I am student of University of Calcutta and from here doing MA degree in English searching for some syllabus about this course. Will you provide me Elective English Syllabus Of Calcutta University so that I get to know list of topics to study well for this University exams?

The University of Calcutta is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857.

It was the first institution in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western-style university

Syllabus:

Elective English

Paper 1

Full Marks : 100 marks

Internal Assessment : 10 marks

Year-End University Examination: 90 Marks

Paper Structure :-

Section 1 (Poetry)

Shakespeare : Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds

Donne : Batter My Heart

Milton : On his Blindness

Wordsworth : To the Skylark, Strange fit of Passion

Coleridge : Kubla Khan

P.B.Shelley : To a Skylark

Keats : Ode to Autumn

Browning : The Last Right Together

Tennyson : Crossing the Bar

Arnold : Shakespeare

Hardy : The Darkling Thrush

Question Pattern

Two Long Questions to be attempted from Poetry out of Six : 15×2=30

Three Explanations to be attempted out of Six passages set : 10×3=30

Section II (Unseen)

a) Precis Writing: One to be attempted out of 2 unseen passages : 15×1=15

b) Identifying Figures of Speech (Three out of five alternatives) : 3×5=15

Paper-II

Full Marks: 100 marks

Internal Assessment: 10 marks

Year-End University Examination: 90 Marks

Novels:

Dickens: Hard Times

Hardy: The Return of the Native

Essays:

Lamb:

The Superannuated Man

J.Neheru: Discovery of India

H. Nicolson: The Art of Living

S.C. Bose: Bose Rolland Interview

Short Stories:

O. Henry: The Last Leaf

James Joyce: Araby

K.Mansfield: The Fly

H.E.Bates: The Ox

Question Pattern

Two Long Questions to be attempted from Novel, taking one from each novel : 15×2=30

Two Semi-Long questions to be attempted from Essay out of Four : 10×2=20

Two Semi-Long questions to be attempted from Short Story out of Four : 10×2=20

Four Commentaries/Short notes to be attempted out of Nine : 5×4=20

Contact:

University of Calcutta
Senate House, 87/1, College Street
Kolkata, West Bengal 700073
Phone: 088246 15445