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1 Structure of the Syllabus/Curriculum Year Semester Paper Category Hrs/wk Credits Internal External 2 3 I Core II 2 Core III 3 Core IV 4 Core V 5 Core Core VI 7 Elective Cluster Electives *Third year syllabi will be sent shortly

2 Paragraph- 5 Part II ( st, 2 nd, and 3 rd years) Either or Pattern - 0 I Year, Semester I: Paper I s Old English and Middle English Periods history and development of the English language Four Paras 2 Philology (Scandinavian, Latin, Greek, French influences, native resources, other influences) ballad, epic, romance, lyric, ode, elegy, pastoral elegy, Literary forms Paras 3 sonnet, rhyme, metre, mystery/miracle play, morality and terms 5 play, metaphysical conceit 4 Poetry John Donne: Death, Be not proud 0 5 Prose Bacon: Of Studies' 0 Internals: 25 Total 00. A Literature by W.J Long 2. A Critical Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova) 3. The Cambridge Literature by Ward and Waller (Published by Kessinger) Cuddon (Published by Penguin) 6. Headway, Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd

3 Part II ( st, 2 nd, and 3 rd years) Syllabus Effective from 5 6 I Year, Semester II: Paper II Renaissance (Elizabethan & Jacobean/5 th & 6 th c.) s simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, Literary forms apostrophe, hyperbole, allegory, allusion, anticlimax, and terms irony, blank verse, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, 5 chronicle play, masque, comedy of humours, farce 3 Drama * Shakespeare: Twelfth Night s 4 Poetry I Marvell: ' Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard 0 5 Poetry II Milton: extract from Paradise Lost Book IX (Fall or Adam and Eve) 0 Internals: 25 Total 00. A Literature by W.J Long 2. A Critical Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova) 3. The Cambridge Literature by Ward and Waller (Published 6.Headway, Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd

4 Part II ( st, 2 nd, and 3 rd years) Syllabus Effective from 5 6 II Year, Semester III: Paper III Restoration & Augustan periods (7 th & 8 th c.) s satire, mock-epic, heroic couplet, epistle, heroic Literary forms tragedy, comedy of manners, genteel comedy, and terms sentimental comedy, periodical essay, picaresque 5 novel, epistolary novel 3 Poetry Pope: extracts from The Rape of the Lock (Canto ) s 4 Prose * Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 0 5 Drama * Congreve: The Way of the World 0 Internals: 25 Total 00. A Literature by W.J Long 2. A Critical Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova) 3. The Cambridge Literature by Ward and Waller (Published 6. Frontiers, Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd

5 Part II ( st, 2 nd, and 3 rd years) Syllabus Effective from 5 6 II Year, Semester IV: Paper IV Romantic and Victorian periods s biography, autobiography, melodrama, historical Literary forms novel, sentimental novel, gothic novel, regional and terms novel, flat character, round character, protagonist, 5 Antagonist 3 Poetry I Keats: Ode to a Nightingale 0 4 Prose Austen: Pride and Prejudice s 5 Poetry II Browning: How do I love thee? 0 Internals: 25 Total 00. A Literature by W.J Long 2. A Critical Literature by David Daiches (Published by Supernova) 3. The Cambridge Literature by Ward and Waller (Published 6.Frontiers, Published by Sangam Books India Pvt. Ltd

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