ENG-A-CC-1-1-TH/TU) 

HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND PHILOLOG

1. History of English Literature by Edward Albert    

2. The Short Oxford History of English Literature by Andrew Sanders   

3. A History of English Literature by Michael Alexander     

4. Growth and Structure of the English Language by Otto Jespersen    

ENG-A-CC-1-2-TH/TU

EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

1. S.H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art 

2. Classical literary criticism by Dorsch, T. S., ed. and tr; Aristotle. On the art of poetry; Horace. On the art of poetry; Longinus, 1st cent. On the sublime.  

CC3 (SEMESTER 2, ENG-A-CC-2-3) 

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) Bruce King, Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English

CC4 (SEMESTER 2, ENG-A-CC-2-4) 

BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (14TH – 17TH CENTURY)

1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The  Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin  McLaughlin 

2. The book of the courtier by Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529; Opdyke, Leonard Eckstein, 1888-

https://archive.org/details/bookofcourtier00castuoft/page/n11/mode/2up

3. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D. Chickera 

eds. English Critical Texts,

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/anapologieforpo00sidngoog&ved=2ahUKEwjLvrOZ07T2AhUf4zgGHdOAAcAQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw269jIVHGzNzKU9JkZ1uIoJ

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. Letters from an American farmer

by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813; Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939; Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955

https://archive.org/details/lettersfromanam03lewigoog/page/n6/mode/2up

2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/download/douglasfred00dougrich/douglasfred00dougrich_bw.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiziNX307T2AhVJzDgGHdS2AwIQFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3nAk-bJlLyL2931OGJXBsr

3. Walden; or, Life in the woods

by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Carew, Thomas

https://archive.org/details/waldenorlifeinwo1854thor/page/n3/mode/2up

CC6 (SEMESTER 3, CODE – ENG-A-CC-3-6) 

POPULAR LITERATURE:

1. Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature by Chelva Kanaganayakam

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/view/33930/27969&ved=2ahUKEwjM87f31LT2AhVOMXAKHZZEAPwQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0l-g5pNlDhJlx5dIuODUBm

2. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super Culture: 

American Popular Culture and Europ 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/collectedessayso0000fied&ved=2ahUKEwik2Jq91bT2AhUXEYgKHZ8SAbkQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3T8OvcrlbxD4vvLPu2d2sz

CC7 (SEMESTER 3, CODE – ENG-A-CC-3-7) 

BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (17TH – 18TH CENTURY):

1. Genesis KJV 1611 Original version Bible

by King James commissioned it in 1604

https://archive.org/details/GenesisKJV1611OriginalVersionBible/mode/2up

2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York: 

Norton, 1992) 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/princerevisedtra00mach&ved=2ahUKEwjQ-L-11rT2AhVKzTgGHRSNDIAQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0K-IYwxj9vSvFfWN7i0yVv

3. Thomas Hobbes,  Selections from The Leviathan

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/hobbessleviathan00hobbuoft&ved=2ahUKEwid5J_a1rT2AhWz4zgGHZBLDX8QFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1qoFxXZBPw9x84tOA0oDxt

CC8 (SEMESTER 4, CODE – ENG-A-CC-4-8) 

18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

1. Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English 

Stage (London: Routledge, 1996). https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/ashortviewofthei44645gut&ved=2ahUKEwj35OqQ17T2AhVBjeYKHSLiDYcQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2R8SYELhQ-9BWUMjA8MxOA

2. Daniel Defoe, ‘The Complete English Tradesman 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Iqs_AAAAYAAJ&ved=2ahUKEwjFt8Sq17T2AhVLFLcAHTcZDIsQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3SdOX18RC6h2zsh2QV8bE9

English 

ENG-A-CC-6-13-TH

1. Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares tr. By Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood   =   https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ia600800.us.archive.org/25/items/2015.126189.AnActorPrepares/2015.126189.An-Actor-Prepares.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwid_PWhr97xAhVhzjgGHUTXDnQQFjAFegQIJRAC&usg=AOvVaw00BouvPI0op5OzG-SfCGfQ

2. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet   =   https://archive.org/details/brechtontheatre0000unse

3. The Death of Tragedy by George Steiner     =   https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ia600506.us.archive.org/13/items/SteinerGeorge_201504/Steiner,%2520George%2520-%2520Death%2520of%2520Tragedy%2520(Oxford,%25201980).pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiTzc3Lsd7xAhWEWHwKHQixCqwQFjAAegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw2mLvPY-uvVDO6AEDu0ymzc

ENG-A-CC-6-14-TH

1. White Masks, tr. By Charles Lam Markmann   =    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/BlackSkinWhiteMasksFrantzFanon&ved=2ahUKEwjDluGsst7xAhVMxzgGHeEpCqsQFjAAegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1TN2be1tEhql5c9kDjxbLS

2. Decolonising the Mind by Ngugiwa Thiong’o    =    https://archive.org/details/DecolonisingTheMind

3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech in Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell   =   https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/gabrielgarciamar0000unse&ved=2ahUKEwjI1Nn0s97xAhVEzTgGHdN2DW8QFjAAegQIBxAC&usg=AOvVaw22SganEYVUoh9N92Ld2ntU

4. Postcolonial Criticism' in Peter Barry, Beginning Theory   =   https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://archive.org/details/beginning-theory-peter-barry&ved=2ahUKEwi4iOygtN7xAhVzzDgGHUAHDGgQFjAAegQIBhAC&usg=AOvVaw2w-7wO_fihDYv7u1cNFaHP

5.  Colonialism/Postcolonialism  By Ania Loomba  =  https://archive.org/details/colonialismpostc0000loom