PG TRB - ENGLISH SYLLABUS -2025

 

PG TRB - ENGLISH SYLLABUS

 

Unit I ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1400-1600

Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer:       Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

                                   (The Book of the Duchess Chapter only)

Edmund Spenser:        Prothalamion and Epithalamion

Sir Thomas Wyatt:      Remembrance

 

Prose

Bacon’s Essays:         Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies,

       Of Adversity,Of Revenge and Of Ambition

Sir Philip Sydney:     An Apologie for Poetrie

The Bible:                 The Book of Job

 

Drama

Christopher Marlowe:           Dr. Faustus

Thomas Kyd:                         The Spanish Tragedy

Ben Jonson:                           Every Man in His Humour

 

 

Unit II     ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1601-1798

Poetry

John Milton                  Paradise Lost, Book – 1X

Andrew Marvell           To His Coy Mistress

John Donne                  The Canonization

Alexander Pope           The Rape of the Lock

John Dryden                 Absalom and Achitophel

Thomas Gray                Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 

Prose and Fiction

Samuel Johnson           Life of Milton

Jonathan Swift             Gulliver’s Travels

John Bunyan                The Pilgrim’s Progress

Daniel Defoe                Robinson Crusoe

 

Drama

John Dryden                 All for Love

Richard B. Sheridan    The School for Scandal

William Congreve       The Way of the World

Oliver Goldsmith        She Stoops to Conquer

 

Unit III   ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1798-1850

Poetry

William Wordsworth    Immortality, Tintern Abbe

                                     The Prelude - Book-I

Samuel Coleridge        Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan

John Keats                   Ode to a Nightingale

Percy Bysshe Shelley  Ozymandias, Adonais

 

Prose and Fiction

Charles Lamb               Essays of Elia: Christ’s Hospital,

The South Sea House, Dream Children,

New Year’s Eve

William Hazlitt           My First Acquaintance with Poets

William Wordsworth  Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Jane Austen                Sense and Sensibility

Emily Bronte             Wuthering Heights

 

Lyrical Drama

Percy Bysshe Shelley           Prometheus Unbound

 

 

Unit IV     LITERATURE FROM 1851 TO THE PRESENT DAY

Poetry

Mathew Arnold            Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy

Robert Browning         Andrea Del Sarto

Alfred Lord Tennyson Ulysses

W.B. Yeats                   Byzantium

T.S. Eliot                      The Waste Land

G.M. Hopkins              God’s Grandeur

W.H. Auden                 The Unknown Citizen

Ted Hughes                  The Thought Fox

 

Prose and Fiction

Thomas Carlyle            On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the

Heroic in History Lecture III- Shakespeare

Mathew Arnold            The Study of Poetry

George Orwell              You and the Atom Bomb

Charles Dickens           Hard Times

George Eliot                 The Mill on the Floss

Thomas Hardy             Mayor of Casterbridge

Virginia Woolf             Mrs. Dalloway

 

Drama

John Osborne               Look Back in Anger

Bertolt Brecht               Mother Courage and Her Children

J.M. Synge                    Riders to the Sea

Caryl Churchill            Top Girls

 

Unit V     PLAYS AND SONNETS BY SHAKESPEARE

Drama

Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, Measure for Measure

Sonnets

18, 29,65, 104,106, 116, 129,130

 

Unit VI AMERICAN LITERATURE

Poetry

Walt Whitman                       Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Anne Bradstreet                    Prologue

R.W. Emerson                       Brahma

Robert Frost                          Birches, Mending Wall

Paul Lawrence Dunbar         The Sparrow

Maya Angelou                      I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

E.E. Cummings                     The Cambridge Ladies

Charlotte Perkins Gilman     The Anti-Suffragists

Prose and Fiction

H.D. Thoreau               Where I Lived and What I Lived For

R.W. Emerson              The American Scholar

William Faulkner        Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Toni Morrison             Beloved

Jhumpa Lahiri              The Namesake

Drama

Arthur Miller                The Death of a Salesman

Eugene O’ Neil            Emperor Jones

Tennessee Williams    A Street Car Named Desire

 

Unit VII  (A) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Poetry

Rabindranath Tagore      Gitanjali

Nissim Ezeikel                Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa

Toru Dutt                         Our Casuarina Tree

Kamala Das                     An Introduction

Sujatha Bhatt                   A Different History

Prose and Fiction

Jawaharlal Nehru        An Autobiography

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar     Annihilation of Caste

Mulk Raj Anand           Coolie

Kamala Markandeya   A Handful of Rice

Arundathi Roy             The God of Small Things

Drama

Girish Karnad               Hayavadana

Vijay Tendulkar           Silence! The Court is in Session

Mahasweta Devi           Rudali

Mahesh Dattani            Dance like a Man

 

(B) COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE

Poetry

Kath Walker                 A Song of Hope

Banjo Patterson            Waltzing Mathilda

Wole Soyinka              The Telephone Conversation

E.J. Pratt                       The Dying Eagle

Judith Wright               At Cooloolah

Abioseh Nicol              The Meaning of Africa

A.D. Hope                    Australia

Prose and Fiction

Thomas King                Godzilla Vs Post-Colonial

Chinua Achebe             Things Fall Apart

Alan Paton                    Cry, the Beloved Country

Patrick White               Voss

Drama

Wole Soyinka              The Lion and the Jewel

George Ryga                The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Jane Harrison               Stolen

 

Unit VIII     LITERARY CRITICISM

1.      Aristotle                        Poetics

2.      Dryden                          Essay of Dramatic Poesy

3.      Coleridge                      Biographia Literaria Ch. XIV and Ch XVII

4.      T. S. Eliot                     Metaphysical Poets

5.      I. A. Richards               Four Kinds of Meaning

6.      William Empson         The Seven Types of Ambiguity

7.      Northrop Frye              The Archetypes of Literature

8.      Cleanth Brooks            Irony as a Principle of Structure

9.      Allen Tate                    Tension in Poetry

10.    Elaine Showalter         Towards a Feminist Poetics

11.    Simone de Beauvoir    The Second Sex

 

Unit IX   LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND PEDAGOGY

1.    History of English Language and its Growth

2.    Indo – European Family and the Place of English language Old, Middle and Modern English

3.    Growth of Vocabulary from various Foreign Languages,

4.    Change in Meaning,

5.    Influence of The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton and Dr. Johnson

6.    Characteristics of Modern English, Spelling Reform and the English Lexicon

7.    Linguistics

8.    English Phonetics and Phonology (Vowels, Consonants and Diphthongs) Morphology, Word formation and its different types

9.    Semantics Dialect & Idiolect

10.      Grammar – Traditional, Transformational Generative Grammar and Deep Structure

11.      Applied Linguistics

12.      English Language Teaching (ELT)

13.      History of ELT

14.      Second Language Acquisition Designing Syllabus

15.       Materials Production

16.        Language Testing and Evaluation

 

UNIT X  APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE SKILLS

1.   Phrases,

2.   Synonyms,

3.   Antonyms,

4.   Prefix and Suffix,

5.   Tenses,

6.   Voice,

7.   Parts of Speech,

8.   Homophones,

9.   Articles and Determiners,

10.    Identifying Sentence Patterns,

11.    Compound Words,

12.     Figures of Speech,

13.    Identifying and Correcting Errors,

14.    British and American English

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