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American Literature (EMEN22) - I Year

  ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024 (EVEN) I B.A English – Semester II   Core IV – American Literature (EMEN22)   Syllabus Unit I Background: The First Frontier (Settlement of America) – The Puritans and the spread of Puritanism in America Romanticism: Optimist and Pessimist – The Flowering of New England – The Transcendentalists – Writers of the South – Indian thought in Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman – Sacred Writings of the East.   Unit II Walt Whitman                -        O Captain! My Captain! Robert Frost                             -        Birches Edgar Allan Poe              -        The Raven Emily Dickinson             -        Because I Could Not Stop for Death   Unit III Martin Luther King Jr.    -        I Have a Dream Ralph Waldo Emerson   -        Self Reliance   Unit IV Tennessee Williams        -        The Glass Menagerie   Unit V Nathaniel Hawthorne      -        The Scarlet Letter   Text Books ·         American Literatu

Indian English Literature II (CMEN42) - II Year

ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023 (Even Semester) II B.A English Indian English Literature II (CMEN42) Syllabus Unit II:  Prose Swami Vivekananda             - Chicago Address I Dr. Radhakrishnan                - The Emerging World Society A. P. J. Abdul Kalam             - “15 Emancipators” from Wings of Fire: An Autobiography Amartya Sen                          - Inequality, Instability and Voice     Unit II: Poetry A. K. Ramanujan                   - Small-scale Reflections on a Great House Eunice de Souza                    - Catholic Mother Keki N. Daruwalla                - Death of a Bird Agha Shahid Ali                    - Postcard from Kashmir   Unit III: Short- story Manjula Padmanabhan         - Unfaithful Servants Gita Hariharan                       - Remains of the Feast Khushwant Singh                  - The Portrait of a Lady     Unit IV: Drama Girish Karnad                        - H

Fantasy Literature (CMEN64) - III Year

Academic Year 2023-2024 (Even Semester) III B.A English – Semester VI FANTASY LITERATURE (CMEN64) Unit I: Poetry Lewis Carroll                          : Jabberwocky Lord Alfred Tennyson             : The Lady of Shalott Walter de La Mare                  : The Listeners Unit II: Short Story Hans Christian Andersen        : The Little Mermaid Lord Dunsany                         : The Hoard of the Gibbelins Anne McCaffrey                     : The Smallest Dragon boy Unit III: Drama J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne                      : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Unit IV: Fiction J.R.R. Tolkien                         : The Hobbit C.S. Lewis                              : The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch    and the Wardrobe Unit V: Fiction Brandon Sanderson                : Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book I) Cassandra Clare                      : The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Book I) Rick Riord

Indian Writing in English (EMEN12) - I Year

  Academic Year 2023-2024 (Odd) I Year –Semester I Indian Writing in English   (EMEN12)   Unit I Introduction from K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar and C.D. Narasimaiah   Unit II                                                                                                                         Rabindranath Tagore    –      Paper Boats Sarojini Naidu             –      The Village Song                                             Toru Dutt                     –      The Lotus A. K Ramanujam        –       Still another View of Grace R Parthasarathy           –       River Once   Unit III Mahatma Gandhi        –        Steal and Atonement Sri Aurobindo             –        Poetry from Early Cultural Writings (Page 123-24) Vivekananda               –         Address at the final session (Complete works Vol I, Chapter I)   Unit IV Ruskin Bond               –          The Eyes are Not Here                      K. A Abbas                 –           The Sp

Foundation Course (EFEN11) - I Year

Academic Year 2023-2024 (Odd) I Year – Semester I Foundation Course (EFEN11) Unit I The Sentence Subject and Predicate Noun:   Kinds of Noun Noun: Gender Unit II Adjectives:  Kinds of Adjective Comparison of Adjectives Pronoun:  Kinds of Pronoun   Unit III The Auxiliaries & Modal Auxiliaries Adverbs Preposition Conjunction Interjection   Unit IV Simple, Compound & Complex Synthesis of sentence Clause Transformation of Sentence Direct & Indirect Speech   Unit V Non-Finite Verbs           The Infinitive            The Participle           The Gerund Question Tags   Text Books 1.    Green, David. Contemporary English Grammar: Structures and Composition . New Delhi: Trinity Press. 2016. 2.    Wren and Martin. High School English Grammar and Composition . S. Chanf & Company Ltd. Reference Books (Latest editions, and the style as given below must be strictly adhered to) 1.       Krishnaswamy, K. Mo

Indian English Literature I (CMEN32) - II Year

Academic Year 2023-2024 (Odd) II Year –Semester III INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE I (CMEN32) Unit I: Prose             K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar                -           Indian Writing in English-Introduction             Jawaharlal Nehru                            -            The Indian Philosophical Approach             C. V. Raman                                 -            Books That Have Influenced Me             V. S. Srinivasa Sastri                -            What I Cherish Most Unit II: Poetry             Toru Dutt                                 -            The Young Captive             Sarojini Naidu                         -            Summer Woods             Nissim Ezekiel                         -            A Morning Walk             Kamala Das                             -            Smoke in Columbo Unit III: Short-story             Raja Rao                                  -           India-A Fable             Mulk Raj Anand                      -            The Lia