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I am providing you the syllabus of MA English I year program of University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta MA English I year syllabus

PAPER 1

UNIT 1-

• Pre-Elizabethan Theatre
• Elizabethan Theatre
• Prologue to ‘Wife of Bath’

UNIT 2-

• Chaucer: Prologue to Canterbury Tales
• The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
• The Knight’s Tale
• Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight

UNIT 3-

• Hamlet/King Lear
• Troilus and Cressida/ Measure for Measure
• Tempest/ The Winter’s Tale
• Richard II/ Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

PAPER 2

UNIT 1-

• Elizabethan Poetry other than Shakespeare (Selections)
• Bacon’s Essays (Selections)
• Elizabethan Prose ( Selections)

UNIT 2-

• Marlowe: Dr Faustus /Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
• Webster: The Duchess of Malfi /Massinger: A New Way to Pay Old Debts
• Ben Jonson: Volpone
• Metaphysical Poetry:
Donne- On His Mistris, The Flea, The Apparition, The Canonization, The
Extasie, Twickenham Garden, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day 1-7, The Three
Hymns
Herbert- The Collar, Easter-wings, The Pulley, Jordan (1) and (2), Redemption,
Deniall, Love
Marvell- The Definition of Love, On a Drop of Dew, The Garden
Vaughan- Regeneration, Peace, The World, Man

UNIT 3-

• Milton- Samson Agonistes / Paradise Lost Bk IV
• Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel Part I/ Congreve: The Way of the World
• Swift: Gulliver’s Travels/ Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
• Defoe: Moll Flanders/ Sterne: Tristram Shandy

PAPER 3

UNIT 1-

• Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
• Coleridge: Christabel, Frost at Midnight, France: An Ode
• Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion, Lamia, Sonnets: The Human Seasons,
When I have Fears that I may cease to be, On the sea, On Death, Why Did I
Laugh Tonight?, Bards of passion and of Mirth

UNIT 2-

• Wordsworth: The Prelude Bks- I & XIII (1805 version)
• Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
• Gaskell: Mary Barton

UNIT 3-

• Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights/ Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre,
• Tennyson: In Memoriam/ Dickens: Dombey and Son
• Arnold: Culture and Anarchy/George Eliot: Middlemarch
• Browning: Childe Roland, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea Del Sarto, The Bishop
Orders His tomb At St. Praxed’s Church, Caliban upon Setebos

PAPER 4

UNIT 1-

• Edward Bond: Lear/ The Pope’s Wedding
• Greene: The Power and the Glory /Huxley: Brave New World
• 20th Century Poetry: Faber Book of Modern Verse (Selections)

UNIT 2-

• Conrad: Heart of Darkness/ E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
• Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as an Young Man/ Dubliners
• Yeats: Poems, selected with notes by A.N.Jeffares ( Macmillan & Co.). The
following pieces only- No Second Troy, September 1913, The Wild Swans at
Coole, Leda and the Swan, A Coat, Easter 1916, A Prayer for my daughter,
Sailing to Byzantium, The Tower, Among School Children, Mohini Chatterjee,
Byzantium, The Circus Animal’s Deserton, The Municipal Gallery Revisited
• Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral/ The Family Reunion

UNIT 3-

• Beckett: Waiting for Godot /Malone Dies
• Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead/ Caryl Phillips: A Distant
Shore
• Zadie Smith/Fay Weldon/A.S.Byatt*
• Kingsley Amis /Carol Duffy/Sheamus Heaney*
* Texts/ Selections to be announced in the beginning of the session

Contact-

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