Can you provide me the syllabus of BA Honours course in English program as offered by Jadavpur University as my exams are near by and I need it for preparation?

The syllabus of BA Honours course in English program as offered by Jadavpur University is as follows:

Core Courses
1. History of Language, Old and Middle English Literature
A. HISTORY OF LANGUAGE: THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY MODERN PROSE
1. Origins of the English language and its place in the Indo-European
literature
2. Early foreign influences on the vocabulary of English
3. Orthography and pronunciation
4. The triumph of the vernacular: Chaucer to Shakespeare, incl. Bible
translations
B. OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
History of Old and Middle English Literature from the beginnings to c.1500,
looking at the key primary texts in translation.

2. English Literature 1500-1630
A. BACKGROUND
Historical introduction to the Renaissance
B. DRAMA
1. Two plays by Shakespeare
2. One play by Marlowe
C. POETRY
Selections from the poetry of Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Elizabeth I,
Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne
.
D. PROSE
Selections from Bacon’s Essays, Sidney’s Arcadia and More’s Utopia


3. English Literature 1630-1760
5
1) A. BACKGROUND
History, politics and culture 1630-1760
B. Drama
One play by John Dryden/ William Congreve/ John Gay
C. POETRY (SELECTIONS FROM)
1. Milton, Marvell
2. Religious poetry: Vaughan, Crashaw and Traherne
3. Phillips, Finch
4. Satire: Pope, Rochester, Dryden, Johnson

D. FICTION
Two novels by Aphra Behn/ Daniel Defoe/ Henry Fielding
E. PROSE
Any one of the following components:
1. Pamphlets
2. Periodical essays
3. Journals
4. Biographies

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