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MIDNAPORE COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) MIDNAPORE, WEST BENGAL

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

COURSES OF STUDIES FOR THREE YEAR DEGREE COURSE

(SEMESTER SYSTEM)

FROM THE SESSION- 2014- 2015

1ST

YEAR 1

ST SEMESTER

ENGH-101

Unit-I Old English Period & Middle English Period

Unit-II Elizabethan Age & Jacobean Period

Unit- III Thomas Wyatt- I Find No Peace OR Renouncing of Love

Philip Sidney- Loving In Truth

Edmund Spenser- One Day I Wrote Her Name

Unit- IV William Shakespeare- Sonnet No .18

Sonnet No. 73

Sonnet No. 130

Unit- V Masculinity of English Language & Scandinavian & French influence on English

Language .

Books Recommended:

History of English Literature- Edward Albert

Concise Cambridge History of English Literature- George Sampson

Short Oxford History of English Literature- Andrew Sanders

Pelican Guide to English Literature (Ed)- Boris Ford

Growth & Structure of the English Language- Otto Jespersen

The English Language- C.L.Wrenn

The Elizabethan Love Sonnet- J.W. Lever

An Anthology of Elizabethan Sonnet- Sukanta Chowdhuri

1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit-I & II 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit-III & IV 1×10=10

2 Short answer types questions out of 5 from Unit- III& IV 2 x 5= 10

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit –V 1×10=10

1ST

YEAR 1

ST SEMESTER

ENGH-102

Unit I Restoration Period & Augustan Age

Unit-II Pope- The Rape of the Lock (Canto-I&II)

Dryden- Mac Flecknoe

Unit –III Milton- Paradise Lost (Book I)

Unit- IV Donne - The Sunne Rising

- Batter My Heart

Herbert- The Collar

Marvell- To His Coy Mistress

Vaughan- The Retreat

Books Recommended:

Restoration Drama - J.E. Cunnigham

The Augustan Satire - Ian Jack

The Eighteenth Century Background- Basil Willey

On The Poetry of Pope - G. Tillotson

Dryden - D. Nichol Smith

Milton – W.R. Parker

Milton’s Paradise Lost - B.A. Wright

A Preface to Paradise Lost - C.S. Lewis

Andrew Marvell – Cambridge University Press

Five Metaphysical Poets- Joan Bennett

Metaphysical Poets- Helen Gardner

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit –II & III 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit –IV 1×10=10

2 Short answer type questions out of 8 from Unit- I, II, III &IV 2×5=10

Internal Assessment 10 marks

1ST

YEAR SECOND SEMESTER

ENGH-201

Unit- I Pre- Romantics & Major Romantics

Unit-II Thomas Gray – Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard

Unit-III William Blake - London

Robert Burns - A Red, Red Rose

Unit –IV Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

Coleridge - Christabel Part-I

Unit- V: Rhetoric

Books Recommended:

History of English Literature- William J. Long

The Poetry of Thomas Gray- David Cecil

Thomas Gray-M. Golden

The Romantic Imagination- C.M. Bowra

The Romantic Poets- Graham Hough

The English Romantic Poets- M.H. Abrams

William Blake- J.M. Murry

Symbol an Image in William Blake- G.W. Digby

Rhetoric & Prosody- Bose & Sterling


1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit-II, III &IV 1×10=10

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Units- II,III & IV 2×5=10

Rhetoric (Unit-V) 10 marks


1ST


ENGH-202

Unit -I Younger Romantics & Major Victorians

Unit-II Shelley - To a Skylark

- Ode To the West Wind

John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn

-Ode to a Nightingale

Lord Byron - Prisoner of Chillon

Unit-III Lord Tennyson - Ulysses

-Lady of Shallot

Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

- Porphyria’s Lover

Unit-IV Mathew Arnold - Dover Beach

Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush

Hopkins - Pied Beauty

Books Recommended:

The Victorian Era- Hugh Walker

The Victorians- C. Petrie

A History of English Poetry- Douglas Bush

Cambridge Companion to Romantic Literature

Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature


1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-II 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit- III & IV 1×10=10

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- II, III, & IV 5×2=10


1ST


ENGH-203

Unit- I Modern & Post- Modern Age

Unit-II W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming

- The Wild Swans at Coole

T.S. Eliot - Preludes

-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Unit- III Dylan Thomas-Poem in October

Philip Larkin- At Grass

Ted Hughes- Hawk Roosting

Unit- IV Latin, Greek & American Influence on English Language

English as a world language

The Influence of the Bible on English Language

Shakespeare & English Language

Unit- V Philological Terms & Philological Notes

Philological Terms: Malapropism, Johnsonese, Monosyllabism, Back Formation, Hybridism,

S-ending, Word-clipping

Philological Notes -Advice, Bread, Bible, Bicycle, Law, Clergy, Court, Dream, Debt, Doubt, Egg, Earl, Elder, Gift,

Golgotha, Husband, Helpmate, Island, Master, Nephew, Prodigal, Picture, Scapegoat, Sport, Trusteeship.

Unit- VI Prosody

Books Recommended:

The Modern Age- W.W. Robson

Modern Poetry & the Tradition- Cleanth Brooks

A History of English Language- A.C. Baugh

T.S. Eliot- Grover Smith

T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: A Study in their Source and Meaning.

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- I 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit- II & III 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- IV 1×10=10

1 philological Term out of 3 from Unit- V

Or 4 Marks

2 Philological Notes out of 6 from Unit- V

Prosody 1×6=6


SECOND YEAR 3

RD SEMESTER

ENGH-301

(British Drama)

Unit- I Wiiliam Shakespeare – Macbeth*

- As You Like It* Or Twelfth Night

Unit- II Christopher Marlowe - Edward II * Or Thomas Kyd- The Spanish Tragedy

Unit-III Richard Sheridan - The Rivals Or William Goldsmith -She Stoops To Conquer*

Unit-IV John Milton- Samson Agonistes* Or Ben Jonson- The Alchemist

Books Recommended:

British Drama- A. Nicoll

Shakespearean Tragedy- A.C. Bradley

Shakespearean Comedy- H.B. Charlton

Christopher Marlowe- F.S. Boas

Milton- W.R. Parker

The Alchemist – Peacock Books

1 Essay type questions out of 2 from Unit- I 1×10=10

1 Essay type questions out of 2 from Unit- II 1×10=10

1 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- III & IV 1×10=10

2 short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit-I, II, III, & IV 5×2=10


SECOND YEAR 3

RD SEMESTER

ENGH-302

(British Novel)

Unit-I Jane Austen- Pride & Prejudice

Unit- II Charles Dickens - David Copperfield * Or George Eliot- Adam Bede

Unit- III Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Unit- IV Unseen Prose

Books Recommended:

A History of English Novel- E.A. Baker

British Novel- Elizabeth Drew

Jane Austen & Her Art- M.Lascelles

Hardy, the novelist - David Cecil

Tess of D’ urbervilles – Peacock Books(Atlantic Publishers)

2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- I, II & III 2×10=20

2 short type answer questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II & III 2x5=10

One Unseen Prose Passage (Substance with Critical Comment) 1×10=10


SECOND YEAR 3

RD SEMESTER

ENGH-303

Unit- I Bacon - Of Studies

-Of Friendship

Unit-II Joseph Addison- Sir Roger At Home

Unit-III Charles Lamb - The Praise of Chimney Sweepers

-The Superannuated Man

Unit- IV G B Shaw- Freedom

Unit- V Aldous Huxley- Pleasure

Unit- VI George Orwell- Shooting an Elephant

Books Recommended:

Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe(Ed)

Eight Essayists- A.S. Cairncross(Ed)

3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II, III, IV, V & VI 3×10=30

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV, V & VI 5×2=10


SECOND YEAR 4

th SEMESTER

ENGH-401

Unit- I G B Shaw - Arms and The Man* Or Pygmalion

Unit-II J M Synge - Riders to the Sea

Unit-III John Osborne - Look Back in Anger

Unit- IV William Beckett - Waiting For Godot

Books Recommended:

George Bernard Shaw- A.C. Ward

Riders to the Sea- Robin Skelton

The Plays of John Osborne- S.Trussler

The Theatre of the Absurd- Martin Esslin

A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett- H.Kenner

3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II, III 3×10=30

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III &IV 2x5=10


SECOND YEAR 4

th SEMESTER

ENGH-402

Unit-I Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Unit- II William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Unit-III Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory

Books Recommended:

A Reader’s Guide to British Novels- Elizabeth Drew

Lord of the Flies- Casebook Series

3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit-I, II & III 3×10=30

2 short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II & III 5×2=10


SECOND YEAR 4

th SEMESTER

ENGH-403

Unit –I Katherine Mansfield - The Fly

Unit-II J E Bates - The Ox

Unit-III James Joyce - Araby

Unit –IV Joseph Conrad - The Lagoon

Unit- V Somerset Maugham - The Lotus Eater

Book Recommended:

Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe

3 Essay type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV & V 3×10=30

2 Short type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV & V 5×2=10


3rd

YEAR 5

th SEMESTER

ENGH-501

Poetry- American & New Literature

Unit- I Robert Frost - Road Not Taken

- Mending Wall

Unit-II Walt Whitman - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

Unit- III Derek Walcott - A Far Cry From Africa

A.D.Hope - Australia

Unit- IV Derozio - The Harp of India

Toru Dutt - Our Casuarina Tree

Sarojini Naidu- Summer Wood

Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion

Unit- V Unseen Poem

Books Recommended:

Indian English Poetry- M.K.Naik

Indian English Poetry- Makrand Paranjape

Modern Indian English Poetry- Bruce King

Golden Treasury of Indian English Poetry (Sahitya Akademi)- V.K.Gokak

Ten Twentieth Century Poets- R. Parthasarathy

Kamala Das: A Critical Spectrum(Ed)

Reading of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poems(Ed)

1 essay type question out of 3 from Unit- I, II & III 1x10=10

1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit- IV 1×10=10

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit I, II, III & IV 5×2=10

One Unseen Poem (Substance with Critical Comment) 1×10=10


3rd

YEAR 5

th SEMESTER

ENGH-502

Novel and Short Story - Indian and American

Unit- I Anita Desai - Clear Light of Day

Unit-II Earnest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

Unit- III Raja Rao - The Cow of the Barricades

Mulk Raj Anand - Old Bapu

Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies

Books Recommended:

Indian Writing in English – Srinibas Iyenger

A History of Indian English Literature- M.K. Naik

1 Essay type question out of 2 from each Unit- (I, II, & III) 3×10=30

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit I, II, & III 2×5=10


3rd

YEAR 5

th SEMESTER

ENGH-503

Unit- I Sophocles- King Oedipus

Unit- II Arthur Miller- All My Sons

Unit- III Mahesh Dattani- Bravely Fought the Queen

Books Recommended:

Greek Tragedy - H.D.F. Kitto

All My Sons - Nissim Ezekiel

1 Essay type question out of 2 from each Unit-( I, II,& III) 3×10=30

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II & III 2×5=10


3rd

YEAR 6

th SEMESTER

ENGH-601

Literary Types

Unit- I Tragedy and Comedy

Unit- II Novel, Epic and Lyric

Unit- III Literary Terms

Unit- IV Basic Phonetics

1. The Speech Mechanism

2. Classification of Consonants

3. Classification of Vowels

4. Phoneme- Allophone

5. Phonetic Symbols

Books Recommended:

English Literature for Foreign Students- R. Rees

Glossary of Literary Terms- M.H. Abrams

An Introduction to English Literature- William Henry Hudson

English Pronouncing Dictionary- Daniel Jones

A Text book of English Phonetics- T. Balasubramaniam

Better English Pronunciation- O’ Connor

2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- I & II 2×10=20

2 short notes on literary terms out of 6 from Unit- III 2×5=10

2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- IV 2×5=10


3rd

YEAR 6

th SEMESTER

ENGH-602

Unit- I Literary Essay

Unit-II Literary Theory- Terms and Concepts

Mimesis, Canon, Reader Response theory, Aestheticism, Ethnicity, Androtext and

Gynotext, Power, Empire, Negative Capability, Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Fancy

and Imagination, Magic Realism, Structure, Plot, Genre, Surrealism, Rasa and Dhawni,

Sphota, Intertextuality

Unit- III Creative Writing/ Project Work/ Seminar

Books Recommended:

Quintessence of Literary Essays - Goodman

A Dictionary of Literary Modern Critical Terms(Ed) - Roger Fowler

Dictionary of Literary Terms - Cuddon

A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory- Jeremy Hawthorn

Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature - Bill Ashcroft

A Handbook to Literature: Thrall & Hibbard

Literary Criticism: A Reading - Das & Mohanty

1 Literary essay out of 5 from Unit- I 1×20=20

2 Short type questions on literary terms out of 5 from Unit- II 2×5=10

Creative Writing/ Project Work/ Seminar (Internal Assessment) 10 marks

English General 1

st Year

1st Semester

ENGG-101

Unit I William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

Unit II William Shakespeare -

- Since Brass, Nor Stone (Sonnet No. 65)

- Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet No. 116)

John Milton - On His Blindness

Unit III Wordsworth -

- The World Is Too Much With Us

-Upon West minster Bridge

Shelley - To A Skylark

Keats - Ode to autumn

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- I 1×10=10

2 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- II & III 2×10=20

5 short questions out of 8 from Unit II & III 5×2=10


Books Recommended:

Golden Treasury- (Ed.) Palgrave

English General 1

st Year

2nd

Semester

ENGG-201

Unit-I Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Unit II Lord Tennyson - Tithonus

Robert Browning - The Last Ride Together

Wilfred Owen - Futility

W B Yeats - An Acre of Grass

Unit III Rhetoric

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×10=10

1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit III 1×10=10

5 Figures of speech out of 8 from Unit III 2×5=10

2 Short questions out of 4 selecting at least 1 from Unit I & II 2×5=10


Books Recommended:

Rhetoric and Prosody- Bose & Sterling

The Cambridge Guide to The Poetry of The First World War –Cambridge University press

Oliver Twist – Peacock books

English General 2nd Year

3rd Semester

ENGG-301

Unit I Vijay Tendulkar - Silence! The Court is in Session

Unit II Charles Lamb - Dream Children

Nehru - Discovery of India

Nicholson - The Art of Living

S. C. Bose - Bose- Roland Interview


2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit II 2×10=20

2 explanations for comment out of 4 from Unit I

Or 2×5=10

2 Short questions out of 4 from Unit II


Books Recommended:

Essays & Stories: (Ed.) Burdwan University


3rd Semester

ENGG-302

Unit I Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge

Unit II Literary Terms - Allegory, Ballad, Burlesque, Comedy, Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Image,

Metaphor, Myth, Ode, Round and Flat Character, Soliloquy Stream of Consciousness Novel,

Symbol, Tragedy


2 short type questions out of 4 from Unit I 2×5=10

4 Literary terms out of 8 from Unit II 4×5=20


Books Recommended:

Dictionary of Literary terms: M.H. Abrams


4th

Semester

ENGG-401

Unit I Somerset Maugham - The Lotus Eater

James Joyce - Araby

Katherine Mansfield - The Fly

H.E. Bates - The Ox

O Henry - After Twenty Years

Unit II Punctuation

2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit I 2×10=20


1 Passage for punctuation 1×10=10


Book Recommended:

Modern Prose: (Ed.) Michael Thorpe


4th

Semester

ENGG-402

Unit I Unseen Essay

Unit II Précis Writing

Unit III Comprehension

Unit IV Substance writing

1 unseen essay out of 5 from Unit I 1×10=10

1 passage for précis writing from Unit II 1×10=10

1 passage for comprehension from Unit III 1×10=10

1 substance writing of a Poem 1×10=10


English (Elective) 5

th Semester

3rd

Year

ENGG-501

Unit I Donne- Death Be Not Proud

Arnold- Shakespeare

Hardy- The Darkling Thrush

W. B. Yeats- The Second Coming

Unit II Kamala Das - Summer In Calcutta

Parthasarathy.R - Delhi

A.K.Ramanujan -The River

Jayanta Mahapatra - Dawn At Puri


1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit II 1×15=15

2 Short answer type question out of 6 from Unit I & II 2×5=10


English (Elective) 5

th Semester

3rd

Year

ENGG-601 (Unseen)

Unit I: (Application oriented topics)

i) Exchange of Greeting

ii) In The Post Office

iii) Buying Dresses

iv) At The Bank

v) At The Travel Agency

vi) At an International Airport etc.

Unit II: (Writing Reports on)

i) Local Fairs

ii) Important Meetings

iii) Holding of Seminars

iv) Film Reviews etc.

Unit III: (Letters)

i) Personal/ Official/ Business Related Letters


1 question out of 2 from Unit II 1×15=15

1 question out of 2 from Unit III 1×10=10


Communicative English (COMENG)

(Compulsory Credit Course)

Full Marks: 50

Time: 2 Hours

Unit I Fundamental of Phonetics

Vowels, Consonants, Phonetic Transcription

Unit II

Grammar in Use:

i) One word substitution

ii) Preposition

iii) Common Errors

iv) Antonyms & Synonyms

Unit III

i) Dialogue writing

ii) Describing a scene or Incident

iii) Paragraph Writing


Unit II 20 marks

2 writing tasks out of 3 from Unit III 2×10=20

Books recommended:

Strengthen Your Writing: V. R. Narayanswami

Better English Pronunciation: J. B. O’ Connor

Written Communication in English: Sarah Freeman

Spoken English for You: C. I. E. F.L., Hydrabad

Compulsory English (ENGC)

Total Marks: 50

Group A Unseen (25 marks)

Unit I Formal Letter & Writing Curriculum Vitae

Or

Report Writing

Or

Paragraph Writing

Unit II Common Errors

Article, Verb Agreement, Tenses, Active & Passive Voice, Modal Auxiliaries

Preposition

Unit III English in Situations:

Starting a Conversation, Introducing Oneself, Describing Past Events, places,

People & Objects

1 question out of 3 from Unit I 1×12=12

5 Common errors out of 6 from Unit II 1×5=5

1 question from Unit out of 3 alternatives 1×8=8

Group B Text (25 marks)

Unit I William Shakespeare - Seven Ages of Man

William Wordsworth - The Education of Nature

John Keats - On Fame

A.K. Ramaujan - The Last of the Princess

Unit II E. V. Lucas - The Town Week

B. Russell - Knowledge and Wisdom

R. K. Narayan - Father’s Help

1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×10=10

1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit II 1×10 =10

1 short question out of 6 from Unit I & II 1×5=5

Book Recommended:

Selections from English prose and Poetry for Colleges (MacMillan)

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