BBMKU FYUGP English Syllabus 2022-2026

Table of Contents
BA PART 1
SEMESTER I
Indian Classical Literature
- UNIT I: Introduction to classical Indian Literature
- The Indian Epic Tradition: Themes and Recensions
- Classical Indian Drama: Theiory and Practce
- Alankara and Rasa
- Dharma and the Heroic
- UNIT II: The Ramayana Book II Translated by R. C. Dutt
- UNIT III: Abhigyan Shakuntalam by Kalidas translated by Arthur W Ryder
- UNIT IV: Vyas: Mahabharata (The book of Assembly Hall or Sabha Parva)
- Unit V: Mrichchhakatikam by Sudraka translated by M. R. Kale
- Unit VI: Cilappatikaran (The tale of an Anklet) translated by R. Parthsarathy Book 3
SEMESTER II
CLASSICAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- UNIT I: The Ramayan – Book II ( translation by R C Dutt )
- UNIT II: Selection from The Arabian Nights:
- Sindbad the Sailor
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- UNIT III: Abhigyan Shakuntalam – Kali das
- UNIT IV: The Iliad – Homer, Book I
- UNIT V: The Divine Comedy (Hell Conto III, IV) – Dante
BA PART 2
SEMESTER III
CHAUCER TO RENAISSANCE
- UNIT I: Historical background
- UNIT II: Poetry
- Nun’s Priest’s tale – Chaucer
- Sonnet No. 18 & 60 – Shakespeare
- A Hymn to God the Father- Donne
- How Soon Hath Time – Milton
- Garden – Andrew Marvell
- UNIT III: Drama
- Hamlet – Shakespeare
- UNIT IV: Prose
- An Essay of Dramatic Poesy – Dryden
SEMESTER IV
BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA
- UNIT I: British Poetry and Drama
- Historical Background 18th 19th & 20th Century
- UNIT II: Poetry
- Ode on Solitude – Alexander Pop
- The Tiger – William Black
- Daffodils – William Wordsworth
- Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
- Break, Break, Break – Tennyson
- The Second Coming – W. B. Yeats
- Gerontion – T. S. Eliot
- Do not go Gentle into the Good Night – Dylan Thomas
- UNIT II: Drama
- The School for Scandal – Sheridan
- Waiting for Godot – Samual Beckett
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
FICTION AND NON-FICTION
- UNIT I: British Fiction & Non-Fiction
- Historical Background 18th 19th & 20th Century
- UNIT II: Works
- Hard Times – Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Meditation Upon A Broomstick – Jonathan Swift
BA PART 3
SEMESTER V
MODERN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- UNIT I: Tamas – Bhisham Sahni
- UNIT II: Pages Stained with Blood – Indira Goswami
- UNIT III: The Crooked Line – Ismat Chughtai
- UNIT IV: Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U. R. Ananthmurthy
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
- UNIT I: A Short History of Indian Writing in English
- UNIT II: Novel
- The English Teacher – R. K. Narayan
- Swami and Friends – R. K. Narayan
- Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh
- UNIT III: Poetry
- H.L.V. Derozio
- Freedom to the Slave
- The Orphan Girl
- Kamala Das
- Introduction
- My Grandmother’s House
- Nissim Ezekiel
- Enterprise
- The Night of the Scorpion
- K. N. Daruwalla
- The Professor Condoles
- Eunice de Souza
- Prabhu
- H.L.V. Derozio
- UNIT IV: Short Fiction
- Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
- Swimming Lesson – Rohinton Mistry
- Cry the Peacock – Anita Desai
- UNIT V: Drama
- Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani
SEMESTER VI
LITERATURARY CRITICISM & THEORY
- UNIT I: Literary Theory
- An Introduction
- New Criticism and Russian Formalism
- Reader Response
- Marxism
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Structuralism
- Post Structuralism
- New Historicism
- Postcolonialism
- Feminism
- Black and Dalit Aesthetics
- Subaltern Studies
- UNIT II: Criticism Theory
- School of Indian Literary Theory
- Rasa, Alamkar, Rati, Dhwani, Vakroti, Auchitya
- Aristotle (from Poetics)
- Longinus: Excerpts from ‘On the Sublime’
- Christopher Caudwell Excerpts from ‘ Illusion and Reality
- I.A. Richard: Excerpts from Practical Criticism
- Victor Shklovsky from Art as Technique.
- T.S. Eliot From ‘The Use of Poetry and the use of Criticism’.
- Northrop Frye from The Anatomy of Criticism
- School of Indian Literary Theory
POST-COLONIAL LETERATURE
- UNIT I: Post-Colonial Literature in English
- in India
- in South Africa
- in America
- UNIT II: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
- UNIT III: Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- UNIT IV: Wild Sargasso Sea – John Rhys
- UNIT V: The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
BA PART 4
SEMESTER VII
Advance Major Paper I
- Soon Available
SEMESTER VIII
Advance Major Paper II
- Soon Available