B.A. Hons. Part - I English Language and Usage-I (Code : ENG 111) Semester : I Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of contact hours per week : 3 Objective : To familiarize the students with the grammatical structures and their applications. To develop the ability to comprehend and analyse a literary text. Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Sentence Elements (SVOCA) Use of Modals (from A Practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martinet) Unit 2 (8 Hrs.) Relative Clauses Transformation of Sentences: Passivization, Reported Speech, Change of degrees of adjective. Unit 3 (7Hrs.) Theme Writing Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) Précis Writing (Summarizing) Unit 5 (8 Hrs) CVs and Job Applications Suggested Readings • The Written Word, Vandana R. Singh (OUP) • The Oxford Guide to Writing & Speaking (OUP) John Seely • A University Grammar of English, Quirk & Greenbaum • Write It : Michael Dean (Cambridge University Press) • Guided Paragraph Writing by T. C. Jupp & John Milne • A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V.Martinet B.A. Hons.Part-I The English Renaissance and Metaphysical Age -I (Code : ENG 112) Semester : I Credits : 4 Course : 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits. Unit 1 (14 Hrs.) B. Jonson Every Man in His Humour Unit 2 (14 Hrs.) W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night Unit 3 (10 Hrs.) Edmund Spenser Of this World’s Theatre in which we stay.. (54) Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day… One day I wrote her name upon the strand (75) (Sonnets from “Amoretti”) Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) John Donne The Good Morrow, Woman’s Constancy Death, be not Proud Goe & Catche a Falling Starre Loves Alchymie, Song – Sweetest Love I do not go... Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) Andrew Marvell The Garden To His Coy Mistress Robert Herrick The Argument of His Book, To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time Suggested Readings : • G. Godon : Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms • Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP (2004) • Legouis : Spenser (Re-printed by Rama Brothers) • Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin) • Boris Ford, Ed. : The Age of Shakespeare (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol.2) – Penguin • From Donne to Marvell Vol.3 • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature (Macmillan) • W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the study of Literature (George. G. Harrap & Co.) • E.E. Stoll : Art & Artifice in Shakespeare • .Northrop Fyre : Fools of Time • Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (OUP) • Edmund Spenser’s Poetry: Norton Critical Edition • M. C. Bradbook: Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan B.A. Hons. Part-I The Age of Restoration-I (Code : ENG 113) Semester : I Credits : 3 Course : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits Unit 1 (10 Hrs.) J. Milton Lycidas On His Blindness, How Soon Hath Time… Unit 2 (10 Hrs ) J. Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Alexander’s Feast Unit 3 (8 Hrs.) Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Unit 4 (8 Hrs.) Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Unit 5 (9 Hrs.) J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A Satire Against Mankind . Suggested Readings • Travelyn : A Social History of England • Michael Mekecon : The Origin of English Novel, 1600-1740 (Dallimare, 1987) • Boris Ford, Ed. : From Dryden to Johnson (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. IV)- Penguin • Dr. Johnson : Lives of the Poets (Lives of Dryden & Pope) • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan) • George Parfitt : English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London : 1985) • Graham Parry : Seventeenth Century Poetry : The Social Context (Baltimore : 1987) • Lycidas : The Norton Edition B.A. Hons. Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry-I (Code : ENG 114) Semester : I Credits : 4 Course : 4 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits. Unit 1 (10 Hrs.) Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Ode on the Death … Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) William Collins Ode to Evening, Ode to Simplicity, Ode on the Poetical Character Unit 3 (15 Hrs.) W. Cowper The Poplar Field, On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk, Light Shining… Unit 4 (14 Hrs.) Robert Burns A Red Red Rose, Ae Fond Kiss, Scots Wha Hae, For A’ That and A’ That Unit 5 (8 Hrs.) W.Blake To the Evening Star (Sonnet from ‘Poetical Sketches’) The Chimney Sweeper ( Songs of Innocence) The Chimney Sweeper( Songs of Experience) London Suggested Readings : • Boris Ford ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (from Blake to Byron)- Vol.5 Penguin • C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination • M.H. Abrams : English Romantic Poets • Jennifer Breen : Romantic Literature • Graham Hough : Romantic Imagination • G.W. Knight : The Starlit Dome • Fifteen Poets (OUP) • Strings of Gold Part II (An Anthology of Poems) Macmillan • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature B.A. Hons. I Project Semester-I No. of Credits-2 Code- ENG 115 MM - 100 Objectives: • To provide an introduction to research methodology. • To orient the student to the techniques of documentation. The student will be required to prepare and submit a Project Report or Term Paper, requiring two hours per week of self- study outside the class. There will be an internal evaluation by a Departmental Panel, at the end of the Semester. B.A. Hons. Part - I English Language and Usage-II (Code : ENG 211) Semester : 2 Credits : 3 Course : 1 No. of contact hours per week : 3 Objective : To familiarize the students with the grammatical structures and their applications. To develop the ability to comprehend and analyse a literary text. Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Analysis of a Literary text (prose & poetry) in terms of imagery, diction, structure, tone, point of view, referential and connotative meaning. Unit 2 (8 Hrs.) Journalistic Report-writing Unit 3 (8 Hrs.) Writing E-mails, Letters regarding Organizing events {conferences, lectures, social functions, seminars etc.) Unit 4 (7 Hrs ) Writing a variety of Advertisement Copies (using visuals, etc.) Unit 5 (10 Hrs ) Editing a given text for grammatical correctness, cohesion and coherence. Suggested Readings • The Written Word, Vandana R. Singh (OUP) • News Reporting and Editing – K.M. Srivastava, Sterling Publication • Basic Journalism, Parthasarthy, Rangaswami / Macmillan India • The Oxford Guide to Writing & Speaking (OUP) by John Seely • Write It : Michael Dean (Cambridge University Press) • Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students , by L.G Alexander • A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V.Martinet B.A. Hons. The English Renaissance and Metaphysical Age-II (Code : ENG 212) Semester : II Credits : 4 Course: 2 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 4 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits. Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Christopher Marlowe Edward, the Second Unit 2 (15 Hrs.) William Shakespeare Hamlet Unit 3 (8 Hrs.) Francis Bacon Of Studies, Of Truth, Of Youth and Age, Of Friendship Unit 4 (8 Hrs.) George Herbert The Agonie, Redemption, Prayer, Love, Virtue, The Collar Unit 5 (7 Hrs.) Henry Vaughan The Retreat, ‘They are all gone, into the world of light, Corruption, The World .Suggested Readings : • A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy • MH. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms • Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP (2004) • Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin) • Boris Ford, Ed. : The Age of Shakespeare (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol.2) – Penguin. • From Donne to Marvell Vol.3 • B. Prasad: A Background to the Study of English Literature (Macmillan) • W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the study of Literature (George. G. Harrap & Co.) • E.E. Stoll: Art & Artifice in Shakespeare • Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (OUP) • .Fifteen Poets (Anthology) • The Norton Anthology of Poetry • The Art of the Essayist (OUP) B.A. Hons. The Age of Restoration -II (Code : ENG 213) Semester : II Credits : 3 Course : 3 No. of Contact Hrs./Week : 3 Objective : To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits Unit 1 (11 Hrs.) A. Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets ) An Essay On Man [From Epistle II (I) and Epistle III (IV)] Unit 2 (7 Hrs.) Richard Steele The Spectator Club, The Trumpet Club, His Account of His Disappointment in Love Unit 3 (7 Hrs.) J. Addison Sir Roger and Will Wimble; Meditations in Westminster Abbey Labour and Exercise Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes Unit 5 (10 Hrs.) Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Suggested Readings • Travelyn : A Social History of England • Michael Mekecon : The Origin of English Novel, 1600-1740 (Dallimare, 1987) • Boris Ford, Ed. : From Dryden to Johnson (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. IV)- Penguin • Dr. Johnson : Lives of the Poets (Lives of Dryden & Pope) • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan) • Richard W. Beris : English Drama Restoration & Eighteenth Century (London: 1988) • George Parfitt : English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London : 1985) • Graham Parry : Seventeenth Century Poetry : The Social Context (Baltimore : 1987) • Coverly Papers from The Spectator (Macmillan’s English Classics) • Fifteen Poets (OUP) • The Art of the Essayist (ed. C.H. Lockitt) o M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms o B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature B.A.