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Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University

Curriculum for 4-year B. A. Honours with Major in English under CCFUGP

Semester I
C 1: History of English Literature: Old English to Shakespeare (with Social History) &
Literary Types and Literary Terms related to that period (6 credits)

Literary Types & Terms: Epic poetry, Ballad, Tragic Drama, Revenge Play, Tragic Flaw,
Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Pastoral Comedy, Comedy of Humours, Comedy of Manners,
Sonnet, Elegy, Masque, Essay, Romance
Image (Auditory/Visual/Tactile/Gustatory/Olfactory), Symbol, Simile, Metaphor, Irony,
Allegory, Soliloquy

Semester II
C 2: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries (6 credits)

1. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue from The Canterbury Tales (Nevill
Coghill)
Philip Sydney: from Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet no 1
Edmund Spenser: from Amoretti: Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’
Shakespeare: Sonnet no. 64 & 130
2. William Shakespeare: Macbeth
3. William Shakespeare: As You Like It
4. Francis Bacon: “Of Studies”, “Of Friendship”

Semester III
C 3: History of English Literature: Jacobean to Pre-Romantic age (with Social History)
and
Rhetoric & Prosody (6 credits)

Semester IV
C 4: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries (6 credits)

1. John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 1


2. John Donne: “The Sun Rising”, “Batter My Heart”
3.Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
4. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Canto 1)
5. Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

C 5: History of English Literature: Romantic and Victorian period and


Literary Terms related to this period. (6 credits)

Literary types & Terms:


Mock Epic, Ode, Dramatic Monologue, Synthesia, Negative Capability, Egotistical Sublime,
Pantheism, Novel, Novel of Sensibility, Sentimental Comedy, Narrative Technique, Point of
View (First/Second/Third Person Narrator),
Semester V
C 6: British Romantic Literature (6 credits)

1. William Blake: “Holy Thursday” (From Songs of Innocence & Songs of


Experience)
William Wordsworth: “Immortality Ode”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Dejection: An Ode”
Lord Byron: “On the Castle of Chillon”
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”
2. Charles Lamb: “Old China”
3. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

C 7: British Literature: Victorian Period (6 credits)

1. Alfred Tennyson: “Ulysses”


Robert Browning: “The Last Ride Together”
Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”
Christiana Rossetti: “Goblin Market” (selections)
GM Hopkins: “Pied Beauty”
2. Charles Dickens: Hard Times
3. Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native

Semester VI
C 8: History of English Literature: 1900-1950 and
Literary Terms related to this period. (6 credits)

Literary Terms: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, Intertextuality, Polyglottal, Interartistic,


Allusive, Image-centric, Stream of Consciousness, Interior Monologue, Epiphany, Theory of
Association, Prolepsis, Analepsis, Shavian play, Poetic drama, Locale colours

C 9: British Literature: The Early 20th Century (6 credits)

1. Wilfred Owen: “Strange Meeting”


W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”
T.S. Eliot: “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
W.H. Auden: “Unknown Citizen”
Dylan Thomas: “Poem in October”
2. James Joyce: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
3. G B Shaw: Arms and the Man
4. JM Synge: Riders to the Sea

C 10: Pre-Independence Indian Writing in English (6 credits)


1. Raja Rao: Kanthapura
2. H.L.V. Derozio: “The Orphan Girl”
3. Toru Dutt: “Our Casuarina Tree”
4. Rabindranath Tagore: “The Child”
5. Sarojini Naidu: “Coromandel Fishers”
6. Mulk Raj Anand: “Lullaby”
7. Rabindranath Tagore: “The Hungry Stones” (Translated by Pannalal Basu)
Semester VII

C 11: Post-Independence Indian Writing in English (6 credits)

1.R.K. Narayan: The Guide


2.Kamala Das: “An Introduction”
3.Jayanta Mahapatra: “Hunger”
4.Nissim Ezekiel: “The Night of the Scorpion”
5.Robin S. Ngangom: “A Poem for Mother”
6.Khushwant Singh: “The Mulberry Tree”
7.Salman Rushdie: “The Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist”
8.Jhumpa Lahiri: “Mrs. Sens”
9.Arundhati Roy: “The Cost of Living”
10.Vijay Tendulkar: Silence: The Court is in Session

C 12: Classics in Translation (6 credits)

1. Kalidasa: Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan


2. Vyasa: (i) ‘The Dicing’ and (ii) ‘The Sequel to Dicing’ (from Book II ‘The Book of
the Assembly Hall’), The Mahabharata: tr. and ed. J.A.B. van Buitenen
3. Sophocles: Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles
4. Ovid: Selections from Metamorphoses (i) ‘Bacchus’, (Book III), (ii) ‘Pyramus and
Thisbe’ (Book IV), (iii) ‘Philomela’ (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes.

C 13: American Literature (6 credits)

1. Eugene O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra


2. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Edgar Allan Poe: “The Purloined Letter”
William Faulkner: “Dry September”
4. Anne Bradstreet: “The Prologue”
Walt Whitman: “O Captain, My Captain”
“Passage to India” (lines 1–68)
Robert Frost: “Road not taken”
5. Maya Angelou: “Still I Rise”

Semester VIII

C 14: 1. Philology 2. Appreciation of unseen poem and 3. Essay (4 credits)


C 15: Literary Criticism (4 credits)
1. Plato: Narrative
2. Aristotle: ‘Plot’ & ‘Character’
3. Horace: ‘Decorum’
4. Longinus: ‘Five Sources of Sublime’
5. Sir Philip Sidney: An Apologie for Poetry – ‘Role of the Poet’
6. Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism: ‘Nature of Imitation’
7. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads- ‘Definition of Poetry’
8. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria – ‘Fancy’ and ‘Imagination’
9. Matthew Arnold- ‘Touchstone Method’
10. T.S. Eliot: ‘Dissociation of sensibility’ & ‘Objective Correlative’
C 16: Contemporary Literary Theory (4 credits)
TBF

C 17: Transnational Literature and Women’s writing (6 credits: for students of Honours
without research)
TBF

C 18: European Literature in Translation (6 credits: for students of Honours without


research)

1. Drama
Anton Chekov: Cherry Orchard
Henrik Ibsen: Doll’s House
2. Short Stories
Maupassant: TBF
Pushkin: TBF
Tolstoy: The Holy Man
3. Poetry
Baudlaire: TBF
Rilke: TBF
Mallarme: TBF

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