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BLOCK 3: Major Periods of Literature – II

UNIT 1 Romantic Age
UNIT 2 Victorian Period
UNIT 3 Modern Period
UNIT 4 Postmodern Period

BLOCK 4: Representative Texts – I

UNIT 1 Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue, Canterbury Tales - Introduction,

Lines 1-31. (Neville Coghill)

UNIT 2 Edmund Spenser: “Epithalamion”
UNIT 3 William Shakespeare: “To be or Not to be.” Hamlet, Act III, Scene I
(Soliloquy)

BLOCK 5: Representative Texts – II

UNIT 1 Joseph Addison: “Sir Roger at the Assizes”

UNIT 2 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
UNIT 3 Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”

BLOCK 6: Representative Texts – III

UNIT 1 Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man
UNIT 2 W. B. Yeats: “Easter 1916”
UNIT 3 George Orwell “A Hanging”

References

Childs, Peter and Roger Fowler. The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms.
Routledge, 2006.
Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. Routledge, 2004.

Nayar, Pramod. K. A Short History of English Literature. Amity University Press, 2018.

Noys, Benjamin. Introducing Theory: A Practical Guide. Continuum, 2007.

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