Ba Honours English Syllabus 2013-1

UNIVERSITY OF KERALA
B.A. HONOURS DEGREE PROGRAMME
IN
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
(2013 Admission onwards)
SEMESTERS 1 to 6
SYLLABUS
University of Kerala
B.A. Honours Degree Course in English Language and Literature
2013 Admission onwards
Course Structure and Marks Distribution
Course Name of Paper Instructional Marks

Semester I Code hours/week ESE CA
Paper 1 BAHE 111 British Literature 1: 1350–1600 5 80 20
Paper 3 BAHE 113 Indian Writing in English 5 80 20
Paper 4 BAHE 114 History of English Literature 5 80 20
Paper 5 BAHE 115 Indian Renaissance 5 80 20
Semester II
Paper 8 BAHE 123 European Literature 5 80 20
Paper 9 BAHE 124 English for Communication 1 5 80 20
Paper 10 BAHE 125 Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture 5 80 20
Semester III
Paper 12 BAHE 132 American Literature 5 80 20
Paper 13 BAHE 133 English Language:History and Structure 5 80 20
Paper 14 BAHE 134 English for Communication 2 5 80 20
Paper 15 BAHE 135 Kerala Culture and Literature 5 80 20
Semester IV
Paper 17 BAHE 142 Australian and Canadian Literatures 5 80 20
Paper 18 BAHE 143 Writing for the Media 5 80 20
Paper 19 BAHE 144 Fundamentals of ELT 5 80 20
Paper 20 BAHE 145 Literary Theory 1 5 80 20
Semester V
Paper 22 BAHE 152 African, Caribbean and Latin American 5 80 20
Literatures
Paper 23 BAHE 153 Research Methodology 5 80 20
Paper 24 BAHE 154 Literary Theory 2 5 80 20
Paper 25 BAHE 155 Introduction to Gender Studies 5 80 20
Semester VI
Paper 26 BAHE 161 British Literature 8: 1950 to the Present 5 80 20
Paper 27 BAHE 162 Dalit Literature 5 80 20
Paper 28 BAHE 163 Fundamentals of Theatre Studies and 5 80 20
Performance
Paper 29 BAHE 164 Popular Culture and Films 5 80 20
Paper 30 BAHE 165 Project Supervision 5 80 20
Grand Total
Marks 3000
B. A. HONOURS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SEMESTER 1
BAHE 111 – BRITISH LITERATURE 1: 1350-1600
Instructional hours: 5 hours/week

Maximum marks: 100 [ESE – 80, CA – 20]
Course Description:
1. English poetry in the Late Mediaeval Age – Langland, Gower, Lydgate

2. The Courtly Romance
3. Contributions of Chaucer – his works.
4. Ballads and narrative poems
5. Impact of printing
6. Sonnets – Petrarchan tradition – Wyatt and Surrey
7. Contributions of Spenser
8. Donne and Metaphysical poetry
9. The Development of English Drama – Mystery, Morality and Miracle Plays – Interludes – Tragedy and
Comedy – University Wits – Marlowe, Kyd, Greene – Senecan influence and revenge tragedies –
Influence of Terence and Plautus – Blank verse
10. Renaissance and Reformation – Humanism
11. Oxford Reformers – More, Erasmus, Colet
12. Prose writers – More, Ascham, Sidney, Lyly, Bacon, Burton – Euphuism – Essays
Texts prescribed for study:
A. Poetry
Ballads : “Chevy Chase”; “The Wife of Usher’s Well” &

“Robin Hood’s Death and Burial”
Chaucer : “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” (Including the Tale’s Prologue)
Wyatt : “Whoso list to hunt”
Surrey : “Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover”
Sidney : Sonnets 1 (“Loving in truth”) &

45 ("Stella oft sees the very face of woe") from Astrophel and Stella
Spenser : “Epithalamion”, Sonnets 30 (“My love is like to ice, and I to fire”) &
75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)
Donne : “Batter My Heart”; “Death be not Proud”; “The Flea”
B. Drama
Marlowe : Edward II
Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
C. Prose and Fiction
Lyly : An Extract from Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Bacon : “Of Unity in Religion”; “Of Studies”; “Of Truth”
Sidney : Apology for Poetry. [Paragraphs 10-18]
More : Utopia: “Of the Cities”, “Of the Magistrates” & “Of their living and mutual conversation
together” (From “The Second Book”)
Ascham : The Scholemaster. “A Preface to the Reader”
Reference:
NEHU Anthology of Select Literary Criticism for B.A. Honours Course, Orient BlackSwan, 2011.
SEMESTER 1

Course Description:
1. Renaissance literature – Shakespeare

2. Jacobean and Caroline Poetry – the later Metaphysical poets – Herbert, Vaughan, Herbert, Marvell
3. The Civil War
4. Milton and the Puritan Age
5. Elizabethan drama and theatre – the break with the Aristotelian tradition – the three unities – soliloquies and
asides– Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher
6. Jacobean playwrights, Webster, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker, Massinger, Ford
7. Prose writing– King James’ Bible – Milton – scientific and philosophic writing – Bunyan, Browne, Hobbes,
Walton – pamphlets – sermons
A: Poetry
Shakespeare : Sonnets 73 [“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”] &

29 [“When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes”]
Milton : “Ode on Christ’s Nativity”; Paradise Lost Book 2: Lines 1-105.
Herbert : “The Collar”
Herrick : “To Daffodils”
Drayton : “Agincourt”
Vaughan : “To Amoret Gone from Him”
Marvell : “The Garden”

B: Drama
Shakespeare : Othello &Twelfth Night
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson : Everyman in his Humour
C: Prose and Fiction
Browne : Religio Medici [Paragraphs 1-10]
Donne : “Meditation 17” [From Devotions upon Emergent Occasions]
Hobbes : Leviathan. Part1; “Of Man”
Milton : Areopagitica [Paragraphs 1-19]
Cowley : “Of Agriculture”


SEMESTER 1
BAHE 113 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Course Description:
Through the study of a select number of texts, this paper will draw the student’s attention to the following
aspects of Indian English Literature:
1. The rise and development of Indian English literature – Indian English literature as a branching out of
English Literature – Periods in the development of Indian English literature –individual efforts – different
genres – the socio-cultural scenario
2. The “Indianness” of Indian English Literature
3. The connection between Indian English Literature and Indian nationalism
4. Indian English Literature as a medium which expresses both national as well as universal identities – the
cosmic vision in Indian English Literature
5. Elite vis-à-vis Marginal voices – the polyphonic nature of Indian English literature

A. Poetry
1. Toru Dutt : “The Lotus”
2. Rabindranath Tagore : “Govinda’s Disciple”
3. Sarojini Naidu : “A Challenge to Fate”
4. K. Ayyappa Paniker : “I Can’t Help Blossoming”
5. Nissim Ezekiel : “The Patriot”
6. Jayanta Mahapatra : “Dawn at Puri”
7. A.K. Ramanujan : “A River”
B:Drama
1. Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session
2. Manjula Padmanabhan : Harvest
C: Prose and Fiction
(a) Prose
Jawaharlal Nehru : “The Panorama of India’s Past”
(b) Fiction
1. K.A. Abbas : “Sparrows”
2. Kamala Das : “Darjeeling”
3. Ruskin Bond : “The Kite-Maker”
4. Jhumpa Lahri : “An Interpreter of Maladies” [short story]
5. R.K. Narayan : The Painter of Signs
6. U. R. Ananathamurthy : Samskara
7. Anita Desai : Fire on the Mountain
8. Aravind Adiga : The White Tiger
SEMESTER 1
BAHE 114 – HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Course Description:
Module 1:
The early history of England – Roman Britain – the arrival of the Germanic tribes – the arrival of Christianity –
The Anglo Saxon Heptarchy– The Viking invasions – the reassertion of British control – Old English literature –
Bede, Beowulf, King Alfred.
The Norman invasion – Feudalism – Middle English literature – Chaucer and his contemporaries The beginnings
of English drama – Miracle, Morality and Mystery plays, Interludes.
Module 2:
The Renaissance – the Tudors – the English Reformation and Counter-reformation – Trade and colonialism – the
Stuart Age – Elizabethan poetry – Spenser – Renaissance drama – Ben Jonson – the University Wits –
Shakespeare – Bacon and More –the King James Bible.
The rise of Puritanism – the Civil War, Colonial Expansion, the Commonwealth and the Restoration in England
– their impact on literature and social life – Donne and the Metaphysicals – Milton and Bunyan – Restoration
theatre.
The Eighteenth Century – Enclosures, urbanization and the rise of the middle class – the literary ambience of the
period.
The Enlightenment – the rise of modern science and the rise of capitalism – Coffee Houses in London as centres
of social and political discussions – Essay and Novel – Neo-classical verse – Pope, Dryden, Swift, Johnson and
Defoe – periodicals – Addison, Steele.
Module 3:
The Romantic Age – basic tenets of the Romanticism – French Revolution – Gothic writings – the precursors,
Blake and Burns – Wordsworth and the Lake Poets – Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron – Charles Lamb –
imperialism – orientalism and slavery – the fiction of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley
The Victorian Age – the Reform Acts – changes in social life – industrialization and its impact on the society –
the rise of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities –the spread of science and technology
and its impact – Marx, Darwin, Mill, Freud – India and the Empire – the Victorian Novel – Dickens, George
Eliot and Hardy – Victorian Poetry –Arnold, Browning and Tennyson –Pre-Raphaelites – Oscar Wilde and the
aestheticians
Module 4:
Early 20th century – influences on the social milieu – World War I – the War Poets – Modernism – T. S. Eliot,
Yeats, Auden, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, G. B. Shaw and the realists.
The mid-20thcentury and after – World War II – life between the two World Wars – impact of the Wars on
society and literature – the dissolution of the British Empire– the welfare state – Modernism and Postmodernism
– Feminism and environmentalism.
Life in the 60s, 70s and 80s – Larkin and the Movement – poetry, fiction and drama of the period – Ted Hughes,
Carol Ann Duffy – George Orwell, Kingsley Amis, Graham Green, Salman Rushdie – Samuel Beckett, Harold
Pinter and Tom Stoppard – new trends in English theatre – literature and New Media in Contemporary England –
contemporary life in England.
Core texts:
Radhakumari K. A Concise History of English Literature and Language, Primus, 2013.
Ashok, Padmaja. The Social History of England. Orient BlackSwan, 2011.
Reference:
Peck, J. and M. Coyle. A Brief History of English Literature. Palgrave, 2012.
Poplawski, Paul, ed. English Literature in Context. Cambridge UP, 2008.
Nayar, Pramod K. Digital Cool: Life in the Age of New Media. Orient BlackSwan, 2012.
Thornley, G, C. and G. Roberts. An Outline of English Literature. Pearson, 2011.
Note to Teachers:
The syllabus – a rationale:
The aim of this paper is to give the necessary background information with which the student will be able to
understand the literary and social history of England and the conditions that favoured the growth and
development of one of the richest literatures of the world. It is also expected that the student will be sufficiently
enriched to appreciate individual works from any age in a better way. The
syllabus will also help them develop a sense of history and the ability to organize, evaluate and present ideas
from one coherent body of knowledge in a systematic way. The syllabus gives thrust to the following:
1. The life of the people during the various ages in Britain
2. the social and political organisations that evolved there
3. how the culture of Britain evolved and what their beliefs and practices were
4. the kind of literature that emerged and developed from these conditions
5. the influence that this literature had on other literatures and vice versa
It is expected that the student will gain a broad overall picture of the literary history of English. Teachers should
ensure that students read books and access other authentic sources to learn more about the topics that are
covered. The short reference list provided will lead the student to the subtler divisions of the subject.
SEMESTER 1
BAHE 115 – INDIAN RENAISSANCE

Course Description:
Module I: The spread of the British Raj – East India Company – British administrative policy – Macaulay’s
Minute and the introduction of English Education – the impact of the British rule on Indian literature and
philosophy – the beginnings of Indian Writing in English – First War of Indian Independence
Module II: Indian National Congress and the freedom movement – Muslim League – Subhash Chandra Bose
and the INA – Gandhi and the freedom struggle – Tagore’s life and philosophy – Raja Ram Mohan Roy:
abolition of sati and child marriage – women’s awakening – Brahmo Samaj & Arya Samaj – Annie Besant –
Toru Dutt – Manmohan Ghose
Module III: Sri Aurobindo – Sarojini Naidu – Vivekananda’s life and philosophy – Gokhale, Tilak & Patel –
Home Rule – the Gandhian movement and its impact on Indian literature – Non violence & Civil Disobedience –
Bhagat Singh – the Nehrus and their influence – Vinoba Bhave & Bhoodan.
Module IV: The rise & spread of Communism – linguistic consciousness – the socio-political upheavals in
Kerala – Indian Independence – India as a wounded nation.
Books for reference:
1. Jawaharlal Nehru ` :The Discovery of India

2. A. Sreedhara Menon :Kerala Samskaram
3. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan :History of Indian Philosophy
4. V.K. R. Rao :Vivekananda’s Message to the Youth
General Reading:
1. Charles Allen ` : Ashoka

2. Alexander Frater : Chasing the Monsoon
SEMESTER II

Course Description:
1. The historical background – the Restoration – the Roman Catholic controversy – the Revolution of 1688
2. The rise of New Classicism

3. Neo-classical poetry – Dryden, Samuel Butler – the political satires of Dryden
4. The Heroic plays of Dryden – Restoration tragedies by Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, Nicholas Rowe,
etc
5. Restoration comedies or Comedy of Manners – Congreve, Wycherly, Etheredge

6. Neo-classical prose – allegory – John Bunyan; William Temple; the diarists – Samuel Pepys, John
Evelyn; John Locke, Jeremy Collier
7. The Heroic Couplet
A. Poetry
1. John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel [Lines 723 - 1031]
2. Samuel Butler : Hudibras. [Part 1, Canto 1 – lines 1 to 236]
B. Drama
1. William Congreve : The Way of the World
2. William Wycherley : The Country Wife

1. John Bunyan : Pilgrim’s Progress
2. John Dryden : Preface to the Fables
[Paragraphs 1 to 14: “’Tis with a poet, as with a man who
designs to build . . . . I varied from my Author, because I understood
him not”]
SEMESTER II

Course Description:
1. The historical background – the rise of the Whigs and Tories, the accession of Queen Anne
2. The Age of Pope – neo-classical age, mock-epic poetry
3. The Age of Prose and Reason – the predominance of prose, political writing, periodical writing
4. The rise of anti-sentimental comedies
5. The clubs and the coffee houses
6. The rise of new publishing houses
7. The New Morality
A. Poetry
1. Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
2. James Thomson : “Spring” [from The Seasons]
3. Thomas Gray : “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”
4. Robert Burns : “The Cotter’s Saturday Night”
B. Drama
1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The School for Scandal
2. Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
B. Prose & Fiction

a. Prose
1. Joseph Addison : “Sir Roger at the Assizes”
2. Richard Steele : “Description of Club Members”
b. Fiction
1. Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books
2. Dr. Johnson : Life of Milton [paragraphs 180 to 277]
3. Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
SEMESTER II
BAHE 123 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE

Course Description:
1. Romanticism in Russian poetry– Pushkin’s contributions

2. French Romanticism and Alphonse de Lamartine
3. Modern French poetry – Baudelaire – Rimbaud – influence on the Symbolists, Dadaists and Surrealists –
Jacques Prévert
4. The origin of drama in Europe – Tragedy – Comedy – Aristotle’s views on tragedy

5. Contributions of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
6. Major dramatic/literary movements –Dadaism – Surrealism – Expressionism – Realism
7. Major Theatre movements of the 19th and 20th centuries –Theatre of the Absurd – Poor Theatre – Epic
Theatre – Moscow Art Theatre
8. Contributions to modern drama– Ibsen – Brecht – Pirandello – Chekhov – Ionesco – Heiner Muller
9. Russian fiction – contributions of Tolstoy – Chekhov – Turgenev – Dostoyevsky
10. Modern trends in European fiction – Erich Maria Remarque – Gunter Grass – Herta Muller
A. Poetry
1. Guido Cavalcanti : “When I wanted to send you certain poems”

2. Alphonse de Lamartine : “The Lake”
3. Alexander Pushkin : “Farewell to the Sea”
4. Charles Baudelaire : “Autumn Song”
5. Arthur Rimbaud : “Ophelia”
6. Rainer Maria Rilke :“The First Elegy”
7. Jacques Prévert : “To Paint a Bird’s Portrait”
B. Drama
1. Aeschylus : Agamemnon
2. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
3. Eugène Ionesco : The Lesson
C. Fiction
1. Leo Tolstoy : “Polikushka, or The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant”

2. Anton Chekhov : “Oh! The Public”
3. Ivan Turgenev : A Nest of the Gentry
4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Crime and Punishment
5. Erich Maria Remarque : All Quiet on the Western Front
6. Gunter Grass : Tin Drum
SEMESTER II
BAHE 124 –ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION: I

[LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS]

Course Description:
This paper aims to
1. develop the communicative competence of students
2. develop their proficiency in the listening skill
3. enable them to understand the nuances of English pronunciation
4. equip them to use language effectively in relevant situations
Module 1:
Introduction to Communication – What is Communication – different forms of communication – verbal
communication and non-verbal communication; barriers of communication.
Module 2:
Developing effective listening skill – listening vs. hearing; types of listening– intensive listening vs. extensive
listening– techniques for effective listening.
Listening exercises – activities to develop listening.
Module 3:
Phonetics – Received Pronunciation (RP) – sound – transcription – stress – intonation
Everyday interactions – greetings – requests – seeking and giving advice – agreeing and disagreeing – giving
instructions – inviting and apologizing
Use of appropriate body language – proper voice modulation – gestures – facial expressions – eye contact
Activities for developing speaking skill – group discussions – public speaking – telephonic skills– dialogues –
debates and speeches
Core reading: English for Effective Communication. Oxford UP, 2013.

SEMESTER II
BAHE 125 – CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Course Description:
1. The various and diverse languages of India
2. Uniqueness of Indian literature
3. Multiple linguistic cultures of India
4. The ethnic Northeast
5. Thematic concerns, genres and trends of literatures in Indian languages
6. Construction of Indian identities in the literatures in Indian languages
A. Poetry
1. Mansukhlal Jhaveri : “Lamp Offering”
2. Lakhmi Khilani : “When that day comes” (Tr. MadhuKewlani)
3. Thangjam Ibopishak : “I want to be Killed by an Indian Bullet” (Tr. Robin S. Ngangom)
4. Chandrakanta Murasingh : “Of a Minister.” (Tr. Saroj Chowdhury)
5. Chandrakanti : “Wanted: A Broom” (Tr. Martha Ann Selby and K. Paramasivam)
6. Amrita Pritam : “Street Dog” (Tr. Arlene Zide and the poet)
7. Nara (V. Narayana Rao) : “White Paper” (Tr. V. Narayana Rao)
B. Drama
1. Dharamvir Bharati : AndhaYug (Tr. Alok Bhalla) Oxford UP.
2. Vijay Tendulkar : Kamala. (From Five Plays by Vijay Tendulkar, Oxford UP)
3. Girish Karnad : Nagamandala. Oxford UP.
1. Saadat Hasan Manto : Toba Tek Singh (Urdu)
2. Phakirmohan Senapathy : Rebati (Odiya)
3. Popuri Lalitha Kumari (Volga) : The Experiment. (Telugu)
4. Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) : My Mother, Her Crime (Tamil)
5. Nanak Singh : The Spilt Milk (Punjabi)
6.. Rabindranath Tagore : Chokher Bali (Bengali)
7. Indira Goswami : The Rusted Sword (Assamese)
SEMESTER III

Course Description:
1. Blake and Proto-romanticism
2. The Romantic Revival – French Revolution and its impact – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
3. The poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats
4. Prose – modern review, magazines, essay, criticism – De Quincey, Shelley, Hazlitt, Lamb, Mary
Wollstonecraft
5. Fiction – Early 19th century novel – historical novel, gothic novel, domestic novel – Scott, Jane Austen, Mary
Shelley
A. Poetry
1. William Blake :“The Chimney Sweeper” (from The Songs of Innocence) &
“The Chimney Sweeper” (from The Songs of Experience)
2. William Wordsworth : “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge : “Dejection: An Ode”
4. John Keats : “Ode to a Nightingale”
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley : “To a Skylark”
6. Lord Byron : “She Walks in Beauty”
B. Prose
1. Charles Lamb : “Modern Gallantry”&“Poor Relations”
2. William Hazlitt : “On Reading Old Books” & “On Personal Character”
3. Shelley: : “In Defense of Poesy”
C. Fiction
1. Sir Walter Scott : Rob Roy

2. Anne Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
3. Jane Austen : Emma
4. Thomas De Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater
SEMESTER III
BAHE 132 – AMERICAN LITERATURE

Course Description:
1. Historical background – colonization – European heritage

2. Puritanism – Literary beginnings – Americanness of American Literature – Contributions of the 19th
century
3. Transcendentalism – Emerson, Thoreau, Poe

4. Contributions of Dickinson – Whitman – Hawthorne – Melville – Mark Twain – Henry James
5. 20th century – Postwar scene – Lost generation – Hemingway – Fitzgerald – Faulkner – O’Neill – American
Theatre
6. New Critics
7. Modernism – Frost – e.e.ecummings – William Carlos Williams –Wallace Stevens – Harlem Renaissance –
Langston Hughes
8. Dramatists – Miller – Tennessee Williams – Sam Sheppard
9. Recent trends in American literature
A. Poetry
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson : “Brahma”& “Days”.
2. Edger Allan Poe : “Annabel Lee”
3. Walt Whitman : “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
4. Emily Dickinson : “Just Lost When I was Saved” [160],
“Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers” [216] &
“Presentiment is That Long Shadow on the Lawn” [764].
5. Robert Frost : “Home Burial”

6. Langston Hughes : “Harlem”
7. Gwendolyn Brooks : “The Mother”
8. Emmanuel Ortiz : “A Moment of Silence”
B. Drama
1. Eugene O’Neill : The Hairy Ape
2. Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie
C. Prose & Fiction

(a) Prose:
1. Henry David Thoreau : “Civil Disobedience”
2. Edgar Allan Poe : “The Fall of the House of Usher”
(b) Fiction:
1. Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn
2. John Steinbeck : The Grapes of Wrath
3. Ernest Hemmingway : A Farewell to Arms
4. Harper Lee : To Kill a Mocking Bird
5. Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye
SEMESTER III
BAHE 133 – ENGLISH LANGUAGE: HISTORY AND STRUCTURE
Aims:
1. To familiarize students with the origin and development of the English Language
2. To make them aware of the changes in different areas of the language
3. To make them aware of the developments in linguistics
4. To make them aware of the Indian contribution to the study of language
Objectives:
On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. identify the various language families
2. trace the evolution of the English language
3. list the changes in the different areas of the language
Course Description:
Module 1:
Nature of language – human languages and animal communication systems – flux in language – language
families – Indo-European family – Germanic group – the descent of English – broad characteristics.
Periods in the history of English language – Old English – Celtic, Latin and Scandinavian influences – effect on
grammar and syntax – Norman conquest – French influence – growth of national feeling – adoption of English –
Middle English – decay of inflections – loss of grammatical gender – French influence on the vocabulary –
dialectal diversity – the rise of standard English – contribution of major writers to the English language –
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton – the impact of Bible Translations on the English language.
Module 2:
Modern English – Renaissance and after – general characteristics of English – changes in pronunciation and
grammar – attempts to reform English – Spelling through the ages – problems and prospects of spelling reform –
Development of Dictionaries – Dr. Johnson’s dictionary – slang and standard speech – English dialects –
evolution of English as a global language.
Word formation and growth of vocabulary – makers of English – Semantics – changes of meaning – widening,
restriction, amelioration, radiation, concatenation, synaesthesia, metonymy, synecdoche, faded metaphors,
euphemism, divergence of meaning – some present-day trends in the English language – slang and jargon –
varieties of dialects – various ‘Englishes’ – influence of the colonies.
Module 3:
Linguistics – branches of linguistics – approaches to the study of language – diachronic & synchronic –
prescriptive & descriptive – traditional & modern – key concepts – langue & parole – competence &
performance – grammaticality & acceptability – traditional & structural grammars – Morphology –
morphemes – classification – allomorphs – Syntax – word classes – form class – function class – formal features
– IC analysis – PS Grammar – TG Grammar.
Indian Explorations – different systems of thought – Panini – Karaka theory – Patanjali – Bhartrhari.
Module 4:
Phonetics – articulatory phonetics – speech mechanism – organs of speech – classification of speech sounds –
vowels and consonants – Phonology – phonemes – classification – distribution – Syllable structure –
Transcription –allophones – Suprasegmental features – stress – word stress and sentence-stress – rhythm –
juncture – intonation – assimilation – elision
Varieties of Language – regional/class – discourse – individual – national varieties – British – American –

General Indian – Australian – spoken and written – RP and BBC English.
Core text:
Radhakumari K. : A Concise History of English Literature and Language. Primus, Delhi 2013.
Reference:
1. Baugh, A.C. : A History of the English Language. Chennai: Allied, 1978.
2. Barber, C.L. : The Story of Language. Penguin, 1982.
3. Wood, F.T. : An Outline History of the English Language. Macmillan, 2008.
4. Crystal, David. : English as a Global Language. Cambridge UP, 1997.
5. Mugglestone. : Oxford History of English, Indian Edition. Oxford UP, 2009.
6. T. Balasubramanian. : A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students.2nd en. Macmillan,2013.
7. Aslam, M., and A. A.Kak : Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology. Foundation, 2007.
8. Crystal, David. : Linguistics.
9. Palmer, Frank. : Grammar.
10. Lyons, John. : Language and Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge UP, 1981.
11. Verma, S. K., and N. Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford UP, 1989.
12. Gimson, A.C., and E. Arnold: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. Cambridge UP, 1980.
13. Roach, Peter. : English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge UP, 2009.
14. Yule, George. : The Study of Language.Cambridge UP, 2006.
15. Collins, Beverley and Inger Mees: Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students.
Routledge, 2005.
16. Rani, D.Sudha : A Manual for English Language Laboratories. New Delhi: Pearson, 2010.
17. Jones, Daniel : English Pronouncing Dictionary.17th Edn. Cambridge UP.
18. Marks, Jonathan : English Pronunciation in Use: Elementary. Cambridge UP, 2008.
19. Raja, Kunjunni K : Indian Theories of Meaning. Adyar Library, 1963.
Direction to Teachers:
IC analysis, PS Grammar and TG Grammar should be discussed only at introductory level.
SEMESTER III
BAHE 134 – ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION: 2

[READING AND WRITING SKILLS]

Course Description:
This paper aims to
1. develop the student’s competence in reading and writing skills
2. help the student understand the uses of different types of reading
3. familiarize students with the various types of writing exercises
4. equip students to use language effectively in relevant writing situations
Module 1:
Types of reading – skimming – scanning – intensive – extensive – silent and loud reading –remedy faulty reading
habits – regression
Stages of reading – pre-reading – while reading –post reading
Module 2:
Developing reading skills– reading passages and activities
Module 3:
Writing Skills – mechanics of writing – different types of composition exercises – paragraph writing – features of
a paragraph – unity – coherence – expansion and emphasis – essay writing – types of essays – argumentative
essays – analytical essays – descriptive essays – expository essays – reflective/ philosophical essays
Business letters and resumes – acknowledgment letter – letter of recommendation – appreciation letter – inquiry
letter – sales letters – resume – business reports – academic reports – newspaper reports – E-writing – email –
web – blog.
Editing and proofreading a document.
Sample exercises for developing writing skill.
Core text: English for Effective Communication. Oxford UP, 2013.

SEMESTER III
BAHE 135 – KERALA CULTURE AND LITERATURE

Course Description:
1. Brief socio-political history of Keralam
2. Brief history of Malayalam literature from the earliest times to the present
3. Select literary texts in Malayalam in translation 1900 to1950
4. Select literary texts in Malayalam in translation 1950 to the present
5. Modern and post-modern trends in Malayalam poetry, fiction and drama
6. New genres of Malayalam prose – autobiography, travelogue
7. Writings on culture/art forms
8. Literature of the dalits and the minorities
A. Poetry
1. Kumaranasan : “Speaking to the Being Free from Guile”
2. G. Sankara Kurup : “The Sunflower”
3. Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon : “Minstrels of Onam”
4. Akkitham : “The Berry in the Palm”
5. Kadammanitta : “The Hen”
6. K. Satchidanandan : “Stammer”
7. Vijayalekshmi : “The Carpenter’s Daughter”
8. K.K.S. Das : “My Soil
9. Anvar Ali : “Ye Trees, Swaying Ramblers”
B. Drama
1. C.N. Sreekandan Nair : Lankalekshmi

2. A group of Namboodiri women : To the Workplace
(a) Prose
1. K. Ayyappa Paniker : A Short History of Malayalam Literature

2. Devaki Nilayamgode : Selections from Antharjanam: Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman
3. Sarah Joseph and Githa Hiranyan : “A Dialogue” (from Othappu)
4. P. P. Raveendran : “Literary Historiography in Malayalam”
(b) Fiction
1. Lalithambika Antharjanam : “Dhirendu Majumdar’s Mother”

2. M.T. Vasudevan Nair : “Sherlock”
3. O.V. Vijayan : “Wind Flowers”
4. Anand : Vyasa and Vigneswara
5. Santhosh Echikanam : “Panthi Bhojanam”
6. P. Vatsala :“A World without Dushyantha and Bhima”
SEMESTER 1V
BAHE 141 – BRITISH LITERATURE 6: (1830-1900)

Course Description:
1. Socio-political background of the period

2. Effects of the Industrial Revolution – Victorian Compromise
3. Browning – Dramatic Monologue – Pre-Raphaelites – Rossetti, Swinburne, Morris
4. Pre cursors to Modern Poetry –Hopkins, Kipling, Thompson, Houseman
5. The Oxford Movement – John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin
6. Rise and growth of the novel – Fielding, Sterne, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte,
Thackeray and R. L. Stevenson
7. Social Novel, Realistic Novel and Philosophical novel

8. Oscar Wilde – Aestheticism – Comedy of Manners
9. Decline of drama – Dramatists of the Transitional period – Robertson and stage naturalism, Pinero and
Jones and the Problem Play
10. Oscar Wilde – Comedy of Manners
A. Poetry
1. Alfred Tennyson : “Ulysses”
2. Robert Browning : “Andrea Del Sarto”
3. Matthew Arnold : “The Scholar Gypsy”
4. Elizabeth Browning : Sonnet 14 – “ If thou must love me, let it not be for nought”
5. D.G.Rossetti : “A Match with the Moon”
6. Gerald Hopkins : “The Wreck of the Deutschland”
B. Drama
1. Oscar Wilde : Salome
2. John Galsworthy : Strife
a. Prose
1. Matthew Arnold : “The Study of Poetry”
b. Fiction
1. Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol
3. George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss
4. H.G.Wells : The Island of Dr Moreau
5. Sherlock Holmes : The Hound of the Baskervilles
SEMESTER IV
BAHE 142 – AUSTRALIAN AND CANADIAN LITERATURES

Course Description:
Australia:
1. Introduction – literature expresses collective values
2. Aboriginal narrative: the oral tradition
3. The century after settlement
4. Nationalism and expansion
5. Literature from 1940 to 1970 – Literature from 1970 to 2000
Canada:
1. Early socio-political and literary history – frontier life – nature – garrison mentality
2. Multiculturalism in Canada – ethnic and cultural diversity
3. The Native Voice – the First Nations – problems and prospects
4. The Immigrant Experience
5. Post-War Canada – life and literature

A. Poetry:
1. Chris Wallace-Crabbe : “Loving in Truth”
2. Les Murray :“The Meaning of Existence”
3. Judith Wright :“Bora Ring”
4. Clive James: “Holding Court”
5. Randolph Stow : “Frost Parrots”

(from Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann, eds. Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century)
6. Irving Layton :“Creation”
7. Eli Mandel : “Houdini”

(from Canadian Voices. Eds. Shirin Kudchedkar and Jameela Begum Delhi: Pencraft International, 1996: 158)
8. Rienzi Cruz :“The rain doesn’t know me anymore” (Canadian Voices 236)
9. Surjeet Kalsey :“Migratory Birds” (Canadian Voices 79)
10. Rita Joe : “I Lost My Talk”

(from Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie, eds. An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English)
B. Drama:
1. Sharon Pollock : Blood Relations
2. Jack Davis : No Sugar
C. Prose and Fiction:

(a) Prose
Harold Cardinal : “A Canadian What the Hell’s It’s All About”
(from An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English)
(b) Fiction
1. Sinclair Ross : As for Me and My House
2. Joy Kogawa : The Rain Ascends
3. M. G. Vassanji : “In the Quiet of a Sunday Afternoon” (from Uhuru Street)
4. Sally Morgan : My Place
5. David Malouf : Remembering Babylon
SEMESTER IV
BAHE 143 – WRITING FOR THE MEDIA
Course Description:
1. Mainstream Media – nature, functions, types – Media convergence.
2. Print Media – Newspapers and magazines.
3. Broadcast and Visual Media – Radio, TV, Film.
4. Digital/New Media
5. Advertising
Module 1: Main-stream Media: nature, functions. Types: print, broadcast, visual, new/digital media –power and
vulnerability of each – media convergence
Print media: Newspapers and magazines – News story – Lead – types of lead – writing headlines – Writing
articles, features, review and editorials – Interview skills required – analyzing articles, news stories and features
– Basic reporting – copy editing – magazine covers – Technical terms
Module 2: Broadcast and Visual Media
Radio: Role of presenters – their voice, diction, style and language – Writing of radio script – interviews, talk
shows, reviews, music programmes, phone-in or on-demand programmes – Radio news – news script
TV: Fundamentals of TV programme production – the language of production – vocabulary of filming

procedures and equipment, script writing – editing a TV documentary
Film: Writing a screenplay – language in film – writing a film review
Terms used in broadcast and visual media.
Module 3: Digital/New Media
Internet as a global medium – e-writing – writing news for the web – planning and writing a blog – technical
writing – language used in a blog
Module 4: Advertising
Purpose and types, elements of an advertisement – headlines, subheads, body, slogans etc – language of
advertisement – creating a print ad – TV ad – radio ad – presenting a finished ad – Analysing advertisements –
photography – language – visual effect, music, etc. – technical vocabulary
Core text: English for the Media. Cambridge UP, 2013.
Books for reference:
1. Vir Bala Aggarwal : Essentials of Practical Journalism

2. James Glen Stovall : Writing for the Mass Media
3. William Van Nostram : Script Writer’s Handbook
4. Allen Rosenthal : Writing, Directing and Producing Documentaries
5. Fred Fedle : Reporting for the Media
SEMESTER 1V
BAHE 144 – FUNDAMENTALS OF ELT

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course aims to familiarize students in the following areas:

1. The current developments in English Language Teaching
2. Theories of language learning
3. Classroom methods and strategies in ELT
4. Practice teaching sessions to develop teaching skills
COURSE MATERIAL
Module I
Basic terms and concepts in ELT - ESL and EFL - L1 and L2 - language skills – LSRW - critical and creative
skills – sociolinguistics – psycholinguistics - teaching aids – ESP.
Module II
Psychological approaches to language learning – behaviourism – cognitivism – constructivism – approach -

method and techniques - communicative language teaching - ICT-enabled language teaching - web tools for
language learning.
Module III
Classroom procedures - lesson plans and practice in the teaching of grammar, prose, poetry, drama and fiction -
learner-oriented teaching - interactive teaching - language games - group discussion – dramatization - role
playing – brainstorming.
Simulation - debate – workshop – symposium – seminar.
Books for Reference

H. H. Stern : Fundamentals of Language Teaching (OUP)
Wilga Rivers : Teaching Foreign Language Skills
Harold V. Allen : Teaching English as a Second Language
Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myle : Second Language Learning Theories
SEMESTER 1V
BAHE 145 – LITERARY THEORY 1

Course Description:
This paper, first of a series of two courses on literary theory consisting of three modules grouped under the four
main genres namely poetry, drama, fiction and prose.
This course introduces the students to some of the major theorists to help understand the changing conceptions of
the self, language, gender and other categories in the form of systems of knowledge.
A. Poetry:
1. S. T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV
2. I. A. Richards : The Two Uses of Language; The Four Kinds of Meaning
B. Drama
1. Aristotle : Poetics
2. L. C. Knights : Restoration Comedy: the Reality and the myth

(a) Prose
1. Georg Lukacs : Ideology of Modernism
2. Christopher Caudwell : English Poets at the time of Industrial Revolution
(b) Fiction
2. Virginia Woolf : Modern Fiction
3. Raymond Williams : Realism and the Contemporary Novel.

SEMESTER V
BAHE 151 – BRITISH LITERATURE 7: 1900 -1949

Course Description:
1. Georgian Poetry – Poets of the First World War and War Poets
2. Modernism its new and distinctive features – W.B. Yeats – T.S. Eliot
3. Poetic scene of the thirties – Pink Poets – the second generation of modern poets
4. British theatre in the twentieth century – major exponents
5. Revival of Poetic drama – Eliot’s contribution –Murder in the Cathedral– Isherwood and Fry
6. The problem plays – Shaw’s discussion drama
7. Prose – criticism – contributions of Eliot – Virginia Woolf – I. A. Richards – Raymond Williams
8. The early 20th century – profusion of fiction by novelists
9. New techniques in fiction writing – interior monologue – stream-of-consciousness novels – psychological
novel
10. The bold experiments in Lawrence’s novels – the Freudian overture

B. Poetry
1. W. B. Yeats : “Sailing to Byzantium”
2. T. S. Eliot : “Journey of the Magi”
3. W. H. Auden : “Musee des Beaux Art”
4. Stephen Spender : “The Pylons”
5. Wilfred Owen : “Strange Meeting”
6. D. H. Lawrence : “Snake”
B. Drama
1. T. S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
2. G. B. Shaw : The Apple Cart
C. Prose &Fiction
(a) Prose:
1. Raymond Williams : “Realism and the Contemporary Novel”
2. Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s Own [Chapters 1 to 3]
(b) Fiction:
1. D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers

2. Graham Greene : Heart of the Matter
3. James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. George Orwell : 1984
SEMESTER V
BAHE 152 – AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES

Course Description:
1. Voices of trouble and recovery – poetry from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America
2. Harsh reality, Colonial and Postcolonial, social and political – Drama from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin
America
3. African prose and fiction–the experience of Colonialism and “othering” – racism and countering it – The
Postcolonial period – Civil Conflict – unrest – the clash between tradition and modernity –Native voices talk
back
4. Caribbean fiction prose – the Colonial experience – trans-Atlantic slave trade – indenture system –a
contrapuntal “prequel” to a metropolitan “classic”
5. Latin American fiction and prose – memoir – realism and magical realism

A. Poetry
1. Ben Okri : “An African Elegy”
2. Wole Soyinka : “Telephone Conversation”
3. Gabriel Okara : “Once Upon a Time”
4. Doris Lessing : “Fable”
5. Olive Senior : “Colonial Girls’ School”
6. AiméCésaire : “Memorandum on my Martinique”
7. Stephanie Correia : “Arawak Creation”
8. Pablo Neruda : Canto XII from The Heights of Machu Picchu
9. Octavio Paz : “Brotherhood”&“No More Clichés”
10. Jorges Luis Borges : “The Other Tiger”
B. Drama
1. Ngugi Wa Thiongo : The Black Hermit
2. James Ene Henshaw : Jewels of the Shrine: A Play in One Act
3. Derek Walcott : Dream on Monkey Mountain
4. Griselda Gambaro : Information for Foreigners
(a) Prose
1. Chinua Achebe : “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
2. Nisa : Selection from Nisa: the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
3. Judith Ortiz Cofer : Selection from Silent Dancing
(b) Fiction
1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : “On Monday of Last Week”
2. Jamaica Kincaid : “Song of Roland”
3. Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez : “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
5. Buchi Emecheta : The Joys of Motherhood
6. V.S. Naipaul : Miguel Street
7. Mario Vargas Llosa : Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
TEXT SOURCES
NOTE: These have been listed in the order that they are found in the syllabus. Please note that for most of the
prescribed texts there are online/offline sources/editions other than those listed below.
Online Sources:
1. Ben Okri: “An African Elegy” –http://www.gratefulness.org/poetry/african_elegy_okri.htm

2. Doris Lessing: “Fable” –http://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/fable-and-oh-cherry-trees-you-are-
too-white-for-my-heart-two-poems-by-doris-lessing/
3. Olive Senior: “Colonial Girls’ School” --http://apoemaday.tumblr.com/post/15456004783/colonial-girls-

school
4. Pablo Neruda: Canto XII from The Heights of Machu Picchu –http://www.poemhunter.com/best-
poems/pablo-neruda/canto-xii-from-the-heights-of-macchu-picchu/
5. Octavio Paz: “Brotherhood” –http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/brotherhood-3/; “No More Clichés” –
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-more-clich-s/
6. Jorges Luis Borges: “The Other Tiger” –http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/the-

other-tiger/
7. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. ‘The Handsomest Drowned man in the World’ (1968). Numerous free
downloads available.
Offline
1. Aimé Césaire: “Memorandum on my Martinique”. Howes, Barbara, Ed. From the Green Antilles:
Writings of the Caribbean. Panther Books, Edn. 1971: 240-41.
2. All other poems can be found in Narasimhaiah, C.D. Ed. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry.
Macmillan, 1990 (Edn.2013).
3. Thiongo, NgugiWa. The Black Hermit. Heinemann, 1968 (Edn. 1988).

4. Henshaw, James Ene: Jewels of the Shrine: A Play in One Act. Kalu, Anthonia C., Ed. The Rienner
Anthology of African Literature. Viva Books, 2008: 253-69. (Edn. 2012)
5. Walcott, Derek. Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1971.
6. Gambaro, Griselda. Information for Foreigners. Tr. Marguerite Feitlowitz. Northwestern University
Press, 1992.
7. Achebe, Chinua. An Image of Africa (1975). Penguin, 2010.

8. Nisa. Selection from The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (1981). In Rose, Phyllis, Ed. The Penguin
Book of Women’s Lives (1993). Edn. 1995: 636-656.
9. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. ‘On Monday of Last Week’ in The Thing Around Your Neck. Harper
Collins, 2009.
10. Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Edn. George Braziller, 2002.
11. Kincaid, Jamaica. ‘The Song of Roland’. In Markham, A. Ed. The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short
Stories. 1996: 362-70.
12. Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). Penguin, Edn. 2000.
13. Naipaul, V.S. Miguel Street (1959). Pan Macmillan E-book, 2012.
14. Judith Ortiz Cofer: Selection from Silent Dancing (1990).In Rose, Phyllis, Ed. The Penguin Book of
Women’s Lives (1993). Edn. 1995: 129-143.
15. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. ‘The Handsomest Drowned man in the World’ (1968). In Collected Stories.
Penguin, 1999.
16. Llosa, Mario Vargas. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter(1977). Edn. Faber & Faber, 1992.

SEMESTER V
BAHE 153 – RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Course Description:
Module 1:
General guidelines for the preparation of Project – paper size – line/paragraph spacing – font – headings – citing
quotations, etc.
Project format – tips for effective writing – effective introduction and conclusion – classification and analysis –
clarity and precision – plagiarism – organization and development of ideas.
Module 2:
Compiling a working bibliography – different resources – Library and Internet sources– citing references from
books – periodicals – Internet sources
Module 3:
Selection of topics – modern writings – post war period – works published after 1950 – on poetry, drama,
language, etc – topics outside the syllabus – recent trends in language and modern writers.
Module 4:
Writing a research paper as part of academics – steps – identifying a topic – researching – making an outline –
writing the paper – compiling the bibliography - submission.
Note: Special attention has to be given to Chapters 4, 5 & 6 in MLA Handbook 7th edition.
References:
1. MLA Handbook, 7th edition
2. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/1/
3. http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/hacker-lars-mla.pdf
4. http://www.csuchico.edu/egsc/documents/how_to_write_research_paper.pdf
5. http://programs.northlandcollege.edu/owl/Writing%20a%20Literary%20Paper.htm
6. http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/kingch/how_to_write_a_research_paper.htm
7. http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/nel/links/downloads/research_paper.pdf
SEMESTER V
BAHE 154 – LITERARY THEORY 2

Course Description:
This paper is a continuation of the first course on Literary Theory to take the discussions forward on poetic
compositions, narrative forms and theatrical presentations to the next level of understanding.

D. Poetry:
1. T. S. Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent
2. Cleanth Brooks : The Language of Paradox
E. Drama
1. Bertolt Brecht : Selections from A Short Organum for the Theatre: Prologue
and Sections 1-25
2. Martin Esslin : Introduction. Absurd Drama
F. Prose and Fiction
(a) Prose
1. Sigmund Freud : Creative Writers and Day-dreaming
2. Kate Millet : Sexual Politics (Chapter 1)
(b) Fiction
1. Mikhail Bakhtin : Epic and the Novel – Dialogic Imagination
2. Linda Hutcheon : Telling Stories: Fiction and History
SEMESTER V
BAHE 155 – INTRODUCTION TO GENDER STUDIES

Course Description:
1. This paper explores the theoretical deployment of the category of gender.
2. Covers the basic histories of feminism as a historical force.

3. Introduces the general scope of feminist studies as an interdisciplinary intellectual project in the
academy.
4. Questions notions of natural difference in order to explore how such notions are implicated in
epistemologies, histories, broader cultural practices and relations of power.
5. Offers an explanation of how the category of gender has come to define the human subject.
Module 1: Western Feminist Thought

Mary Wollstonecraft : Chapter One: “The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered”.
Vindication of the Rights of Women. (Pages 15-32)
Simone de Beauvoir : Part III: “Myths”. The Second Sex. (Pages 171-229)
Betty Friedan : “Introduction”. The Feminine Mystique. (Pages 1-15)
Module 2: Indian Feminist Thought

Uma Chakravarti : “Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi?” Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial
History. Ed. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (Pages 27-87)
TanikaSarkar : “Nationalist Iconography: The Image of Women in Nineteenth Century Bengali

Literature.”Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion and Cultural
Nationalism (Pages 250-267)
Meenakshi Thapan : “The Body in the Mirror: Embodiment, Violence and Identity”. Living the Body:
Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India. (Pages 93-130)
Module 3: Feminist Research Methodology

Shulamit Reinharz, with Lynn Davidman. Feminist Methods in Social Research.
SEMESTER VI
BAHE 161– BRITISH LITERATURE 8: 1950 to the Present

Course Description:
11. Basic outline of British history in the period 1945 to the present – understanding the place of literature in
Britain’s cultural world
12. Poetry – Romantic and Singular Poets – Dylan Thomas – David Gascoigne – Henry Treece – Norman
McCaig, Vernon Watkins – R. S. Thomas
13. The Movement group –D.J. Enright – Kingsley Amis –John Wain – Thom Gunn –Donald Davie – Philip
Larkin – Other poets – Ted Hughes – Geoffrey Hill – Robert Lowell – Sylvia Plath
14. Neo-modernists – Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison – Northern Irish poets – Seamus Heaney – Michael
Longley and Derek Mahon
15. Prose – criticism – F.R. Leavis – William Empson – Raymond Williams – Terry Eagleton
16. Novel – Evelyn Waugh – William Golding – Kingsley Amis – John Braine – Allen Silletto – Henry Green –
Lawrence Durrell – Anthony Burgess – Angela Carter – Fay Wilson – Kazuo Ishiguro – Salman Rushdie
17. Drama – Absurdist – social and political – Samuel Beckett – John Osborne – Harold Pinter – Tom Stoppard –
Arnold Wesker – Edward Bond – Joe Orton – Howard Brenton – Alan Ayckbourn
C. Poetry
1. Dylan Thomas : “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”
2. Philip Larkin : “Whitsun Weddings”
3. Ted Hughes : “Jaguar”
4. Geoffrey Hill : “September Song”
5. Seamus Heaney : “Punishment”
6. Tony Harrison : “Marked with D”
7. Thom Gunn : “At the Barriers”
8. R. S. Thomas : “Album”
9. Sylvia Plath : “Lady Lazarus”
D. Drama
1. Harold Pinter : The Dumb Waiter
2. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
E. Prose and Fiction
(a) Prose
1. Angela McRobbie : Postmodernism and Popular Culture
2. Peter Barry : “Structuralism” [from Beginning Theory]
(b) Fiction
1.William Golding : Lord of the Flies
2.Ian McEwan : Amsterdam
3.Martin Amis : London Fields
4.Gerald Durrell : My Family and Other Animals
5.Angela Carter : Nights at the Circus
SEMESTER VI
BAHE 162 – DALIT LITERATURE

Course Description:
This paper aims to
1. help students appreciate and enjoy writings by Dalit writers and thinkers
2. provide curricular recognition to the experience, knowledge and arts of dalits
3. introduce students to the dalit aesthetics, issues of marginalization, poverty and resistance
A. Poetry
1. Siddalingaiah : “Dalits are Coming”
2. M.B. Manoj : “The Children of the Forest Talk to Yesu”
3. H. Govindaiah : “A Letter to Father Appa”
4. Sukirtarani : “Pariah God.”
5. Damodar More : “Poetry Reading”
6. S. Joseph : “Identity Card”
7. Challapalli Swaroopa Rani : “Water”
[Selections 1 to 7 from The Exercise of Freedom edited by Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu, Navayana, 2013]
8. Sharankmar Limbale : “White Paper”
9. WamanNimbalkar : “Mother”
[Selections 8 and 9 from Poisoned Bread by Arjun Dangle. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992]
B. Prose &Fiction 1
1. B. R. Ambedkar : “We too are Human”
2. T.H.P. Chentharaserry : “Ayyankali and the Sadhujana Paripalana Sangam”
3. Vasant Moon : Growing Up Untouchable in India.Trans. Gail Omvedt.
4. Satyanarayana K. & Susie Tharu : “Dalit Panthers Manifesto” and “Introduction: Kerala Dalit Literature.”
[Selections 1 to 5 from The Exercise of Freedom edited by Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu.Navayana, 2013]
5. T.M. Yesudasan: “Excerpts from “Towards a Prologue to Dalit Studies.”
[from Sharankmar Limbale. Towards a Dalit Aesthetics. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2004]
C. Prose & Fiction 2

1. Kumud Pawde : “The Story of My Sanskrit”
2. Devanoora Mahadeva : “Tar Comes”
3. Ajay Navaria : “New Custom”
4. M.M. Vinodini : “The Parable of the Lost Daughter”
[Selections 1 to 4 from The Exercise of Freedom. Ed. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu.Navayana, 2013]
5. Shankarrao Kharat : “A Corpse in the Well”

[from Poisoned Bread by Arjun Dangle. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992]
6. Bama : Karukku. Trans. Lakshmi Holmstrom. New Delhi: OUP, 2012.
Books for Reference:

Dangle, Arjun. Poisoned Bread. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992
Limbale, Sharankmar. Towards a Dalit Aesthetics. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2004
Satyanarayana, K. and Susie Tharu. The Exercise of Freedom. New Delhi: Navayana, 2013
SEMESTER VI
BAHE 163 - FUNDAMENTALS OF THEATRE STUDIES AND PERFORMANCE

Course Description:
A. Theory
1. Greek drama and the Western concept of Tragedy – Aristotle – drama for self-exploration and healing
2. The Indian aesthetic concept of Tragedy based on Natya Shastra and the dhvani and rasa theories
3. Terms and concepts in drama

4. The symbolism of dramatic performance – drama as a tool of communication
5. One story, many tellings – Variety in theatrical communication
B. Practical Component and Time

The practical component will be actual performance by the students. This should happen side by side with theory
with a view to illustrate and reinforce the theoretical concepts they learn. Of the 5 contact hours in a week, 3 may
be devoted to the former and 2 to the latter, but if the concerned teachers finish teaching the theory early they
may use remaining theory hours for practical exercises.
Texts prescribed for stuy:
1. Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The Birth of Tragedy.” Harold Bloom, ed.Greek Drama. Philadelphia: Chelsea
House, 2004: 97-113.
2. Nagendra. “Tragic Pleasure, or the Enjoyment of the Pathetic Sentiment.” V. S. Seturaman, ed. Indian
Aesthetics. Chennai: Macmillan, 1992: 262-271.
3. Pickering, Kenneth. “Performance Concepts.” Key Concepts in Drama and Performance. Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005: 63-122.
4. Eco, Umberto. “Semiotics of Theatrical Performance.” The Drama Review 21: 1 Theatre and Social Action
Issue, 1977: 107-117. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1145112.
5. Tagore, Rabindranath. “Shakuntala: Its Inner Meanings.” V. S. Seturaman, ed. Indian Aesthetics. Chennai:
Macmillan, 1992: 398-404.
SEMESTER VI
BAHE 164 – POPULAR CULTURE AND FILMS

Course Description:
The course will examine the development of popular culture in India and its unique relationship to visual media
including film, television, comic books, video games and the internet. Film Studies contribute a major part in the
popular visual culture of the 21st century.
The course is also designed to explore the contributions made by the visual media in creating popular culture. A
study of national cinema, its genres, movements, traditions and auteurs is expected to be done. Chronicling the
milestones in Indian cinema from Alam Ara to the present will form a part of the study.
Module 1: Introduction to popular culture

What is culture? - How do we think sociologically about popular culture?
Module 2: Film: History and Form

Analysis of film as a medium of information - conveyor and creator of mass culture - a form of aesthetic
expression - the study of film as both a cultural product and an industry.
Module 3: Main methods and theories of film analysis and cultural criticism:
 Language of Cinema
 Narrative analysis
 Genre and star studies
 Popular film music
 The influence of film on Indian culture
Module 4: Popular cinema as an art and institution – emphasizing film genres and cultural
contexts.
Recommended view list
Mughal - e - Azam
Deevar
Sholay
Ek Dil Ke Liye
Lagaan
Yavanika
Nadodikkaatu
Kilukkkam
Sandesham
Salt n Pepper
Will You Cross the Skies For Me
Books for recommended reading:
Lal, Vinay and Nandy, Ashish ed., Fingerprinting Poplular Culture. New Delhi: Oxford India paperbacks 2006.
Harbord Janet. Film Cultures. London: Sage Publications 2002.

Longhurst, Brian, et. al. Introducing Culture Studies. India: Pearson, 2011.
Bobker R., Lee. Elements of Films. London: Rootledge, 1981.

SEMESTER VI
BAHE 165 - PROJECT
Common guidelines for Project/Dissertation
1. The Project/Dissertation should be done under the direct supervision of a teacher of the department,
preferably the Faculty Advisor.
2. Each student must submit an individual project.
3. Students should identify their topics from the list provided in consultation with the supervising teacher or the
Faculty Advisor of the class [Semester 6] as the case may be.
4. Credit will be given to original contributions. So students should not copy from other projects.
5. There will be an external evaluation of the project by an External examiner appointed by the University.
This will be followed by a viva voce, which will be conducted at the respective college jointly by the
external examiner(s) who valued the projects/dissertations and an internal examiner.
6. The Project/Dissertation must be between 25 to 30 pages. The maximum and minimum limits are to be
strictly observed.
7. A Works Cited page must be submitted at the end of the Project/Dissertation.
8. There should be a one-page Preface consisting of the significance of the topic, objectives and the chapter
summaries.
9. Two copies have to be submitted at the department by each group. One copy will be forwarded to the
University for Valuation and the second copy is to be retained at the department.
 General guidelines for the preparation of the Project:
 Paper must of A4 size only.

 One side Laser Printing.
 Line Spacing: double.
 Printing Margin: 1.5 inch left margin and 1 inch margin on the remaining three sides.
 Font: Times New Roman only.
 Font size: Main title -14/15 BOLD & matter - 12 normal.
 The project need be spiral-bound only.
 Paragraphs and line spacing: double space between lines [MLA format].
 Double space between paragraphs. No additional space between paragraphs.
 Start new Chapter on a new page.
 Chapter headings (bold/centred) must be identical as shown:
Chapter One
Introduction
 Sequence of pages in the Project/Dissertation:

i. Cover Page.
ii. First Page.
iii. Acknowledgement, with name & signature of student.
iv. Certificate (to be signed by the Head of the Dept and the Supervising Teacher).
v. Contents page with details of Chapter Number, Chapter Heading & Page Numbers.
 Specimen copies for (i), (ii), (iv) and (v) will be sent to the colleges.
 Chapter divisions: Total three chapters.
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction - 5 pages
Chapter Two: Core chapter - 15 pages
Chapter Three: Conclusion - 5 pages.
Works Cited
[Numbering of pages to be done continuously from Chapter One onwards, on the top right hand corner]
 Specific guidelines for preparation of Project:
1. Only the Title of the Project Report, Year and Programme/Subject should be furnished on the cover page of
the University copy of the Project. The identity of the College should not be mentioned on the cover page.
2. Details like Names of the Candidates, Candidates’ Codes, Course Code, Title of Programme, Name of
College, Title of Dissertation, etc should be furnished only on the first page.
3. Identity of the Candidate/College should not be revealed in any of the inner pages.
4. The pages containing the Certificate, Declaration and Acknowledgement are not to be included in the copy
forwarded to the University.
5. The Preface should come immediately before the Introductory Chapter and must be included in all the copies.
 Selection of Topics:
Students are permitted to choose from any one of the areas covered in the syllabi, but not on the prescribed writer
or text areas/topics. However works of writers not prescribed in the syllabi can be chosen. Selection of
topics/areas have to be finalized in the course of the first week of the final semester itself with the prior
concurrence of the Faculty Advisor / Supervisor
1. Post-1945 literature. This must not include the prescribed work/film coming under Core study.
[Works/films other than the prescribed ones can be taken for study]
2. Analysis of a film script.
3. Analysis of advertisement writing [limited to print ads]. Study should focus on the language aspect or be
analyzed from a theoretical perspective.
4. Interviews: from film, politics, sports and writers [Only one area or one personality to be selected].
5. Studies based on any 5 newspaper editorials or articles by leading international or national columnists
like Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, Anees Jung, etc.
6. Analysis of the language used in email and sms. The study should focus on the language aspect used in
such modes of messaging, limiting to 10 pieces of email/sms. [Reference: David Crystal Txtng: the GR8
Dbt. OUP, 2008]
7. Study based on the life and works of one Nobel Prize winner in literature.
8. Any other topic or area with the prior consent of the department.
(1) Documentation of sources in the works cited page(s): Samples of different types of sources will be
provided.

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UNIVERSITY OF KERALA

B.A. HONOURS DEGREE PROGRAMME

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

(2013 Admission onwards)

Course Name of Paper Instructional Marks

B. A. HONOURS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

BAHE 111 – BRITISH LITERATURE 1: 1350-1600

Instructional hours: 5 hours/week

1. English poetry in the Late Mediaeval Age – Langland, Gower, Lydgate

Texts prescribed for study:

Ballads : “Chevy Chase”; “The Wife of Usher’s Well” &

Wyatt : “Whoso list to hunt”

Surrey : “Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover”

Sidney : Sonnets 1 (“Loving in truth”) &

Donne : “Batter My Heart”; “Death be not Proud”; “The Flea”

Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

C. Prose and Fiction

Lyly : An Extract from Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Bacon : “Of Unity in Religion”; “Of Studies”; “Of Truth”

Sidney : Apology for Poetry. [Paragraphs 10-18]

Ascham : The Scholemaster. “A Preface to the Reader”

B. A. HONOURS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

BAHE 112 – BRITISH LITERATURE 2: 1601-1649

Instructional hours: 5 hours/week

1. Renaissance literature – Shakespeare

Texts prescribed for study:

Shakespeare : Sonnets 73 [“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”] &

Milton : “Ode on Christ’s Nativity”; Paradise Lost Book 2: Lines 1-105.

Herbert : “The Collar”

Herrick : “To Daffodils”

Vaughan : “To Amoret Gone from Him”

Marvell : “The Garden”

Shakespeare : Othello &Twelfth Night

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

Ben Jonson : Everyman in his Humour

C: Prose and Fiction

Browne : Religio Medici [Paragraphs 1-10]

Donne : “Meditation 17” [From Devotions upon Emergent Occasions]

Hobbes : Leviathan. Part1; “Of Man”

Milton : Areopagitica [Paragraphs 1-19]

Cowley : “Of Agriculture”

B. A. HONOURS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Instructional hours: 5 hours/week

Texts prescribed for study:

C: Prose and Fiction

B. A. HONOURS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

BAHE 114 – HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Instructional hours: 5 hours/week

Poplawski, Paul, ed. English Literature in Context. Cambridge UP, 2008.

Thornley, G, C. and G. Roberts. An Outline of English Literature. Pearson, 2011.

The syllabus – a rationale:

B. A. HONOURS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

BAHE 115 – INDIAN RENAISSANCE

Instructional hours: 5 hours/week

Books for reference:

1. Jawaharlal Nehru ` :The Discovery of India

1. Charles Allen ` : Ashoka