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B.A ENGLISH (HONOURS) Syllabus

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

w. e. f. Admission Batch (2016-2017) for Affiliated Colleges


Sriram Chandra Vihar

Takatpur, Baripada

Mayurbhanj-757003


COURSE STRUCTURE (CBCS)

For B.A Honours (English)

Sem Core Course Ability Skill Elective Generic

Enhancement Enhancement Discipline Elective (No. of paper14) Compulsory Course Specific (GE)

Credit (4+2) Course (AECC) (SEC) (DSE) (No. of paper 4)

(No. of paper 2) (No. of Paper 2) (No. of paper 4) Credit (6)

Credit (4) Credit (4) Credit (6)

I CCH-1 Environmental GE-A-1 Science

CCH-2

II CCH-3 MIL/ Alt English GE-B-1

CCH-4

III CCH-5 GE-A-2 SEC-1

CCH-6 Communicative

CCH-7 English

IV CCH-8 GE-B-2 SEC-2

CCH-9

(Subject

Specific Skill)

CCH-10

V CCH-11 DSE-1

CCH-12 DSE-2

VI CCH-13 DSE-3

CCH-114 DSE-4

GE- A/B two different subjects other than English

Core Papers (C): (Credit: 06 each, Theory-04, Practical-02)

Discipline Specific Elective Papers: (Credit: 06 each) (4 papers)- DSE 1 – 4

Generic Elective/Interdisciplinary (04 papers –02 papers from two disciplines GE 1 to GE

4

1. ANTHROPOLOGY 2. ECONOMICS 3. EDUCATION 4. GEOGRAPHY 5. HOME SCIENCE 6. HINDI

7. HISTORY 8. MATHEMATICS


9. ODIA 10. POL. SC. 11. PHILOSOPHY 12. PSYCHOLOGY 13. SANSKRIT 14. SOCIOLOGY

Skill Enhancement Courses (02 papers) (Credit: 04 each)- SEC1 to SEC 2)

1. Communicative English (Compulsory)

Generic Elective Papers (GE) (English) (any 2 for other honours student & any 4 for pass

student) for other Departments/Disciplines: (Credit: 06 each)


SEMESTER-I

ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-1

Subject: British Poetry and Drama: 14th

and 17th

Centuries Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60

Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)

The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with the three Ages/Periods of English Literature:

the Medieval; the Renaissance & the Reformation.

Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)

End Term Exam: 80 marks

Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks

Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks

Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks

Unit-1:

Chaucer- The wife of Bath’s Tale or The Pardoner’s Tale.

Unit-2 :

Sir Thomas Wyatt; “Farewell, Love”. Sir Philip Sidney : “ Leave me, O Love, which reaches

but to dust”, Edmund Waller. “Go lovely Rose” Ben Jonson; “Song to Celia”, William Shakespeare: Sonnets “Shall I compare “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”.

Unit-3:

A. William Shakespeare : As You like it.

Or B. Marlowe: Edward.II

Essential readings:

1. Sanders, Andrews : The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: OUP

2. Critical History of English Literature- David Daiches. 3. Harold Bloom: The Invention of the Human


SEMESTER-I


Sub: British Poetry and Drama 17th

& 18th

Century Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


This paper seeks to introduce the students to the 17th Century period of English Revolution, the Jacobean

Period, the Metaphysicsl Poetry, Cavalier Poetry, Comedy of Humours, Masques & Beast fables, 18th

Century: Restoration; Neo classicism; Heroic Poetry; Restoration Comedy/ Comedy of Manners.



Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks

Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks

Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks

Unit-1 :

John Milton: Lycidas Or Allegro and II Penserosa;

John Donne: A Nocturnall upon S. Lucie’s Day, Love’s Deity; and Andrew Marvel: The Coronet; The Definition of Love & To His Coy Mistress

Unit-2 : Pope: Ode on Solitude, a Little Learning; Know Then Thyself

Robert Burns: A Red Rose, A Fond Kiss, My Heart’s in the Highlands Unit-3 :

Ben Jonson: Volpone

Or Dryden: All for Love

Essential readings: 1. Lycidas- John Milton (Eds. Paul & Thomas), Orient Blackswan

2. Critical History of English Literature- David Daiches. 3. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol.B. The Sixteenth Century & The Early

Seventeenth Century 4. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century


SEMESTER-II


Subject: British Literature: 18th



The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with 18th Century of British Literature.



Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks


Unit-III 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks

Unit-1 : Joseph Addison :- On giving Advice

Reflection in Westminster Abbey

Defence and Happiness of Married Life

Richard Steel :- Recollections

On long winded people

Unit-2 :

Oliver Goldsmith:- A city Night Piece

On National Prejudices.

Man in Black.

Samuel John Son: Expectations of Pleasure frustrated

Domestic Greatness Unattainable

Mischief of Good Company

The Decy of Friendship

Unit-3 :

Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a country churchyars

Essential readings:

1. Critical History of English Literature; David Daiches. 2. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century


SEMESTER-II


Subject: Indian Writing in English Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


Ths objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with Indian writings in English.





Unit-III 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks

Unit-1 : Crystallization: R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts

Unit-2 : Maturation: Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines

Unit-3 :

Flowering: R. Parthasarathy (ed) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, The following poems are

to be studied. Nissim Ezekiel, “Good Bye Party for Miss Puspa T.S”, Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher”, Arun

Kolatkar, “The Boat Ride”, “Jejuri”, Kamala Das, “My Grandmother’s House”, “A Hot Noon in Malabar”, Jayanta Mahapatra, “Indian Summer”,, “Grass”, A.K. Ramanujan, “Looking for a

Cousin on a Swing”, “Small Scale Reflections on a Great House”

Essential readings:

1. R. Parthsarathy, Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets. Delhi: Oxford University

Press,1975.

2. Vinay Dharwadkar, The Historical Formation of India-English Literature in Sheldon

Pollock (ed.) Literature Cultures in History, New Delhi; Oxford University Press, 2003.

3. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, An illustrated History of Indian Literature in English.

Hyderabad; Orient Blackswan, 2003.


SEMESTER-III


Subject: British Romantic Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The objective of this paper is to familiarize the students with the Romantic Period and some of its

representative writers. At the same time it aims at providing the students with broad idea of the social and

historical contexts that shaped this unique upheaval.




Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks marks

Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25

Unit-1 : Blake: The Tiger, London, A Poison Tree

William Collins: Ode to Evening

Unit-2 : William Wordworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on Intimations of Immortality. S.T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode Jhon Keats: Ode to A Nightingale, Ode to Autumn P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, The cloud

Unit-3 :

William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads P.B. Shelley: A Defense of Poetry

Essential readings:

1. C.M. Bowra: Romantic Imagination

2. Graham Hough: The Romantic Poets

3. Harold Bloom: The Visionary Company

4. Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron Vol-V


SEMESTER-III


Subject: British Romantic Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The paper seeks to explore students to the literature produced in Britain in the 19th Century. The focus is

mainly on prose (fictional and non fictional ) and criticism.




Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks


Unit-1 : Charles Lamb: Dreeam Children : A Reverie

William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers

R.L. Stevenson: Walking Tours

Unit-2 : Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

OR R.L. Stevenson: Treasure Island

Unit-3 :

Mathew Arnold : The study of Poetry

OR

William Hazlitt: Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth.

Essential readings:

1. Chapter IV and V from A short Introduction to English Literature by Jonathan Bate.

2. Jerry Eagleton: The English Novel

3. Charles Darwin: Natural Selection and Sexual Selection in the Descent of Man in the

Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th

Edition Vol.2 Ed. Stephen Green blat (New

York: Norton 2006) pp.1545-9.

4. J.S. Mill : The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature 8th

Edition Vol.2.


SEMESTER-III


Subject: American Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


This paper seeks to introduce the students to American Literature.






Unit-1 :

Walt Whitman: Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain!

Emily Dickinson : Because I could not stop for death

Robert Frost Mending Wall, Birches, The Road Not Taken.

Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning.

Unit-2 : Eugene O Neill: The Hairy Ape Authur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Unit-3 :

Emerson : The American Scholar.

OR

Thoreau : Pond in Winter, Economy, Where I lived and what I lived for.

Essential readings:

1. Lewisohn, Ludwigh, The Story of American Literature, The Modern Library, N.Y. 2. Horton, Rod & Herbert W. Edwards. Backgrounds of American Literary Thought, 3

rd

Edition 3. Stewart, Randall (ed.) Living Masterpieces of American Literature, Brown University. 4. Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8

th edition.


SEMESTER-IV


Subject: British Literature : Early 20th



The objective of this paper is to familiarize the students with the new literature of Britain in the early

decades of the 20th century. The course focuses on the modernest canon founded on Ezra Pound’s idea

‘make it new’ but covers war poetry, social poetry of the 1930s and literary criticism.






Unit-1 :

A Historical Overview

Highlights include social and economic developments leading to a crisis in Western Society

known as the First World War and the resultant change. Such triggers for the modern

consciousness as Marx’s concept of class struggle, Fred’s theory of the consciousness, Bergson’s

duree, Nietzsche’s Will to power and Einstein’s theory of relativity are to be discussed.

Unit-2 : T.S. Eliot: Gerovtion W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium Ezra Pound : In a station of the Metro Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting Louis Mac Neice: Prayer before Birth W.H. Auden : The Unknown Citizen Stephen Spender: An Elementary Classroom in a Slum

Unit-3 :

Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse

T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent.

Henry James : The Art of Fiction.

Essential readings:

1. Pelican Guide to English Literature: The Modern Age Ed. Boris Ford. 2. Jonathan Bate: English Literature : A very short Introduction, Oxford Paperback 3. Peter Fauluner Modernism London, Methuen.


SEMESTER-IV


Subject: European Classical Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


This paper seeks to introduce the students to European classical Literature form 8th Century B.C. in

ancient Greece to the Decline of Roman Empire in the 5th Century A.D.






Unit-1 :

Homer: Odyssey (Book1)

Sophocles: Oedipus the king

Unit-2 : Aristophanes Frogs.

Unit-3 :

Aristole: Poetics (Chapter 6,7, &8)

Horace : Ars Poetica

Longinus: On the Sublime (Chapter 7 & 39)

Essential readings:

1. Auerbach, Erich. Mimeses : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. USA:

Princeton Univ. Press, 2013.

2. Beye, Charles Rowan. Ancient Greek Literature and Society, Ithaca, New York: Cornell

Univ. Press. 1987

3. All the texts are available for access on Project Gutenberg https://www.guttenberg.org

https://www.guttenberg.org/


SEMESTER-IV


Subject: Women’s Writing Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The course aims to acquaint the students with complex and multifaceted literature by women of the World

reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences and their varied cultural moorings. It embraces different

literary forms such as poetry, fiction, critical writings. In certain respect it interlocks concerns of

Women’s literary history, women’s studies and feminist criticism.






Unit-1 :

Mary Wollstonecraft : “Introduction” for A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

OR

Simone de Beahvior: Introduction from “The Second Sex”

Unit-2 :

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Prativa Ray: Yajnaseni

Unit-3 :

Kamala Das: “ An Introduction” and “The Sunshine Caste”

Sylvia Plath ! “Mirror” and “ Barren Woman”

Margaret Atwood : “This is Photograph of Me” and “The Sandlady”

Web Resources:

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Introduction

http://pinkmoney.com/dl/library/vindicate.pft

Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems http://monoskop.org/images/2/27/Plath Sylvia The collected

Poems 1981.pdf

Simon de Beauvoir: The Second Sex http://buraway.berkeley.edu/Reader.102/Beauvour.1.pdf.

http://pinkmoney.com/dl/library/vindicate.pft

http://monoskop.org/images/2/27/Plath

http://buraway.berkeley.edu/Reader.102/Beauvour.1.pdf


SEMESTER-V


Subject: Modern European Drama Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to the best of experimental and innovative dramatic

literature of Modern Europe.






Unit-1 :

Henric Ibsen The Wild Duck

Unit-2 :

Eugene Ionesco: Chairs

Unit-3 :

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Essential readings:

1. Martin Esslin: Theatre of the Absurd.

2. Raymond Williams : Tragedy and Revolution in Modern Tragedy.

3. George Steiner : On Modern Tragedy in “The Death of Tragedy”.

4. William A Armstrong: Experimental Drama.

5. Hugh Kenner: A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett.

Web Resources:

Ibsen:// www.gutenberg.org/files/8121/8121-h/8121h.htm

Ionesc : http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/ejen-ionesko-kergedan-eng.pdf

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8121/8121-h/8121h.htm

http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/ejen-ionesko-kergedan-eng.pdf


SEMESTER-V


Subject: Indian Classical Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The aim of this paper is to create awareness among the students of the rich and diverse literary culture of

ancient India.






Unit-1 :

Samjnana Sukta Rig Veda X. 19 Purusa Sukta : Yajur Veda XV.XXI.1-16 Ayodhya Kanda: Book II (1

st Canto-The Ramayana of Valmiki) Gita Press Edition

Unit-2 : Abhijnana Sakuntalam Kalidas Act IV.tr. M.R. Kale, Motilal Banarasi Das, New Delhi. Mruchhakatika by Sudraka, Act I tr. M.M.R. Kale, Motilal Banarasi Dass, New Delhi.

Unit-3 :

1. Indian Aesthetics

Bharat Natyasastra, Chapter VI on Rasa Theory

English Translation by M.M.Ghose,Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 1950.

2. Sahitya Darpan of Vishvanath Kaviraj

Ref:- Eng. Translation by P.V. Kane, Motilal Banarasi Dass, New Delhi

3. Nitisakaka of Bhartrhari 20 verses from the beginning

4. Ref: The Satakatraya ed. D.D. Kosambi, Published in Ananharma Series,

127,Poona,1945.

5. English Translation Published from Ramakrishna Mission, Kolkata.

Essential readings:

1. Kalidasa Critical Edition, Sahitya Akademy.

2. Bharat Natyashastra, tr. Manmohan Ghosh, Vol 1, 2nd

Edn Calcutta, Granthalaya, 1967

Chap ^ Sentiments PP 100-18.

3. Universals of Poetics by Haldhar Panda.

4. Vinay Dharwadkar: Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature, in Orientalism and

the Post colonial Predicament: Perspectives in South Asia, ed. Carol A. Breckuridge and

Peter Vander Veer ( New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158-95


SEMESTER-VI


Subject: Post Colonial Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The aim of this paper is to familiarize the students with post colonial Literature a body of Literature that

responds to the discourses of European colonialism & imperialism in Asia, Africa, Middle East, the

Pacific & elsewhere. The objectives is to focus on compliance, resistance, mimicry & subversion that

colonial power has provoked from the nation’s in their search for literature of their own.





Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25marks

Unit-1 :

Concept- Definition & Characteristics: Resistant descriptions, appropriation of the colonizer’s

language, reworking colonial art forms.

Scope & Concerns: Reclaiming spaces & places; asserting cultural integrity, revising history. Unit-2 :Indian and Caribbean

R.K. Narayan: The English Teacher.

Or

V.S. Naipans: A House for Mr. Biswas.

Unit-3 : Criticism

Chinna Achebe- English & the African writer

Ngugi wa Thiong’O : The Quest for Relevance” from Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of

Language in African Literature.

https://mrvenglish.wikispaces.com/file/view/english+and+the+African+writer.pdf

Essential readings:

1. Achebe, Chinna- An image of Africa: Racism Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,

Research in African Literatures, Vol.9, No.1, special issue on Literary criticism. (Spring,

1978) pp. 1-15.

2. http://english.gradstudies.yrku.ca/files/2013/06/achebe-china.pdf

3. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin-Inntroduction”, The Empire writes Back:

Theory & Practice in Post Colonial Literature London, New York, Routledge, 2nd

edition,

2002.

4. Edward Said- Orientatilism, India: Penguin, 2001.

5. Homi K. Bhabha- The Location of Culture, Noida: Atlantic Books, 2012.

6. Spivak, Gayatri Chakraborty-Can the Subalterra speak ? UK: Macmillan, 1998.

7. http://Planetarities.web.unc.edu/files/2015/01/spivak-subaltern-speak.pdf

8. Thiong’s Ngugi wa- https://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/pdf/wellekreadings-Ngugi-

Quest for relevance.pdf

https://mrvenglish.wikispaces.com/file/view/english+and+the+African+writer.pdf

http://english.gradstudies.yrku.ca/files/2013/06/achebe-china.pdf

http://planetarities.web.unc.edu/files/2015/01/spivak-subaltern-speak.pdf

https://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/pdf/wellekreadings-Ngugi-Quest%20for%20relevance.pdf

https://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/pdf/wellekreadings-Ngugi-Quest%20for%20relevance.pdf


SEMESTER-VI


Subject: Popular Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60


The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to genres such as romance, detective fiction, campus

fiction, fantasy/mythology which have a “mass” appeal and can help us gain a better understanding of the

popular roots of literature.

Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II/III)




Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25marks

Unit-1 :

Introduction to the concept:

What is Popular concept?

Debate between popular & high cultures (‘high brow’ v/s ‘low brow’)

What is Genre fiction ?

Debate between genre fiction and literary fiction.

Essays for discussion

Lev Grossman:- “Literary Revolution in the Super market Aisle: Genre Fiction is

Disruptive Technology”

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/23/genre-fiction-is-disruptive-technolgy

Arthur Krystal: “Easy writers : Guilty Pleasures without guilt.”

http://www.newyorkkr.com/magizine/2012/05/28/easy-writers

Joshua Rothman: “ A Better way to think About the Genre Debate”

http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/better-way-think-genre-debate

Stephen Marche: How Genre Giction Became More Important then Literary Fiction

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a33599/genre-fiction-vs-literary-fiction Unit-2 : Detective fiction & Romance

Sherlock Holmes – The Hound of the Baskervilles

Or

Shobha De- Socialite Evenings

Unit-3 : Criticism

Campus Fiction & Rewriting Mythology

Chetan Bhagat-Five Point Someone.

Or

Amiya Chandramouli-Arhuna: Sage of a Pandava Warrior- Prince.

Essential readings:

1. Leslie Fiedler, What was Literature ? Class, Culture & Mass Society

2. Leo Lowenthal, Literature, Popular culture & society.

3. Popular Fiction: Essays in Literature & History by Peter Humm, Paul Stigant, Peter

Widdowson.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/23/genre-fiction-is-disruptive-technolgy

http://www.newyorkkr.com/magizine/2012/05/28/easy-writers

http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/better-way-think-genre-debate

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a33599/genre-fiction-vs-literary-fiction

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