BBMKU FYUGP English Syllabus 2022-2026

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BBMKU FYUGP English Syllabus 2022-2026
BA PART 1
- SEMESTER I
- SEMESTER II
BA PART 2
- SEMESTER III
- SEMESTER IV
BA PART 3
- SEMESTER V
- SEMESTER VI
BA PART 4
- SEMESTER VII
- SEMESTER VIII

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 )
- Summary
UNIT II: Selection from The Arabian Nights:
- Sindbad the Sailor
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
UNIT III: Abhigyan Shakuntalam – Kali das
- Summary
UNIT IV: The Iliad – Homer, Book I
- Summary and Notes
- MCQ Questions
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
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

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