UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH

COURSE STRUCTURE

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CONTENTS

Semester Course Course Name Page No.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH

Semester 1 Discipline Specific Courses ENG-H-DSC 1-1 2
Semester 2 Discipline Specific Courses ENG-H-DSC 2-2 3
Semester 3 Discipline Specific Courses ENG-H-DSC 3-3 and 4-3 4-5
ENG-H-DSC 5-4, 6-4, 7-4 and 8-
Semester 4 Discipline Specific Courses 4 6-9
ENG-H-DSC 9-5, 10-5, 11-5 and
Semester 5 Discipline Specific Courses 10-13
12-5
Semester 6 Discipline Specific Courses ENG-H-DSC 13-6, 14-6 and 15-6 14-16
ENG-H-DSC 16-7, 17-7, 18-7
Semester 7 Discipline Specific Courses and 19-7 17-20
Semester 8 Discipline Specific Courses ENG-H-DSC 20-8, 21-8 and 22-8 21-23
Additional Core Courses in Lieu of Dissertation/ Research Work
Semester 7 Discipline Specific Courses ENG-H-DSC 23-7 24
ENG-H-DSC 24A-8 or 24B-8,
Semester 8 Discipline Specific Courses 25-28
25A-8 or 25B-8

Semester 1/3 Discipline Specific Minor Courses ENG-MIN-1-1/3 29

Semester 2/4 Discipline Specific Minor Courses ENG-MIN-2-2/4 30
Semester 5 Discipline Specific Minor Courses ENG-MIN-3-5 31
Semester 6 Discipline Specific Minor Courses ENG-MIN-4-6 32

Semester
Inter-Disciplinary Course ENG-IDC-1-1/2/3 33
1/2/3

Semester 1 Skill Enhancement Course ENG-SEC-1-1 34

Semester 2 Skill Enhancement Course ENG-SEC-2-2 35
Semester 3 Skill Enhancement Course ENG-SEC-3-3 36

Semester 1 Ability Enhancement Course ENG-AEC-1-1 38

Semester 2 Ability Enhancement Course ENG-AEC-2-2 39
Semester 3 Ability Enhancement Course ENG-AEC-3-3 40
Semester 4 Ability Enhancement Course ENG-AEC-4-4 41

THREE YEAR MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYLLABUS

Semester 1 Multidisciplinary Course ENG-MDC-1-1 43
Semester 2 Multidisciplinary Course ENG-MDC-2-2 44
Semester 3 Multidisciplinary Course ENG-MDC-3-3 45
Semester 4 Multidisciplinary Course ENG-MDC-4-4 and 5-4 46-47
Semester 5 Multidisciplinary Course ENG-MDC-6-5 and 7-5 48-49
Semester 6 Multidisciplinary Course ENG-MDC-8-6 50

Semester
1/2/3 Skill Enhancement Course ENG-MDC-SEC-1-1/2/3 51

Common Value Added Course ENG-CVAC-1-2 52

 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC COMPULSORY/CORE

SEMESTER – 1

ENG-H-DSC 1-1 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH POETRY

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (POETRY)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY (FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO

MODERN PERIOD)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 73

JOHN DONNE, 'THE SUN RISING'

JOHN KEATS, 'TO AUTUMN'

W.B. YEATS, 'THE SECOND COMING'

TED HUGHES, 'CROW'S FALL'

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 SEMESTER – 2

ENG-H-DSC 2-2 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH PROSE

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (PROSE)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE (FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO MODERN

PERIOD)

FRANCIS BACON, 'OF STUDIES'

CHARLES LAMB, 'DREAM CHILDREN: A REVERIE'

JAMES JOYCE, 'ARABY'

GEORGE ORWELL, 'SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT'

JHUMPA LAHIRI, 'A TEMPORARY MATTER'

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 SEMESTER – 3

ENG-H-DSC 3-3 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH DRAMA

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (DRAMA)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH DRAMA (FROM ELIZABETHAN TO MODERN

PERIOD)

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

ARMS AND THE MAN

RIDERS TO THE SEA

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 ENG-H-DSC 4-3 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

AMERICAN LITERATURE

AMERICAN LITERATURE - I

POETRY
ROBERT FROST, 'AFTER APPLE PICKING'
WALT WHITMAN, 'O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN'
SYLVIA PLATH, 'DADDY'
LANGSTON HUGHES, 'HARLEM'

NOVEL
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

STORIES
EDGAR ALLAN POE, 'THE PURLOINED LETTER'
WILLIAM FAULKNER, 'DRY SEPTEMBER'

DRAMA
ARTHUR MILLER, DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Suggested Readings:
1. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in
Letters from an American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp.
66–105.
2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.
3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute
Neighbours’, in Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson,‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks
Atkinson (New York: The Modern Library, 1964).
5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark:
Whiteness and Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–
39.

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 SEMESTER – 4

ENG-H-DSC 5-4 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

POPULAR LITERATURE

POPULAR LITERATURE

LEWIS CARROLL, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

SUKUMAR RAY, ABOL TABOL ('NONSENSE RHYMES', TRANSLATED
SATYAJIT RAY), KOLKATA: WRITERS' WORKSHOP
HERGE, TINTIN IN TIBET
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

Suggested Readings:

1. Chelva Kanaganayakam, ‘Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading

Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature’ (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri
Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and Victor J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence
Voices in South Asian Writings (Delhi: Doaba Publications, 2001) pp.
51–65.
2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual
Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–
xxix.
3. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super
Culture: American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby
(Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975) pp. 29–38.
4. Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English
Literary History, vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.

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 ENG-H-DSC 6-4 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT INDIAN

WRITING IN ENGLISH

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE: 'THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INDIAN NOVEL'

IN ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA (ED) A CONCISE HISTORY OF INDIAN
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, RANIKHET: PERMANENT BLACK, 2008

STORIES
KHUSHWANT SINGH, 'A BRIDE FOR THE SAHIB'
R.K. NARAYAN, 'ANOTHER COMMUNITY'

POETRY
MICHAEL MADHUSUDAN DUTT, 'TO A LADY'
TORU DUTT, 'OUR CASUARINA TREE'
NISSIM EZEKIEL, 'ENTERPRISE'

NOVEL
BANKIMCHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY, RAJMOHAN'S WIFE

Suggested Readings:
1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
2. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in
Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The
Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New
Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10

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 ENG-H-DSC 7-4 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH POETRY

FROM SPENSER TO PRE-ROMANTICS

ENGLISH POETRY – I

SPENSER: 'ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME'

MARVELL: 'TO HIS COY MISTRESS'

MILTON: PARADISE LOST BOOK I

POPE: THE RAPE OF THE LOCK CANTO: I-3

BLAKE: 'THE LAMB' & 'THE TYGER'

Suggested Readings:

1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man,
in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary
Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable
Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin
McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11.
3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’,
in Book 4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. 1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D.
Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP

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 ENG-H-DSC 8-4 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH DRAMA

ENGLISH DRAMA

SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH

CONGREVE: THE WAY OF THE WORLD

OSCAR WILDE: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

OSBORNE: LOOK BACK IN ANGER

Suggested Readings:

1. Benjamin Brawley, A Short History of English Drama, New York:

Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1921
2. David Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 4

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 SEMESTER – 5

ENG-H-DSC 9-5 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH PROSE

ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN

ENGLISH PROSE – 1

JANE AUSTEN: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

CHARLES DICKENS: HARD TIMES

THOMAS HARDY: THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

THOMAS CARLYLE: 'THE HERO AS A POET'

Suggested Readings:

1. E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel

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 ENG-H-DSC 10-5 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH POETRY

FROM ROMANTIC TO MODERN

ENGLISH POETRY – II

WORDSWORTH: 'TINTERN ABBEY'

COLERIDGE: 'KUBLA KHAN'

SHELLEY: 'ODE TO THE WEST WIND'

TENNYSON: 'ULYSSES'

BROWNING: 'PORPHYRIA'S LOVER'

ARNOLD: 'DOVER BEACH'

ELIOT: 'PRELUDES'

PHILIP LARKIN: 'CUT GRASS'

Suggested Readings:

1. The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from

Chaucer to Auden
2. Herbert Grierson, A Critical History of English Poetry

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 ENG-H-DSC 11-5 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH PROSE FROM VICTORIAN TO MODERN

ENGLISH PROSE – II

E.M. FORSTER: A PASSAGE TO INDIA

VIRGINIA WOOLF: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

KATHERINE MANSFIELD: 'THE FLY'

JOSEPH CONRAD: 'THE LAGOON'

Suggested Readings:

1. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel from Dickens to

Lawrence (London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.
2. W.H. Hudson, An Outline History of English Literature

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 ENG-H-DSC 12-5 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

FUNDAMENTALS OF WESTERN LITERARY THEORIES

LITERARY THEORY - I

ARISTOTLE: POETICS – DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY, TRAGIC HERO,

CATHARSIS, PERIPETY, ANAGNORISIS

WORDSWORTH: PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS

COLERIDGE: BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA – FANCY, IMAGINATION (PRIMARY

& SECONDARY)

SHELLEY: A DEFENCE OF POETRY

Suggested Readings:
1. D.J. Enright and Ernst D. Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi:
OUP

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 SEMESTER – 6

ENG-H-DSC 13-6 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPARTADVANCED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - I

R.K. NARAYAN: WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA

RUSKIN BOND: THE ROOM ON THE ROOF

HENRY LOUIS VIVIAN DEROZIO, 'TO INDIA, MY NATIVE LAND'

KAMALA DAS, 'INTRODUCTION'
A.K. RAMANUJAN, 'RIVER'
JAYANTA MAHAPATRA, 'DAWN AT PURI'
MAHESH DATTANI: TARA
Suggested Readings:

1. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Ed) A Concise History Of Indian Literature in

English, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2008

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 ENG-H-DSC 14-6 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MODERN

EUROPEAN DRAMA

MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA

HENRIK IBSEN, A DOLL'S HOUSE

ANTON CHEKHOV: THE CHERRY ORCHARD
BERTOLT BRECHT, THE GOOD WOMAN OF SZECHUAN
SAMUEL BECKETT, WAITING FOR GODOT

Suggested Readings:

1. Raymond Williams, 'Introduction', in Drama from Ibsen to Brecht,

Penguin, 1973

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 ENG-H-DSC 15-6 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

AMERICAN LITERATURE

AMERICAN LITERATURE – II

TONI MORRISON: BELOVED

CARL SANDBURG: 'CHICAGO'

E.E. CUMMINGS: 'I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME'

ADRIENNE RICH: 'A MARK OF RESISTANCE'

HART CRANE: 'TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE'

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: GLASS MENAGERIE

Suggested Readings:

1. The Harper American Literature, Compact Edition, 1987

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 SEMESTER – 7

ENG-H-DSC 16-7 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT INDIAN WRITING

IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - II (TRANSLATION)

STORIES
MUNSHI PREM CHAND, 'THE SHROUD'
ISMAT CHUGTAI, 'THE QUILT'
FAKIR MOHAN SENAPATI, 'REBATI'

POETRY
RABINDRANATH TAGORE, 'LIGHT, OH WHERE IS THE LIGHT?'
(GITANJALI XXVII) AND 'WHEN MY PLAY WAS WITH THEE'
(GITANJALI XCVII)
G.M. MUKTIBODH, 'THE VOID'
AMRITA PRITAM, 'I SAY UNTO WARIS SHAH'

NOVEL
RABINDRANATH TAGORE, THE HOME AND THE WORLD

DRAMA
VIJAY TENDULKAR, SILENCE! THE COURT IS IN SESSION

Suggested Readings:

1. Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi,

Indian Literature, no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992).
2. B.R. Ambedkar, 'Annihilation of Caste' in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar:
Writings and Speeches, vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education Department,
Government of Maharashtra, 1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14.
3. Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as
Discovery (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45.
4. G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader
(New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan,2009) pp. 1–5.

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 ENG-H-DSC 17-7 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

WESTERN LITERARY CRITICISM

LITERARY THEORY – II

T. S. ELIOT: 'TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT'

ROLLAND BARTHES: 'THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR'

TERRY EAGLETON: 'LITERATURE AND HISTORY'

VIRGINIA WOOLF: 'MODERN FICTION'

Suggested Readings:

1. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell,

2008).
2. Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, Chennai: T.R. Publications, 1999.
3. Peter Barry (ed), Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selection of
Critical Essays, A Casebook, Macmillan, 1987
4. Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson, A Reader's Guide to
Contemporary Literary Theory, Pearson India, 2006
5. C.S. Lewis: Introduction in An Experiment in Criticism, Cambridge
University Press 1992
6. M.H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp, Oxford University Press,1971
7. Rene Wellek, Stephen G. Nicholas: Concepts of Criticism, Connecticut,
Yale University 1963
8. Taylor and Francis Eds. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and
Theory, Routledge, 1996

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 ENG-H-DSC 18-7 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WOMEN'S

WRITING

WOMEN'S WRITING

POETRY
EMILY DICKINSON, 'I CANNOT LIVE WITH YOU'
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, 'HOW DO I LOVE THEE'
EUNICE DE SOUZA, 'ADVICE TO WOMEN'

FICTION
EMILY BRONTE, WUTHERING HEIGHTS
MAHASWETA DEVI, 'DRAUPADI', TRANSLATED GAYATRI
CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
KATHERINE MANSFIELD, 'BLISS'

NON-FICTION
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF
WOMAN, CHAPTERS I & II (NEW YORK: NORTON, 1988)
RASSUNDARI DEVI, AMAR JIBAN, TRANSLATED ENAKSHI
CHATTERJEE, WRITERS' WORKSHOP.

Suggested Readings:

1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957)

chaps. 1 and 6.
2. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in The Second Sex, tr. Constance
Borde and Shiela Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–
18.
3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Recasting
Women: Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989)
pp. 1–25.
4. Chandra Talapade Mohanty,‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist
Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’, in Contemporary Postcolonial
Theory: A Reader, ed. Padmini Mongia (New York: Arnold, 1996) pp.
172–97
5. 'Feminist Criticism' in Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, Chennai: T.R.
Publications

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 ENG-H-DSC 19-7 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE

Rabindranath Tagore, My Reminiscences, Chapters 1-15, New Delhi: Rupa &

Co.
Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth,
Part I, Chapters 1 to 8
Binodini Dasi, My Story and Life as an Actress, pp 61-83, New Delhi: Kali for
Women
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Book I, Mumbai:
Jaico Publishing House

Suggested Readings:

1. James Olney, ‘A Theory of Autobiography’ in Metaphors of Self: The

Meaning of Autobiography (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1972) pp. 3-50.
2. Laura Marcus, ‘The Law of Genre’ in Auto/biographical Discourses
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994) pp. 229-72.
3. Linda Anderson, ‘Introduction’ in Autobiography (London: Routledge,
2001) pp.1-17.
4. Mary G. Mason, ‘The Other Voice: Autobiographies of women Writers’
in Life/Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography, Edited by Bella
Brodzki and Celeste Schenck (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988)
pp. 19-44.

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 SEMESTER – 8

ENG-H-DSC 20-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EUROPEAN

CLASSICAL LITERATURE

EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

HOMER, THE ILIAD (BOOKS I AND II) TRANSLATED BY E.V. RIEU

SOPHOCLES, OEDIPUS THE KING, IN THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS,
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES
OVID, SELECTIONS FROM METAMORPHOSIS, 'BACCHUS' (BOOK III)
PLAUTUS, POT OF GOLD, TRANSLATED BY E.F. WATLING OR
HORACE, SATIRES, I: IV IN HORACE: SATIRES AND EPISTLES AND
PERSIUS, TRANSLATED NIALL RUDD, PENGUIN, 2005.

Suggested Readings:

1. S.H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, New Delhi:
Kalyani Publishers
2. Aristotle/Horace/Longinus: Classical Literary Criticism, Translated
with an Introduction by T.S. Dorsch, London: Penguin Books

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 ENG-H-DSC 21-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RESEARCH

METHODOLOGY & ESSAY WRITING

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & ESSAY WRITING

• Introduction to research: What is research?, Why research?, Qualities

of good research, Approaches to research – Qualitative, quantitative and
mixed, Qualitative/ quantitative similarities and distinctions

• Elements of the process of research: Literature review, Building of

concepts and understanding of theories,Planning the research project,
Research questions, Research hypothesis, Content analysis.
• Use of resources: Finding and searching useful sources – print and
digital; Primary and secondary sources; Engaging the sources; Keeping
records, making notes and access to libraries
• Writing the report: Getting started – guidelines, Structuring the report,
Importance of revision, Plagiarism – definition, types, detection and
avoidance
• Referencing the research project – (as per the latest version of MLA
Style Sheet)Mechanics of writing, Formatting the research project,
Documenting sources, Citing sources in the text, notes, The list of works
cited

Research ethics: Issues and areas of ethical concern in research, Ethics and
the issue of quality, Difficulties of ethical decision-making, Political
dimensions of research – the role and exercise of power at different stages of
research process, Ethical considerations in e-research

Assessment Pattern: ESSAY

Tutorial Assessment (25)
• Home Assignment: 15
• Presentation: 10
End Semester Assessment (75)
• 5 short questions (out of 8) of 2 marks each (5x2=10)
• 3 short notes (out of 5) of 5 marks each (3x5=15)
• 2 questions (out of 3) of 25 marks each* (2x25=50) Total = 75
*may include internal break up of marks
Suggested reading:
Bell, Judith. Doing your Research Project, Berkshire: Open University Press, 2018 (7th edition).
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, New Delhi: EWP, 2021 (Latest edition)

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 ENG-H-DSC 22-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)
COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT POST-COLONIAL
LITERATURES

POST-COLONIAL LITERATURES

POETRY
PABLO NERUDA, 'TONIGHT I CAN WRITE'
DEREK WALCOTT, 'A FAR CRY FROM AFRICA'
DAVID MALOUF, 'REVOLVING DAYS'
MAMANG DAI, 'THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAIN'

NOVEL
CHINUA ACHEBE, THINGS FALL APART
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

Suggested Readings:

1. Frantz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Black Skin, White Masks,
tr. Charles Lam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27.
2. Ngugiwa Thiong’o, ‘The Language of African Literature’, in
Decolonising the Mind (London: James Curry, 1986) chap. 1, sections
4–6.
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and
Richard Cardwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
4. 'Postcolonial Criticism' in Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, Chennai:
T.R. Publications
5. Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, London and New York:
Routledge

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ADDITIONAL CORE COURSES IN LIEU OF DISSERTATION/RESEARCH
WORK

(4 Credits –Th 3, Tu 1)

SEMESTER – 7

ENG-H-DSC 23-7 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)*

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LITERARY

TECHNIQUES AND TYPES

RHETORIC, PROSODY AND LITERARY TYPES

GROUP – A: LITERARY TYPES

TRAGEDY (CLASSICAL TRAGEDY, ELIZABETHAN TRAGEDY, HEROIC
TRAGEDY, MODERN TRAGEDY)
COMEDY (ROMANTIC COMEDY, COMEDY OF HUMOURS, COMEDY
OF MANNERS, SENTIMENTAL COMEDY)
SHORT STORY

GROUP – B: RHETORIC

GROUP – C: PROSODY

Suggested Readings:

1. K.R.S. Iyengar and Prema Nandakumar, Introduction to the Study of

English Literature
2. S.H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, New Delhi:
Kalyani Publishers
3. Allerdyce Nicoll, The Theory of Drama
4. Bose and Sterling, Elements of English Rhetoric and Prosody

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ENG-H-DSC 24A-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)*

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PARTITION

LITERATURE

PARTITION LITERATURE

NOVEL
AMITAV GHOSH, THE SHADOW LINES

SHORT STORIES
PROTIVA BASU, 'THE MAROONED', TRANSLATED SUBHASREE
TAGORE, IN THE OTHER VOICE, EDS. TAPATI GUPTA AND ANIL
ACHARYA, KOLKATA: ANUSTUP
MANIK BANDYOPADHYAY, 'THE FINAL SOLUTION', TRANSLATED RANI
RAY, IN DEBJANI SENGUPTA ED. MAPMAKING: PARTITION STORIES
FROM TWO BENGALS, NEW DELHI: SRISHTI
SADAT HASAN MANTO, 'TOBA TEK SINGH', IN BLACK MARGINS:MANTO,
NEW DELHI: MANOHAR

POETRY
SAHIR LUDHIANVI, 'TWENTYSIXTH JANUARY',
BIRENDRA CHATTOPADHYAY, 'AFTER DEATH: TWENTY YEARS'
SANKHA GHOSH, 'REHABILITATION', IN RAKHSHANDA JALIL, TARUN
SAINT AND DEBJANI SENGUPTA EDS. LOOKING BACK: THE 1947
PARTITION OF INDIA 70 YEARS ON, NEW DELHI: ORIENT BLACKSWAN,
2017

Suggested Readings:

1. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and

Boundaries (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
2. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
3. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of
India (Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000).

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 4. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete
Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London:
Hogarth Press, 1953) pp. 3041–53.

OR

ENG-H-DSC 24B-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)*

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DALIT

LITERATURE

DALIT LITERATURE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY - BALUTA BY DAYA PAWAR (MARATHI) - ENGLISH

TRANSLATION BY JERRY PINTO, SPEAKING TIGER
ESSAY - SLAVERY IN INDIA BY AMBEDKAR –(FROM SLAVERY AND
UNTOUCHABILITY: WHICH IS WORSE, EDITED BY BHAGWAN DAS,
SAMYAK PRAKASHAN)
ESSAY - DALIT LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS BY SHARANKUMAR
LIMBALE (FROM TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC OF DALIT LITERATURE
TRANSLATED BY ALOK MUKHERJEE, ORIENT BLACKSWAN)
SHORT STORY - FOOTPRINT OF AN ELEPHANT BY ANIL GHARAI
POEM - MUTINY BY CHUNI KOTAL (FROM DALIT LEKHIKA, PUBLISHED
BY STREE)
POEM - I BELONG TO NOWHERE BY KALYANI THAKUR CHARAL (FROM
I BELONG TO NOWHERE, PUBLISHED BY TILTED AXIS)

Suggested Readings:

1. Shikar Chnera Jiban (The Life Uprooted) by Jatin Bala (Bengali)-

Translated by M
Mukherjee
M ..BBhhaatttata and
chcehre Jaydeep
yrayaanadnJdayJd.eS Saanragni,gi, Sahitya Akademi
Sarangi
epar
2. Surviving in My World by Manohar Mouli Biswas(Published by Samya)
3. Changiya Rukh by Balbir Madhopuri (Punjabi)translated by, Oxford
University Press
4. The Prison We Broke by Baby Kamble (Marathi)
5. Andhar Bil by Kalyani Thakur Charal (Bengali) - English Translation by
Asit Biswas, Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

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 ENG-H-DSC 25A-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)*

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE THEATRE AND

PERFORMANCES

TEXT & PERFORMANCES

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF INDIAN AND WESTERN THEATRE

CLASSICAL, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY THEATRES
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THEATRICAL FORMS
FOLK TRADITIONS

Suggested Readings:

Kamalesh Datta Tripathi, 'Rasa' in Theatres of India: A Concise Companion,

New Delhi: OUP, 2009.
Kamalesh Datta Tripathi, 'Natyasastra' in Theatres of India: A Concise
Companion, New Delhi: OUP, 2009.
Ananda Lal, 'Tagore as Theatrician' in Rabindranath Tagore, Three Plays,
Translated and with an introduction by Ananda Lal, New Delhi: OUP, 2001.
Prasanna, Indian Method in Acting, New Delhi: National School of Drama,
2013.
Walter Benjamin, 'What is Epic Theatre', Understanding Brecht, London and
New York, Verso, 1973.
Robert Leach: Theatre Studies: The Basics, Routledge, 2015.
Sonia Moore, The Stanislavsky System: The Professional Training of an Actor,
Penguin, 1984.

OR

ENG-H-DSC 25B-8 TH TU (4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)*

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEDIA

MEDIA STUDIES

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION

MASS COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALISATION
WRITING PAMPHLETS, POSTERS ETC
ADVERTISEMENTS AND CREATING ADVERTISEMENTS

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 Suggested Readings:

1. M.V. Kamath, Professional Journalism, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing

House, 1980.
2. Ambrish Saxena, Fundamentals of Reporting and Editing, New Delhi:
Kanishka Publishers, 2007.
3. Uma Narula, Handbook of Communication Models, Perspectives,
Strategies, New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2006.
4. Stephen Cushion, Television Journalism, New Delhi: Sage Publications,
2012.
5. Tony Feldman, An Introduction to Digital Media, Taylor and Francis,
2004.

FOR ALL DSC PAPERS (EXCEPT DSC 21), MARKS DIVISION: 4 QUESTIONS
OF 15 MARKS EACH (WITHIN 600 WORDS) AND 3 QUESTIONS OF 5
MARKS EACH (WITHIN 200 WORDS) MARKS DIVISION FOR DSC 21:
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1 QUESTION OF 15 MARKS (WITHIN 600
WORDS) & ONE QUESTION OF 10 MARKS (WITHIN 400 WORDS), ESSAY
50 MARKS (WITHIN 2000 WORDS)

* ONLY FOR THOSE NOT OPTING FOR RESEARCH / DISSERTATION

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 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC MINOR COURSES

(FOR MAJOR/HONS STUDENTS)

FOR SEMESTER 1/3

ENG-MIN-1-1/3 TH TU

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH POETRY

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (POETRY)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY (FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO

MODERN PERIOD)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 73

JOHN DONNE, 'THE SUN RISING'

JOHN KEATS, 'TO AUTUMN'

W.B. YEATS, 'THE SECOND COMING'

TED HUGHES, 'CROW'S FALL'

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 FOR SEMESTER 2/4

ENG-MIN-2-2/4 TH TU

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH PROSE

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (PROSE)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE (FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO MODERN

PERIOD)

FRANCIS BACON, 'OF STUDIES'

CHARLES LAMB, 'DREAM CHILDREN: A REVERIE'

JAMES JOYCE, 'ARABY'

GEORGE ORWELL, 'SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT'

JHUMPA LAHIRI, 'A TEMPORARY MATTER'

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 FOR SEMESTER 5

ENG-MIN-3-5 TH TU

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH DRAMA

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (DRAMA)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH DRAMA (FROM ELIZABETHAN TO MODERN

PERIOD)

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

ARMS AND THE MAN

RIDERS TO THE SEA

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 FOR SEMESTER 6

ENG-MIN-4-6 TH TU

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT INDIAN

WRITING IN ENGLISH

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE: 'THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INDIAN NOVEL'

IN ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA (ED) A CONCISE HISTORY OF INDIAN
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, RANIKHET: PERMANENT BLACK, 2008

STORIES
KHUSHWANT SINGH, 'A BRIDE FOR THE SAHIB'
R.K. NARAYAN, 'ANOTHER COMMUNITY'

POETRY
MICHAEL MADHUSUDAN DUTT, 'TO A LADY'
TORU DUTT, 'OUR CASUARINA TREE'
NISSIM EZEKIEL, ENTERPRISE'

NOVEL
BANKIMCHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY, RAJMOHAN'S WIFE

Suggested Readings:
5. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
6. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in
Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
7. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The
Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
8. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New
Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10

MARKS DIVISION FOR ALL MINOR COURSES: 4 QUESTIONS OF 15

MARKS EACH (WITHIN 600 WORDS) AND 3 QUESTIONS OF 5 MARKS
EACH (WITHIN 200 WORDS)

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 IDC (INTER-DISCIPLINARY COURSE)

(3 Credits – Th 2, Tu 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ENGLISH LITERATURE TO THOSE NOT STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE

IN SEMESTER 1/2/3

ENG-IDC-1-1/2/3
Poetry
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18
William Wordsworth: 'Strange fits of passion'
P.B. Shelley: 'To a Skylark'
John Keats: 'To Autumn'

Short Story
James Joyce: 'Araby'
Katherine Mansfield: 'The Fly'
Marks Division (Poetry): Two Questions of 15 marks each out of three
(within 600 words)
Marks Division (Short Story): Two Questions of 10 marks each out of
three (within 400 words)

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 SEC (SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSE)
(4 Credits – Th 3, Tu 1)

SEC 1
[FOR SEMESTER 1]

ENG-SEC-1-1 TH

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

PRACTICAL USE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BUSINESS WRITING
What is business communication
Writing reports, letters, curriculum vitae
Writing meeting minutes
E-correspondence

Marks Division: 5 questions of 15 marks each (within 600 words)

SEC 2
[FOR SEM ESTER 2]

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 SEC 2
[FOR SEMESTER 2]
ENG-SEC-2-2 TH

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH

ACADEMIC WRITING AND COMPOSITION

Introduction to the writing process
Introduction to academic writing
Summarising and paraphrasing

MARKS DIVISION:

Writing Critical Appreciation – 20 marks

Writing Summary/Substance with a Critical Note – 12 + 8
marks
Writing Essay – 35 marks

Recommended Readings:
1. Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ben Heasley, Study writing: A Course in Writing
Skills
for Academic Purposes (Cambridge: CUP, 2006).
2. Renu Gupta, A Course in Academic Writing (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan,
2010).
3. Ilona Leki, Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies (New
York:
CUP, 2nd edn, 1998).
4. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves That
Matter
in Academic Writing (New York: Norton, 2009).
5. Hacker, D. & Sommers, N. (2011). A writer's reference (7th ed.). Boston,
MA:

SEC 3
[FOR SEMESTER 3]

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 SEC 3
[FOR SEMESTER 3]
ENG-SEC-3-3 TH
COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

• Basic perspectives: English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a
Foreign Language (EFL)
• Basic components of language: Substance, Form and Meaning
• Acquisition vs. Learning
• Knowing the learner: Features, learning styles and strategies of a good
language learner
• Teaching-learning language skills: Aims and objectives of teaching
LSRW skills; Skills necessary for effective LSRW; problems and
solutions
• Approaches and methods in ESL teaching: Grammar-translation
method, Direct method, Audio-lingual method, Notional-functional
approach, Communicative approach, Task-based language teaching
• Teaching English in Indian context: Status of English in India, Aims of
ESL teaching in India, Major issues, Changing perspectives

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Larsen-Freeman, Daine. 1986. Techniques and Principles in Language

Teaching.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lightbown, P and Spada, N. 1993.How Languages are Learned. Oxford:
Oxford
University Press.
Littlewood, W. 1984.Foreign and Second Language Learning. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Nagaraj, Geetha. 2010. English Language Teaching: Approaches, Methods,
Techniques. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan Private Limited.
Richards, J C and Rodgers, T S. 2001. Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching.2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spolsky, B. 1989.Conditions for Second Language Learning. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Stern,H H. 1983. Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching. Oxford:
Oxford
University Press.
Tickoo, M. L. 2004.Teaching and Learning English: A Sourcebook for Teachers
and
Teacher-Trainers. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited.
Ur, P. 2013. A Course in Language Teaching.Cambridge:Cambridge University

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Press.

Marks Division: 3 questions of 20 marks each (within 800 words) & 1

question of 15 marks (within 600 words)

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 AEC (ABILITY ENHANCEMENT COURSE)
SEMESTER – 1

ENG-AEC-1-1 TH

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO BUILD ABILITY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

COMPULSORY ENGLISH

(2 Credits – Th 2, Tu 0)

UNIT 1

POETRY:

LORD TENNYSON, BREAK BREAK BREAK

THOMAS HARDY: AFTERWARDS

RABINDRANATH TAGORE: WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT

FEAR

UNIT 2

PROSE:

R.K. NARAYAN: OUT OF BUSINESS

PREM CHAND: THE CHILD

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: I HAVE A DREAM

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 SEMESTER – 2

ENG-AEC-2-2 TH

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO BUILD ADVANCED ABILITY IN ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

COMPULSORY ENGLISH

(2 Credits – Th 2, Tu 0)

UNIT 1

POETRY:

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: LUCY GRAY

ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING: HOW DO I LOVE THEE

WILFRED OWEN: ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

UNIT 2

PROSE:

O. HENRY: THE LAST LEAF

RUSKIN BOND: THE THIEF'S STORY

RABINDRANATH TAGORE: RAM MOHAN ROY

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 SEMESTER – 3

ENG-AEC-3-3 TH

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO BUILD ABILITY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR

THOSE NOT STUDYING MIL

ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

(2 Credits – Th 2, Tu 0)

UNIT 1

POETRY:

RABINDRANATH TAGORE: GITANJALI: XVIII

JAYANTA MAHAPATRA: DAWN AT PURI

PURUSHOTTAM LAL: LIFE

UNIT 2

PROSE:

BHISHAM SAHANI: THE BOSS CAME TO DINNER

WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM: THE MAN WITH THE SCAR

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 SEMESTER – 4

ENG-AEC-4-4 TH

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO BUILD ADVANCED ABILITY IN ENGLISH

LANGUAGE FOR THOSE NOT STUDYING MIL

ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

(2 Credits – Th 2, Tu 0)

UNIT 1

POETRY:

RABINDRANATH TAGORE: GITANJALI: XLV

GAURI DESHPANDE: THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

NISSIM EZEKIEL: IN A COUNTRY COTTAGE

UNIT 2

PROSE:

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A DAY'S WAIT

H.G. WELLS: THE STOLEN BACILLUS

MARKS DIVISION FOR AEC – 2 X 25 (MCQ OMR SHEET)

INTERNSHIP (PROPOSED): Editing, Proof-reading, Journalism, Computer

Skills (DTP, PDF), Theatre or Music Workshop (This is indicative, but not
exhaustive)

NOTE: DETAILS ABOUT THE RESEARCH/DISSERTATION WORK FOR

MAJOR/HONS STUDENTS IN SEMESTERS 7 AND 8 WILL BE NOTIFIED
LATER.

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 UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

THREE YEAR MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYLLABUS

ENGLISH

2023

COURSE STRUCTURE

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 SEMESTER 1

ENG-MDC-1-1 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH POETRY

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (POETRY)

1. HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY (FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO

MODERN PERIOD)
2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 73
3. JOHN DONNE, 'THE SUN RISING'
4. JOHN KEATS, 'TO AUTUMN'
5. W.B. YEATS, 'THE SECOND COMING'
6. TED HUGHES, 'CROW'S FALL'

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 SEMESTER 2

ENG-MDC-2-2 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH PROSE

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (PROSE)

1. HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE (FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO

MODERN PERIOD)
2. FRANCIS BACON, 'OF STUDIES'
3. CHARLES LAMB, 'DREAM CHILDREN: A REVERIE'
4. JAMES JOYCE, 'ARABY'
5. GEORGE ORWELL, 'SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT'
6. JHUMPA LAHIRI, 'A TEMPORARY MATTER'

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 SEMESTER 3

ENG-MDC-3-3 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH DRAMA

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (DRAMA)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH DRAMA (FROM ELIZABETHAN TO MODERN

PERIOD)

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

ARMS AND THE MAN

RIDERS TO THE SEA

Suggested Readings:
Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Edward Albert: History of English Literature
Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

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 SEMESTER 4

ENG-MDC-4-4 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AMERICAN

LITERATURE

AMERICAN LITERATURE - I

POETRY
ROBERT FROST, 'AFTER APPLE PICKING'
WALT WHITMAN, 'O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN'
SYLVIA PLATH, 'DADDY'
LANGSTON HUGHES, 'HARLEM'

NOVEL
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

STORIES
EDGAR ALLAN POE, 'THE PURLOINED LETTER'
WILLIAM FAULKNER, 'DRY SEPTEMBER'

DRAMA
ARTHUR MILLER, DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Suggested Readings:
6. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in
Letters from an American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp.
66–105.
7. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.
8. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute
Neighbours’, in Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson,‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks
Atkinson (New York: The Modern Library, 1964).
10. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark:
Whiteness and Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–
39.

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 ENG-MDC-5-4 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH POETRY FROM

ELIZABETHAN TO MODERN AGE

ENGLISH POETRY

SHAKESPEARE: SONNET 18

BLAKE: THE LAMB

WORDSWORTH: DAFFODILS

SHELLEY: ONE WORD IS TOO OFTEN PROFANED

KEATS: BRIGHT STAR

BROWNING: PORPHYRIA'S LOVER

YEATS: WILD SWANS AT COOLE

Suggested Reading List:

5. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man,
in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary
Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
6. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable
Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin
McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11.
7. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’,
in Book 4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. 1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
8. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D.
Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP

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 SEMESTER 5

ENG-MDC-6-5 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT INDIAN

WRITING IN ENGLISH

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE: 'THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INDIAN NOVEL'

IN ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA (ED) A CONCISE HISTORY OF INDIAN
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, RANIKHET: PERMANENT BLACK, 2008

STORIES
KHUSHWANT SINGH, 'A BRIDE FOR THE SAHIB'
R.K. NARAYAN, 'ANOTHER COMMUNITY'

POETRY
MICHAEL MADHUSUDAN DUTT, 'TO A LADY'
TORU DUTT, 'OUR CASUARINA TREE'
NISSIM EZEKIEL, 'ENTERPRISE'

NOVEL
BANKIMCHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY, RAJMOHAN'S WIFE

Suggested Readings:
9. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
10. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in
Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
11. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The
Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
12. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English
(New Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10

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 ENG-MDC-7-5 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENGLISH PROSE FROM

ROMANTICS TO MODERN

ENGLISH PROSE

AUSTEN: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

DICKENS: DAVID COPPERFIELD

CONRAD: 'THE LAGOON'

LAWRENCE: 'THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER'

Suggested Readings:

2. E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel

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 SEMESTER 6

ENG-MDC-8-6 TH TU (4 CREDITS – TH 3 TU 1)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PARTITION LITERATURE

PARTITION LITERATURE

NOVEL
AMITAV GHOSH, THE SHADOW LINES

SHORT STORIES
PROTIVA BASU, 'THE MAROONED', TRANSLATED SUBHASREE
TAGORE, IN THE OTHER VOICE, EDS. TAPATI GUPTA AND ANIL
ACHARYA, KOLKATA: ANUSTUP
MANIK BANDYOPADHYAY, 'THE FINAL SOLUTION', TRANSLATED RANI
RAY, IN DEBJANI SENGUPTA ED. MAPMAKING: PARTITION STORIES
FROM TWO BENGALS, NEW DELHI: SRISHTI
SADAT HASAN MANTO, 'TOBA TEK SINGH', IN BLACK MARGINS:MANTO,
NEW DELHI: MANOHAR

POETRY
SAHIR LUDHIANVI, 'TWENTYSIXTH JANUARY',
BIRENDRA CHATTOPADHYAY, 'AFTER DEATH: TWENTY YEARS'
SANKHA GHOSH, 'REHABILITATION', IN RAKHSHANDA JALIL, TARUN
SAINT AND DEBJANI SENGUPTA EDS. LOOKING BACK: THE 1947
PARTITION OF INDIA 70 YEARS ON, NEW DELHI: ORIENT BLACKSWAN,
2017

Suggested Readings:

5. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and

Boundaries (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
6. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
7. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of
India (Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000).

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 8. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete
Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London:
Hogarth Press, 1953) pp. 3041–53.

SEC (SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSE)

ENG-MDC-SEC-1-1/2/3 (4 CREDITS – TH 3, TU 1)

BUSINESS WRITING
WHAT IS BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
WRITING REPORTS, LETTERS, CURRICULUM VITAE
WRITING MEETING MINUTES
E-CORRESPONDENCE

MARKS DIVISION: FOR ALL COURSES OTHER THAN SEC, MARKS

DIVISION IS 4 QUESTIONS OF 15 MARKS EACH (WITHIN 600 WORDS)
AND 3 QUESTIONS OF 5 MARKS EACH (WITHIN 200 WORDS)

FOR SEC, MARKS DIVISION IS 5 QUESTIONS OF 15 MARKS EACH

(WITHIN 600 WORDS)

FOR TUTORIALS WHEREVER APPLICABLE (MAJOR, MINOR OR MDC), THE

MARKS DIVISION IS 20 FOR WRITTEN PROJECTS AND 5 FOR VIVA

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 COMMON VALUE ADDED COURSE (CVAC)

ENG-CVAC-1-2 TH (2 CREDITS TH 2 TU 0)

INDIAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM

COURSE OBJECTIVE: TO ACQUAINT THE LEARNERS WITH THE TRADITIONAL INDIAN

VALUES (for those who will choose it in second semester)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE, 'CIVILIZATION AND PROGRESS'

RABINDRANATH TAGORE, 'IDEALS OF EDUCATION'

RABINDRANATH TAGORE, 'RELIGIOUS EDUCATION'

Prescribed Text:

1. Rabindranath Tagore, Boundless Sky, Visva-Bharati

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Amendment in CSR/03/2024, dt. 19.1.2024 and CSR/49/2023,
dt. 19.12.2023 regarding marks and credit distribution SEC-1 paper of
English (4-year Honours & Honours with Research) and SEC of English (3-
Year MDC)

Credit & marks Distribution :

Theory component: 75 marks (3 credits)

Tutorial component: 25 marks (1 credit)

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