University of Gour Banga

(Established under West Bengal Act XXVI of 2007)

N.H.-34(Near Rabindra Bhawan), P.O.:Mokdumpur Dist.: Malda,
West Bengal, Pin-732103

M.A. in English
Two Years (Four Semesters) Syllabus
Main Feature of the Syllabus

SEMESTER I
PAPER 101: CRITICISM AND THEORY 1
Unit 1:
i. Plato: The Republic, Books II, III, X
ii. Plato: Ion
Unit 2:
i. Aristotle: Poetics
ii. Horace: The Art of Poetry
Unit 3:
i. Longinus: On the Sublime
ii. Plotinus: On the Intellectual Beauty from Fifth Ennead
Unit 4:
i. Giovanni Boccaccio: Genealogy of the Gentile Gods (Chapters VII, IX, XIII, & XVII
from Book XIV)
ii. Philip Sydney: An Apology for Poetry
Unit 5:
i. Pierre Corneille: Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place
ii. Rene Rapin: Reflections on Aristotle’s Treatise of Poesy in General
Unit 6:
i. John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
ii. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
Unit 7:
i. Edward Young: Conjectures on Original Composition: In a Letter to the Author of Sir
Charles Grandison
ii. Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare

PAPER 102: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

Unit 1: Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘General Prologue’ to The Canterbury Tales
Unit 2: Thomas More: Utopia
Unit 3: Elizabethan Sonneteers:
i. Sir Thomas Wyatt:
a) I find no Peace, and all my War is done
b) Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever
c) The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
ii. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey:
a) Love that doth Reign and Live within my thought
b) The Soote Season
c) The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty
iii. Sir Philip Sidney:
a) Astrophil and Stella 1: Loving in truth and fain in verse my love to show
b) Astrophil and Stella 31: With how sad steps, oh Moon, thou climb’st the skies
c) Astrophil and Stella 72: Desire, though thou my old companion art
Unit 4: Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
Unit 5: Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book I
Unit 6: Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Unit 7: Francis Bacon: Of Adversity; Of Discourse; Of Revenge; Of Death, Of Studies.

PAPER 103: SHAKESPEARE

Unit 1: Henry IV, Part I
Unit 2: Hamlet
Unit 3: Measure for Measure
Unit 4: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Unit 5: Antony and Cleopatra
Unit 6: The Tempest
Unit 7: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: 29, 30, 40, 60, 80, 94, 116, 130, 144, 145

PAPER 104: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH

LITERATURE
Unit 1: Ben Jonson: Volpone
Unit 2: John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Unit 3: Metaphysical Poetry:
i. John Donne:
b. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
c. The Ecstasy
d. Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you
ii. George Herbert:
a. The Easter Wings
b. The Temper
c. Virtue
iii. Andrew Marvell:
a. To his Coy Mistress
b. The Definition of Love
c. On a Drop of Dew
Unit 4: John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book IV
Unit 5: William Congreve: The Way of the World
Unit 6: Three Eighteenth-Century English Poems
i. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
ii. Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village
iii. William Cowper: Yardley Oak
Unit 7: R. B. Sheridan: The School for Scandal

PAPER 105: Optional Course (One of the following)

PAPER 105 A: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH PROSE

Unit 1: Aphra Behn: Oroonoko or, the Royal Slave
Unit 2:
i. Richard Steele:
a. The Spectator Club
b. Mr. Bickerstaff on Himself
ii. Joseph Addison:
a. The Spectator’s Account of Himself
b. Sir Roger at the Assizes
c. The Aims of the Spectator
Unit 3: Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Unit 4: Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Unit 5: Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Unit 6: Fanny Burney: Evelina: or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
Unit 7: James Boswell: From Life of Samuel Johnson
i. Johnson’s Early Years. Marriage and London
ii. A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson
iii. Fear of Death
iv. A Bottom of Good Sense
v. Johnson Prepares for Death

PAPER 105 B: ENGLISH DRAMA FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (EXCLUDING SHAKESPEARE)
Unit 1: Sackville and Norton: Gorboduc
Unit 2: Robert Greene: The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Unit 3: John Marston: The Malcontent
Unit 4: Thomas Middleton and William Rowley: The Changeling
Unit 5: George Etherege: The Man of Mode
Unit 6: John Dryden: All for Love
Unit 7: John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera

PAPER 106: Internal Assessment

Unit 1: Unit test.
Unit 2: Viva-voce

SEMESTER II

PAPER 201: CRITICISM AND THEORY 2

Unit 1:
i. Immanuel Kant: Book I ‘Analytic of the Beautiful’ and Book II ‘Analytic of the Sublime’
From Critique of
Judgment
ii. Edmund Burke: From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime
and the
Beautiful
a. ‘Introduction on Taste’
b. Part I, Section VII, ‘Of the Sublime’
c. Part III, Section XXVII, ‘The Sublime and Beautiful Compared’
Unit 2:
i. Friedrich von Schiller: From On the Aesthetic Education of Man: Second, Sixth and Ninth
Letters.
ii. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: From Laocoön
a. Preface
b. Chapter XVI
Unit 3:
i. William Wordsworth: ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads
ii. S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria, Chs 13, 14, and 17
Unit 4:
i. P.B. Shelley: A Defence of Poetry
ii. John Keats: (Selected Letters)
a. To Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817)
b. To George and Thomas Keats (December 21, 1817)
c. To John Taylor (February 27, 1818))
d. To Richard Woodhouse (October 27, 1818)
Unit 5:
i. Edgar Alan Poe: The Poetic Principle
ii. Henry James: The Art of Fiction
Unit 6:
i. Hippolyte Taine: ‘Introduction’ to History of English Literature
ii. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy: Chs 1, 9, 10, 24, and 25
Unit 7:
i. Walter Pater: ‘Conclusion’ to The Renaissance
ii. Matthew Arnold: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

PAPER 202: ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Unit 1: William Wordsworth:
i. The Prelude, Book I (1850)
ii. Lucy Poems
iii. The Tables Turned
iv. London, 1802
v. Michael
Unit 2: S.T. Coleridge:
i. Christabel, Parts I & II
ii. Kubla Khan
iii. France: An Ode
iv. Dejection: An Ode
v. Frost at Midnight
Unit 3: Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent
Unit 4: Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Unit 5: John Keats:
i. Ode on Melancholy
ii. Ode on a Grecian Urn
iii. Ode on Indolence
iv. La Belle Dame sans Mercy
v. The Eve of St. Agnes
Unit 6: P.B. Shelley:
i. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
ii. Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
iii. England in 1819
iv. Ozymandias of Egypt
v. Adonais
Unit 7: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

PAPER 203: VICTORIAN LITERATURE

Unit 1: Alfred Lord Tennyson
i. The Defence of Lucknow
ii. From The Princess
a. Tears, Idle Tears
b. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
c. The woman’s cause is man’s
iii. The Lady of Shalott
iv. Break, Break, Break
v. The Lotos-Eaters
Unit 2: Robert Browning
i. My Last Duchess
ii. Prospice
iii. Porphyria’s Lover
iv. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church
v. One Word More
Unit 3: Matthew Arnold
i. The Scholar Gipsy
ii. The Forsaken Merman
iii. Death of Sohrab from Sohrab and Rustam
iv. To Marguerite- Continued
v. Rugby Chapel
Unit 4: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Unit 5: Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Unit 6: Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Unit 7: Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

PAPER 204: ENGLISH PROSE FROM THE ROMANTICS TO THE VICTORIANS

Unit 1: William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Unit 2: Mary Wollstonecraft: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
i. Introduction
ii. Chapter I
iii. Chapter II
iv. Chapter V
Unit 3: Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Unit 4: William Hazlitt
i. On Going a Journey
ii. On the Ignorance of the Learned
iii. On Gusto
iv. Indian Jugglers
v. Why do Distant Objects Please
Unit 5: Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Unit 6: Charles Darwin:
a. On the Origin of Species: Introduction; Chapter 3; and Chapter 14
b. The Descent of Man: Chapter 5; and Chapter 21
Unit 7: John Ruskin: Unto This Last

PAPER 205 A: ENGLISH NOVEL: THE ROMANTICS AND THE VICTORIANS

Unit 1: Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk: A Romance
Unit 2: Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
Unit 3: William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair: A Novel
Unit 4: Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
Unit 5: George Eliot: Daniel Deronda
Unit 6: Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Unit 7: Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

PAPER 205 B: ENGLISH POETRY: THE ROMANTICS AND THE VICTORIANS

Unit 1: William Blake:
From Songs of Innocence:
i. Introduction
ii. Holy Thursday
iii. The Divine Image
iv. Nurse’s Song
v. The Chimney Sweeper
From Songs of Experience:
i. Introduction
ii. Holy Thursday
iii. A Divine Image
iv. Nurse’s Song
v. The Chimney Sweeper
Unit 2: George Gordon, Lord Byron
i. She Walks in Beauty
ii. Don Juan, Cantos I to IV
iii. So We’ll Go No More a Roving
Unit 3: Walter Scott:
i. The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction
ii. Proud Maisie
iii. Lochinvar
iv. ‘The Western Waves of Ebbing Day’ from The Lady of the Lake
v. ‘Boat Song’ from The Lady of the Lake
Unit 4: John Clare:
i. The Peasant Poet
ii. The Cat Runs Races with Her Tail
iii. First Love
iv. I Am!
v. Farmer’s Boy
Unit 5: Three Pre-Raphaelite Poets:
i. D. G. Rossetti
a. A Last Confession
b. Cassandra
c. The Woodspurge
ii. A. C. Swinburne
a. ‘Chorus’ from Atalanta in Calydon
b. The Garden of Proserpine
c. A Forsaken Garden
iii. William Morris
a. Haystack in the Floods
b. Pray But One Prayer For Us
c. Pomona
Unit 6: Three Victorian Women Poets:
i. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
a. How do I love thee?
b. A Woman’s Shortcomings
c. A Man’s Requirements
ii. Emily Bronte
a. A Farewell to Alexandria
b. Remembrance
c. No Coward’s Soul is Mine
iii. Christina Georgina Rossetti
a. Goblin Market
b. Sonnet no. 8 from Monna Innominata
c. Sonnet no.14 from Monna Innominata
Unit 7: Gerard Manley Hopkins:
i. The Windhover
ii. Felix Randal
iii. Pied Beauty
iv. Thou Art Indeed Just Lord
v. Carrion Comfort

PAPER 206: Internal Assessment

Unit 1: Unit test
Unit 2: Viva-voce

SEMESTER III
PAPER 301: CRITICISM AND THEORY 3
Unit 1: (Any Two)
i. Lascelles Abercrombie: The Function of Poetry in the Drama
ii. T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
iii. Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction
iv. George Santayana: Penitent Art
Unit 2: (Any Two)
i. T. E. Hulme: Romanticism and Classicism
ii. I.A. Richards: “The Two Uses of Language” from Principles of Literary Criticism
iii. F.R. Leavis: “Literary Criticism and Philosophy” from The Common Pursuit
iv. Stephen Spender: “Modern and the Contemporaries” from The Struggle of the Modern
Unit 3: (Any Two)
i. William Empson: ‘Introduction’ to Seven Types of Ambiguity
ii. J. C. Ransom: Criticism Inc.
iii. Cleanth Brooks: The Language of Paradox
iv. W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley: The Intentional Fallacy
Unit 4: (Any Two)
i. Victor Shklovsky: Art as Technique
ii. Boris Eikhenbaum: The Theory of the “Formal Method”
iii. Vladimir Propp: ‘The Nature of Folklore’ from Theory and History of Folklore
iv. Roman Jakobson: The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles
Unit 5: (Any Two)
i. Sigmund Freud: Uncanny
ii. Jacques Lacan: The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious
iii. Juliet Mitchell : Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis
iv. Julia Kristeva: Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents
Unit 6: (Any Two)
i. Maud Bodkin: ‘Archetypal Patterns in Tragic Poetry’ from Archetypal Patterns in Poetry
ii. Northrope Fry: The Archetypes of Literature
iii. Claude Levi-Strauss: Incest and Myth
iv. Carl Gustav Jung: ‘Concept of the Collective Unconscious’ from The Archetypes and the
Collective
Unconscious
Unit 7: (Any Two)
i. Antonio Gramsci: ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’ and ‘Hegemony (Civil Society) and
Separation of Powers,’ from Prison Notebooks
ii. Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
iii. Theodor Adorno: On Lyric Poetry and Society
iv. Georg Lukács: The ldeology of Modernism

PAPER 302: MODERNIST LITERATURE

Unit 1: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Unit 2: D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Unit 3: W.B. Yeats
i. The Second Coming
ii. Easter 1916
iii. Leda and the Swan
iv. Among School Children
v. The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Unit 4: T.S. Eliot
i. The Wasteland
ii. Four Quartets
Unit 5: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Unit 6: W.H. Auden
i. September 1, 1939
ii. In Memory of W.B. Yeats
iii. Partition
iv. Museé des Beaux Arts
v. The Shield of Achilles
Unit 7: Modern Essay
i. A.G. Gardiner: Ourselves and Others
ii. Aldous Huxley: The Beauty Industry
iii. Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian
iv. Robert Lynd: “Seaside” from The Peal of Bells
v. H.G. Wells: “The Possible Collapse Of Civilisation” from An Englishman Looks at the
World

PAPER 303: POST-WAR LITERATURE

Unit 1: Philip Larkin
i. Church Going
ii. The Whitsun Weddings
iii. The Explosion
iv. Wants
v. At Grass
Unit 2: Ted Hughes
i. Hawk Roosting
ii. The Thought‐Fox
iii. A Childish Prank
iv. Crow Alights
v. The Epiphany
Unit 3: Seamus Heaney
i. Digging
ii. Blackberry-Picking
iii. The Tollund Man
iv. Act of Union
v. Personal Helicon
Unit 4: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Unit 5: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Unit 6: John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Unit 7: Post-War Essay:
i. C.P. Snow: ‘The Two Cultures’ from The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
ii. Doris Lessing: “Laboratories of Social Change” from Prisons We Choose To Live Inside
iii. Raymond Williams: Technology and the Society from Television: Technology and
Cultural Form
iv. Richard Dawkins: “Why Are People?” from The Selfish Gene
v. Ian McEwan: Mother Tongue

PAPER 304: MODERN AND POSTMODERN FICTION

Unit 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskerville
Unit 2: Modern Short Story:
i. H. G. Wells: The Country of the Blind
ii. Rudyard Kipling: The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
iii. Bram Stoker: Dracula’s Guest
iv. Winifred Holtby: The Casualty List
v. Sylvia Townsend Warner: The Phoenix
Unit 3: Virginia Woolf: Orlando
Unit 4: Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Unit 5: Postmodern Short Story
i. Muriel Spark: The House of the Famous Poet
ii. Graham Greene: The Moment of Truth
iii. Angela Carter: Black Venus
iv. Ian McEwan: Solid Geometry
v. Jackie Kay: The First Lady of Song
Unit 6: William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Unit 7: Michèle Roberts: Impossible Saints

PAPER 305: Optional Course (One of the following)

PAPER 305 A: TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH DRAMA

Unit 1: Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan
Unit 2: T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
Unit 3: Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock
Unit 4: Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
Unit 5: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Unit 6: Arnold Wesker: Roots
Unit 7: Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
PAPER 305 B: TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
Unit 1: Rudyard Kipling: Kim
Unit 2: Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier
Unit 3: Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Unit 4: Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point
Unit 5: Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
Unit 6: Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Unit 7: Ian McEwan: Amsterdam

PAPER 306: Internal Assessment

Unit 1: Unit test.
Unit 2: Viva-voce

SEMESTER IV
PAPER 401: CRITICISM AND THEORY 4
Unit 1: (Any Two)
i. Bharat Muni: On Natya and Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience from Natyasastra
ii. Bhartrihari: On Syntax and Meaning from Vakyapadiya
iii. Anandavardhana: Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning from Dhvanyaloka
iv. Abhinavagupta: On Santarasa: Aesthetic Equipoise from Abhinavabharati
Unit 2: (Any Two)
i. Ferdinand de Saussure: ‘The Object of Linguistics’ and ‘Nature of the Linguistic Sign’
From Course
in General Linguistics
ii. Noam Chomsky: ‘Methodological Preliminaries’ from Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.
iii. Tzvetan Todorov: Structural Analysis of Narrative
iv. Jonathan D. Culler: ‘Structuralism and the Qualities of Literature’ from Structuralist
Poetics
Unit 3: (Any Two)
i. Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
ii. Roland Barthes: Death of the Author
iii. J. Hillis Miller: Derrida and Literature
iv. M. H. Abrams: The Deconstructive Angel
Unit 4: (Any Two)
i. Alice Walker: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
ii. Adrienne Rich: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
iii. Elaine Showalter: Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
iv. C.T. Mohanty: Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
Unit 5: (Any Two)
i. Edward Said: ‘Introduction’ to Orientalism
ii. Homi K. Bhabha: Of Mimicry and Man: Ambivalence of Colonial Discourses
iii. Benita Parry: Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse from Postcolonial
Studies: A
Materialist Critique
iv. Stuart Hall: Cultural Identity and Diaspora
Unit 6: (Any Two)
i. Cheryl Glotfelty: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis
ii. William Howards: Some Principles of Eco-criticism
iii. Jonathan Bate: From ‘Red’ to ‘Green’
iv. Swarnalatha Rangarajan: Engaging with Prakriti: A Survey of Ecocritical Praxis in India
Unit 7: (Any Two)
i. Jürgen Habermas: Modernity versus Postmodernity
ii. Terry Eagleton: Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
iii. Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?
iv. Linda Hutcheon: Incredulity Toward Metanarrative: Negotiating Postmodernism and
Feminism

PAPER 402: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Unit 1: Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, or the Whale
Unit 2: Three American Poets:
i. Langston Hughes:
a. The Negro Speaks of River
b. The Weary Blues
c. As I Grew Older
ii. Allen Ginsberg:
a. Howl
b. A Supermarket in California
c. America
iii. Sylvia Plath:
a. Daddy
b. Fever 103
c. The Moon and the Yew Tree
Unit 3: Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Unit 4: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Unit 5: Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Unit 6: Non-fictional prose:
i. Toni Morrison: Nobel Lecture
ii. Allen Tate: The Man of Letters in the Modern World: An Oration
iii. Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
Unit 7: Toni Morrison: Beloved

PAPER 403: NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Unit 1: Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Unit 2: Patrick White: Voss
Unit 3: Wole Soyinka: The Dance of the Forests
Unit 4: Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Unit 5: Three Poets:
i. Jayanta Mahapatra:
a. Hunger
b. Whorehouse in a Calcutta Street
c. Dawn at Puri
ii. Derek Walcott:
a. A Far Cry from Africa
b. Crusoe’s Island
c. Goats and Monkeys
iii. Judith Wright:
a. Clock and Heart
b. Woman to Man
c. Naked Girl and Mirror
Unit 6: Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain
Unit 7: Short Story
i. Alice Munro: Something I’ve been Meaning to Tell You
ii. Ruskin Bond: When Darkness Falls
iii. Nadine Gordimer: Amnesty
iv. Jamaica Kincaid: Girl
v. Henry Lawson: The Drover’s Wife

OPTIONAL PAPERS

OPTION A: AMERICAN LITERATURE

PAPER 404 A: AMERICAN LITERATURE I

Unit 1: William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Unit 2: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Unit 3: Saul Bellow: Herzog
Unit 4: Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Unit 5: Amy Tan: The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Unit 6: Don DeLillo: Falling Man
Unit 7: Short Story:
i. James Baldwin: Exodus
ii. Bernard Malamud: The Jew Bird
iii. John Updike: Dentistry and Doubt
iv. Leslie Marmon Silko: Storyteller
v. Jhumpa Lahiri: When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine

PAPER 405 A: AMERICAN LITERATURE II

Unit 1: Three Modern American Poets:
i. Carl Sandburg:
a. Chicago
b. The People Will Live On
c. Fog
ii. e. e. Cummings:
a. what if a much of a which of a wind
b. Any one lived in a pretty how town
c. i carry your heart with me
iii. Theodore Roethke:
a. My Papa’s Waltz
b. I Knew a Woman
c. The Waking
Unit 2: Post-war American Male Poets
i. Gary Snyder:
a. Rip-Rap
b. Straight-Creek--Great Burn
c. I Went Into the Maverick Bar
ii. Robert Lowell:
a. Skunk Hour
b. For the Union Dead
c. At a Bible House
iii. Philip Levine:
a. Commanding Elephants
b. Sunday Afternoon
c. Jewish American
Unit 3: Post-war American Female Poets
i. Elizabeth Bishop:
a. Brazil January 1, 1502
b. At the Fish Houses
c. Crusoe in England
ii. Gwendolyn Brooks:
a. Kitchenette Building
b. To the Diaspora
c. Gay Chaps at the Bar
iii. Rita Dove:
a. Mississippi
b. In a Neutral City
c. Mother Love
Unit 4: Eugene O’Neill: The Iceman Cometh
Unit 5: Amiri Baraka: Dutchman
Unit 6: Sam Shepard: Buried Child
Unit 7: David Henry Hwang: M. Butterfly.

OPTION B: INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

PAPER 404 B: INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH I

Unit 1: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana’s Dream
Unit 2: R.K. Narayan: The Guide
Unit 3: Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie
Unit 4: Amitav Ghosh: The Hungry Tide
Unit 5: Arundhati Roy: God of Small Things
Unit 6: Indian Short Story:
i. Sunita Jain: The Landing
ii. Shiv K. Kumar: To Nun with Love
iii. Manohar Malgaonkar: A Pinch of Snuff
iv. Nayantara Sahgal: Martand
v. Mamang Dai: Travel the Road
Unit 7: Kunal Basu: The Opium Clerk

PAPER 405 B: INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH II

Unit 1: Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Unit 2: Three Modern Indian Poets:
i. A.K. Ramanujan:
a. Striders
b. A River
c. Hindu: The Only Risk
ii. Arun Kolatkar:
a. Suicide of Rama
b. The Bus
c. Between Jejuri and the Railway Station
iii. Vikram Seth:
a. “Sonnet No. 1.9” from The Golden Gate
b. Curious Mishaps
c. The Frog and the Nightingale
Unit 3: Three Indian Women Poets
i. Kamala Das:
a. Composition
b. A Paradox
c. Seven Ages of Woman.
ii. Eunice De Souza:
a. Sweet Sixteen
b. Forgive Me, Mother
c. Advice to Women.
iii. Debjani Chatterjee:
a. I was that Woman
b. To the English Language
c. Towers of Silence.
Unit 4: Manjula Padmanabhan: Lights Out!
Unit 5: Cyrus Mistry: Doongaji House
Unit 6: Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions
Unit 7: Indian Prose:
i. Kancha Ilaiah: Dalitization Not Hinduization from Why I Am Not a Hindu
ii. Amitav Ghosh: The Imam and the Indian
iii. Arundhati Roy: The End of Imagination

OPTION C: NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH (EXCLUDING INDIA)

PAPER 404 C: NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH I

Unit 1: Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Unit 2: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Grain of Wheat
Unit 3: J.M. Coetzee: Foe
Unit 4: Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
Unit 5: Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Unit 6: Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Unit 7: Monica Ali: Brick Lane

Paper 405 C: NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH II

Unit 1: Major Male Poets:
i. A. D. Hope:
a. The Death of the Bird
b. Meditation on a Bone
c. His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell
ii. Wole Soyinka:
a. Telephone Conversation
b. Dedication
c. Abiku
iii. Alamgir Hashmi:
a. Encounter with the Sirens
b. Autumnal
c. But Where is the Sky?
Unit 2: Female Poets
i. Ingrid de Kok:
a. The Transcriber Speaks
b. Mending
c. Parts of Speech
ii. Yasmine Gooneratne:
a. The Peace Game
b. On an Asian Poet Fallen Among American Translators
c. There was a Country
iii. Margaret Atwood:
a. This is a Photograph of Me
b. Siren Song
c. Spelling
Unit 3: Ama Ata Aidoo: Anowa
Unit 4: Maria Campbell: Halfbreed
Unit 5: Derek Walcott: Pantomime
Unit 6: Jack Davis: No Sugar
Unit 7: Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary

OPTION D: WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

PAPER 404 D: WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION I

Unit 1: Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Unit 2: Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Unit 3: Franz Kafka: The Trial
Unit 4: Albert Camus: The Outsider
Unit 5: Naguib Mahfouz: Sugar Street
Unit 6: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Unit 7: Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red

Paper 405 D: WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION II

Unit 1: Male Poets:
i. Charles Baudelaire:
a. The Sick muse
b. Even She was called Beatrice By Many Who knew Not Wherefore
c. The Remorse of the Dead
ii. Rainer Maria Rilke:
a. ‘The Fourth Elegy’ from The Duino Elegies
b. The Poet’s Death
c. Childhood
iii. Pablo Neruda:
a. Tonight I can Write
b. Opium in the East
c. Discoverers of Chile
Unit 2: Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Unit 3: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage
Unit 4: Eugène Ionesco: Rhinoceros
Unit 5: Tawfiq Al-Hakim: The Sultan’s Dilemma
Unit 6: Female Poets:
i. Wislawa Szymborska:
a. The End of the Beginning
b. An Unexpected Meeting
c. Utopia
ii. Gabriela Mistral:
a. The Other Woman
b. Drops of Gall
c. A Word
iii. Etel Adnan:
a. The Spring Flowers Own
b. XXXIX from The Arab Apocalypse
c. XLIV from The Arab Apocalypse
Unit 7: Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Play

OPTION E INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Paper 404 E: INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION I

Unit 1: Munshi Premchand: Godan
Unit 2: Gopi Nath Mohanty: Paraja
Unit 3: Ashapurna Devi: The First Promise
Unit 4: U. R. Anantha Murthy: Samskara
Unit 5: Bhisham Sahni: Tamas
Unit 6: Chandu Menon: Indulekha
Unit 7: Bama: Karukku

Paper 405 E: INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION II

Unit 1: Male Poets:
i. Rabindranath Tagore:
a. The Golden Boat
b. Africa
c. Geetanjali, Poem No. 1 (Thou hast made me endless…)
ii. Jibanananda Das:
a. Suchetana
b. Banalata Sen
c. I Shall Return to this Bengal
iii. K. Ayyappa Paniker:
a. The Village
b. Passage to America
c. The Itch
Unit 2: Female Poets:
i. Balamani Amma:
a. Mother’s Heart
b. The Story of the Axe
c. The Pen
ii. Amrita Pritam:
a. Ek Bath (A Story);
b. Main Tumhe Phir Milungi (I Will Meet You Again)
c. Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (Today, I Call Waris Shah)
iii. Nirmalprova Bardoloi:
a. The Definition of Love
b. The Seasons
c. Poignant
Unit 3: Short Story:
i. Gangadhar Gadgil: The Faceless Evening
ii. Mahasweta Devi: Breast Giver
iii. Munshi Prem Chand: The Shroud
iv. Vaikam Mahammad Basheer: If War is to End
v. Ismat Chughtai: Lihaaf (The Quilt)
Unit 4: Mohan Rakesh: Half Way House
Unit 5: Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit
Unit 6: Mahesh Elkwunchar: Old Stone Mansion
Unit 7: Kamla Patel: Torn from the Roots: A Partition Memoir

PAPER 406: Internal Assessment

Unit 1: Seminar
Unit 2: Viva-voce