Part - I From and Theory :
Following topics are to be studied : the nature, structure, function of tragedy; a survey of the variations of the form evident in the history of drama; classical and Shakespearean concepts of tragedy; heroic tragedy; problem plays with tragic overtones; absurd drama; tragedy as a serious play.
Part - II (Texts ) :
(1)
Sophocles, Oedipus
Rex
(2) Marlowe, Decotor Faustus
(3) Corneille, Le
Cid
(4) Dryden, All for Love
(5) Ibsen, The Wild
Duck
(6) Beckett, Waiting for Godot
(7) O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night (8) Bhasa,
Urubhangam or Broken Thighs
Background Reading :
1.
Sophocles, Antigone
2. Euripides, Medea
3. Euripides, Hippolytus
4. Aeschylus, Agemenon
5. Geothe,
Faust
6. Ibsen, Ghosts
7. Strindberg, Miss Jullie
8. Genet, The Balcony
9. Camus, Cross
Purpose
10. Camus, Caligula
11. Sartre, The
Flies
12. O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
13. Racine, Phedre
14. Miller, The Death of a Salesman
15. Bhasa, Karmbharam of Karna's
Task 16. Sartre, The Devil and
the Good Lord.
Note : There shall be one question with an internal option on the Part-I topics.
Each of the remaining questions must be set on a particular text. Its internal option must come from another text. There should not be two questions on the same text.
Unit - 1 Aristotle Poetics :
Unit - 2 From the Renaissance to the end of the Nineteenth Century.
(The Texts)
1.
John Dryden An Essay of Dramatic Poesies
2. William Wordsworth Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
3. S.T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria (CH. XIV)
4. Mathew Arnold The Study of Poetry.
Unit - 3 (The Texts) :
1.
Eliot, Function of
Criticism
2. Richards, Two Uses of Language
3. Brooks, The Language of
Paradox
4. Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters
5. Frye, The Archetypes of Literature
Unit - 4 (The Texts) :
1.
Saussure, Nature of the Linguistic
Sign 2. Paul de Man, The Resistance to
Theory
3. Helen Cixons,
Sorties
4. Edward Said, Crisis [in Orientatism]
Unit - 5 Short Notes Topics :
1.
Plato's objections to
poetry
2. Plato's Theory of Inspiration
3. Sidney's Defence of
Poetry.
4. Neo-Classicalism
5. Art fro Art's
sake
6. The Symbolist Movement
7. New
Criticism
8. Formalism
9. Psychoanalysis and
Criticism
10. The Sociogical School
11. The Marxist
Approach
12. The Chicago Critics
13.
Feminism
14. Post Colonial Criticism.
15. Geneva
School
16. Deconstruction
17. Post
Modernism
18. New Historicism
19. The Speech Act Thoery
Background Reading :
1.
Horace, The Art of
Poetry
2. Pope, Essay on Criticism
3. Shelley, A Defense of
Poetry
4. Walter Pater, Appreciation
5. Henry James, The Art of
Fiction
6. William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
7. Raymond Williams, Politics and
Letters 8. Wimsatt and Beardaley,
"The International Fallacy"
9. Cleanth Brooks, "Irony as a Principle of
Structure" 10. Mand Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns in Poetry
11. Blackmur R.P. Language as gesture
12.
Gearg Lukacs, "Historical Truth in Fiction" (Studies in European
realism)
13. Fiedler, Love and Dead in American
Novel 14. Jean
Paul Sartre, What is Literature
15. Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare.
1. Language Teaching : Basic Concepts
Basic Skills : LSRW
Learning and
Acquisition
Accuracy and Fluency
2. Approaches to LT
Grammar Translation Method Structural
Approach
Communicative Approaches
3. Course Design and Materials
Curriculum, Syllabus, Textbook Need based
courses
Remedial Materials
4. ELT in India
Pre-independence
Era
Post-independence developments Problems and Prospects in 21st
Century
5. Teaching Literature
Teaching of Peotry
Teaching of
Fiction
Teaching of Drama
6. Functional English
Teaching of Spoken English Teaching of
Written English Translation
7. Business Communication
Business
letter
Report
Writing
E-Commerce
8. Varieties of English
RP, GIE, World
English
The Process of Standardization Need for a National Standard
9. Language Testing
Reliability and Validity Objective
Tests
Types of Tests : Proficiency, Achievement, Aptitude
Following books are prescribed :
Haycraft, John, An Introduction to ELT, Longman, 1984.
Ed., Carter Ron & Neran, David, The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages, CUP, 2001 In addition to these text-books the following annotated list of ELT books may help the teachers and the students :
Background Reading :
Hornby A.S. Oxford Advanced Leaner's Dictionary of Current English : OUP : Intended for learners of English as a foreign or second language. Includes a wide range of modern vocabulary, provides information on syntax style, pronunciation.
Bryne Donn, Techniques for Classroom Interaction : Longman. Contains practical suggestions and advice to teachers. Shows how to organize a balance programme of interaction activities like accuracy work, fluency work, and group work in the classroom.
Brumfit C.J. Johnson K. The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching
: ELBS. A collection of seminal
papers explaining the theoretical background to the notional functional and
communicative approaches to English
Language Teaching. The book is divided into four sections - the linguistics
background to teaching application and techniques and methodological
perspectives.
Lee W.R., Language Teaching Games and Contents : OUP Designed to make language learning and effective as possible. Includes games for all age ground and language levels, for classes, group size and the use of the game. He book has detailed index.
Willis Jane., Teaching English Through English : ELBS : A practical course in teaching English as a second for foreign language. The first part covers the effective application of English in the classroom, showing how classroom situations can be used for presenting, practicing and reinforcing target language. The second part deals with teaching techniques and the languages of instruction.
Nihalani Paroo, Tongue R.K., Hosali Priya., Indian and British English
: OUP : A reference book, provides the
teachers and learners of English a valuable and useful information about Indian
English usage and pronunciation.
Ed. Russell N Campbell, William E Rutherford : Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language Series : OUP : A series of books especially designed to meet the needs of the classroom teacher presents the most current thinking in the field as well as practical answers to the questions of what to do in the classroom.
Hooper J.S., A Quick English Reference : OUP : A useful reference book for both students of English and adults. The book is organized into five parts : The syntax of English, The Mechanics of English, Expression in English, Vocabulary Building in English and units of writing. Suitable for classroom use as well as home study.
Crowell, Thomas Lee Jr., A Glossary of Phrases with Prepositions : Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. An exercise text that is may be useful to students whose mother tongue is not English. All phrases are illustrated with example.
Byrne Donn, Teaching Oral English Longman : A practical handbook on the teaching of the skills needed for oral communication both terms of reception and production. Special emphasis is placed on the use of visual aids, group work and language games. Contains exercises, example and suggestions to encourage the practicing teacher.
Bansal R.K., Harrison J.B., Spoken English for Indian Orient Longman : The books is for use of teachers and students in India who wish to improve their pronunciation in English, and acquire the correct patterns of accent, rhythm and intonation. Part-I contains a brief introduction to phonetics and information about the sound system of English. Part-II contains useful exercise material for pronunciation drills and conversation practice.
Standard Allen. W, Living English Speech : Orient Longman The book is a graded set of supplementary exercises for providing practice in stress, rhythm and intonation at all stages of learning English.
Wallace Michael J, Teaching Vocabulary : ELBS Provides a very clear and practical guide to the teaching of vocabulary in EFL and other language teaching situations. There are examples with keys and the chapter on the teaching of idioms and phrasal/ prepositional Verbs and the suggestions for discussion and practical work.
Colan J. Henley M, Word Mastery OUP : Contains a variety of exercises puzzles and games designed to help secondary school students extend their vocabulary and improve their facility with oral and written English. The book is divided into single-page self-contained units, each dealing with vocabulary on a different theme.
Ed: Maley Alan. Morgan John, Rinvolucri Marrian, Resourse Books for Teachers : OUP : This series gives the class room teachers and considers some of the underlying concepts. Each book consists of an introduction presenting important current issues in the area under consideration, and examples and discussion of actual classroom material and techniques.
Hornby A.S., Guide to Patterns and Usage in English : ELBS : Describes and demonstrates the grammar and idiom of English by means of a classic formula of pattern plus examples sentence. Covers verbs nouns, adjectives, adverbs. There are also chapter on tense and on idiomatic English in situations. Also takes into account modern spoken English.
Thomas A.J., Martinet A.V., A Practical English Grammar : OUP : A book specially designed for learners of English as a second foreign language. A detailed treatment of those points that the students of English find particularly difficult with examples. It is accompanied by combined exercise with key to Vol.-I and II.
Swan Micheal, Basic English Usage : ELBS : A practical guide to common problem in English grammar and usage, written for foreign students at intermediate level who wish to improve their English avoid mistakes. May also be useful for more advanced students.
Horn by A.S., The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns, Stages, II & III & IV : OUP, ELBS. : Provides guidance on the presentation of the most important teaching point likely to occur during the first few years of English course.
Allsop Jake, Chassell's Students' English Grammar : ELBS Chassell's Students English Grammar Exercises with Answers : ELBS. A fully illustrated grammar with a fresh, often humorous approach. Teachers may find both the examples and the illustrations a useful source of ideas for ways of presenting or reviewing grammar points in class. The companion volume may help students develop self-study skills.
Renvolucri Mario, Grammar Games : Cambridge University Press : A resource book for teacher containing material for a variety of games which can be played in the English classroom. Each games focuses on one or more points of English grammar. Some games may require sample materials to be supplied by the teacher while many of the pages may be copied for use in class. Enables teachers to integrate grammar practical into their classes in novel and motivating ways.
Nuttall Christine, Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language : ELBS : The book examines the various skills needed to read effectively and suggests classroom approaches and materials to develop and integrated them as well as to integrate reading with other language skills.
Quirk Randolph, Greenbaum Sidney, A University Grammar of English : ELBS : A reference book which combines maximum comprehensiveness with maximum economy of presentation. Concerned with 'Common Core' of English grammar, starting with the basic elements of sentence, and proceeding to coordination, complex sentences, the verb and its complementation and complex noun phrases. Also has appendices on word formation, stress, rhythm intonation and punctuation.
Grellet Francoise, Developing Reading Skills : Cambridge University Press. A handbook for language teacher who would like to develop their own reading material or who wish to enrich a reading course. Offers a classification and description of exercises aimed at developing different reading skills. The teaching of reading and offers them a great deal of resource materials to draw on.
Cassava C.P. Williams D., The Active Reader. Prentice - Hall : An introductory reading and communicative text for students of ESL. Each chapter begins with extension communicative pre-reading activities intended to active back- ground knowledge and provide vocabulary on each topics.
Rice M.K. Burns J.U., Thinking / Writing : Prentice - Hall : A stimulating book showing how to develop the logical thinking processes necessary for constructing well-written paragraphs.
Coffey M.P., Communication through Writing : Prentice - Hall : A practical approach to writing for high-intermediate and low-advanced students. The book teachers that writing is a process, an interactive nature and provides and extensive practice in formulation organization and editing of written information.
Unit - 1 Poetry (Walt Whitman)
1.
I Hear America
Singing
2. A Prayer of Columbus
3. Crossing Brooklyn
Ferry 4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
5. Facing West From California's
Shores 6. When Lilacs in the
Door Yard Bloom'd
7. Passage to
India
8. Pioneers! O Pioneers
9. To think of
Time
10. There was a child went Forth
Unit - 2 Poetry (Emily Dickinson)
1.
Success is counted
sweetest
2. I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
3. I can Wade
Grief
4. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
5. The Soul selects His Own
society
6. Tis Not That Dying Hurts us so
7. Because I could not stop for
Death 8. I
Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died
9. Just Lost when I Was saved
10. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
Unit - 3 Poetry (Wallace Stevens)
1.
The Load of
Sugarcane
2. Vacancy in the Park
3. The Worms at Heaven's
Gate &nb