Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University Dept of English Syllabus for semester III. Paper 301 Post-Fifties Fiction and Poetry( FM 50) Group A SM ( marks allotted : 25) Ted Hughes: Thought-Fox,Hawk-roosting Philip Larkin: Church Going, Aubade,The Whitsun Wedding Andrew Motion: Veteran, The Last Call George Orwell: Animal Farm Fowles: The French Lieutenant s Woman Graham Greene: Heart of the Matter Paper 302 Post Fifties Drama( FM 50) Group A AH ( marks allotted : 25) Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot John Osborne: Look Back in Anger Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Harold Pinter: Birthday Party Edward Bond : Lear Churchill: Top Girls Paper 303 Literary Criticism: from classical to neo-classical( FM 50) Group A JSM ( marks allotted : 25) Plato: Republic Bk III and X Aristotle: Poetics Horace: ArsPoetica Longinus: On the Sublime
Sidney Dryden Pope Paper 304 Literary Criticism: Romantic to Modern( FM 50) Group A AS ( marks allotted : 25) Wordsworth Coleridge Arnold T S Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent, Metaphysical Poets, Hamlet I A Richards: A Theory of Communication F R Leavis: Philosophy and Literary Criticism OPTIONAL PAPERS: Paper 305 A Linguistics and ELT( FM 50) AS Grammar-Translation Method Direct Method Audio-lingual Method Total Physical Response Method Community Language Teaching Communicative Language Teaching Stimulary Response, Behaviourist& Cognitive Theories of Language Teaching Second Language Acquisition Theories Recent trends in Language Teaching Modern (Remedial) Grammar Register Speech Organs Vowels & Diphthongs Stress & Intonation Basic Phonetics and Phonology Materials Productions for ELT
Techniques for Skill Development in Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing Distribution and Introduction to Social Linguistics Paper 305 B; Indian English Literature: Home and Abroad( FM 50) AH Derozio : To India My Native Land, The Harp of India, Sonnet to the Pupils of the Hindu College Toru Dutt : Our Casuarina Tree, The Lotus Sarojini Naidu : To India, Indian Weavers, The Bangle-seller Rabindranath Tagore : Gitanjali (any 3 poems except Where the Mind is Without Fear ) P. Lal : The Simplest Love, Yakshi from Didarganj Nissim Ezekiel : Marriage, Enterprise, Bombay A.K. Ramanujan : Moulting, Another View of Grace Kamala Das : Ghanashyam, In Love, Hot day in Malabar GirishKarnad : Tughlaq Mahesh Dattani : Final Solutions SaadatHasanManto : Toba Tek Singh 305 C Modern European Classics: Poetry and Drama( FM 50) JSM Heine: Sonnets Selections: any two Mallarme: Selections: any two Baudelaire: Le Fleurs Du Mal : any two Rilke: Selection : any two Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle Ibsen: A Doll s House Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard Paper 306 A Translation Studies( FM 50) AS Theories of Translation Translation studies and its Problems
Translation and Comparative Literature Translation and Nation Building Translation and Culture Studies Translation of a given text from English to Santali and/or Bengali Translation of a given text from Santali/ Bengali to English N.B. Sample texts to include poetry, short fiction, essays, proverbs, songs, prose etc. Paper 306 B Indian English Fiction( FM 50) AH Raja Rao: Kanthapura Salman Rushdie: Midnight s Children Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain AmitavGhosh: The Shadow Lines KunalBasu: The Opium Clerk V S Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas 306 C Modern European Classics: Fiction and Short Stories JSM Group A (any three of the following)( marks allotted : 25) Camus: Outsider Kafka: Metamorphosis Tolstoy: Anna Karenina Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment Isabel Allende: The City of Beasts GroupB( marks allotted : 25) Kafka: Children on a Country Road Gorky: Twenty six Men and a Girl Maupassant: The story of a farm Girl
Semester IV Paper 401 Contemporary Literary Theory I ( FM 50) Group A SM ( marks allotted : 25) Kate Millet: Sexual Politics Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author Michel Foucault: What is an Author TorilMoi: Sexual/textual Politics Stephen Greenblatt: Resonance and Wonder HomiBhabha: Location of Culture Paper 402 Contemporary Literary Theory II ( FM 50) Group A SM( marks allotted : 25) Structuralism Russian Formalism Myth criticism Dialogic Criticism Marxism Post Structuralism Psychoanalytical Criticism Narratology Post colonialism Cultural Studies Paper 403 Shakespearean Drama ( FM 50) Group A AH ( marks allotted : 25) King Lear
Twelfth Night (non-detailed study) The Tempest Group B JSM ( marks allotted : 25) Measure for Measure Henry IV Part I and II (non-detailed study) Paper 404 Elizabethan Stage, Audience and Criticism ( FM 50) Group A AS ( marks allotted : 25) Ben Jonson Dryden Lamb Coleridge Bradley Group B AS( marks allotted : 25) Spurgeon Wilson Knight Freud Sengupta Drakakis Loomba OPTIONAL PAPERS: Paper 405 A Tribal and Ethnic Literature Writings in English or in Translation ( FM 50) AH Mahasweta Devi: Draupadi, Dhowli,Gunin, Dayin ( Any Two) Verrier Elwin: The Murias W.G. Archer: The Blue Globe or The Hill of Flutes Bhaskar Roy Barman: Folk Tales of the North East N. Scott Momaday: House Made of Dawn Deben Bhattacharya: The Mirror of the Sky Translations of the Bauls of Bengal
Paper 405 B; American Literature: ( FM 50) SM Crevecoeur : What is an American Ralph Waldo Emerson : The Poet, Transcendentalism Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter AS Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar named Desire or Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman Edward Albee : The Zoo Story Le Roi Jones: Dutchman 405 C New Literatures in English: African and Caribbean Literature ( FM 50) JSM Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart Wole Soyinka : Bacchae of Euripides John Maxwell Coetzee : Foe Jean Rhys : Wide Saragasso Sea Derek Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa, Adams, The Ruins of a Great House(any two) Ben Okri : Lament of the Images Paper 406 A Dalit/Subaltern Writings around the World ( FM 50) SM Selections from Duniyar Dalit Kovita ed. D. N. Bandopadhyay et.al.: English Versions of L. S. Rokade TrynbakSapkale Janet Campbell Hale Sharan Kumar Limbale BhimsenDethe ArjunKamble Shiva Ingole BapuraoJagtap
JyotiLanjewar Colin Johnson Marshal Hembram (HeiKadak) Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable Sharan Kumar Limbale : The Outcast: Akkarmashi Viramma, Josiane Racine & Jean Luc Racine: Viramma, Life of an Untouchable Paper 406 B American Literature: Poetry and Fiction ( FM 50) AH Ernest Hemmingway : The Old Man and the Sea F. Scott Fitzgerald : The Great Gatsby Ralph Ellison : The Invisible Man Walt Whitman : One s Self I Sing, O captain, my captain Emily Dickinson : Because I could not sleep for Death, I never saw a Moor Sylvia Plath : Daddy Allen Ginsberg : Supermarket in California Lawrence Ferlinghetti : America Robert Frost : Stopping by the Woods, Mending wall 306 C New Literatures in English: Australian and Canadian Literature JSM Judith Wright : 3 poems from Ajker Australian Kovita(Ed. D.N.Bandyopadhyay) OodgerooNoonuccal : We are going D. Hope : Australia, Krishna, the Flute Player DuncunCampluee Scott : The Onondaga Madonna; The Half-breed Girl Ray Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Jack Davis : No Sugar GroupB( marks allotted : 25)any three: Margaret Atwood : The Handmaid s Tale Patrick white : Voss David Malouf : An Imaginary Life Peter Carey: True History of the Kellygans