Practical Criticism

UNIT-VI : Literary Theory and Literary Criticism

Structuralism, Deconstruction, Historicism, New Historicism, Feminism, Post-Colonialism, Cultural

Theory,Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Psycho-analytical Criticism, Marxism, Reader-Response

Theory, Technological Criticism, Indian Poetics – Rasa, Dhvani Schools

UNIT-VII : American Literature

R.W. Emerson : ‘Each and All’, ‘Hamatreya’, ‘Brahma’, ‘The Over Soul’

Walt Whitman : ‘One's Self I Sing’, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed’,

‘A Passage to India’, ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’

Emily Dickinson : ‘I never Lost as Much but Twice’, ‘Success is Counted Sweetest’, ‘I felt a

Funeral in my Brain’, ‘If I should Die and you should Live’

Robert Frost : ‘Birches’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’,

‘The Road not Taken’, ‘Mowing’, ‘The Death of the Hired Man’

Wallace Stevens : ‘The Emperor of Ice Cream’, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird’,

‘The World as Meditation’

Eugene O' Neill : The Hairy Ape

Tennessee Williams : The Glass Manegerie

Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman

N. Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter

E. Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea

H. Melville : Moby Dick

Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

H.D. Thoreau : Civil Disobedience.

UNIT-VIII : Indian Literature in English

Toru Dutt : ‘Lakshman’, ‘The Lotus’, ‘Our Casuarina Tree’

Sarojini Naidu : ‘Planquin Bearers’, ‘Bangle-sellers’, ‘Weavers’, ‘The Flute-Players’, ‘Of Vrindavan’

R.N. Tagore : Gitanjali

M.K. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj

Swami Vivekanand : ‘Chicago Lecture’

Sri Aurodindo : Savitri Canto I, ‘The Future Poetry’, ‘Is India Civilized’

Nissim Ezekiel : ‘A Time to Change’, ‘Enterprise’, ‘Poet’, ‘Lover’, ‘Birdwatcher’,

‘Background’, ‘Casually’

Kamala Das : ‘An Introduction’, ‘My Grandmother's House’, ‘Summer in Calcutta’

A.K. Ramanujan : ‘Self – Portrait’, ‘A River’, ‘The Fall’, ‘Fear No Fall’

Raja Rao : Kanthapura

R.K. Narayan : The Guide

Anita Desai : Cry the Peacock

Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence

UNIT-IX : Linguistics, Phonetics & Modern Grammar

1. Properties of Human Language

2. Scope and Branches of Linguistics

3. Language Varieties and Language Change

4. Saussure’s Concept of Linguistic Sign, Immutability and Mutability of Sign.

5. Speech Mechanism and Phonemes in English

6. Consonant Clusters, Syllables and Word Stress

7. English Morphology and Syntax.

8. Chomsky’s Transformational and Generative Grammar and Leech’s Communicative

Grammar

9. Stylistics and Literary Criticism, Discourse Analysis, ELT & ESP

10. Language Planning.

UNIT-X : New Literatures in English

Australian and New Zealand Literature

Patrick White : Voss

Sally Morgan : My Place

Peter Porter : ‘Your Attention Please’

Pry Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Allen Curnow : ‘Time’, ‘House and Land’

Canadian Literature

M.G. Vassanji : ‘Am I a Canadian Writer ?’

Marshall McLuhan : The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man

Margaret Atwood : Surfacing

A.M. Klein : ‘Indian Reservation : Caughnwaga’

P.K. Page : ‘First Neighbours’

Earle Birney : ‘Bushed’, ‘The Bear on the Delhi Road’

African and Caribbean Literature

Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

Dennis Brutus : ‘A Common Hate Enriched our Love and US’

Gabriel Okara : The Mystic Drum

David Diop : ‘Africa’

Edward Braithwaite : ‘Tizzic’

Derek Walcott : ‘Ruins of a Great House’

Mervyn Morris : ‘Judas’

Wole Soyinka : Lion and the Jewel

Nadine Gordimer : ‘English Language Literature and Politics in South Africa’

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