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Table of Contents

• BA English Notes BBMKU & VBU University
  • • Notification and New Updates.
    • Some Important Notes
    • BA English Honours Semester I
    • BA English Honours Semester 2
    • BA English Honours Semester 3
    • BA English Honours Semester 4
    • BA English Honours Semester 5
    • BA English Honours Semester 6

Notification and New Updates.

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Notes
• In Custody a Novel by Anita Desai: Complete Notes for BA English Honours BBMKU
• The Wild Swans at Coole by W.B. Yeats Notes for BA English Students BBMKU
• The Ramayana translation by R C Dutt Book 1
• 20th Century English Poetry Development

Some Important Notes

Write a Short note on Lyric Poetry BA English Semester1

New Updated Syllabus for BBMKU and VBU University

Short 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 and 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: Godaan by Premchand	1. Life and Work 2. Godaan 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, Political Condition, Religious Condition, and Economic Condition.
Unit II: The Guide by R.K. Narayan	1. R.K. Narayan Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of The Guide
Unite III: Nagamandala by Girish Karnad	1. Life and Work 2. Nagamandala Summary 3. Critical Appreciation of Nagamandala
Unite IV: Important Indian Poets and Their Works.	1. H.L. Derozio 2. Toru Dutt’s life and works (a) Lotus by Turu Dutt 3. Sarojini Naidu (a) Summar Woods Summary 4. Nissim Ezekiel 5. Jayanta Mahapatra life and Work (a) Lost Summary 6. Keki N. Daruwalla 7. Kamla Das Life and Works (a) The Doubt Summary (a) The Dance of The Eunuchs Summary.

Core Paper IV: British English Literature during 14th to 17th Century

Uni II: Important Poetry Works.	1. 14th-Century Historical Background 2. Age of Chaucer Historical Background 3. Elizabethan Poetry 4. Early Renaissance Poetry 5. The University Wits
1. Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Chaucer (a) Geoffery Chaucer’s life and works (b) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Summary 2. A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne (a) John Donne’s Life and Works (b)A Hymn to God the Father summary 3. How Soon Hath Time by John Milton (a) John Milton’s Life and Works (b) How soon Hath Time Summary 4. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell	1. Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Chaucer (a) Geoffery Chaucer’s life and works (b) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Summary 2. A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne (a) John Donne’s Life and Works (b)A Hymn to God the Father summary 3. How Soon Hath Time by John Milton (a) John Milton’s life and Works (b) How soon Hath Time Summary 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. John Dryden’s 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. American Literature 19th to 20th Century 2. American Poetry in the 19th Century
Unit II: Selected Poetry	1. Walt Whiteman: Life and Works (a) A child said, What is the grass? (b) Song of Myself (c) I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, 2. Robert Frost’s Life and Work (a) The Road Not Taken (b) Two Tramps in Mud Time 3. Sylvia Plath: Life and Work (a) Mirror (b) Tulips
Unit III: The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway	1. Ernest Hemingway: Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation
Unit IV: Death of a Salesman	1. Arthur Miller: Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation

Core Paper VI: Popular Literature

Unit III: Five Points of Someone by Chetan Bhagat	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. Chetan Bhagat: Life and Work 2. Summary 3. Critical Appreciation
Unit IV: The Sellout by Paul Beatty	1. Paul Beatty: Life and Work 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: She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith	1. Life and Work of Oliver Goldsmith 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
Unit II: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding	1. Life and Work of Henry Fielding 2. Summary and Critical Appreciation
Unit III: The Castle of Otranto By Horace Walpole	1. Life and Work of Horace Walpole 2. Summary and Critical Appreciation
Unite IV: Selected work of Swift’s (Jonathan Swift) Satires and Samuel Johnson’s 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	Significant Influences, Movements and Works
Unit II: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen	1. Life and Work of Jane Austen 2. Pride and Prejudice 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 X: British Poetry 19th Century

Unit I: History of English Poetry	British Poetry 19th Century
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. Kubla Khan Summary
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: In Custody by Anita Desai	1. Life and Work of Anita Desai 2. In Custody Notes
Unit IV: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison	1. Life and Work of Toni Morrison 2. The Bluest Eye Notes

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: White Swan at Coole W.B. Yeats The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1. White Swan at Coole Notes 2. The Love Song Notes
Unit III: Candida by G.B. Shaw The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene	1. Candida Notes 2. The Heart of the Matter notes
Unit IV: Function of criticism 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. Context of Modern European Drama 2. Social changes and stage 3. Text and performance 4. Realism and experimentation 5. Tragedy and Heroism
Unit I: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen	1. Life and Work of Henrik Ibsen 2. Ghosts Notes
Unit III: The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht	1. Life and Work of Bertolt Brecht 2. The Good Woman of Setzuan Notes
Unit IV: Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco	1. Eugen Ionesco: Life and Work 2. Rhinoceros Notes

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