Pondicherry University BA English Syllabus

Can you provide me the syllabus of B. A. English Language and Literature program offered by Pondicherry University as I want to check it before apply for the course in the University?

[Pathak]

Pondicherry University is a central university in Puducherry which was founded in 1985 by the Government of India. It is a collegiate university with a jurisdiction spread over the Union Territories of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The syllabus of B. A. English Language and Literature program offered by Pondicherry University is as follows:

SEMESTER I
Main Paper I: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Poetry
Selections from Modern Indian Poetry in English, edited by K. Ayyappa Paniker (Sahitya
Akademi, Delhi).
1. Kamala Das, ‘Nani’
2. Gauri Deshpande, ‘The Female of the Species’
3. Nissim Ezekiel, ‘Very Indian Poem in Indian English’
4. Shiv K. Kumar, ‘Indian Women’
5. Jayanta Mahapatra, ‘Grandfather’
6. A.K. Ramanujan, ‘Epitaph on a Street Dog’
Prose
Selections from Indian Writing: Prose Selections, edited by A. Uthandaraman (Emerald,
Chennai).
1. V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, ‘The Story of my Admission’
2. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West’
3. C. Rajagoplachari, ‘ What is Culture?’
Drama
Gurcharan Das, Larins Sahib (Oxford, Delhi).
Short Stories
P. Raja, The Blood and Other Stories (B.R. Publishers, Delhi).
Fiction
Anita Desai, Journey to Ithaca (Penguin, Delhi).
Main Paper II: PROSE
A. 1. Francis Bacon, ‘Of Studies’
2. Oliver Goldsmith, ‘Man in Black’
3. Charles Lamb, ‘Old China’
4. William Hazlitt, ‘On Familiar Style’
5. G.K. Chesterton, ‘On Running After One’s Hat’
6. Charles Darlington Morley, ‘On Doors’.
Reference: i) A Book of English Essays (Ed. W.E. Williams, Penguin)
ii) A Representative Anthology (Ed. Cuthbert Robbe, Blackie
& Son)
B. Selections from H.G. Wells (Macmillan).

Syllabus of B. A. English Language and Literature program