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Syllabus of 3rd Year Honours
Department of English JU

E 301 SHAKESPEARE 1 UNIT MARKS 100
Richard II, Antony and Cleopetra, Macbeth, Hamlet ,As You Like It, The Tempest
Sonnet Nos. 12, 33, 55, 73, 97, 130, 138, 144, 146.

E302 HIGH VICTORIAN LITERATURE (1830-1880) 1UNIT MARKS 100

Charles Dickens	Great Expectations
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights
George Eliot	Silas Marner
Alfred Tennyson	In Memorium, ‘Tithonus’
Robert Browning	‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ ‘Andrea Del Sarto’, ‘Prophyria’s Lover’ , ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’
Mathew Arnold	‘Dover Beach’ Culture and Anarchy (Ch 1 Sweetness and Light)
John Stuart Mill	‘What is Poetry’ ‘Of Individuality’

E303 LATE VICTORIAN TO MODERNIST (1880-1930) 1/2UNIT MARKS 50

Thomas Hardy	The Return of the Native
D.H. Lawrence	The Rainbow
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness
William Butler Yeats	Easter 1916’ ‘The Second Coming’ ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Byzantium,’ ‘Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop’, ‘No Second Troy’
T.S. Eliot	The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

E304 LITERARY CRITICISM 1 UNIT MARKS 100

Aristotle	Poetics
Plato	The Republic
Longinus	On the Sublime
Philip Sydney	An Apology for Poetry
John Dryden	An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
William Wordsworth	Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Matthew Arnold	The Study of Poetry
T.S. Eliot	‘Tradition and Individual Talent’
Terry Eagleton	‘The Rise of English in Modern Times’(From Literary Theory: An Introduction)

E 305 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS 1 UNIT MARKS 100
Linguistics, Definition, Levels and Branches
School of Linguistics: Saussure, Bloomfield, Chomsky and London School
Phonetics and Phonology: English Phonemes and Surasegmentals, Trubetzkay, Jakobson, Jones, Halle and Chomsky
Morphology and Syntax: Morpheme C Analysis, PS Grammar and TG
Semantics and Pragmatics: Types of Meaning, Transactional and Interactional Function of Language, Discoursal Analysis and Speech-Act
Psycho-Sociolinguistics: Theories of L1 and L2 acquisition Individual Factors in L2 Learning, Language Varieties and Standardization.

E306 AMERICAN LITERATURE 1 UNIT MARKS 100

Walt Whitman	“Songs of Myself”
Robert Frost	‘The Death of a Hired Man’ ‘Apple Picking,’ ‘Design Fire’, and ‘Ice The Road not Taken’, ‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening’
Emily Dickinson	Poems 49,130,185,241,249, 435,510,6536,
William Carlos Williams	‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ ‘Portrait of Lady’ ‘Willow Poem’ ‘To Elsie’ ‘A Sort of a Song’
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The American Scholar
Henry David Thoreau	‘Civil Disobedience’
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ernest Hemingway	‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’
Eugene O’Neil	Long Day’s Journey into Night
Tennessee Williams	A Street Car Named Desire

E 307 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE 1 UNIT MARKS 100

R.K. Narayan	The Guide
V.S. Naipaul	A House for Mr Biswas
Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka	The Road
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o	The Petals of Blood
K. Parthasarathy	Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets
U. Baier (ed.)	Modern Poetry from Africa

Biography of Authors on Course E-307
R.K. Narayan
V.S. Naipaul
Chinua Achebe
Wole Soyinka
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

R .K. NARAYAN
R[asipuram] K[rishnaswamy] Narayan (b. 1906) is unusual among Indian authors writing in English in that he has stayed contentedly in his home country, venturing abroad only rarely. He rarely addresses political issues or tries to explore the cutting edge of fiction. He is a traditional teller of tales, a creator of realist fiction which is often gentle, humorous, and warm rather than hard-hitting or profound. Almost all of his writings are set in the fictional city of Malgudi, and are narrowly focused on the lives of relatively humble individuals, neither extremely poor nor very rich.
The Guide is one of his most interesting books, which begins as a comic look at the life of a rogue, but evolves into something quite different. It should be noted that Narayan is not a devout Hindu, and has accused Westerners of wrongly supposing that all Indians are deeply spiritual beings; but it is also true that he was deeply impressed by some experiences he had with a medium after the sudden death of his young wife (described movingly in The English Teacher (1945).
Narayan has stated that the incident of the reluctant holy man was based on a real event which he read about in the newspaper.

V.S. NAIPAUL
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on August 17, 1932. His Hindu grandfather had emigrated there from West India as an indentured servant. His father, Seepersad (1906-53), was a journalist, whose literary aspirations were inherited by V.S., and his brother, Shiva. The family moved to Port of Spain, where Naipaul attended Queenís Royal College. In 1948, he was awarded a Trinidad government scholarship, which he used to study literature at University College, Oxford, beginning in 1950. Following his graduation in 1953, Naipaul worked as a free-lance writer with the BBC, hosting the program "Carribbean Voices," and with the literary journal, The New Statesman. He married an English woman--Patricia Ann Hale--in 1955. Since then, he has resided in London, travelling extensively and writing many critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and essays. In 1990, Naipaul was knighted by the Royal family. His wife died in 1996, and he was remarried shortly thereafter, to a Pakistani woman named Nadira.

CHINUA ACHEBE
Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, an Igbo village near the Niger River in a Nigeria under British rule. His parents were devout Christians, and his father worked as a teacher of the Church Missionary Society. As a child Chinua was taught to look down on his fellow tribe members who practiced the traditional faith. Nonetheless, he was fascinated with the customs and traditions of his non-Christian neighbors and went to their ceremonies and festivals despite the fact his parents forbid him to do so.
He attended a government-run secondary school where he learned to love and appreciate British literature. He enjoyed the authors such as Joseph Conrad and their tales of Africa but came to realize "that these writers had pulled a fast one on me! I was not on Marlowe’s boat steaming up the Congo in Heart of Darkness. I was one of those strange beings jumping up and down on the river bank, making horrid faces." He decided that he could write a more realistic portrayal of his culture and began by writing articles for his college campus newspaper. Then in 1958 he published his first novel, Things Fall Apart. He had gone to work for the Nigerian Broadcasting company in 1953 and rose to the position of director of the Voice of Nigeria by 1961. That same year he married and settled down to a comfortable life in a suburb of the capital city of Lagos. This all came to an end when a coup by Igbo army officers was met with a countercoup of predominately Muslim officers. There ensued one of the worst massacres ever on the African continent, with as many as 30,000 Igbo tribesmen murdered. Achebe fled to the Igbo region of Nigeria, which later declared itself an independent country, the Republic of Biafra. The new country suffered much misery, but Achebe supported the new republic, using his energies to begin a new publishing firm and to seek aid for the children in Biafra. When Biafra lost the fight for independence, Achebe worked as a research fellow at the University of Nigeria. He took an active interest in the publishing industry in Africa, helped promote the careers of young African writers, and divided his time between teaching posts in Nigeria and the United States. Since 1990 he has taught at Bard College in Annandale, New York.

Achebe, Chinua
B.A., University of London. Nigerian-born novelist and poet; works include Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), Beware Soul Brother (1972), The Trouble with Nigeria (1984), Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Another Africa, with R. Lyons (1998), Africa Is People (1998), Home and Exile (2000). Awards and prizes include Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1974), Lotus Award for Afro-Asian Writers (1975), Campion Medal (1996), German Booksellers Peace Prize (2002). Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, London (1981); honorary foreign fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1983); honorary fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002). Honorary doctorates from more than 30 colleges and universities. McMillan-Stewart Lecturer, Harvard University (1998); Presidential Fellow Lecturer, World Bank (1998). Bard College (1990– )