b.a. hons. part - i

B.A. Hons. Part - I

English Language and Usage-I Paper Code : ENG 111

Semester : I Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of contact hours per week : 3 Objective : To familiarize the students with the grammatical structures and their applications. To develop the ability to comprehend and analyse a literary text.

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Sentence Elements (SVOCA) Use of Modals (from A Practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martinet)

Unit 2 (8 Hrs.)

Relative Clauses Transformation of Sentences: Passivization, Reported Speech, Change of degrees of adjective. Unit 3 (7Hrs.) Theme Writing Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) Précis Writing (Summarizing) Unit 5 (8 Hrs) CVs and Job Applications

Suggested Readings

• The Written Word, Vandana R. Singh (OUP) • The Oxford Guide to Writing & Speaking (OUP) John Seely • A University Grammar of English, Quirk & Greenbaum

• Write It : Michael Dean (Cambridge University Press) • Guided Paragraph Writing by T. C. Jupp & John Milne

• A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V.Martinet (OUP, 1996)

B.A. Hons.Part-I

The English Renaissance and Metaphysical Age -I Paper Code : ENG 112

Semester : I Credits : 4 Course : 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4

Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits.

Unit 1 (14 Hrs.)

B. Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Unit 2 (14 Hrs.) W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.) Edmund Spenser Fair proud… Ice and Fire Of this World’s Theatre in which we stay.. Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day… One day I wrote her name upon the strand (Sonnets from “Amoretti”)

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) John Donne The Good Morrow, Woman’s Constancy Death, be not Proud Goe & Catche a Falling Starre Loves Alchymie, Song – Sweetest Love I do not go … Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) Andrew Marvell The Garden To His Coy Mistress Robert Herrick The Argument of His Book, To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time Suggested Readings :

• G. Godon : Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies

• M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

• Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP (2004) • Legouis : Spenser (Re-printed by Rama Brothers)

• Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin)

• Boris Ford, Ed. : The Age of Shakespeare (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol.2) – Penguin • From Donne to Marvell Vol.3

• B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature (Macmillan)

• W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the study of Literature (George. G. Harrap & Co.) • E.E. Stoll : Art & Artifice in Shakespeare • .Northrop Fyre : Fools of Time

• Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (OUP) • Edmund Spenser’s Poetry: Norton Critical Edition

• M. C. Bradbook: Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan

B.A. Hons. Part-I

The Age of Restoration-I (Code : ENG 113)

Semester : I Credits : 3 Course : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

J. Milton Lycidas On His Blindness, On His Twenty-Third Birthday Unit 2 (10 Hrs ) J. Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Alexander’s Feast

Unit 3 (8 Hrs.)

Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

Unit 4 (8 Hrs.)

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Unit 5 (9 Hrs.)

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A Satire Against Mankind (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

. Suggested Readings

• Travelyn: A Social History of England • Michael Mekecon : The Origin of English Novel, 1600-1740 (Dallimare, 1987)

• Boris Ford, Ed. : From Dryden to Johnson (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. IV)- Penguin

• Dr. Johnson : Lives of the Poets (Lives of Dryden & Pope)

• M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan) • George Parfitt : English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London : 1985)

• Graham Parry : Seventeenth Century Poetry : The Social Context (Baltimore : 1987)

• Lycidas : The Norton Edition • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1, Eds. Frank Kermode et al (OUP, London, 1973)

B.A. Hons.

Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry-I (Code : ENG 114)

Semester : I Credits : 4 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4


Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Unit 2 (15 Hrs.) William Collins Ode to Evening, Ode to Simplicity, James Thomson Autumn (from Seasons)

Unit 3 (13 Hrs.) W. Cowper The Poplar Field, On the Receipt of My Mother’s

Picture out of Norfolk, Light Shining…

Unit 4 (14 Hrs.) Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose, Ae Fond Kiss, Scots Wha Hae, For A’ That and A’ That

Unit 5 (8 Hrs.) W.Blake To the Evening Star The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence) The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience) London

Suggested Readings :

• Boris Ford ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (from Blake to Byron)- Vol.5 Penguin

• C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination

• M.H. Abrams : English Romantic Poets • Jennifer Breen : Romantic Literature

• Graham Hough : Romantic Imagination

• G.W. Knight : The Starlit Dome

• Fifteen Poets (OUP) • Strings of Gold Part II (An Anthology of Poems) Macmillan • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature

B.A. Hons. I

Project

Semester-I No. of Credits-2

Paper Code- ENG 115 MM - 100

Objectives:

• To provide an introduction to research methodology.

• To orient the student to the techniques of documentation.

The student will be required to prepare and submit a Project Report or Term Paper, requiring

two hours per week of self- study outside the class. There will be an external evaluation

(viva-voce) by a Subject-Expert and a Departmental Panel, at the end of the Semester.

B.A. Hons. Part - I

English Language and Usage-II Paper Code : ENG 211

Semester : 2 Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of contact hours per week : 3 Objective : To familiarize the students with the grammatical structures and their applications. To develop the ability to comprehend and analyse a literary text.

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Analysis of a Literary text (prose & poetry) in terms of imagery, diction, structure, tone, point of view, referential and connotative meaning.

Unit 2(8 Hrs.) Journalistic Report-writing

Unit 3(8 Hrs.)

Writing E-mails, Letters regarding Organizing events {conferences, lectures, social functions, seminars etc.)

Unit 4(7 Hrs ) Writing a variety of Advertisement Copies (using visuals, etc.)

Unit 5(10 Hrs )

Editing a given text for grammatical correctness, cohesion and coherence.

Suggested Readings

• The Written Word, Vandana R. Singh (OUP) • News Reporting and Editing – K.M. Srivastava, Sterling Publication

• Basic Journalism, Parthasarthy, Rangaswami / Macmillan India

• The Oxford Guide to Writing & Speaking (OUP) by John Seely • Write It : Michael Dean (Cambridge University Press)

• Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students , by L.G Alexander

• A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V.Martinet • Editing and Reviewing by Jo Billingham (OUP)

• Business Communication, K. K. Sinha (Galgotia Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2002) • Technical Writing: Process and Product by Sharon J. Gerson and Steven M. Gerson, 3rd edn. (Pearson

Education Asia, Delhi, 2001) • A Concise Course in Reporting for Newspapers – Magazines – Radio and the T. V. by B. N. Ahuja

and S. S. Chhabra (Surjeet Publication, New Delhi, 1990)

• Handbook of Reporting and Communication Skills by V. S. Gupta (Concept Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2003)

B.A. Hons.

The English Renaissance and Metaphysical Age-II Paper Code : ENG 212

Semester : II Credits : 4 Course: 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4


Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Christopher Marlowe Edward, the Second

Unit 2 (15 Hrs.)

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Unit 3 (8 Hrs.)

Francis Bacon Of Studies, Of Truth, Of Youth and Age, Of Friendship

Unit 4 (8 Hrs.)

George Herbert The Agonie, Redemption, Prayer, Love, Virtue, The Collar

Unit 5 (7 Hrs.) Henry Vaughan The Retreat, ‘They are all gone into the world of light, Corruption, The World

.Suggested Readings :

• A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy

• M. H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

• Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP (2004) • Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin) • Boris Ford, Ed. : The Age of Shakespeare (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol.2) – Penguin.

• From Donne to Marvell Vol.3

• B. Prasad: A Background to the Study of English Literature (Macmillan) • W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the Study of Literature (George. G. Harrap & Co.) • E.E. Stoll: Art & Artifice in Shakespeare

• Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (OUP) • .Fifteen Poets (Anthology)

• The Norton Anthology of Poetry

• The Art of the Essayist (OUP)

B.A. Hons.

The Age of Restoration -II Paper Code : ENG 213

Semester : II Credits : 3 Course : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (11 Hrs.)

A. Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets) An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)] (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

Unit 2 (7 Hrs.)

Richard Steele The Spectator Club, The Trumpet Club, His Account of His Disappointment in Love

Unit 3 (7 Hrs.)

J. Addison Sir Roger and Will Wimble; Meditations in Westminster Abbey Labour and Exercise

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes

Unit 5 (10 Hrs.)

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Suggested Readings

• Travelyn : A Social History of England

• Michael Mekecon : The Origin of English Novel, 1600-1740 (Dallimare, 1987) • Boris Ford, Ed. : From Dryden to Johnson (Pelican Guide to English Literature

Vol. IV)- Penguin • Dr. Johnson : Lives of the Poets (Lives of Dryden & Pope) • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan)

• Richard W. Beris : English Drama Restoration & Eighteenth Century (London: 1988) • George Parfitt : English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London : 1985)

• Graham Parry : Seventeenth Century Poetry : The Social Context (Baltimore : 1987) • Coverly Papers from The Spectator (Macmillan’s English Classics) • Fifteen Poets (OUP)

• The Art of the Essayist (ed. C.H. Lockitt)


• B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, Eds. Frank Kermode et.al. (OUP, London,

1973)

B.A. Hons.

Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry - II

Paper Code : ENG 214

Semester : II Credits : 4 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.)

William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey The World is Too Much With Us Ode to Duty

Unit 2 (10 Hrs.)

S.T. Coleridge Christabel Part- I, Frost at Midnight

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Lord G. G. Byron She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted Prometheus, On this Day I Complete…

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

P. B. Shelley Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Ozymandias

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

J. Keats The Eve of St. Agnes, On the Grasshopper and Cricket Suggested Readings :

• Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (from Blake to Byron)- Vol.5 (Penguin)

• C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination

• Cambridge Companion Series (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats) • M.H. Abrams : English Romantic Poets

• Jenniffr Breen : Romantic Literature

• Graham Hough : Romantic Imagination

• G.W. Knight : The Starlit Dome • Fifteen Poets (OUP) • Strings of Gold Part II (An Anthology of Poems) Macmillan

• B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature

B.A. Hons. I

Project

Semester II No. of Credits: 02

Paper Code: ENG215 MM: 100

Objectives:

Objectives:

• To provide an introduction to research methodology.


The student will be required to prepare and submit a Project Report or Term

Paper, requiring two hours per week of self- study outside the class. There will

be an external evaluation (viva-voce) by a Subject-Expert and a Departmental

Panel, at the end of the Semester.

B.A. Hons. Part-II

Nineteenth Century -Poetry and Drama-I Paper Code : ENG 311

Semester : III Credits : 3 Course: 1 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

A.Tennyson The Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Break, Break, Break

Unit 2 (11 Hrs.)

M. Arnold Dover Beach Thyrsis

Unit 3 (7 Hrs.)

G. M. Hopkins Spring and Fall The Habit of Perfection

The Sea and the Skylark No Worst, There is None

Unit 4 (9 Hrs.)

Elizabeth B. Browning To George Sand:

- A Recognition - A Desire

Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22

Unit 5 (8 Hrs.) Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan

Suggested Readings • Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dicknes to Hardy) • G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age-in Literature

• Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era

• B. Dobree : The Victorians and After • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper • Fifteen Poets (OUP)

• The Works of G.M. Hopkins (The Wordsworth Poetry Library)



B.A. Hons.

Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I Paper Code : ENG 312

Semester : III Credits : 4 Course : 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

C. Lamb In Praise of Chimney Sweepers, Oxford in the Vacation, Modern Gallantry Unit 2 (11 Hrs.) John Ruskin Of the Pathetic Fallacy W. Hazlitt On Familiar Style, On Going a Journey

Unit 3 (14 Hrs.) Jane Austen Mansfield Park

Unit 4 (14 Hrs.)

Charles Dickens Great Expectations

Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)

R.L. Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Suggested Readings :

• Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy)

• D. Thomson : England in the Nineteenth Century (Pelican)

• J.E. Baker : The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper • Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists

• Diane S. Neill : A Short History of English Novel • David Cecil : Early Victorian Novelists

• Walter Allen : The English Novel – A Short Critical History (Penguin) • The Art of the Essayist : Edited by C.H. Lockitt


• B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature • Jane Austen: Emma

B.A. Hons.

Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I Paper Code : ENG 313

Semester : III Credits : 4 Course : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.)

W.B. Yeats The Second Coming, When You are Old A Prayer for My Daughter Easter 1916

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Portrait of a Lady Preludes

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

Rupert Brooke The Soldier, The Dead W.Owen Strange Meeting, Anthem for Doomed Youth Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

John Galsworthy Justice Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)

J.M.Barrie The Admirable Crichton Suggested Readings Boris Ford ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature (vol. 8 ) • James Hall & Martin Steinmann : The Permanence of Yeats (Collier Books, New York).

• A. Norman Jeffares : Yeats’ Selected Poems. • A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)

• F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot

• F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry • B.C. Southam : T.S. Eliot ‘Prufrock’, ‘Georontion’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ & Other Shorter Poems-A

Case Book.

B.A. Hons.

Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I Paper Code : ENG 314

Semester : III Credits : 3 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3

Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (8 Hrs.) Aldous Huxley Selected Snobberies J.B. Priestley On Doing Nothing, In Crimson Silk

Unit 2 (8 Hrs.)

R. Lynd The Pleasures of Ignorance, On Not Being a Philosopher, The Chocolate Bus

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

Graham Greene The Power and the Glory

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse

Unit 5 (9 Hrs.)

E. M. Forster A Passage to India


• Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot) • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World

• Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction • W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction • Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists

• David Daiches : Virginia Woolf

• K. Allot and M. Farris : The Art of Graham Greene • J. Madaube : Graham Greene (Paris, 1949) • Joan Bennett : Virginia Woolf – Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge ,1945)

• Essay (Ed.) : W.E. Williams

• M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature • The Art of the Essayist by C. H. Lockitt (ed.)

• Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (Edward Arnold and Co., London. Reprinted by Penguin)

• A Book of English Essays (Pelican)

B.A. Hons. II

Project

Semester-III No. of Credits-2

Paper Code- ENG MM - 100

Objectives:

• To enable the students to develop a research acumen.





B.A. Hons.

Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II Paper Code : ENG 411

Semester : IV Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

R. Browning My Last Duchess, The Laboratory, The Last Ride Together

Unit 2 (9 Hrs.)

D.G. Rossetti The Blessed Damozel, The Woodspurge, Sudden Light, The One Hope

Unit 3 (9 Hrs.)

C.A. Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine, A Forsaken Garden

Unit 4 (7 Hrs.)

Thomas Hardy The Voice, Afterwards, The Darkling Thrush, I Found Her Out There Unit 5( 10 hrs. ) G.B.Shaw Arms and the Man Suggested Reading : • Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dicknes to Hardy) • G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age in Literature

• Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era • H.C. Duffin : Thomas Hardy

• B. Dobree : The Victorians and After • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper

• Fifteen Poets (OUP) • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature

B.A. Hons.

Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II Paper Code : ENG 412


Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Thomas Carlyle The Hero as Poet

Unit 2 (11 Hrs.)

J. H. Newman From The Tamworth Reading Room (Secular Knowledge Not a …) The Idea of a University ( From Knowledge viewed in …) (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature) Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) G. Eliot Mill on the Floss Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

Thomas Hardy Tess of D’urbervilles Suggested Readings :

• Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy) • D. Thomson : England in the Nineteenth Century (Pelican)

• J.E. Baker : The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper

• Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists

• Diane S. Neill : A Short History of English Novel • David Cecil : Early Victorian Novelists • Walter Allen : The English Novel – A Short Critical History (Penguin)


• B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II) eds. Frank Kermode et.al. (OUP, London,

1973)

B.A. Hons.

Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II Paper Code : ENG 413


Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Dylan Thomas Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, After the Funeral

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)

W.H. Auden In Memory of W.B. Yeats, September 1, 1939, Musee Des Beaux Arts, Lay Your Sleeping

Unit 3 (13 Hrs.)

T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

D.H.Lawrence Snake, Piano Trees in the Garden The Mess of Love

Unit 5 (10 Hrs.)

Sean O’ Casey Juno and the Paycock

Suggested Readings

. • A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)

• F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot

• F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry • The Norton Anthology of Poetry



B.A. Hons.

Twentieth Century English Prose and Fiction-II Paper Code : ENG 414

Semester : IV Credits : 3 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3

Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (8 Hrs.)

E.V. Lucas A Funeral, On Finding Things V.S. Pritchet The Dean

Unit 2 (10 Hrs.)

G. Orwell Shooting an Elephant Down the Mine Inside the Whale

Unit 3 (7 Hrs) Somerset Maugham The Mother James Thurber The Night the Ghost Got In Colin Howard Post Haste

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers

Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) Aldous Huxley The Brave New World


• Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)

• G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World

• Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction • W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction

• Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists

• Lawrence Brander : George Orwell (London 1904)

• Christopher Hollis : A Study of George Orwell (London 1956) • Joan Bennett : Virginia Woolf – Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge, 1945) • Essays (ed.) W.E. Williams

• G. Orwell : Inside the Whale and Other Essays • Short Stories of Yesterday and Today ed.by Shakti Batra and P. S. Sidhu (OUP)

• Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Deptt. Of English and M.E.L., Lucknow Univ., OUP)

B.A. Hons. II

Project

Semester IV No. of Credits: 02


Objectives:

• To enable the students to develop a research acumen.





B.A. Hons.

American Literature-I Paper Code : ENG 511

Semester : V Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3

Objective :

To enable the students to understand the evolution and development of American Literature. To acquaint the students with major American Literary Movements, Trends, Poets and their traits.

Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last……, On the Beach at Night R.W. Emerson Hamatreya, Brahma

Unit 2 (8 Hrs.) Emily Dickinson I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed Because I Could not Stop for Death Hope is the thing with feathers The Morns are Weaker I Died for Beauty… The Soul Selects Her Own Society …

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

N. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

E. O’Neill The Hairy Ape Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) Arthur Miller All My Sons Suggested Readings :

• Fisher : American Literature of the 19th Century : An Anthology

• Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 1890-1965 • Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature : American Literature Vol.9 • J.D. Harg ed. : The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 1983

• C.D. Narasimhaiah : Asian Response to American Literature (Delhi : Vikas Publications, 1972) • John Jacob : History of American Literature

• Harold Bloom : Eugene O’Neill (New York : Chelsea, 1987)

• F.O. Mathiesson : American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New Delhi : OUP, 1973)

• Golden Treasury (Palgrave)

• The Norton Anthology of Poetry • Everyman’s Poetry : Walt Whitman

B.A. Hons.

Indian Literature in English-I

Paper Code : ENG 512

Semester : V Credits : 4 Course: 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To enable the students to get the first hand information about the Indian Literature. To inculcate the ability to understand and appreciate the literary assets of India.

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

M.M. Dutt Satan, The Queen of Delhi Dream R.N. Tagore The Child, Heaven of Freedom, Freedom

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

N. Ezekiel Night of the Scorpion, Enterprise A.K. Ramanujan The Striders, Love Poem For a Wife I M. Kalia Tribute to Papa, Sunday Song

Unit 3 (14 Hrs.) K. Markandaya Nectar in a Sieve

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Mahesh Dattani Dance Like a Man

Unit 5 (10 Hrs.)

Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable


• K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (New Delhi : Sterling, 1984) • M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (New Delhi : Sterling 1965) • Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction

• Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry : edited by V.K. Gokak

• Girish Karnad : Hayavadan ( The Three Plays,OUP)

• R. N. Tagore: Rabindra Rachnavali: Selected Poems, Vol. II, Rupa & Co., 2002.

B.A. Hons.

World Literature-I Paper Code : ENG 513

Semester : V Credits : 4 Course : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To familiarize the students with some prominent world classics in translation. To develop the ability to appreciate, analyse and interpret the classics in the light of contemporary societal systems and value structures.

Unit 1 (14 Hrs.)

Premchand Godaan

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Kalidas Meghdootam

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

Henrik Ibsen Ghosts

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Sophocles Oedipus, The King

Unit 5 (12 Hrs)

Gustav Flaubert Madame Bovary Suggested Readings :

• Sophocles : An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

• Ruff Fgeldey, ed. Ibsen : A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice, 1965)

• Don Nordo, ed. Greek Drama, (Greenhaven Press, 2000) • Richard C. Jebb, Primer of Greek Literature (Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2003).

• H.J.W. Tillyard, Greek Literature, Dodge Publisher Company, New York.

• Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)

• James C. Hogan : A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles (Carbondale University Press, 1980)

B.A. Hons.

Contemporary British Literature-I Paper Code : ENG 514

Semester : V Credits : 3 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : • To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern

poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.

Unit 1 (9 Hrs.)

Ted Hughes Pike View of a Pig Hawk Roosting Thistles A Childish Prank

Unit 2 (11 Hrs.)

John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

William Golding Lord of the Flies (Faber & Faber, 1954)

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

Doris Lessing Summer Before the Dark

Unit 5 (5 Hrs.)

Graham Greene The End of the Affair Suggested Readings:

• Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts : Ted Hughes : A Critical Study (1981) • Keith Sagar, ed. : The Achievement of Ted Hughes (Manchester, 1983)

• Norman Page, ed. : William Golding : Novels 1954-67 (London, 1985) • The Norton Anthology of Poetry

B.A. Hons. III

Project

Semester-V No. of Credits-2

Paper Code- ENG 515 MM - 100

Objectives:

• To consolidate the key-learnings pertaining to Research Methodology.




B.A. Hons.

American Literature-II Paper Code : ENG 611

Semester : VI Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective :

To enable the students to understand the evolution and development of American Literature. To acquaint the students with major American Literary Movements, Trends, Poets and their traits.

Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (7 Hrs.)

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods…. The Most of It The Gift Outright Tree at my Window Provide Provide The Road not Taken

Unit 2 (10 Hrs.)

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

T. Williams The Glass Menagerie

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn

Unit 5 (8Hrs.) E.E. Cummings Essay: Introduction to New Poems My Sweet Old…. You Shall Above all Things Be Glad and Young Pity this Busy Monster…… Suggested Readings :

• Fisher : American Literature of the 19th Century : An Anthology • Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 1890-1965

• Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature : American Literature Vol.9

• J.D. Harg ed. : The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 1983 • C.D. Narasimhaiah : Asian Response to American Literature (Delhi : Vikas Publications, 1972) • John Jacob : History of American Literature

• F.O. Mathiesson : American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New Delhi : OUP, 1973)

B.A. Hons.

Indian Literature in English-II Paper Code : ENG 612

Semester : VI Credits : 4 Course : 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To enable the students to get the first hand information about the Indian Literature. To inculcate the ability to understand and appreciate the literary assets of India.

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) T. Dutt Our Casuarina Tree S. Naidu Song of Radha – The Queen, The Soul’s Prayer Kamala Das The Dance of the Eunuchs, My Grandmother’s House

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)

N. Sahgal Lesser Breeds

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha Introduction to Women’s Writing in India : 600 B.C. to

the Present E. de Souza Introduction (from Nine Indian Women Poets) Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) G. Karnad Taaledanda

Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)

Anita Desai Fire on the Mountain Suggested Readings :

• K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (New Delhi : Sterling, 1984)

• M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (New Delhi: Sterling,1965) • Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction • Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry (edited by V.K. Gokak)

• R.N. Tagore : Hungry Stones & Other Stories (Rupa & Co.)

B.A. Hons.

World Literature-II Paper Code : ENG 613

Semester : VI Credits : 4 Paper : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : • To familiarize the students with some prominent world classics in translation. • To develop the ability to appreciate, analyse and interpret the classics in the light of contemporary

societal systems and value structures.

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.)

Rabindra Nath Tagore The Post Office

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)

Leo Tolstoy The Death of Evan Iliych, How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Unit 3 (8 Hrs.)

Guy De Maupassant The Umbrella The Necklace A Little Walk

Unit 4 (13 Hrs.)

V.S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas (Penguin)

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

Euripides The Bacchae Suggested Readings :

• Sophocles : An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1980) • Ruff Fgeldey, ed. Ibsen : A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice, 1965)

• Don Nordo, ed. Greek Drama, Greenhaven Press, 2000 • Richard C. Jebb, Primer of Greek Literature (Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2003). • H.J.W. Tillyard, Greek Literature, Dodge Publisher Company, New York.

• Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)

• James C. Hogan : A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles (Carbondale University Press, 1980) • Rabindra Nath Tagore: Gitanjali : Song Offerings (Full Circle Publishing : Delhi, 2002)

B.A. Hons.

Contemporary British Literature-II Paper Code : ENG 614

Semester : VI Credits : 3 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : • To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern

poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.

Unit 1 (9 Hrs.)

Seamus Heaney Whatever You Say, Say Nothing Mid-Term Break Digging

Unit 2 (9 Hrs.) Philip Larkin Church Going, Toads, Wants Toads Revisited At Grass

Unit 3 (11 Hrs.)

Harold Pinter The Caretaker

Unit 4 (6 Hrs.) A. Alvarez Introduction to New Poetry (Penguin, 1962)

Unit 5 (10 Hrs.)

Angela Carter Wise Children Suggested Readings

• Blake Morrison : Seamus Heaney (London, 1982)

• Andrew Motion : Philip Larkin (London, 1982) • A. Alvarez :Introduction to New Poetry( Penguin , 1962 )

• The Norton Anthology of Poetry

B.A. Hons. III

Project

Semester VI No. of Credits: 02


Objectives:

Objectives:

• To consolidate the key-learnings pertaining to Research Methodology.




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