Bharathiar University Model Question Paper / Syllabus : School of Distance Education

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First year
Core Paper I – Prose
Detailed:
1. On running after one’s hat
2. On Habits
3. An episode from Dr.Cronin’s medical careeR
4.On Sporting Spirit
5.On Parents and Children
6.The Happy Man
7. Bacon of Truth
8. Lamt’s Dream Children
9. Goldsmith: The Man in Block
10. Addison: Roger and Will Wimble
11.Steele: The spectator Club
12. Robert Lynd : The Unexpected
Non-Detailed:
1.Window view
2. Our own civilization
3. Eduation and Training of Character
4.Literature and Science
5.Hazliltt: On Function style
6.Macaulay : Oliver goldsmith
7. R.L. Sterenson: Walking Toers
8. Morbey : On Doers
9. Coubey: Of Myself
Book Prescribed
1.Selected Prose for Degree Classes by K P K Menon (Macmillan)
2. English Essays:A RepresentativeAnthology Ed by W Cuthbert Robb.(Blackie and Sons)

Core Paper II – Fiction
1.Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen
2.The Old man and the Sea. By Ernest Hemingway.
3.The Vicar of Wakefield. by Oliver Goldsmith.
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. Things Focal Apart by CHINUA ACHEBE Allied Paper – Social History of England
Dr. P. Thailambal – by ENNES Publications -Udumalpet.(All the Chapters)

Second year
Core Paper III –Poetry
Detailed – Bradise Lost – Bork I (Macmillan)
1.On His Blindness- John Milton
2.La Belle Dame Sans/ Merci- John Keats
3.Ulysses- Alfced Teunyson.
4.Vagabond
Non-Detailed.
1.Strauge Meseting
2.Odeon a Scecian Urn
3.My Last Ducher
4. Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
5.Menelaus and Helen
Book Prescribed:
An Introduction to Poetry By Xavier (Macmillan)
English for Excellence – Poctry by Lalitha Natarajan (Arunaclha Agencies)

Core Paper IV –Drama
Detailed
1. Edward II. Marlow
2. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscan Wilde
Non-Detailed:
1. A Dolls House – Ibsen
2. Pygmalion – Shaw
3. The Rivals – Sheridan
Allied Paper – History of English Literature and Litreary Forms
1.The Age of Shakespeare
2.The Age of Pope
3. The Age of Wordsworth
4.The Age of Tennyson
5.The Present Age.
Book Prescribed:
An Outline History of English Literature. by William Hentry Hudson.
(B.I Publications Pvt ltd)
Section-I- Poetry
Section II-Drama
Section III- Prose : Chapters V Only
Book Prescribed: Background to the study of English Literature-by Prasad

THIRED YEAR
Core Paper V –Shakespeare
Detailed:
1. As You Like It
2. Othells
Non-Detailed
1. The Tempest
2. Henry IV – Part I
3. A Mid Summer Night’s Dream

Core Paper VI – American Literature.
Detailed
1. Hamathreya – Emerson
2. Raven – Edgas Allan Poc
3. There has been a death in the opposite bouse – Emily Dicseceinson
4. The Road Not Taken – Frost
5. Emperor of Ice Cream – Wallace Stevens
Non-Detailed
1. Apple-Picking – Fron
2. Chicago
3. Cambridge Ladies – Cummins
4. Bankers
5. Meadow Mouse
Detailed
Prose : Self – Reliance ( Emerson)
Non – Detailed
The Figne A Poem Makes ( Frost )
Drama – Detailed
The Death of a Salesman (ArthunMiller)
Non Detailed
Harry Ape – (Eugine O.Neille)
FICTION
1. The Scaneet Letter (Lnathaniesl Hawthorne )
2. Billy Becdd (Herman Meloiee
Books Prescribed:
1. An Anthology of American Poems edited Subbian
2. An Anthology of Prose (edited by P Maruthanayaga)

Core Paper VII –Indian Writing in English
Drama-Detailed – Chitra – (Tagole)
Non – Detailed – Thuglak ( gouish Karnad)
Poetry – Detailed – 2,3,7,and 8 From Indian Verse in English by Srinath
2 – Electra – Aurbinds
3 – Stone Goddess – Aurbinds
7 – River – A.K. Ramanujam
8 – My Grandmother’s House – Kamaladas
Non – Detailed
1. Lotes – Tou Dutt
2. Indian Weavers – Sarojini Naidu
3. Breezy April – Tagore
4. In a Night of Train – Jayanthi
5. Indian Women – Shivk Kumar
Fiction :
1. Cry the Peacock – Anitha Desa
2. English Teacher – R. K.Narayan
Prose :
India Speakers – Parvathi Vasudevan (Macmillan)

Books prescribed :
AOS – Paper I – English For Mass Communication
Mass Communication and Journalism in India by D.S. Metha. Upto Chapter 1-25 only.
AOS Paper – II Translation Studies
1. History of Translation Studies – by Vijaykumar Das
2. Toiukkural Translation – Chapters – 1to 35 Prsy Mahalingam Publication Ed by S.M. Dias
3. Odyssey – 16th Chapter ( Eons Publications)