BBMKU FYUGP English Syllabus 2022- Present Time

BA PART 1

Semester 1

Paper1: Indian Classical Literature

  1. Introduction to Indian Classical Literature
  2. The Ramayana Book 2 (Translated by R.C. Dutt)
  3. Abhigyan Shakuntalam by Kalidas ( Translated by Arthur W Ryder)
  4. Sabha Parva (The Book of Assembly Hall of Mahabharata: The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing
  5. The little clay cart (Mrcchakatika) By Shudraka ( Tr. M R Kale)
  6. The Tale of an Anklet (Cilappatikaram) by Ilango Adigal (Tr. R Parthasarathy)

Semester 2

Paper 2: European Classical Literature

  1. Iliad Book 1 By Homer
  2. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
  3. Aeneid Book 1 by Virgil
  4. The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Canto 1,2) by Dante
  5. Satire Epistle 1 (Book 1) by Horace
  6. The Pot of Gold by Plautus

Paper3: Indian Writing in English

  1. Novels
    • R. K. Narayan – Swami and Friends
    • Amitav Ghosh – Shadow Lines
  2. Poetry
    • H. L. V. Derozio – Freedom to the slave, The Orphan Girl.
    • Kamala Das – Indtroduction, My Grandmother’s House.
    • Nissim Ezekiel – Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa TS, The Night of the Scorpion.
    • Robin S. Ngangom – The Strange Affaire of Robin S. Ngangom, A Poem for Mother.
    • Eunice de Souza – De Souza Prabhu
  3. Short Fiction
    • Mulk Raj Anand – Two Lady Rams
    • Rohinton Mistry – Swimming Lesson
    • Shashi Deshpande – The Intrusion
  4. Drama
    • Mahesh Dattani – Tara

BA PART 2

Semester 3

Paper 4: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Century

  1. Background Reading
    • Renaissance Humanism
    • The Stage
    • Cout and city
    • Religious and Political Thought
    • Ideas of Love and Marriage
    • The Writer in Society
  2. Geoffery Choucer – The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
  3. Edmund Spencer – Amoretti
    • Sonnet LXVII ‘Like as a huntsman
    • Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior….
    • Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name’
  4. John Done
    • The Sun Rising
    • Batter My Heart
    • Valediction; Forbidding Mourning
  5. Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
  6. William Shakespeaere – Macbeth
  7. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

Paper 5: BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES

  1. Background Readings
    • Religious and Secular Thought in the 17thCentury
    • Changing Images of the Human Being in the Literature of the Period
    • The Stage,
    • The State and the Market 
    • The Mock-epic and Satire
    • Women in the 17thCentury
    • The Comedy of Manners 
  2. John Milton – Paradise Lost Book 1
  3. John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi
  4. Aphra Behn – The Rover
  5. Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock

Semester 4

Paper 6: BRITISH LITERATURE: 18TH CENTURY

  1. Background Reading
    • The Enlightenment and neoclassicism
    • Restoration Comedy
    • The Country and the City
    • The Novel and the Periodical Press
    • The self-Conscious Art Form
  2. William Congreve – The Way of the World
  3. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (Book 3,4)
  4. Semuel Johnson – London
  5. Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  6. Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Paper 7: BRITISH ROMANCE LITERATURE

  • Background Reading
    • Reason and Imagination
    • Conceptions of Nature
    • Literature and Revolution
    • The Gothic
    • The Romantic Lyric
  • William Black – The Chimney Sweeper
  • Robert Burns- A Bard’s Epitaph
  • William Wordsworth – Tintern Abbey
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Kubla Khan
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
  • John Keats – Ode to a Nightingle
  • Mary Shalley – Frankenstein

Paper 8: British Literature: 19th Century

  • Background Reading
    • Utilitarianism
    • Colonialism and 19th Century Literature
    • The Death of the Village
    • The 19th Century Novel
    • Marriage and Sexuality
    • The Writer and Society
    • Faith and Doubt
    • The Dramatic Monologue
  • Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
  • Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
  • Charles Dickens – Hard Times
  • Alfred Tennyson – My Last Duchess, Fra Lippo Lippi
  • Christina Rossetti – The Goblin Market

BA PART 3

Semester 5

Paper 9: British Literature Early 20th Century

  1. Background Reading
    • Modernism
    • Post- Modernism and non- European Culture
    • The Women’s Movement in Early 20th
    • Psychoanalysis and the Stream of Consciousness
    • Literature and the Fear of Disintergration
    • The Uses of Myth
    • Nation and Narration in Early 20th Century Novel
    • The Avent Grad
  2. Joseph Conrad – Heart od Darkness
  3. D. H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
  4. Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
  5. W.B. Yeats – The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
  6. T.S. Eliot – The Lover Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men

Paper 10: Women’s Writing

  1. Background Reading
    • The Confessional Mode in Women’s Writing
    • Sexual/Textual Politics
    • Body, Beauty and Discrimination
    • Race, Caste and Gender
    • Social Reform and Women’s Rights
    • Women under Colonialism
    • Women in and out of Slavery
    • Is there a Woman’s Language?
  2. Emily Dickinson – I cannot live with you (Poem)
  3. Eunice De Souza – Advice to Women(Poem)

Paper 11: Modern European Drama

  • Background Reading
    • Political, Social Changes and the Stage
    • Text and Performance
    • Eurpean Drama: Realism and Beyond
    • Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama
    • The Theatre of the Absurd
    • The Role of the Director
    • The Role of the free theatres
  • Henrik Ibsen- A Doll’s House
  • Bertold Brecht- The Good Woman of Szcheuan
  • Samuel Backett- Writing for Godot
  • Eugene lonesco- Rhinoceros

Semester 6

Paper 12: Postcolonial Literature

  • Background Reading
    • Nationalism and Nationality
    • De-colonization, Globalization and Literature
    • Race, Region, Religion
    • Women and Postcolonialism/Gender and Identity
    • English and Bhasha: The Language of Postcolonialism
    • Postcolonial Literatures and Questions of Ethics
    • Postcolonialism and Resistance
    • Literature and Identity Politics
    • Writing for the New World Audience
  • Amitav Ghosh- The Hungry Tide
  • Salman Rushdie- Shame
  • Grace Ogot- The Green Leaves (Short Story)
  • Derek Walcott- A Far Cry From Africa (Poem)
  • David Malouf- Revolving Days (Poem)
  • Mamang Dai- Small Town and the River (Poem)

Paper 13: American Literature

  • Background Reading
    • The American Myths of Genesis
      • The American Dream
      • The American Adam
    • Multicultural Literature of United States
      • Folklore and,
      • the American Novel
    • Race and Gender in American Literature
    • War and American Fiction
    • Two Traditions of American Poetry
      • Emerson and Poe
      • Typological and Tropological Traditions
    • Social Realism and the American Novel
    • The Questions of Form in American Poetry
  • Mark Twain- Huck Finn (Fiction)
  • Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie (Play)
  • William Faulkner- Dry September (Short Story)
  • Booker T Washington- Up from Slavery (Chap-1,2) (Autobiography)
  • Emily Dickinson- 2 Poem
    • 1. Because I cound not stop for Death
    • 2. This was a Poet
  • Robert Frost- 2 Poem
    • 1. Once by the Pacific
    • 2. Mending Wall

Paper 14: Popular Literature

  • Background Reading
    • Coming of Age
    • The Canonical and the Popular
    • Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature
    • Sense and Nonsense
    • The Graphic Novel
    • The Popular and the Market
  • Children’s Literature
    • Lewis Carrol- Through the Looking Glass
    • Sukumar Ray- The Sons of Ramgaroo, Khichudi
  • Detective Fiction
    • Agatha Christie- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • Romance
    • Chick Lit- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
  • Graphic Fiction
    • Vishwajyoti Ghosh- This Side That Side: Restorying Partition
  • Science Fiction
    • Isaac Asimov- Nightfall (Short Story)

Paper 15: Literature of the Indian Diaspora

  • Background Reading
    • The Diaspora
    • Nostalgia
    • New Medium
    • Alienation
    • Gloglization
    • Transnationalism
  • M.G. Vassanji- The Book of Secret
  • Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance
  • Meera Syal- Anita and Me
  • Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake

BA PART 4

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