Polytechnic Trb syllabus

Unit I: Chaucer to Shakespeare

S.No	Title	P.No
01	Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess	10
02	Edmund Spencer’s Epithalamion	29
03	William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (8, 15, 24, 30, 37, 40, 46, 76, 82, 91, 112, 116, 126, 140, 144, 147, 154)	48
04	Francis Bacon’s Essays F Of Oxford F Of Nobility F Of Travel F Of Friendship F Of Love	72
05	Ben Jonson’s Volpone or the Fox	111
06	Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus	142
07	Sir Thomas More’s Utopia	167
08	John Webster’s The White Devil	191
09	William Langland’s Piers the plowman	223
10	William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors	237
11	William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream	256
12	William Shakespeare’s Hamlet	277
13	William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII	308
14	William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost	342

Unit II – Jacobean to Augustan age

S.No	Title	P.No
01	John Milton’s Paradise Regained	03
02	John Dryden’s All for Love	27
03	Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock	43
04	Andrew Marvell’s Garden	64
05	Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	77
06	Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub	98
07	Addison and Steele’s The Spectators and the Coverley Papers. (Essays 1-10)	117
08	Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted village	153
09	Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews	170
10	Samuel Daniel’s Christ Victoric Triumph	224
11	Sir Thomas Brown’s The Garden of Cyrus	227
12	William Blake’s Songs of Experience	237
13	Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe	269
14	Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels	295
15	Henry Vaughan’s Regeneration	335

Unit III – Romantic Period

S.No	Title	P. No
01	William Worsworth’s The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper	3
02	Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, Biographia Literaria	18
03	P.B.Shelley’s Ode to the west wind	35
04	John Keats’s Ode to Autumn	49
05	Charles Lamb’s The Essays of Elia (1) Oxford in the Vacation (2) New Year’s Eve (3) Dream Children: A Reverie (4) The Price of Chimney-sweeper (5) My Relations	60
06	Byron’s Prometheus	114
07	Jane Austen’s Emma	125
08	Walter Scott’s The Talisman	155
09	William Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespeare’s plays	168
10	Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights	211

Unit IV – Victorian Age

S. No	Title	P. No
01	Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Princess: A Medley	3
02	Robert Browning : F Men and Women F Andrea Del Sarto	24
03	Mathew Arnold : F Rugby Chapel F Dover Beach	52
04	D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel	78
05	George Eliot’s Romola	95
06	W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair	108
07	R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island	155
08	John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies	186
09	Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities	205

Unit V: Modern and Contemporary Periods

S.No	Title	P. No
01	W.B.Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium	3
02	Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders	15
03	Virginia Woolf’s Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown	34
04	A.L.Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop	65
05	E.M.Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread	77
06	T.S.Eliot’s Murder in Cathedral	101
07	C.P.Snow’s Corridors of Power	132
08	G.B. Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple	145
09	Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos	158
10	Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest	171

Unit VI – American Literature

S. No	Title	P. No
01	Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d	03
02	H.W. Longfellow’s The May Queen	21
03	Edgar Allan Poe: 3.1 The Haunted Palace 3.2 My Mother 3.3 The Lake	26
04	Emily Dickinson : 4.1 A Something in a Summer’s Day 4.2 Bless God, He Went as Soldier’s 4.3 How Happy is the Little Stone 4.4 This is My Letter to The World.	42
05	Robert Frost’s Blue Berries	57
06	Wallace Stevens’s The Snow Man	69
07	Emerson’s The American Scholar	80
08	Henry James’s The Lesson of the Master	98
09	O’Neill’s The Great God Brown	110
10	Hawthorne’s A House of the Seven Gables	129
11	Edward Albee’s The American Dream	164
12	Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile	187
13	Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	197
14	Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea	241

Unit VII: Indian and English Literature

S.No	Title	P.No
01	Nissin Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion	03
02	A.K. Ramanujan : A River	11
03	R. Parthasarathy : Lines for a Photograph	19
04	Toru Dutt : Our Casuarina Tree	24
05	Sarojini Naidu : The Soul’s Prayer	33
06	Anita Desai : Where shall we go for this summer?	42
07	Badal Surcar : Evam Indrajit	53
08	Sri Aurobindo : Rose of God.	72
09	Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things	83
10	Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable	99
11	Deshpande : The Dark Holds No Terror	138
12	Kirish karnard : Tugulaq	159

Unit – VIII English Language and Linguistics

S.No	Title	P.No
01	Family of Indo-European Languages 1.1 Old English 1.2 Middle English 1.3 Modern English	03
02	Morphology 2.1 Morphemes 2.2 Aiffixes	17
03	Linguistics 3.1 Perspective of Linguistics 3.2 Historical Linguistics 3.3 Sociolinguistics 3.4 Neurolinguistics 3.5 Dialects 3.6 Phrase and Structure 3.7 Minimal Pairs 3.8 Lingua Franca 3.9 Jargon	29
04	Phonology 4.1 Phonotics 4.2 Dichotic Listening	68
05	Semantics 5.1 Semantics – Definition 5.2 Pragmatics 5.3 Acronyms	94
06	Language Acquisition 6.1 LSRW 6.2 Theories of Language Acquisition	104
07	Miscellaneous Topics	114

IX – Criticism and Literary Theories

S.No	Title	P.No
01	Plato’s Republic	03
02	Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning	34
03	Samuel Johnson 3.1 On Fiction 3.2 Preface to Shakespeare	63
04	Mathew Arnold’s The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	99
05	I. A. Richards: 5.1 Practical Criticism 5.2 Principles of Literary Criticism	118
06	Northrop Frye’s The Critical Path	139
07	T.S.Eliot’s Hamlet and His Problems	149
08	Rene Wellek’s Concepts of Criticism	163
09	Aristotle’s Poetics	169
10	Ezra Pound’s The ABC of Reading	199
11	Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction	205
12	Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity	228

S.No	Title	P.No
01	Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing	03
02	Margaret Laurence’s The Fire Dwellers	19
03	P.K.Page’s Adolescence	32
04	Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God	42
05	Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests	53
06	Wilfred Campbell’s The Winter Lakes	64
07	A.G.Smith’s The White House	72
08	Ondaatje’s There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to do	76
09	George Ryga : 9.1 Portrait of Angelica 9.2 In the Shadow of the Vulture	85
10	Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea	92
11	Moliere’s The Comic Pastoral	106
12	Sir Thomas More’s The Four Last Things	113

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