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Syllabus

SEMESTER – I

Course Title (Discipline Specific Core Course): Introduction to Literary Studies

Course Code: A/ENG/101/MJC-1

English Major Suggestion 2024

English Major Suggestion 2025

Unit 1: Reading Poetry

Poetry

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet no. 29”,

Bengali Meaning 


John Donne’s “Ecstasy”, 

➡️Metaphysical Poetry 


John Keats’s “Ode to a Nighhngale”,

 “The Terror of Death”,


Jayanta Mahapatra’s “Grass

Poetry – 

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"  /

Short Questions & Answer

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

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.Analyze the growth and transformation of Rusty as he navigates adolescence and grapples with questions of identity and belonging./Discuss how Rusty's interactions with other characters, such as his friends Somi and Ranbir, shape his sense of self.


Short stories .


3.James Joyce’s “Araby”,

 Bengali Summary 

 Analysis of Joyce’s Narrative Techniques in Araby

Short Questions & Answers

Symbols 


4.O Henry’s “The Last Leaf” 

All Questions 


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. )

(Klarer's Opinion )

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)


1. Kalidasa : Abhijnanasakuntalam

➡️ Title



➡️  👉 Bengali Meaning 


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


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)]





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 No 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) 

3.


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












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

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





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Suggestion with Answer  2024





👉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.




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









Mary Shelley's Frankenstein




Arms and the Man





Riders to the Sea
4






Loving in Truth



James Joyce's "Araby" 




Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss"



Amruta Patil's Kari.



Wilkie Collins’s novel "The Woman in White"



The Last Leaf




Jayanta Mahapatra's Grass






To His Coy Mistress


                          
“I Cannot Live With You”by Emily Dickinson
Notes -
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'The French Lieutenant's Woman









The Hound of the Baskerville


 ➡️Suggestion


Digging 



The French Lieutenant's Woman

 ➡️Summary

Elements of Poetry



My Beautiful Laundrette









 Girish Karnad's Tughlaq
  
➡️Notes

   

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




City of Djinns




The Murder of Roger Ackroyd



Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability 

👉➡️Discussion 



A  Bend in the River






A Little Prince 

👉  Summary 
👉  Questions 

The Grass is Really Like Me--Kishwar Naheed 



Bora-Ring 



➡️  👉Cain in Bora Ring

 
Summary of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee 

➡️  👉Summary 


City Improbable

Revolving Day 




Innocent Abroad 



➡️  👉 Summary of  Chapter 8



Grammar 

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