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Table of Contents
Notification and New Updates.
- 1st Semester exam date 2022 BBMKU University
- Life and Works of Bertolt Brecht
- Scansion of a Poetry BA English Honours
- Poetry BA English First Semester BBMKU
- Fiction B.A. English First Semester BBMKU
Some Important Notes
Write a Short note on Lyric Poetry BA English Semester1
New Updated Syllabus for BBMKU and VBU University
Shorte Notes on Sonnets For First Semester Students.
BA English Honours Semester I
Core Paper I: Basic Literary Concepts |
Unit I: Poetry | 1. Types of Poetry 2. Literary Terms & Metres |
Unit II: Drama![]() | 1. Types of Drama 2. Elements and Dramatic Terms of Drama |
Unit III: Fiction | 1. Types of Fiction 2. Element and Literary Terms |
Unit IV: Scansion | 1. Learn Scansion![]() |
Core Paper II: World Classical Literature In English Translation |
Unit I: The Iliad Book I by Homer | 1. Homer: Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of the Iliad |
Unit II: Godan by Premchand | 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of Godaan |
Unit II: Short Stories | 1. Guy De Maupassant Life and Work 2. The Necklace 3. Two Friends 4. The Piece of String 5. Boule de Suif 6. Two Little Soldiers |
BA English Honours Semester 2
Core Paper III: Indian Writing In English ![]() |
Unit I: Historical Background of India ![]() | 1. Social Condition 2. Political Condition 3. Religious Condition 4. Economical Condition |
Unit II: The Guide by R.K. Narayan ![]() | 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of The Guide |
Unite III: Nagamandala by Girish Karnad ![]() | 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of Nagamandala |
Unite IV: Important Indian Poets and Their Works. ![]() | 1. H.L. Derozio 2. Toru Dutt 3. Sarojini Naidu 4. Nissim Ezekiel 5. Jayanta Mahapatra 6. Keki N. Daruwalla 7. Kamla Das |
Core Paper IV: British English Literature during 14th to 17th Century ![]() |
Unit I: Historical Background During 14th to 17 Century. ![]() | 1. Social Condition 2. Political Condition 3. Religious Condition 4. Economical Condition |
Uni II: Important Poetry works. ![]() | 1. Nun’s priest’s Tale by Chaucer 2. A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne 3. How soon Hath Time by John Milton 4. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell |
Unit III: As You Like It by Shakespeare. ![]() | 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of As You Like It |
Unit IV: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy ![]() | 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
BA English Honours Semester 3
Core Paper V: American Literature form 19th century to 20th century ![]() |
Unit I: Historical Background of America ![]() | 1. Social Condition 2. Political Condition 3. Religious Condition 4. Economical Condition |
Unit II: Selected Poetry ![]() | 1. ‘Song of my self’ by Walt Whiteman (a) A child said, What is the grass. (b) I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, 2. Robert Frost (a) The Road Not Taken (b) Two Tramps in Mud Time 3. Sylvia Plath (a) Mirror (b) Tulips |
Unit III: The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Ernest Hemingway 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: Death of a Salesman ![]() | Arthur Miller |
Core Paper VI: Popular Literature ![]() |
Unit I: Evolution of Popular literature in English ![]() | 1. In India 2. In England 3. In America |
Unit II: The Sign of the Four- Sherlock Holmes (fictional detective) ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Arthur Conan Doyle 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: Five Point of Someone by Chetan Bhagat ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Chetan Bhagat 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Douglas Adams 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Core Paper VII: British Poetry and Drama 18th Century ![]() |
Unit I: Historical Background and Movements ![]() | 1. Social Condition 2. Political Condition 3. Religious Condition 4. Economical Condition |
Unit II: Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Alexander Pope 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: The School Of Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan![]() | 1. Life and Work of Sheridan 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: Selected Poem of William Black ![]() | 1. The Tiger 2. The Lamb 3. The Fly |
BA English Honours Semester 4
Core Paper VIII: British Prose 18th Century ![]() |
Unit I: History of English Prose ![]() | 1. Significant influences 2. Movements 3. Works |
Unit II: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Henry Fielding 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: The Castle of Otranto By Horace Walpole ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Horace Walpole 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unite IV: Selected work of Swift’s (Jonathan Swift) Satires ![]() and Samuel Johnson Works | 1. A Modest Proposal (Essay by Swift ) 2. A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet (Essay by Swift ) 3. Lives of the Poet (Samuel Johnson) |
Core Paper IX: British Prose 19th Century ![]() |
Unit I: History of English Prose ![]() | 1. Significant influences 2. Movements 3. Works |
Unit II: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Jane Austen 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: Hard Times by Charles Dickens ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Charles Dickens 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unite IV: Selected poems ![]() | 1. Preface to the Lyrica Ballads by William Wordsworth 2. Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold |
Core Paper IX: British Poetry 19th Century ![]() |
Unit I: History of English Poetry ![]() | 1. Significant influences 2. Movements 3. Works |
Unit II: Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth and Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ![]() | William Wordsworth 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1. Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: Selected ods ![]() | 1. Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2. Ode to the Nightingale by John Keats |
Unite IV: Selected poetry ![]() | 1. In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson (Stanzas LIV (54): Oh Yet we trust, Stanza CVL(106): Ring out, Wild Bells….) 2. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 3. My Last Duchess by Robert Browning |
BA English Honours Semester 5
Core Paper XI: Women’s Writing![]() |
Unit I: Feminism ![]() | 1. Feminists in the West 2. Feminists in India |
Unit II: Feminism turms ![]() | 1. Types of Feminism/ Different aspects |
Unit III: Fasting Feasting by Anita Desai ![]() | 1. Life and Work of Anita Desai 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: Sula by Toni Morrison![]() | 1. Life and Work of Toni Morrison 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Core Paper XII: British Writing: Early 20th Century![]() |
Unit I: English Literature 20th century ![]() | 1. History of England 2. Significant influences and Movements 3. Important authors and their works |
Unit II: Wild Swans at Coole by W.B. Yeats![]() | 1. Types of Feminism/ Different aspects |
Unit III: Pigmalion by G. B. Shaw![]() The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene | 1. Life and Work of G. B. Shaw 2. Pigmalion Summary 3. Pigmalion Critical Appreciation 4. Life and Work of Graham Greene 5. The Heart of the Matter Summary 6. The Heart of the Matter Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: Tradition & The Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot![]() | 1. Life and Work of Toni Morrison 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
BA English Honours Semester 6
Core Paper XIII: Modern European Drama![]() |
Unit I: Topics to be studied in the context of European Drama | 1. Politics 2. social changes and stage 3. Text and performance; 4. Realism and exprimentation 5. Tragedy and Heroism |
Unit II: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen | 1. Life and Work of Henrik Ibsen 2. Ghosts Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht | 1. Life and Work of Bertolt Brecht 2. The Good Woman of Setzuan Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco | 1. Life and Work of Eugène Ionesco 2. Rhinoceros Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Core Paper XIV: Postcolonial Literature ![]() |
Unit I: Post Colonialism Topics | 1. Postcolonial sensibility 2. Postcolonial literature in English in India 3. Postcolonial literature in English in South Africa 4. Postcolonial literature in America |
Unit II: The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga | 1. Life and Work of Arvind Adiga 2. The White Tiger Summary 3. Critical Appreciation |
Unit III: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 1. Life and Work of Chinua Achebe 2. Things Fall Apart Summary 3. Things Fall Apart Critical Appreciation |
Unit IV: Wide Sargasso Sea by John Rhys | 1. Life and Work of John Rhys 2. Wide Sargasso Sea Summary 3. Wide Sargasso Sea Critical Appreciation |