UNIVERISTY OF RAJASTHAN JAIPUR SYLLABUS Three/Four Year Undergraduate Programme in English 1&1 Semester Examination 2023-24 by [i — Dy Rages Asper NEP 2020Literature (Ens B.A. English Literature Part [ 2023-24 Semester Scheme B.A. English Literature Part I SEMESTER I Paper I - Applied Language Skills and Literary Analysis The Syllabus aims at achieving the following objectives: ‘* Introduce various literary devices, different genres and forms of literature + Critically analyze prose pieces and write + Appreciate poetry * Practice Journalistic report writing and know how it is different from other forms of prose writing ‘+ Write advertisement copy, to be able to write catchy, precise advertisement copies + Develop writing skills by practicing theme writing, Maximum Marks:150 Min, Marks: 40 Duration: 3 hrs Internal Marks: 30 Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all with atleast one from eachUnit UNITT Analysis of a literary text (prose and poetry) in terms of imagery, diction, structure,tone, point of view, referential and connotative meaning, 40 marks UNIT IT Journalistic Report Writing, Writing an Editorial 20 marks UNIT Oo Theme writing, One out of Three Topics. 30 marks cam UNIT HIS‘Summary Writing 30 marks Tutorials Quis, Seminar, Group Discussion, Presentation, Project Recommended Reading: ‘Vandana R. Singh: The Written Word (0.U.P.) KM. Shrivastava: News Reporting and Editing, Sterling Publication Parthasarathy, Raagaswami: Basic Journalism, Macmillan India. John Seely: Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking A.K, Sinha: A Students Companion to English Poetry Paper Ii: English Literature: Elizabethan Age and Metaphysical ‘The Syllabus aims at achieving the following objectives: + To build an understanding of the age of Renaissance and Reformation in Europe. Its impact on England in the field of literature, culture, politics and economy ‘+ To-create an understanding of the times of Queen Elizabeth I, the rise of New ‘Leaming and the factors that contributed to the popularity of drama @ Totrace the arrival of blank verse and the sonnet form to England and their extensive use at the hands of well-known sonneteers ‘+ Toexplore the popularity of the lyric and its use at the hands of great poets like Edmund Spenser + Tounderstand metaphysical poetry and its characteristics ‘+ Tocomprehend the importance and cultural setting of a wedding song with reference to Epithalamion + To look at the impact of Reformation by analyzing the religious poetry of the age Maximum Marks: 150 ‘Min, Marks: 40 Duration: 3 hrs Internal Marks: 30 Part A References to Contest Candidate will be required to explain four (4) passages of Reference to Context with 5 marks each with a total of 20 Marks. Knowledge of Literary Terms and Poetry Appreciation and usages of drama ts required. Part B- The student will be required to attempt 2 questions out of 4. Each question will carry 10 marks cach (0 total of 20 marks. Part C-The other 4 questions will be Essay-type questions of 20 marks each, one from each unit with internal choice. UNITT ‘The following poems from The Metaphysical Poets, ed. Helen Gardner. John Donne: (i) Sweet Love(i) This is my plays last scene (Gil) Death be not proud, though some have called thee George Herbert: (i) The Agonie (ii) Prayer (ii) Virtue (iv) The Collar Henry Vaughan: (i) The Retreat (ji) The Moming Watch Andrew Marvell: (i) To his Coy Mistress UNIT IL Marlow : The Jew of Malta UNIT IIT Shakespeare 1: Merchant of Venice ‘UNITIV Spenser : Epithalamion Tutorials : Quiz, Seminar, Group Discussion, Presentation, Project Recommended Readings: A.C. Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy EE, Stoll: Art and Artifice in Shakespeare M,C. Bradbook: Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy Growth and Structure of Blizabethan Comedy Northrop Frye: Fools of Time G. Gordon: Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies, The Wheel of Fire Helen Gardner: Metaphysical Poetry MH Abrams: The Glossary of Literary terms B.A. English Literature Semester I Paper I- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Literature ‘The Syllabus aims at achieving the following objectives: + Tobe able to correlate the background and political events of the Restoration period with the texts ‘Understand the historical context of plays and their appreciation in terms of language, devices used and form + Tobe able to trace the development of the novel up to its present fort # Appreciate the novel as a form and comprehend the delineation of characters presented + Tocomprehend Milton’s contribution to English Literature + To be acquainted with pastoral elegy as a form of poetry and its features * Tobe acquainted with the critical writings of the era and answer questions based on y ie — Registrarthem and evaluate Johnson's contribution ‘+ Comprehend the Mock-heroic form and its use by John Dryden ‘+ Interpret and explain poetic forms like Ode, its types and its use by John Dryden Maximum Marks: 150 Min, Marks: 40 Daration: 3 hes Internal Marks: 30 Part A--References to Context Candidate will be required to explain four (4) passages of Reference to Context with $ marks each with 8 total of 20 Marks. Knowledge of Literary Terms and Poetry Appreciation and usages of drama is required. Part B-The student will be required to attempt 2 questions out of 4, Each question will carry 10 marks each to total of 20 marks. Part C-The other 4 questions will be Essay-type questions of 20 marks each, one from cach unit with, intemal choice. UNITI Milton :— Lycidas Dryden 2 (Mac Flecknoe (ii) To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Pope + Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (from Fifteen Poets) UNIT Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels UNIT D1 Daniel Defoe 2 Captain Singleton Samuel Johnson: —_Preface to Shakespeare (Enright & Chikera) UNITIV Tutorials 2 Quiz, Seminar, Group Discussion, Presentation, Project Recommended Readings: Travelyn: A Social History of England Richard W. Beris: English Drama Restoration and Eighteenth Century: 1650-1789 (London: 1998) George Parfitt: English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London: 1985) Graham Parry: Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context (Baltimore: 1987)Michaet Q ee py, Registrar ‘ ic}‘Mekecon: The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Dailimare, 1987) Paper I: Pre-Romantic and Romantic Literature She Syllabus aims at achieving the following objectives: + Understand the context of the age, the ushering of the Romantic era and its, implications + Understand the historical context of the French Revolution and its impact + Appreciate love of nature and imbibe that love within themselves become coologically sensitive ‘+ Tounderstand medievalism and comprehend the romantics love for the supernatural + Toappreciate the development of essays and appreciate the autobiographical element in the essays of Lamb + Tobe able to compare and contrast between the styles of Lamb and Hazlitt and understand fully the genre of essay writing + Tobe able to trace the development of thought and distinguish between the older and the younger Romantics Maximum Marks: 150 Min, Marks: 40 Duration: 3 hrs Internal Marks: 30 Part A - References to Context Candidate will be required to explain four (4) passages of Reference to Context with 5 marks each with ‘total of 20 Marks. Knowledge of Literary Terms and Poetry Appreciation and usages of drama is required. Part B- The student will be required to attempt 2 questions out of 4. Each question will camry 10 marks cach to. total of 20 marks. Part C -The other 4 questions will be Essay-type questions of 20 marks each, one from each unit with internal choice. UNIT Thomas Gray Odeon Distant Prospect of Eton College Cowper + ThePoplar Feld W. Blake : London, Introduction (Songs of Innocence) Introduction Se UNIT IL W.Wordsworth Lines Woiten about Tintern Abbey S.7. Coleridge :— Christabel Pt. 1 oir oe yy Je a py. Registrar mic) ReicethanJohn Keats Shelley Charles Lamb William Hazlitt Tutorials Eve of St. Agnes (Ode to the West Wind UNITIV Following essays fom Essays of Elia, ed. N.L Hailward & S.C. Hill (Macmillan) (i) In Praise of ChimneySweeper (ii) Mackeray End in Herfordsbire ( On Going a Journey Quiz, Seminar, Group Discussion, Presentation, Project