Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Tirunelveli, B.A. English Literature. II Semester Syllabus

II Semester
Jacobean to Augustan Age

Unit I
Age of Milton and Dryden

Unit II
Poetry
John Donne         :         A Valediction Forbidding                                                Mourning
George Herbert     :         The Collar
John Milton                   :         On His Blindness
Henry Vaughan    :         The Retreat
Unit III
Prose
Swift           :         The Spider and Bee Episode from                                  The Battle of Books
Unit IV
John Dryden        -        All for Love
Unit V
Fiction
          Daniel Defoe         :         Robinson Crusoe
American Literature
Unit I
Introduction to American Literature
 “ The  Rise of a National Literature” and an American Renaissance (Chapter 3 and 4 from An Outline of American Literature. Peter B. High)
Unit II
Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe    :         The Raven
Emily Dickinson   :         Arcturus is his other name
Robert Frost         :         After Apple Picking
Sylvia Plath          :         Lady Lazarus
Unit III
V. K. Chari  :         Indian Thought in Emerson,                                Thoreau and Whitman
Allen Tate    :         The Man of Letters in the Modern                        World
Hawthorne  :         Young Goodman Brown
Mark Twain :         Tom meets Becky

Unit IV
Drama
Tennessee Williams        :         The Glass Menagerie
Unit V
Fiction
Earnest Hemmingway : Farewell to Arms

Communicative Grammar and Usage
Unit I
The sentence: Different Types
The Structure of Sentences
Tranformation of Sentences
The Verb
Unit II
Tenses
          Auxilliary Verbs
Unit III
Word Classes        :         Form Class
Word Classes        :         Function Class
Unit IV
Concord
Linkers
Punctuation
Letter Writing
Messages through E-mail and Fax
Unit V

Report Writing
Note-Making
Advertisements, Telegrams
Notices, Agenda, Minutes
Circulars
Essay Writing
Precis Writing


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