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B.A. ENGLISH (HONOURS)

There shall be 20 papers in Honours in Three Years

Degree course, two papers each in semester I, semester II, se-

II
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i mester III and semester IV and twelve papers in the 3rd year, six
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I each in semester V and semester VI. Each paper canies 50
I ~ marks out of which 40 marks set in the University Examination
and 10 marks in the. Internal Assessment test.
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SEMESTER-I.

PAPER~ (AH-1.1.1)

HISTORYOF LITERATURE,FORMSOF
LITERATURE& COMEDY
FM-10+40 Time - 2Hours

I There shall be three units and candidates are required

I to answeron~ longquestion from each unit along with an anno-

tation from the drama text in Unit-III. The questions shall have
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alternatives.Marks are given againsteach unit.

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.. Unit~ Historyof Utermure

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(FrornRenaissance to Eighteenth century)-12 marks
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I Unit~1 Forms of Literature ;.12 marks

. (Basics of Poetry, Drama and Novel: different forms of

PO$y, Dramaand Novel). '
Unit~1I (A) Shakespeare-TwelfthNight
Or, Ben Jonson-Volpone- 11marks
(8) -
One annotationwith alternatives 5 marks
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Suggested Reading:
1. I;mileLegouis- A Historyof EnglishLiterature
2. E. Albert- A Historyof EnglishLiterature
3. Legouiand Cazamian - A ~istory of Englishliterature
4. W.H.Hudson- An Introductionto the Study of Literature
5. R.J. Rees - A Study of Literature
6. H.B.Charlton- Shakespearean Comedy'
7.' S.C. Sengupta - Shakespearean Comedy
MatjorieBoulton - (i)The'Anatomyof Poetry
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PAPER-II(AH-1.1.2)
POETRY
FM-10 + 40 TIME- 2 Hours'
There shallbe three units and candidates are required
to answer one longquestion fromeach unitalongwithan anno-
tation fromthe poems inUnit-I.The questions shall have alter-
natives. Marksare given against each unit.
.1 Unit-l Heard Melodiesed. and published byDepartment of
EngOsh, Ravenshaw University.
The following poems are to be studied:
i. Allthe World'sa Stage
ii. On HavingArrivedat the Age ofTwentythree
iii. AValediction:Forbidding Mouming
iv.. UponW~stminsterBridge

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v. Ode to the West. Wind

vi. To Autumn

The candidates are required to answer one long question

carrying 11 marks and an annotation from the poems carrying 5

marks in this unit.

Unit-ll John Keats -The Eve of St. Agnes'

One long question from the text carrying 12 marks.

Unit-lf< Rhetoric and Prosody

Rhetoric {Simile, Metaphor Metonymy, Oxymoran,

Synea:toChe, Pe~, Hypelbote.TRIfIIfe.~

Epithet, and Alliteration)Candidates are required to
. explain any four carrying2 markseach.
Prosody- Scansion of a passage of poetry, preferably
Iambic or Trochaic metre.

(Four lines) - 4 marks.

BooksSuggested
1. C.M.Bowra- RomanticImagination
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GrahamHough Romantic Poets
3. BhabatoshChatterjee- The Mind andArt of John Keats
4. W8$hennari-John Keats
5. BernardBtackstone- The ConsecratedUrn
6. M. Chakravarty- Rhetoric and Prosody
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PAPER III (AH:'1.2.3)

.. HISTORYOF LITERATURE,
CmT~ALTERMSANDTRAGEDY
FM-10+40 TIME;.2 Hours
Unit-l Historyof Literature(fromthe Ageof Romanticsto
. Modem period) One long question canying 12 marks.
Unit.JI Shakespeare -Othello
Or, Martowe -Edward II

One long question from the drama text canying 11 marks

and an annotation from the texts canying 5 marks.
Unit-III LiteraryandCriticalTerms 12marks
(Negative Capability, Pathetic FaJla~,Affedive FallaC?',
DisSociation of Sensibility, Objective Correlative,
Intentional Fallacy.)
Questions shall havealtematives.
Books Suggested
1. History of Literature Books as suggested in Paper-I
2. Boris Ford, ed. - PeliCan History of English Literature Vol.-7
3. G.S.Fraser - The Modem Writer and His Wortd
4. E.M.W. Tillyard - Elizabethan Wortd Picture
5. . A.C. Bardley - ShakespeareanTragedy
6. . G. Wilson Knight - Wheel of Fire
7. Heny Levin - Martowe the Overreacher
8. M.H. Abrahms - A Glossary of Uterary Terms
A Dictionary of Uterary Terms

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. PAPERIV(AH-1.2.4)
POETRYANDFICTION
FM..10+40 TlME- 2 Hours
Unit-I HeardMelodies-
(ed. by the Departmentof English)
The following poems areto be studied:
1.. Ulysses'
2. DoverBeach
3. TheDarklingThrush
4. PiedBeauty.
5. Dawnat Puri
6. A River
One long question from the poems carryin9'11marks
and an annotation carrying 5 marks are to be answered from
this unit.The questionsshall have altemat!'!~.
Unit"l. -
AlexanderPope The Rape ofthe Lock.
er. Lord Tennyson- EnochArden
One long question carrying 12 marks is to be answered
in this unit. Questions shall havealtematives.
Unit-III Swift -Gullivel's Travels- Book I & Book II
Or, Daniel Defoe.. Robinson Crusoe
One long question carrying 12 marks is to be answered
in this unit. Alternative questions shall be set from each text.
Books Suggested .

1. Ian Jack.. Augustan Satire

2. George Tillotson - Alexander Pope

3. Walter Allen - English Novel.

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+3 SECOND YEAR

SEMESTER-III

(PAPER-2.3.5)

(DRAMA)
FM- 40 TIME- 2 Hours
There shall be three units and the carldidates are reQl,ired
to answer one question from each unit, carrying equal
mark. Questions shall have altematives.

Unlt-. -
Shaw Sl Joan
Or
Galsworthy: Justice
Unit':'U -
Ibsen An Enemy of the People
Or
John Osborne - Look Back in Anger
Unit-III Mahesh Dattani - Tara
Or
Vijay Tendulkar - S8kharam Binder
Books Suggested
Raymond
, Williams - From Ibsen to Brecht

Bogard, ed. - Modem Drama: Critical Essays

J.R. Taylor-Anger and After

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(PAPER-2.3.6)

(ESSAYS & BIOGRAPHY)

FM- 40 TIME- 2 Hours

There shall be three units and one long question from

. each unit (three in totaOis to be answered, canying equal
marks.

Unit- I Bacon - Essays (Of Adversity, Of

. Friendship, Of Power, Of Studies, Of
Marriage)
Unit-II . Gandhi...My Experiments with Truth
Or

R.K Narayan - My Days

Unit-III Indian Essayists-

(1) A Call to Youth- Dr. Radhakrishnan

(2) What is Culture-Nehru

(3) My Mother- Nirad Choudhury

(4) Freedom - J.Krishnamurty

(5) The Great Sentinel- M. K. Gandhi

Books Suggested

- Seventeenth Century Background

Basil Willy

Hugh Walker - Essays and Essayists

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SEMESTER- IV

(PAPER-2.4.7)

(NOVEL)
. FM-40 Marks TIME- 2 Hours

There shall be three units and candidates are required to

answer one question from each unit,. carrying equal
marks. ..

Unit-I Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Or
Emile Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Unit-II. Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Or
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Hardy The Woodlanders

Unit-III R.K. Narayan - English Teacher

Or
Kamala Markandaya -.A Handful of Rice

Sooks Suggested
Walter Allen - English Novel
Andrew H. Wright-Jane Austen

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David Cecil- EariyVictorian Novelists

David Cecil- Thomas Hardy
H.C. Duffin- Thomas.Hardy
. K.S.R.lyengaar-lndian Writings in English
M.K Naik- The IronicVision

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(PAPER-2.4.8)

(ESSAYS)
FM- 40 TlME-2 Hours
Candi~ates shall answer three questions choosing one
frQmeach unit. They !:!!iTy equalmarks.Questionsshall
have alternatives.

~nit-I Modem Essays (Publishedby Orient Longman)

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The folloWingpieces to be studied
(1) What I Belieye
(2) Indifference

(3) Our Home in SpaCe

(4) India's Contributionto Wor1dunity
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(5) What I found in my Pocket

Unit-II Emerson's. Essays -;
(1) Self-Reliance

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(2) Compensation

. (3) PoJitics

Unit-III Dr. Johnson - Essay on Milton

+3 THIRD YEAR ARTS

SEMESTER- V

(PAPER,.3.5.9)

(POETRY)

FM- 40 TIME- 2 Hours

Candidates shall answer three questions, one from ea~

unit, canying equal marks.' .

Unit-I Eliot's Poems (Love Song of Alfred J

Prufrock, Rhapsody on a Windy Night,
The HollowMen, Marina)
Unit-II W.B. Yeats (Sailing to Byzantium, Leda
and the Swan, The Secorid Coming,
Among School Children)
Unit-III Indian Poets (Ezekiel, Ramanujan.
Kamala Das.Jay~nt Mohapatra, Derozio
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Books Suggested
Grover Smith - The Poetry and Plays of T.S.
Eliot

Elizabeth Drew - T.S. Eliot: The Design of His

Poetry

Graham Hough - T.heLast Romantics

T.R.Henn - The Lonely Tower

Untercker - A Reader's Guide to W.e. Yeats

Bruce King- Three Indian Poets

(PAPER-3~.5.10)

(LANGUAGE GROUPS AND PRACTICAL

. CRITICISM) .

FM- 40 TlME- 2 Hours

Candidates shall answer three questions, one from each

unit carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
altematives.

Unit-I Language groups, Old English

Unit- II Practical Criticism of a poem

Unit-III Report writingl script writing

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Books Suggested
A.C.Baugh ,~A History of English Language
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Mosby and Thomas - Advanced VerSe'

Appreciation

Cox an.d Dyson - Practical Criticism

(PAPER-3.5.11)

(NOVEL)
FM- 40 Time-2Hours
C8ndidatCi'sshall an~rthree questions, one from each
unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have,. ','
altematives'.

Unit.;1 E.M Forster'- A Passage 'to India'

Or

George Eliot -Silas Marner

Unit- III Saul Bellow - The Victim
, Or
Bharati Mukherjee - Wife
Unit-III Chinua Achebe -Things Fall Apart
Or

Bhabani Bhattacharya.; So Many Hungers

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(P~P~-3.5.12)
(DRAM~)
FM- 40 Time- 2Hours
The candidates shall answer three ql,Jestions, one from
each unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
alternatives. .
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.. Unit-I Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being

Ernest .

Or
W.S.Maugham-Sheppey
Unit- II Arthur Miller- All My Sons
Or
Harold Pinter - The Dumb Waiter

Unit -Iii Girish Kamad - Hayavadana

Or
.Badal Sircar - Ebam Indrajit

(PAPER-3.5.13)

(LITERARY ESS~Y & COMPOSITION)

The candidates are required to write a literary essay in

Unit-Icarrying 20 marks.They shall write two shortnotes
in Unit-IIcarrying 5 marks each. Unit-IIIcarries 10 marks.
Questions shall have alternatives. .

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FM-40 TIME-2 Hours
Unit-I Literary Essay

Unit-II Short notes on Modernism, Stream af

Consciousness, Oedipus Complex,
Expressionism, Naturalism.
Unit-III " DialOgue WritiAg/Story Building.

(PAPER-3.5.14)

(CRITCISM) .
FM-40 TIME-2 Hou~
Candidates shall answer three questions, one from each
unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
alternatives.

Unit-I Aristotle's POfJtics(Chapters I, II, III.from

S.H. Butcher's edition)
Unit-II Wordsworth - Preface to LyricalBallads
Unit-III Matthew Arnold - Thl:t Study of Poetry

Books Suggested
Wimsatt and Brooks - A History of Literary
Criticism

Ge"orge Watson - Literary Critics

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SEMESTER-VI
(PAPER-3.6.15)
POETRY

FM-40 Marks Time-2 Hours

Candidates shall answer three questions, one from each

unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
alternatives.

Unit-I Lilacsthe.Dooryard Bloomed-Whitman

'How Beautiful is the Rain- Longfellow

.After Applepicking- ~obert Frost.

. Anecdote of a Czar- Wallace Stevens
Because I could not Stop for Death- Emily

Dickinson Th.e Red Wheel Barrow- William

Carlos William

Unit-II An Anthology of CommonwealthPoetry-edC.D.

Narasimahiah.Judith Wright, Peter Porter,
Leopald Sedar,MargaretAtwood, Dereck Walcot
(Poems to be selected)

Unit-III Precis I Notemaking

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(PAPER-3.6.16)

(LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION)

FM- 40-Marks TlME-2 Hours

Candidates shall answer three questions, one from each

unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
alternatives.
Unit-I Mid~le English, Post Renaissance
Borrowings..
Unit-II Practical criticismof a prose passage"
Unit-III Creative writing (Writing a poem or a
story) .

Books Sumested
A.C. Baugh - A History of English Language
Mosby and Thomas - Advanced Prose
Appreciation
(PAPER-3.6.17)
(ONE-ACT PLA'Y, BIOGRAPH¥-& SHORT STORY)
FM- 40 Marks " TIME- 2 Hours

Candidates shall answer three questions, one fromeach

unit, carrying equal marks. - Questions shall have
alternativ~;
Unit-I Sefore the Footlight - ed. M.G.Nayar.
.<1) The Never Never Nest
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(2) The Death Trap

(3) The Crock, the Cock and the Candle

Unit-II Nehru - AnAutobiography (firstten chapters)

Or

Kamala Das - My Story

Unit-IIIManojDas - A Farewell to Ghost (first5 stories)

(P~~-3.6.18)
(DRAMA)
FM-40 TlME- 2 Hours

Candidates shallanswer three questions, one fromeach

unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
altematives.

Unit-I J.M. Synge - Riders to t~e sea.

Or
T.S Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral

. Unit- II O'Neill- Desire Under the Elms -

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Or

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Arthur Miller .The Crucible

Unit- III lonesco - Chairs

Or

Edward Albee- The Zoo Story

Books suggested
Doris V Falk - Eugene O'Neill and the
Tragic Tension

T.E. Porter - Myth and Modem American

Drama

. Gerald Gould- Modem American Drama

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Martin Eslin Theatre of the Absurd.

(PAPER-3.6.19)

(FICTION)

FM-40 TIME-2 Hours

Candidates shall answer three questions, one from each

unit, carrying equal marks. Questions shall have
altematives.

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D.H.Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

Or

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Unit- II Heminqway - A Farewell to Arms

Or

Scott F~geiald - -The Great GatSby

Unit-III JhumpaLahiri- Interpreter of Maladies

Or

Asha Puma Devi - The Distant Window'

Books SU9!l.ested

John Worthen - D.H.Lawrence

Case Book on Lawrence's Novel

Carlos Baker - Hemingway

Leo Gurka - Joseph Conrad: The Giant in Exile

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(PAPER--3.6.20)

(CRITICISM & THEORY)

Candidates shall answer tJ:1reequestions, cJ:10osingone

from each unit, carrying equal marks. Qu.estions shall
have alternatives.
Unit-I T.S. Eliot - Tradition and the Individual
Talent
Or

The Frontiers of Cri.tips.m

"I Unit-II F.R.Leavis - Literary Criticism and
Philosophy
Or
I.ARichards- Four Meanings
Unit-III New Criticism,Structuralism, Feminism,
. NewHistoricism
Books Suggested
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WimsattandBrooks A Historyof
Literary Criticism
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Raman Seldon A Reader's Guide to
Contempolal)' Uterary Theory

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2008-2011-
2009-2012

BACHELOR-OF ARTS
ENGLISH' HONOURS

RAVENSHAW UNIVERSITY
CUT TACK