PG TRB English Study Notes 2021
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PGTRB | Syllabus | Subject: English
Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600)
Poetry
For Detailed Study
- Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Spenser : Faerie Queene - Book-I
For Non-detailed Study
- Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion
- Wyatt, Surrey : Selections in Peacock's English verse, Vol-I
- Ballads : Peacock - Vol-II
Prose
For Detailed Study
- Bacon - Essays : Of Truth, Of Adversity, Of Studies,
- Of Revenge, Of Ambition, Of Friendship
- Sidney : Apologie For Poetrie
- For Non-detailed Study
- The Bible : The Book of Job.
Drama
- For Detailed Study
- Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
For Non-Detailed Study
- Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy
- Ben Jonson : The Alchemist
Unit-II - MODERN LITERATURE (1600-1798)
Poetry
For Detailed study
- Donne : Canonisation, The Ecstasie
- Milton : Paradise Lost, Book-IX
- Pope : The Rape of the Lock.
For Non-detailed Study
- Milton : Samson Agonistes
- Gray, Collins & Blake: Peacock's English Verse - Vol-III
- Herbert : 1. Affliction 2. The Pulley
- Marvell : To His Coy Mistress
Prose
For Detailed Study
- Johnson : Life of Milton
For Non-Detailed Study
- Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress
- Fielding : Tom Jones
Drama
For Detailed Study
- Dryden : All for Love
- Sheridan : The School for Scandal
For Non-detailed Study
- Congreve : The way of the World
- Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer
Unit-III - MODERN LITERATURE (1798 - 1832)
Poetry
For Detailed Study
- Wordsworth : Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey
- Coleridge : Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan
- Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn.
- Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
For Non-Detailed Study
- Wordsworth : Prelude - Book-I
- Shelley : Adonais
Prose
For Detailed Study
- Lamb : Essays of Elia, Christ's Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream children, New Year's Eve
- Hazlitt : My First Acquaintance with Poets.
For Non-Detailed Study
- Shelley : A Defence of Poetry
- Wordsworth : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1850)
- Jane Austen : Emma
- Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Unit-IV - MODERN LITERATURE (1832 to the present day)
Poetry
For Detailed Study
- Arnold : Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
- Browning : Andrea Del Sarto
- Tennyson : Morte D' Arthur
- eats : Byzantium
- Eliot : The Waste land
For Non-Detailed Study
- Hopkins : The Wreck of the Deutschland The selections from (i) Owen (ii) W.H.Auden (iii) Stephen Spender in the Faber Book of Modern Verse.
Prose
For Detailed Study
- Carlyle : The Hero as a Man of Letters (from “On Heroes and Hero Worship”)
- Mathew Arnold : The Study of Poetry
- T.S.Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent
For Non-detailed Study
- Dickens : Great Expectations
- George Elliot : Middle March
- Hardy : Jude the Obscure
- Virginia Woolf : To the Light House
- Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory
Unit-V – SHAKESPEARE
Drama
- For Detailed Study Macbeth, The Tempest
- For Non-Detailed Study
- Henry–IV Part-I: Measure for Measure Antony and Cleopatra
- A general knowledge of the other plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare is expected of the candidates.
Unit-VI AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry
Detailed study
- Walt Whitman : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Emily Dickinson : Because I could not Stop for Death
- Robert Frost : Mending Wall, Birches, West Running Brook.
- Sylvia Plath : Daddy
- Walt Whitman : Passage to India
- E.E.Cummings : The Cambridge Ladies
- Hart Crane : Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge.
Fiction
- Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Melville : Moby Dick
- Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
Prose
Detailed study
- Emerson : The American Scholar
- Faulkner : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
Non-Detailed Study
- Thoreau : Walden
- James Thurcer : The Owl in the Attic
Drama
Detailed study
- Eugene O’ Neil : The Hairy Ape
- Arthur Miller : The Death of a Salesman
Non-Detailed Study
- Tennesse Williams : A Street Car named Desire
- Edward Albee : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Unit-VII INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Poetry
Detailed Study:
- Tagore : Gitanjali
- Aurobindo : Thought the Paraclete
Non-Detailed Study:
- Poems of Sarojini Naidu and Toru Dutt from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry. Poems of A.K.Ramanujam, R. Parthasarathy, Kamala Das and Nissim Ezekiel from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets” ed. R.Parthasarathy.
Fiction
- Mulk Raj Anand : Coolie
- Raja Rao : Kantapura
- R.K. Narayan : The English Teacher
- Kamala Markandaya: A Handful of Rice.
Prose
Detailed Study
- Ananda Commarasamy Aurobindo:The Dance of Shiva (The Title Essay)
- Non-Detailed Study
- Nehru : An Autobiography
Drama
Detailed Study:
- Tagore : Muktha Dhara
- Girish Karnad : Tughlaq
- Non-Detailed Study
- Gurucharan Das : Larine Sahib
Commonwealth Literature
Poetry
Non-Detailed Study:
- E.J. Pratt : The Dying Eagle
- Judith Wright : Fire in the Murdering Hut, The Cedars
- Wole Soyinka : The Telephone conversation
- Abioseh Nicoll : The Meaning of
- Africa A.D.Hope : Australia
Drama
Detailed Study
- Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel
Non–Detailed Study
- Douglas Stewart : Ned Kelly
Prose
- Chinua Achebe : The Novelist as Teacher
Fiction
- Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
- Alan Paten : Cry, the Beloved Country
Unit-VIII -- APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
- 1. Modern Drama
- 2. Modern Fiction
- 3. Literary Movements
- 4. Literary Criticism and Theory
- 5. Feminism
- 6. Teaching of English in India
- 7. Journalism and Creative Writing in English
- 8. Post – Modernism
Unit-IX – HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- 1. Origin of Language
- 2. Place of English in the Indo-European family
- 3. General Characteristics of Old and Middle English
- 4. The rise and growth of Modern English
- 5. Growth of Vocabulary Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Scandinavian and other foreign influences – Word Formation.
- 6. Change of Meaning
- 7. The Makers of English, The Bible, Spenserm, Shakespeare, Milton and Dr.Johnson.
- 8. American English
- 9. Indian English
- 10.Characteristics of Modern English
- 11.Spelling Reform
- 12.The English Lexicon
Books for reference:
- 1) Henry Bradley: The Making of English
- 2) F.T.Wood : An outline History of the English Language
- 3) A.C.Baugh : A History of the English Language
LINGUISTICS
Definitions – The Nature and Scope of linguistics, Speech and Writing, Form
and Meaning Words, Clause and Phrase – Concord Government– Sentence
Pattern Phonology Morphology Idiolect, Dialect Transformational
Generative Grammar
Books for Study
- Frank Plalee : Grammar, ELBS
- John Lyons : An introduction to Theoretical linguistics
Unit-X PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
- 1. Aristotle : Poetics
- 2. Dryden : Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- 3. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria Ch.XIV and Ch.XVII
- 4. Keats : Letters (from English Critical Tradition-Macmillan)
- 5. T.S.Elliot : Metaphysical poets
- 6. I.A.Richards : Four kinds of Meaning
- 7. William Empson : The Seventh Type of Ambiguity
- 8. Northrop Frye : The Archetypes of Literature
- 9. L.Trilling : Sense of the Past
- 10. Brooks : Irony as a Principle of Structure
- 11. Allen Tate : Tension in Poetry
