B. A & M.A

Elements of Poetry e.g. lexical, visual/metaphorical and rhythmic dimensions, and the various forms of poetry; e.g. Ode, Lyric, Sonnet and other forms (Klarer, Mario. “Major Genres in Textual Studies”, An Introduction to Literary Studies, Chapter 2 sec. 2, pp. 27-43, and Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. “Poetry as a Way of

Saying”, Understanding Poetry, 4th ed., pp. 1-16.)

Unit 2: Understanding Fiction

Fiction

1.Mary Shelley’s " Frankenstein" /

2. Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof, Download the Text

Short stories

3.James Joyce’s “Araby”, Bengali Summary

4.O Henry’s “The Last Leaf”,

5.Mahasweta Devi’s “The Hunt”

(Fiction – Types of Fiction and Elements of Fiction such as Plot,

Narrator, Character, Point of View, newness and the

novel. (Klarer, Mario. “Major Genres in Textual Studies”,

An Introduction to Literary Studies, Chapter 2 Sec. 1, pp. )

Unit 3:

Engaging with Drama

1. J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea/

2.Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq

a) Drama - Types of Drama and Elements of Drama (Mayes, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature, pp. 1178 –

1186, and Klarer, Mario. “Major Genres in Textual Studies”, An Introduction to Literary Studies, Chapter 2 Sec 3, pp. 43-55.)

𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐒𝐄𝐂 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 (40)

1. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴

𝚊) 𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎, 𝙰𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 & 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢

𝚋) 𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎

𝙲) 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚜 (𝙽𝚘𝚞𝚗 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎, 𝙰𝚍𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎, 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎, 𝙽𝚘𝚗-𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎)

𝚍) 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝙴𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐

2. 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 & 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

𝚊) 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚍 /𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚛 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚍

𝚋) 𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚑

𝚌) 𝙰𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘 - 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚍

𝚍) 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚍

𝚎) 𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚑

3. 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁

𝚊) 𝙴𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐

𝚋) 𝙲𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎

𝚌) 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚜 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐

𝚍) 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙹𝚘𝚋 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜

SUGGESTION 2024

SEMESTER – II

Course Title (Discipline Specific Core): Indian Classical Literature

Course Code: A/ENG/202/201/MAJOR 2/MN 2

Suggestion 2024(MAJOR 2/MN 2)

👉👉Suggestion of Short Question( Major/Minor English )2024

The Dicing

➡️ 👉pdf Text

➡️What pivotal role do the dicing scenes play in the overall plot development of the Mahabharata? How is the dicing scene central in the plot of Mahabharata? How is the dicing scene centre in the plot of Mahabharata?

The Temptation of Karna

➡️ 👉pdf Text

➡️Question

➡️Discuss the distinguishing traits in the character of Karna with reference to the portion of the Mahabharata mentioned in your syllabus.

➡️ Explain the term 'temptation' in "The Temptation of Karna". Comment on Krsna's attempt to tempt Karna in "The Temptation of Karna."

➡️Do you think the title "The Temptation of Karna" to be justified give reason in support of your answer

1. Kalidasa : Abhijnanasakuntalam

➡️ Title

➡️ Consider critically Kalidasa’s portrayal of Sakuntala in Abhijnanasakuntalam

➡️Explain the dramatic significance of the curse of Durvasa in the fourth act of Abhijnanasakuntalam.

➡️Trace the development of love between Duhsanta and Sakuntala as found in the First Act of the drama "Abhijnanasākuntalam."

➡️ 👉 Bengali Meaning

2. Vyasa: “The Dicing”; “The Temptation of Karna”

👉Write a note on the condition of women as found in “The Dicing”.

3. Indian Epic Tradition [The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Kalidasa’s Kumarsambhava];

Epic Tradition in Bengal (Sri Aurobindo, Madhusudan Dutt);

Short Epic Tradition (Khanda-Kavya such as Kirtana, Oja Pali, Pandavani, Kuttu etc)]

Alamkara and Rasa

👉👉Suggestion of Short Question, Major English 2024

Semester -3

Course Title (Core Course):

British Poetry and Drama: From Old English Period to 17th Century

Course Code: A/ENG/301/MJC-3

Unit I

Geoffrey Chaucer: “Prologue” to The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Edmund Spenser: Amoretti XXII: “This Holy Season”

Henry Vaughan: “The Retreat”

William Shakespeare: Sonnet Nos. 65 & 118

Unit II

William Shakespeare: Othello

William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

Unit III

History of English Literature (from Old English Period to Elizabethan Age)

Course Title (Core Course): British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

Course Code: A/ENG/302/MJC-4

Unit I

John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book I

Alexander Pope: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Unit II

Thomas Otway: Venice Preserved

Unit III

History of English Literature (from Jacobean Age to Restoration Period)

Unit IV

Rhetoric and Prosody (also for Internal Examination)

Course Title (Skill Enhancement Course): Phonetics and Phonology

Course Code: A/ENG/305/SEC-3

Course Content:

Unit I:

 Phonetics, Scope of Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics

 Human respiratory system, Phonation, Types of Air Stream Mechanisms

 The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

 Accents of English – British RP, Indian English, American English

Answers

Unit II:

Anatomy of Speech Production:

 Speech Organs and their function

 Concepts of Voicing and Articulation – Place and Manner

 Word Accent, Intonation

Answers

Unit III:

Consonants and Vowels:

 Consonants and Consonant Clusters

 Vowels – Difference from Consonants, Tongue Position, Length,

Rounding and Nasality, Pure vowels, Diphthongs and Triphthongs,

Strong and Weak form

 Phonemic Transcription of Words

Answers

1.Sonnet 22 Amoretti XXII: This Holy Season" by Edmund Spenser

2.Sonnet 118

(Text & Bengali Meaning)

👉 Discussion/Analysis

3. A Valediction :Forbidding Mourning

4.Old English

5.Middle English

6.The Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline Periods (1558–1642)

Course Title (Skill Enhancement Course): Creative Writing & Business Communication

Course Code: A/ENG/204/SEC-2

1.Airstream Mechanism

Suggestion 2024

1. Creative Writing:

Modes of Creative Writing

➡️ Creative Writing

2. Introduction to the Essentials of Business Communication

➡️ Barriers of Business Communication

3. Writing a Project Report and minutes of meetings, E-correspondence

➡️ Report on a book you have read/ a film you have watched/ any other related topic(s)/

👉👰Write a review of a film that you have recently watched.

Writing for the Media: Developing Content / Blog Writing / Articles for Newspapers, etc

➡️ What is Binge watching? Describe the web series you have watched recently

Suggestion with Answer 2024

(a) Write a newspaper article on the evils of private tuition.

(d) What is blog writing? What content will you choose to focus on when you design your personal

(e) Write a newspaper report on the impact of Cyclonic Storm Remal (33)

(f) Write a review of a book that you have read recently.

g)➡️ What is Binge watching? Describe the web series you have watched recently

All notes of 5th Semester 2023

👉Poetic Terms

1.Bring out the nostalgic elements in the poem "My Grandmother's House ".

2.Make a critical assessment of R. K. Narayan’s narrative technique in Swami and Friends.

3.What are the characteristic features of Romantic literature?

4.Give an account of the Old English heroic poetry, mentioning all the major and minor war-poems.

5.Monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

6.Write a short note on The First Generation Romantic Poets.

7.Symbols in The Glass Menagerie

8.What is Nationalism? What,According to Tagore,is Nationalism?

9. American Dream

10.University Wits.

11.Discuss My Last Duchess as a dramatic monologue.

12.American Novel

13.What does Sri Aurobindo say about the Renaissance in India?

14.Imagery in The Tyger.

15. "Did he who made thee "

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

A.What is Gothic Novel?

B.Monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

C.Bengali Meaning

Arms and the Man

1. Why does Raina call Bluntschli a 'chocolate cream soldier in Act I?2

2.Sketch the character of Bluntschli.

3.Comment on the significance of 'Love' and 'Marriage' in the play Arms and the Man./ Sergius Louka episode in the play

Riders to the Sea

👉 Poetic Drama

➡️Write a note on symbol & images/ omens and forebodings/ Incal superstitions in Riders to the Sea.

➡️What do you mean by a one-act play? What features of a one-act play do you find in Riders to the Sea?

👉Short Questions & Answers

👉Short Questions and Answers

Loving in Truth

➡️Short Questions & Answers

James Joyce's "Araby"

What is a short story ? Consider James Joyce's "Araby" as a short story . Consider James Joyce's "Araby" as a perfect example of short story .

Mention two characteristics in James Joyce "Araby"

Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss"

➡️Sketch the character of Bertha Young.

➡️Sketch the character of Pearl Fulton.

➡️Sketch the character of Harry Young.

➡️Sketch the character of Eddie Warren.

➡️Sketch the character of Mr. Norman Knight.

➡️Sketch the character of Mrs. Knight.

➡️Sketch the character of Nurse.

➡️Sketch the character of Little B.

➡️What is the paradox created by the title and theme of Katherine Mansfield's short story "Bliss"?

➡️Short Questions & Answers

Amruta Patil's Kari.

Q.Comment on the theme of gender and identity in Amruta Patil's Kari.

Wilkie Collins’s novel "The Woman in White"

➡️Discuss Wilkie Collins’s novel "The Woman in White" as a detective novel .

The Last Leaf

➡️Short Questions & Answers

➡️.Sketch the character of Sue./Sketch the character of Johnsy.

➡️Discuss the title

Jayanta Mahapatra's Grass

➡️Critical Appreciation

A Snake in the Grass by R. K Narayan

➡️Summary of "A Snake in The Grass" by R.K. Narayan:

To His Coy Mistress

➡️Short Question and Answers of "To His Coy Mistress"

/MCQ and Answers of the poem "To His Coy Mistress"

H. R. F. Keating's Inspector Ghote Goes By Train

➡️Summary of H. R. F. Keating's Inspector Ghote Goes By Train ,

➡️Characters in H. R. F. Keating's Inspector Ghote Goes By Train

“I Cannot Live With You”by Emily Dickinson

Notes -

➡️ Download

'The French Lieutenant's Woman

Discuss 'The French Lieutenant's Woman as a postmodern novel

➡️The Audio-Linguistic Method. /What is the audio-linguistic method ?

➡️ What is Grammar Translation Method ?

➡️ Write a brief note on the traditional system of English language teaching.

➡️Write a paragraph on the changes in the English studies curriculum in recent times.

Women's Movement

➡️Outline a brief history of Women's movements in colonial times.

The Hound of the Baskerville

➡️Bengali Meaning

➡️Suggestion

Digging

➡️Question ,Answer ,Summary

The French Lieutenant's Woman

➡️Summary

Elements of Poetry

➡️Elements of Poetry

My Beautiful Laundrette

➡️👉Summary of My Beautiful Laundrette

➡️👉Comment on the relationship between Omar and Johney in Hanif kureishi's "My beautiful Launderette ''

➡️👉 Examine "My beautiful Launderette " as a post colonial novel.

➡️👉Subordination, Coordination, Embedding, Conjoining

Girish Karnad's Tughlaq

➡️Notes

➡️Theme of Idealism, Power etc.

Ibn Battuta's "The Court of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq"

➡️ Ibn Battuta's "The Court of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq" as a Social Document

City of Djinns

.(a) Discuss how Dalrymple connects his narrative with the various historical events of contemporary political and social life of Delhi with reference to the first two chapters of City of Djinns .

(b) Dalrymple’s City of Djinnsis “a portrait of a city disjointed in time…”. — Discuss with reference

to the chapters prescribed in your syllabus.2021

. (C) Write a note on the Prologue to Dalrymple’s City of Djinns. 10

(D) City of Djinns is categorised as a travelogue with a tinge of history. — Discuss.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

👉 Discussion & Questions

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

👉➡️Discussion

👉➡️ What is graphic novel ? Discuss Bhimayana as a graphic novel

A Bend in the River

👉Discussion

👉Discuss the novel ''A Bend in the River" as political fiction.*******

👉 Discuss the title of Bend in the river

A Little Prince

👉 Summary

👉 Suggestion

👉 Questions

The Grass is Really Like Me--Kishwar Naheed

SUMMARY / ANALYSIS

Bora-Ring

➡️ 👉Analysis &/ Summary

➡️ 👉Cain in Bora Ring

Summary of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

➡️ 👉Summary

City Improbable
> Summary

Revolving Day

➡️ 👉 Discuss " Revolving Day "As A love poem

Innocent Abroad

➡️ 👉 Summary of Chapter 7

➡️ 👉 Summary of Chapter 8

➡️ 👉 Summary of Chapter 9

(a) Comment on Twain’s humour with reference to the chapters from The Innocents Abroad as prescribed in your syllabus.

(b) Discuss Twain’s account of their trip to Gibraltar and Tangier as a representation of culture as also the practices of writing history.

(C) Comment on Mark Twain’s writing style in The Innocent Abroad with reference to the chapters prescribed in your syllabus. 10

Grammar

➡️What is Clause?

➡️ Finite and non-finite clause

GLOBALIZATION

Impact of Globalization