Department of English & Other Foreign Languages

Mahatma Gandhi KashiVidyapith, Varanasi

REVISED SYLLABUS FOR B.A.I, B.A.II& B.A.III—ENGLISH

LITERATURE

B.A. PART I

PAPER FIRST POETRY 100 MARKS

PAPER SECOND PROSE 100 MARKS

B.A.PART II

PAPER I DRAMA 100 MARKS

PAPER II FICTION 100 MARKS

B.A.PART III

PAPER I HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 100 MARKS

PAPER II INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE 100 MARKS
PAPERIII NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH 100 MARKS

THE BOARD OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH ALSO RESOLVED TO EFFECT SOME

MODIFICATIONS IN THE COURSE OF STUDY OF B.A.I, II, III OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE IN ORDER TO MAKE THE SYLLABUS AT PAR WITH THE
SYLLABUS OF OTHER UNIVERSITIES OF U.P. AND ACCORDING TO THE
GUIDELUNES SUGGESTED BY THE U.G.C.
 B.A.I
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper-I
(POETRY)

Unit-I:Ten short answer questions based on the entire course includingthree

passages for explanation.

Unit-II
Forms of Poetry

1. The Sonnet
2. The Elegy
3. The Ode
4. The Epic
5. The Ballad
6. The Lyric
7. The Dramatic Monologue
8. Allegory

Stanza Forms

1. The Heroic Couplet

2. The Blank Verse
3. The Spenserian Stanza
4. Terza Rhyme

Unit-III
William Shakespeare: ‘True Love’
John Donne: ‘Twicknam Garden’
Michael Drayton: ‘Since There’s No Help Left….’

Unit-IV
Alexander Pope ‘From Essay on Man’ (Lines 1 – 18)
Thomas Gray ‘Hymn to Adversity’
William Blake ‘A Poison Tree’

Unit-V
William Wordsworth: ‘The World is Too Much with Us’
Robert Bridges ‘Nightingales’
W.B.Yeats ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’
Q.N.1.Ten short answer questions based on the entire course includingthree
passages for explanation
30 marks
Q.N.2Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed poets.
& 3. 20+20= 40 marks

Q.N.4. Five short questions to be asked on the forms of poetry.

10 marks

Q.N.5. Two questions to be asked on the text.

20marks
 B.A.I
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER-II
(PROSE)

Unit-I
Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including threepassages
for explanation

Unit-II
Theory of Prose
Types of Prose
Types of Prose Style
Autobiography/Biography and Memoir
Travelogue
Periodical Essay
Formal Essay
Familiar Essay
Poetic Prose (Euphuism)
Prose of Thought

Unit-III

Bacon ‘Of Studies’

Richard Steele ‘The Spectator Club’
Joseph Addison ‘Sir Roger at Church’
Charles Lamb ‘Dream Children: A Reverie’

Unit-IV

Oliver Goldsmith ‘On National Prejudices’

G.K.Chesterton ‘On the Pleasures of No Longer Being
very Young’
R.L.Stevenson ‘Walking Tours’
A.G.Gardiner ‘On Superstitions’

Unit-V

Robert Lynd ‘On Holidays’

J.B.Priestley ‘First Snow’
HilaireBellock ‘In Praise of Ignorance’
E.V.Lucas ‘A Funeral’
Q.N.1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course includingthree
passages for explanation
.30 marks
Q.N.2Long Answer Questions on any two of the prescribed essayists.
& 3. 20+20=40 marks

Q.N.4. Five short questions to be asked on the forms of essays.

10 marks

Q.N.5. Two questions of 150 words each to critically analyse andappreciate any
two of the essays.
20 marks
 B.A.PART II
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER-I
(DRAMA)

Unit-ITen short answer questions based on the entire course includingthree

passages for explanation

Unit-II
Theory of Drama
Elements of Drama
Tragedy and various types
Comedy and various types
Tragi-comedy
Expressionist Drama
Drama of Ideas
Poetic Drama
Closet Drama
The Problem Play
Theatre of Absurd

Unit-III
Shakespeare: Macbeth

Unit-IV
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

Unit-V
G B Shaw: Candida

QN.1 Ten short answer questions based on the entire course

including three passages for explanation
30 Marks

Q.N.2 & Two Long Answer Questions from Plays

3 20+20=40 Marks

Q.N.4. Five Short Answer Questions on theory and forms of Drama

Marks 2X5=10
Q.N.5 Two Analytical Questions of 150 words each on the Plays
prescribed 10+10=20Marks
 B.A.PART II
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper-II
(FICTION)

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

Unit-II
Forms and Techniques, Elements of Novel, Elements of Short Story,
Picaresque Novel, Historical Novel, Gothic Novel
Epistolary Novel, Regional Novel, Dystopia, Detective Novel, Campus
Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Fiction, Metafiction, ‘Chic Lit’, Junk Fiction
Plot, Characterization, Narrative Technique and Structure

Unit-III
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Unit-IV
Charles Dickens David Copperfield

Unit-V
Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge

QN.1 Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

20 Marks

Q.N.2 -4 Long answer questions on prescribed novels

20+20+20= 60 Marks

Q.N. 5 Two questions one on technique and one on forms of novel

20 Marks
 B.A.PART III
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper-I
(History of English Literature)

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

Unit-II : From Renaissance to Seventeenth Century

Renaissance and Reformation
Miracle and Morality Plays
University Wits
Authorised version of the Bible
Metaphysical Poetry
Neo-classicism
Elizabethan Songs and Sonnets

Unit-III : Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Age

Growth of the Novel
Precursors of Romanticism
Romanticism and the French Revolution
Growth of Romantic Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel)

Unit-IV: Nineteenth Century

Characteristics of Victorianism
Growth of Victorian Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel)
Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
Naughty Nineties.

Unit-V : The Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries

Trends in twentieth century literature with special reference to
Georgian poetry, Imagism and Symbolism, Movement Poetry.
Twentieth Century Novel
Twentieth Century Drama, Problem Play, Theatre of the Absurd,
Expressionism, Epic Theatre.
Growth of Postcolonial literature: Feminism, Post modernism etc.

Q No. 1. Ten Short Answer questions based on the entire course.

20 Marks

Q, No.2-5 One Long Answer question from each unit 4x20= 80 Marks
 B.A.III
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER II

INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Unit-I : Ten short answer questions based on the entire course including
three passages for explanation

Unit-II: Poetry

NissimEzkiel ‘A Poem of Dedication’

JayantMahapatra ‘A Country’
R.N. Tagore ‘Song Nos10 &11 from Gitanjali’
A K Ramanujan ‘A River’
Keki N Daruwala ‘The Unrest of Desire’

Unit-III: Drama

Mahesh Duttani Seven Steps around the Fire

Unit-IV: Fiction

Mulk Raj Anand The Untouchable

Unit-V: Prose

JawaharLal Nehru ‘The Early Civilizations’ from Letters

from a father to His Daughter

Q.No.1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire course

including three passages for explanation.

Q No,2-5. One Long answer question from each unit (Unit II to V)

 B.A. III
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER III
(NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH)

The paper has been framed to familiarize the students with thewritings in
English all over the world.

Unit-I:Ten short answer questions based on the entire course

including three passages for explanation

Unit-II:
Australian Literature
(Poetry)

W C Wentworth 'The Wild Colonial Boy'

Ada Cambridge ‘An Answer’
Chris Wallace ‘Melbourne’
Kevin Gilbert ‘Mister Man’

Unit-III
American Literature
(Drama)

Edward Albee The Zoo Story

Unit-IV
Canadian Literature
(Fiction)
Alice Munro 'Meneseteung' from Friend of my youth

Unit-V
Afro-American Literature
(Prose)

Alice Walker In Search of Our Mother’s Garden

(Only 1stessay from Part Three)

Q. No. 1. Ten short answer questions based on the entire courseincluding three
passages for explanation.
Q No. 2-5. One Long Answer Question from each unit (Unit II-V)