MIDNAPORE COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) MIDNAPORE, WEST BENGAL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COURSES OF STUDIES FOR THREE YEAR DEGREE COURSE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) FROM THE SESSION- 2014-2015
1 ST YEAR 1 ST SEMESTER ENGH-101 Unit-I Old English Period & Middle English Period Unit-II Elizabethan Age & Jacobean Period Unit- III Thomas Wyatt- I Find No Peace OR Renouncing of Love Philip Sidney- Loving In Truth Edmund Spenser- One Day I Wrote Her Name Unit- IV William Shakespeare- Sonnet No.18 Sonnet No. 73 Sonnet No. 130 Unit- V Masculinity of English Language & Scandinavian & French influence on English Language. History of English Literature- Edward Albert Concise Cambridge History of English Literature- George Sampson Short Oxford History of English Literature- Andrew Sanders Pelican Guide to English Literature (Ed)- Boris Ford Growth & Structure of the English Language- Otto Jespersen The English Language- C.L.Wrenn The Elizabethan Love Sonnet- J.W. Lever An Anthology of Elizabethan Sonnet- Sukanta Chowdhuri 1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit-I & II 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit-III & IV 1 10=10 2 Short answer types questions out of 5 from Unit- III& IV 2 x 5= 10 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit V 1 10=10
1 ST YEAR 1 ST SEMESTER ENGH-102 Unit I Restoration Period & Augustan Age Unit-II Pope- The Rape of the Lock (Canto-I&II) Dryden- Mac Flecknoe Unit III Milton- Paradise Lost (Book I) Unit- IV Donne - The Sunne Rising - Batter My Heart Herbert- The Collar Marvell- To His Coy Mistress Vaughan- The Retreat Restoration Drama - J.E. Cunnigham The Augustan Satire - Ian Jack The Eighteenth Century Background- Basil Willey On The Poetry of Pope - G. Tillotson Dryden - D. Nichol Smith Milton W.R. Parker Milton s Paradise Lost - B.A. Wright A Preface to Paradise Lost - C.S. Lewis Andrew Marvell Cambridge University Press Five Metaphysical Poets- Joan Bennett Metaphysical Poets- Helen Gardner 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit II & III 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit IV 1 10=10 2 Short answer type questions out of 8 from Unit- I, II, III &IV 2 5=10
1 ST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER ENGH-201 Unit- I Pre- Romantics & Major Romantics Unit-II Thomas Gray Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard Unit-III William Blake - London Robert Burns - A Red, Red Rose Unit IV Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Coleridge - Christabel Part-I Unit- V: Rhetoric History of English Literature- William J. Long The Poetry of Thomas Gray- David Cecil Thomas Gray-M. Golden The Romantic Imagination- C.M. Bowra The Romantic Poets- Graham Hough The English Romantic Poets- M.H. Abrams William Blake- J.M. Murry Symbol an Image in William Blake- G.W. Digby Rhetoric & Prosody- Bose & Sterling 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit-II, III &IV 1 10=10 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Units- II,III & IV 2 5=10 Rhetoric (Unit-V)
1 ST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER ENGH-202 Unit -I Younger Romantics & Major Victorians Unit-II Shelley - To a Skylark - Ode To the West Wind John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn -Ode to a Nightingale Lord Byron - Prisoner of Chillon Unit-III Lord Tennyson - Ulysses -Lady of Shallot Robert Browning - My Last Duchess - Porphyria s Lover Unit-IV Mathew Arnold - Dover Beach Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush Hopkins - Pied Beauty The Victorian Era- Hugh Walker The Victorians- C. Petrie A History of English Poetry- Douglas Bush Cambridge Companion to Romantic Literature Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-II 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit- III & IV 1 10=10 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- II, III, & IV 5 2=10
1 ST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER ENGH-203 Unit- I Modern & Post- Modern Age Unit-II W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming - The Wild Swans at Coole T.S. Eliot - Preludes -The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Unit- III Dylan Thomas-Poem in October Philip Larkin- At Grass Ted Hughes- Hawk Roosting Unit- IV Unit- V Latin, Greek & American Influence on English Language English as a world language The Influence of the Bible on English Language Shakespeare & English Language Philological Terms & Philological Notes Philological Terms: Malapropism, Johnsonese, Monosyllabism, Back Formation, Hybridism, S-ending, Word-clipping Philological Notes -Advice, Bread, Bible, Bicycle, Law, Clergy, Court, Dream, Debt, Doubt, Egg, Earl, Elder, Gift, Golgotha, Husband, Helpmate, Island, Master, Nephew, Prodigal, Picture, Scapegoat, Sport, Trusteeship. Unit- VI Prosody The Modern Age- W.W. Robson Modern Poetry & the Tradition- Cleanth Brooks A History of English Language- A.C. Baugh T.S. Eliot- Grover Smith T.S. Eliot s Poetry and Plays: A Study in their Source and Meaning. 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- I 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit- II & III 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- IV 1 10=10 1 philological Term out of 3 from Unit- V Or 4 Marks 2 Philological Notes out of 6 from Unit- V Prosody 1 6=6
SECOND YEAR 3 RD SEMESTER ENGH-301 (British Drama) Unit- I Wiiliam Shakespeare Macbeth* - As You Like It* Or Twelfth Night Unit- II Christopher Marlowe - Edward II * Or Thomas Kyd- The Spanish Tragedy Unit-III Richard Sheridan - The Rivals Or William Goldsmith -She Stoops To Conquer* Unit-IV John Milton- Samson Agonistes* Or Ben Jonson- The Alchemist British Drama- A. Nicoll Shakespearean Tragedy- A.C. Bradley Shakespearean Comedy- H.B. Charlton Christopher Marlowe- F.S. Boas Milton- W.R. Parker The Alchemist Peacock Books 1 Essay type questions out of 2 from Unit- I 1 10=10 1 Essay type questions out of 2 from Unit- II 1 10=10 1 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- III & IV 1 10=10 2 short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit-I, II, III, & IV 5 2=10
SECOND YEAR 3 RD SEMESTER ENGH-302 (British Novel) Unit-I Jane Austen- Pride & Prejudice Unit- II Charles Dickens - David Copperfield * Or George Eliot- Adam Bede Unit- III Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd Unit- IV Unseen Prose A History of English Novel- E.A. Baker British Novel- Elizabeth Drew Jane Austen & Her Art- M.Lascelles Hardy, the novelist - David Cecil Tess of D urbervilles Peacock Books(Atlantic Publishers) 2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- I, II & III 2 10=20 2 short type answer questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II & III 2x5=10 One Unseen Prose Passage (Substance with Critical Comment) 1 10=10
SECOND YEAR 3 RD SEMESTER ENGH-303 Unit- I Bacon - Of Studies -Of Friendship Unit-II Joseph Addison- Sir Roger At Home Unit-III Charles Lamb - The Praise of Chimney Sweepers -The Superannuated Man Unit- IV G B Shaw- Freedom Unit- V Aldous Huxley- Pleasure Unit- VI George Orwell- Shooting an Elephant Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe(Ed) Eight Essayists- A.S. Cairncross(Ed) 3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II, III, IV, V & VI 3 10=30 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV, V & VI 5 2=10
SECOND YEAR 4 th SEMESTER ENGH-401 Unit- I G B Shaw - Arms and The Man* Or Pygmalion Unit-II J M Synge - Riders to the Sea Unit-III John Osborne - Look Back in Anger Unit- IV William Beckett - Waiting For Godot George Bernard Shaw- A.C. Ward Riders to the Sea- Robin Skelton The Plays of John Osborne- S.Trussler The Theatre of the Absurd- Martin Esslin A Reader s Guide to Samuel Beckett- H.Kenner 3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II, III 3 10=30 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III &IV 2x5=10
SECOND YEAR 4 th SEMESTER ENGH-402 Unit-I Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Unit- II William Golding - Lord of the Flies Unit-III Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory A Reader s Guide to British Novels- Elizabeth Drew Lord of the Flies- Casebook Series 3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit-I, II & III 3 10=30 2 short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II & III 5 2=10
SECOND YEAR 4 th SEMESTER ENGH-403 Unit I Katherine Mansfield - The Fly Unit-II J E Bates - The Ox Unit-III James Joyce - Araby Unit IV Joseph Conrad - The Lagoon Unit- V Somerset Maugham - The Lotus Eater Book Recommended: Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe 3 Essay type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV & V 3 10=30 2 Short type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV & V 5 2=10
3 rd YEAR 5 th SEMESTER ENGH-501 Poetry- American & New Literature Unit- I Robert Frost - Road Not Taken - Mending Wall Unit-II Walt Whitman - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed Unit- III Derek Walcott - A Far Cry From Africa A.D.Hope - Australia Unit- IV Derozio - The Harp of India Toru Dutt - Our Casuarina Tree Sarojini Naidu- Summer Wood Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion Unit- V Unseen Poem Indian English Poetry- M.K.Naik Indian English Poetry- Makrand Paranjape Modern Indian English Poetry- Bruce King Golden Treasury of Indian English Poetry (Sahitya Akademi)- V.K.Gokak Ten Twentieth Century Poets- R. Parthasarathy Kamala Das: A Critical Spectrum(Ed) Reading of A.K. Ramanujan s Poems(Ed) 1 essay type question out of 3 from Unit- I, II & III 1x10=10 1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit- IV 1 10=10 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit I, II, III & IV 5 2=10 One Unseen Poem (Substance with Critical Comment) 1 10=10
3 rd YEAR 5 th SEMESTER ENGH-502 Novel and Short Story - Indian and American Unit- I Anita Desai - Clear Light of Day Unit-II Earnest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea Unit- III Raja Rao - The Cow of the Barricades Mulk Raj Anand - Old Bapu Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies Indian Writing in English Srinibas Iyenger A History of Indian English Literature- M.K. Naik 1 Essay type question out of 2 from each Unit- (I, II, & III) 3 10=30 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit I, II, & III 2 5=10
3 rd YEAR 5 th SEMESTER ENGH-503 Unit- I Sophocles- King Oedipus Unit- II Arthur Miller- All My Sons Unit- III Mahesh Dattani- Bravely Fought the Queen Greek Tragedy - H.D.F. Kitto All My Sons - Nissim Ezekiel 1 Essay type question out of 2 from each Unit-( I, II,& III) 3 10=30 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II & III 2 5=10
3 rd YEAR 6 th SEMESTER ENGH-601 Literary Types Unit- I Tragedy and Comedy Unit- II Novel, Epic and Lyric Unit- III Literary Terms Unit- IV Basic Phonetics 1. The Speech Mechanism 2. Classification of Consonants 3. Classification of Vowels 4. Phoneme- Allophone 5. Phonetic Symbols English Literature for Foreign Students- R. Rees Glossary of Literary Terms- M.H. Abrams An Introduction to English Literature- William Henry Hudson English Pronouncing Dictionary- Daniel Jones A Text book of English Phonetics- T. Balasubramaniam Better English Pronunciation- O Connor 2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- I & II 2 10=20 2 short notes on literary terms out of 6 from Unit- III 2 5=10 2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- IV 2 5=10
3 rd YEAR 6 th SEMESTER ENGH-602 Unit- I Literary Essay Unit-II Literary Theory- Terms and Concepts Mimesis, Canon, Reader Response theory, Aestheticism, Ethnicity, Androtext and Gynotext, Power, Empire, Negative Capability, Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Fancy and Imagination, Magic Realism, Structure, Plot, Genre, Surrealism, Rasa and Dhawni, Sphota, Intertextuality Unit- III Creative Writing/ Project Work/ Seminar Quintessence of Literary Essays - Goodman A Dictionary of Literary Modern Critical Terms(Ed) - Roger Fowler Dictionary of Literary Terms - Cuddon A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory- Jeremy Hawthorn Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature - Bill Ashcroft A Handbook to Literature: Thrall & Hibbard Literary Criticism: A Reading - Das & Mohanty 1 Literary essay out of 5 from Unit- I 1 20=20 2 Short type questions on literary terms out of 5 from Unit- II 2 5=10 Creative Writing/ Project Work/ Seminar ()
English General 1 st Year 1 st Semester ENGG-101 Unit I William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar Unit II William Shakespeare - - Since Brass, Nor Stone (Sonnet No. 65) - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet No. 116) John Milton - On His Blindness Unit III Wordsworth - - The World Is Too Much With Us -Upon West minster Bridge Shelley - To A Skylark Keats - Ode to autumn 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- I 1 10=10 2 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- II & III 2 10=20 5 short questions out of 8 from Unit II & III 5 2=10 Golden Treasury- (Ed.) Palgrave
English General 1 st Year 2 nd Semester ENGG-201 Unit-I Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Unit II Lord Tennyson - Tithonus Robert Browning - The Last Ride Together Wilfred Owen - Futility W B Yeats - An Acre of Grass Unit III Rhetoric 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1 10=10 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit III 1 10=10 5 Figures of speech out of 8 from Unit III 2 5=10 2 Short questions out of 4 selecting at least 1 from Unit I & II 2 5=10 Rhetoric and Prosody- Bose & Sterling The Cambridge Guide to The Poetry of The First World War Cambridge University press Oliver Twist Peacock books
English General 2nd Year 3rd Semester ENGG-301 Unit I Vijay Tendulkar - Silence! The Court is in Session Unit II Charles Lamb - Dream Children Nehru - Discovery of India Nicholson - The Art of Living S. C. Bose - Bose- Roland Interview 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1 10=10 2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit II 2 10=20 2 explanations for comment out of 4 from Unit I Or 2 5=10 2 Short questions out of 4 from Unit II Essays & Stories: (Ed.) Burdwan University
English General 2nd Year 3rd Semester ENGG-302 Unit I Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge Unit II Literary Terms - Allegory, Ballad, Burlesque, Comedy, Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Image, Metaphor, Myth, Ode, Round and Flat Character, Soliloquy Stream of Consciousness Novel, Symbol, Tragedy 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1 10=10 2 short type questions out of 4 from Unit I 2 5=10 4 Literary terms out of 8 from Unit II 4 5=20 Dictionary of Literary terms: M.H. Abrams
English General 2nd Year 4 th Semester ENGG-401 Unit I Somerset Maugham - The Lotus Eater James Joyce - Araby Katherine Mansfield - The Fly H.E. Bates - The Ox O Henry - After Twenty Years Unit II Punctuation 2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit I 2 10=20 5 short type questions out of 10 from Unit I 2 5=10 1 Passage for punctuation 1 10=10 Book Recommended: Modern Prose: (Ed.) Michael Thorpe
English General 2nd Year 4 th Semester ENGG-402 Unit I Unseen Essay Unit II Précis Writing Unit III Comprehension Unit IV Substance writing 1 unseen essay out of 5 from Unit I 1 10=10 1 passage for précis writing from Unit II 1 10=10 1 passage for comprehension from Unit III 1 10=10 1 substance writing of a Poem 1 10=10
English (Elective) 5 th Semester 3 rd Year ENGG-501 Unit I Donne- Death Be Not Proud Arnold- Shakespeare Hardy- The Darkling Thrush W. B. Yeats- The Second Coming Unit II Kamala Das - Summer In Calcutta Parthasarathy.R - Delhi A.K.Ramanujan -The River Jayanta Mahapatra - Dawn At Puri 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1 15=15 1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit II 1 15=15 2 Short answer type question out of 6 from Unit I & II 2 5=10
Unit I: (Application oriented topics) i) Exchange of Greeting ii) iii) iv) In The Post Office Buying Dresses At The Bank v) At The Travel Agency vi) English (Elective) 5 th Semester 3 rd Year At an International Airport etc. ENGG-601 (Unseen) Unit II: (Writing Reports on) i) Local Fairs ii) Important Meetings iii) Holding of Seminars iv) Film Reviews etc. Unit III: (Letters) i) Personal/ Official/ Business Related Letters 1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit I 1 15=15 1 question out of 2 from Unit II 1 15=15 1 question out of 2 from Unit III 1 10=10
Communicative English (COMENG) (Compulsory Credit Course) Full Marks: 50 Time: 2 Hours Unit I Fundamental of Phonetics Vowels, Consonants, Phonetic Transcription Unit II Grammar in Use: i) One word substitution ii) iii) iv) Preposition Common Errors Antonyms & Synonyms Unit III i) Dialogue writing ii) iii) Describing a scene or Incident Paragraph Writing 2 short type questions out of 5 from Unit I 2 5=10 Unit II 20 marks 2 writing tasks out of 3 from Unit III 2 10=20 Books recommended: Strengthen Your Writing: V. R. Narayanswami Better English Pronunciation: J. B. O Connor Written Communication in English: Sarah Freeman Spoken English for You: C. I. E. F.L., Hydrabad
Compulsory English (ENGC) Total Marks: 50 Group A Unseen (25 marks) Unit I Unit II Unit III Formal Letter & Writing Curriculum Vitae Or Report Writing Or Paragraph Writing Common Errors Article, Verb Agreement, Tenses, Active & Passive Voice, Modal Auxiliaries Preposition English in Situations: Starting a Conversation, Introducing Oneself, Describing Past Events, places, People & Objects 1 question out of 3 from Unit I 1 12=12 5 Common errors out of 6 from Unit II 1 5=5 1 question from Unit out of 3 alternatives 1 8=8 Group B Unit I William Shakespeare - Seven Ages of Man William Wordsworth - The Education of Nature John Keats - On Fame A.K. Ramaujan - The Last of the Princess Text (25 marks) Unit II E. V. Lucas - The Town Week B. Russell - Knowledge and Wisdom R. K. Narayan - Father s Help 1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1 10=10 1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit II 1 10 =10 1 short question out of 6 from Unit I & II 1 5=5 Book Recommended: Selections from English prose and Poetry for Colleges (MacMillan)