IASE Syllabus B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)
1st year
PAPER – I
ENGLISH POETRY AND DRAMA
BAG 101
Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36
Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.
UNIT – I (LITERARY HISTORY)
The origin of language; Indo-European family of languages; Characteristic features of Old English; Elizabethan Period; Neo-Classical period.
UNIT – II (BASIC ELEMENTS OF POETRY)
Prosody — Rhythm; Meter; Rhyme—hard rhyme, soft rhyme, internal rhyme; Alliteration; Assonance; Diction – Demonstration and Drilling.
Forms — Lyric, Ode, Haiku, Tanka, Jintishi, Ghazal, Rubai etc.
Genres —
1. Narrative Poetry
2. Epic Poetry
3. Dramatic Poetry
4. Satirical Poetry
5. Lyric Poetry
6. Prose Poetry
UNIT – III (READING ENGLISH POETRY)
Poems from The Poet’s Pen ed. P.E. and Homai P. Dustoor (OUP)
For detailed study]
Wordsworth : The Affliction of Margaret
Edumund Spenser : Ice and Fire.
William shakespear : To be or Not to be.
When to the Sessions
Death, Be Not Proud
Goe and Catch a Falling Star
John Donne : The Retreat
Andrew Marvell : Thoughts in a Garden
John Milton : When the Assault was Intended
Lucifer in Hell
John Dryden : Shadwell
Allexander’s Feast
Alexander Pope : From ‘An Essay on Criticism’
John Keats : Grecian Urn
UNIT — IV (DRAMA & THEATRE)
Drama as a performing art - Drama as a tool for social criticism –
Theatre – Introduction to theatres such as Absurd, Epic, Street,
Cruelty, Anger, Feminist, Ritualistic, and Poor.
Genres: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi-Comedy, Farce and Melodrama,
Masque, One-Act-Play, Dramatic Monologue.
Setting – Plot – Character - Structure – Style - Theme – Audience – Dialogue.
UNIT – V (READING DRAMA)
William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night (For detailed study)
Recommended Books :
1. Wood, F.T., An Outline History of English Language.
2. Wren, C.L., The English Language.
3. Baugh, A.C., A History of English Language.
4. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Mac Millan)
5. W.H. Hudson : an Outline History of English Literature
PAPER – II
PROSE AND FICTION
BAG 102
Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36
Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.
Essays and short stories prescribed in Unit III and IV are from Essays, Short stories and One Act Plays ed. R.K. Kaushik and S.C. Bhatia (OUP)
UNIT – I (PROSE FORMS)
Fiction/Short Story/Tales; Autobiography/Biography; Newspaper/Journal; Articles; Philosophical/Scientific Essays; Travelogues; Speech.
UNIT – II (Reading Prose)
M. Chalapathi Rau : Nehru, the Democrat.
E.V.Lucas : Bores
George Bernard Shaw : Freedom
J.B.S. Haldane : What I Require from Life
J.B.Priestley : Student Mobs
Richard Livingstone : The Essential of Education
Aldous Huxley : Non-violence
UNIT – III (Reading Fiction)
Anonymous : The Three Dancing Goats
Karel Capek : The Fortune – Teller
Anton Chekhov : Grief
Katherine Mansfield : The Doll’s House
Leo Tolstoy : How Much Land
Arthur Conan Doyle : The Adventure of the Blue charbuncle
UNIT — IV
Aspects of Novel; Forms of Novel writing.
UNIT – V
Novel (By R.K. Narayan) : The Guide
2nd year
B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)
Scheme : Two papers (Min. Pass Marks : 72) Max. Marks : 200
Paper – I : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100
Paper – II : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100
PAPER – I
ENGLISH POETRY AND DRAMA
BAG 201
Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36
Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.
UNIT - I ( History of Literature)
From Renaissance to the second World war; Pre-Romantic Period; Romantic Period (Chief Characteristics of the period, Treatment of Nature in the Poetry of Major Romantic Poets, Major Novelists of this period.); The growth of English poetry in the eighteenth century.
UNIT – II (Important Terms)
Tragedy, Irony, Soliloquy, Blank Verse, Comic Relief, Elegy, Meter, Plot, Catharsis.
Unit — III
Aspects of Poetry; Basic principles of poetry writing.
UNIT – IV (Reading Poetry)
From String of Gold (Pt.II)ed. Dr. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
James Thomson : Winter, Autumn
Thomas Gray : An Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard
William Collins : Ode to Evening
William Cowper : On Receipt of my Mother’s Picture
Light Shining out of Darkness
William Blake : To Summer, London
William Wordsworth : The World is too much with us Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge Three years she grew The Solitary Reaper
S.T.Coleridge : Christabel Pt.I
G.G.Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods The Isles of Greece
P.B.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind Ode to a Skylark
John Keats : Bright Star On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Ode to Autumn
UNIT – V (Reading Drama)
William Skakespeare : Macbeth
Recommended Books :
3. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Mac Millan)
4. W.H. Hudson : An Outline History of English Literature
PAPER – II
PROSE AND FICTION
BAG 202
Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36
Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.
Essays and short stories prescribed in Unit III and IV are from Essays, Short stories and One Act Plays ed. R.K. Kaushik and S.C. Bhatia (OUP)
UNIT - I
Four passages for explanation with reference to the context from texts prescribed in Unit – III and IV.
UNIT - II
Aspects of fiction; types of Fiction.
UNIT – III (For detailed Study)
Francis Bacon : Of Studies
Joseph Addison : Periodical Essays
Richard Steele : The Spectator Club
Oliver Goldsmith : National Prejudices
Charles Lamb : A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
William Hazlitt : On Going a Journey
Robert L. Stevenson : El Dorado
UNIT – IV (For detailed study)
Guy De Maupassant : The Umbrella
William Faulkner : A Rose for Emily
Mulk Raj Ananad : The Barber’s trade Union
R.K.Narayan : The Axe
UNIT – V (For non-detailed study)
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)
3rd year
Scheme : Two papers (Min. Pass Marks : 72) Max. Marks : 200
Paper – I : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100
Paper – II : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100
PAPER – I
ENGLISH POETRY AND DRAMA
BAG 301
Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36
Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.
UNIT – I (Literary History)
VICTORIAN PERIOD — Chief Characteristics of the period, Major Novelists of this period; MODERN PERIOD — Major Thematic and Technical Features of the Literature of this period, Stream of Consciousness Technique, Poetic Drama.
UNIT – II (Important Terms)
Dramatic Monologue, Paradox, Antithesis, Symbol, Problem Play, Essay, Novel, Free Verse, Short Story.
UNIT — III
Features of Drama; Forms of Drama.
UNIT – IV (READING POETRY)
From Strings of Gold (Part III) ed. Dr. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
Alfred Lord Tennyson : The Lotus Eaters
Break, Break, Break
Robert Browning : My Last Duchess
Mathew Arnold : Dover Beach
G.M.Hopkins : The Sea and the Skylark
W.B.Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
Robert Frost : Birches
Rupert Brooke : The Soldier
T.S.Eliot : Preludes
W.H. Auden : In Memory of W.B.Yeats
Dylan Thomas : Fern Hill
UNIT – V (READING DRAMA)
Henrik Ibsen : The Doll’s House
G.B.Shaw : The Apple Cart
Recommended Books :
1. W.H.Hudson : An Outline History of English Literature
2. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literature Terms (Macmillan)
PAPER – II
PROSE AND FICTION
BAG 302
Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36
Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.
2. Essay and short stories prescribe are from the following books :
(i) Susanta K. Sinha (ed) : English Essayist
(ii) Shiv K. Kumar (ed) : Short stories of Yesterday and Today (OUP)
UNIT - I Four passages for explanation with reference to the context from texts prescribed in Unit III and IV.
UNIT - II Trends of prose writing in India ; Status of fiction writing in India
UNIT – III (For detailed Study) E.V.Lucas : The Town Week
G.K. Chesterton : On the Pleasures of No Longer Being Very Young
A.G. Gardiner : On Superstitions
Hillarie Belloc : In Praise of Ignorance
Aldous Huxley : Selected Snobberies
J.B.Priestely : On Getting off a sleep
UNIT – IV (For detailed study) Joyee Cary : Growning Up.
Nathaniel Hawthrone : Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
O’Henry : The Gift of the Magi
Raja Rao : A Client
Manohar Malgaonkar : Upper Division Love.
UNIT – V (For non-detailed study)Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
Khushwant Singh : Train to Pakistan
Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things
