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

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1 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. Sentence Elements (SVOCA) Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Use of Modals (from A Practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martinet) Relative Clauses Unit 2 (8 Hrs.) Transformation of Sentences: Passivization, Reported Speech, Change of degrees of adjective. Theme Writing Précis Writing (Summarizing) CVs and Job Applications Suggested Readings Unit 3 (7Hrs.) Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) Unit 5 (8 Hrs) 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)

2 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 Edmund Spenser John Donne Andrew Marvell Robert Herrick Unit 3 (10 Hrs.) 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.) 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.) The Garden To His Coy Mistress 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

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, (Dallimare, 1987)

4 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 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.) Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Unit 2 (15 Hrs.) William Collins James Thomson Ode to Evening, Ode to Simplicity, 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

5 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

6 B.A. Hons. I Project Semester-I No. of Credits-2 Paper Code- ENG 115 MM 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.

7 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. Journalistic Report-writing Unit 2(8 Hrs.) Unit 3(8 Hrs.) Writing s, 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, 3 rd 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)

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

9 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 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 (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

10 The Art of the Essayist (OUP)

11 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, (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)

12 M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms 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 The World is Too Much With Us Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 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

13 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

14 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. 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.

15 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) M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

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

17 M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature Jane Austen: Emma

18 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 W.Owen The Soldier, The Dead Strange Meeting, Anthem for Doomed Youth Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) John Galsworthy J.M.Barrie Justice Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) 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.

19 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 J.B. Priestley Selected Snobberies 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 Suggested Readings : 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.)

20 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 Objectives: To enable the students to develop a research acumen. 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.

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22 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

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24 B.A. Hons. Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II Paper Code : ENG 412 Semester : IV 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 (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) M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms 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)

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26 B.A. Hons. Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II Paper Code : ENG 413 Semester : IV 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 (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 M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature

27 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 V.S. Pritchet A Funeral, On Finding Things The Dean Unit 2 (10 Hrs.) G. Orwell Shooting an Elephant Down the Mine Inside the Whale Unit 3 (7 Hrs) Somerset Maugham James Thurber Colin Howard The Mother The Night the Ghost Got In Post Haste Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) D.H. Lawrence Aldous Huxley Sons and Lovers Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) The Brave New World Suggested Readings : 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)

28 B.A. Hons. II Project Semester IV No. of Credits: 02 Paper Code: ENG415 MM: 100 Objectives: To enable the students to develop a research acumen. 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.

29 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 R.W. Emerson Emily Dickinson When Lilacs Last, On the Beach at Night Hamatreya, Brahma Unit 2 (8 Hrs.) 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 19 th Century : An Anthology Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 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)

30 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 R.N. Tagore Satan, The Queen of Delhi Dream 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 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 Girish Karnad : Hayavadan ( The Three Plays,OUP)

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32 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)

33 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 (London, 1985) The Norton Anthology of Poetry

34 B.A. Hons. III Project Semester-V No. of Credits-2 Paper Code- ENG 515 MM Objectives: To consolidate the key-learnings pertaining 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.

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36 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 E.E. Cummings Huckleberry Finn Unit 5 (8Hrs.) 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 19 th Century : An Anthology Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 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)

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38 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.)

39 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)

40 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. Seamus Heaney Philip Larkin Harold Pinter Unit 1 (9 Hrs.) Whatever You Say, Say Nothing Mid-Term Break Digging Unit 2 (9 Hrs.) Church Going, Toads, Wants Toads Revisited At Grass Unit 3 (11 Hrs.) The Caretaker Unit 4 (6 Hrs.) A. Alvarez Introduction to New Poetry (Penguin, 1962) Angela Carter Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) 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

41 B.A. Hons. III Project Semester VI No. of Credits: 02 Paper Code: ENG615 MM: 100 Objectives: Objectives: To consolidate the key-learnings pertaining 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. ***