MUC WOMEN S COLLEGE, BURDWAN DEPT. OF ENGLISH COURSE MODULE OF ENGLISH HONS (0-6 ONWARDS) SL No.. Paper I British Literature: Anglo Saxon to Elizabethan including Metaphysical Poetry and Literary Terms Topic Subtopic No. of Lectures Teacher Unit I: History of Literature and Social History Anglo Saxon Period. Introducing History of English Literature. Early Settlement and Roman Invasion. Anglo-Saxon Period. Literary features. Beowulf 6. Pagan and Christian Poetry 7. Anglo-Saxon Prose Middle English Period. Historical background. Development of Literary forms. Metrical Romances, Alliterative Poems, Religious Poetry. Origin of Drama Age of Chaucer. Chaucer s Time and Age. Chaucer s Works. Chaucer s Contemporaries Elizabethan Age. The Renaissance and its Impact. Literary features. Elizabethan Poetry. Spenser and Sidney. Metaphysical Poetry 6. Elizabethan drama 7. The University Wits and Shakespeare. Post-Shakespearean Drama 9. Prose Total Total Total 7 BHAA
Unit II: Poetry My Love is Like to Ice, Easter Spenser Loving in Truth, Leave me, O Love Sidney Sonnet no, 7, 9 Shakespeare The Good Morrow, The Canonization Donne To His Coy Mistress Marvell 0. The Reformation Spenser. Introduction. Textual analysis of the Sonnets. Topic Discussion Sidney. Introduction. Textual analysis of the Sonnets. Topic Discussion Shakespeare. Introduction. Textual analysis of Sonnet No,7, 9. Topic Discussion John Donne. a) Features of language b) Language of Literature c)response to Literature. a)metaphysical: Origin and implication as a term b) Through Critics Eye. a)sixteenth Century Poetic Conventions b) Points of Departure. Salient Features of Metaphysical Poetry. Analysis of Text a)good Morrow b)canonization 6. Summing Up Marvell. Introduction Text and Context, Salient Features of Metaphysical Poetry Discussion about the Age. Poem: Analysis/ close reading. As a Metaphysical poem with special reference to wit, conceit, images, rhetoric, metre. Criticisms. Theoretical Approaches Total Total Total 6 6 Total 0 Total 6 SUKRITI GHOSAL CHOWDHURY
Unit III: Plays A Midsummer Night s Dream Shakespeare 6. Question Answers/ Feedback A Midsummer Night s Dream. Introduction to Comedy, Shakespearean Comedy. Textual Analysis: Acts I, II, III, IV, V Total AJOY KUMAR Every Man in His Humour Jonson Unit IV: Literary Terms Plot, Character, Mimesis,, Unities, Hamartia, Hubris, Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, Catharsis, Tragic Hero, Denouement. Topic Discussion Every Man in His Humour. Introduction to Comedy. Comedy of Humours. Textual Analysis: Acts I, II, III, IV, V. Critical Perspectives Discussion of the Literary Terms with Examples Total Total PRADIPTA Epistolary novel, Gothic novel, Bildungsroman, Kunstlerroman, Picaresque novel, Magic Realism, Campus novel, Graphic novel. Discussion of the Literary Terms with Examples CHOUDHURY. Paper II British Literature: Jacobean to Restoration and Rhetoric, Prosody Unit I: History of Literature and Social History Jacobean Period. Socio-political Background of the Seventeenth Century. The Influence of Puritanism and Civil War. Decline of Literature and Closing of Theatres. Age of Milton. Cavalier Poets 6. Metaphysical Poetry 7. Prose writers of the Age Total 0 BHAA
Restoration Period. Drawbacks of Cromwellian Rule. Monarchy Restored. Socio-political Background of the period. Neo-Classicism. Dryden and Other Poets 6. Restoration Tragedy and Comedy 7. Restoration Prose. Literary Style Francis Bacon Total BHAA Unit II: Prose and Poetry Marks: Of Studies, Of Friendship Bacon Paradise Lost BK I Milton. Introducing Elizabethan Prose. Bacon as an Essayist. Detailed Reading of the Essays. Bacon s Prose Style Milton. Introduction. Text. Critical Issues Total 6 PRADIPTA Total Rape of the Lock (Canto I & II) Pope Unit III: Plays: Macbeth, The Way of the World Rape of the Lock. Introduction to Eighteenth Century Satire. Pope and Mock-heroic Poetry. Textual Analysis. Critical Issues. Questions and Answers Macbeth. Introduction Age Social History/Political History. Text and Context Text Plot/ close reading/ Analysis. Alternative readings. From Page to Stage. As performance 0 Total CHOWDHURY
6. Shakespearean language, Adaptations, Translations 7. Criticisms. Theoretical Approaches 9. Conclusion 0. Question Answers/ Feedback The Way of the World. Introduction to Restoration Comedy. Foreign Influences on Restoration Comedy Total 0 BHAA. Congreve and Restoration England. Detailed analysis of the Text. Critical Approaches 0 Unit IV: Rhetoric and Prosody Rhetoric. What is Rhetoric?. Different Rhetorical Devices Total PRADIPTA. Identifying figures of Speech in Poetry Prosody. Sound-Pronunciation-Combination of Sound Groups. Syllable-Foot-Accent. Rhyme-Rhythm-Metre 6 Total 0 SUKRITI GHOSAL. Scansion and Identification of Metre.Guided Practice Total. Paper III British Literature: Eighteenth Century. Neoclassicism. Dryden. Pope Total PRADIPTA
Unit I: History of Literature and Social History. Literary Features. Causes foe the Rise of the Novel 6. th Century Novelists 7. Prose Writers. Discussion Total Unit II: Poetry William Blake : Echoing Green, Garden of Love,William Collins Ode to Evening William Blake. Introducing Blake. Close Reading of the Poems. Blake s Philosophy and Critical Perspectives Total William Collins. Precursors of Romanticism. What is an Ode?. Detailed Study of the Text. Conclusion Thomas Gray s Elegy written in a Country Churchyard Unit III: Drama Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. What is an Elegy?. Context of the Poem. Close Reading of the Poem. Poetic Style. Critical Approaches She Stoops to Conquer 0 Total SUKRITI GHOSAL Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer; Richard Sheridan The Rivals. Introduction to Eighteenth Century Society. Comedy of Manners, Sentimental and Antisentimental comedies. Purpose and Title of the Drama. Detailed Reading of the Text. Critical approaches 6. Question and Answers The Rivals. Introduction to Comedy of Manners and Sentimental Comedy. Introduction to Sheridan. Critical analysis of the text 0 Total BHAA
Unit IV: Fiction and Essays Marks : Jonathan Swift Gulliver s Travels ; Samuel Johnson Rasselas with all the scenes of Five Acts through intensive reading. Topic Discussion Gulliver s Travels. Introduction Text and context About the Age Social History/ Political History. Plot. Close reading and analysis. Symbols and Satire. Criticisms 6. Conclusion 7. Question Answers/ Feedback Total 0 0 Total 0 CHOUDHURY Joseph Addison- Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey, Coffee House Debates Richard Steele- The Art of Story Telling, On Judicious Flattery Rasselas. Introduction. Text. Critical issues Joseph Addison Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey,. Introducing Essay. Impersonal Essays. Social Context of the Essay. Detailed Reading of - Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey. Conclusion Coffee House Debates. Introduction to Addison 0 Total 6 Total PRADIPTA. The Periodicals of the Age. Clubs and Coffee Houses in Eighteenth Century. Detailed Reading of Coffee House Debates. Discussion Richard Steele- The Art of Story Telling Total. Introduction to Periodical Essays of the th century
. Introduction to Steele as an essayist. Critical Analysis of the text. Topic Discussion On Judicious Flattery. Introduction to the essay. Detailed reading of the essay. Discussion Total Total 6. Paper IV British Literature: Romantic Period Unit I: History of Literature and Social History. What is Romanticism?. A Comparative Study between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Precursors of Romanticism. Romantic Poetry: a. William Wordsworth b. S.T. Coleridge c. Lord Byron d. P.B. Shelley e. John Keats. Novel: a. Walter Scott b. Jane Austen c. Mary Shelley
6. Essay: a. Charles Lamb b. Thomas de Quincey c. William Hazlitt Total 0 Unit II: Poetry William Wordsworth : Michael, Resolution and Independence ; S.T. Coleridge Lime Tree Bower my Prison, Kubla Khan ; P.B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind, Ode to Skylark ; John Keats : Ode to Nightingale, Ode to Autumn Michael :. Introduction. Discussion of the Text. Critical Perspectives Resolution and Independence :. Introduction. Discussion of the Text. Critical Perspectives S.T. Coleridge. Lime Tree Bower my Prison. Kubla Khan Total Total PRADIPTA Ode to the West Wind, Ode to Skylark. Romanticism. Shelley, the Romantic. Odes. Reading the Poems. Poetical devices and Metre 6. Critical perspectives BHAA Ode to a Nightingale. Introduction to Romantic Poetry. Introduction to Keats as a Poet. Stanza-wise critical analysis of the Text. Topic Discussion Ode to Autumn. Introduction : Ode, Romantic Age. Poem: Analysis/ close reading,. Images, rhetoric, metre Total CHOUDHURY Unit III: Fiction Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Walter Scott: Ivanhoe. Criticisms. Question Answers/ Feedback Pride and Prejudice. Social Picture. Women Novelists. Textual Analysis Total 0
Unit IV: Essays William Hazlitt: On Genius and Common Sense, On the Fear of Death Charles Lamb: In Praise of the Chimney Sweepers, Old China, Thomas de Quincey: Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, The English Mail Coach. Critical Issues. Question and Answers Ivanhoe. Introduction. Text. Critical issues William Hazlitt: On Genius and Common Sense, On the Fear of Death. Introducing Romantic essays. Hazlitt as an essayist. Reading the text. Discussion In Praise of the Chimney Sweepers. Introduction. Text. Technique. Discussion Total 0 0 Total 6 Total Total PRADIPTA SUKRITI GHOSAL PRADIPTA Charles Lamb: Old China. Introduction: Personal Essay. Close Reading of the Text. Feedback Thomas de Quincey. Introducing Romantic essayists. Thomas de Quincey as an essayist.. Detailed Reading of the Text. Style and Technique. Discussion and Question Answers 9 Total BHAA. Paper V (Old Syllabus) Macbeth Macbeth. Introduction to the Age Social History/Political History. Text and Context. Text Plot/ close reading/ Analysis. Alternative readings CHOUDHURY
. From Page to Stage 6. As performance 7. Shakespearean language, Adaptations, Translations. Criticisms 9. Theoretical Approaches 0. Conclusion. Question Answers/ Feedback Total 7 As You Like It Edward II 6. Paper VI (Old Syllabus). Introducing Shakespearean Comedy. Background and Sources. Themes and Issues. Critical analysis of the Text. Criticisms 6. Different Approaches to the drama 7. Discussion. Revision. Elizabethan World Picture. Marlowe as a dramatist. Historical Background. Reading the Text. Critical approaches 6. Question Answers 0 Total 0 Total 6 BHAA Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley Keats Tennyson Browning Arnold The Chimney Sweepers (both the poems) :. Introduction. Textual analysis. Critical approaches Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey. Introduction. Textual analysis. Worswoth s Poetic Philosophy. Critical approaches Coleridge : Christabel Part-I. Introduction. Text. Critical approaches Total Total Total 0 PRADIPTA CHOUDHURY
D.G. Rossetti Hopkins Owen Yeats Dylan Thomas Ted Hughes Byron : The Castle of Chillon. Introduction. Text. Criticism Shelley : Ode to the West Wind. Introduction. Text. Criticism Keats : Ode to a Nightingale. Introducing Romantic Poetry. Reading the Text. Criticism. Style and Technique GROUP : B : VICTORIAN PERIOD Tennyson : Tithonus Total Total 0 Total CHOUDHURY Browning : My Last Duchess Arnold : Dover Beach. Introducing Victorian Society and Philosophy. Victorian Poets. Reading the Poems. Critical Approaches D.G. Rossetti : The Blessed Damozel. Pre-Raphaelite Poetry. Reading the Poem.Critical approaches Hopkins : God s Grandeur ; Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord GROUP : C : MODERN PERIOD Owen : Strange Meeting W.B. Yeats : Easter 96 0 Total Total 6 BHAA PRADIPTA T. S. Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Introduction to Modernism and Modern Poetry in general. Introduction to Eliot as a Poet. Critical Analysis of the Text 0
Section-B Indian Poetry in English. Topic Discussion Dylan Thomas : A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London. Introducing Modern Poetry. Introduction to Dylan Thomas. Reading the Text. Critical evaluation of the text. Discussion Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting. Modern to the Postmodern. Ted Hughes as a Poet. Textual analysis. Critical Approaches Section-B Indian Poetry in English Group - A Derozio : To the Pupils of the Hindu College Total 0 Total Total SUKRITI GHOSAL BHAA PRADIPTA M.M. Dutt : Composed During an Evening Walk M. Ghose : The Rider on the White Horse S. Naidu : Coromandel Fishers Group - B N. Ezekiel : Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher A. K. Ramanujan : A River J. Mahapatra : Hunger Group - C Kamala Das : The Freaks Freaks : Introduction Text and Context Poem: Analysis/ close reading images, rhetoric, metre Criticisms Feminist Approach Question Answers/ Feedback Total Total 6 Total 7 BHAA CHOUDHURY
K. N. Daruwalla : Pestilence R. Parthasarathy : From Exile (Section, 6 & 7) Paper-VII Full Marks-00 Novel Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Far from the Madding Crowd. Introduction to English Novel in general and the period to which Hardy belongs. Introduction to Hardy as a novelist with reference to his philosophy, tragic vision,narrative technique. Introduction to the novel and its different aspects. Textual analysis with comments. Topic discussion James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Introduction. Text Analysis. Critical Comments Total 0 Total 0 PRADIPTA R. K. Narayan : The Guide Paper VIII Philology, Phonetics & Modern Grammar Section-A History of the English Language R. K. Narayan : The Guide. Introduction to Indian Novel. R.K. Narayan and his contemporaries.themes and Issues. Critical analysis of the Text.Critical Comments History of the English Language Germanic & the Indo-European family of languages the Consonant 0 Total 0 0
Shift, Grimm s Law and Verner s law Old English 0-00 A.D. : Features of O.E. loanwords & the Scandinavian influence. SUKRITI GHOSAL Middle English 00-00 A.D. : The French influence : assimilation, loss of native words, three-level synonyms erosion of grammatical gender decay of inflectional endings in nouns and adjectives strong verbs becoming weak. Renaissance 00-60 A.D. : Revival of Learning rise of nationalism and opposition to inkhorn terms Sound changes and the Great Vowel Shift reorganization of the personal pronouns. The Modern Age 60 onwards : Efforts to set norms for the English language English borrows from all sources influence of science and commerce on present day English varieties of English characteristics of American and Indian English Total 7 Change of meaning. Total 6 Section-B The Phonetics of English The Phonetics of English Introduction The organs of Speech and Speech Mechanism description and classification of English vowels and consonants PRADIPTA Phonemic symbols syllable, syllable structure, Consonant Cluster and word stress patterns of Intonation General Indian English (GIE) Section-C The Structure of Modern English
The Structure of Modern English Grammar, Grammaticality and acceptability English sentence structure and types the Noun phrase, the Verb Phrase, the verbal : their structures and functions Determiners, Articles, Modals and other Auxiliaries, Modifiers and Relationals Transformation of sentences Meaning and Usage. 0 Total 0.