English Literature

  (03)  UG III Year ( B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. ) Syllabus of UG III Year (BA/ BSc/ BCom): Foundation Course (English) Program: UG Level (Degree)(Session 2023-24 onwards) Class: UG III Year (BA/BSc/BCom) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Communication Skills Course Code: X3-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (Theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) UNIT- I Reading, Writing and interpretation Skills( Text Based): 1. The Express – Stephen Spender 2. The World is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth 3. My Financial Career – Stephen Leacock 4. Running for Governor – Mark Twain UNIT II Essay Writing- Topical Essays: Terrorism, Covid-19 Pandemic, India and the Modern World, The Role of Women in the New Era,The Global World UNIT III (a) Communicative Skills:Words often Confused, Misused, Idiomatic Expre...

  (02)  UG II Year ( B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. ) Syllabus of UG II Year (BA/ BSc/ BCom): Foundation Course (English) Program: UG Level (Session 2022-23 onwards) Class: UG II Year (BA/BSc/BCom) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Foundation Course Code: X2-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (Theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice/ objective/ true- false type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) UNIT- I Text interpretation Skills: 1. Daffodils - Wordsworth 2. Bangle Sellers - Sarojini Naidu 3. Patriotism Beyond Politics and Religion - APJ Kalam 4. Letter to God - G.L. Swanteh (Translated by Donald Yates) 5. God Sees the Truth but Waits - Leo Tolstoy UNIT II Comprehension Skills: Multiple choice questions based on unseen passages. UNIT III Language Skills: Use of idioms, phrases and punctuation, Mis-Spelt and Inappropriate Words and Cloze Tes...

   (01)  UG I Year ( B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. )   Syllabus of UG I Year ( B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. ) : Foundation Course (English ) A. Program: UG Level; Year: 2021-22; Session: 2021 Onwards Class: UG I Year (B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com.) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Code: X1 –FCHB 1T Course Title: English Language and Indian Culture Course Type: Foundation Course Credit Value: 2 credits; Total Marks: 50; Pass Marks: 17 Note: This Course will be studied by all the students of UG level under the foundation course Category. Content of the Course Unit I Reading, Writing and Interpretation Skills: 1. Where the Mind is Without Fear: Rabindranath Tagore [Key Word: Patriotism] 2. National Education: M.K. Gandhi [Key Word: Edification] 3. The Axe: R.K. Narayan [Key Word: Environment] 4. The Wonder that was India: A.L. Basham (an excerpt) [Key Word: Indianness] 5. Preface to the Mahabharata: C. Rajgopalachari [Key Word: Indian Mythology] Unit II Comprehension Skill Unseen Pass...

Syllabus of B.A. III Year: English Literature (Minor/ Elective- Theory) Program: Degree; Class: B.A. III Year; Session: 2023-24 onwards Class: B.A. III Year Course Title: Indian English Poetry and Drama (Minor/ Elective - Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Theory + 2 Practical Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction and Poetry * A brief introduction to Indian English Poetry * Henry Louis Vivian Derozio: Harp of India * Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Canto I) Keywords: Indian English Poetry, Cultural Values, Indian knowledge tradition and philosophy, Indian mythology, Nationalism, Patriotism Unit II Indian English Poetry * AK Ramanujan: The Obituary, A River * Kamala Das: The Old Playhouse, The Dance of the Eunuchs Keywords: Hindu traditions and culture, Cultural diversity in India, Regionalism, Feminist sensibilities and patriarchy Unit III Introduction to Indian English Drama * A brief introduction to Indian Engli...

Syllabus of B.A. III Year: English Literature (Major Paper II- Theory) Group- A Program: Degree; Class: B.A. III Year; Session: 2023-24 onwards Class: B.A. III Year Course Title: Indian Diaspora Literature (Major Paper II- Theory)- Group- A Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction * A Brief Introduction to Indian Diaspora Literature * VS Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) * Kamala Markandya: The Nowhere Man (1972) Keywords: Diaspora Conditions and Sensibilities, Role of memory, Quest for identity, Racial discrimination Unit II Fiction * Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence (1988) * Bharati Mukherjee: The Holder of the World (1993) Keywords: Cultural displacement, Migration, Alienation, Modern woman Unit III Fiction * Chitra Banerjee: Sister of My Heart (1999) * Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger ( 2008) Keywords: Keywords: Minority community, Exile, Tra...

Syllabus of B.A. III Year: English Literature (Major Paper I- Theory) Group- A Program: Degree; Class: B.A. III Year; Session: 2023-24 onwards Class: B.A. III Year Course Title: English Language: Structure and Translation (Major Paper I- Theory)- Group- A Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction to Linguistics: * Definition, Functions, Characteristics and Development of English Language * Approaches to the study of Language- Synchronic and Diachronic Keywords: Grammar Theories, Language and Society Unit II Major Concepts of Linguistics: * Phonology and Morphology * Word Accent, Rhythms, Syllables and Syllable Counting Keywords: Vowels and Consonants, Acoustic property of speech sounds, Phonemes, Phonetics, Morphemes, Allomorphs, Allophones. Unit III Ambiguities and Translation: * Ambiguities in Language: Structural and Semantic * Translation: Eleme...

Syllabus of BA II Year: English Literature- Major Paper II/ Minor/Optional (Theory) Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: Diploma Course Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major II/ Minor/Optional Course Title: Study of Fiction (Theory) Course Code: A2-ELIT2T Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 35 Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions) CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.) **** UNIT- I 1. Forms of Early Fiction 1.1 Fiction and its types 1.2 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 1.3 Samuel Richardson: Pamela 1.4 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Keywords/Tags: Elements of novel, Augustan Age, Age of enlightenment, Literary trends in eighteenth century, Impact of Renaissance, Epistolary novel, Narrative technique, Picaresque novel, Romanticism, French revolution.) UNIT II 2...

Syllabus of BA II Year: English Literature Major Paper I (Theory) - Major I Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: Diploma Course Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major I Course Title: Study of Prose (Paper 1, Theory) Course Code: A2-ELIT1T Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 35 Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions) CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.) **** UNIT- I 1. Early Prose Writers 1.1 Prose and its forms 1.2 Michel de Montaigne: On Sorrow (Translated by Charles Cotton) 1.3 Francis Bacon: Of Studies, Of Truth 1.4 Oliver Goldsmith: The Man in Black (Keywords/Tags: Elizabethan Age, Aphoristic Essay, Satire, Brevity, Idiomatic Language,Ornamental Prose.) UNIT II 2. Eighteenth/ Nineteenth Century Prose 2.1 Joseph Addison: The Spectator's Account of Himself...

Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Minor- Theory )- Minor (गौण) Program: Certificate Course; Class: B.A.I Year; Session: 2021-22 Class: B.A. I Year Course Title: Study of Poetry (Minor- Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction to Literature and its classification- Poetry from Chaucer to Milton: 1.1 Figures of Speech; Definition of Poetry according to the Poets discussed in this paper; Different ages with different socio-economic and political backgrounds; Literary Terminology. 1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, The Pardoner (from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales) 1.3 John Donne: Death Be Not Proud 1.4 John Milton: On His Blindness Keywords/Tags: Figurative language, Extended metaphor, Hyperbole, Imagery, Iambic pentameter, Foot line, Narrative poetry Metaphysical poetry, Puritan era. Unit II 2. Poetry in Neoclassical and Rom...

Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Major Paper II- Theory )- Major/Main (मुख्य) Program: Certificate Course; Class: B.A.I Year; Session: 2021-22 Class: B.A. I Year Course Title: Study of Poetry (Paper II- Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction to Literature and its classification- Poetry from Chaucer to Milton: 1.1 Figures of Speech; Definition of Poetry according to the Poets discussed in this paper; Different ages with different socio-economic and political backgrounds; Literary Terminology. 1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, The Pardoner (from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales) 1.3 John Donne: Death Be Not Proud 1.4 John Milton: On His Blindness Keywords/Tags: Figurative language, Extended metaphor, Hyperbole, Imagery, Iambic pentameter, Foot line, Narrative poetry Metaphysical poetry, Puritan era. Unit II 2. Poetry in N...

Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Major Paper I- Theory) - Major/Main (मुख्य) Program: Certificate Course  Class: B.A. I Year; Session: 2021-22 onwards Course Title: Study of Drama (Paper I- Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Classical Drama: 1.1 Sophocles: Oedipus Rex – Story Keywords: Sanskrit theatre, Rasa theory, Classical tragedy, Greek tragedy, Greek theatre, Trilogy, Plot structure, Oedipus complex, Electra complex, Epic theatre. Unit II Renaissance Drama: 2.1 Christopher Marlow: Dr. Faustus 2.2 William Shakespeare: Tragedy in The Merchant of Venice Keywords: Renaissance, Characteristics of literary renaissance, Elizabethan drama, Elizabethan comedy, Morality plays, Elizabethan Tragedy, Catharsis. Unit III Restoration Drama: 3.1 John Dryden: All for Love Keywords: Restoration drama, Restoration comedy, Comedy of manner He...

Syllabus of UG III Year (BA/ BSc/ BCom): Foundation Course (English) Program: UG Level (Degree)(Session 2023-24 onwards) Class: UG III Year (BA/BSc/BCom) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Communication Skills Course Code: X3-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (Theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) UNIT- I Reading, Writing and interpretation Skills( Text Based): 1. The Express – Stephen Spender 2. The World is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth 3. My Financial Career – Stephen Leacock 4. Running for Governor – Mark Twain UNIT II Essay Writing- Topical Essays: Terrorism, Covid-19 Pandemic, India and the Modern World, The Role of Women in the New Era,The Global World UNIT III (a) Communicative Skills:Words often Confused, Misused, Idiomatic Expressions and Proverbs, etc. (b) Essential Conversations: Int...

Syllabus of UG II Year (BA/ BSc/ BCom): Foundation Course (English) Program: UG Level (Session 2022-23 onwards) Class: UG II Year (BA/BSc/BCom) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Foundation Course Code: X2-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (Theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice/ objective/ true- false type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) UNIT- I Text interpretation Skills: 1. Daffodils - Wordsworth 2. Bangle Sellers - Sarojini Naidu 3. Patriotism Beyond Politics and Religion - APJ Kalam 4. Letter to God - G.L. Swanteh (Translated by Donald Yates) 5. God Sees the Truth but Waits - Leo Tolstoy UNIT II Comprehension Skills: Multiple choice questions based on unseen passages. UNIT III Language Skills: Use of idioms, phrases and punctuation, Mis-Spelt and Inappropriate Words and Cloze Test, Conjunctions, Re-organizing jumbled sentences, Spotting...

Syllabus of UG I Year ( B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. ) : Foundation Course (English ) A. Program: UG Level; Year: 2021-22; Session: 2021 Onwards Class: UG I Year (B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com.) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Code: X1 –FCHB 1T Course Title: English Language and Indian Culture Course Type: Foundation Course Credit Value: 2 credits; Total Marks: 50; Pass Marks: 17 Note: This Course will be studied by all the students of UG level under the foundation course Category. Content of the Course Unit I Reading, Writing and Interpretation Skills: 1. Where the Mind is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore [Key Word: Patriotism] 2. National Education – M.K. Gandhi [Key Word: Edification] 3. The Axe – R.K. Narayan [Key Word: Environment] 4. The Wonder that was India – A.L. Basham (an excerpt) [Key Word: Indianness] 5. Preface to the Mahabharata – C. Rajgopalachari [Key Word: Indian Mythology] Unit II Comprehension Skill Unseen Passage followed by multiple choice questions...

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper -IV (American Literature) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Prose) Emerson: American Scholar Thoreau: Civil Disobedience UNIT- III (Poetry) Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to the World. Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting UNIT- IV (Drama) Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Edward Albee: The Zoo Story UNIT-V (Fiction) Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper -III (Indian Writings in English) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: Sarojini Naidu Kamala Das Note: All poems of each poet in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Academy. UNIT- III M.R. Anand: Untouchable R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher UNIT- IV Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra ( Book I) Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan) UNIT-V Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper - II (English Language) UNIT-I Morphology: Morpheme, Allomorph, Word Formation UNIT-II: Linguistic Analysis: I.C. Analysis and Ambiguities UNIT- III Phonology: Sound Sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation. UNIT- IV Grammar: Sentence types and their transformation relations: (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d) Passive (e) Imperative UNIT-V Grammar: Word Classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination, Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials,, Determiners, Article Features, Concord.

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper - I (Critical Theory) UNIT-I Anand Vardhan: Dhwani Theory Ferdinand Saussure: The Nature of Linguistic Sign UNIT-II: I.A. Richards: Two Uses of Language J.C. Ransom: Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry UNIT- III F.R. Leavis: Literary Criticism and Philosophy J. Derrida: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences UNIT- IV Edward Said: Crisis ( The Scope of Orientalism) Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism UNIT-V Practical Criticism: It will contain two passages; One in verse and the other in prose for practical criticism following the technique as illustrated in I.A. Richards' book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' 'Critical Approaches'.

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- II) – 2024 Paper - IV (Prose) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: Boswell: The Life of Dr. Johnson ( From Everyman's Edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, London: J.M. Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory pp 5-11) Addison: Choice of Hercules, Uses of the Spectators Note: In P.G. College Satna - Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home UNIT- III Goldsmith: The Man in Black Charles Lamb: New Year's Eve, A Bachelor's Complaint against the Behavior of Married People UNIT- IV A. G. Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road, In Defence of Laziness Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk, Forgetting, The Pleasure of Ignorance, I Tremble to think UNIT-V G.K. Chesterton: On Running after One's Hat, Patriotism and Sport Hilaire Belloc: On Books, On Preserving English

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- II) – 2024 Paper - III (Fiction) UNIT-I (19th Century Fiction) Flaubert: Madame Bovary George Meredith: The Egoist UNIT-II: (Rural Novel) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'urbervilles Premchand : Godan UNIT- III (Psychological Novel) Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers UNIT- IV (Naturalist Novel) Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea UNIT-V (Post Naturalist Novel) William Golding: Lord of the Flies Saul Bellow: Herzog