SEMESTER II

Course No: 201: Drama II (19^th and 20^th Centuries)   

50 marks (6 credits)

Unit 01:

• Wilde: Importance of Being Earnest
• Synge: Playboy of the Western World,
• Galsworthy: Justice (Any two)

Unit 02:

• Ibsen: A Doll’s House
• Shaw: Saint. Joan
• Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral (Any two)

Unit 03:

• Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
• Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• Brecht: Mother Courage (Any two)

Recommended reading:

• Martin Esslin: Theatre of the Absurd
• Bernard Bergonzi: Wartime and Aftermath: English Literature and its Background
• Martin Meisel : Shaw and the 19th-Century Theatre ( Princeton University Press)
• Daniel Dervin,   Bernard Shaw: A Psychological Study.
• B.W, Downs : Ibsen : The Intellectual Background CUP
• James McFarlane (ed)  The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen
• Allen Tate , (ed). T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work,

Course No: 202

50 marks (6 credits)

Fictional and Non-fictional Prose II (19^th and 20^th Century Texts)

Unit 01: 

• Arnold: Culture and Anarchy—selections
• Strachey: Eminent Victorians — Florence Nightingale
• Pater: ‘Conclusion to the Renaissance’ (Any two)

Unit 02:

• Conrad: Heart of Darkness
• Lawrence: Sons and Lover
• Kafka: The Trial (Any Two)

Unit 03: 

• Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse/
• James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/
• Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (Any two)     

Recommended reading:

• J.H.Buckle: The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture.
• Leon Edel: The Psychological Novel.
• Robert Humphrey: Stream of Consciousness and the Modern Novel.
• Maurice Beebe: Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts: The Artist as Hero in Fiction from Goethe to Joyce
• Michael Levenson(ed): The Cambridge Companion to Modernism.
• Harold Bloom: Figures of Capable Imagination.
• Frank Kermode:  The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction.

Course No: 203: Poetry III (19^th & 20^th Century Texts)

50 marks (6 credits)

Unit 01: 

• Yeats: ‘Easter 1916,’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘The Second Coming’
• Lawrence: ‘Snake’, ‘Bavarian Gentians’
• Owen: ‘Spring Offensive’, ‘Strange Meeting’ (Any two)

Unit 02:

• Eliot: ‘Preludes,’ ‘Marina’
• Auden: ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’; ‘Shield of Achilles’
• Dylan Thomas: ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London’, ’Fern Hill’ (Any two)

Unit 03:

• Larkin: ‘Whitsun Weddings’, ‘Church Going’
• Ted Hughes: ‘Crow’ (Selections)
• Seamus Heaney: ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘Digging’ (Any two)

Recommended reading:

• Julian Symons: The Thirties.
• Samuel Hynes: The Auden Generation.
• Donald Davie: Under Briggflatts:  A History of Poetry in Great Britain: 1960-1988.
• Alan Sinfield (ed): Society and Literature: 1945-1970
• Steven Connor(ed): The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
•  Peter Brooker (ed):  Modernism/Postmodernism.
• Samuel Hynes: The Auden Generation.

Course No 204:  Language and Communicative Skills   

50 marks (4 credits)

Unit -1: Phonetics

• Organs of Speech
• Vowels and Consonants
• Transcription and the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Syllables
• Word Stress
• Tone Groups
• Rhythm and Intonation
• Word Formation

Unit – 2: English Grammar and Usage

• Parts of Speech
• Grammar and Usage: Acceptability and Unacceptability
• Words and Sentences
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Syntax

      Unit -3: Academic Writing

• Paraphrasing and Summary
• Note-making and Note-taking
• Business Communication
• Skimming and Scanning Texts
• Use of dictionary and thesaurus
• Analysis and Expression

Recommended Readings:

• The Study of Language by Yule George
• Elements of General Phonetics by Abercrombie, D.
• An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English by GimsonA.C.
• An Introduction to English Grammar by S. Greenbaum
• English Grammar for Today by Geoffrey Leech
• Indian English: Functions and Forms by Parasher S.V.
• Modern English: A Book of grammar, Usage and Composition by N. Krishnaswamy
• Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students by Stephen Bailey

Course No: 205: Shakespeare (Theory: 40 marks; Internal Assessment: 10 marks)

50 marks (6 credits)

Unit 1:

Background to Shakespeare and the Life, Time and Stage

Western and Sub-continental stage responses (Macbeth and Twelfth Night)

Unit 2:

• Hamlet
• Measure for Measure

Unit 3:

• Shakespeare Criticism (Textual and Critical)
• Johnson and the 18^th Century Neoclassical tradition
• Romantic tradition: Coleridge/Lamb,
• 19^th Century Tradition: Bradley/ Spurgeon/ G. Wilson Knight
• 20^th Century tradition: Greenblatt.

Recommended reading:

• E.K. Chambers: William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems.
• E.K. Chambers: The Elizabethan Stage (in four volumes).
• Stanley Wells: Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies.
• Julia Briggs: This Stage-Play World.