Syllabus: Semester IV

SEMESTER IV
ELECTIVE PAPERS
GROUP A: FICTION
PAPER XIII
ELEMENTS, ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE FICTION
Full Marks: 100
Topics for Study:
1.      Elements of Fiction-
Character
Plot
Setting
Style
Philosophy
Narrative Modes
2.      Origin and growth of English novels up to the 18th Century
3.      Fiction in the 18th Century
4.       Fiction in the Romantic Age
5.      Trends in the Victorian novel
6.      19th Century women novelists
7.      Trends in 20th century novel
8.      Development of the English Short Story
9.      Types of Novel:
Sentimental Novel
Realistic Novel
Gothic Novel
Psychological Novel and Stream of Consciousness technique
Prophetic Novel
Allegorical Novel
Political Novel
Autobiographical Novel
Colonial Novel
Postcolonial Novel
Detective Fiction
Science Fiction
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of eight to be set -                                                                      4 X 20= 80
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 XIV
REPRESENTATIVE ENGLISH NOVELISTS (1740-1900)
Full Marks: 100
The following novels are prescribed:
1.      Richardson:                 Pamela
2.      Sterne:                         Tristram Shandy
3.      Thackeray:                   Vanity Fair
4.      Hardy:                          Jude the Obscure
5.      Charlotte Bronte:       Jane Eyre
6.      George Meredith:       The Egoist
7.      Conrad:                        Lord Jim
8.      George Eliot:                              Mill on the Floss
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions on each novel to be set-          4 X 20= 80
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignment 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 XV
REPRESENTATIVE ENGLISH NOVELISTS IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY
Full Marks: 100
1.      S Maugham :                      The Razor’s Edge
2.      James Joyce :                      Ulysses
3.      Graham Greene :                              Brighton Rock
4.      George Orwell :                  Nineteen Eighty Four
5.      Paul Scott :                         The Alien Sky
6.      Iris Murdoch :                     The Bell
7.      Salman Rushdie:                               Shalimar the Clown
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3Hours)                                                             (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each novel-          4 X 20= 80
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 XVI
THEORY OF THE NOVEL
Full Marks: 100
The following books are prescribed:
  1. E.M. Forster :                      Aspects of the Novel
  2. Edwin Muir:                        Structure of the Novel
  3. Robert Liddell :                   A Treatise on the Novel
  4. Len Edel :                             Psychological Novel
  5. Percy Lubbock :                  The Craft of Fiction
  6. F.R. Leavis :                         The Great Tradition
  7. J.W. Beach :                         The Twentieth Century Novel
  8. Wayne Booth :                   Rhetoric of Fiction
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours)                                                            (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each book            4 X 20 = 80
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


GROUP B
DRAMA
PAPER XIII
ELEMENTS, ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF DRAMA
Full Marks: 100
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Nature and elements of drama – Plot, Character, Setting, Dialogue, Stage
  2. Greek Drama
  3. Origin and growth of English Drama
  4. Pre Shakespearean Drama
  5. Elements and features of Shakespearean tragedy
  6. Elements and features of Shakespearean comedy
  7. Jacobean Drama
  8. Restoration Drama
  9. English Drama in the 18th century
  10. English Drama in the 19th century
  11. English Drama in the 20th century
  12. Radio and television play
  13. Drama and Cinema
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours)                                                            (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of seven to be set from the prescribed topics                        4 X 20 =                80
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 XIV
COMEDY
Full Marks: 100
The following plays are prescribed:
  1. Aristophanes:                     The Frogs
  2. Ben Jonson:                        Volpone
  3. Congreve:                            Love for Love
  4. Sheridan:                             School for Scandal
  5. Oscar Wilde:                       The Importance of Being Earnest
  6. G.B. Shaw:                           Candida
  7. J.M. Synge:                          The Playboy of the Western World
Distribution of Marks foe Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each text -            4 X 20 = 80
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 XV
TRAGEDY
Full Marks: 100
The following plays are prescribed:
  1. Aeschylus:                           Prometheus Unbound
  2. Sophocles:                          Oedipus
  3. Euripides:                            Electra
  4. Kyd:                                     The Spanish Tragedy
  5. Ibsen:                                   Ghosts
  6. Eugene O’Neil:                    Mourning Becomes Electra
  7. G.B. Shaw:                           St Joan
  8. Galsworthy:                        Strife
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each text-                            4 X 20 = 80
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 XVI
SHAKESPEARE
Full Marks: 100
The following plays of Shakespeare are prescribed:
  1. Twelfth Night
  2. Measure for Measure
  3. Much Ado About Nothing
  4. Julius Caesar
  5. Macbeth
  6. Henry Part I
  7. Winter’s Tale
  8. Romeo and Juliet
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each text                             4 x 20 = 80
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


GROUP C
POETRY
PAPER: XIII
ELEMENTS, DEVELOPMENT & TRENDS IN ENGLISH POETRY
Full Marks: 100
Topics for study:
  1. Definition & Elements of Poetry, Forms of Poetry, Ballad, Elegy, Ode, Narrative Poetry & kinds of poetry; Literary concepts and terms; Different verse and stanza forms with textual support
  2. Critical history of English Poetry with emphasis on social and political background, movements and forms:
Old English Poetry
Middle English Poetry
Poetry in the Age of Chaucer
15th Century Poetry
16th Century Poetry
Cavalier Poets
Metaphysical Poetry
Puritan Poetry
Neo Classical Poetry
Poetry in the Age of Transition
Romantic Poetry
Victorian Poetry
Modern Poetry
Post Modern Poetry
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: Duration: 3 Hours) -                                                           (Marks: 80)
Three questions to be attempted out of seven questions to be set -                                                 3 X 20 = 60
Two small poems/two stanzas from a long poem out of three for critical analysis -                       2 X 10 = 20
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 XIV
ENGLISH POETRY (CHAUCER TO POPE)
Full Marks: 100
The following poems are prescribed:
  1. Chaucer:                                             The Nun Priest’s Tale
  2. Shakespeare:                      Sonnets No. 19, 20, 29, 33, 46, 55, 60, 75, 115, 116, 123, 129, 144 and 150
  3. Metaphysical Poetry (eds.) Herbert, J C Grierson
The following poems are prescribed:
a.      John Donne:
Love Poems:
                       The Good Morrow
                       The Sun Rising
                       Lover’s Infiniteness
                       Song
                       Sweetest Love
                       The Extasie
Divine Poems:
                       Thou Hast Made Me
                       Death Be Not Proud
                       Batter My Heart
                       A Hymn to Christ
                       A Hymn to God the Father
b.      George Herbert:
Redemption
Affliction
Virtue
The Collar
Discipline
Love
c.       Andrew Marvell:
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
The Fair Singer
The Garden
d.      Henry Vaughan:
Regeneration
The Retreat
Man
The Night
  1. John Milton:                       Samson Agonistes
  2. Dryden:                                              Mac Flecknoe
  3. Pope:                                   The Rape of the Lock
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)              
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each author with reference to the prescribed text
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 XV
ENGLISH POETRY FROM DR JOHNSON TO TENNYSON
Full Marks: 100
The following poets/poems are prescribed:
  1. Dr. Johnson:                        The Vanity of Human Wishes
  2. Blake:                                   Songs of Innocence
  3. Wordsworth:                      Resolution and Independence
                                             Ode: Intimations of Immorality
  1. Coleridge:                            The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  2. Keats:                                  The Eve of St Agnes
  3. Tennyson:                           Enoch Arden
  4. Browning:                           Following poems from Robert Browning (OUP 1932)
                                                            The Lost Mistress
                                                            Meeting at Night
                                                            A Grammarian’s Funeral
                                                            Home Thoughts from Abroad
                                                            By The Fire Side
                                                            My Last Duchess
                                                            Rabbi Ben Ezra
  1. Arnold:                                Sohrab and Rustum          
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)              
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each poet with reference to the prescribed work(s) -                                                                                                                            4 X 20 = 80
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 XVI
ENGLISH POETRY FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT
Full Marks: 100
The following poems from Faber Book of Modern Verse (Ed.) Michael Roberts are prescribed:
  1. Hopkins:                              Pied Beauty
The Windhover
Felix Randal
  1. W.B. Yeats:                          Easter 1916
The Second Coming
A Dialogue with Self and Soul
Coat
  1. Wilfred Owen:                    From My Diary
Greater Love
Futility
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Strange Meeting
  1. W.H. Auden:                       Prologue
Watch Any Day
Consider This
Sir, No Man’s Enemy
In Memory of W B Yeats
  1. Dylan Thomas:                   The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives
The Flower
After the Funeral
Poem in October
  1. Edwin Muir:                        The Three Mirrors
The Labyrinth
The Horses
The Island
  1. T S Eliot:                              Ash Wednesday
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each poet with reference to the poems prescribed -                                                                                                                             4 X 20 = 80
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

GROUP D
COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
PAPER XIII
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
The following books are prescribed:
Section A
  1. Paranjape (Ed.):                  Indian Poetry in English, Macmillan
  2. Tagore:                                Gitanjali
Section B
  1. R.K. Narayan:                      The Guide
  2. Raja Rao:                             The Serpent and the Rope
  3. Anita Desai:                        Bye Bye Black Bird
  4. Rohinton Mistry:                              Family Matters
  5. Aravind Adiga:                    The White Tiger
Section C
  1. Asif Currimbhoy:                Inquilab
  2. G.V. Desani:                        Hali
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours) -                                          (Marks: 80)
Four questions to be attempted – at least one from each section – out of two alternative questions to be set on each text -                                                                                                                                                      4 X 20 = 80
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


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