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1 B.A ENGLISH (HONOURS) Syllabus CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM w. e. f. Admission Batch ( ) for Affiliated Colleges North Orissa University Sriram Chandra Vihar Takatpur, Baripada Mayurbhanj North Orissa University Page 1

2 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 CCH-9 SEC-2 (Subject CCH-10 Specific Skill) 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 North Orissa University Page 2

3 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) North Orissa University Page 3

4 SEMESTER-I Paper: CCH- Eng-1 Subject: British Poetry and Drama: 14 th and 17 th Centuries The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with the three Ages/Periods of English Literature: the Medieval; the Renaissance & the Reformation. Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 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. 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 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 North Orissa University Page 4

5 SEMESTER-I Paper: CCH- Eng-2 Sub: British Poetry and Drama 17 th & 18 th Century This paper seeks to introduce the students to the 17 th Century period of English Revolution, the Jacobean Period, the Metaphysicsl Poetry, Cavalier Poetry, Comedy of Humours, Masques & Beast fables, 18 th Century: Restoration; Neo classicism; Heroic Poetry; Restoration Comedy/ Comedy of Manners. Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 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 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 Pope: Ode on Solitude, a Little Learning; Know Then Thyself Robert Burns: A Red Rose, A Fond Kiss, My Heart s in the Highlands Ben Jonson: Volpone Or Dryden: All for Love 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 North Orissa University Page 5

6 SEMESTER-II Paper: CCH- Eng-3 Subject: British Literature: 18 th Century The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with 18 th Century of British Literature. Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Joseph Addison :- On giving Advice Reflection in Westminster Abbey Defence and Happiness of Married Life Richard Steel :- Recollections On long winded people 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 Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a country churchyars 1. Critical History of English Literature; David Daiches. 2. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century North Orissa University Page 6

7 SEMESTER-II Paper: CCH- Eng-4 Subject: Indian Writing in English Ths objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with Indian writings in English. Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Crystallization: R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts Maturation: Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines 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 1. R. Parthsarathy, Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Vinay Dharwadkar, The Historical Formation of India-English Literature in Sheldon Pollock (ed.) Literature Cultures in History, New Delhi; Oxford University Press, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, An illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. Hyderabad; Orient Blackswan, North Orissa University Page 7

8 SEMESTER-III Paper: CCH- Eng-5 Subject: British Romantic Literature 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 = = 30 marks marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 Blake: The Tiger, London, A Poison Tree William Collins: Ode to Evening 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 William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads P.B. Shelley: A Defense of Poetry 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 North Orissa University Page 8

9 SEMESTER-III Paper: CCH- Eng-6 Subject: British Romantic Literature The paper seeks to explore students to the literature produced in Britain in the 19 th Century. The focus is mainly on prose (fictional and non fictional ) and criticism. Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 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 Charles Lamb: Dreeam Children : A Reverie William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers R.L. Stevenson: Walking Tours Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice OR R.L. Stevenson: Treasure Island Mathew Arnold : The study of Poetry OR William Hazlitt: Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. 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, 8 th Edition Vol.2 Ed. Stephen Green blat (New York: Norton 2006) pp J.S. Mill : The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature 8 th Edition Vol.2. North Orissa University Page 9

10 SEMESTER-III Paper: CCH- Eng-7 Subject: American Literature This paper seeks to introduce the students to American Literature. Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 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 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. Eugene O Neill: The Hairy Ape Authur Miller: Death of a Salesman Emerson : The American Scholar. OR Thoreau : Pond in Winter, Economy, Where I lived and what I lived for. 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. North Orissa University Page 10

11 SEMESTER-IV Paper: CCH- Eng-8 Subject: British Literature : Early 20 th Century The objective of this paper is to familiarize the students with the new literature of Britain in the early decades of the 20 th 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-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 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. 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 Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent. Henry James : The Art of Fiction. 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. North Orissa University Page 11

12 SEMESTER-IV Paper: CCH- Eng-9 Subject: European Classical Literature This paper seeks to introduce the students to European classical Literature form 8 th Century B.C. in ancient Greece to the Decline of Roman Empire in the 5 th Century A.D. Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 Homer: Odyssey (Book1) Sophocles: Oedipus the king Aristophanes Frogs. Aristole: Poetics (Chapter 6,7, &8) Horace : Ars Poetica Longinus: On the Sublime (Chapter 7 & 39) 1. Auerbach, Erich. Mimeses : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. USA: Princeton Univ. Press, Beye, Charles Rowan. Ancient Greek Literature and Society, Ithaca, New York: Cornell Univ. Press All the texts are available for access on Project Gutenberg North Orissa University Page 12

13 SEMESTER-IV Paper: CCH- Eng-10 Subject: Women s Writing 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-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 Mary Wollstonecraft : Introduction for A Vindication of the Rights of Women. OR Simone de Beahvior: Introduction from The Second Sex Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Prativa Ray: Yajnaseni 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 Sylvia Plath s Collected Poems Sylvia The collected Poems 1981.pdf Simon de Beauvoir: The Second Sex North Orissa University Page 13

14 SEMESTER-V Paper: CCH- Eng-11 Subject: Modern European Drama The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to the best of experimental and innovative dramatic literature of Modern Europe. Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 Henric Ibsen The Wild Duck Eugene Ionesco: Chairs Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot 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:// Ionesc : North Orissa University Page 14

15 SEMESTER-V Paper: CCH- Eng-12 Subject: Indian Classical Literature The aim of this paper is to create awareness among the students of the rich and diverse literary culture of ancient India. Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 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 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 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. 1. Indian Aesthetics Bharat Natyasastra, Chapter VI on Rasa Theory English Translation by M.M.Ghose,Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 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, English Translation Published from Ramakrishna Mission, Kolkata. 1. Kalidasa Critical Edition, Sahitya Akademy. 2. Bharat Natyashastra, tr. Manmohan Ghosh, Vol 1, 2 nd Edn Calcutta, Granthalaya, 1967 Chap ^ Sentiments PP 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 North Orissa University Page 15

16 SEMESTER-VI Paper: CCH- Eng-13 Subject: Post Colonial Literature 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-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25marks 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. Indian and Caribbean R.K. Narayan: The English Teacher. Or V.S. Naipans: A House for Mr. Biswas. 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 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 Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin-Inntroduction, The Empire writes Back: Theory & Practice in Post Colonial Literature London, New York, Routledge, 2 nd edition, Edward Said- Orientatilism, India: Penguin, Homi K. Bhabha- The Location of Culture, Noida: Atlantic Books, Spivak, Gayatri Chakraborty-Can the Subalterra speak? UK: Macmillan, Thiong s Ngugi wa- Quest for relevance.pdf North Orissa University Page 16

17 SEMESTER-VI Paper: CCH- Eng-14 Subject: Popular Literature 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-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = = 30 marks Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25marks 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 Arthur Krystal: Easy writers : Guilty Pleasures without guilt. Joshua Rothman: A Better way to think About the Genre Debate Stephen Marche: How Genre Giction Became More Important then Literary Fiction Detective fiction & Romance Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles Or Shobha De- Socialite Evenings Criticism Campus Fiction & Rewriting Mythology Chetan Bhagat-Five Point Someone. Or Amiya Chandramouli-Arhuna: Sage of a Pandava Warrior- Prince. 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. North Orissa University Page 17

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