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June 28th, 2016, 02:38 PM
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| Presidency University English Honours
Can you please get the BA English Honours syllabus issued by Presidency University, Kolkata?
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June 28th, 2016, 02:40 PM
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| Re: Presidency University English Honours
Ya sure buddy I will get the BA English Honours syllabus issued by Presidency University, Kolkata so that you can check it easily. Here is the syllabus Semester 1 English Literature (Poetry & Prose) Classical and Biblical Background to Eng Lit. Semester 2 English Literature 18301900 (Poetry & Prose) Eng/UG/2.2.6 Semester 3 English Literature (Poetry, Prose & Drama) English Literature (Poetry, Drama & Prose) Semester 4 English Literature (Poetry, Drama and Prose) BA English Honours syllabus issued by Presidency University, Kolkata COURSE DETAILS HONOURS Major Core Modules Module 1: Old and Middle English Literature History of the Old and Middle English Literature (Selected texts in translation) Texts Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature K. CrossleyHolland, The AngloSaxon World S.A.J. Bradley, AngloSaxon Poetry Michael Swanton, AngloSaxon Prose B. Stone, Medieval English Verse Recommended reading Greenfield & Calder, A New Critical History of Old English Literature Michael Swanton, English Literature before Chaucer Barron, Medieval English Romance Module 2: History of English Language Latin, Greek, Scandinavian & French Influence Word Formation Processes and Americanism Influence of Shakespeare, Milton, Bible Texts Otto Jespersen, Growth and Structure of the English Language C.L.Wren, The English Language Recommended Reading: A.C.Baugh, A History of English Language C.L.Barber, The Story of Language Module 3: English Literature 15001660 (Poetry, Prose & Drama) Background to Renaissance and the Jacobean Age Selections from the poetry of Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Mary Wroth, Spenser, Drayton, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell Paradise Lost Bk I Selections from Bacon’s Essays Two Plays by Shakespeare: Macbeth/Winter’s Tale/Othello/As You Like It One Play by Marlowe: Edward II/Tamburlaine Recommended reading Douglas Bush, Prefaces to Renaissance Literature Hardin Craig, The Enchanted Glass A.L. Rowse, The Elizabethan Renaissance David Norbrook, Politics and Poetry in Renaissance England L.C. Knights, Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson Frances Yates, Astraea Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance SelfFashioning David Aers, Bob Hodge and Gunther Kress, eds, Literature, Language and Society in England, 15601680 Julia Briggs, This StagePlay World Module 4: English Literature 16601780 (Poetry, Drama & Prose) Background to Restoration and Augustan Age John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ; Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Canto I) William Congreve, The Way of the World; Sheridan, The Rivals Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders; Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews Addison, The Spectator (Selections) Recommended reading Jeremy Black, ed., An Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain, 16881793 James Clifford, ed., Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism Bonamy Dobree, The Oxford History of English Literature Vol. 7 Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution Ian Jack, Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry 16601750 Ronald Paulson, Satire and Novel in Eighteenth Century England Pat Rogers, The Augustan Vision James Sambrook, The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 17001789 Basil Willey, The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion Module 5: English Literature 17801830 (Poetry & Prose) Background of the PreRomantic and Romantic Age Thomas Gray, Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard; William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (Selection one each); Wordsworth, Lucy Poems (Selection two), Ode on Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood; Coleridge, Kubla Khan; Keats, Three Odes, The Eve of St Agnes; Shelley, Ode to the West Wind Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Lamb, Essays of Elia (Selection) or Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (Selection) Recommended reading for Modules 1 and 2 Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries Boris Ford, ed., New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 5 E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolutions 17891848 Jerome McGann, The Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse William St Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp Graham Hough, The Romantic Poets Module 6: English Literature 18301900 (Poetry & Prose) Background to the Victorian Age and literature Any three poets: Tennyson, Ulysses/ Tithonus; Robert Browning, My Last Duchess/ Andrea del Sarto; G.M.Hopkins, The Windhover, Pied Beauty; Matthew Arnold, The Scholar Gipsy; D.G.Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel Any two novelists: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations/Hard Times; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd/ Mayor of Casterbridge; George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss/ Adam Bede Carlyle, On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History (Selected lectures) Recommended reading G.M. Trevelyan, English Social History Asa Briggs, A Social History of England Arthur Pollard, ed., The Victorians Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 18301890 G.M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age J.H. Buckley, The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture Gilbert & Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic Module 7: English Literature 19002000 (Poetry, Drama and Prose) Background to the Age and literature of the period Any two poets: W B Yeats,The Second Coming; T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; W H Auden, Song for the New Year; Owen, Spring Offensive; Spender, The Express Any two playwrights: G B Shaw, Candida; Osborne, Look Back in Anger; Synge, Riders to the Sea; Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros Any one: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; Conrad, The Secret Sharer; D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Short stories from any two: James Joyce, H.E.Bates, Somerset Maugham and Angela Carter Any one essayist: Bernard Shaw and George Orwell Recommended reading AJP Taylor, English History 19141945 Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory Julian Symons, The Thirties Angus Calder, The People’s War Martin Esslin, Theatre of the Absurd Bernard Bergonzi, Wartime and Aftermath: English Literature and its Background Donald Davie, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 19601988 Alan Sinfield, ed, Society and Literature 19451970 Gilbert & Gubar, No Man’s Land: Vol. 2: Sexchanges The Norton Anthology of Literature Vol. 2 Module 8: IWE Any 4 poets: Selections from the works of Henry Derozio, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra, Any one playwright: Girish Karnad, Hayavadana or The Fire and the Rain/ Mahesh Dattani, Bravely Fought the Queen Any one novel: Mulk Raj Anand, Coolie; R.K. Narayan, Guide; Anita Desai, Voices in the City; Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide Short stories:Any two authors: Raja Rao, India – A Fable; Ruskin Bond, When Darkness Falls; Manohar Malgaonkar, A Pinch of Snuff; Nayantara Sahgal; Martand Suggested Reading Shiv K. Kumar ed. Contemporary Indian Short Stories in English Vinayak Krishna Gokak ed., The Golden Treasury of IndoAnglian Poetry S.K. Das, A History of Indian Literature, Vols VIII & IX K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Indian Writing in English R. Sethi, Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation D. Bandyopadhyay, Locating the AngloIndian Self in Ruskin Bond M. Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India M. Mukherjee, Twice Born Fiction Arvind Mehrotra, ed. An Illustrated History of Indian Writing in English Bruce King, Three Indian Poets Module 9: American Literature Background to American History and Literature Poetry: Any three poets: Selections from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes Novel: Any one: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Short stories: Any two authors: Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher; O’Henry, The Last Leaf; John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums; Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour; William Saroyan, Cowards Drama: Any one: Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie; Arthur Miller, The Crucible Recommended reading C.A.Beard and M.R.Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, 2 Vols D. Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience The Americans: The National Experience Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? W. Allen, The Urgent West: The American Dream and Man J. Martin, Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865 – 1914 W. French, 20th Century American Literature M. Walker, The Literature of the United States of America L. P. Simpson, The Man of Letters in New England and the South Address:- Presidency University, Kolkata 86/1, College Street, Calcutta University, College Square, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073 Phone:- 033 2257 3770 For full syllabus please have a look on file; |
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