English SLM
| Semester l | Course Title: Introduction to English Prose | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Introduction to Genres: Poetry, Drama, Essay, Novel, Novella and Short Story | |
| Unit ll | Elements of Short Story: Plot, Themes, Characterization, Narrative Techniques O’ Henry: The Last Leaf Anton Chekhov: The Lament | |
| Unit lll | Types of Prose & Prose Style: Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Travelogue, Essay. Literary Devices: Point of View, Imagery, Antithesis, Aphorism, Humour and Pathos. | |
| Unit lV | Francis Bacon: Of Studies Charles Lamb: Dream Children Oliver Goldsmith: National Prejudices | |
| Unit V | Virginia Woolf: Professions for Women | |
| Unit Vl | A.P.J.Kalam: Patriotism Beyond Politics & Religion (from Our Ignited Minds) Amartya Sen: Tagore & His India (from The Argumentative Indian) |
| Semester ll | Course Title: History of English Literature | Paper l |
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| Unit l | 1350- 1550 The Age of Chaucer Introduction of the Major Works 1558- 1603 Elizabethan Age Introduction to Major Poets and Dramatists of the Age | |
| Unit ll | 1603- 1625 Jacobean Age Introduction to Major Poets and Dramatists of the Age 1625- 1649 Caroline Age Major Schools of Poetry | |
| Unit lll | 1649- 1660 Puritan Age or Commonwealth Period 1660- 1700 The Restoration Age Introduction to Restoration Comedy | |
| Unit lV | 1700- 1745 The Augustan Age Rise of Novel, Major Writers 1745- 1785 Age of Sensibility Introduction to Age of Johnson | |
| Unit V | 1789- 1832 Romantic Age Introduction to Romantic Period and Major Romantic Writers 1832- 1901 Victorian Age Introduction to Victorian Age and Major Victorian Writers | The Romantic Age 1789 – 1832 |
| Unit Vl | Post 1901- Modern and Postmodern Age Introduction to Major Writers |
| Semester lll | Course Title: British Poetry | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Types of Poems Lyric, Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Epic, Ballad, Dramatic Monologue, Allegory Stanza Forms The Heroic Couplet, Blank Verse, The Spenserian Stanza, Terza Rima | |
| Unit ll | William Shakespeare: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet No.116) John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Milton: On his Blindness | Poem- When the assault was intended to the city by John Milton, Shakespeare – SONNET No. 116, |
| Unit lll | Alexander Pope: From Essay on Criticism ( Little learning – – -Alps to Alps (lines- 15-32) Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Lines (1- 19th stanza; The curfew Tolls — noiseless tenor of thin ways) | Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope, |
| Unit lV | William Wordsworth: The World is Too Much With Us John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth |
| Unit V | W. B. Yeats: Second Coming T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (lines 1-34) W H Auden: The Unknown Citizens | |
| Unit Vl | Wilfred Owen: The Strange Meeting Rupert Brooke: The Soldier Ted Hughes: Thought Fox Philip Larkin: Church Going |
| Semester lV | Course Title: Women’s Writing and Indian Literature in Translation | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Elaine Showalter: ‘Introduction’, in A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977). | |
| Unit ll | Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Mahasweta Devi: Draupadi | |
| Unit lll | Autobiography: Harriet Jacobs, selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter 5 | |
| Unit lV | Maya Angelou: Still I Rise Anne Finger: ‘Helen and Frida’, in Call me Ahab: A Short Story Collection, Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus | |
| Unit V | Introducing Translation: A Brief History and Significance of Translation in a Multilinguistic and Multicultural Society like India | |
| Unit Vl | Kabir (Translation) from The English Writings of Rabindra Nath Tagore(1994,Vol.1 Ed. Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi, Verses- 1,2,8,12, 53, 69) |
| Semester V | Course Title: Introduction to Literature and Film | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Introduction to Basic Concepts in Film-Making: Mise-én-scene, Long Takes, Deep Focus, Types of Shots, Colour and Sound. | |
| Unit ll | Cinematic Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its adaptation Haider (2014 film, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj) | Character of Iago – Shakespeare`s Othello, Introduction to Elizabethan Age and William Shakespeare, Shakespearean Tragedy |
| Unit lll | The Novel in English and its Adaptation: Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and its adaptation Oliver Twist (2005 film, directed by Roman Polanski) | |
| Unit lV | Indian English Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and its adaptation The Namesake (2006 film, directed by Mira Nair) | |
| Unit V | Popular Fiction: Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone and its adaptation Three Idiots (2009 film, directed by Rajkumar Hirani) | |
| Unit Vl | Bhasha Classics: Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire and its adaptation Ghare- Baire (1985 film, directed by Satyajit Ray) | Geetanjali Song no.63 by Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore: Song No: 63 (Gitanjali) Part 1, Rabindranath Tagore: Song No: 63 (Gitanjali) Part 2 |
| Semester V | Course Title: Partition Literature | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Characteristics of Partition Literature: Violence, Dislocation, Trauma, Memory, History, Narrative, Regeneration. | |
| Unit ll | Fiction: Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan | |
| Unit lll | Short story: Sadat Hasan Manto: Toba Tek Singh I, Ismat Chugtai: Roots | |
| Unit lV | Non Fiction:Urvashi Butalia: The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Chapter 2: Blood) | |
| Unit V | Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice Candy Man | |
| Unit Vl | Jyotirmoyee Devi: The River Churning |
| Semester VI | Course Title: Regional Literature with Special Reference to Literature of Uttarakhand | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Chatak Tales: To be good or bad, The Buffalo Man | |
| Unit ll | Manglesh Dabral: Torchlight | |
| Unit lll | Leeladhar Jagudi: The Delivery of a Bird ,The Inland Letter | |
| Unit lV | Ruskin Bond: Rusty, The Boy from the Hills | |
| Unit V | Mrinal Pande: Girls | |
| Unit Vl | Namita Gokhale: Things to Leave Behind | |
| Semester Vl | Course Title: Indian and New Literatures in English | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Toru Dutt: Sita Nissim Ezekiel: Background Casually Jayanta Mahapatra:Hunger Keki N. Daruwala: Mother Kamala Das: The Stone Age | Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das Next To Indira Gandhi |
| Unit ll | Pablo Neruda: If You Forget Me Margaret Atwood: Spellings Dennis Brutus: Cold | |
| Unit lll | Girish Karnad: Tughlaq | |
| Unit lV | Mahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj | |
| Unit V | Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (Chapter 4) | |
| Unit Vl | Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart |