CLUSTER UNIVERSITY SRINAGAR
Syllabus for 4-Year(3+1) UG/Honours Degree Programme in English
under NEP 2020
1st Semester
Batch: 2022 Onwards
Course Type:- Minor
Course Title: Foundations of Literature Course Code: UGENG22N101
Credits: 04
Course Objectives:
To introduce students to major movements related to drama and dramatists
through the study of selected texts.
To create literary sensibility in students and expose them to artistic and
innovative use of language by writers and to various worldviews.
To introduce students to the creative expressions of poets and the poetic
devices used in their writing.
To familiarise students with different styles and thematic concerns of poets
through a critical appreciation of various poems.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Exhibit an understanding of and appreciation for key works in world
literature.
2. Students will demonstrate an understanding of periodization, theme, genre,
motif, and so on, in literature.
3. Students will read literature with increased critical acumen, as evidenced in
daily discussions of readings and in responsive essays.
4. Students will be able to respond to literature with facility, both orally and on
paper, on important thematic considerations having to do with literary and
historical milieu, culture, human responsibility, morality, ethics, and the
manner and causes by which humans interact with one another.
Unit-I Contact Hours: 15
Introducing Poetry
Poetic forms (lyric, sonnet, elegy, epic ode, and ballad).
Elements of poetry (metre, rhyme, structure/form, types of stanza).
Poetic devices (metaphor, simile, images, allusions, symbol, irony, alliteration,
assonance, personification).
Unit-II Contact Hours: 15
English Poetry
1. Shakespeare:
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 116.
2. John Donne:
The Sun Rising
The Flea
Unit-III Contact Hours: 15
Introducing Drama.
History and Development of English Drama.
Types of Drama (tragedy ,comedy, tragic–comedy, farce, melodrama,
heroic drama).
Elements of Drama (plot, character, setting, dialogue, conflict, theme,
spectacle).
Unit: IV Contact Hours: 15
English Drama
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Tutorials:
Assignments based on Unit III. (Teaching of Unit III is mandatory).
Recommended Books:
A Glossary of Literary Terms (M.H.Abrams).
History of English Literature –Edward Albert
Shakespearean Tragedy (A.C Bradley)
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
