Syllabus: Semester II

SEMESTER II
PAPER V
NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY
Full Marks: 100
Group A
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Impact of French Revolution on English Literature
  2. Characteristic features of Romanticism
  3. Trends in Romantic Poetry
  4. Social and political conditions in the Victorian Age
  5. Aspects of Victorian Poetry
  6. Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
  7. Impact of Science on Poetry

Group B
Following texts are prescribed:

Section I
Wordsworth:                      The Prelude, I&II
Coleridge:                            Christabel
Shelley:                                Prometheus Unbound
Keats:                                  Hyperion
Byron:                                  The Vision of Judgement

Section II
Tennyson:                           In Memoriam
Browning:                           Men and Women
Arnold:                                Selected Prose (Macaulay’s Selection)

Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set -                                                            18
Group B:               Three questions to be attempted – at least one from each section - out of two alternative questions to be set on each book                                                                                             3X18= 54
Group C: Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts -                                                  1X 8=8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                                        15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                                                                  5

PAPER VI
NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL & PROSE
Full Marks: 100
Group A
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Development of prose in Romantic Age
  2. Impact of Mill, Bentham, Darwin and Marx on Victorian Literature
  3. Impact of Industrial Revolution on English Literature
  4. Development of Criticism in the 19th century
  5. Aspects of Victorian Novel
  6. Impact of Russia and French writers on the Victorian novel
  7. Development of Prose in Victorian Age

Group B
Following texts are prescribed:
Jane Austen:        Emma
Dickens:                Hard Times
Emily Bronte:       Wuthering Heights
George Eliot:        Adam Bede
Arnold:                 Culture and Anarchy
Lamb:                   Essays of Elia:
                                                            Following essays are prescribed
i.                  The South Sea House
ii.                Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
iii.               The Two Races of Man
iv.               Imperfect Sympathies
v.                Dream Children: A Riverie
vi.               The Praise of Chimney Sweepers
vii.              On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century

Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                           (Marks: 80)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set -                                                       18
Group B: Three questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each text -                                                                                                                                                                              3 X 18 = 54
Group C: Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts -                                              1X8= 8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)  
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                                    15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                                                                          5

PAPER VII
MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE: 1900-1945
Full Marks: 100
Group A
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Impact of First World War on life and literature
  2. Impact of Marx and Freud on English Literature
  3. Imagist Movement in poetry
  4. Symbolist Movement in Poetry
  5. Rise of English Short Story
  6. War Poetry
  7. Trends in Modern Drama
  8. Trends in Modern Novel
  9. Colonial Novel
  10. Trends in Modern Poetry
Group B
Section I
Following texts are prescribed:
  1. The Faber Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Michael Roberts, OUP
Following poets are prescribed:
a.      G M Hopkins
b.      W B Yeats
c.       D H Lawrence
d.      Wilfred Owen
  1. T S Eliot: The Waste Land
  2. W H Auden: Letter to Lord Byron (Longer Contemporary Poems) Ed. David Wright, Penguin Books, 1966.

Section II
Henry James:       The Portrait of a Lady
D H Lawrence:                    Sons and Lovers
E M Forster:                        A Passage to India
Section III
G B Shaw:                            Man and Superman
Galsworthy:                        Justice
T S Eliot:                                             Murder in the Cathedral
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                           (Marks: 80)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set -                                                       18
Group B: Three questions to be attempted – at least one from each section – out of two alternative questions to be set on each book -                                                                                                  3 X 18 = 54
Group C: Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts -                                                       8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                                    15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                                                               5

Paper VIII
POST MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE: 1945 till the present
Full Marks: 100
Group A
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Impact of Second World War on Literature
  2. Impact of Science on Literature
  3. Trends in Post War Poetry
  4. Trends in Post War Novel
  5. Trends in Post War Drama
  6. Post colonialism in English Literature
  7. Postmodernism in English Literature
  8. Anti-Novel
  9. Anti- Hero
Group B
Section I
The Faber Book of Modern Verse Ed. Michael Roberts, OUP.
Following poets are prescribed
i.                  Ted Hughes
ii.                Philip Larkin
iii.               Edwin Muir
iv.               Thomas Gunn
Section II
Beckett:                Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter:      The Birthday Party
John Osborne:     Look Back in Anger
Section III
Graham Greene: The Power of the Glory
Kingsley Amis:     Lucky Jim
William Golding: Lord of Flies
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours)                                             (Marks: 80)
Group A:              One question to be attempted out of three to be set -                                          18
Group B:                              Two questions to be attempted – one from each section - out of two alternative questions to be set on each text -                                                                                     2 X 18=  36
Group C:               Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts-                                 1X 8=8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of the student’s performance through the term-                                                            15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes-                                                              5  



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