DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
COURSES
OF STUDY FOR ENGLISH
HONOURS
Number of Papers: 16
Number of Semesters: 6
Full
Marks: 1600
B.A.
Hons. Part - I: 400
B.A
Hons. Part - II: 400
B.A
Hons. Part - III: 800
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Paper-wise distribution of marks in English
Hons.
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Academic
year
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Semester
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Theory
paper
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Full
marks
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Pass
marks
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Duration
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MSE
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ESE
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TOTAL
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First
year
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I
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1
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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2
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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II
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3
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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4
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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Second
tear
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III
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5
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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6
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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IV
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7
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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8
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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Third
year
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V
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9
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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10
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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11
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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12
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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VI
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13
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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14
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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15
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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16
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30
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70
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100
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45
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3 Hrs.
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B.A. Part - I
Semester
- I
Paper
1 – History of English Poetry (From the
Renaissance to the Twentieth century) (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Early Renaissance Poetry , The Elizabethan
Poetry, The Metaphysical Poetry, Poetry in the Age of Milton, The Neo-classical Poetry, The Romantic Poetry, The Victorian Poetry, Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Prescribed Books:
1.
An Outline History Of English
Literature by W.H. Hudson
2.
A Short Oxford History of English
Literature By Andrew Sanders
3.
A History of English Literature by Legouis and Cazamian
B.A. Part - I
Semester
- I
Paper
2 – Reading Poetry (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Poems Prescribed:
Unit I --- Elizabethan Period to the Restoration (6)
Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29 and 130, John Donne : A
Hymn to God the Father, Andrew Marvell:
To His Coy Mistress
Unit II --- The Neoclassical Age and the Pre-Romantics (6)
John Dryden: Mac Fleckno, Samuel Johnson: Vanity of Human
Wishes, Thomas Grey: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Unit III ---- The Romantic Age (6)
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, S.T. Coleridge: Kubla
Khan, John Keats: Ode to the Nightingale, P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Unit IV – The Victorian Age (6)
Tennyson: To Virgil, Robert Browning: My Last
Duchess, Mathew Arnold : To Marguerite
Books Prescribed:
Rhapsodies (Macmillan)
B.A. Part - I
Semester
- II
Paper
3 – History of the English Novel (From the Beginning to the Twentieth century) (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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The Eighteenth Century Novel, The Gothic Novel, The
Romantic Novel, The Victorian Novel, Novel in the Twentieth Century
Books Prescribed:
1.
The Pelican Guide to English
Literature Boris Ford (Ed)
2.
A Critical History of English
Literature: David Daiches
3.
The literature of the Victorian Era :
Hugh Walker
B.A. Part - I
Semester
- II
Paper
4 – Reading Fiction (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Novels Prescribed:
1.
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
2.
Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
3.
Silas Marner: George Eliot
4.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas
Hardy
B.A. Part - II
Semester
- III
Paper
5 – History of English Drama (From the Beginning to the Twentieth century) (24
lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Elizabethan Drama, Jacobean Drama, Restoration Drama,
18th
Century Drama, 19th Century Drama, 20th
Century Drama
Books Recommended:
The same as those recommended for Paper 1
B.A. Part - II
Semester
- III
Paper
6 – Reading Drama (25 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Plays Prescribed:
1.
Macbeth: William Shakespeare
2.
Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
3.
Candida: G.B. Shaw
Reference Books:
1.
R.G. Moulton: Shakespeare as a
Dramatic Artist
2.
A. Nicoll: Studies in Shakespeare
3.
Baker and Harrison: A Companion to
Shakespeare Studies
4.
A.C Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy
5.
Boris Ford: The Age of Shakespeare
6.
F.L. Lucas: Tragedy
7.
A.C.Ward: Bernard Shaw
8.
C.E.M. Joad: Shaw
9.
Case Book Series: The Duchess of
Malfi
B.A. Part - II
Semester
- IV
Paper
7 – History of English Prose (From the 15th century to
the
Twentieth century) (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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15th century Prose, Elizabethan Prose, 17th
century Prose, 18th century Prose, Rise of the Essay, Romantic
Prose, Victorian Prose, 20th century Prose
Books Recommended:
The same as those recommended for paper 1
B.A. Part - II
Semester
- IV
Paper
8 – Reading Prose (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Unit I (8)
Of Studies: Francis Bacon
Sir Roger at Home: Joseph Addison
Recollections of Childhood:
Richard Steele
On National Prejudice:
Oliver Goldsmith
Dream Children: A Reverie:
Charles Lamb
Unit II (8)
On the Pleasures of being No Longer Very Yuong:
G.K. Chesterton
On Superstition: A.G. Gardiner
The Idea of a Pilgrimage:
Hilaire Belloc
On Holidays: Robert Lynd
Selected Snobberies: Aldous
Huxley
Unit III (8)
Modern English Short Stories:
Ed. By Derek Hudson ( oxford University Press)
Pieces Prescribed:
1.
The Kite:
Somerset Maugham
2.
The Voice:
V.S. Pritchett
3.
The basement Room:
Graham Greene
4.
Maria:
Elizabeth Bowen
Books Prescribed:
English Essayists: Ed. S.K. Sinha
(Oxford University Press, New Delhi)
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- V
Paper
9 – Literature of the Twentieth Century
(Poetry
and Drama) (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Unit I – Poetry (12)
Prescribed anthology of poems: Rhapsodies Ed.
K.Kumar et. al. Macmillan
Poems Prescribed:
The second Coming: W.B. Yeats, The
Kingfisher: W.H. Davies, The Dead: Rupert Brooke, The Love Song
of J .Alfred Prufrock: T.S. Eliot, The Express: Stephen Spender,
William Wordsworth: Sidney Keyes
Unit II – Drama (12)
Murder in the Cathedral: T.S. Eliot
Justice: John Galsworthy
Reference Books:
1.
Skeila Kaye – Smith: John Galsworthy
2.
Raymond Williams: Drama from Ibsen to
Eliot
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- V
Paper
10 – Literature of the Twentieth Century (Fiction) (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Three questions out of five set
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10x3 =30
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2
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Four short-answer questions (each to be answered in
150 to 200 words) out of six set
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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A Passage to India: E.M.Forster
Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad
Reference Books:
1.
J.J. Oliver: The Art of
E.M.Forster
2.
Rex Warner: E.M. Forster
3.
Lionel Trilling: E.M.Forster
4.
Albert Guerard: Conrad the
Novelist
5.
Arnold Kettle: An Introduction to
the English Novel Vol. II
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- V
Paper
11 – Criticism
(25 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Four questions out of six set. There shall be
atleast one question from each of the critical essays prescribed.
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12½x4 = 50
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2
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Pieces Prescribed:
From Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare:
Samuel Johnson, Preface to Lyrical Ballads: William Wordsworth, From Biographia
Literaria: S.T. Coleridge, The Study of Poetry: Matthew Arnold
Text Precribed:
Literary Criticism: A Reading. Ed. Das and Mohanty. OUP
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- V
Paper
12 – Twentieth Century Criticism
(25 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Four questions out of six set. There shall be
atleast one question from each of the critical essays prescribed.
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12½x4 = 50
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2
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Ten very short answer questions (Each to be
answered
in one or two sentences) out of a choice of twelve
questions.
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2x10 = 20
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Pieces Prescribed:
The Function of Criticism: T.S.Eliot,
The Nature of Criticism: Herbert Read, Metaphor: I.A. Richards, Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of
Human Sciences – Jacque Derrida
Text Prescribed: Literary
Criticism: A Reading. Ed. Das and Mohanty. OUP
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- VI
Paper
13 – Indian Literature in English (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) +
70 (ESE) = 100 Time: 3
Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Four critical questions to be answered taking one
from each unit. There will be alternative to each
question..
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10x4 = 40
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2
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Explaining and critically commenting on four
passages
out of six set from the prescribed novels.
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5x4 = 20
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3
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Critical appreciation of an Indian poem in English
not prescribed.
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10x1 = 10
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Unit I – Poetry (8)
Textbook Prescribed: Indian English Poetry.
Published by Orient Longman
Poets Prescribed: The Harp of India : H.L.V.
Derozio, Our Causurina Tree: Toru Dutt, Village Song: Sarojini
Naidu , Philosophy: Nissim Ezekiel , The Whorehouse in a Calcutta
Street : Jayanta Mahapatra, In the Zoo: A.K. Ramanujan, Delhi: R. Parthasarathi , The Dance of the Eunuch : Kamala Das , The Professor Condoles:
Keki .N. Daruwalla.
Unit II – Drama (8)
Tughlaq – Girish Karnad
Unit III – Fiction (8)
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- VI
Paper
14 – History of English Language (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Five questions to be answered out of eight set from
all three units
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10x5 = 50
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2
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Five short notes.
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5x4 = 20
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Unit – I (8)
The English Language: Its Origin and Growth; The
History of English Language: Old English, Middle English, Modern English
Unit – II (8)
Laws of Language: Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law, Ablaut,
Umlaut, Characteristics of Middle English: Decay of inflectional Endings, The
Noun; The Adjective; The Pronoun; The Verb – Losses among strong verbs,
Surviving Strong Verbs; Loss of Grammatical Gender
Unit – III (8)
Medieval Literature: (i) Medieval Verse (ii) Metrical
Romances (iii) The Miracle Cycles (iv) The Morality Play
Books Prescribed:
1.
History of English Language: A.C.
Baugh & Thomas Cadle – Routledg. Delhi, 1993.
2.
Growth & Structure of the English
Language: Otto Jespersen, Oxford University Press, India, New Delhi.
3.
A Critical History of the English
Language: Anna Kurien, Students’ Store, Barailey.
4.
A New Pelican Guide to English
Literature Series (Part – I: Medieval Literature).
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- VI
Paper
15 – Linguistics (24 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Four essay type questions to be answered one
from each of units I to IV out of seven set. At
least one question will be set from each of the four units
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10x4 = 40
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2
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Five words to be transcribed into the phonetic
script out of fifteen set.
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5x2 = 10
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3
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Four short answer questions (each to be answered in
around 150 words) out of a choice of six questions to be answered from Units
III and IV. Three questions each will be set from Unit III and Unit IV.
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5x4 = 20
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Unit I – The
characteristics of Language, the study of Linguistics as a science, Branches of
the study of linguistics, Synchronic and Diachronic linguistics, Langue and
Parole, Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic relationships (6)
Unit II – Phonetics
and its branches, The human speech mechanism, Description of the
consonants, vowels and diphthongs of English(RP) , the phoneme, characteristics
of phoneme, distinction between phonetics and phonology, Phonetic transcription
of sentences (6)
Unit III
– Characteristics of morpheme, concept of morph, allomorph, inflectional
morpheme, derivational morpheme, free morpheme, bound morpheme, morpheme and
syllable, morpheme and phoneme (6)
Unit IV – Concept
of Sociolinguistics, pidgin, Creole, dialects, process of dialect formation,
isogloss (6)
Books Prescribed:
1.
Linguistics: David Crystal (Pelican,
1971).
2.
Linguistics: S.K. Varma (Oup, Delhi,
1974).
3.
General Linguistics: An Introductory
Survey.
4.
Introduction to Theoretical
Linguistics: J. Lyons (Oup, 1968).
5.
Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics:
H.A. Gleason (Holt, Rinchart, Winston, New York, 1961).
6.
Elements of General Phonetics: D.
Abercrombie (Faber & Faber, London).
7.
Semantics: F.R. Palmer (Cambridge
University Press, 1976).
8.
Structural Semantics: John Lyons
(Oxford, Blackwell).
9.
English Pronouncing Dictionary:
Daniel Johns (Cambridge University Press, UK, 1997).
B.A. Part - III
Semester
- VI
Paper
16 – Literary Theory (22 lectures)
Full Marks: 30 (MSE) + 70 (ESE) = 100 Time:
3 Hrs. Pass Marks: 45
Instructions to Paper Setter
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1
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Five long answer questions to be answered out of
Six given.
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10x5 = 50
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2
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Four short answer questions out of eight given on
terms and concepts prescribed (to be answered in
about 100 – 150 words each)
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5x4 = 20
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Text
Prescribed: A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature by
Wilfred L. Guerin et al (Oxford University Press)
The Psychological
Approach: Aims and Principles, Abuses and Misunderstanding of the Psychological
Approach, Freud’s Theories
Feminism:
Definitions, Historical overview and major themes in feminist criticism, Gender
studies, Marxist feminism, Psychoanalytic feminism, Minority feminist
criticism, Structuralism—Context and Definitions, Deconstruction, Modernism,
Post-Modernism.
