Syllabus for Annual B.A. Course in English Literature * B.A. Course in English Literature will be of three years. * No, of Papers in B.A. Part I & II will be two each and in B.A. Part III three papers respectively. * Each paper ‘ill be of 50 marks. Allahabad State University . ‘Syllabus for B.A. 1, II, I English Literature BA.Part-1 PAPER- I (POETRY Unit-1 Introducing poetry, Types of Poetry and Stanza forms. (1) Forms of Poetry : The Sonnet The Elegy The Odd The Epic The Ballad The Satire. ‘The Dramatic Monologue Allegory (2) Stanza Forms: The Heroic Couplet The Blank Verse ‘The Spenserian Stanza Unit- 1 Elizabethan Period to the Restoration (1) William Shakespeare : Sonnet no. 116 ‘True Love! (2) John Donne : 'A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning’. hw wy (3) John Milton: ‘On His Blindness’ Unit -I11 The Neo - Classical Age and the Pre- Romantics (1) Alexander Pope : Essay on then' (Excerpts) oe (2) Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a Country churchyard’ (3) William Blake: 'The Tyger’.2 Unit-1V The Romantic Age (1) William Wordsworth : 'The World Is Too Much With Us'. (2) P.B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind’, (3) John Keats " Ode to a Nightingale’. RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOK : FLIGHTS OF FANCY PART-1 (FOR I* PAPER) Ed. by: Dr. Ajita Bhattacharya = & Dr. S.K.Pandey ‘Asso Prof, & Head of English Asso,Prof. & Head of English L.LN.D. College M.DP.G.College Sirsa, Allahabad. Pratapgarh. RECOMMENDED READINGS : 1- A Glossary of Literary Terms,’ M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Harpham, 11" Paperback edition. 2. ‘A Poetry Handbook,’ Mary Oliver, Paperback edition 3- ‘A Background to the Study of English Literature ; Brijadish Prasad & Hari Priya Ramados, Revised edition,Paperback. 4- ‘The Making of a Poem : A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms’ ed. Eavan Boland, Paperback, 2001. 5- ‘Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form’ (The New Critical Idiom) Ist Edition, Philip Hobsbaum. * 6- ‘English Romantic Poets,’ed Meyer Abrams. 7- ‘The Romantic Poets’, Graham Hough. 8 ‘William Wordsworth, Geoffrey Durant. =) 9- ‘The Starlit Dome : Studies in the Poetry of Vision’, G. Wilson Knight. 10-‘Oxford Lectures’,A.C.Bradley. 11-‘John Keats’. Aileen Ward (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963) 12- ‘The Golden Treasury,’ F.T. Palgrave. SHOR nero boiinniononnbiermiiebioniedQUESTION PAPER PATTERN Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. Q.NO.2&3-Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed poets & poems.( There will be internal choices). 2x5=10marks. Q.NO.4- Three explanation passages out of six from the poems prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit,( unit II-TV ). 3X5=1 Smarks. Q.NO.5-Critical appreciation of any on “) ow Ix5=Smarks. meB.A.-I Paper- U1 (Prose) (From the 16th Century to the 20th Century). Unit-I__ Introducing Prose, Prose Styles and Prose Types: (1) Types of Prose and Prose style. (2) Autobiography/ Biography and Memoir. (3) Travelogue (4) Periodical Essay. (5) Formal Essay. (6) Personal Essay. Unit- II (1)F. Bacon - 'Of Studies’ (2) R. Steele - 'The Spectator Club’, (3) J. Addison - ‘Sri Roger at Church’. (4) Charles Lamb - ‘Dream Children- A Reverie’. Unit- 111 (1) Dr. S. Johnson - 'Letter to Lord Chesterfield." (2) William Hazlitt - ‘On the Feeling Of Immortality In Youth.’ (3) G.K. Chesterton- "The Worship of the Wealthy. (4) A.G, Gardiner - 'On Shaking Hands’. Unit - IV (1) Robert Lynd - On not being a Philosopher’. 2) Aldous Huxley - 'Benares’. (@) J.B. Priestley ='An Apology of Talkers’. (4) E.V. Lucas - "Third Thoughts’. RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOK : CANVAS OF EXPRESSIONS (FOR II" PAPER ) Ed.by: Dr.S.k.Pandey & Dr. Ajita Bhattacharya ‘Asso. Prof. & Head of English Asso. Prof, & Head of English M.DP.G.College L.L.N.D.College Pratapgarh, eee we ao5 RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR READING : 1- ‘The Advancement of Learning,’ Sir Francis Bacon. 2- “The works of Francis Bacon,” Ed, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, Cambridge. 3- “The Essays of Francis Bacon,’ Francis Bacon, Paperback, 2014, 4- ‘The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator,’ Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, Paperback edition. 5- ‘Essays of Elia,’ Charles Lamb, Paperback, 2014. 6 ‘Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia,’ Dr. S.Sen, Paperback, 2014. 7- ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson,’ James Boswell, (Penguin Classics), 2008. 8 “The Lives of the most Eminent English Poets,’ Samuel Johnson, ‘9. ‘Hazlitt’s Essay: A Selection, (Classic Reprint, William Hazlitt, Paperback, 2015. 10- ‘The Collected Works of William Hazlitt’s,” W. Hazlitt, Alfred Rayney Waller, Amold Glover, Paperback. Il- ‘Hazlitt,’ Ralph M. Wardle, University of Nebraska Press, 1971. 12- ‘Selected Writings,’ William Hazlitt & Jon Cook, OUP, 1991. 13- ‘The G.K. Chesterton Collection’ [50 Books], G.K. Chesterton, Catholic Way Publishing. 14- ‘G.K. Chesterton, A Critical Study’, Julius West, Paperback, 2017. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. Q.NO2&3- Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed essays and essayists. 2x5=10marks. Q.NO.4-Three explanation passages out of six from the essays prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit.( unit [J-1V). 3X4=12marks. Q.NO.5-Eight objective qtestians with optional answers. Ra 8x1=8marks.B.A. - IT Paper- I (Poetry) Unit-I The Victorian Age. (1) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, : ‘Break, Break, Break’ Crossing the Bar’ (2) Robert Browning: ‘Prospect’ : ‘My Last Duchess’ Unit-Il (1) Mathew Arnold: ; ‘Dover Beach’ : ‘Shakespeare’. (2) G.M. Hopkins: ‘Windhover’ “Thou art Indeed Just, My Lord” Unit- 1 (1) W.B. Yeats : “The Lake Isle of Innis free’ ;'The Second Coming! (2) T.S. Eliot : 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruftock’ Unit-TV (1) W.H. Auden: 'The Unknown Citizen’ ‘Look stranger’ (2) Ted Hughes; "Hawk Roosting’ "The Jaguar’. Recommended TEXT BOOK : FLIGHTS OF FANCY PART-2 Ed. by: Dr. Ajita Bhattacharya § & Dr. S.K. Pandey Asso. Prof.& Head of English Asso. Prof. & Head of English LLND.College M.D.P.G. College Sirsa, Allahabad, _ Pratapgarh.QUESTION PAPER PATTERN Q.NO.1- Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks . Q.NO.2&3-Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed poets. (Internal choices will be given). 2x5=10marks. Q.NO.4- Four explanation passages out of eight from poems prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit. 4x3=12marks. Q.NO.5- Critical appreciation of any one poem, Unit- I ay Q) @) 4) (5) © M (8) @) (10) Unit - 0 Unit- 1 Unit- IV 1x8=8marks. B.A.T English Literature (Paper - I) Drama Introducing Drama, Elements of Drama, Types of Drama: Tragedy and Types. Comedy and Types. Tragi- Comedy. Expressionist Drama =) Drama of Ideas. x Poetic Drama Closet Drama & ‘The Problem Play. — Theatre of the Absurd. ks o The Curtain Raiser (One Act Play) Shakespeare : ‘Macbeth’ o Goldsmith : 'She Stoops to Conquer’. G.B. Shaw : ‘Arms and the Man’QUESTION PAPER PATTERN Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. Q.NO.2&3-Two long answer questions from prescribed plays and playwrights. 2x5=10marks, Q.NO.4-Three explanation passages out of six from the plays prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit.( units II - IV ). 3X5=15marks. Q.NO.5-One question will be set on the theory and forms of Drama. 1x5=Smarks. Fein niin iieiiiniiieieieieke B.A.-II1 : English Literature Paper-I History of English Literature Unit-I_: From Renaissance to Seventeenth Century . Renaissance and Reformation © Miracle and Morality plays x University Wits so Elizabethan Poetry & Metaphysical Poetry > Neo- Classicism XN Unit-I1_ : Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Age. iS Growth of the Novel e Precursors of Romanticism J Romanticism and the French Revolution e Growth of Romantic Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel) Unit-IIT_ : Nineteenth Century. Characteristics of Victorian Age Growth of Victorian Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel) Pre-Raphaelite Poetry.Unit-IV Naughty Nineties The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries . Trends in Twentieth Century Literature with Special reference to Georgian Poetry, Imagism and Symbolism. Twentieth Century Novel, Psychological Novel, Stream- of - consciousness Novel. Twentieth Century Drama, Problem Play, Drama of Ideas, ‘Theatre of the Absurd, Expressionism, Epic Theatre, Poctic Drama, Growth of Post-Colonial Literature : Feminism, Post-Modernism ete. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN Q.NO1- Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. Q.NO.I to 4 - One long answer question from each unit. } / 3 Unit - 1 Unit - 1 Unit- TW Unit - IV QNO.1- 4x71/2= 30marks. B.A. Part - II English Literature Paper- IL (Fiction) yD Introducing Fiction, Forms and Techniques, Elements of Novel, SX | Elements of short story. Type of Novel - Picaresque, Historical, = 3 Epistolary, Regional, Detective, Science, Meta- Fiction. I & Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice ¥ Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist. & £ George Orwell : Animal Farm. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN oS Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. Q.NO.2-4- Three long answer questions on prescribed novels. QNO.5- 3x8=24marks. One question on forms and technique of novel. 1x6=6marks.TEER HII IESE i a tii aioe Unit-1 Poetry w (2) GB) 4) RN. Tagore Nissim Ezekicl A.K.Ramanujan. Kamala Das Unit- 1 Drama Mahesh Dattani Unit-IiI Fiction MR. Anand Unit-IV_ Prose Nehru B. art - IT English Literature Paper- IIT Indian Writings in English FROM ‘GITANJALD (LYRIC NO-11): “Leave this chanting and singing.” ‘Night of the Scorpion’. “Small Scale Reflections on a great House’. ‘Introduction’. ‘Seven Steps Around the Fire’. ‘The Untouchable’. My Autobiography’ ( ‘What is Rel QUESTION PAPER PATTE!) Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course.14 10x2=20marks. Q.NO.2- Three passages for explanation from each unit( unit LII,IV). Candidates will have to attempt atleast one from each unit out of the given choices. 3x5=15marks. Q.NO 3-5- One long answer question from each from unit-I,I &III. 3X5=15marks. Jen oso oor kideicoii aiden: