DR.

SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJI UNIVERSITY,

RANCHI

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SYLLABUS: UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

ENGLISH HONOURS & GENERAL
Based on CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL, DEPARTMENT OF

ENGLISH , in the meeting held on …………………………………………………..

Dr.Vinay Bharat Dr.Piyushbala Dr. Madhuri Prasad

(Head of the Deptartment)
DR. SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJI UNIVERSITY,RANCHI, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, SYLLABUS:
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Course Structure for B.A. ( English) Honours

SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
CC: 1 Indian Classical Literature CC: 3 Indian Writing in English
CC: 2 European Classical Literature CC: 4 British Poetry and Drama: 14th to
17th Centuries
GE I GE II
AECC AECC
SEMESTER III SEMESTER IV
CC: 5 American Literature CC:8 British Literature 18th Century

CC:6 Popular Literature CC:9 British Romantic Literature

CC:7 British Poetry and Drama: 17th & CC:10 British Literature: 19th Century
18th Centuries
GE III GE IV
SEC SEC
SEMESTER V SEMESTER VI
CC: 11 Women’s Writing CC: 13 Modern European Drama
CC: 12 British Literature: The Early 20th CC: 14 Postcolonial Literatures
Century
DSE (Group A or Group B) DSE (GROUP A or Group B)
Group A Group A
Paper1: Modern Writing in English Paper1: Modern Writing in English
Translation I Translation II

Paper2: Literary Criticism I Paper2: Literary Criticism II

Group B Group B
Paper 1: Partition Literature I Paper1: Partition Literature I

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Paper2: Literary Theory I Paper 2: Literary Theory II

CC - Core Course, DSE - Discipline Specific Elective, GE - Generic Elective (Generic

Elective is a paper selected for study from a discipline other than the Honours subject in which
the student is enrolled. The GE is to be studied through Semesters I to IV – Sem I: GE I; Sem II:
GE II; Sem III: GE III; Sem IV: GE IV) AECC - Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course;;
SEC - Skill Enhancement Course.

(Distribution of 140 Credits)

CC DSE GE AECC SEC Total

SEMESTER I 6+6 06 02 - 20
SEMESTER
6+6 06 02 - 20
II
SEMESTER
6+6+6 - 06 02 26
III
SEMESTER
6+6+6 - 06 02 26
IV
SEMESTER
6+6 6 + 6- - - 24
V
SEMESTER
6+6 6 + 6- - - 24
VI
TOTAL 84 24 24 04 04 140

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CORE COURSE

SEMESTER I

(CC1 ) Paper 1: Indian Classical Literature

UNIT I
The History of Indian Classical Drama: Bharata Natyashastra, tr. Manmohan Ghose, vol.
1, 2 nd edition Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967, ch.6, ‘Sentiments’pp.100-18.

UNIT II
Kalidasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New
Delhi: Penguin, 1989).

UNIT III
Valmiki The Ramayana, Book 9, translated by R.C. Dutta.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Indian Epic Tradition: Themes and Recensions

Classical Indian Drama: Theory and Practice
Alankara and Rasa
Dharma and the Heroic

Readings

1. Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh, vol. I, 2nd edn (Calcutta:

Granthalaya, 1967) chap. 6: ‘Sentiments’, pp. 100–18.
2. Iravati Karve, ‘Draupadi’, in Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Hyderabad: Disha,
1991) pp. 79–105.
3. J.A.B. Van Buitenen, ‘Dharma and Moksa’, in Roy W. Perrett, ed., Indian
Philosophy, vol. V, Theory of Value: A Collection of Readings (New York: Garland,
2000) pp. 33–40.

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4. Vinay Dharwadkar, ‘Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature’, in

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, ed. Carol A.
Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158–95.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80

1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8 =24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 2 )Paper 2: European Classical Literature

UNIT I
Homer The Iliad,Book 3 tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
UNIT II
Sophocles Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban
Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
UNIT III
Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm
Heath, (London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–16, 23, 24.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Epic
Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama
The Athenian City State
Catharsis and Mimesis
Satire
Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome

Readings

1. Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm

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Heath, (London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, and 26.
1. Plato, The Republic, Book X, tr. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin, 2007).
3. Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires, Epistles and
Ars Poetica (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) pp. 451–73.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks

End Semester: 80

1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

SEMESTER II

( CC3 )Paper 3: Indian Writing in English

UNIT I
Girish Karnad Tuglaq

UNIT II
Shashi Despande That Long Silence

UNIT III
1. H.L.V. Derozio ‘Freedom to the slave’
2. Kamala Das ‘Introduction’
3. Nissim Ezekiel ‘The Night of the Scorpion’
4. Robin S. Ngangom ‘A Poem for Mother’

Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Indian English
Indian English Literature and its Readership
Themes and Contexts of the Indian English Novel

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The Aesthetics of Indian English Poetry

Modernism in Indian English Literature

Readings

1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
2. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in Imaginary
Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The Perishable Empire
(New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd
edn, 2005) pp. 1–10.
5. K R S Iyengar, Indian Writing in English, Sterling, 2012
6. M K Naik, A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Akademi
7. Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Critical Perspectives, ed, Angelie Multani (Delhi: Pencraft,
2007)

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks =100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8 =24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 4 )Paper 4: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries

UNIT I
Geoffrey Chaucer The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti:
1. Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior...’
2. Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’
John Donne ‘The Good Morrow’

UNIT II
Thomas Dekker The Shoemaker’s Holiday

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UNIT III
William Shakespeare Macbeth

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Renaissance Humanism
The Stage, Court and City
Religious and Political Thought
Ideas of Love and Marriage
The Writer in Society

Readings

1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The
Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin
(New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed.
James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books,
1953) pp. 704–11.
3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of
The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt.
1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill, 1970) pp. 13–18.
5. Philip Weller ed., Macbeth , ( New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2015 )

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

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SEMESTER III

( CC 5 ) Paper 5: American Literature

UNIT I
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie

UNIT II
1. Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Purloined Letter’
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Crack-up’
3. William Faulkner ‘Dry September’

UNIT III
1.Anne Bradstreet ‘The Prologue’
2.Walt Whitman Selections from Leaves of Grass: O Captain, My Captain’
3. Alexie Sherman Alexie ‘Crow testament’ ‘Evolution’

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The American Dream

Social Realism and the American Novel
Folklore and the American Novel
Black Women’s Writings
Questions of Form in American Poetry

Readings

1. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from an

American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105.
2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.
3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, in
Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.

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4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York:
The Modern Library, 1964).
5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary
Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39.

6. Nandana Dutta, American Literature, ( New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan ,2016)

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8= 24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 6 ) Paper 6: Popular Literature

UNIT I
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

UNIT II
Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy

UNIT III
Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Coming of Age
The Canonical and the Popular
Caste, Gender and Identity
Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature
Sense and Nonsense
The Graphic Novel

Readings

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1. Chelva Kanaganayakam, ‘Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary Sri

Lankan Literature’ (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and
Victor J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Delhi: Doaba
Publications, 2001) pp. 51–65.
2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and
Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix.
3. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super Culture:
American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green
University Press, 1975) pp. 29–38.
4. Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English Literary History,
vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full marks=100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 7 )Paper 7: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

UNIT I
John Milton Paradise Lost: Book 1

UNIT II
John Webster The Duchess of Malfi

UNIT III
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock, canto 1

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Suggested Topics and Background P

rose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th

Century The Stage, the State and the Market The
Mock-epic and Satire Women in the 17th Century
The Comedy of Manners

Readings

1. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and
22–4.
2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York:
Norton, 1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.
3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006)
chaps. 8, 11, and 13.
4. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New
York: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks- 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

SEMESTER IV

( CC 8 )Paper 8: British Literature: 18th Century

UNIT I
William Congreve The Way of the World

UNIT II

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1. Samuel Johnson ‘London’

2. Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

UNIT III
Daniel Defoe :

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism

Restoration Comedy
The Country and the City
The Novel and the Periodical Press

Readings
1. Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
(London: Routledge, 1996).
2. Daniel Defoe, ‘The Complete English Tradesman’ (Letter XXII), ‘The Great Law
of Subordination Considered’ (Letter IV), and ‘The Complete English
Gentleman’, in Literature and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed.
Stephen Copley (London: Croom Helm, 1984).
3. Samuel Johnson, ‘Essay 156’, in The Rambler, in Selected Writings: Samuel
Johnson, ed. Peter Martin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009)
pp.194–7; Rasselas Chapter 10; ‘Pope’s Intellectual Character: Pope and Dryden
Compared’, from The Life of Pope, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1,
ed. Stephen Greenblatt, 8th edn (New York: Norton, 2006) pp. 2693–4, 2774–7.
4. S.M.P.N.Singh, A.B.Sharan, A String of Poems (Foundation Books, Cambridge
University Press, New Delhi, 2012.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

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( CC 9 ) Paper 9: British Romantic Literature

UNIT I
1. William Blake ‘The Lamb’,
‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of
Experience)
2. Robert Burns ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’
3. William Wordsworth ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’

UNIT II
1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode to the West Wind’
3. John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

UNIT III
Charles Lamb Old China
William Hazlitt On the feeling of Immortality in the Youth

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Reason and Imagination

Conceptions of Nature
Literature and Revolution
The Gothic
The Romantic Lyric

Readings

1. William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed.
Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 594–611.
2. John Keats, ‘Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817’, and ‘Letter to
Richard Woodhouse, 27 October, 1818’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed. Harold
Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 766–68, 777–8.
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Preface’ to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson
(London: Everyman, 1993) chap. XIII, pp. 161–66.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

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Internal Assessment: 20 Marks

End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 10 )Paper 10: British Literature: 19th Century

UNIT I
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

UNIT II
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

UNIT III
1. Alfred Tennyson ‘Break Break Break’
2. Robert Browning ‘My Last Duchess’
3. Christina Rossetti ‘The Goblin Market’

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Utilitarianism
The 19th Century Novel
Marriage and Sexuality
The Writer and Society
Faith and Doubt
The Dramatic Monologue

Readings
1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life’, ‘The
Social Nature of Consciousness’, and ‘Classes and Ideology’, in A Reader in Marxist
Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel (New York: International
Publishers,1963) pp. 186–8, 190–1, 199–201.

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2. Charles Darwin, ‘Natural Selection and Sexual Selection’, in The Descent of Man in
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt
(New York: Northon, 2006) pp. 1545–9.
3. John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature,
8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) chap. 1,pp. 1061–9.

Examination and distribution of marks Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each Unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

SEMESTER V

( CC11 ) Paper 11: Women’s Writing

UNIT I
Emily Dickinson ‘I cannot live with you’
Sylvia Plath ‘Lady Lazarus’
Eunice De Souza ‘Advice to Women’

UNIT II
Alice Walker The Color Purple

UNIT III
Mahashweta Devi ‘Draupadi’, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002.
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988)
chap. 1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

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The Confessional Mode in Women's Writing

Sexual Politics
Race, Caste and Gender
Social Reform and Women’s Rights

Readings

1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6.
2. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in The Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde and
Shiela Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–18.
3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Recasting Women:
Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989) pp. 1–25.
4. Chandra Talapade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and
Colonial Discourses’, in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Padmini
Mongia (New York: Arnold, 1996) pp. 172–97.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 12 ) Paper 12: British Literature: The Early 20th Century

UNIT I
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers

UNIT II
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

UNIT III
1. W.B. Yeats ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Leda and the Swan’

2. T.S. Eliot ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’

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Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Modernism, Post-modernism and non-European Cultures

The Women’s Movement in the Early 20th Century
Psychoanalysis and the Stream of consciousness
The Uses of Myth , The Avant Garde

Readings

1. Sigmund Freud, ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of

the Unconscious’, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman et. al. (Oxford:
OUP, 1965) pp. 571, 578–80, 559–63.
2. T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Norton Anthology of English
Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) pp.
2319–25.
3. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
(London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

SEMESTER VI

( CC 13 ) Paper 13: Modern European Drama

UNIT I
Henrik Ibsen Ghosts

UNIT II
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

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UNIT III
Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics
Politics, Social Change and the Stage
Text and Performance
European Drama: Realism and Beyond
Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama
The Theatre of the Absurd

Readings
1. Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, chap. 8, ‘Faith and the Sense of Truth’, tr.
Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9,
pp. 121–5, 137–46.
2. Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Street Scene’, ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction’,
and ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an
Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 68–76, 121–8.
3. George Steiner, ‘On Modern Tragedy’, in The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber,
1995) pp. 303–24.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

( CC 14 ) Paper 14: Postcolonial Literatures

UNIT I
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold

UNIT II

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Ama Ata Aidoo ‘The Girl who can’

Grace Ogot ‘The Green Leaves’

UNIT III
Pablo Neruda ‘Tonight I can Write’
Derek Walcott ‘A Far Cry from Africa’ ‘
Mamang Dai ‘The Voice of the Mountain’

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

De-colonization, Globalization and Literature

Literature and Identity Politics
Writing for the New World Audience
Region, Race, and Gender
Postcolonial Literatures and Questions of Form

Readings

1. Franz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Black Skin, White Masks, tr. Charles
Lam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27.
2. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, ‘The Language of African Literature’, in Decolonising the Mind
(London: James Curry, 1986) chap. 1, sections 4–6.
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in Gabriel Garcia
Marquez: New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

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Discipline Specific Elective

SEMESTER V

(GROUP A)

Paper 1: Modern Indian Writing in English Translation I

UNIT I
Premchand ‘The Shroud’, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories, ed. M.
Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2006).

UNIT II
1.Rabindra Nath Tagore ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?' and 'When My Play was
with thee', in Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction by William
Radice (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011).
2. Amrita Pritam ‘I Say Unto Waris Shah’, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in Modern Indian
Literature: An Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems, ed. K.M.
George, vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992).

UNIT III
Dharamveer Bharati Andha Yug, tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP, 2009).

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Aesthetics of Translation

Linguistic Regions and Languages
Modernity in Indian Literature
Caste, Gender and Resistance
Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature.

Readings

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1. Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi, Indian
Literature, no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992).
2. B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and
Speeches, vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra,
1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14.
3. Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as Discovery (Hyderabad:
Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45.
4. G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (New Delhi:
Orient BlackSwan, 2009) pp. 1–5.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

Paper 2: Literary Criticism I

UNIT I
William Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria. Chap xiv & xv

UNIT II
T.S. Eliot: The Function of Criticism
Cleanth Brooks: The Language of Paradox

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Summarising and Critiquing

Point of View
Reading and Interpreting
Media Criticism
Plot and Setting

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Citing from Critics’ Interpretations

Suggested Readings

1. Das, Mohanty: Literary Criticism AReading, Oxford University Press 2011

2. C.S. Lewis: Introduction in An Experiment in Criticism, Cambridge University Press
1992
3. M.H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp, Oxford University Press,!971
4. Rene Wellek, Stephen G. Nicholas: Concepts of Criticism, Connecticut, Yale
University 1963
5. Taylor and Francis Eds. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory,
Routledge, 1996

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. Two long question to be attempted out of four alternatives from Unit 1
2x15=30
2. Two long question to be attempted out of four alternatives from Unit 2
2x15=30
3. Two explanations to be attempted out of four. 2x10=20
(Explanations from each unit to be set)

OR

Group B

Paper 1: Partition Literature I

UNIT I
Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. Frances W. Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa, 1995).

UNIT II
a) Dibyendu Palit, ‘Alam's Own House’, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, Bengal Partition
Stories: An Unclosed Chapter, ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008) pp.
453– 72.
b)Manik Bandhopadhya, ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking:
Partition Stories from Two Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi:
Srishti, 2003) pp. 23–39.

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UNIT III
a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz, ‘For Your Lanes, My Country’, in In English: Faiz
Ahmad Faiz, A Renowned Urdu Poet, tr. and ed. Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris,
2008) p. 138.
b) Gulzar, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, tr. Anisur Rahman, in Translating Partition,
ed.Tarun Saint et. al. (New Delhi: Katha, 2001) p. x.

Suggested Topics and Readings for Class Presentation

Topics

Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition

Communalism and Violence
Homelessness and Exile
Women in the Partition

Background Readings and Screenings

1. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and Boundaries (New
Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
2. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
3. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Delhi: Kali
for Women, 2000).
4. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete Psychological Works of
Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp. 3041–53.

Films
Garam Hawa (dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974).
Khamosh Paani: Silent Waters (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003).
Subarnarekha (dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

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Paper 2: Literary Theory I

UNIT I
Marxism
Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, in Lenin and
Philosophy and Other Essays (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006) pp. 85–126.
UNIT II
Feminism
Elaine Showalter, ‘Twenty Years on: A Literature of Their Own Revisited’, in A
Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977. Rpt.
London: Virago, 2003) pp. xi–xxxiii.

UNIT III
Poststructuralism
Jacques Derrida, ‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human
Science’, tr. Alan Bass, in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed.
David Lodge (London: Longman, 1988) pp. 108–23.

Suggested Reading :
Anand B. Kulkarni & Ashok G. Chaskar, An Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
,( New Delhi :Orient BlackSwan,2016 )

SEMESTER VI

GROUP A

Paper1: Modern Indian Writing in English Translation II

UNIT I
Ismat Chugtai ‘The Quilt’, in Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat
Chugtai, tr. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009).

UNIT II

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1. G.M. Muktibodh ‘The Void’, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) and ‘So Very Far’,
(tr. Tr. Vishnu Khare and Adil Jussawala), in The Oxford Anthology of
Modern Indian Poetry, ed. Vinay Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujam (New
Delhi: OUP, 2000).

2. Thangjam Ibopishak Singh ‘Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour

of Wind’ tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in The Anthology of Contemporary
Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU: Shillong, 2003).

UNIT III
G. Kalyan Rao Untouchable Spring, tr. Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar
(Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Aesthetics of Translation

Linguistic Regions and Languages
Modernity in Indian Literature
Caste, Gender and Resistance
Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature.

Readings
1.Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi, Indian Literature,
no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992).
2.B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and
Speeches, vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra,
1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14.
3.Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as Discovery
(Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45.
4.G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (New Delhi:
Orient BlackSwan, 2009) pp. 1–5.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

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Paper 2: Literary Criticism II

UNIT I
1. Samuel Johnson: Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare
2.T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent

UNIT II
1. I.A. Richards: The Imagination
2. Ronald Barths: Works to Text

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Summarising and Critiquing

Point of View
Reading and Interpreting
Media Criticism
Plot and Setting
Citing from Critics’ Interpretations

Suggested Readings

1. Das, Mohanty: Literary Criticism AReading, Oxford University Press 2011

2. C.S. Lewis: Introduction in An Experiment in Criticism, Cambridge University
Press 1992
3. M.H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp, Oxford University Press,!971
4. Rene Wellek, Stephen G. Nicholas: Concepts of Criticism, Connecticut,
Yale University 1963
5. Taylor and Francis Eds. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and
Theory, Routledge, 1996

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. Two long question to be attempted out of four alternatives from Unit 1. 2x15=30
2. Two long question to be attempted out of four alternatives from Unit 2. 2x15=30

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3. Two explanations to be attempted out of four. 2x10=20

(Explanations from each unit to be set)

OR

Group B

Paper 1: Partition Literature II

UNIT I
Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines.

UNIT II
a) Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M.
Asaduddin (New Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.
b) Lalithambika Antharajanam, ‘A Leaf in the Storm’, tr. K. Narayana Chandran,
in Stories about the Partition of India ed. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: Manohar,
2012) pp. 137–45.

UNIT III
a) Jibananda Das, ‘I Shall Return to This Bengal’, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, in
Modern Indian Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13.

Suggested Topics and Readings for Class Presentation

Topics

Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition

Communalism and Violence
Homelessness and Exile
Women in the Partition

Background Readings and Screenings

1. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and Boundaries

(New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
2. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
3. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Delhi:
Kali for Women, 2000).

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4. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete Psychological

Works of Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp.
3041–53.

Films
Garam Hawa (dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974).
Khamosh Paani: Silent Waters (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003).
Subarnarekha (dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

Paper2: Literary Theory II

UNIT I
Marxism
Antonio Gramsci, ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’ and ‘Hegemony
(Civil Society) and Separation of Powers’, in Selections from the Prison
Notebooks, ed. and tr. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Novell Smith (London:
Lawrence and Wishart, 1971) pp. 5, 245–6.
UNIT II
Feminism
Luce Irigaray, ‘When the Goods Get Together’ (from This Sex Which is
Not One), in New French Feminisms, ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de
Courtivron (New York: Schocken Books, 1981) pp. 107–10.

UNIT III
Poststructuralism
Michel Foucault, ‘Truth and Power’, in Power and Knowledge, tr.
Alessandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino (New York: Pantheon,
1977) pp. 109–33.
UNIT IV

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4. Postcolonial Studies
Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Passive Resistance’ and ‘Education’, in Hind
Swaraj and Other Writings, ed. Anthony J Parel (Delhi: CUP, 1997)
pp. 88–106.

Suggested Background Prose Readings and Topics for Class Presentations

Topics

The East and the West

Questions of Alterity
Power, Language, and Representation
The State and Culture

Readings
1. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
2. Peter Barry, Beginning Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2002).

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 4 1x5 =15
5. Two explanations to be attempted out of four 2x10=20
(Explanations from each unit to be set)

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GENERIC ELECTIVE

SEMESTER 1

Paper 1: Academic Writing and Composition

1. Structuring an argument: Essay writing – Introduction, Interjection and
Conclusion
2. Writing in one’s own words: Precis writing,
3. Summarizing and Paraphrasing ( unseen poem)
4. Paragraph writing.
5. Social and business language of communication: Letter writing, Application
writing.

Suggested Readings

1. Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ben Heasley, Study writing: A Course in Writing Skills for
Academic Purposes (Cambridge: CUP, 2006).
2. Renu Gupta, A Course in Academic Writing (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010).
3. Ilona Leki, Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies (New York: CUP,
2nd edn, 1998).
4. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in
Academic Writing (New York: Norton, 2009).

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks 100

Essay in about 500 words (one out of a choice of three) 1x20=20
Precis writing 1x15=15
Summarizing and Paraphrasing (unseen poem) 1x20=20
Paragraph writing 1x15=15
Letter Writing (one from choice of two) 1x15=15
Application writing 1x15=15

SEMESTER II

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Paper 2: Language and Literature

1. Language: Articles, Prepositions, Verbs.
2. Literature:
a) Poems:
Kamla Das: ‘The Dance of the Eunuchs’
Keats: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
Nissim Ezekiel: ‘Night of the Scorpion’
Rabindranath Tagore: ‘Heaven of Freedom’
b) Anita Desai: Village by the sea

Suggested Reading
S.M.P.N.Singh & A.B.Sharan, A String of Poems, Cambridge University Press 2012

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks- 100

A) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles, preposition and verbs. 1x2=20
B) Two critical questions of equal value from prescribed poems to be attempted
out of a choice of four. 2x15= 30
C) Two critical questions of equal value from prescribed novel to be attempted out
of a choice of four. 2x15= 30
D) Ten Objective questions from the prescribed texts. 2x10=20

SEMESTER III

Paper 3: Media And Communication Skills

UNIT I
Introduction to Mass Communication
a. Mass Communication and Globalization
b.Forms of Mass Communication

UNIT II
Media
a. Print Media: Journalistic report writing
b. Electronic media: Introduction to Cyber Media

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UNIT III
Advertisement
a.Types of Advertisement , Advertising Ethics
b.How to create advertisements/storyboards

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100

1. Journalistic report writing or Editorial writing (about 500 words) 1x20=20
2. Two questions of equal value to be attempted from Unit I out of a choice of
three. 2x20=40
3.One question to be attempted from Unit II out of two. 1x20=20
4. One question to be attempted from Unit III out of two. 1x20=20

SEMESTER IV

Paper 4: Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment

UNIT I
1. Social Construction of Gender: Masculinity and Feminity (30 marks)
UNIT II
2. History of Women’s movement in India (pre-independence): Women,
Nationalism and Partition (30 marks)
UNIT III
3. Women and the Indian ConstitutionPersonal Laws(Customary practices on
inheritance and Marriage)
UNIt IV
4. Women and Environment: Domestic violence, Female foeticide, sexual
harassment.
(40 marks)
Supplemented by workshop on legal awareness

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100

1. One Question to be attempted from Unit 1 from a choice of three.
1x20=20
2 One Question to be attempted from Unit 2 from a choice of three.
1x20=20
3. One Question to be attempted from Unit 3 from a choice of three.
1x20=20
4. One Question to be attempted from Unit 3 from a choice of three.
1x20=20

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5. One report based on workshop on legal awareness 1x20= 20

Ability Enhancement Course

Compulsory

Semester I

Communication

UNIT I
Introduction:
1. Theory of Communication, Types and modes of Communication.
Monologue, Dialogue, Group Discussion,
2. Effective Communication/ Mis- communication

UNIT II
Language of Communication:
Verbal and Non-verbal (Spoken and Written)
Personal, Social and Business
Barriers and Strategies
Intra-personal, Inter-personal and Group communication

Suggested Reading
Dr. Vinay Bharat & Ganesh Lal, ‘Communicative English’, Shiksha Sagar Publication &
Distributors, Agra.

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=50

1. Two Questions to be attempted from Unit 1 from a choice of four. 2x10=20
2. Two Questions to be attempted from Unit 2 from a choice of four. 2x15=30

Semester II

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Speaking and writing skills

UNIT I
1. Interview
2. Public Speech
3. Close Reading Comprehension: Summary Paraphrasing.

UNIT II
1. Essay Writing
2. Letter writing
3. Report Writing

Suggested Reading
Dr. Vinay Bharat & Ganesh Lal, ‘Communicative English’, Shiksha Sagar Publication &
Distributors, Agra.

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=50

1. Two Questions to be attempted from Unit 1 from a choice of four. 2x10=20

2. Two Questions to be attempted from Unit 2 from a choice of four.2x15=30

Skill Enhancement Course

Semester III

Creative Writing
Unit 1
What is Creative Writing?

Unit 2
The Art and Craft of Writing.

Unit 3
Modes of creative Writing.

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Suggested Readings
Creative writing: A Beginner’s Manual by Anjana Neira Dev and Others, Published by
Pearson, Delhi, 2009.

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- F.M. 50

An Essay writing from a choice of four 1x20=20
(about 500 words)
Story writing with the help of given guidelines / key words 1x15=15
(about 300 words)
Critical analysis of an unseen poem. (about 300 words) 1x15=15

Semester IV

Business Communication

UNIT I
Introduction to the essentials of Business Communication: Theory and practice

UNIT II
Writing a project report

UNIT III
Writing minutes of meetings

UNIT IV
Making oral presentations for business communication. (Viva for internal
assessment)

Suggested Readings:
1.Scot, O.; Contemporary Business Communication. Biztantra, New Delhi.
2. Lesikar, R.V. & Flatley, M.E.; Basic Business Communication Skills for Empowering
the Internet Generation, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd. New Delhi.
3. Ludlow, R. & Panton, F.; The Essence of Effective Communications, Prentice Hall Of
India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
4. R. C. Bhatia, Business Communication, Ane Books Pvt Ltd, New Delhi .
5. Dr. Vinay Bharat & Ganesh Lal, ‘Communicative English’, Shiksha Sagar Publication
& Distributors, Agra.
6. Board of Editors , Business Communication in English, ( Orient BlackSwan ,2014 )

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End term Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- F.M. 50

1. One question from unit I out of two. 1x20=20

2. Writing a Project report 1x10=10
3. Writings minutes of meeting. 1x10=10
4. Oral presentations for business communication. (Viva for internal assessment)
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B.A. General Programme

Core Course

Semester I

Indian Writing in English

UNIT I
1.Krish kanad Tuglaq
UNIT II
2.Shashi Despande That Long Silence
UNIT III
3.H.L.V. Derozio ‘Freedom to the slave’
Kamala Das ‘Introduction’
Nissim Ezekiel ‘The Night of the Scorpion’
Robin S. Ngangom ‘A Poem for Mother’

Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Indian English
Indian English Literature and its Readership
Themes and Contexts of the Indian English Novel
The Aesthetics of Indian English Poetry
Modernism in Indian English Literature

Readings

8. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
9. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in Imaginary
Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
10. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The Perishable Empire
(New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
11. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd
edn, 2005) pp. 1–10.

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12. K R S Iyengar, Indian Writing in English, Sterling, 2012

13. M K Naik, A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Akademi
14. Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Critical Perspectives, ed, Angelie Multani (Delhi: Pencraft,
2007)

Examination and distribution of marks= Full Marks-100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x24=24
(Explanations from each of the prescribed texts to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Renaissance Humanism
The Stage, Court and City
Religious and Political Thought
Ideas of Love and Marriage
The Writer in Society

Readings

6. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The
Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin
(New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
7. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed.
James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books,
1953) pp. 704–11.
8. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of
The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt.
1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
9. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill, 1970) pp. 13–18.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks-100

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Internal Assessment: 20 Marks

End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each of the prescribed texts to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed text.

Semester II

British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

1. John Milton Paradise Lost: Book 1

2. John Webster The Duchess of Malfi or The White Devil / Ben Jonson the Alchemist
3. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock,canto 1

Suggested Topics and Background P

rose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th

Century The Stage, the State and the Market The
Mock-epic and Satire Women in the 17th Century
The Comedy of Manners

Readings

5. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and
22–4.
6. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York:
Norton, 1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.
7. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006)
chaps. 8, 11, and 13.
8. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New
York: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks-100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks

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End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each of the prescribed texts to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

Semester III

American Literature

UNIT I
1. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
UNIT II
2. Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Purloined Letter’
F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Crack-up’
William Faulkner ‘Dry September’
UNIT III
4. Anne Bradstreet ‘The Prologue’
Walt Whitman Selections from Leaves of Grass:
O Captain, My Captain’
Alexie Sherman Alexie ‘Crow testament’
Evolution’

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The American Dream

Social Realism and the American Novel
Folklore and the American Novel
Black Women’s Writings
Questions of Form in American Poetry

Readings

7. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from an

American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105.
8. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.

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9. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, in
Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York:
The Modern Library, 1964).
11. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and
Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each of the prescribed texts to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed text. 1x11=11

Semester IV

British Romantic Literature

UNIT I
1. William Blake ‘The Lamb’,
‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of
Experience)
2. Robert Burns ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’
3. William Wordsworth ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘Dejection: An Ode’
UNIT II
1. Lord George Gordon
Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–405); canto IV,
verses 178–86 (lines 1594–674)
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode to the West Wind’
3. John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
UNIT III
Charles Lamb Old china
William Hazlitt On the feeling of immortality in the youth

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

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Reason and Imagination

Conceptions of Nature
Literature and Revolution
The Gothic
The Romantic Lyric

Readings

3. William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed.
Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 594–611.
4. John Keats, ‘Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817’, and ‘Letter to
Richard Woodhouse, 27 October, 1818’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed. Harold
Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 766–68, 777–8.
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Preface’ to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson (London:
Everyman, 1993) chap. XIII, pp. 161–66.

Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks - 100

Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each of the prescribed texts to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11

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Generic Elective

SEMESTER V

Paper 1: Academic Writing and Composition

6. Structuring an argument: Essay writing – Introduction, Interjection and
Conclusion
7. Writing in one’s own words: Precis writing,
8. Summarizing and Paraphrasing ( unseen poem)
9. Paragraph writing.
10. Social and business language of communication: Letter writing, Application
writing.

Suggested Readings

5. Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ben Heasley, Study writing: A Course in Writing Skills for
Academic Purposes (Cambridge: CUP, 2006).
6. Renu Gupta, A Course in Academic Writing (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010).
7. Ilona Leki, Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies (New York: CUP,
2nd edn, 1998).
8. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in
Academic Writing (New York: Norton, 2009).

End Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks 100

Essay in about 500 words (one out of a choice of three) 1x20=20
Precis writing 1x15=15
Paraphrasing (unseen poem) 1x15=15
Paragraph writing 1x15=15
Letter Writing (one from choice of two) 1x15=15
Application writing 1x15=10

SEMESTER VI

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Paper1: Language and Literature

c) Language: Articles, Prepositions, Verbs.
d) Literature:
e) Poems:
Kamla Das: ‘An Introduction’
Keats: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
Nissim Ezekiel: ‘Night of the Scorpion’
Alfred Lord Tennyson: ‘Break, Break, Break’
f) Anita Desai: ‘Village by the sea’

End term Semester Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks- 100
A) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles, preposition and verbs. 1x2=20
B) Two critical questions of equal value from prescribed poems to be attempted
out of a choice of three. 2x15= 30
C) Two critical questions of equal value from prescribed drama to be attempted out
of a choice of three. 2x15= 30
D) Ten Objective questions from the prescribed texts. 2x10=20

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