MODULAR SYLLABUS

ENGLISH HONOURS

FIRST YEAR

MODULE 1 -Beginning of session till Mid term test

((* The number of allotted classes and syllabus coverage are tentative and are subject to

change))

Paper 1

A. History of English Literature – Old & Middle English periods – :20 classes

Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods - :15 classes

Civil War, Restoration and

Augustan Periods :15 classes

Reading List

Books

Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature Edward Albert: History of English Literature Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

In addition to the afore-mentioned books prescribed by the university, students should also

consult:

David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature (Vol.I)

B.Ifor Evans: A Short History of English Literature

Online links:

Cambridge History of English Literature The Palgrave Guide to English Literature & its Contexts History of English Literature: Edward Albert

B. History of English Language (Philology) – Introduction - 5

classes

Scandinavian, French & Latin –Greek

influence on English Language

15classes

Native Resources 5 classes

Reading List

Books

Otto Jespersen: Growth and Structure of the English Language (Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 10) C.L. Wren: The English Language (Chapters 6 & 7) A.C. Baugh: A History of English Language C.L. Barber: The Story of Language

Online links I.Singh:The History of English: A Students’ Guide Seth Lerer: The History of English Language Paper 2

A. Poems:

Shakespearean sonnets – Introduction, Discussion & Critical commentary -

15 classes

Milton – Paradise Lost, Book 1 - Introduction, Discussion & Critical commentary - 20

classes

Metaphysical Poetry – Donne : The Good Morrow 7

classes

Marvell: To his Coy Mistress 7 classes

Reading List

For Shakespeare:

Stanley Wells and Michael Dobson, (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Gerald & Reed (eds) Casebook on Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Online links:

The Sonnets at Project Gutenberg

Sanderlin, George (June 1939). "The Repute of Shakespeare's Sonnets in the Early Nineteenth

Century".Modern Language Notes (The Johns Hopkins University Press) 54 (6): 462–466. JSTOR

For Milton:

A.E.Dyson & Julian Lovelock(Eds.): Casebook on Paradise Lost

Stanley Fish : Surprised by Sin

Online links:

Paradise Lost : Literature Network

For Metaphysical Poetry:

Helen Gardner: The Metaphysical Poets

Brijraj Singh: Five Metaphysical poets

Joe Nutt : John Donne: The Poems

B. Literary terms related to poetry: 5

classes

Reading List

M.H.Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

J.A.Cuddon (ed): A Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory

Module 2 (Mid-term Test – Selection Test)

History of English Literature:

Section 1: Pre-Romantics and Romantics 10 classes

Section 2: Victorian 10 classes

Section 3: Modern and Post-Modern 10 classes

Reading List

Books

Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature Edward Albert: History of English Literature Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

In addition to the afore-mentioned books prescribed by the university, students should also

consult:

David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature (Vol.I)

B. Ifor Evans: A Short History of English Literature

Online links:

Cambridge History of English Literature The Palgrave Guide to English Literature & its Contexts History of English Literature: Edward Albert

Philology:

Section 1: Word-formation Processes 8 classes

Section 2: Americanism 3 classes

Section 3: Consonant Shift 3 classes

Section 4: Makers of English Language (Shakespeare, Milton & the Bible) 8 classes

Reading List

Books

Otto Jespersen: Growth and Structure of the English Language (Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 10) C.L. Wren: The English Language (Chapters 6 & 7) A.C. Baugh: A History of English Language C.L. Barber: The Story of Language

Online links I.Singh:The History of English: A Students’ Guide Seth Lerer: The History of English Language

Poetry:

1. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey 8 classes

2. ST Coleridge: Kubla Khan 5 classes

3. PB Shelley: Ode to the West Wind & To a Skylark 10 classes

4. John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale & To Autumn 10 classes

5. Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock 15 classes

6. Literary Terms on poetry 7 classes

Reading List

Books

C M Bowra: The Romantic Imagination

Harold Bloom: The Visionary Company

Bhabatosh Chatterjee : Keats – His Mind & Art

Jeffrey N.Cox: Keats’ Poems & Prose

Susan Wolfson : John Keats

Ian Gilmour : Byron & Shelley – The Making of the Poets

Harriet Raghunathan : Rape of the Lock

John Dixon Hunt (ed): Casebook on Rape of the Lock

Literary terms

M.H.Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

J.A.Cuddon (ed): A Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory

Online Links:

Available individually on all poets.

ENGA Part II

Module 1 (Up to Mid-term Test)

Drama: Paper III

1.Marlowe – Edward II 20 classes

Reading List

Books

W D Briggs : Marlowe’s Edward II

Roy Martin Haines: King Edward II

Marlowe : A Collection of critical essays . ed . Clifford Leech . New Jersey : Prentice Hall . 1964 .

Wilbur Sanders : The Dramatist and the Received Idea : studies in the plays of Marlowe and

Shakespeare Cambridge University Press . 1980.

Harry Levin. The Overreacher: A Study of Christopher Marlowe . Harvard University Press . 1952 .

2.Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night's Dream 20 classes

Dutton, Richard (ed) New Casebook on A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pradip R Sengupta Summer? Night or Dream

Faith Nostbakken Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream

3.Literary terms on Drama 7 classes

M.H.Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

J.A.Cuddon (ed): A Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory

Fiction: Paper IV

1. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 15 classes Reading List Books Susannah Fullerton: Celebrating Pride & Prejudice Palgrave’s Casebook series to Pride & Prejudice Janet Todd(ed) Cambridge Companion to Pride & Prejudice

Essays:

1. Francis Bacon - Of Studies 2 classes

2.Charles Lamb - The Superannuated Man 5 classes

3. George Orwell - Shooting an Elephant 5 classes

Reading List Books Francis Bacon . Essays : A selection . edited Sukanta Chaudhuri . OUP. 1977

Arunodoy Bhattacharya : Selected Essays

Module 2 (Mid-term Test – Selection Test)

Drama:

1.Sheridan – The Rivals 12 classes

Reading List Books

Jeremy Rowe : Macmillan Masterguide to The Rivals

David A Brewer: The Rivals

Mark S. Auburn . Sheridan's Comedies : Their Contexts and Achievements . University of Nebraska Press . 1977 .

Sheridan. The School for Scandal and Other Plays . Penguin Classics . 1989.

Sheridan . The Rivals . Macmillan publishers . 1977 .

2.Shakespeare – Macbeth 15 classes

Reading List Books

A C Bradley: The Shakespearean Tragedy

John Wain (ed) : Casebook on Macbeth

Fiction:

1.Literary Terms on Fiction 7 classes

2.James Joyce - Araby

3.H E Bates - The Ox 12 classes

4. Katherine Mansfield - The Fly

Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer 8 classes

Reading List :

Michael Thorpe . Modern Prose : stories , essays and sketches . OUP . 1997 .

Ajanta Paul : Modern Short Stories

Joseph Conrad . The Secret Sharer and Other stories . Norton Critical Edition.

Leonard Orr & Theodore Billy: A Joseph Conrad Companion

Part III

ENGA Part III

Module 1 (Up to December)

Poems: Paper V

1.Lord Tennyson: Ulysses (5 classes)

2. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess (5 classes)

3. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach (4 classes)

4.Hopkins: Pied Beauty (4 classes)

5.Elizabeth Barret Browning: The Ways of Love (4 classes)

Rhetoric & Prosody (5 +5 classes)

Reading List

1. Alfred Tennyson . Tennyson's Poetry . Norton Critical edition. 1999.

2. Robert Browning's Poetry . Norton Critical edition . 2007.

3. Yeats . The Major Works . OUP . 2010.

4. Arthur Symons . An Introduction to the study of Browning . ABS Publishers .2014.

5. The Faber Book of Modern Verse. ed . Michael Roberts . Faber and Faber . 2003.

6. G.M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age.

7. J.H. Buckley, The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture.

8 .Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1830-1890.

9.R.N. Bose and T.S. Sterling, Elements of English Rhetoric and Prosody.

10.Richard Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms.

Fiction: Paper VI

Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge (15 classes)

Reading List

Charles Dickens . Great Expectations . Norton Critical Edition.

Thomas Hardy . The Mayor of Casterbridge . Norton Critical Edition.

F.B. Pinion. A Hardy Companion

Norman Page. Thomas Hardy .

Simon Gatrell. Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind

T. Paulin. Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Perception

Drama: Paper VII

1.John Osborne: Look Back in Anger (15 classes)

2.Synge – Riders to the Sea (12 classes)

Reading List

Ray, Arnab. Look Back in Anger : Critical essays

Synge, J.M. The Complete Plays.

Bourgeois, Maurice. John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

Module 2 ( December to February)

Paper V : Modern Poems

Yeats: An Acre of Grass 2 classes

Owen : Spring Offensive 2 classes

Dylan Thomas: In my craft or sullen art 2 classes

Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting 2 classes

T S Eliot : Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock 5 classes

Paper VI

Miscellaneous Writing Skills (Report Writing/Film Reviews/

Book Reviews/Dialogue) 6 classes

Essay 4 classes

Summary and critical note on an unseen passage 4 classes

Literary Types - Tragedy, Novel, Epic, Comedy 16 classes

Paper VII : Drama

Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion 12 classes

Literary Types 8 classes

Paper VIII : Indian Writing in English

Poetry : 8 classes

Short Stories 12 classes

R K Narayan : The Guide 10 classes

Amitav Ghosh: Shadow Lines 10 classes

Tagore : Home & the World 10 classes

Desai : Voices in the City 10 classes

Dattani : Bravely Fought the Queen 12 classes

Reading List

Indian Writing in English

K R Srinivas Iyengar : Indian Writing in English

M K Naik: A History of Indian English Literature

K. Balachandran: Critical Essays on Commonwealth Literature

Meenakshi Mukherjee : Twice Born Fiction

The Guide

Krishna Sen: Critical Essays on RK Narayan’s The Guide

S.R Ramteke: RK Narayan and His Social Perspective

The Voices in the City

NR Gopal: A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai

Neeri Tandon: Anita Desai and her Fictional World

The Home and the World

PK Dutta: Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World: A Companion

Saswata Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purakayastha (Ed.s): Towards Freedom: Critical Essays on Tagore’s Ghare Baire/ The Home and the World

The Shadow Lines

Arvind Chowdhury: Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: Critical Essays

Sandip Ain (Ed.): Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: A Critical Anthology

Bravely Fought the Queen

Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri: Mahesh Dattani: An Introduction

Kaustav Chakraborty: Indian Drama in English

Modular Syllabus of English General

ENGG Part I

Module 1 (Up to Mid-term Test)

Poems:

1.William Shakespeare: Sonnet No. 87 (Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing) (3

classes)

2.John Milton: On His Blindness (3 classes)

3.William Wordsworth: Strange fits of passion (3 classes)

4.P.B. Shelley: To a Skylark (5 classes)

5.John Keats: To Autumn (4 classes)

6.Identifying Figures of Speech (Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Personification,

Apostrophe, Alliteration, Transferred Epithet, Oxymoron, Epigram, Antithesis & Irony) (12

classes)

Reading List:

Stanley Wells and Michael Dobson, (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Gerald & Reed (eds) Casebook on Shakespeare’s Sonnets

C M Bowra: The Romantic Imagination

Harold Bloom: The Visionary Company

Bhabatosh Chatterjee : Keats – His Mind & Art

Jeffrey N.Cox: Keats’ Poems & Prose

Bose & Sterling: Rhetoric & Prosody

Module 2 (Mid-term Test – Selection Test)

Poems:

1.Lord Tennyson: Ulysses (5 classes)

2.Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together (5 classes)

3.W.B. Yeats: Coole Park and Ballylee 1931 (3 classes)

4.Wilfred Owen: Futility (4 classes)

5.W.H. Auden: Look Stranger (3 classes)

Others:

1.Punctuation (2 classes)

Reading List

Alfred Tennyson . Tennyson's Poetry . Norton Critical edition. 1999.

2. Robert Browning's Poetry . Norton Critical edition . 2007.

3. Yeats . The Major Works . OUP . 2010.

4. Arthur Symons . An Introduction to the study of Browning . ABS Publishers .2014.

5. The Faber Book of Modern Verse. ed . Michael Roberts . Faber and Faber . 2003.

ENGG Part II

Module 1 (Up to Mid-term Test)

Fiction:

1.Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge (8 classes)

2.James Joyce: Araby (4 classes)

3.H.E. Bates: The Ox (4 classes)

4.Katherine Mansfield: The Fly (4 classes)

Drama:

1.William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (10 classes)

2. Literary Terms (related to drama) (6 classes)

Reading List:

Thomas Hardy . The Mayor of Casterbridge . Norton Critical Edition.

F.B. Pinion. A Hardy Companion

Norman Page. Thomas Hardy .

Michael Thorpe . Modern Prose : stories , essays and sketches . OUP . 1997 .

Ajanta Paul : Modern Short Stories

Dutton, Richard (ed) New Casebook on A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pradip R Sengupta Summer? Night or Dream

Faith Nostbakken Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream

M.H.Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms

J.A.Cuddon (ed): A Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory

Module 2 (Mid-term Test – Selection Test)

Essays:

1.Charles Lamb: The Superannuated Man (4 classes)

2.A.C. Benson: The Art of the Essayist (3 classes)

3.Robert Lynd: Sea-side (3 classes)

4.George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant (4 classes)

Miscellaneous:

1.Writing précis of a passage and adding a title (2 classes)

2.Unseen Essay (2 classes)

3.Proof Reading (3 classes)

Drama:

1.George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man (8 classes)

Reading List

Eight essayists : ed Cairncross

Selected Prose : ed. Michael Thorpe

ENGG Part III

Module 1 (Up to Mid-term Test)

Short Stories:

1.Bhabani Bhattacharya: A Moment of Eternity (4 classes)

2.Mulk Raj Anand: Duty (4 classes)

Poems:

1.Toru Dutt: Sita (2 classes)

2.Kamala Das: An Introduction (3 classes)

Unseen:

1.Proof Reading (3 classes)

2.Dialogue Writing (3 classes)

Module 2 (Mid-term Test – Selection Test)

Short Stories:

1.R.K. Narayan: Dasi the Bridegroom (3 classes)

2.Rabindranath Tagore: The Home-coming (3 classes)

Poems:

1.A.K. Ramanujam: A River (3 classes)

2.Nissim Ezekiel: Goodbye Party for Miss Puspa T.S. (3 classes)

Unseen:

1.Substance writing of a poem (2 classes)

Reading List

Indian Writing in English (C U Publication)

K R Srinivas Iyengar: Indian Writing in English

*****