B.A. English Literature| 4th Semester Syllabus| 2nd Year| Student Admitted prior to 2020 - 2021| University of Madras

 B.A. ENGLISH

(Syllabus for Student Admitted prior to 2020 - 2021)

FOURTH SEMESTER

Course Components	Subjects	Inst. Hrs	Credits	MAXIMUM MARKS
				Int. Marks	Ext. Marks	Total
Part  I	Languages -Paper IV	6	3	25	75	100
Part  II	English - Paper IV	4	3	25	75	100
Part  III         Core Course	Paper-VII –   American Literature I	6	4	25	75	100
	Paper – VIII–Film and Literature (or)  Green Studies	6	4	25	75	100
Allied	Paper IV – Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics	6	5	25	75	100
Part IV	Soft Skill  IV	2	3	50	50	100
	Environmental    Studies			25	75	100

 Semester IV

Core Paper – VII - American Literature I

Unit-1: Introduction

Puritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolition of Slavery

Unit-2: Prose                

1.  Self-Reliance – R.W. Emerson (an extract)

2.  Where I Lived, and What I Lived For – H.D. Thoreau

3.  Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln

Unit-3: Poetry

1.  Nature – H.W. Long fellow

2.  A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment – Anne Bradstreet

3.  Brahma – R.W. Emerson

4.  Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking – Walt Whitman

5.  O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman

6.  There’s a certain Slant of light – Emily Dickinson

Unit-4: Short stories

1.  The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe

2.  Bartleby, the Scrivener – Melville

3.  Let Me Feel Your Pulse – O Henry

4.  Pigeon Feathers – John Updike

Unit-5: Fiction

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Core Paper VIII - Film and Literature (or) Green Studies

Film and Literature

Unit-1: Introduction

Adaptation

Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter1 - "Beginning to theorize adaptation"

The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre (narrative film , avant-garde film, film noir, documentary), Themes tropes - cue - suspense - themes - functions - motif - parallelism - development - unity / disunity

Film Narrative: Title - Story - Plot - narration (Restricted and omniscient) - duration - motivation - motif- parallelism - character traits - cause and effects – exposition - climax - point of view

Unit-2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction

➢   Danny Boyle's Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)

Unit-3: Adaptation of Fantasy / Science Fiction

➢   Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005)

Unit-4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films

➢   Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)

➢   Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (Tamil)

Unit-5: Components of a Film Review

Plot, Genre, Role of actors, Background information, condensed synopsis, argument/analysis, evaluation, recommendation, opinion 

(OR)

Green Studies

Unit 1: Introduction

Introduction to Eco-criticism - Definition Scope and importance of Ecocriticism

Prescribed: Garrard, Greg, Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2004)

Introducing concepts of Indian ecocriticism –Tinai - significance- ecoregions

Prescribed: Nirmal Selvamony -Tinai in Primal and Stratified Societies

Unit 2: Bioregionalism and Ecofeminism (Greg Gaard)

➢   Community, Region, Home

Prescribed: Carson Rachel, The Silent Spring (Chapter One-‘A Fable for Tomorrow’)

➢   Letter to President Pierce,1855 -Chief Seattle (Norton Reader)

➢   Selected tale from Flowering Tree - A.K Ramanujan (Ecofeminism)

➢   Ecology

▪         Deep Ecology Basic Principles-Biocentric Equality- Naess and George Sessions

▪         Self-Realization: The World is too much with us (Wordsworth)

Unit 3: Environment and Literature

Symbiosis, Mutation, Parasitism Biodiversity

➢   Wordsworth, ‘Nutting’

➢   Dylan Thomas –‘The sap that through the green fuse runs’

➢   The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh (Man and the Environment)

Unit 4: Indian Ecocriticism

(Tinai-  Kurinchi, Neidal, Mullai  Marutam and Palai)

➢   What She Said - Kapilar,Akananooru 318  A,k.Ramanujan p.14

➢   What Her Girl Friend Said, the Lover within Earshot, Behind a Fence- Uloccanar. Narrinai 63

Unit 5: Oikopoetics - Oikos, Integrative, Hierarchic Anarchic Oikos

 ‘The Fly’ - D.H. Lawrence and ‘Snake’

Allied Paper – IV Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics

Unit-1: Introduction

➢     Definition of language, spoken and written language

➢     Diachronic & synchronic approaches of language study

➢     Linguistics - definition, nature and scope

Unit-2: English Phonetics and Phonology

➢     Speech Organs

➢     Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs)

➢     Syllables, Stress and Intonation

➢     Transcriptions (exercises)

Unit-3: Grammar

➢     Definition of Grammar

➢     Different Approaches of Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional

Unit-4:  Syntax

➢     Structural analysis ( I.C. analysis)

➢     Deep and surface structure.

Unit-5: Semantics

➢     Word, morphemes

➢     Word meaning association (semantics)