Syllabus: Semester II
SEMESTER II
PAPER V
NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY
Full
Marks: 100
Group A
A
detailed study of the following topics:
- Impact of French Revolution on English Literature
- Characteristic features of Romanticism
- Trends in Romantic Poetry
- Social and political conditions in the Victorian
Age
- Aspects of Victorian Poetry
- Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
- 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:
- Development of prose in Romantic Age
- Impact of Mill, Bentham, Darwin and Marx on
Victorian Literature
- Impact of Industrial Revolution on English
Literature
- Development of Criticism in the 19th
century
- Aspects of Victorian Novel
- Impact of Russia and French writers on the
Victorian novel
- 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:
- Impact of First World War on life and literature
- Impact of Marx and Freud on English Literature
- Imagist Movement in poetry
- Symbolist Movement in Poetry
- Rise of English Short Story
- War Poetry
- Trends in Modern Drama
- Trends in Modern Novel
- Colonial Novel
- Trends in Modern Poetry
Group B
Section
I
Following
texts are prescribed:
- 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
- T S Eliot: The Waste Land
- 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:
- Impact of Second World War on Literature
- Impact of Science on Literature
- Trends in Post War Poetry
- Trends in Post War Novel
- Trends in Post War Drama
- Post colonialism in English Literature
- Postmodernism in English Literature
- Anti-Novel
- 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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