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B.A.HonoursinEnglish

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CORECOURSETITLES

SemesterI

CoreCourseIBritishPoetry:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury

CoreCourseIIBritishProseandDrama:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury

SemesterII

CoreCourseIIIShakespeare

CoreCourseIVBritishLiterature:EighteenthCentury

SemesterIII

CoreCourseVBritishRomanticLiterature

CoreCourseVIBritishLiterature:NineteenthCentury(Victorian)

CoreCourseVIIClassicalLiterature:IndianandEuropean

SemesterIV

CoreCourseVIIIBritishLiterature:TheEarlyTwentiethCentury

CoreCourseIXIndianWritinginEnglish

CoreCourseXPopularLiterature

SemesterV

CoreCourseXIModernEuropeanDrama

CoreCourseXIIAmericanLiterature

SemesterVI

CoreCourseXIIIPostcolonialLiteratures

CoreCourseXIVWomen’sWriting

SEMESTERI

CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC101

CoreCourseI

BritishPoetry:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialHistory:Anglo-SaxonPoetry,NormanConquest,MiddleEnglishPoetry,

Chaucer,Renaissance,GrowthandDevelopmentofEnglishSonnet,Puritanism,CivilWar.

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UnitII

Chaucer:ProloguetoTheWifeofBath’sTale(ModernEnglishversion)

Spenser:Sonnetno.75(from Amoretti)

Sidney:LovinginTruth(from AstrophelandStella)

QueenElizabethI:OnMonsieur’sDeparture

JohnDonne:TheSunneRising

AndrewMarvell:ToHisCoyMistress

Milton:ParadiseLost,BookI,Lines1-155


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UnitIII

RhetoricandProsody:10marks

Rhetoric:IdentificationandExplanationofrhetoricaltermsfrom onegivenpassage:

6marks

Prosody:Scanningonepassageoutoftwo,identifyingdominantmetrewithvariations:

4marks

InternalAssessment:10

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CoreCourseII

BritishProseandDrama:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialHistory:OriginandDevelopmentofBritishProse,GrowthofPress,Origin

andDevelopmentofBritishDrama,UniversityWits,RevengeTradition,ComedyofHumours,

ComedyofManners.


UnitII

FrancisBacon:“OfStudies”,“OfTravail”,“OfDeath”

AphraBehn:Oroonoko

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UnitIII

ChristopherMarlowe:DrFaustus



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SEMESTERI

GENERICELECTIVE

CourseTitle:ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowerment

UnitI(Concepts)

SocialconstructionofGender,Masculinity,Femininity,Feminism,Patriarchy,Sexand

Gender,LGBTQ

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UnitII(Issues)

WomenandNationalistMovementinIndia

WomenandPartition

WomenandLaw

WomenandViolence


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UnitIII(Texts)

KamalaDas:AnIntroduction

MamtaKalia:TributetoPapa

MahaswetaDevi:BreastGiver



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SEMESTERI

MILI,AECC–I

RecommendedText:TSriraman.ed.MacmillanCollegeProse.Macmillan

UnitI

M KGandhi:VoluntaryPoverty

C.E.M.Joad:TheCivilizationofToday

VirginiaWoolf:ProfessionforWomen

R.K.Narayan:SnakeintheGrass

KatherineMansfield:ACupofTea

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UnitII

UnseenPassagetobeprovidedfrom whichobjectivequestionstobeansweredanda

summaryofthepassagetobeattempted.

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eight:02x5=10)

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InternalAssessment:FormalLetter/BusinessLetter

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SEMESTERII


CoreCourselll

Shakespeare

UnitI

Sonnets:65,73,130,154.


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UnitII

Macbeth


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UnitIII

TwelfthNight



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CoreCourseIV

BritishLiterature:EighteenthCentury

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialHistory:NeoClassical,Enlightenment,AugustanSatire,RiseoftheNovel,

CoffeeHouseandPeriodicals,CultofSensibility,GothicNovel.


UnitII(PoetryandDrama)

AlexanderPope:TheRapeoftheLock,CantoI&II

RichardB.Sheridan:TheSchoolforScandal

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UnitIII(Prose)

DanielDefoe:RobinsonCrusoe

Addison&Steele:“SirRogeratChurch”,“SpectatorClub”

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SEMESTERIIEnglish/MIL[AECC–2credit]

Recommendedtext:AshokChasker,BhartiS.Khairmar,R.S.Jain(ed.).Rainbow:An

AnthologyofShortStories.OrientBlackswan,2014.

UnitI

OHenry:AfterTwentyYears

RabindranathTagore:Kabuliwala

CharlesDickens:TheSignalMan

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UnitII

ReportWriting:

MagazineReport,NewspaperReport,Areportaboutaneventorfunctionatinstitute/

organization,AccidentReport,EnquiryorSurveyReport


InternalAssessment:CV/Bio-DataWriting

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SEMESTERII

GenericEnglish

(forHonoursotherthanEnglish)/EnglishProgram

GE-2/C-3

CourseTitle:IndianWritinginEnglish–I

UnitI

SarojiniNaidu:IntheBazarsofHyderabad

JayantaMahapatra:InaNightofRain

KamalaDas:Freaks

DilipChitrre:ThefellingoftheBanyanTree

Nissim Ezekiel:GoodbyePartyofMissPushpaT.S

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UnitII

R.K.Narayan:TheEnglishTeacher


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SEMESTERIII


CoreCourseV

BritishRomanticLiterature

UnitI

Literary&SocialHistory:FrenchRevolution,Romanticism:BacktoNature,Fancyand

Imagination,SignificanceofLyricalBallads,Supernaturalism


UnitII(Poetry)

Blake:TheLamb,TheTyger

Wordsworth:TinternAbbey

Coleridge:Christabel,Part–I

Shelley:OdetotheWestWind

Keats:OdetoaNightingale

Byron:ShewalksinBeauty


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UnitIII(Prose)

JaneAusten:PrideandPrejudice

CharlesLamb:“Dream Children:AReverie”

DeQuincey:“OnKnockingattheGateofMacbeth”

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RecommendedReadings:

1.William Wordsworth,‘PrefacetoLyricalBallads’,inRomanticProseandPoetry,ed.

HaroldBloom andLionelTrilling(NewYork:OUP,1973)pp.594–611.

2.JohnKeats,‘LettertoGeorgeandThomasKeats,21December1817’,and‘Letterto

RichardWoodhouse,27October,1818’,inRomanticProseandPoetry,ed.Harold

Bloom andLionelTrilling(NewYork:OUP,1973)pp.766–68,777–8.

3.Jean-JacquesRousseau,‘Preface’toEmileorEducation,tr.AllanBloom

(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1991).¬

4.SamuelTaylorColeridge,BiographiaLiteraria,ed.GeorgeWatson(London:Everyman,

1993)chap.XIII,pp.161–66.

CoreCourseDetails:BAHENCG302

CoreCourseVI

BritishLiterature:NineteenthCentury(Victorian)

UnitI

IndustrialRevolution,Victorianism:CrisisofFaith,Reform Laws,CornLaws,Utilitarianism,

ChartistMovement,Darwinism,Marxism,NovelandRealism,PsychologicalNovel,Oxford

Movement,Pre-RaphaeliteMovement.


UnitII(Poetry)

AlfredLordTennyson:Ulysses

RobertBrowning:MyLastDuchess

MatthewArnold:DoverBeach

EmileBronte:NoCowardSoulisMine



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UnitIII(Prose)

CharlesDickens:HardTimes

ThomasHardy:TheReturnoftheNative






1.KarlMarxandFriedrichEngels,‘ModeofProduction:TheBasisofSocialLife’,‘The

SocialNatureofConsciousness’,and‘ClassesandIdeology’,inAReaderinMarxist

Philosophy,ed.Howard Selsam and Harry Martel(New York:International

Publishers,1963)pp.186–8,190–1,199–201.

2.CharlesDarwin,‘NaturalSelectionandSexualSelection’,inTheDescentofManin

TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt

(NewYork:Northon,2006)pp.1545–9.

3.JohnStuartMill,TheSubjectionofWomeninNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,

8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)chap.1,pp.1061–9.


CoreCourseVII

ClassicalLiterature:IndianandEuropean

UnitI(Theory)

Bharata:Natyashastratr.ManmohanGhosh,vol.I,2ndedn(Calcutta:Granthalaya,1967)chap.

6

Aristotle:Poetics:Plot,TragicHero,EpicandTragedy


UnitII(IndianTexts)

Sudraka:Mricchakatika,tr.M.M.RamachandraKale(NewDelhi:MotilalBanarasidass,1962)

IlangoAdigal‘TheBookofBanci’inCilappatikaran:TheTaleofanAnklet–TranslatedbyR.

Parthasarathy[Delhi:Penguin,2004,Book–3]



UnitIII

EuropeanTexts

Homer:TheIliad

Sophocles:KingOedipus

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1.Bharata,Natyashastra,tr.ManomohanGhosh,vol.I,2ndedn(Calcutta:Granthalaya,

1967)chap.6:‘Sentiments’,pp.100–18.

2.VinayDharwadkar,‘Orientalism andtheStudyofIndianLiterature’,inOrientalism and

thePostcolonialPredicament:PerspectivesonSouthAsia,ed.CarolA.Breckenridge

andPetervanderVeer(NewDelhi:OUP,1994)pp.158–95.

3.Plato,TheRepublic,BookX,tr.DesmondLee(London:Penguin,2007).

4.Horace,ArsPoetica,tr.H.RushtonFairclough,Horace:Satires,EpistlesandArs

Poetica(CambridgeMass.:HarvardUniversityPress,2005)pp.451–73.

SEMESTER–III

GENERICELECTIVE

Paper:LiteratureandGender

UnitI(Term Concepts)

Patriarchy,Domination,Hegemony,Gender,Queer,LGBTQ,Inside/outside,Other,

Gynoertieism,Androgyny,Subaltern,Feminism.

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1.GlossaryofLiteraryTerms:M.HAbrams

2.ThePenguinDictionaryofLiteraryTermsandLiteraryTheory:J.A.Cuddon

UnitII(ProseandPoem)

OnRokeyaSakhawatHossain,followthisbook

Motichur:Sultana’sDream andOtherWritingsofRokeyaSakhawatHossain,

OUP:2015edition, translatedbyRatriRoyandPrantoshBandyopadhyay

(Chapters1and2ofthetext)

OnMahaswetaDevi’sBreastStoriesfollowthisbook:

MahaswetaDevi’sBreastStoriestranslatedbyGayatriChakravortySpivak,Seagull,

2016edition

ReadtheIntroductionbyGayatriSpivak,pagevii-xiv

ARoom ofOne’sOwn.VirginiaWoolf,(FirstChapter,Page7-29)GraftonPublication

1977edition

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SylviaPlath:CircusinThreeRings;Event.

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Sec–I(Honours)

OptionOne:

ActualReportingandContentWriting

UnitI

ActualReporting:

1.NewspaperReporting

2.TelevisionReporting

3.OrganizationReporting

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UnitII

ContentWriting:

1.AdvertisementContentWriting

Advertisementonnewuniversities,newcareercourses,newvocationalprogrammes,

workshopsetc.

2.Contentwritingonleafletsandbrochures,posters

Leafletsoforganizations,postersandbrochuresofeventsandcourses.

3.ContentwritingofWebblogs

Webpagesorblogsofindividualsandinstitutions.

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reports/contentsof10markstobewrittenintheclassasclasstest

OptionTwo:

TranslationSkills

UnitI

BasicConcepts:

SourceLanguageText,TargetLanguagetext,LiteraryTranslation,Non-LiteraryTranslation,

Machinetranslation,Freetranslation,CulturalEquivalence,Translator’sVisibility,

Translator’sInvisibility,TranslationTreason,Translationasdiscovery,Postcolonial

Translation


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UnitII

Translator’sExperience

a.Roy,Sukhendu(Tr).TalesFrom ThakurmarJhuli:Translator’sNote.OxfordUniversity

Press.

b.William Radice(Tr).RabindranathTagore.SelectedPoems:Translator’sIntroduction.

Penguin.


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RecommendedReading:

1.Baker,Mona.InOtherWords:ACoursebookonTranslation.Routledge.2001

SEMESTERIV


CoreCourseVIII

BritishLiterature:TheEarlyTwentiethCentury

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialBackground:

Modernism and the Postmodern Turn ,The World Wars,The Collapse ofthe Empire,

Women’sMovements,PsychoanalysisandtheStream ofConsciousness,TheusesofMyth,

TheAvant-garde


UnitII(Poetry)

W.B.Yeats:TheSecondComing

T.S.Eliot:TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock

DylanThomas:Poem inOctober

PhilipLarkin:ChurchGoing


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UnitIII(Prose)

VirginiaWoolf:MrsDalloway


JamesJoyce:Araby

JosephConrad:TheLagoon




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1.Sigmund Freud,‘TheoryofDreams’,‘Oedipus Complex’,and ‘The Structure ofthe

Unconscious’,inTheModernTradition,ed.RichardEllmanet.al.(Oxford:OUP,1965)pp.

571,578–80,559–63.

2.T.S.Eliot,‘TraditionandtheIndividualTalent’,inNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,

8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)pp.2319–25.

3.RaymondWilliams,‘Introduction’,inTheEnglishNovelfrom DickenstoLawrence(London:

HogarthPress,1984)pp.9–27.

SEMESTERIV

CoreCourseDetails :BAHENGC402

CoreCourseIX

IndianWritinginEnglish

UnitI


EvolutionofIndianLiteratureinEnglish,TheBeginnings,TheNationalistMovement,Partition,

Women’sIssues,Re-ReadingIndia:Post–1980s.


UnitII(Poetry)

H.L.V.Derozio:SonnetWrittentothePupilsofHinduCollege

KamalaDas:AnIntroduction

JayantaMahapatra:DawnatPuri

RobinS.Ngangom:APoem forMother



UnitIII(Prose)

KhuswantSingh:TheTraintoPakistan


R.K.Narayan:ToastedEnglish(from R.K.Narayan:TheWriterlyLife:SelectedNon-Fiction.ed.

S.Krishnan,Penguinbooks,2001.)

AmitavGhosh:TheGhostofMrsGandhi




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1.RajaRao,ForewordtoKanthapura(NewDelhi:OUP,1989)pp.v–vi.

2.SalmanRushdie,‘CommonwealthLiteraturedoesnotexist’,inImaginaryHomelands

(London:GrantaBooks,1991)pp.61–70.

3.MeenakshiMukherjee,‘DividedbyaCommonLanguage’,inThePerishableEmpire(New

Delhi:OUP,2000)pp.187–203.

4.BruceKing,‘Introduction’,inModernIndianPoetryinEnglish(New Delhi:OUP,2ndedn,

2005)pp.1–10.

SEMESTERIV


CoreCourseX

PopularLiterature

UnitI


TheCanonicalandthePopular

Caste,Gender,Identity

SenseandNonsense

TheGraphicNovel

DetectiveFiction


UnitII(PoetryandGraphicFiction)

SukumarRay:TheRuleofTwentyOne

EdwardLear:Mr.andMrs.SpikkySparrow

DurgaVyam andSubhasVyam:Bhimayana:ExperienceofUntouchability/

Or,B.R.Ambedkar:AutobiographicalNotes(OnlyFortheVisuallyChallengedstudents)



UnitIII(Prose)

J.K.Rowling:ThePhilosopher’sStone


AgathaChristie:TheJewelRobberyattheGrandMetropolitan

SatyajitRay:NakurbabuandElDorado




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1.SumathiRamaswamy,‘Introduction’,in Beyond Appearances?:VisualPractices and

IdeologiesinModernIndia(Sage:Delhi,2003)pp.xiii–xxix.

2.LeslieFiedler,‘TowardsaDefinitionofPopularLiterature’,inSuperCulture:American

PopularCultureandEurope,ed.C.W.E.Bigsby(Ohio:BowlingGreenUniversityPress,1975)

pp.29–38.

3.FelicityHughes,‘Children’sLiterature:TheoryandPractice’,EnglishLiteraryHistory,vol.45,

1978,pp.542–61.

SEMESTERIV

GenericElective

Optionone:

IndianLiteratureII

UnitI

M KGandhi “Hardship”

SudhaMurthy “InSahyadriHills,ALessoninHumility”

APJAbdulKalam “ThePowerofPrayer”

KhuswantSingh“ThePortraitofALady”

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UnitII(Fiction)

Premchand TheChild

RKNarayan Anastrologer’sday

RKLaxman TheGoldFrame

RuskinBond TheBoyWhoBroketheBank


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OptionTwo:

AcademicWritingandComposition

UnitI

Structuringofarguments:Introduction,OrganizationandConclusion–basedonvarious

debatabletopics

Or,

CriticalThinking/appreciation:Synthesis,Analysis,evaluation


UnitII

WritinginOne’sOwnWords:SummarizingandParaphrasing

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CitationResources:BasicKnowledge

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1.LizHamp-LyonsandBenHeasley,Studywriting:ACourseinWritingSkillsforAcademic

Purposes(Cambridge:CUP,2006).

2.RenuGupta,ACourseinAcademicWriting(NewDelhi:OrientBlackSwan,2010).

3.IlonaLeki,AcademicWriting:ExploringProcessesandStrategies(NewYork:CUP,2nd

edn,1998).

4.GeraldGraffandCathyBirkenstein,TheySay/ISay:TheMovesThatMatterinAcademic

Writing(NewYork:Norton,2009).

SEC2

OptionOne:

CommunicativeEnglish

UnitI

VocabularyBuilding:wordFormation,Prefix,Suffix,OneWordSubstitutes

FunctionalGrammar:IdentifyingCommonerrorscommittedinPartsofSpeech,Tenses,

Conjunctions,Articles,Prepositions,DirectandIndirect,activeandPassivevoices.



UnitII

Writing:MethodsofNotetaking,JumbledSentences

LetterWritting&Mail:CoveringLetter,ClaimingandadjustmentLetter,SalesLetter,E-Mails,

EssayWriting

ElementsofEffectiveWriting:Agenda,Notices,Circular,MinutesoftheMeeting&Proof

Reading


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1.FluencyinEnglish-PartII,OxfordUniversityPress,2006.

2.BusinessEnglish,Pearson,2008.

3.Language,LiteratureandCreativity,OrientBlackswan,2013.

4.LanguagethroughLiterature(forthcoming)ed.Dr.GauriMishra,DrRanjanaKaul,DrBrati

Biswas

OptionTwo:

CreativeWriting

UnitI

Concepts:ShortStoryideas,writingbasedonpictures,slogans,ads,posters,etc

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DefinitionsofShortStory,Docu-drama,Tele-Play,ScreenPlay,Skit,Differencesbetween

screenPlayandstory,etc.


UnitII

Composition:OnCollegeSports,AnnualDay,youthparliamentets

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05x2=10)

Comprehension:OnEcologicalandSocialawarenessissues



SEMESTERV


CoreCourseXI

ModernEuropeanDrama

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialHistory,Socio-PoliticalChangeandtheStage,EuropeanDrama:Realism

andBeyond,TheProblem PlayintheModernEra,TheTheatreoftheAbsurd


UnitII

Plays-I

J.M.Synge:RiderstotheSea

HenrikIbsen:Ghosts



UnitIII

Plays-II

BertoltBrecht:Galileo

EugeneIonesco:TheLesson






1.ConstantinStanislavski,AnActorPrepares,chap.8,‘FaithandtheSenseofTruth’,tr.

ElizabethReynoldsHapgood(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1967)sections1,2,7,8,9,

pp.121–5,137–46.

2.BertoltBrecht,‘TheStreetScene’,‘TheatreforPleasureorTheatreforInstruction’,

and‘DramaticTheatrevsEpicTheatre’,inBrechtonTheatre:TheDevelopmentofan

Aesthetic,ed.andtr.JohnWillet(London:Methuen,1992)pp.68–76,121–8.

3.GeorgeSteiner,‘OnModernTragedy’,inTheDeathofTragedy(London:Faber,1995)

pp.303–24.


CoreCourseXII

AmericanLiterature

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialBackground,TheAmericanDream,SocialRealism andtheAmerican

Novel,Harlem Renaissance,BlackWomen’sWriting


UnitII(PlaysandPoetry)

TennesseWilliams:TheGlassMenagerie


H.W.Longfellow:TheSlave’sDream

RobertFrost:TheRoadNotTaken

WaltWhitman:OCaptain!MyCaptain

AdrienneRich:AuntJennifer’sTigers


UnitIII(Prose)

ToniMorrison:Beloved


EdgarAllanPoe:ThePurloinedLetter

O’Henry:OneDollar’sWorth





1.HectorStJohnCrevecouer,‘WhatisanAmerican’,(LetterIII)inLettersfrom an

AmericanFarmer(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1982)pp.66–105.

2.FrederickDouglass,ANarrativeofthelifeofFrederickDouglass(Harmondsworth:

Penguin,1982)chaps.1–7,pp.47–87.

3.HenryDavidThoreau,‘BattleoftheAnts’excerptfrom ‘BruteNeighbours’,inWalden

(Oxford:OUP,1997)chap.12.

4.RalphWaldoEmerson,‘SelfReliance’,inTheSelectedWritingsofRalphWaldo

Emerson,ed.withabiographicalintroductionbyBrooksAtkinson(NewYork:The

ModernLibrary,1964).

5.ToniMorrison,‘RomancingtheShadow’,inPlayingintheDark:Whitenessand

LiteraryImagination(London:Picador,1993)pp.29–39.

DSE–I

LiteraryCriticism

UnitI

Aristotle:Poetics(Selectionsasbelow)

Introduction:PoetryasImitation

Chapter6–DescriptionofTragedy

Chapter7–TheScopeofthePlot

Chapter8–UnityofPlot

DrJohnson:PrefacetoShakespeare(Page133Line88–Page140Line354)


UnitII

W.Wordsworth:PrefacetoTheLyricalBallads(Page179Line674–Page182Lie767)

J.Keats:Letter(Page256-259)



UnitIII

T.S.Eliot:TheMetaphysicalPoets(Page302Line308,Line243)

MatthewArnold:TheStudyofPoetry(Page260Line01–Page265Line192)




1.PenguinClassics:Aristotle/Horace/Longinus:ClassicalLiteraryCritism.Tr.

T.S.Dorsch.Penguin

2.EnglishCriticalTexts:D.J.EnrightandErnestDeChickera.Oxford.



DSEII

UNITI(Poetry)

SubramaniaBharati:Wind,9

GM Muktibodh:TheVoid

NirendranathChakraborty:Amalkanti

KaifiAzmi:Humiliation


UnitII(ProseFiction)

Premchand:Kafan:TheShroud

IsmatChugtai:Lihaaf

PremendraMitra:Foreigner



UnitIII(Drama)

DharamveerBharti:AndhaYug.(Tr.AlokBhalla.NewDelhi.OUP,2009.)




1.PenguinBookofClassisUrdustories.ed.M.Assaduddin.NewDelhi:Penguin,2009.

2.PremendraMitra.SnakeandOtherStories,tr.RinaandPritishNandy.Calcutta:

Seagull,1990.

3.TheOxfordAnthologyofModernIndianPoetry.ed.VinayDharwadkarandA.K

Ramanujan,2003.



DSEIIA

Travelwriting

UnitI

IbnBatuta:‘TheCourtofMuhammadbinTughlaq’,KhuswantSingh’sCityImprobable:

writingsonDelhi,Penguin.

SaratChandraDas:Autobiography:NarrativeoftheIncidentsofMyEarlyLife(Selections:

FirstJourneytoTibet)


UnitII

MarkTwain:TheInnocentAbroad(ChapterVII,VIII,andIX)WordsworthClassisEdition.

ErnestoCheGuevara:TheMotorcycleDiaries:AJourneyaroundSouthAmerica(TheExpert,

HomeLandforVictor,TheCityofViceroys)HarperPerennial



UnitIII

ElisabethBumiller:MayYoubeTheMotherofaHundredSons:aJourneyamongthe

WomenofIndia,Chapters2and3,pp24-74(NewYork:Penguin,1991)

KrishnabhabiniDas:ABengaliLadyinEngland(Selections:Prelude,Chapter10,Chapter15)




1.SusanBassnett,‘TravelWritingandGender’,inCambridgeCompaniontoTravel

Writing,ed.PeterHulmeandTim Young(Cambridge:CUP,2002)pp,225-241

2.TabishKhair,‘AnInterviewwithWilliam DalyrmpleandPankajMishra’inPostcolonial

TravelWritings:CriticalExplorations,ed.JustinDEdwardsandRuneGraulund(New

York:PalgraveMacmillan,2011),173-184

3.CaseyBalton,‘NarratingSelfandOther:AHistoricalView’,inTravelWriting:TheSelf

andTheOther(Routledge,2012),pp.1-29

4.SachidanandaMohanty,‘Introduction:BeyondtheImperialEyes’inTravelWritingand

Empire(NewDelhi:Katha,2004)pp.ix–xx.



DSEIIB

PostWorldWarIILiterature

UnitI(Poetry)

PhilipLarkin:WhitsunWeddings

TedHughes:HawkRoosting

SeamusHeaney:Casualty

CarolanneDuffy:Text


UnitII

JohnFowles:TheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman

AngelaCarter:Wolf-Alice



UnitIII

SamuelBeckett:WaitingforGodot

William Golding:LordoftheFlies




1.AlanSinfield,‘LiteratureandCulturalProduction’,inLiterature,Politics,andCulturein

PostwarBritain(BerkleyandLosAngeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1989)pp.

23–38.

2.SeamusHeaney,‘TheRedressofPoetry’,inTheRedressofPoetry(London:Faber,

1995)pp.1–16.

3.PatriciaWaugh,‘CultureandChange:1960-1990’,inTheHarvestofTheSixties:

EnglishLiteratureAndItsBackground,1960-1990(Oxford:OUP,1997).



SEMESTERVI

CoreCourseDetails :BAHENGC601

CoreCourseXIII

PostcolonialLiteratures

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialBackground

Decolonization,GlobalizationandLiterature

LiteratureandIdentityPolitics

WritingfortheNewWorldAudience

Region,RaceandGender


UnitII(DramaandPoetry)

MaheshDattani:Tara


PabloNeruda:TonightIcanWrite

DerekWalcott:FarCryfrom Africa

MamangDai:SmallTownsandtheRiver

DavidMalouf:RevolvingDay


UnitIII(Fiction)

SalmanRushdie:HarounandtheSeaofStories

AmitavGhosh:TheShadowLines





02x5=10


1.FranzFanon,‘TheNegroandLanguage’,inBlackSkin,WhiteMasks,tr.CharlesLam

Markmann(London:PlutoPress,2008)pp.8–27.

2.NgugiwaThiong’o,‘TheLanguageofAfricanLiterature’,inDecolonisingtheMind(London:

JamesCurry,1986)chap.1,sections4–6.

3.GabrielGarciaMarquez,theNobelPrizeAcceptanceSpeech,inGabrielGarciaMarquez:

NewReadings,ed.BernardMcGuirkandRichardCardwell(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversity

Press,1987).

SEMESTERVI

CoreCourseDetails :BAHENGDSE604

CoreCourseXIV

Women’sWriting

UnitI

LiteraryandSocialBackground

EvolutionofFeminism:TheThreeWaves

TheConfessionalModeinWomen’swriting

GenderandClass/Caste/Race

PoliticsofSexuality


UnitII(DramaandPoetry)

ManjulaPadmanabhan:TheBrideisnotforBurning


EmilyDickinson:IcannotlivewithYou

PhillisWheatley:AnHymntotheMorning

SylviaPlath:LadyLazarus

EuniceDeSouza:Bequest


UnitIII(Prose)

AliceWalker:TheColorPurple


MahaswetaDevi:Draupadi(Translated:G.C.Spivak)

CharlottePerkinsGilman:TheYellowWallpaper




02x5=10


1.VirginiaWoolf,ARoom ofOne'sOwn(NewYork:Harcourt,1957)chaps.1and6.

2.SimonedeBeauvoir,‘Introduction’,inTheSecondSex,tr.ConstanceBordeandShiela

Malovany-Chevallier(London:Vintage,2010)pp.3–18.

3.Kumkum SangariandSudeshVaid,eds.,‘Introduction’,inRecastingWomen:Essaysin

ColonialHistory(NewDelhi:KaliforWomen,1989)pp.1–25.

4.ChandraTalapadeMohanty,‘UnderWesternEyes:FeministScholarshipandColonial

Discourses’,inContemporaryPostcolonialTheory:AReader,ed.PadminiMongia(NewYork:

Arnold,1996)pp.172–97.

SEMESTERVI

DSEIIIA

LiteraryTheory

UnitI

Marxism andCulturalStudies

LouisAlthusser:IdeologyandIdeologicalStateApparatuses(NotestowardsanInvestigation)

GeorgLukacs:CriticalRealism andSocialistRealism

RaymondWilliams:IntroductiontoCulturalandSociety

UnitII

Feminism

ElaineShowalter:TowardsaFeministPoetics

JulietMitchell:Femininity,NarrativeandPsychoanalysis.

GayatriC.Spivak:CantheSubalternSpeak

UnitIII

Postmodernism andPostColonialism

Jean-FrancoisLyotard:Answeringthequestion:WhatisPostmodernism

EdwardSaid:“TheScopeofOrientalism”inOrientalism.Penguin

AijazAhmad:‘IndianLiterature’;NotestowardstheDefinitionofCategory

Studentswillberequiredtoattemptonequestionof10marks(outoftwo)from eachofthe

threeunits(10X3=30marks),andtwoquestionsof5markseachfrom anytwoofthe

threeunits(5X2=10marks).


LiteraryTheory:AnIntroductoryReader.EditedbySngataBhaduriandSimiMalhotra.

Anthem Press.NewDelhi.

TheBlackwellGuidetoLiteraryTheory.GeorgeCastle.Blackwell.

InternalAssessment:10marks


marks

DSEIIIB

PartitionLiterature

UnitI(Poetry)

FaizAhmedFaiz:ForYourLoves,MyCountry,inEnglish:FaizAhmedFaiz,ARenownedUrdu

Poet(tr.Anded.RizRahim)

JibananandaDas:IShallReturntothisBengal(tr.SukantaChaudhuri,inModernIndian

Literature)

Gulzar:TobaTekSingh(TranslatingPartition,ed.TarunSaintet.at.)

TaslimaNasreen:BrokenBengal

(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)

(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05

marks)

UnitII(Novel)

BapsiSidwa:TheIceCandyMan


UnitIII(ShortStories)

DibyenduPalit:Alam’sOwnHousetr.SarikaChaudhuri(BengalPartitionstories:An

UnclosedChapter.ed.bashabiFraser)

SadatHasanManto:TobaTekSingh,tr.M.Asaduddin(inBlackMargins:Manto)



marks)

RecommendedReadingsandScreenings:

1.RituMenonandKamlaBhasin,‘Introduction’,inBordersandBoundaries(NewDelhi:Kali

forWomen,1998).

2.SukritaP.Kumar,NarratingPartition(Delhi:Indialog,2004).

3.UrvashiButalia,TheOtherSideofSilence:Voicesfrom thePartitionofIndia(Delhi:Kalifor

Women,2000).

4.SigmundFreud,‘MourningandMelancholia’,inTheCompletePsychologicalWorksof

SigmundFreud,tr.JamesStrachey(London:HogarthPress,1953)pp.3041–53.

Films:

Garam Hawa(dir.M.S.Sathyu,1974).

KhamoshPaani:SilentWaters(dir.SabihaSumar,2003).

Subarnarekha(dir.RitwikGhatak,1965)



marks

DSEIVA

Autobiography

UnitI

JeanJacquesRousseau:Confessions,PartOne,BookOne,pp.5-43,Tr.ByAngelaScholar

NewYork:OUP,2000.

M.K.Gandhi’s:AutobiographyortheStoryofMyExperimentswithTruth.PartI,ChapterIIto

IX.PP.5-26(Ahmedabad,Navajivan,1993)


UnitII

BinodiniDasi’s:MyStoryandLifeasanActress,pp.61-83.NewDelhi:KaliforWomen,1998.

HelenKeller:AStoryofMyLife(ChaptersItoXIII)



marks)

UnitIII

ARevathi:TruthAboutMe:AHijraLifeStory,ChaptersonetoFour,pp.1-37,NewDelhi:

Penguin,2010.

SharankumarLimbale:TheOutcaste,Tr.BySantoshBhoomkar,pp1-39,NewDelhi:OUP,

2003.



marks)


1.JamesOlney,‘ATheoryofAutobiography’inMetaphorsofSelf:themeaningof

autobiography(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1972)pp.3-50.

2.LauraMarcus,‘TheLawofGenre’inAuto/biographicalDiscourses(Manchester:

ManchesterUniversityPress,1994)pp.229-72.

3.LindaAnderson,‘Introduction’inAutobiography(London:Routledge,2001)pp.1-17.

4.MaryG.Mason,‘TheOtherVoice:AutobiographiesofwomenWriters’inLife/Lines:

TheorizingWomen’sAutobiography,EditedbyBellaBrodzkiandCelesteSchenck(Ithaca:

CornellUniversityPress,1988)pp.19-44.



marks

DSEIVB

ScienceFictionandDetectiveLiterature

UnitI

Begum Rokeya:Sultana’sDream

IsaacAsimov:2430A.D.



marks)

UnitII

WilkieCollins:TheWomaninWhite

ArthurConanDoyle:TheAdventureoftheSpeckledBand



marks)

UnitIII

SatyajitRay:TheKey,from TheCompleteAdventuresofFeluda,tr.GopaMajumdar

SaradinduBandopadhyay:TheJewelCase,from TheMenagerieandOtherByomkeshBakshi

Mysteries,tr.SreejataGuha,Penguine,2006.



1.J.EdmundWilson,‘WhoCaresWhoKilledRogerAckroyd?’,TheNewYorker,20June1945.

2.GeorgeOrwell,RafflesandMissBlandish,availableat:

3.W.H.Auden,TheGuiltyVicarage,availableat:<harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty-

vicarage/>

4.RaymondChandler,‘TheSimpleArtofMurder’,AtlanticMonthly,Dec.1944,availableat:

<http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html>



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