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MIDNAPORE COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) MIDNAPORE, WEST BENGAL
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
COURSES OF STUDIES FOR THREE YEAR DEGREE COURSE
(SEMESTER SYSTEM)
FROM THE SESSION- 2014- 2015
1ST
YEAR 1
ST SEMESTER
ENGH-101
Unit-I Old English Period & Middle English Period
Unit-II Elizabethan Age & Jacobean Period
Unit- III Thomas Wyatt- I Find No Peace OR Renouncing of Love
Philip Sidney- Loving In Truth
Edmund Spenser- One Day I Wrote Her Name
Unit- IV William Shakespeare- Sonnet No .18
Sonnet No. 73
Sonnet No. 130
Unit- V Masculinity of English Language & Scandinavian & French influence on English
Language .
Books Recommended:
History of English Literature- Edward Albert
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature- George Sampson
Short Oxford History of English Literature- Andrew Sanders
Pelican Guide to English Literature (Ed)- Boris Ford
Growth & Structure of the English Language- Otto Jespersen
The English Language- C.L.Wrenn
The Elizabethan Love Sonnet- J.W. Lever
An Anthology of Elizabethan Sonnet- Sukanta Chowdhuri
1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit-I & II 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit-III & IV 1×10=10
2 Short answer types questions out of 5 from Unit- III& IV 2 x 5= 10
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit –V 1×10=10
1ST
YEAR 1
ST SEMESTER
ENGH-102
Unit I Restoration Period & Augustan Age
Unit-II Pope- The Rape of the Lock (Canto-I&II)
Dryden- Mac Flecknoe
Unit –III Milton- Paradise Lost (Book I)
Unit- IV Donne - The Sunne Rising
- Batter My Heart
Herbert- The Collar
Marvell- To His Coy Mistress
Vaughan- The Retreat
Books Recommended:
Restoration Drama - J.E. Cunnigham
The Augustan Satire - Ian Jack
The Eighteenth Century Background- Basil Willey
On The Poetry of Pope - G. Tillotson
Dryden - D. Nichol Smith
Milton – W.R. Parker
Milton’s Paradise Lost - B.A. Wright
A Preface to Paradise Lost - C.S. Lewis
Andrew Marvell – Cambridge University Press
Five Metaphysical Poets- Joan Bennett
Metaphysical Poets- Helen Gardner
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit –II & III 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit –IV 1×10=10
2 Short answer type questions out of 8 from Unit- I, II, III &IV 2×5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
1ST
YEAR SECOND SEMESTER
ENGH-201
Unit- I Pre- Romantics & Major Romantics
Unit-II Thomas Gray – Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard
Unit-III William Blake - London
Robert Burns - A Red, Red Rose
Unit –IV Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Coleridge - Christabel Part-I
Unit- V: Rhetoric
Books Recommended:
History of English Literature- William J. Long
The Poetry of Thomas Gray- David Cecil
Thomas Gray-M. Golden
The Romantic Imagination- C.M. Bowra
The Romantic Poets- Graham Hough
The English Romantic Poets- M.H. Abrams
William Blake- J.M. Murry
Symbol an Image in William Blake- G.W. Digby
Rhetoric & Prosody- Bose & Sterling
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit-II, III &IV 1×10=10
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Units- II,III & IV 2×5=10
Rhetoric (Unit-V) 10 marks
Internal Assessment 10 marks
1ST
YEAR SECOND SEMESTER
ENGH-202
Unit -I Younger Romantics & Major Victorians
Unit-II Shelley - To a Skylark
- Ode To the West Wind
John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
-Ode to a Nightingale
Lord Byron - Prisoner of Chillon
Unit-III Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
-Lady of Shallot
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
- Porphyria’s Lover
Unit-IV Mathew Arnold - Dover Beach
Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
Hopkins - Pied Beauty
Books Recommended:
The Victorian Era- Hugh Walker
The Victorians- C. Petrie
A History of English Poetry- Douglas Bush
Cambridge Companion to Romantic Literature
Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-I 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit-II 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit- III & IV 1×10=10
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- II, III, & IV 5×2=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
1ST
YEAR SECOND SEMESTER
ENGH-203
Unit- I Modern & Post- Modern Age
Unit-II W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming
- The Wild Swans at Coole
T.S. Eliot - Preludes
-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Unit- III Dylan Thomas-Poem in October
Philip Larkin- At Grass
Ted Hughes- Hawk Roosting
Unit- IV Latin, Greek & American Influence on English Language
English as a world language
The Influence of the Bible on English Language
Shakespeare & English Language
Unit- V Philological Terms & Philological Notes
Philological Terms: Malapropism, Johnsonese, Monosyllabism, Back Formation, Hybridism,
S-ending, Word-clipping
Philological Notes -Advice, Bread, Bible, Bicycle, Law, Clergy, Court, Dream, Debt, Doubt, Egg, Earl, Elder, Gift,
Golgotha, Husband, Helpmate, Island, Master, Nephew, Prodigal, Picture, Scapegoat, Sport, Trusteeship.
Unit- VI Prosody
Books Recommended:
The Modern Age- W.W. Robson
Modern Poetry & the Tradition- Cleanth Brooks
A History of English Language- A.C. Baugh
T.S. Eliot- Grover Smith
T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: A Study in their Source and Meaning.
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- I 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 3 from Unit- II & III 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- IV 1×10=10
1 philological Term out of 3 from Unit- V
Or 4 Marks
2 Philological Notes out of 6 from Unit- V
Prosody 1×6=6
Internal Assessment 10 marks
SECOND YEAR 3
RD SEMESTER
ENGH-301
(British Drama)
Unit- I Wiiliam Shakespeare – Macbeth*
- As You Like It* Or Twelfth Night
Unit- II Christopher Marlowe - Edward II * Or Thomas Kyd- The Spanish Tragedy
Unit-III Richard Sheridan - The Rivals Or William Goldsmith -She Stoops To Conquer*
Unit-IV John Milton- Samson Agonistes* Or Ben Jonson- The Alchemist
Books Recommended:
British Drama- A. Nicoll
Shakespearean Tragedy- A.C. Bradley
Shakespearean Comedy- H.B. Charlton
Christopher Marlowe- F.S. Boas
Milton- W.R. Parker
The Alchemist – Peacock Books
1 Essay type questions out of 2 from Unit- I 1×10=10
1 Essay type questions out of 2 from Unit- II 1×10=10
1 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- III & IV 1×10=10
2 short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit-I, II, III, & IV 5×2=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
SECOND YEAR 3
RD SEMESTER
ENGH-302
(British Novel)
Unit-I Jane Austen- Pride & Prejudice
Unit- II Charles Dickens - David Copperfield * Or George Eliot- Adam Bede
Unit- III Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd
Unit- IV Unseen Prose
Books Recommended:
A History of English Novel- E.A. Baker
British Novel- Elizabeth Drew
Jane Austen & Her Art- M.Lascelles
Hardy, the novelist - David Cecil
Tess of D’ urbervilles – Peacock Books(Atlantic Publishers)
2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- I, II & III 2×10=20
2 short type answer questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II & III 2x5=10
One Unseen Prose Passage (Substance with Critical Comment) 1×10=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
SECOND YEAR 3
RD SEMESTER
ENGH-303
Unit- I Bacon - Of Studies
-Of Friendship
Unit-II Joseph Addison- Sir Roger At Home
Unit-III Charles Lamb - The Praise of Chimney Sweepers
-The Superannuated Man
Unit- IV G B Shaw- Freedom
Unit- V Aldous Huxley- Pleasure
Unit- VI George Orwell- Shooting an Elephant
Books Recommended:
Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe(Ed)
Eight Essayists- A.S. Cairncross(Ed)
3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II, III, IV, V & VI 3×10=30
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV, V & VI 5×2=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
SECOND YEAR 4
th SEMESTER
ENGH-401
Unit- I G B Shaw - Arms and The Man* Or Pygmalion
Unit-II J M Synge - Riders to the Sea
Unit-III John Osborne - Look Back in Anger
Unit- IV William Beckett - Waiting For Godot
Books Recommended:
George Bernard Shaw- A.C. Ward
Riders to the Sea- Robin Skelton
The Plays of John Osborne- S.Trussler
The Theatre of the Absurd- Martin Esslin
A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett- H.Kenner
3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- I, II, III 3×10=30
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III &IV 2x5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
SECOND YEAR 4
th SEMESTER
ENGH-402
Unit-I Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Unit- II William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Unit-III Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
Books Recommended:
A Reader’s Guide to British Novels- Elizabeth Drew
Lord of the Flies- Casebook Series
3 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit-I, II & III 3×10=30
2 short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II & III 5×2=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
SECOND YEAR 4
th SEMESTER
ENGH-403
Unit –I Katherine Mansfield - The Fly
Unit-II J E Bates - The Ox
Unit-III James Joyce - Araby
Unit –IV Joseph Conrad - The Lagoon
Unit- V Somerset Maugham - The Lotus Eater
Book Recommended:
Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe
3 Essay type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV & V 3×10=30
2 Short type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II, III, IV & V 5×2=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
3rd
YEAR 5
th SEMESTER
ENGH-501
Poetry- American & New Literature
Unit- I Robert Frost - Road Not Taken
- Mending Wall
Unit-II Walt Whitman - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Unit- III Derek Walcott - A Far Cry From Africa
A.D.Hope - Australia
Unit- IV Derozio - The Harp of India
Toru Dutt - Our Casuarina Tree
Sarojini Naidu- Summer Wood
Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion
Unit- V Unseen Poem
Books Recommended:
Indian English Poetry- M.K.Naik
Indian English Poetry- Makrand Paranjape
Modern Indian English Poetry- Bruce King
Golden Treasury of Indian English Poetry (Sahitya Akademi)- V.K.Gokak
Ten Twentieth Century Poets- R. Parthasarathy
Kamala Das: A Critical Spectrum(Ed)
Reading of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poems(Ed)
1 essay type question out of 3 from Unit- I, II & III 1x10=10
1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit- IV 1×10=10
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit I, II, III & IV 5×2=10
One Unseen Poem (Substance with Critical Comment) 1×10=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
3rd
YEAR 5
th SEMESTER
ENGH-502
Novel and Short Story - Indian and American
Unit- I Anita Desai - Clear Light of Day
Unit-II Earnest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Unit- III Raja Rao - The Cow of the Barricades
Mulk Raj Anand - Old Bapu
Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Books Recommended:
Indian Writing in English – Srinibas Iyenger
A History of Indian English Literature- M.K. Naik
1 Essay type question out of 2 from each Unit- (I, II, & III) 3×10=30
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit I, II, & III 2×5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
3rd
YEAR 5
th SEMESTER
ENGH-503
Unit- I Sophocles- King Oedipus
Unit- II Arthur Miller- All My Sons
Unit- III Mahesh Dattani- Bravely Fought the Queen
Books Recommended:
Greek Tragedy - H.D.F. Kitto
All My Sons - Nissim Ezekiel
1 Essay type question out of 2 from each Unit-( I, II,& III) 3×10=30
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- I, II & III 2×5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
3rd
YEAR 6
th SEMESTER
ENGH-601
Literary Types
Unit- I Tragedy and Comedy
Unit- II Novel, Epic and Lyric
Unit- III Literary Terms
Unit- IV Basic Phonetics
1. The Speech Mechanism
2. Classification of Consonants
3. Classification of Vowels
4. Phoneme- Allophone
5. Phonetic Symbols
Books Recommended:
English Literature for Foreign Students- R. Rees
Glossary of Literary Terms- M.H. Abrams
An Introduction to English Literature- William Henry Hudson
English Pronouncing Dictionary- Daniel Jones
A Text book of English Phonetics- T. Balasubramaniam
Better English Pronunciation- O’ Connor
2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit- I & II 2×10=20
2 short notes on literary terms out of 6 from Unit- III 2×5=10
2 Short answer type questions out of 5 from Unit- IV 2×5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
3rd
YEAR 6
th SEMESTER
ENGH-602
Unit- I Literary Essay
Unit-II Literary Theory- Terms and Concepts
Mimesis, Canon, Reader Response theory, Aestheticism, Ethnicity, Androtext and
Gynotext, Power, Empire, Negative Capability, Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Fancy
and Imagination, Magic Realism, Structure, Plot, Genre, Surrealism, Rasa and Dhawni,
Sphota, Intertextuality
Unit- III Creative Writing/ Project Work/ Seminar
Books Recommended:
Quintessence of Literary Essays - Goodman
A Dictionary of Literary Modern Critical Terms(Ed) - Roger Fowler
Dictionary of Literary Terms - Cuddon
A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory- Jeremy Hawthorn
Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature - Bill Ashcroft
A Handbook to Literature: Thrall & Hibbard
Literary Criticism: A Reading - Das & Mohanty
1 Literary essay out of 5 from Unit- I 1×20=20
2 Short type questions on literary terms out of 5 from Unit- II 2×5=10
Creative Writing/ Project Work/ Seminar (Internal Assessment) 10 marks
English General 1
st Year
1st Semester
ENGG-101
Unit I William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
Unit II William Shakespeare -
- Since Brass, Nor Stone (Sonnet No. 65)
- Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet No. 116)
John Milton - On His Blindness
Unit III Wordsworth -
- The World Is Too Much With Us
-Upon West minster Bridge
Shelley - To A Skylark
Keats - Ode to autumn
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit- I 1×10=10
2 Essay type questions out of 6 from Unit- II & III 2×10=20
5 short questions out of 8 from Unit II & III 5×2=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
Books Recommended:
Golden Treasury- (Ed.) Palgrave
English General 1
st Year
2nd
Semester
ENGG-201
Unit-I Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Unit II Lord Tennyson - Tithonus
Robert Browning - The Last Ride Together
Wilfred Owen - Futility
W B Yeats - An Acre of Grass
Unit III Rhetoric
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×10=10
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit III 1×10=10
5 Figures of speech out of 8 from Unit III 2×5=10
2 Short questions out of 4 selecting at least 1 from Unit I & II 2×5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
Books Recommended:
Rhetoric and Prosody- Bose & Sterling
The Cambridge Guide to The Poetry of The First World War –Cambridge University press
Oliver Twist – Peacock books
English General 2nd Year
3rd Semester
ENGG-301
Unit I Vijay Tendulkar - Silence! The Court is in Session
Unit II Charles Lamb - Dream Children
Nehru - Discovery of India
Nicholson - The Art of Living
S. C. Bose - Bose- Roland Interview
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×10=10
2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit II 2×10=20
2 explanations for comment out of 4 from Unit I
Or 2×5=10
2 Short questions out of 4 from Unit II
Internal Assessment 10 marks
Books Recommended:
Essays & Stories: (Ed.) Burdwan University
English General 2nd Year
3rd Semester
ENGG-302
Unit I Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
Unit II Literary Terms - Allegory, Ballad, Burlesque, Comedy, Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Image,
Metaphor, Myth, Ode, Round and Flat Character, Soliloquy Stream of Consciousness Novel,
Symbol, Tragedy
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×10=10
2 short type questions out of 4 from Unit I 2×5=10
4 Literary terms out of 8 from Unit II 4×5=20
Internal Assessment 10 marks
Books Recommended:
Dictionary of Literary terms: M.H. Abrams
English General 2nd Year
4th
Semester
ENGG-401
Unit I Somerset Maugham - The Lotus Eater
James Joyce - Araby
Katherine Mansfield - The Fly
H.E. Bates - The Ox
O Henry - After Twenty Years
Unit II Punctuation
2 Essay type questions out of 4 from Unit I 2×10=20
5 short type questions out of 10 from Unit I 2×5=10
1 Passage for punctuation 1×10=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
Book Recommended:
Modern Prose: (Ed.) Michael Thorpe
English General 2nd Year
4th
Semester
ENGG-402
Unit I Unseen Essay
Unit II Précis Writing
Unit III Comprehension
Unit IV Substance writing
1 unseen essay out of 5 from Unit I 1×10=10
1 passage for précis writing from Unit II 1×10=10
1 passage for comprehension from Unit III 1×10=10
1 substance writing of a Poem 1×10=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
English (Elective) 5
th Semester
3rd
Year
ENGG-501
Unit I Donne- Death Be Not Proud
Arnold- Shakespeare
Hardy- The Darkling Thrush
W. B. Yeats- The Second Coming
Unit II Kamala Das - Summer In Calcutta
Parthasarathy.R - Delhi
A.K.Ramanujan -The River
Jayanta Mahapatra - Dawn At Puri
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×15=15
1 Essay type question out of 2 from Unit II 1×15=15
2 Short answer type question out of 6 from Unit I & II 2×5=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
English (Elective) 5
th Semester
3rd
Year
ENGG-601 (Unseen)
Unit I: (Application oriented topics)
i) Exchange of Greeting
ii) In The Post Office
iii) Buying Dresses
iv) At The Bank
v) At The Travel Agency
vi) At an International Airport etc.
Unit II: (Writing Reports on)
i) Local Fairs
ii) Important Meetings
iii) Holding of Seminars
iv) Film Reviews etc.
Unit III: (Letters)
i) Personal/ Official/ Business Related Letters
1 Essay type question out of 4 from Unit I 1×15=15
1 question out of 2 from Unit II 1×15=15
1 question out of 2 from Unit III 1×10=10
Internal Assessment 10 marks
Communicative English (COMENG)
(Compulsory Credit Course)
Full Marks: 50
Time: 2 Hours
Unit I Fundamental of Phonetics
Vowels, Consonants, Phonetic Transcription
Unit II
Grammar in Use:
i) One word substitution
ii) Preposition
iii) Common Errors
iv) Antonyms & Synonyms
Unit III
i) Dialogue writing
ii) Describing a scene or Incident
iii) Paragraph Writing
2 short type questions out of 5 from Unit I 2×5=10
Unit II 20 marks
2 writing tasks out of 3 from Unit III 2×10=20
Books recommended:
Strengthen Your Writing: V. R. Narayanswami
Better English Pronunciation: J. B. O’ Connor
Written Communication in English: Sarah Freeman
Spoken English for You: C. I. E. F.L., Hydrabad
Compulsory English (ENGC)
Total Marks: 50
Group A Unseen (25 marks)
Unit I Formal Letter & Writing Curriculum Vitae
Or
Report Writing
Or
Paragraph Writing
Unit II Common Errors
Article, Verb Agreement, Tenses, Active & Passive Voice, Modal Auxiliaries
Preposition
Unit III English in Situations:
Starting a Conversation, Introducing Oneself, Describing Past Events, places,
People & Objects
1 question out of 3 from Unit I 1×12=12
5 Common errors out of 6 from Unit II 1×5=5
1 question from Unit out of 3 alternatives 1×8=8
Group B Text (25 marks)
Unit I William Shakespeare - Seven Ages of Man
William Wordsworth - The Education of Nature
John Keats - On Fame
A.K. Ramaujan - The Last of the Princess
Unit II E. V. Lucas - The Town Week
B. Russell - Knowledge and Wisdom
R. K. Narayan - Father’s Help
1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit I 1×10=10
1 essay type question out of 2 from Unit II 1×10 =10
1 short question out of 6 from Unit I & II 1×5=5
Book Recommended:
Selections from English prose and Poetry for Colleges (MacMillan)