English Literature

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...