English Honours Regular
English Honours Regular
English Honours Regular
BERHAMPUR UNIVERSITY
UG Course of Studies
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Course Contents
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
Core Paper 1
The paper seeks to introduce the students to British poetry and drama from the 14 th
to the 17th centuries. It offers the students an exploration of certain seminal texts
that set the course of British poetry and plays.
Unit 2:
Thomas Campion: ―Follow Thy Fair Sun, Unhappy Shadow‖
Sir Philip Sidney: ―Leave, O Love, which reaches but to dust‖
Edmund Waller: ―Go, lovely Rose‖
Ben Jonson: ―Song: To Celia‖
William Shakespeare: ―Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?‖
―When to the seasons of sweet silent thought‖,
―Let me not to the marriage of true minds.‖
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
Core Paper 2
The objective of this paper is to acquaint students with the Jacobean and the 18 th
century British poetry and drama, the first a period of the acid satire and the
comedy of humours; and the second a period of supreme satiric poetry and the
comedy of manners.
Unit1
A historical overview:
i. 17th C: Period of the English Revolution (1640–60);
ii. The Jacobean period; metaphysical poetry; cavalier poetry;
iii. comedy of humours; masques and beast fables, 18th C: Puritanism;
iv. Restoration; Neoclassicism; Heroic poetry; Restoration comedy; Comedy of
manners
Unit 2
John Milton: Lycidas
John Donne: ―A Nocturnal upon S. Lucie's Day‖,‖ Love‘s Deity‖
Andrew Marvel: ―Flow gently, Sweet Afton,‖ ―To a Mountain Daisy‖
Unit 3
Pope: ―Ode on Solitude,‖
―The Dying Christian to his Soul‖
Robert Burns: ―A Red Red Rose‖
―A Fond Kiss‖
Unit 4
Dryden: All for Love
Suggested readings:
1. Lycidas - John Milton (Eds. Paul & Thomas), Orient Blackswan
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ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
Core Paper 3
British Literature: 18th Century
The objective of the paper is to acquaint the students with three remarkable forms
of literature: Essay, poetry and novel. The period is also known for its shift of
emphasis from reason to emotion.
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions)20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from prose & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
Core Paper IV
Indian Writing in English
Though a late developer, Indian writing in English has been the fastest growing
branch of Indian literature. It has delivered a rich and vibrant body of writing
spanning all genres. As a ‗twice born‘ form of writing, it partakes of both the
native and alien perspectives and has an inherent inclination to be postcolonial.
This paper attempts to introduce the students to the field of Indian writing in
English through some representative works.
Unit – 1
Unit 2
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Unit 3
R. Parthasarathy (ed) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. The following poets
and their poems are to be studied.
1. Nissim Ezekiel, ―Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher‖
2. Kamala Das, ―A Hot Noon in Malabar‖
3. Jayanta Mahapatra, ―Indian Summer‖
4. A.K. Ramanujan, ―Small Scale Reflections on a Great House‖
Unit 4
Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope
Suggested Readings:
1. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, An illustrated History of Indian Literature in
English.Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2003.
2. R. Parthasarathy, Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1975.
3. VinayDharwadkar, The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature
In Sheldon Pollock (ed.) Literary Cultures in History. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
4. http://www.poemhunter.com
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
Core Paper V
Indian Classical literature
This paper aims at creating awareness among the students of the rich and diverse
literary culture of ancient India.
Unit- 2: Vyasa ―The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing, ―The book of the
Assembly Hall,‖ ― The Temptation of Karna‖, Book v ‗ The Book of
Effort‘, in The Mahabharata: tr.and ed. J. A.B. Van
Buitenen(Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106- 69.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from drama & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
Core Paper VI
European Classical Literature
4. Beye, Charles Rowan. Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press. 1987
Web Resources:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from drama & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
Core Paper VII
American Literature
This paper seeks to give the students a sense of how the great American themes of
self-reliance, individualism, sin and redemption and multiculturalism were shaped
through its rich and varied Literature.
Unit-4
Walt Whitman Selections from ―Leaves of Grass‖
―O Captain, My Captain‖
―Passage to India (Lines 1-68)‖
Suggested Reading
1. Hector ST. John Crevecouer, ―What is an American‖ (Letter III) in ―Letter
From an American‖, (Letter III) in ―Letter from an American Farmer‖.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982), pp.66-105.
2. Joni Morrison, ―Romancing the Shadow‖ in ―Playing in the Dark‖: Witness
and Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1933) pp. 29-39.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & drama taken together & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
Core Paper VIII
Popular Literature
This paper seeks to introduce the students to genres such as romance, detective
fiction, campus fiction, fantasy/mythology, which have a ―mass‖ appeal, and can
help us gain a better understanding of the popular roots of literature.
Suggested Readings
1. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ―Introduction‖ in ―Beyond Appearances: Visual
Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage, Delhi, 2003), pp. xiii-xxix
2. Leslie Fiedler, Towards a Definition of Popular Culture and Europe, ed.
C.W.C. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975)pp. 29-58.
Web Resources:
Lev Grossman: ―Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre
Fiction is Disruptive Technology‖
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/23/genre-fiction-is-disruptive-
technology/
Arthur Krystal: ―Easy Writers: Guilty pleasures without guilt‖
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/28/easy-writers
Joshua Rothman: ―A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate‖
http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/better-way-think-genre-
debate
Stephen Marche: How Genre Fiction Became More Important than Literary
Fiction‖
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a33599/genre-fiction-vs-
literary-fiction/
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Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
Core Paper IX
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Suggested Readings
1. Romantic Prose and Poetry, Ed. Harold Bloom and Lionell Trilling (New
York, OUP, 1973), pp. 594-611.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). (Two annotation out of Four).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
Core Paper X
British Literature: 19th Century
Full Marks: 100 (80+20) Time: 3 hours
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The paper seeks to expose students to the literature produced in Britain in the 19th
century. The focus is mainly on fictional prose and poetry. The 19th century
embraces three distinct periods of the Regency, Victorian and late Victorian.
Unit-2
Charlotte Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Unit-3
Alfred Tennyson: ―Ulysses‖
Robert Browning: ―The Last Ride Together‖
Unit -4
George Eliot: Silas Marner
Suggested Readings:
1. Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Stephen Greenblatt
(New York: Norton, 2006) Chapter-1
2. A. Reader in Marxist Philosophy, Ed. Howard Salesman and Harry Martel
(New York: International Publishers, 1963, pp.186-188;pp. 190-201), 1545-
1549.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
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FIFTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XI
Women’s Writing
The course aims to acquaint the students with the complex and multifaceted
literature by women of the world, reflecting the diversity of women‘s experiences
and their varied cultural moorings. It embraces different forms of literature: poetry,
fiction, short fiction, and critical writings. In certain respects, it interlocks concerns
of women‘s literary history, women‘s studies and feminist criticism.
Unit-2:
ii. Toni Morrisson , Playing in the Dark Whiteness and the Literary
Imagination. Cambridge ; HarvardUP, 1992.
Unit-3:
1. Emily Dickinson, ‗I cannot live with you‘, ‗I am wife‘.
2. Sylvia Plath: ‗Daddy, ‗Lady Lazarus‘
3. Kamla Das: ―Mirror‖
4. Sujata Bhatt: ―Voice of the Unwanted Girl‖
5. Shruti Das: ―A New Dawn‖, ―To My Mother‖
Unit-4:
1. Katherine Mansfield , ‗Bliss‘.
2. Mahaswetha Devi ‗ Draupadi‘ , Tr. GyatriChakravortySpivak (Calcutta ,
Seagull, 2002)
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Web Resources:
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FIFTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XII
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This paper aims to familiarize the students with the new literature of Britain in the
early decades of the 20th century. The course will mainly focus on the modernist
canon, founded on Ezra Pound‘s idea of ‗make it new‘, but will cover war poetry,
social poetry of the 1930s and literary criticism.
Unit-4.
1. W B Yeats: ―The Lake Isle of Innisfree,‖ ―The Cap and Bells,‖ ―An Irish
Airman Forsees His Death‖
2. T S Eliot: ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock,‖ ―The Hollow Men‖
Suggested Readings
1. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence, Raymond Williams, London,
Hogarth Press, 1984, pp.9-27.
2. Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, vol.2, Ed. Stephen
Greenblatt (New York, Nortorn, 2006), pp.2319-2325.
3. The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman, et.al. (Oxford University Press,
1965, pp.571, 578-580, 559-563.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
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ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XIII
Modern European Drama
The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to the best of experimental and
innovative dramatic literature of modern Europe.
Suggested Readings
1. Constantin Stanislavaski, An Actor Prepares, Chapter 8, ―Faith and The
Sense of Truth‖,tr. by Elizabeth Raynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1967, Section 1, 2, 7, 8,9; pp. 121-125, pp 137-146.
2. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and translated by
John Willet (London, Methuen, 1992), pp.68-76, 121-128.
3. George Steiner, The Death of Tragedy, London: Faber, 1995), pp. 303-324.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation)15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two annotations out of four.
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XIV
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Postcolonial Literature
This paper seeks to introduce the students to postcolonial literature—a body of
literature that responds to the discourses of European colonialism and empire in
Asia, Africa, Middle East, the Pacific and elsewhere. By focusing on representative
texts situated in a variety of locations, the paper aims to provide the students with
the opportunity to think through and understand the layered response –
compliance, resistance, mimicry and subversion - that colonial power has provoked
from the nations in their search for a literature of their own.
Unit-4: Poems:
Derek Walcott: ―A Far Cry from Africa‖
David Malouf: ―Revolving Days‖
Web Resources
Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa. ―The Quest for Relevance‖ from Decolonising the
Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
https://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/pdf/Wellek_Readings_Ngugi_Q
uest_for_Relevance.pdf
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin. Post-Colonial Studies: The
Key Concepts. New York: Routledge. 2007.
http://staff.uny.ac.id/sites/default/files/pendidikan/else-liliani-
ssmhum/postcolonialstudiesthekeyconceptsroutledgekeyguides.pdf
Derek Walcott: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/far-cry-africa
www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/a-far-cry-from-
africa.html
1.
David Malouf: http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/malouf-
david/revolving-days-0429001
Suggested Readings:
1. Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask. translated Charles Lam Markmann
(London: Pluto Press)
2. Ngugi WaThiongo, Decolonizing the Mind, The Language of African
Literature, London: James Curry, 1986, Chapter 1, Section 4-6.
3. Gayatri C. Spivak: ―The Subaltern Speaks‖
(abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions): 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers): 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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ENGLISH
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -1)
FIFTH SEMESTER
Literary Theory
Unit 3- Feminism.
i. Elaine Showalter, ―Twenty years on : A Literature of their own‖
Revised‘ in A Literature of their own: British women Novelists from
Bronte to Lessing (1977. Rpt. London: Vintage,2003) pp xi-xxxiii.
ii. Luce Icrigaray, ―When the Goods Get Together‖ (From This Sex Which
is not One) in New French Feminisms, ed.Elaine Marks and Isebelle
de. Curtivron (New York, Schocken Books, 1981), 107-110.
Suggested Readings:-
1. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008)
2. Peter Berry, Beginning Theory(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (10 short questions of 2 marks each covering all units) : 2x10 =20
ENGLISH
FIFTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -2)
Literary Criticism
Suggested Readings:
1. English Critical Texts Ed. By D.J. Enright and Chikera
2. The Mirror and the Lamp Ed. By M.H. Abraham
3. Modern Criticism and Theory: Ed by David Lodge
4. Symbolism: An Anthology. Ed. By T.G. West (Methuen, 1980)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (10 short questions of 2 marks each covering all units) : 2x10 =20
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -3)
Autobiography
Objective: Autobiography has always been a major genre in literature of all times
even though it has not received the attention it deserves. This paper seeks to
acquaint the students with the technicalities involved in the genesis of biographies
in general apart from introducing them to certain biographical pieces of socio-
cultural, literary and moral significance.
Unit -4:
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. Linda Anderson, ‗Introduction‘ in Autobiography, (London: Routledge,
2001)
3. Mary G. Mason, ―The Other Voice‖: Autobiographies of Women Writers in
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Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -IV)
Full marks 100 (80+20)
Project
1. An Outline of the project Synopsis for midterm shall be submitted. (20 marks)
2. The project work carrying 80 marks shall be in any one of the following
categories within not less than three thousand words. (3000)
3. A critical writing in the field of Indian/ British/ American Literature under the
supervision of one of the faculty members.
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
(For the students of other Departments/Hons. courses)
Generic Elective 1
English-Paper 1
Objective: The students of other honours (Arts) subjects will benefit immensely
from the topics catering to thrust on langage, literature and culture. That will help
them develop their linguistic competence and socio-cultural awareness.
Texts prescribed:
1. Magic Casements: Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Ram Narayan Panda. 2007.
New Delhi: Trinity Press, 2014.
2. Macmillan Anthology of Modern English Prose. Ed. Dilip K. Das, A.
Kumari, and K.K. Padhi, Macmillan India Ltd. Sixteenth Century &The
Early Seventeenth Century, New Delhi, 2007.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions)20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from prose& one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
(For the students of other Departments/Hons. courses)
Generic Elective 3
English-Paper 2
Paper Code: SEM III-GE-3-ENG- Other H-2
Paper title:
TECHNICAL WRITING:
ESSAY, FEATURE, AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
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No. of credits: 06
Objective: The students of other honours (Arts) subjects will benefit immensely
from their engagement with various aspects of technical writing.
Unit-1
Unit 2
The students will write a publication-worthy feature on a place of
national/international tourist attraction of their choice or a national/internal
celebrity of their choice. (1 X 10= 10)
Unit -3
The students will write an essay on a topic of literary significance (Three topics,
related to the themes stated below, will be given out of which the students will
choose any one) (1 X 10= 10)
i. Literature and Morality
ii. Literature and Society
iii. Literature and Life
iv. Literature and Culture
v. Literature and History
vi. Literature and Biography
vii. Women in Literature
viii. Literature and Psychology
ix. Literature and Philosophy
x. Marxism and Literature
Unit -4
The students will attempt critical appreciation of any one of the following:
(1 X 10= 10)
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Suggested Reading:
1. W.R. Goodman: Quintessence of Literary essays
2. I.A. Richards: Practical Criticism
3. M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms
Marks: 50 (40+10)
Credits: 02
Unit 1:
Prose
Poetry
1. The Village Schoolmaster - Oliver Goldsmith
2. You and Your Whole Race - Langston Hughes
3. Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
4. Curfew In The City - Jagannath Prasad Das
5. Of Mountains - Shruti Das
Unit-2. Writing
1.Expanding an Idea
2. Writing a Memo
3. Report Writing
4. Creative Writing
5. News Story
6. Setting in Creative Writing
7. Writing a Business Letter
8. Letters to the Editor
9. Précis Writing
10. CV & Resume Writing
11. Dialog writing
12. Covering Letter
13. Writing Formal Email
14. Elements of Story Writing
15. Note Making
16. Information Transfer
17. Interviewing for news papers
Unit 3:
Grammar and Usage
1. Simple and Compound Sentences
2. Complex Sentences
3. Noun Clause
4. Adjective Clause
5. Adverb Clause
6. The Conditionals in English
7. The Second Conditional
8. The Third Conditional
9. Words and their features
10. Phrasal Verbs
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11. Collocation
12. Using Modals
13. Use of Passives
14. Use of Prepositions
15. Subject-verb Agreement
16. Sentence as a system
17. Common Errors in English Usage
Examination pattern
Midterm test [10 marks]
Final Semester Examination 40 marks
Unit 1: 3 prose questions (out of six set) and two poetry questions (out of four set)
each carrying 03 marks: [ 03x 05 = 15 marks]
Prescribed Texts
1. The Widening Gyre: An Anthology of Prose, Poetry and One-Act Plays.
(Ed.) Ram Narayan Panda and Shruti Das. New Delhi; Oxford UP, 2016.
2. Contemporary Communicative English by Shruti Das, S. Chand & Co.,
2014.
3. Form and Finnesse: Business Communication and Soft skills. By Shruti
Das, Orient Blackswan, 2016.
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular-Core English
English-Paper 1
Paper title:
TECHNICAL WRITING:
ESSAY, FEATURE, AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
No. of credits: 06
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
their engagement with various aspects of technical writing.
Unit-1
Unit 2
The students will write a publication-worthy feature on a place of
national/international tourist attraction of their choice or a national/internal
celebrity of their choice. (1 X 10= 10)
Unit -3
The students will write an essay on a topic of literary significance (Three topics,
related to the themes stated below, will be given out of which the students will
choose any one) (1 X 10= 10)
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Unit -4
The students will attempt critical appreciation of any one of the following:
(1 X 10= 10)
Suggested Reading:
1. W.R. Goodman: Quintessence of Literary essays
2. I.A. Richards: Practical Criticism
3. M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms
ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular Core English 2
English-Paper 2
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
the topics selected from prose and poetry catering to thrust on language, literature
and culture. That will help them develop their linguistic competence and socio-
cultural awareness.
Texts prescribed:
3. Magic Casements: Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Ram Narayan Panda. 2007.
New Delhi: Trinity Press, 2014.
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ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular-Core English
English-Paper 3
DRAMA
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
close reading of the plays prescribed for them illustrating various dimensions of
dramatic discourse. That will help them develop their linguistic competence and
apart from sensitizing them to issues of socio-cultural and moral significance.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (Two annotations out of
four selected plays).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 covering all units will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular-Core English
English-Paper 4
NOVEL
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
close reading of the novels prescribed for them illustrating various dimensions of
fictional discourse. That will help them develop their linguistic competence apart
from sensitizing them to issues of socio-cultural and moral significance.
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Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (Two short annotations
out of four selected novels).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 covering all units will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
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FIRST SEMESTER
ENGLISH 1
This paper seeks to introduce the students of Arts and Commerce to the discourses
used in Drama and One-Act Plays. Thus, certain important plays from British,
American and Indian drama have been chosen apart from two one-acters from the
contemporary period by way of helping the student understand the knowhow of the
theatre and develop his linguistic competence as well as cultural awareness.
Texts prescribed:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (4 questions of 5 marks each out 8 asked
covering all units)
Group-B (4 long questions out of 8 asked will be answered, each carrying 15
marks, covering all units).
THIRD SEMESTER
ENGLISH 2
This paper seeks to introduce the students of Arts and Commerce to the discourses
used in fiction and non-fictional prose. Thus, certain important texts of fiction and
non-fictional prose have been chosen to be taught by way of helping the student
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understand the technicalities of fiction and non-fictional prose and develop his
linguistic competence as well as cultural awareness.
No. of credits: 06
Unit I:
Unit II:
Unit III:
Unit IV:
Texts prescribed:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (4 questions of 5 marks each out 8 asked
covering all units)
Group-B (4 long questions out of 8 asked will be answered, each carrying 15
marks, covering all units).
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Popular Literature
This paper seeks to introduce the students to genres such as romance, detective
fiction, campus fiction, fantasy/mythology, which have a ―mass‖ appeal, and can
help us gain a better understanding of the popular roots of literature.
Suggested Readings
1. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ―Introduction‖ in ―Beyond Appearances: Visual
Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage, Delhi, 2003), pp. xiii-xxix
2. Leslie Fiedler, Towards a Definition of Popular Culture and Europe, ed.
C.W.C. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975)pp. 29-58.
Web Resources:
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.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
Generic Elective 2
SIXTH SEMESTER
Women’s Writing
The course aims to acquaint the students with the complex and multifaceted
literature by women of the world, reflecting the diversity of women‘s experiences
and their varied cultural moorings. It embraces different forms of literature: poetry,
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fiction, short fiction, and critical writings. In certain respects, it interlocks concerns
of women‘s literary history, women‘s studies and feminist criticism.
Unit-2:
ii. Toni Morrisson , Playing in the Dark Whiteness and the Literary
Imagination. Cambridge ; HarvardUP, 1992.
Unit-3:
6. Emily Dickinson, ‗I cannot live with you‘, ‗I am wife‘.
7. Sylvia Plath: ‗Daddy, ‗Lady Lazarus‘
8. Kamla Das: ―Mirror‖
9. Sujata Bhatt: ―Voice of the Unwanted Girl‖
10.Shruti Das: ―A New Dawn‖, ―To My Mother‖
Unit-4:
3. Katherine Mansfield , ‗Bliss‘.
4. Mahaswetha Devi ‗ Draupadi‘ , Tr. GyatriChakravortySpivak (Calcutta ,
Seagull, 2002)
Web Resources:
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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DSE 1-2
DSE 1-2
Unit- 4
Cleanth Brooks: ―The Language of Paradox.‖
Suggested Readings:
1. English Critical Texts Ed. By D.J. Enright and Chikera
2. The Mirror and the Lamp Ed. By M.H. Abraham
3. Modern Criticism and Theory: Ed by David Lodge
4. Symbolism: An Anthology. Ed. By T.G. West (Methuen, 1980)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (10 short questions of 2 marks each covering all units) : 2x10 =20
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -2)
Autobiography
Objective: Autobiography has always been a major genre in literature of all times
even though it has not received the attention it deserves. This paper seeks to
acquaint the students with the technicalities involved in the genesis of biographies
in general apart from introducing them to certain biographical pieces of socio-
cultural, literary and moral significance.
Unit -4:
Suggested Readings
5. James Olney, ―A Theory of Autobiography‖ in Metaphors of self: the
meaning of autobiography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972) pp
3-50.
6. Linda Anderson, ‗Introduction‘ in Autobiography, (London: Routledge,
2001)
7. Mary G. Mason, ―The Other Voice‖: Autobiographies of Women Writers in
Life/ Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography.ed.Bella Brodzki and
Celeste Schenk. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) pp. 19-44.
8. ParamahansaYogananda. Autobiography of a Yogi. New York: The
Philosophical library. 1946.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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THIRD SEMESTER
ENGLISH
For the students of
[B.Com (Hons), B.Sc. (Hons), B.A. (Hons) & B.Sc regular]
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COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
Preamble:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the concept,
fundamentals and tools of communication and to develop in them vital
communication skills which should be integral to personal, social and
professional interactions. One of the critical links among human beings
and an important thread that binds society together is the ability to share
thoughts, emotions and ideas through various means of communication:
both verbal and non-verbal. In the context of rapid globalization and
increasing recognition of social and cultural pluralities, the significance of
clear and effective communication has substantially enhanced.
The present course hopes to address some of these aspects through an
interactive mode of teaching-learning process and by focusing on various
dimensions of communication skills.
While, to an extent, the art of communication is natural to all living
beings, in today‘s world of complexities, it has also acquired some
elements of science. It is hoped that after studying this course, students
will understand the difference in their personal and professional
interactions and hone their skills accordingly.
The recommended readings given at the end are only suggestive; the
students and teachers have the freedom to consult other materials on
various units/topics given below. Similarly, the questions in the
examination will be aimed towards assessing the skills learnt by the
students rather than the textual content of the recommended books.
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2. Language of Communication:
Factors influencing communication
Functions of Language
3. Speaking Skills:
Pronunciation: individual words
Pronunciation: Speaking using correct intonation
Effective Communication/ Mis- Communication
4. Writing:
Technique of Writing
Types of Letters: Routine, Good Will, Bad News, Persuasive
Reports, Minutes
Proposals, Advertisements, Brochures
Pattern of Examination:
Group A:
20 short questions (each carrying 02 marks) covering all the 04 units will be asked
out of which the candidates will answer any TEN. (10 x 2= 20)
Group B:
The candidates will be asked 6 long answer-type questions (each carrying 10 marks)
covering all the 04 units out of which the candidates will answer any four.
(15 x 4= 60)
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SIXTH SEMESTER
Preamble:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the necessity,
fundamentals and tools of soft skills which should be integral to personal,
social and professional interactions. In the context of rapid globalization
and increasing recognition of social and cultural pluralities, the
development of soft skills is automatically mandated.
The present course hopes to address some of these aspects through an
interactive mode of teaching-learning process and by focusing on various
dimensions of soft skills. Some of these are:
The questions in the examination will be aimed towards assessing the
skills learnt by the students through and beyond the textual content of the
recommended book.
Unit I:
i. What are soft skills
ii. Kinds of personality
iii. Personality Development
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Unit II:
i. Emotional Intelligence and adaptability
ii. Cultural Communication
iii. Varieties of English: Standard English,
American English, Indian English
Unit III.
i. Team Work and leadership
ii. Meetings
iii. Problem solving and Negotiation
Unit IV
i. Interview
ii. Curriculum Vitae
iii. Making a presentation (PowerPoint and
otherwise)
Pattern of Examination:
Group A:
20 short questions (each carrying 02 marks) covering all the 04 units will be asked
out of which the candidates will answer any TEN. (10 x 2= 20)
Group B:
The candidates will be asked 6 long answer-type questions (each carrying 10 marks)
covering all the 04 units out of which the candidates will answer any four.
(15 x 4= 60)
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Course Contents
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the course no.
1 English (Honours) Core Course-Syllabus 67
2 English Hons. DSE 1-4 86
3 ENGLISH: GENERIC ELECTIVES GE 1 & GE 2 92
(for other Hons. Students)
4 Ability Enhancement Course: AEC 97
MIL/Communication (Alternative ENGLISH)
SECOND SEMESTER
5 ENGLISH: DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE (1-4) 101
FOR B.A (REGULAR) STUDENTS
Marks add-up
ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
Core Paper 1
The paper seeks to introduce the students to British poetry and drama from the 14 th
to the 17th centuries. It offers the students an exploration of certain seminal texts
that set the course of British poetry and plays.
Unit 2:
Thomas Campion: ―Follow Thy Fair Sun, Unhappy Shadow‖
Sir Philip Sidney: ―Leave, O Love, which reaches but to dust‖
Edmund Waller: ―Go, lovely Rose‖
Ben Jonson: ―Song: To Celia‖
William Shakespeare: ―Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?‖
―When to the seasons of sweet silent thought‖,
―Let me not to the marriage of true minds.‖
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
Core Paper 2
The objective of this paper is to acquaint students with the Jacobean and the 18 th
century British poetry and drama, the first a period of the acid satire and the
comedy of humours; and the second a period of supreme satiric poetry and the
comedy of manners.
Unit1
A historical overview:
i. 17th C: Period of the English Revolution (1640–60);
ii. The Jacobean period; metaphysical poetry; cavalier poetry;
iii. comedy of humours; masques and beast fables, 18th C: Puritanism;
iv. Restoration; Neoclassicism; Heroic poetry; Restoration comedy; Comedy of
manners
Unit 2
John Milton: Lycidas
John Donne: ―A Nocturnal upon S. Lucie's Day‖,‖ Love‘s Deity‖
Andrew Marvel: ―Flow gently, Sweet Afton,‖ ―To a Mountain Daisy‖
Unit 3
Pope: ―Ode on Solitude,‖
―The Dying Christian to his Soul‖
Robert Burns: ―A Red Red Rose‖
―A Fond Kiss‖
Unit 4
Dryden: All for Love
Suggested readings:
4. Lycidas - John Milton (Eds. Paul & Thomas), Orient Blackswan
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ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
Core Paper 3
British Literature: 18th Century
The objective of the paper is to acquaint the students with three remarkable forms
of literature: Essay, poetry and novel. The period is also known for its shift of
emphasis from reason to emotion.
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions)20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from prose & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
Core Paper IV
Indian Writing in English
Though a late developer, Indian writing in English has been the fastest growing
branch of Indian literature. It has delivered a rich and vibrant body of writing
spanning all genres. As a ‗twice born‘ form of writing, it partakes of both the
native and alien perspectives and has an inherent inclination to be postcolonial.
This paper attempts to introduce the students to the field of Indian writing in
English through some representative works.
Unit – 1
Unit 2
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Unit 3
R. Parthasarathy (ed) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. The following poets
and their poems are to be studied.
5. Nissim Ezekiel, ―Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher‖
6. Kamala Das, ―A Hot Noon in Malabar‖
7. Jayanta Mahapatra, ―Indian Summer‖
8. A.K. Ramanujan, ―Small Scale Reflections on a Great House‖
Unit 4
Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope
Suggested Readings:
5. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, An illustrated History of Indian Literature in
English.Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2003.
6. R. Parthasarathy, Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1975.
7. VinayDharwadkar, The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature
In Sheldon Pollock (ed.) Literary Cultures in History. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
8. http://www.poemhunter.com
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
Core Paper V
Indian Classical literature
This paper aims at creating awareness among the students of the rich and diverse
literary culture of ancient India.
Unit- 2: Vyasa ―The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing, ―The book of the
Assembly Hall,‖ ― The Temptation of Karna‖, Book v ‗ The Book of
Effort‘, in The Mahabharata: tr.and ed. J. A.B. Van
Buitenen(Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106- 69.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from drama & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
Core Paper VI
European Classical Literature
4. Beye, Charles Rowan. Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press. 1987
Web Resources:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from drama & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
Core Paper VII
American Literature
This paper seeks to give the students a sense of how the great American themes of
self-reliance, individualism, sin and redemption and multiculturalism were shaped
through its rich and varied Literature.
Unit-4
Walt Whitman Selections from ―Leaves of Grass‖
―O Captain, My Captain‖
―Passage to India (Lines 1-68)‖
Suggested Reading
1. Hector ST. John Crevecouer, ―What is an American‖ (Letter III) in ―Letter
From an American‖, (Letter III) in ―Letter from an American Farmer‖.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982), pp.66-105.
2. Joni Morrison, ―Romancing the Shadow‖ in ―Playing in the Dark‖: Witness
and Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1933) pp. 29-39.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & drama taken together & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
Core Paper VIII
Popular Literature
This paper seeks to introduce the students to genres such as romance, detective
fiction, campus fiction, fantasy/mythology, which have a ―mass‖ appeal, and can
help us gain a better understanding of the popular roots of literature.
Suggested Readings
1. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ―Introduction‖ in ―Beyond Appearances: Visual
Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage, Delhi, 2003), pp. xiii-xxix
2. Leslie Fiedler, Towards a Definition of Popular Culture and Europe, ed.
C.W.C. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975)pp. 29-58.
Web Resources:
Lev Grossman: ―Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre
Fiction is Disruptive Technology‖
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/23/genre-fiction-is-disruptive-
technology/
Arthur Krystal: ―Easy Writers: Guilty pleasures without guilt‖
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/28/easy-writers
Joshua Rothman: ―A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate‖
http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/better-way-think-genre-
debate
Stephen Marche: How Genre Fiction Became More Important than Literary
Fiction‖
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a33599/genre-fiction-vs-
literary-fiction/
.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
Core Paper IX
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Suggested Readings
2. Romantic Prose and Poetry, Ed. Harold Bloom and Lionell Trilling (New
York, OUP, 1973), pp. 594-611.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). (Two annotation out of Four).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
Core Paper X
British Literature: 19th Century
Full Marks: 100 (80+20) Time: 3 hours
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The paper seeks to expose students to the literature produced in Britain in the 19 th
century. The focus is mainly on fictional prose and poetry. The 19th century
embraces three distinct periods of the Regency, Victorian and late Victorian.
Unit-2
Charlotte Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Unit-3
Alfred Tennyson: ―Ulysses‖
Robert Browning: ―The Last Ride Together‖
Unit -4
George Eliot: Silas Marner
Suggested Readings:
1. Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Stephen Greenblatt
(New York: Norton, 2006) Chapter-1
2. A. Reader in Marxist Philosophy, Ed. Howard Salesman and Harry Martel
(New York: International Publishers, 1963, pp.186-188;pp. 190-201), 1545-
1549.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
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FIFTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XI
Women’s Writing
The course aims to acquaint the students with the complex and multifaceted
literature by women of the world, reflecting the diversity of women‘s experiences
and their varied cultural moorings. It embraces different forms of literature: poetry,
fiction, short fiction, and critical writings. In certain respects, it interlocks concerns
of women‘s literary history, women‘s studies and feminist criticism.
Unit-2:
ii. Toni Morrisson , Playing in the Dark Whiteness and the Literary
Imagination. Cambridge ; HarvardUP, 1992.
Unit-3:
1. Emily Dickinson, ‗I cannot live with you‘, ‗I am wife‘.
2. Sylvia Plath: ‗Daddy, ‗Lady Lazarus‘
3. Kamla Das: ―Mirror‖
4. Sujata Bhatt: ―Voice of the Unwanted Girl‖
5. Shruti Das: ―A New Dawn‖, ―To My Mother‖
Unit-4:
1. Katherine Mansfield , ‗Bliss‘.
2. Mahaswetha Devi ‗ Draupadi‘ , Tr. GyatriChakravortySpivak (Calcutta ,
Seagull, 2002)
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Web Resources:
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
FIFTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XII
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This paper aims to familiarize the students with the new literature of Britain in the
early decades of the 20th century. The course will mainly focus on the modernist
canon, founded on Ezra Pound‘s idea of ‗make it new‘, but will cover war poetry,
social poetry of the 1930s and literary criticism.
Unit-4.
3. W B Yeats: ―The Lake Isle of Innisfree,‖ ―The Cap and Bells,‖ ―An Irish
Airman Forsees His Death‖
4. T S Eliot: ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock,‖ ―The Hollow Men‖
Suggested Readings
1. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence, Raymond Williams, London,
Hogarth Press, 1984, pp.9-27.
2. Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, vol.2, Ed. Stephen
Greenblatt (New York, Nortorn, 2006), pp.2319-2325.
3. The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman, et.al. (Oxford University Press,
1965, pp.571, 578-580, 559-563.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
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ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XIII
Modern European Drama
The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to the best of experimental and
innovative dramatic literature of modern Europe.
Suggested Readings
1. Constantin Stanislavaski, An Actor Prepares, Chapter 8, ―Faith and The
Sense of Truth‖,tr. by Elizabeth Raynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1967, Section 1, 2, 7, 8,9; pp. 121-125, pp 137-146.
2. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and translated by
John Willet (London, Methuen, 1992), pp.68-76, 121-128.
3. George Steiner, The Death of Tragedy, London: Faber, 1995), pp. 303-324.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation)15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two annotations out of four.
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Core Paper XIV
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Postcolonial Literature
This paper seeks to introduce the students to postcolonial literature—a body of
literature that responds to the discourses of European colonialism and empire in
Asia, Africa, Middle East, the Pacific and elsewhere. By focusing on representative
texts situated in a variety of locations, the paper aims to provide the students with
the opportunity to think through and understand the layered response –
compliance, resistance, mimicry and subversion - that colonial power has provoked
from the nations in their search for a literature of their own.
Unit-4: Poems:
Derek Walcott: ―A Far Cry from Africa‖
David Malouf: ―Revolving Days‖
Web Resources
Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa. ―The Quest for Relevance‖ from Decolonising the
Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
https://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/pdf/Wellek_Readings_Ngugi_Q
uest_for_Relevance.pdf
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin. Post-Colonial Studies: The
Key Concepts. New York: Routledge. 2007.
http://staff.uny.ac.id/sites/default/files/pendidikan/else-liliani-
ssmhum/postcolonialstudiesthekeyconceptsroutledgekeyguides.pdf
Derek Walcott: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/far-cry-africa
www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/a-far-cry-from-
africa.html
2.
David Malouf: http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/malouf-
david/revolving-days-0429001
Suggested Readings:
1. Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask. translated Charles Lam Markmann
(London: Pluto Press)
2. Ngugi WaThiongo, Decolonizing the Mind, The Language of African
Literature, London: James Curry, 1986, Chapter 1, Section 4-6.
3. Gayatri C. Spivak: ―The Subaltern Speaks‖
(abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions): 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers): 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -1)
FIFTH SEMESTER
Literary Theory
Unit 3- Feminism.
i. Elaine Showalter, ―Twenty years on : A Literature of their own‖
Revised‘ in A Literature of their own: British women Novelists from
Bronte to Lessing (1977. Rpt. London: Vintage,2003) pp xi-xxxiii.
ii. Luce Icrigaray, ―When the Goods Get Together‖ (From This Sex Which
is not One) in New French Feminisms, ed.Elaine Marks and Isebelle
de. Curtivron (New York, Schocken Books, 1981), 107-110.
Suggested Readings:-
1. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008)
2. Peter Berry, Beginning Theory(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (10 short questions of 2 marks each covering all units) : 2x10 =20
(4 questions out of 8 covering all the units will be answered, carrying 15 marks
each).
ENGLISH
FIFTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -2)
Literary Criticism
Suggested Readings:
1. English Critical Texts Ed. By D.J. Enright and Chikera
2. The Mirror and the Lamp Ed. By M.H. Abraham
3. Modern Criticism and Theory: Ed by David Lodge
4. Symbolism: An Anthology. Ed. By T.G. West (Methuen, 1980)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (10 short questions of 2 marks each covering all units) : 2x10 =20
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -3)
Autobiography
Objective: Autobiography has always been a major genre in literature of all times
even though it has not received the attention it deserves. This paper seeks to
acquaint the students with the technicalities involved in the genesis of biographies
in general apart from introducing them to certain biographical pieces of socio-
cultural, literary and moral significance.
Unit -4:
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. Linda Anderson, ‗Introduction‘ in Autobiography, (London: Routledge,
2001)
3. Mary G. Mason, ―The Other Voice‖: Autobiographies of Women Writers in
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Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -IV)
Full marks 100 (80+20)
Project
1. An Outline of the project Synopsis for midterm shall be submitted. (20 marks)
2. The project work carrying 80 marks shall be in any one of the following
categories within not less than three thousand words. (3000)
3. A critical writing in the field of Indian/ British/ American Literature under the
supervision of one of the faculty members.
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
(For the students of other Departments/Hons. courses)
Generic Elective 1
English-Paper 1
Objective: The students of other honours (Arts) subjects will benefit immensely
from the topics catering to thrust on langage, literature and culture. That will help
them develop their linguistic competence and socio-cultural awareness.
Texts prescribed:
1. Magic Casements: Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Ram Narayan Panda. 2007.
New Delhi: Trinity Press, 2014.
2. Macmillan Anthology of Modern English Prose. Ed. Dilip K. Das, A.
Kumari, and K.K. Padhi, Macmillan India Ltd. Sixteenth Century &The
Early Seventeenth Century, New Delhi, 2007.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions)20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from prose& one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
(For the students of other Departments/Hons. courses)
Generic Elective 3
English-Paper 2
Paper Code: SEM III-GE-3-ENG- Other H-2
Paper title:
TECHNICAL WRITING:
ESSAY, FEATURE, AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
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No. of credits: 06
Objective: The students of other honours (Arts) subjects will benefit immensely
from their engagement with various aspects of technical writing.
Unit-1
Unit 2
The students will write a publication-worthy feature on a place of
national/international tourist attraction of their choice or a national/internal
celebrity of their choice. (1 X 10= 10)
Unit -3
The students will write an essay on a topic of literary significance (Three topics,
related to the themes stated below, will be given out of which the students will
choose any one) (1 X 10= 10)
i. Literature and Morality
ii. Literature and Society
iii. Literature and Life
iv. Literature and Culture
v. Literature and History
vi. Literature and Biography
vii. Women in Literature
viii. Literature and Psychology
ix. Literature and Philosophy
x. Marxism and Literature
Unit -4
The students will attempt critical appreciation of any one of the following:
(1 X 10= 10)
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Suggested Reading:
4. W.R. Goodman: Quintessence of Literary essays
5. I.A. Richards: Practical Criticism
6. M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms
Marks: 50 (40+10)
Credits: 02
Unit 1:
Prose
Poetry
6. The Village Schoolmaster - Oliver Goldsmith
7. You and Your Whole Race - Langston Hughes
8. Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
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Unit-2. Writing
1.Expanding an Idea
2. Writing a Memo
3. Report Writing
4. Creative Writing
5. News Story
6. Setting in Creative Writing
7. Writing a Business Letter
8. Letters to the Editor
9. Précis Writing
10. CV & Resume Writing
11. Dialog writing
12. Covering Letter
13. Writing Formal Email
14. Elements of Story Writing
15. Note Making
16. Information Transfer
17. Interviewing for news papers
Unit 3:
Grammar and Usage
1. Simple and Compound Sentences
2. Complex Sentences
3. Noun Clause
4. Adjective Clause
5. Adverb Clause
6. The Conditionals in English
7. The Second Conditional
8. The Third Conditional
9. Words and their features
10. Phrasal Verbs
11. Collocation
12. Using Modals
13. Use of Passives
14. Use of Prepositions
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Unit 1: 3 prose questions (out of six set) and two poetry questions (out of four set)
each carrying 03 marks: [ 03x 05 = 15 marks]
Prescribed Texts
1. The Widening Gyre: An Anthology of Prose, Poetry and One-Act Plays.
(Ed.) Ram Narayan Panda and Shruti Das. New Delhi; Oxford UP, 2016.
2. Contemporary Communicative English by Shruti Das, S. Chand & Co.,
2014.
3. Form and Finnesse: Business Communication and Soft skills. By Shruti
Das, Orient Blackswan, 2016.
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ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular-Core English
English-Paper 1
Paper title:
TECHNICAL WRITING:
ESSAY, FEATURE, AND CRITICAL APPRECIATION
No. of credits: 06
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
their engagement with various aspects of technical writing.
Unit-1
Unit 2
The students will write a publication-worthy feature on a place of
national/international tourist attraction of their choice or a national/internal
celebrity of their choice. (1 X 10= 10)
Unit -3
The students will write an essay on a topic of literary significance (Three topics,
related to the themes stated below, will be given out of which the students will
choose any one) (1 X 10= 10)
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Unit -4
The students will attempt critical appreciation of any one of the following:
(1 X 10= 10)
Suggested Reading:
7. W.R. Goodman: Quintessence of Literary essays
8. I.A. Richards: Practical Criticism
9. M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms
ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular Core English 2
English-Paper 2
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
the topics selected from prose and poetry catering to thrust on language, literature
and culture. That will help them develop their linguistic competence and socio-
cultural awareness.
Texts prescribed:
1. Magic Casements: Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Ram Narayan Panda. 2007.
New Delhi: Trinity Press, 2014.
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ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular-Core English
English-Paper 3
DRAMA
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
close reading of the plays prescribed for them illustrating various dimensions of
dramatic discourse. That will help them develop their linguistic competence and
apart from sensitizing them to issues of socio-cultural and moral significance.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (Two annotations out of
four selected plays).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 covering all units will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. courses)
Regular-Core English
English-Paper 4
NOVEL
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Arts subjects will benefit immensely from
close reading of the novels prescribed for them illustrating various dimensions of
fictional discourse. That will help them develop their linguistic competence apart
from sensitizing them to issues of socio-cultural and moral significance.
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Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (Two short annotations
out of four selected novels).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 covering all units will be answered, each carrying 15 marks).
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FIRST SEMESTER
ENGLISH 1
This paper seeks to introduce the students of Arts and Commerce to the discourses
used in Drama and One-Act Plays. Thus, certain important plays from British,
American and Indian drama have been chosen apart from two one-acters from the
contemporary period by way of helping the student understand the knowhow of the
theatre and develop his linguistic competence as well as cultural awareness.
Texts prescribed:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (4 questions of 5 marks each out 8 asked
covering all units)
Group-B (4 long questions out of 8 asked will be answered, each carrying 15
marks, covering all units).
THIRD SEMESTER
ENGLISH 2
This paper seeks to introduce the students of Arts and Commerce to the discourses
used in fiction and non-fictional prose. Thus, certain important texts of fiction and
non-fictional prose have been chosen to be taught by way of helping the student
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understand the technicalities of fiction and non-fictional prose and develop his
linguistic competence as well as cultural awareness.
No. of credits: 06
Unit I:
Unit II:
Unit III:
Unit IV:
Texts prescribed:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (4 questions of 5 marks each out 8 asked
covering all units)
Group-B (4 long questions out of 8 asked will be answered, each carrying 15
marks, covering all units).
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Popular Literature
This paper seeks to introduce the students to genres such as romance, detective
fiction, campus fiction, fantasy/mythology, which have a ―mass‖ appeal, and can
help us gain a better understanding of the popular roots of literature.
Suggested Readings
1. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ―Introduction‖ in ―Beyond Appearances: Visual
Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage, Delhi, 2003), pp. xiii-xxix
2. Leslie Fiedler, Towards a Definition of Popular Culture and Europe, ed.
C.W.C. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975)pp. 29-58.
Web Resources:
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.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
ENGLISH
Generic Elective 2
SIXTH SEMESTER
Women’s Writing
The course aims to acquaint the students with the complex and multifaceted
literature by women of the world, reflecting the diversity of women‘s experiences
and their varied cultural moorings. It embraces different forms of literature: poetry,
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fiction, short fiction, and critical writings. In certain respects, it interlocks concerns
of women‘s literary history, women‘s studies and feminist criticism.
Unit-2:
ii. Toni Morrisson , Playing in the Dark Whiteness and the Literary
Imagination. Cambridge ; Harvard UP, 1992.
Unit-3:
1. Emily Dickinson, ‗I cannot live with you‘, ‗I am wife‘.
2. Sylvia Plath: ‗Daddy, ‗Lady Lazarus‘
3. Kamla Das: ―Mirror‖
4. Sujata Bhatt: ―Voice of the Unwanted Girl‖
5. Shruti Das: ―A New Dawn‖, ―To My Mother‖
Unit-4:
1. Katherine Mansfield , ‗Bliss‘.
2. Mahaswetha Devi ‗ Draupadi‘ , Tr. GyatriChakravortySpivak (Calcutta ,
Seagull, 2002)
Web Resources:
Suggested Readings:
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B+ Group C)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Annotation) 15 marks (7.5 X 2). Two questions (one annotation out of
two from Novel & one annotation out of two from poetry).
Group-C (Long answers) 45 marks
(3 questions out of 6 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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DSE 1-2
DSE 1-2
Suggested Readings:
1. English Critical Texts Ed. By D.J. Enright and Chikera
2. The Mirror and the Lamp Ed. By M.H. Abraham
3. Modern Criticism and Theory: Ed by David Lodge
4. Symbolism: An Anthology. Ed. By T.G. West (Methuen, 1980)
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (10 short questions of 2 marks each covering all units) : 2x10 =20
ENGLISH
SIXTH SEMESTER
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE -2)
Autobiography
Objective: Autobiography has always been a major genre in literature of all times
even though it has not received the attention it deserves. This paper seeks to
acquaint the students with the technicalities involved in the genesis of biographies
in general apart from introducing them to certain biographical pieces of socio-
cultural, literary and moral significance.
Unit -4:
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. Linda Anderson, ‗Introduction‘ in Autobiography, (London: Routledge,
2001)
3. Mary G. Mason, ―The Other Voice‖: Autobiographies of Women Writers in
Life/ Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography.ed.Bella Brodzki and
Celeste Schenk. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) pp. 19-44.
4. ParamahansaYogananda. Autobiography of a Yogi. New York: The
Philosophical library. 1946.
Pattern of Examination:
Internal Assessment test: 20 marks
Term End Examination: 80 marks (Group A+ Group B)
Group-A (short questions) 20 marks (10 questions of 2 marks each)
Group-B (Long answers) 60 marks
(4 questions out of 8 will be answered, carrying 15 marks each).
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THIRD SEMESTER
COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
For the students of
[B.Com (Hons), B.Sc. (Hons), B.A. (Hons) & B.Sc regular]
Credits: 04
Full marks 50 (40+10)
Preamble:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the concept,
fundamentals and tools of communication and to develop in them vital
communication skills which should be integral to personal, social and
professional interactions. One of the critical links among human beings
and an important thread that binds society together is the ability to share
thoughts, emotions and ideas through various means of communication:
both verbal and non-verbal. In the context of rapid globalization and
increasing recognition of social and cultural pluralities, the significance of
clear and effective communication has substantially enhanced.
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4. Language of Communication:
Factors influencing communication
Functions of Language
4. Reading Skills:
A. Poems:
i. Beautiful Old Age - by David Herbert Lawrence
ii. An Introduction - by Kamala Das
iii. A Night Thought - by William Wordsworth
B.Prose:
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5. Writing:
Technique of Writing
Types of Letters: Routine, Good Will, Bad News, Persuasive
Reports, Minutes
Proposals, Advertisements, Brochures
Pattern of Examination:
Group A:
20 short questions (each carrying 02 marks) covering all the 04 units will be asked
out of which the candidates will answer any TEN. (10 x 2= 20)
Group B:
The candidates will be asked 6 long answer-type questions (each carrying 10 marks)
covering all the 04 units out of which the candidates will answer any four.
(15 x 4= 60)
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Preamble:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the necessity,
fundamentals and tools of soft skills which should be integral to personal,
social and professional interactions. In the context of rapid globalization
and increasing recognition of social and cultural pluralities, the
development of soft skills is automatically mandated.
The present course hopes to address some of these aspects through an
interactive mode of teaching-learning process and by focusing on various
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Unit II:
iv. Emotional Intelligence and adaptability
v. Cultural Communication
vi. Varieties of English: Standard English,
American English, Indian English
Unit III.
iv. Team Work and leadership
v. Meetings
vi. Problem solving and Negotiation
Unit IV
iv. Interview
v. Curriculum Vitae
vi. Making a presentation (PowerPoint and
otherwise)
Pattern of Examination:
Group A:
20 short questions (each carrying 02 marks) covering all the 04 units will be asked
out of which the candidates will answer any TEN. (10 x 2= 20)
Group B:
The candidates will be asked 6 long answer-type questions (each carrying 10 marks)
covering all the 04 units out of which the candidates will answer any four.
(15 x 4= 60)
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ENGLISH
Second SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. & B.Com. courses)
Alternative English
ENGLISH
Second SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.A. & B.Com. courses)
Alternative English
Paper title:
English and Business Communication
No. of credits: 06
Unit-1
Unit 2
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Unit -3
The students will write an essay on a topic of literary significance (Three topics,
related to the themes stated below, will be given out of which the students will
choose any one) (1 X 20= 20)
i. Literature and Morality
ii. Literature and Society
iii. Literature and Life
iv. Literature and Culture
v. Literature and History
vi. Literature and Biography
vii. Women in Literature
viii. Literature and Psychology
ix. Literature and Philosophy
x. Marxism and Literature
Unit -4
The students will attempt critical appreciation of any one of the following:
(1 X 20= 20)
(i) an unknown poem
(ii) an extract in prose ( either fictional/nonfictional)
(iii) an extract from a play
OR
Suggested Reading:
1. W.R. Goodman: Quintessence of Literary essays
2. I.A. Richards: Practical Criticism
3. M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms
4. Michel Swan: English Usage
ENGLISH
Fourth SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.Com. courses)
Alternative English
Paper Code: B.A. & B.Com-SEM IV-REG- Alt ENG-2
Paper title:
Communication Skills
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ENGLISH
Fourth SEMESTER
(For the students of Regular B.Com. courses)
Alternative English
Paper Code: B.A. & B.Com-SEM IV-REG- Alt ENG-2
Paper title:
Communication Skills
No. of credits: 06
Objective: The Regular/Pass students of Commerce will benefit immensely from
their engagement with various aspects of Communication Skills.
Topics from the prescribed text, i.e., Communication Skills by Sanjay Kumar and
Pushp Lata (New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) shall be taught under different
units as noted below:
Unit-1
Unit 2
Unit -4