DEPARTMENTOF

ENGLISHALIPURDUAR

UNIVERSITY

SYLLABUSFORM.A. INENGLISH

• Total Marks : 1600

• There are 16 (sixteen) papers, each carrying 100 marks.

• Each semester shall be composed of 4 (four) papers.

• Elective papers 105, 205 and 407 are project papers and carry100 marks

each.

• Out of 100 marks in each of the other papers 75 marks are for written

Examinations to be held at the end of each semester and 25 marks for

Internal Assessments (Assignments 15 marks + viva-voce10 marks).

• In Written Examinations students shall have to answer 3 essay-type

questions each carrying 20 marks, and 3 short questions of 5 marks each.

There shall be alternatives to each type.

• The duration of examination shall be of 3 (three) hours per paper.

SEMESTER – I

Core Papers (Compulsory)

PAPER 101

Renaissance Literature

• Edmund Spenser-The Faerie Queene, Book-I • Philip Sidney-An Apology for Poetry

• Christopher Marlowe-Doctor Faustus

• Thomas Kyd -The Spanish Tragedy

• Francis Bacon – Of Love, Of Truth, Of Revenge, Of Studies.

Paper 102

ShakespeareStudies

• King Lear

• Measure for Measure • Hamlet

• Henry iv (part 1)

• The Tempest

Soft Core Paper

(Compulsory)PAPER 103

17th

century Literature

• John Milton-Samson Agonistes

• John Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel

• John Webster-The Duchess of Malfi

• Aphra Behn -The Royal Slave

• Ben Jonson- Volpone

Elective Papers: Choose

anyone -PAPER 104

18th

century Literature

• John Gay- The Beggar’s Opera

• Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer • Jonathan Swift-The Battle of the Books

• Samuel Johnson- Preface to Shakespeare

• Alexander Pope-Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism

Paper 105

A project of not less than 2000 words on a comparative study of any two

authors/texts to be selected from Renaissance Literature (101) or Shakespeare

Studies (102) or 17th

Century Literature.

SEMESTER II

Core Papers (Compulsory)

Paper 201

The Romantic Studies

• E. Burke– Excerpts from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of

our Ideas of Sublime and Beautiful

Kant-“Analytic of Sublime” (From Critique of Judgement)

• W. Wordsworth – Preface to Lyrical

Ballads, Prelude I&II

● S. T. Coleridge –Biographia Literaria (Chapters no-13, 14 and 17),

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

• W. Blake-The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, selections from Songs of

Innocence and Songs of Experience

• J. Keats–Hyperion, Letters (1817-1819)

• P. B. Shelley- Adonais, Defence of Poetry.

PAPER 202

Victorian Studies-I

• Emily Bronte–Wuthering Heights • George Eliot –Middlemarch

• Charles Dickens- David Copperfield

• Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady

• Thomas Hardy– The Return of the Native •

Soft Core Paper

(Compulsory),PAPER 203

Victorian Literature II

• A. Tennyson-Tithonas

In Memoriam (11, 14,16,) Morte

D’ Arthur,

The Lotus Eaters (including the Choric song)

• R. Browning-Rabbi Ben Ezra

A Grammarian‟sFuneral

Porphyria‟s Lover

One Word More

• M.Arnold - Dover Beach

The Forsaken Merman

The Scholar Gipsy

MemorialVerses

G.M.Hopkins -

The Wreck of Deutschland,

Pied Beauty

The Windhover

Felix Rendal

Elective Papers: Choose anyone

PAPER 204

Victorian Literature III

• Oscar Wilde-The Importance of Being Earnest

• Thomas Carlyle- On Heroes, Hero-Worship

• Charles Darwin- On The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

(Selected Excerpts)

• Bram Stoker- Dracula

• John Ruskin- “Of Pathetic Fallacy” and

• Mathew Arnold-“Sweetness and Light”

PAPER 205

A project of not less than 2000 words on a comparative study of any two

authors/texts to be selected from The Romantic Literature (201) or Victorian

Literature 1 (202), or Victorian Literature II (203)

Core Papers (Compulsory)

PAPER 301

Modern Literature 1

• Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim

• D.H. Lawrence- Sons and

Lovers

SEMESTER –III

• James Joyce-A Portrait of the Artist as a YoungMan

• Virginia Woolf – „Modern Fiction‟ and T.S Eliot- „Tradition and the

Individual Talent‟

• Graham Greene-The Power and the Glory

PAPER 302

The Modern Literature II

• T.S.Eliot-The Waste Land

• W. H Auden-A Summer Night, In Memory of W.B.Yeats, Memorial for

the City, A ShillingLife;

• Dylan Thomas–The force that through the green fuse drives the

flower, Poem in October, Do not go gentle into that good night;

A Refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a Child in London

• Philip Larkin-Church Going, The Explosion, Wants, At Grass ;

• Ted Hughes-Hawk Roosting, A Childish Prank, The Thought-Fox, The

Jaguar

SoftCore Paper (Compulsory)

PAPER 303

Modern Literature III

• George Bernard Shaw-Saint Joan

• Samuel Beckett-Waiting for Godot

• Bertold Brecht-Mother Courage and Her Children

• Albert Camus - The Outsider

T.S Eliot- Murder in the Cathedral

Open Elective Papers: Choose anyone

PAPER 304

Glimpses of World Literature

• Leo Tolstoy-Anna Karenina

• Arthur Koestler-Darkness at Noon.

• Naguib Mahfouz- Sugar Street

• Luigi Pirandello- Six Characters in Search of an Author

• Wislawa Szymborska- The End of the Beginning, An Unexpected

Meeting, Utopia, Lot‟s Wife

Paper 305

Glimpses of Literary Criticism and Theory

• Aristotle -Poetics

• A.C Benson- The Art of the Essayist

• D.H. Lawrence- Why the Novel Matters

• William Empson - Seven Types of Ambiguity

• Simone de Beauvoir-Introduction to the Second Sex [from Alison

Bailey & Chris Cuomo, The Feminist PhilosophyReader]

SEMESTER –IV

Core Paper (Compulsory)

PAPER 401

American Literature

• H. D.Thoreau - Walden

• Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

• Sylvia Plath- The Colossus, The Moon and the Yew Tree, Fever 103,

Ariel, Lady Lazarus

• Faulkner- The Sound and the Fury

• Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Soft Core Paper (Compulsory)

PAPER 402

Indian Literature in English

• Raja Rao - Kanthapura

• Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines

• Modern Indian English Poetry – Jayanta Mahapatra, Nissim

Ezekiel, Robin SNgangom [poems to be specified later]

• Girish Karnad -The Fire and the Rain

• Manjula Padmanabhan-Lights Out!

Elective Papers : Choose any Two

PAPER 403

Latin American Literature

• Marquez-One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Pablo Neruda – Tonight I can Write, Opium in the East, Discoverers

of Chile, Ode to Tomatoes

• Jorge Borges-selected pieces from Selected Non-Fictions, Selected pieces

from

Collected Fictions [pieces to be specified later]

• Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Play

• Gabriela Mistral – The Other Woman, Drops of Gall, A Word,

I Am Not Alone

PAPER 404

African & Caribbean Literature

• Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart,

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus

• V.S.Naipaul - The Mimic Men

• Derek Walcott – Pantomime

• Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea

PAPER 405

Literary Criticism and Theory

Michel Foucault-„What is an Author?‟ Edward Said - Introduction to Orientalism

• Jacques Derrida- „Structure, Sign, Play in the Discourses of the Human

Sciences‟, Lyotard, „Defining the Postmodern‟ [from Simon During,

The Cultural Studies Reader]

• Adrienne Rich – Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

• Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar – The Mad woman in the Attic.

Chapter 2:„TheWoman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary

Imagination‟

• PAPER 406

Dalit Literature

• Manohar Mouli Biswas- Surviving in My World: Growing up Dalit in

Bengal

• Omprakash Valmiki- Joothan

• SharankumarLimbale - Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature

• Bama-karukku

• Arjun Dangle- selections from Poisoned Bread

PAPER 407

A project of not less than 2000 words on topics specified.