• Poetry: “To India, My Native Land” (Henry Derozio), “The Palanquin Bearers” (Sarojini Naidu), “Poet Love, Birdwatcher” (Nissim Ezekiel) “The Freaks” (Kamala Das),
• Novels: The Man Eater of Malgudi (Narayan) That Long Silence (Shashi Desh Pandey) The Midnight Children (Rushdie), The God of Small Things (Arundati Roy)
• Plays: Final Solutions (Mahesh Dattani), Lights Out (Manjula Padmanabhan)

British Plays: Dr Faustus, Volpone, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Duchess of Malfi, The Spanish Tragedy, The Way of the World, The Man of Mode, Man and the Superman, Saint Joan, The Cocktail Party, Murder in the Cathedral, Look Back in Anger, The Birthday Party, Waiting for Godot, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

British Novels: Pilgrim’s Progress, Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, Moll Flanders, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Hard Times, A Tale of Two cities, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Maddening Crowd, Mill on the Floss, Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights, The Portrait of a Lady, Portrait of an Artist as a Young man, Mrs. Dalloway.

British Poetry: “Prologue to the Canterbury Tales”(Chaucer) , Paradise Lost Book -I, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (15, 18, 116, 130) “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (John Donne) , “To His -Coy Mistress”, “A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body” (Andrew Marvel), “French Revolution”(Words worth), “Kubla Khan”(Coleridge), “Ode on a Grecian Urn”(Keats) “Ode to West Wind”(Shelley), “Dover Beach” (Arnold), “The Hollow Man”(Eliot) “My Last Duchess” (Browning), “The Second Coming” (Yeats) “Digging” (Seamus Heaney), “Shield of Achilles” (Auden) “Church Going” (Larkin), “The Thought Fox” (Hughes) “Daddy” (Sylvia Plath), “Insensibility” (Wilfred Owen).

American Drama: Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller) Hairy Ape (Eugene O’Neil), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)

American Novel: Huckleberry Fin (Twain) Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemmingway) Moby Dick (Herman Melville), The Sound and the Fury ( Faulkner)

American Poetry: Songs of Myself (1, 5, 16, 21) (Walt Whitman) “Mending Wall” (Robert Frost) Emily Dickinson: “I Taste a Liquor never Brewed”, “Hope is the Thing With Feathers”, “The Soul Selects her Own Society.” Short Stories: “The Oval Portrait” (E. A. Poe) “The Ransom of Red Chief” (O’ Henry)

The Republic (Plato), The Poetics (Aristotle), An Apology for Poetry (Sidney) Essay on Dramatic Poesy (Dryden), “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (Wordsworth), Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), “Base and Superstructure” (Raymond Williams), “Ideological State Apparatus and Repressive State Apparatus” (Louis Althusser)

A Room of One’s Own (Virginia Woolf), “Towards a Feminist Poetics” (Elaine Showalter) Interpretation of Dreams, “Origin of Unconscious” (Sigmund Freud), “Mirror Stage” (Jacques Lacan), “Intentional Fallacy and Affective Fallacy” (Wimsatt and Beardsley) Structuralism (Saussure) Deconstruction( Derrida), “The Postmodernism Condition: A Report on Knowledge”(J F Lyotard) Simulacra and Simulation (Jean Baudrillard) Orientalism(Edward Said) “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”(Homi K. Bhabha), “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (Gayatri Spivak)

Novels: Chronicles of a Death Foretold (G. Marquez), Things Fall Apart (Achebe), The Slave Girl (Buchi Emecheta) Voss (Patrick White) Stone Angel (Margret Lawrence)

Drama: Death and the King’s Horseman (Soyinka) Dream on Monkey Mountain (Derek Walcott) Poetry: “As on Listens to Rain” (Octavia Paz), “Revolving Days”, “Wild Lemons” (David Malouf) “Bora Ring” (Judith Wright) “Wondering Island” (A. D. Hope)

• Drama: Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller) Hairy Ape (Eugene O’Neil), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
• Novel: Huckleberry Fin (Twain) Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemmingway) Moby Dick (Herman Melville), The Sound and the Fury ( Faulkner)
• Poetry: Songs of Myself (1, 5, 16, 21) (Walt Whitman) “Mending Wall” (Robert Frost) Emily Dickinson: “I Taste a Liquor never Brewed”, “Hope is the Thing With Feathers”, “The Soul Selects her Own Society.” Short Stories: “The Oval Portrait” (E. A. Poe) “The Ransom of Red Chief” (O’ Henry)

• Literary Movements: Cavalier Poets Metaphysical poets, Amatory fiction Sturm und Drang Romanticism Dark romanticism, American Romanticism, Gothic novel, Pre-Raphaelitism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Verismo, Symbolism, Futurism, Stream of consciousness, Modernism, Expressionism Imagism, The Lost Generation, Dada, Stridentism