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Syllabus – M.A. (Previous) English PAPER – I (PROSE) The following texts are prescribed for detailed study: Francis Bacon: Of Studies / of Truth /Of Revenge /Of Followers and Friends of Marriage and Single Life. Addison & Steels: The following essays from the Coverly Papers from The Spectator.
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His Disappointment in Love Chartes Lamb: A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People: Poor Relations The Old and New School Master: A.G. Gardiner: In Defence of Ignorance/On Saying Please/On Smiles/On Living Again/All About A Dog. The following texts are prescribed for non-detailed study: 1. William Hazlitt: My First Acquaintance With Poets/Indian Jugglers
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2. Aldous Huxley: Wordsworth in the Tropics 3. Thomas Carlyle: Hero As Poet.
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4. George Orwell: Why I Write/Notes on Nationalism. PAPER – II (POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO 1798)
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The following texts are prescribed for detailed study: 1. G. Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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2. J. Milton: Paradise Lost Book I 3. J. Donne: Go Catch a Falling Star/The Relic/The Canonization. The Sun Rising/Death Be Not Proud.
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4. T. Gray: The Progress of Poesy/The Bard. The following texts are prescribed for non-detailed study:
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1. Spenser: The Fairie Queene Book I Canto I 2. A. Pope: The Rape of the Lock. 3. A. Marvell: To His Coy Mistress/A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body. 4. W. Blake: The Little Black Boy/Holy Thursday (From Songs of Innocence) Holy Thursday (From Songs of Experience)/The Garden of Love. PAPER – III (ENGLISH DRAMA) The following texts are prescribed for detailed study: 1. C. Marlowe: Dr. Faustus. 2. Shakespeare: Hamlet. 3. Shakespeare: The Tempest. 4. G.B. Shaw: Candida. The following texts are prescribed for non-detailed study: 1. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi. 2. Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer. 3. T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral. 4. Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party. PAPER – IV (FICTIONS) The following texts are prescribed for study 1. H. Fielding: Tom JoneS 2. Sir Watter Scott: Ivanhoe. 3. J. Austen: Emma 4. C. Dickens: Great Expectations 5. T. Hardy: The Return of the Native. 6. J. Comrad: Heart of Darkness 7. V. Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway. 8. E.M. Forster: A Passage to India Syllabus – M.A. (FINAL) English PAPER – I (NINTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY) The following texts are recommended for detailed study: 1. Wordsworth Tintern Abbey/Ode: Intimations of Immortality/Resolution and Independence/Michael/Sonnet on Sonnet/The World is Too much with us. 2. John Keats Ode to Psyche/Ode on a Grecian Urn/Ode to Autumn/On First Looking into Champan’s Homer/Bright Star. 3. Alfred Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters/Tithonus/Break Break Break/Crossing the Bar. 4. R. Browning The Last Ride Together/The Grammarian’s Funeral/My Last Duchess. The following texts are recommended for non-detailed study: 1. P.B. Shelley: Adonais 2. S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 3. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach/Rugby Chapel. 4. E. Gitzgerald: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam PAPER – II (TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE) The following texts are recommended for detailed study: 1. T.s. Eliot: The Waste Land 2. W.B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree/No Second Troy/Among School Children/Sailing to Byzantium 3. W.H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts/The Shield of Achilles/Refugee Blues. 4. Philip Larkin: Church Going/Poetry of Departures/Dockery And Son The following texts are recommended for non-detailed study: 1. S. Beckett: Waiting for Godot. 2. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory. 3. W. Golding: Lord of the Files. 4. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers PAPER – III (LITERARY CRITICISM) The following texts are prescribed for study: 1. Aristotle: Poetics 2. Longinus: On the Sublime 3. Philip Sidney: Defence of Poesie 4. Dryden: Essay on Dramatic Poesy. 5. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads. 6. M. Arnold: The Study of Poetry. 7. T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent. 8. New criticism: Modern Critical Theory: a. Structuralism b. Pscho-analytic criticism c. Deconstruction PAPER – IV-B (AMERICAN LITERATURE) The following texts are prescribed for detailed study: 1. Walt Whiteman: Song of Myself (Section 1,6, 31, 32, 35) I Hear it was Charged Against Me. 2. Emily Dickinson: Success is counted sweetest. Hope is a thing with feathers Because I could not stop for Death. To fight aloud is very brave. The brain is wider than the sky. 3. Robert Frost: Birches/Two tramps in Mudtime/Mending Wall The Road not taken/Fire and Ice 4. Carl Sandburg: Chicago The following texts are prescribed for non-detailed study: 1. Eugene O’Nell: The Hairy Ape 2. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman 3. Henry James: The Portrait of Lady 4. Ernest Hemingway: The Old man and The Sea 5. William Faulkner: Sound and the Fury PAPER – V-A (INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE) The following texts are prescribed for detailed study: 1. Toru Datta: Savitri 2. Sarojini Naidu: Awake/Guerdon/The Lotus/Indian Weavers To Buddha Seated on a Lotus/Song of Radha – The Milkmaid 3. R. N. Tagore: From Gitanjali: Songs no 1, 2, 11, 35, 39, 50, 60, 91 4. Nissim Ezekiel: Philosophy/Enterprise/Marriage/In India The following texts are prescribed for non-detailed study: 1. Girish Karnad: Tale-danda 2. R.K. Narayan: The Guide 3. M.R. Anand: Untouchable 4. Kamala Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve
SYLLABUS FOR B.A.I, B.A.II, B.A.III—ENGLISH LITERATURE ENGLISH LITERATURE—2011-12 B.A. PART I PAPER FIRST POETRY 100 MARKS PAPER SECOND PROSE 100 MARKS B.A.PART II ENGLISH LITERATURE-2012-13 PAPER I DRAMA 100 MARKS PAPER II FICTION 100 MARKS B.A.PART III ENGLISH LITERATURE-2013-14 PAPER I LITERARY MOVEMENTS AND LITERARY DEVICES 100 MARKS PAPER II INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE OR ENGLISH LITERATURE THROUGH TRANSLATIONS 100 MARKS PAPERIII NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH 100 MARKS THE BOARD OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH ALSO RESOLVED TO EFFECT SOME MODIFICATIONS IN THE COURSE OF STUDY OF B.A.I, II, III OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ORDER TO MAKE THE SYLLABUS AT PAR WITH THE SYLLABUS OF OTHER UNIVERSITIES OF U.P. AND ACCORDING TO THE GUIDELINES SUGGESTED BY THE U.G.C. B.A.I ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper-I (POETRY) Unit-I: Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation. Unit-II Forms of poetry 1. The sonnet 2. The elegy 3. The ode 4. The epic 5. The ballad 6. The lyric 7. The dramatic monologue 8. Allegory Stanza forms 1. The heroic couplet 2. The blank verse 3. The spenserian stanza 4. Terza rhyme Unit-III William Shakespeare : ‘True Love’ John Donne : ‘Present in Absence’ Michael Drayton : ‘Since there’s no help left….’ Unit-IV Alexander Pope ‘Lines on Addison from The Dunciad’ Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ William Blake ‘London’ Unit-V William Wordsworth : ‘The World is too much with us’ Robert Bridges ‘Nightingales’ W.B.Yeats ‘ Lake Isle of Innisfree’ Q.N.1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation 30 marks Q.N.2 & 3. Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed poets. 20+20= 40 marks Q.N.4. Five short questions to be asked on the forms of poetry. 10 marks Q.N.5. Two questions to be asked on the text. 20marks B.A.I ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER-II (PROSE) Unit-I Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation Unit-II Theory of Prose Types of Prose Types of Prose Style Autobiography/Biography and Memoir Travelogue Periodical Essay Formal Essay Familiar Essay Poetic Prose (Euphuism) Prose of Thought Unit-III Bacon ‘Of studies’ Richard steele ‘Recollections of childhood’ Joseph addison ‘Sir roger at church’ Charles lamb ‘The convalescent’ Unit-IV Doctor Johnson ‘Letter To Lord Chesterfield’ G.K.Chesterton ‘On Running After One’s Hat’ R.L.Stevenson ‘An Apology For Idlers’ A.G.Gardiner ‘On Shaking Hands’ Unit-V Robert Lynd ‘A Disappointed Man’ J.B.Priestley ‘On Doing Nothing’ Hilaire Bellock ‘OnSpelliings’ E.V.Lucas ‘Bores’ Q.N.1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation . 30 marks Q.N.2 & 3. Long Answer Questions on any two of the prescribed essayists. 20+20=40 marks Q.N.4. Five short questions to be asked on the forms of essays. 10 marks Q.N.5. Two questions of 150 words each to critically analyse and appreciate any two of the essays. 20 marks B.A.PART II ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER-I (DRAMA) Unit-I Ten short answer questions based on the entire course incuding three passages for explanation Unit-II Theory of Drama Elements of Drama Tragedy and various types Comedy and various types Tragi-comedy Expressionist Drama Drama of Ideas Poetic Drama Closet Drama The Problem Play Theatre of Absurd Unit-III Shakespeare: Othello Unit-IV Congreve: The Way of the World Unit-V G B Shaw: Candida QN.1 Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation 30 Marks Q.N.2 & 3 Two Long Answer Questions from Plays 20+20=40 Marks Q.N.4. Five Short Answer Questions on theory and forms of Drama Marks 2X5=10 Q.N.5 Two Analytical Questions of 250 words each on the Plays prescribed 10+10=20Marks B.A.PART II ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper-II (FICTION) Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course. Unit-II Forms and Techniques, Elements of Novel, Elements of Short Story, Picaresque Novel, Historical Novel, Gothic Novel Epistolary Novel, Regional Novel, Dystopia, Detective Novel, Campus Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Fiction, Metafiction, ‘Chic lit’, Junk Fiction Plot, Characterization, Narrative Technique and Structure Unit-III Jane Austen Pride And Prejudice Unit-IV Charles Dickens David Copperfield Unit-V Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native QN.1 Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course. 20 Marks Q.N.2 -4 Long answer questions on prescribed novels 20+20+20= 60 Marks Q.N. 5 Two questions one on technique and one on forms of novel 20 Marks B.A.PART III ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper-I (History of English Literature)
Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course. Unit-II : From Renaissance to Seventeenth Century Renaissance and Reformation Miracle and Morality Plays University Wits Authorised version of the Bible Metaphysical Poetry Neo-classicism Elizabethan Songs and Sonnets Unit-III : Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Age Growth of the Novel Precursors of Romanticism Romanticism and the French Revolution Growth of Romantic Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel) Unit-IV: Nineteenth Century Characteristics of Victorianism Growth of Victorian Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel) Pre-Raphaelite Poetry Naughty Nineties. Unit-V : The Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries Trends in twentieth century literature with special reference to Georgian poetry, Imagism and Symbolism, Movement Poetry. Twentieth Century Novel Twentieth Century Drama, Problem Play, Theatre of the Absurd, Expressionism, Epic Theatre. Growth of Postcolonial literature: Feminism, Post modernism etc. Q No. 1. Ten Short Answer questions based on the entire course. 20 Marks Q, No.2-5 One Long Answer question from each unit 4x20= 80 Marks B.A.III ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER II Two papers: A & B .The students will have option to choose any one out of these. (A) INDIAN WRITINGS IN ENGLISH Unit-I : Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation Unit-II: Poetry Nissim Ezkiel ‘A Poem of Dedication’ Jayant Mahapatra ‘Hunger’ Vikram Seth ‘Unclaimed’ A K Ramanujan ‘Anxiety’ Keki N Daruwala ‘The Unrest of Desire’ Unit-III: Drama Mahesh Duttani Seven Steps around the Fire Unit-IV: Fiction Mulk Raj Anand The Untouchable Unit-V: Prose Nirad C Chaudhary “Tell me the Weather and I’ll Tell the Man” Q.No.1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation Q No,2-5. One Long answer question from each unit (unit II to IV) B.A.III ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER II (B) ENGLISH LITERATURE THROUGH TRANSLATION Unit-I: Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation Unit-II: Poetry Jaishankar Prasad: Ansu translated by Jaikrishna Sadani, Rupa, 1979 Unit-III: Drama Mohan Rakesh: Half Way House (Adhe Adhure) translated by Bindu Batra,1971 Unit IV: Novel Jainendra Kumar,Tyagapatra, (Resignation 1937]. Trans. by Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Agyeya. Unit V: Prose Mahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj, Chapters VIII (The Condition of India), XIII (What is True Civilization?), & XVIII (Education) QNo, 1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation 20 marks Q No,2-5. One Long answer question from each unit (unit II to IV) 4X20= 80 marks B.A. III ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER III NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH The paper has been framed to familiarize the students with the writings in English all over the world. Unit-I: Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation Unit-II: Australian Literature (Poetry) W C Wentworth ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’ Ada Cambridge ‘An Answer’ Chris Wallace ‘Melbourne’ Kevin Gilbert ‘Mister Man’ Unit-III American Literature (Drama) Edward Albee The Zoo Story Unit-IV Canadian Literature (Fiction) Margaret Atwood Bodily Harm Unit-V Afro-American Literature (Prose) Alice Walker In Search of Our Mother’s Garden (Only 1st essay from part III) Q. No. 1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for explanation Q No. 2-5. One Long Answer Questions from each unit (unit II-V) Recommendation The syllabus is quite appropriate but this is suggested that an optional paper of viva-voce should be introduced in B.A. IIIrd the options of project and viva-voce both should be given to students.
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