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MATERIALS OVERVIEW
Unit I – Chaucerian Age (1400 – 1600)
S. No | Title | P. No |
Poetry | ||
01 | Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales | 14 |
02 | 2.1 Spenser
2.2 Faerie Queene – Book-I 2.3 Epithalamion 2.4 Prothalamion |
38
43 58 82 |
03 | Wyatt’s Poems (Selections in Peacock’s English verse, Vol-I) | 93 |
04 | Surrey’s Poems (Selections in Peacock’s English verse, Vol-I) | 99 |
05 | Ballads (Peacock – Vol-II) | 106 |
Prose | ||
06 | 6.1 Sir Francis Bacon
6.2 Of Truth 6.3 Of Adversity 6.4 Of Studies 6.5 Of Revenge 6.6 Of Ambition 6.7 Of Friendship |
120
124 129 131 135 138 142 |
07 | Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetrie | 155 |
08 | The Bible – The Book of Job | 183 |
Drama | ||
09 | Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus | 195 |
10 | Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy | 217 |
11 | Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist | 243 |
Unit II – Jacobean Age (1600-1798)
S. No | Title | P. No |
Poetry | ||
01 | John Donne’s Canonisation
The Ecstasy |
3
13 |
02 | John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book-IX
Samson Agonistes |
20
45 |
03 | Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock | 57 |
04 | Thomas Gray’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) | 80 |
05 | William Collins’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) | 95 |
06 | William Blake’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) | 103 |
07 | George Herbert’s Affliction
The Pulley |
113
121 |
08 | Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress | 124 |
Prose | ||
09 | Samuel Johnson’s Life of Milton | 132 |
10 | John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress | 144 |
11 | Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones | 192 |
Drama | ||
12 | John Dryden’s All for Love | 261 |
13 | R.B.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal | 272 |
14 | William Congreve’s The Way of the World | 298 |
15 | Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer | 318 |
Unit III – Romantic Age (1798 – 1832)
S. No | Title | P. No |
Poetry | ||
01 | 1.1 Wordsworth | 03 |
1.2 Immortality Ode | 07 | |
1.3 Tintern Abbey | 20 | |
1.4 Prelude, Book-I | 29 | |
02 | 2.1 Coleridge | 69 |
2.2 Ode to Dejection | 73 | |
2.3 Kubla Khan | 84 | |
03 | 3.1 Keats | 88 |
3.2 Ode on a Grecian Urn | 92 | |
3.3 Ode to Autumn | 96 | |
04 | 4.1 Shelley | 99 |
4.2 Ode to the West Wind | 104 | |
4.3 Adonais | 109 | |
Prose | ||
05 | 5.1 Charles Lamb | 138 |
5.2 Christ’s Hospital | 142 | |
5.3 The South Sea House | 156 | |
5.4 Dream children | 166 | |
5.5 New Year’s Eve | 172 | |
06 | Hazlitt’s My First Acquaintance with Poets | 182 |
07 | Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry | 205 |
08 | Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads | 239 |
Novel | ||
09 | Jane Austen’s Emma | 276 |
10 | Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights | 298 |
Unit IV – Modern Age (1832 to Present)
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
Poetry |
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01 |
1.1 Matthew Arnold 1.2 Dover Beach 1.3 The Scholar Gypsy |
03 07 16 |
02 |
Robert Browning’s Andrea Del Sarto |
32 |
03 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Morte D’ Arthur |
53 |
04 |
W.B.Yeats’s Byzantium |
75 |
05 |
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste land |
84 |
06 |
G.M. Hopkins’s The Wreck of the Deutschland |
120 |
07 |
7.1 Owen 7.2 W.H.Auden 7.3 Stephen Spender The selections from the Faber Book of Modern Verse. |
142 |
Prose |
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08 |
Carlyle’s The Hero as a Man of Letters (from “On Heroes and Hero Worship”) |
151 |
09 |
Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Poetry |
179 |
10 |
T.S.Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent |
203 |
Novel |
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11 |
Dickens ‘s Great Expectations |
209 |
12 |
George Eliot’s Middle March |
236 |
13 |
Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure |
266 |
14 |
Virginia Woolf ‘s To the Light House |
308 |
15 |
Graham Greene ‘s The Power and the Glory |
344 |
Unit – V Shakespeare
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
William Shakespeare |
03 |
02 |
Macbeth |
15 |
03 |
The Tempest |
31 |
04 |
Henry–IV Part-I |
44 |
05 |
Measure for Measure |
57 |
06 |
Antony and Cleopatra |
70 |
Unit VI – American Literature
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
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Poetry |
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01 |
Walt Whitman’s 1.1 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking |
03 |
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1.2 Passage to India |
15 |
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02 |
Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not Stop for Death |
29 |
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03 |
Robert Frost’s 3.1 Mending Wall |
33 |
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3.2 Birches |
40 |
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3.3 West Running Brook |
44 |
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04 |
Sylvia Plath’s Daddy |
48 |
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05 |
E.E.Cummings’s The Cambridge Ladies |
56 |
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06 |
Hart Crane’s Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge |
61 |
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Prose |
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07 |
Emerson’s The American Scholar |
69 |
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08 |
Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech |
82 |
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09 |
Thoreau’s Walden |
87 |
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10 |
James Thurber’s The Owl in the Attic |
106 |
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Drama |
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11 |
Eugene O’ Neil’s The Hairy Ape |
109 |
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12 |
Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman |
122 |
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13 |
Tennesse Williams’s A Street Car named Desire |
139 |
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14 |
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
155 |
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Novel |
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15 |
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
164 |
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16 |
Melville’s Moby Dick |
194 |
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17 |
Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea |
239 |
Unit VII – Indian Writing in English
S.No |
Title |
P. No |
Poetry |
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01 |
Tagore’s Gitanjali |
03 |
02 |
Aurobindo’s Thought the Paraclete |
27 |
03 |
Sarojini Naidu’s Poems (from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry) |
31 |
04 |
Toru Dutt’s Poems (from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry) |
45 |
05 |
A.K.Ramanujam’s Poems (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets” |
53 |
06 |
R. Parthasarathy’s Poems (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets”) |
63 |
07 |
Kamala Das’s Poems (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets”) |
72 |
08 |
Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems (from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets”) |
80 |
Prose |
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09 |
Ananda Commarasamy’s The Dance of Shiva |
94 |
10 |
Nehru’s An Autobiography |
101 |
Drama |
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11 |
Tagore’s Muktha Dhara |
113 |
12 |
Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq |
120 |
13 |
Gurucharan Das’s Larine Sahib |
139 |
Novel |
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14 |
Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie |
151 |
15 |
Raja Rao’s Kantapura |
163 |
16 |
R.K.Narayan’s The English Teacher |
205 |
17 |
Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice |
253 |
Unit VIII – Criticism and Literary Theories
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
Literary Terms |
3 |
02 |
Quotes |
13 |
03 |
Key Texts in Literary Criticism and Theory |
18 |
04 |
Literary Movements |
27 |
05 |
Modern Drama |
45 |
06 |
Modern Fiction |
48 |
07 |
Aristotle’s Poetics |
52 |
08 |
Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy |
66 |
09 |
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Ch.XIV and Ch.XVII |
82 |
10 |
Keats’s Letters |
102 |
11 |
T.S.Eliot’s The Metaphysical Poets |
112 |
12 |
I.A.Richards’s The Four Kinds of Meaning |
118 |
13 |
William Empson’s The Seventh Type of Ambiguity |
124 |
14 |
Northrop Frye’s The Archetypes of Literature |
128 |
15 |
Lionel Trilling’s The Sense of the Past |
144 |
16 |
Cleanth Brooks’s Irony as a Principle of Structure |
153 |
17 |
Allen Tate’s Tension in Poetry |
160 |
Unit – IX Language and Linguistics
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
Language |
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01 |
The Origin of Language |
91 |
02 |
The Place of English in the Indo-European family |
97 |
03 |
The Characteristics of the Germanic Language |
102 |
04 |
Old English |
105 |
05 |
Middle English |
109 |
06 |
Modern English |
113 |
07 |
Standard English |
116 |
08 |
Spelling Reforms |
118 |
09 |
English Lexicon |
120 |
10 |
The Foreign Influences |
122 |
11 |
The Makers of English |
126 |
12 |
The Growth of Vocabulary |
131 |
13 |
The Change of Meaning |
139 |
14 |
American English |
147 |
15 |
Indian English |
150 |
Linguistics |
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16 |
Morphology |
151 |
17 |
Phonology |
159 |
18 |
The Nature and Scope of Linguistics |
178 |
19 |
Structural Linguistics |
191 |
20 |
Immediate Constituent Analysis |
197 |
21 |
Transformational Generative Grammar |
200 |
22 |
Idiolect, Dialect |
203 |
23 |
Words, Clause and Phrase |
205 |
24 |
Sentence Pattern |
208 |
25 |
Concord and Government |
209 |
26 |
The Methods of Teaching |
210 |
27 |
Linguistic Terms |
214 |
Unit X – Commonwealth Literature
S.No |
Title |
P. No |
Poetry |
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01 |
E.J. Pratt’s The Dying Eagle |
03 |
02 |
Judith Wright’s Fire at the Murdering Hut |
10 |
03 |
Judith Wright’s The Cedars |
17 |
04 |
Wole Soyinka’s The Telephone Conversation |
19 |
05 |
Abioseh Nicol’s The Meaning of Africa |
26 |
06 |
A.D.Hope’s Australia |
34 |
Prose |
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07 |
Chinua Achebe’s The Novelist as Teacher |
39 |
Drama |
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08 |
Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel |
51 |
09 |
Douglas Stewart’s Ned Kelly |
58 |
Novel |
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10 |
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart |
65 |
11 |
Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country |
87 |
Unit – XI Educational Psychology
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
Educational Psychology |
3 |
02 |
Heredity and Environment |
5 |
03 |
Growth and Development |
9 |
04 |
Learning |
30 |
05 |
Memory |
58 |
06 |
Forgetting |
62 |
07 |
Motivation |
64 |
08 |
Attention |
69 |
09 |
Perception |
72 |
10 |
Concept Formation |
75 |
11 |
Interest |
78 |
12 |
Aptitude |
80 |
13 |
Attitude |
82 |
14 |
Intelligence |
84 |
15 |
Creativity |
94 |
16 |
Thinking, Reasoning and Problem-Solving |
96 |
17 |
Personality |
99 |
18 |
Individual Differences |
109 |
19 |
Mental Health |
112 |
20 |
Guidance and Counselling |
115 |
Unit XII EDUCATION
S. No |
Title |
P. No |
01 |
Philosophy and Education |
03 |
02 |
Indian Philosophy |
06 |
03 |
Indian Philosophers |
10 |
04 |
Western Philosophy |
17 |
05 |
Western Philosophers |
23 |
06 |
Education Commissions and Committees |
32 |
07 |
Education in Indian Constitution |
43 |
08 |
Illiteracy and its Eradication |
48 |
09 |
Women’s Education and Population Education |
55 |
10 |
Environmental Education and Health Education |
60 |
11 |
Universalisation of Primary Education |
63 |
12 |
Education and Employment |
64 |
13 |
National Integration |
66 |
14 |
UNESCO |
70 |
15 |
State Bodies in Education |
74 |
16 |
National Bodies in Education |
75 |
17 |
Educational Management |
86 |
18 |
Innovations and Education |
89 |
19 |
Measurement and Evaluation |
94 |
20 |
Educational Technology |
101 |
Unit XIII – General Knowledge
S.No |
Title |
P.No |
01 |
History of Tamil Nadu |
03 |
02 |
Indian History |
21 |
03 |
Indian Constitution |
62 |
04 |
Indian Economics |
93 |
05 |
Geography |
114 |
06 |
World Organizations |
129 |
07 |
General Science |
134 |
08 |
Personalities |
150 |
09 |
Sports and Games |
168 |
10 |
Currrent Affairs |
181 |
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