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English SLM


Syllabus

Semester l Course Title: Introduction to English Prose Paper l
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 VlA.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
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
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 MiltonShakespeare - 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 WordsworthThe 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
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
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 OthelloIntroduction 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 TagoreRabindranath Tagore: Song No: 63 (Gitanjali) Part 1Rabindranath 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 lllShort story: Sadat Hasan Manto: Toba Tek Singh I, Ismat Chugtai: Roots
Unit lVNon Fiction:Urvashi Butalia: The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Chapter 2: Blood)
Unit VBapsi Sidhwa: Ice Candy Man
Unit VlJyotirmoyee Devi: The River Churning


Semester Vl Course Title: Regional Literature with Special Reference to Literature of Uttarakhand Paper l
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 EzekielKamala Das Next To Indira Gandhi
Unit ll Pablo Neruda: If You Forget Me Margaret Atwood: Spellings Dennis Brutus: Cold
Unit lllGirish Karnad: Tughlaq
Unit lVMahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj
Unit VFrantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (Chapter 4)
Unit VlChinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart