TRB POLYTECHNIC ENGLISH LECTURER EXAM SYLLABUS

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UNIT 1
CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Book of the Duchess
EDMUND SPENCER
Epithalamion
Francis Bacon
of Oxford, of Nobility, of Travel, of Friendship, of Love
Ben Jonson
Volpone or the Fox
Christopher Marlowe
Dr. Faustus
Sir Jhomas More
Utopia
John Webster
The White Devil
William Langland
Piers the plowman
Shakespeare
The comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Love's Labour Lost
Sonnets (8,15,24,30,37,40,46,76,82)
Sonnets (91,112,116,126,140,144,147,154)
UNIT 2
JACOBEAN TO AUGUSTAN AGE
John Milton
Paradise Regained
John Dryden
All for Love
Alexander pope
The Rape of the Lock
Andrew Marwell
Garden
Thomas gray
Elegy written in a country churchyard
Jonathan swift
A Tale of a Tub
Addison and Steele
The spectators and the coverly papers. (Essays 1-10,Macmillan EdItion)
Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted village
Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews
Samuel Daniel
Christ VictoricTriumph
Sir Thomas Brown
The Garden of Cyrus
William Blake
Songs of Experience
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Henry Vaughan
Regeneration
UNIT 3
ROMANTIC PERIOD
William Wordsworth
The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, Biographia Literaria
P. B. Shelly
Ode to the west wind
John keats
Ode to Autumn
Charles Lamb
The Essays of Elia, Oxford in the vacation
Charles Lamb
New year's Eve, Dream children
Charles Lamb
A Reverie, The price of chimney-sweeper, My Relations
Byron
Prometheus
Jane Austen
Emma
Walter Scott
The Talisman
William Hazlit
Characters of Shakespeare's plays
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
UNIT 4
VICTORIAN AGE
Tennyson
The princess - A Medley
Robert Browning
Men and Women, Andrea Del Sarto
Mathew Arnold
Rugby Chapel, Dover beach
D.G.Rosetti
The Blessed Damozel
George Eliot
Romola
W.M Thackeray
Vanity Fair
R.L.Stevenson
Treasure Island
John Ruskein
Sesame and Lilies
Charles Dickens
A Tale of two cities
UNIT 5
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS
W.B.Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders
Virginia Woolf
Mr.Bennet and Mrs.Brown
A.L. Huxley
Time Must Have a Stop
E.M.Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread
T.S.Eliot
Murder in Cathedral
C.P.Snow
Corridors of Power
G.B. Shaw
The Devil's Disciple
Ezra Pound
The Pisan Cantos
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
UNIT 6
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Whitman
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
H.W.Long Fellow
The May Queen
Edgar Allam Poe
The Haunted Palace,To my Mother,The Lake
Emily Dickinson
A something in a Summer's Day,Bless God, he went as soldier's,How happy is the little Stone,This is my Letter to The World
Robert Frost
Blue Berries
Wallace Stevens
The Snow man
Emerson
The American Scholar
Henry James
The lesson of the master
O'Neill
The Great God Brown
Hawthorne
A House of the Seven Gables
Edward Albe
The American Dream
Alice Walker
By the light of my Father's smile
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Earnest Hemingway
The Old Man and The Sea
UNIT 7
INDIAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
Nissin Ezekiel
Night of the Scorpion
A.K. Ramanujam
A River
R. Parthasarathy
Lines for a Photograph
Toru Dutt
Our Casuarina Tree
Sarojini Naidu
The Soul's Prayer
Anita Desai
Where shal we go for this summer?
Badal Surcar
Evam Indrajit
Sri Aurobindo
Rose of God
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Mulk Raj Anand
Untouchable
Deshpande
The Dark Holds No Terror
Kirish karnard
Tugulaq
UNIT 8
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Family of Indo European Languages
Historical Linguistics
LSRW
Theories of Language acquisition
Dialects
Phonology
Affixes
Derivational and inflectional affixes
Morphemes
Acronyms
Phrase and structures
Phonetics and phonology
Minimal Pairs
Sociolinguistics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Neurolinguistics
Dichotic listening
Lingua franca
Jargon
UNIT 9
CRITICISM AND LITERARY THEORIES
Plato
Republic
Francis Bacon
The Advancement of learning
Samuel Johnson
On fiction,Preface to Shakespeare
S.T Coleridge
Biographia Literaria
Mathew Arnold
The function of criticism at the present time
I A Richards
Practical Criticism
Northrop Frye
The critical path
T.S.Eliot
Hamlet and his Problems
I A Richards
Principles of Literary Criticism
Rene Wellek
Concepts of Criticism
Aristotle
Poetics
Ezra Pound
The ABC of Reading
Wayne C. Booth
The Rhetoric of fiction
Empson
Seven types of Ambiguity
UNIT 10
POST COLONIAL LITERATURE AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Atwood
Surfacing
Lawrence
The Fire Dwellers
P.K.Page
Adolescence
Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God
Wole Soyinka
A Dance of the Forests
Wilfered Campbell
The Winter Lakes
AG.Smith
The White House
Ondaatje
There's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do
George Ryga
Portrait of Angelica,In the shadow of the vulture
Ibsen
The lady from the sea
Moliere
The comic pastoral
Sir Thomas More
The Four Last Things
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