Definition, function and scope of language and literature. The social roots of literature.

Quiz on Definition, function and scope of language and literature

Definition and function of figurative language: simile, metaphor, allusion, personification, pun alliteration, anti thesis, climax, assonance.

Quiz on Definition and Function of Figurative Language

Definition of symbol, image, myth, allegory, parable and fable

Quiz on Literary Devices: symbol, image, myth, allegory, parable and fable

Definition of lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, epic, satire, ballad, dramatic monologue.

Quiz on lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, epic, satire, ballad, dramatic monologue

Definition of essay, biography, autobiography, short story and novel

Quiz on essay, biography, autobiography, short story and novel

Definition and major components of tragedy, comedy, one- act play, farce, melodrama

Quiz on Definition and major components of tragedy, comedy, one- act play, farce, melodrama

Appreciation of poetry, prose and drama passages

Bacon : ‘Of Friendship’

Lamb : ‘The Praise of Chimney Sweepers’ Benson : ‘The Art of the Essayist’

Bernard Malamud : ‘The First Seven Years’ Ruskin Bond : ‘The Night Train at Deoli’

Shakespeare : ‘Shall I compare thee….’ ‘When in the chronicles of Wasted time’

Milton : ‘On the late Massacre in Piedmount’ ‘Lycidas’ Gray : ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

Blake : ‘The Tyger’

Burns : ‘O my Luve’s like a red, red rose’

Wordsworth : ‘The World is too much with us’

Lines Written in Early Spring’ Coleridge : ‘Kubla Khan’ Byron :‘All for love’

‘On the Castle of Chillon’ Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’

Keats : ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’: ‘Ode to Autumn’

Renaissance Movement

Augustan Movement

Romantic Movement

Victorian Movement

Modern Movement

Post Modern Movement

A brief history and representative features of 19th Century British Novel

Sense and Sensibility The Return of the Native

Tennyson : ‘Ulysses’

Browning : ‘My Last Duchess’

Arnold : ‘Thyrsis’ ‘Dover Beach’

Yeats :‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ ‘Among School Children’

Auden : ‘Seascape’ ‘The Shield of Achilles’

Eliot: ‘Landscapes – New Hampshire’ ‘Journey of the Magi’

Macbeth

As You Like It

She Stoops to Conquer

Look Back in Anger

Arms and the Man

All My Sons

Biographical, Historical and Formalist Approaches to Literature Concepts

Practice texts: Excerpts from Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley, Excerpts from Delhi by Khushwant Singh

Understanding Elizabeth Bishop through ‘One Art ’

Mythological and Archetypal Approaches to Literature Concepts.

Excerpts from The Golden Bough by Frazer

Excerpts from Haroun and Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Excerpts from Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald

‘To be or not to be’, Hamlets’ Soliloquy

Representative Features of Twentieth Century British and American Novel

A Passage to India

A Farewell to Arms