NEW SYLLABUS
COURSE OF STUDY
For
UNDER GRADUATE
ENGLISH
RAVENSHAW UNIVERSITY
CUTTACK
UG (ARTS)
ENGLISH HONOURS
The syllabus is designed to acquaint the students with a rich variety of literary and critical
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texts starting from 14 century till date. However, specific attention has been given to keep
the students abreast of the social and literary history of England which enables them to
situate the texts in their proper historical and cultural contexts. The major periods are
covered with a concentration of focus on the period’s representative writers. Writings from
World Literatures have also been incorporated to familiarize them with a significantly
varied body of literature across the globe cutting across temporal and geographical
barriers so as to make their understanding rich, diverse and complete.
Assessment
Internal Assessment
10 marks
Term paper:01
5 marks
Attendance:
5 marks
End Semester University Examination 40 marks
Unit I One long-type answer question (10 marks)
One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)
Unit II One long-type answer question (10 marks)
Unit III One long-type answer question (10 marks)
One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)
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Unit I - History of English Literature from 14 to 17 century.
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Unit II - Social History of England – 14 to 15 century.
Unit III - Social History of England—15 to 17 century
12 teaching hours
12 teaching hours
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Albert Croll Baugh. A Literary History of England. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967.
Ian Ousby, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge
University Press, 1993.
Margaret Drabble. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
François Bédarida. A Social History of England, 1851–1990. Routledge, 1991.
Aditi Chowdhury & Rita Goswami. A History of English Literature. Orient BlackSwan, 2014.
Paper 1.1.2
British Literature
Unit I - Geoffrey Chaucer- “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
12 teaching hours
Unit II-Francis Bacon— Essays (“Of Studies”, “Of Friendship”, “Of Truth”, “Of Unity in
Religion”, “Of Marriage and Single Life”, “Of Superstition”)
12 teaching hours
Unit III-Christopher Marlowe –Dr. Faustus
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Adolphus W Ward. Chaucer. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1907. John
Speirs. Chaucer the Maker. London: Faber and Faber, 1951.
Paolo Rossi. Francis Bacon: from Magic to Science. Taylor & Francis. 1978.
Michael Peppiatt. Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. London: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1996.
J. A. Downie and J. T. Parnell, eds. Constructing Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge 2000.
Constance Kuriyama. Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life. Cornell University Press,
2002.
Paper 1.1.3
British Literature
Unit I
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Unit II Unit III -
Rhetoric, Definition, Types
12 teaching hours
Prosody and Practical Criticism of Poetry
12 teaching hours
Forms of Literature—Sonnet, Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, Novel, Satire, Lyric,
Ballad
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
M. H. Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Thomson-Wadsworth, 2005.
Chris Baldick. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
Margaret Anne Doody. The True Story of the Novel. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1996.
M. Chakraborty, Principles of Rhetoric and Prosody, World Press, 2009.
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British Literature
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Unit I - History of Literary Criticism from Greek to 17 century
12 teaching hours
Unit II - William Shakespeare—As You Like It.
12 teaching
hours Unit III - John Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Flea”, “The Sun
Rising”, “The Good-Morrow”
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”, “Song of the
Emigrants of Bermuda”, “An Epitaph”,
“The Fair Singer” 12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Harry Blamaires. A History of Literary Criticism. Palgrave Mc Millan, 1991. Helen
Gardner. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.
A. C. Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear
and Macbeth, London: Penguin, 1991.
Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory 3rd Edition.
C. E. Bressler. Literary Criticism: An Introduction To Theory And Practice. Pearson. Alexander
Leggatt. The Cambridge Companion To Shakespearean Comedy. Cambridge
University Press.
Paul A. Olson. Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy.
University Of Nebraska Press.
Joan Bennett. John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets. Cambridge University Press.
Paper 1.2.5
British Literature
Unit I
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Aristotle—Poetics (Chapters: IV, V, VI from S. H. Butcher’s translation)
12 teaching hours
Unit II Unit III -
John Milton -- Paradise Lost (Book I)
12 teaching hours
William Shakespeare—Macbeth
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
J. L. Ackrill. Essays on Plato and Aristotle, Oxford University Press, 1997.
---. Aristotle the Philosopher. Oxford University Press. 1981.
Mortimer J. Adler. Aristotle for Everybody. Macmillan. 1978.
Gordon Campbell and Thomas Corns. John Milton: Life, Work, and
Thought. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Raymond Dexter. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry. Kessinger
Publishing. 1922.
G. E. Bentley. Shakespeare: A Biographical Handbook. Yale University
Press, 1961. David Bevington. Shakespeare. Blackwell, 2002.
Amelie Rorty. Essays on Aristotle's Poetics. Princeton University Press. 1992
Timothy C. Miller. The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise lost.
Greenwood Press, 1997
Bernard J. Paris. Heaven and its Discontents: Milton's Characters in
Paradise Lost. Transaction Publishers.
A C Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1905.
Claire, McEachern. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy.
Cambridge University Press.
Paper 1.2.6
British Literature
Unit I
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Unit II Unit III -
John Dryden—Absolam and Achitophel
12 teaching hours
William Congreve—The Way of the World
12 teaching hours
John Webster—The Duchess of Malfi
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
David Hopkins. John Dryden. Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2004.
Thomas H Fujimura. The Restoration Comedy of Wit. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. 1952.
Harold Weber. The Restoration Rake-Hero: Transformations in Sexual Understanding in
Seventeenth-Century England. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1986.
Thomas, W. The Crafting of Absalom and Achitophel: Dryden’s Pen for a Party
Wilfred Laurier Univ. Press.
Harold Bloom. John Dryden. Chelsea House, 1987.
David Womersley. Restoration Comedy. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Frank Louis Johnson. The Conventions of Restoration Comedy University of
Wisconsin-- Madison, 1934.
Charles Forker. Skull Beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster, SIU Press, 1986.
David Coleman. John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist. Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Bradbrook, Muriel Clara. John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist. Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1980.
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Year Honours
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Unit I - History of English Literature from 18 to 19 century.
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12 teaching hours
Unit II - Social History of England from 18 to 19 century.
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Thomas Gray—“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
David Daiches. A Critical History of English Literature: from the beginnings to the
sixteenth century, Volume 1. Allied Publishers, 1979.
Edward Albert. History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1979.
François Bédarida. A social history of England, 1851–1990. Routledge, 1991. R.
L. Mack. Thomas Gray A Life. 2000. Yale University Press, 2000.
A. L. Sells. Thomas Gray His Life and Works. G Allen and Unwin, 1980.
Paper 2.3.8
British Literature
Unit I - Alexander Pope—“Rape of The Lock”
Unit II - Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Book I)
12 teaching hours
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Essays—
Charles Lamb: “Dream Children: A Reverie”, “Old China” “The South-Sea House”
Joseph Addison: “False and True Humour”, “Pleasures of
Imagination”, “The Social Concert”
William Hazlitt: “On Going a Journey”, “On Poetry”, “On the Pleasure of Painting” 12
teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Paul Baines. The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope. Routledge Publishing,
2001. Maynard Mack. Alexander Pope: A Life. Yale University Press. 1985.
Pat Rogers. The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope. Cambridge
University Press. 2007.
Claude Prance. Companion to Charles Lamb. Mansell Publishing,
1938. George Barnett. Charles Lamb. Twayne Publishers, 1976.
David Cecil. Portrait of Charles Lamb. Constable, 1983.
Peter Smithers. The Life of Joseph Addison. Clarendon Press, 1954.
Duncan Wu. The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. Pickering and Chatto, 1998. John M.
Bullitt. Jonathan Swift and the Anatomy of Satire: A Study of Satiric Technique.
Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1953.
Jae Num Lee. Swift and Scatological Satire. University of New Mexico Press, 1971.
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Unit I - History of Literary Criticism 18
Unit II
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to 19
- Charlotte Bronte: Wuthering Heights
century
12 teaching hours
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Poems—
John Keats: “Ode to Psyche” , “Ode to Nightingale”
“Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”
P. B. Shelley: “”Ode to a Skylark”, “The Cloud”, “Autumn: A Dirge”
“A Bridal Song”
Suggested Reading:
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005. Harry Blamaires. A History of Literary Criticism. Palgrave Mc Millan, 1991.
Walter Jackson Bate. John Keats. Harvard University Press,
1964. Robert Gittings. The Keats Inheritance. Heinemann.
1964. Robert Gittings. John Keats. Heinemann. 1968.
Richard Holmes. Shelley: The Pursuit. E. P. Dutton, 1975.
James Bieri. Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography. Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2008. Lucasta Miller. The Brontë Myth. Vintage. 2002.
Paper 2.4.10
British Literature
Unit I - William Wordsworth: “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
12 teaching hours
Unit II - S. T. Coleridge: “Fancy and Imagination”
12 teaching hours
Unit III - William Wordsworth: “A Night Thought”, “A Farewell”, “A Night-Piece”
S. T. Coleridge: “A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad
Passion”, “A daydream”, “About the Nightingale”
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Emma Mason. The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth. Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
M.R. Tewari. One Interior Life—A Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic
Experience. S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1983.
Stephen Gill. William Wordsworth: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Walter Jackson Bate. Coleridge. The Macmillan Company, 1968.
John B Beer. Coleridge the Visionary. Chatto and Windus, 1970.
J. Robert Barth. Coleridge and Christian Doctrine. Harvard University Press, 1969.
Paper 2.4.11
British Literature
Unit I - John Ruskin: Unto this Last
12 teaching hours
Unit II - Matthew Arnold: “The Study of Poetry”
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
John D. Rosenberg. The Darkening Glass: A Portrait of Ruskin’s Genius. Columbia UP,
1961. Robert Hewison. John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye. Thames and Hudson,
1976. Joseph Carroll. The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold. University of California
Press, 1981. Ruth Roberts. Arnold and God. University of California Press, 1983.
Peter Ackroyd. Dickens. Sinclar-Stevenson. 1990.
John Bowen. Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit. Oxford University Press. 2003. Jane R.
Cohen. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Ohio State University Press.
1980.
Paper 2.4.12
British Literature
Unit I - PoemsAlfred Tennyson: “Ulysses”, “Crossing the Bar”
Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”, “A Summer Night”
Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”, “Prospice”
12 teaching hours
Unit II-Thomas Carlyle- On Heroes, Hero- worship and the Heroic in History
12 teaching hours
Unit III-Thomas Hardy- The Mayor of Casterbridge
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
H. Tennyson. Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son. New York: MacMillan,
1897. Joseph Carroll. The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold. University of California
Press, 1981. Ruth Roberts. Arnold and God. University of California Press, 1983.
G. K. Chesterton. Robert Browning. Macmillan, 1903.
William Clyde DeVane. A Browning Handbook. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955. Philip
Drew. The poetry of Robert Browning: A critical introduction. Methuen, 1970.
A. A. Ikeler. Puritan Temper and Transcendental Faith. Carlyle's Literary Vision.
Columbus, OH, 1972.
W. Waring. Thomas Carlyle. Boston, MA, 1978.
Edmund Blunden. Thomas Hardy. New York: St. Martin's, 1942.
Ernest Brennecke, Jr. The Life of Thomas Hardy. New York: Greenberg, 1925.
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Year Honours
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Unit I - History of English Literature -20 century
12 teaching hours
Unit II - Social History of England – 1900 to 1950
12 teaching hours
Unit III - War PoetsRupert Brooke: “1914: Peace”, “1914 II: Safety”
Siegfried Sassoon: “A Child’s Prayer”, “A Whispered Tale”
Stephen Spender: “O Night O Trembling Night”, “On the Pilots Who
Destroyed Germany in the Spring of 1945”
Wilfred Owen: “A New Heaven”, “Arms and the Boy”
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Albert Croll Baugh. A Literary History of England. Appleton-Century-Crofts,
1967. Ian Ousby, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English.
Margaret Drabble. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford
University Press, 1995.
François Bédarida. A Social History of England, 1851–1990. Routledge, 1991. Jon
Silkin. Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War. Palgrave Macmillan, 1972.
Pinaki Roy. The Scarlet Critique: A Critical Anthology of War Poetry. Sarup Book
Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2010.
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British Literature
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Unit I - History of Literary Criticism - 20 century
12 teaching hours
Unit II - W. B. Yeats: “Among School Children”, “A Prayer for My Daughter”,
“Sailing to Byzantium”, “When You are Old”, “The Second Coming”, “The
Cold Heaven”, “A Dream of Death”, “A Cradle Song”
12 teaching hours
Unit III - G. B. Shaw:–Arms and the Man
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005. Harry Blamaires. A History of Literary Criticism. Palgrave Mc Millan, 1991.
Brian Cleeve. W.B. Yeats and the Designing of Ireland's Coinage. Dolmen Press.
1972. A Norman Jeffares. A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats. Stanford
UP. 1984. William H. Pritchard. W. B. Yeats: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1972.
Helen Vendler. Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. 2007.
Richard M Ohmann. Shaw: The Style and the Man. Wesleyan University Press,
1962. Archibald Henderson. Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet. D. Appleton &
Co., 1932. Colin Wilson. Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment. Athenum, 1969.
Paper 3.5.15
British Literature
Unit I - T. S. Eliot: “Prelude 1”, “Journey of the Magi”, “Gerontion”, “The Hollow
Man”, “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”, “Morning at the
Window”, “Hysteria”, “Sweeney among the Nightingales”
12 teaching hours
Unit II - T. S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
12 teaching hours
Unit III - T. S. Eliot: Family Reunion
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Kenneth Asher. T. S. Eliot and Ideology. 1995.
Ronald Bush. T. S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. 1984.
Robert Crawford. The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S.
Eliot. 1987. Helen Gardner. The Art of T. S. Eliot. 1949.
Anthony Julius. T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form. Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
Paper 3.5.16
British Literature
F. M. 10+40
Time: 2 hours
Unit I- Poems—
Philip Larkin: “At Grass”, “Home is So Sad”
Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roosting”, “Crow’s Nerve Fails”
W. H. Auden: “The Unknown Citizen”, “Funeral Blues”
G. M. Hopkins. “Andromeda”, “Ash-Boughs”
12 teaching hours
Unit II- J. M. Synge: Riders to the Sea
12 teaching hours
Unit III- F. R. Leavis: “Literary Criticism and Philosophy”
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Stephen Regan. Philip Larkin. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
1997. Charlie Bell. Ted Hughes. Hodder and Stoughton)2002.
Edward Hadley. The Elegies of Ted Hughes. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Keith Sagar. The Art of Ted Hughes. Cambridge University Press. 1978.
Stan Smith, ed. The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Cambridge
University Press. 2005.
Mary Burke, 'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller.
Oxford, OUP, 2009.
Daniel Corkery. Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature. Cork University
Press, 1931. Michael Bell. F. R. Leavis. Routledge, 1988.
R. P Bilan. The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis. Cambridge University Press, 1979. Gary
Day. Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.
Paper 3.5.17
British Literature
Unit I - John Osborne- Look Back in Anger
12 teaching hours
Unit II - Essays—
12 teaching hours
E. M. Forster: “What I Believe”
D. H. Lawrence: “Give Her a Pattern”
Norman Mailer: “The White Negro”
Susan Sontag: “Notes on ‘Camp’”
Unit III - H G Wells – Time Machine
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
John Heilpern. John Osborne: A Patriot for Us. Chatto & Windus, 2006.
Laurence Brander. E.M. Forster: A Critical Study. London, 1968.
Keith Alldritt. The Visual Imagination of D. H. Lawrence. Edward Arnold, 1971.
Michael Bell. D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being. Cambridge University Press,
1992. J. Michael Lennon. Norman Mailer: A Double Life. Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Leland Poague, ed. Conversations with Susan Sontag. University of Mississippi Press, 1995. Carl
Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon. W. W. Norton, 2000.
Paper 3.5.18
Indian Writing in English
Unit I - Poems—
12 teaching hours
Nissim Ezekiel: “Island”, “The Hill”
Jayanta Mahapatra: “The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore”,
“Sanskrit”
A. K. Ramanujan: “A River”, “Obituary”
Kamala Das: “My Grandmother’s House”, “Punishment in Kindergarten”
R. Parthasarthy: “Homecoming”, “From Exile”
Shiv. K. Kumar: “Indian Women”, “To an Unborn Child”
Unit II - R. N. Tagore: “Nationalism in India” (From R. N. Tagore’s lectures on
Nationalism in 1917)
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Raja Rao: Kanthapura
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Jaydip Sinh Dodiya. Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, Sarup &
Sons, 2000. Bruce King. Three Indian Poets. OUP India, 2008.
Paper 3.5.19
American Literature
Unit I - Robert Frost- “Stopping by the Woods in a Snowy Evening”, “Mending Wall”,
“Birches”, “A Cliff Dwelling”, “A Brook in the City”, “An Old Man’s Winter Night”
12 teaching hours
Unit II - Ernest Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Eugene O Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Jay Parini. Robert Frost: A Life. Macmillan, 2000.
Stephen A. Black. Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. Yale
University press. 2002.
Virginia Floyd, ed. Eugene O'Neill: A World View. Frederick Unger, 1979.
Sophus Keith Winter. Eugene O'Neill: A Critical Study. Random House,
1934. Carlos Baker. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1969. Carlos Baker. Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. Princeton
UP, 1972. Michael Reynolds. The Young Hemingway. Norton, 1998.
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Postcolonial Literature
Unit I - Poetry—
Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa”
Margaret Atwood: “In the Secular Night”
Judith Wright: “Naked Girl and Mirror”
12 teaching hours
Leopold Senghor: “New York”
Peter Porter: “Your Attention Please”
Wole Soyinka: “Civilian and Soldier”
Unit II - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Badal Sirkar - Ebam Indrajit
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Edward Baugh. Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision: Another Life. Longman, 1978.
Edward Baugh. Derek Walcott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Stewart Brown, ed. The Art of Derek Walcott. Chester Springs, Dufour, 1991.
I Carrington de Papp. Margaret Atwood and Her Works. EWC, 1985.
Veronica Brady. South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright, Angus & Robertson.
1998. Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Chinua Achebe: A Biography. Indiana University Press, 1997.
Paper 3.6.21
European Literature
Unit I - Poetry –
12 teaching hours
Juan Ramon Jimenez: “Dawn Outside the City Walls” “The Final Journey”
Thomas Transtromer: “Outskirts”
“Downpour over the Interior”
George Safaris: “Our Sun” “An Old Man on the River Bank”
Frederico Garcia Lorca: “City that Does not Sleep” “Dawn”
Unit II-Franz Kafka – Metamorphosis
12 teaching hours
Unit III-Samuel Becket- Waiting for Godot
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
P.R Olson. Circle of Paradox: time and essence in the poetry of Juan Ramon Jimenez. 1967.
Roderick Beaton. George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel – A Biography. Yale University
Press. 2003.
Leslie Stainton. Lorca: A Dream of Life. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1999.
Martin Greenberg, The Terror of Art: Kafka and Modern Literature, New York, 1968.
C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski, eds. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett.
Grove Press, 2004.
Anthony Cronin. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. Da Capo Press,
1997. H. Pollitzer, Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox, New York, 1962.
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Diaspora Literature
F. M. 10+40
Time: 2 hours
Unit I-
12 teaching hours
Jhumpa Lahiri –From Interpreter of Maladies
“A Temporary Matter”, “Interpreter of Maladies”, “A Real Durwan”,
“This Blessed House”, “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar”
Unit II- Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
12 teaching hours
Unit III- Chitra B Devakaruni: The Mistress of Spices
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
John M. G. Barclay, ed. Negotiating Diaspora: Jewish Strategies in the
Roman Empire. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004.
Jana Evans Braziel. Diaspora - An Introduction. MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Robin Cohen. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Routledge. 2008.
Kevin Kenny. Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Paper 3.6.23
Classical Literature
F. M. 10+40
Time: 2 hours
Unit I - Virgil: Aeneid- Book-I (Trans. Dryden)
12 teaching hours
Unit II - Aristophanes: Frogs
12 teaching hours
Unit III - Euripides: Medea
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Richard Jenkyns. Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil. Duckworth, 2007.
David Konstan. Greek Comedy and Ideology. Oxford University Press US, 1995.
Kenneth J Reckford. Aristophanes' Old-and-new Comedy. UNC Press, 1987.
D. J. Conacher. Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme, and Structure. Oxford
University Press, 1967.
Gilbert Murray. Euripides and His Age. London: Oxford University Press, 1946.
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Critical Theory
Unit I- Critical theory from structuralism to Post colonialism
12 teaching hours
Unit II- Edward Said: “Introduction to Orientalism”
12 teaching hours
Unit III- Elaine Showalter: “Towards a Feminist Poetics”
12 teaching hours
Suggested Reading:
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press,
1963. Edward Said. Orientalism. Pantheon, 1978.
Alison Assiter. Pornography, Feminism, and the Individual. Pluto
Press, 1989. Toril Moi. Sexual/Textual Politics. Routledge, 1985.
Tobias Döring. Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction, Klett Leren
und Wissen 2008.
Alamgir Hashmi. The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World, 1988.
Course of Studies
Bachelor of English (Commerce)
COMPULSORY ENGLISH
The purpose of teaching English to UG level students is to help students
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 evelop an ability to comprehend texts in English of a moderately
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advanced nature, such as may be studies by all college and university
students in the pursuit of their disciplines;
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 evelop certain compositional skills in English required in various
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professions and activities in India;
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 ake a first entry into the more complex literary use of English, and the
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human values and perceptions conveyed through it.
Evaluation Scheme
Assessment
Internal Assessment
Term paper: 01
Attendance:
10 marks
5 marks
5 marks
End Semester University Examination
40 marks
Unit I - One long-type answer question (10 marks)
One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)
Unit II - One long-type answer question (10 marks)
Unit III - One long-type answer question (10 marks)
One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)
+3 Ist Year Commerce
Semester I
Paper Code: CC 1.1.1
Paper I
Unit I
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Poetry
William Shakespeare – Sonnet CXXX
William Blake – London
William Wordsworth – It is a Beauteous Evening
S T Coleridge – Frost at Midnight
 John Keats – Ode to
Autumn Unit II Short Stories
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Mahasweta Devi – The Hunt
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer – The World-Renowned Nose
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Balthazar’s Marvellous Afternoon
Intizar Hussain – A Chronicle of the Peacocks
Siegfried Sasson – Return from the Somme
Unit III Prose
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B R Ambedkar - Who were the Shudras?
Naomi Klein – The Brand Expands
Virginia Woolf – Shakespeare’s Sisters
Roland Barthes – Toys
Ngugi wa Thiango – Decolonizing the Mind
Prescribed Books:
The Individual Society: Essays, Stories and Poems, Pearson Publication
Living Literatures: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Orient Longman
Semester II
Paper Code - CC 1.2.3
Unit I Poetry
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T S Eliot: Prelude I
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est
Maya Angelou – Still I Rise
Wole Soyinka – Telephone Conversation
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Indian Movie, New
Jersey Unit II Short Stories
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Premchand – Deliverance
Omprakash Valmiki – Joothan
Rabindranath tagore – The Exercise Book
Bibha Sen – Zero-Sum Game
Amitav Ghosh – Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi
Unit III Play
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Vijay Tendulkar – Silence the Court is in Session
Prescribed Books:
The Individual Society: Essays, Stories and Poems, Pearson Publication
Living Literatures: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Orient Longman
Course of Studies
Bachelor of English (ARTS)
COMPULSORY ENGLISH
The purpose of teaching English to UG level students is to help students
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 evelop an ability to comprehend texts in English of a moderately
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advanced nature, such as may be studies by all college and university
students in the pursuit of their disciplines;
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 evelop certain compositional skills in English required in various
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professions and activities in India;
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 ake a first entry into the more complex literary use of English, and the
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human values and perceptions conveyed through it.
Evaluation Scheme
Assessment
Internal Assessment
Term paper: 01
Attendance:
10 marks
5 marks
5 marks
End Semester University Examination
40 marks
Unit I - One long-type answer question (10 marks)
One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)
Unit II - One long-type answer question (10 marks)
Unit III - One long-type answer question (10 marks)
One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)
+3 Ist Year Arts
Semester I
Paper Code: AC 1.1.1
Paper I
Unit I
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Poetry
William Shakespeare – Sonnet CXXX
William Blake – London
William Wordsworth – It is a Beauteous Evening
S T Coleridge – Frost at Midnight
 John Keats – Ode to
Autumn Unit II Short Stories
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Mahasweta Devi – The Hunt
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer – The World-Renowned Nose
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Balthazar’s Marvellous Afternoon
Intizar Hussain – A Chronicle of the Peacocks
Siegfried Sasson – Return from the Somme
Unit III Prose
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B R Ambedkar - Who were the Shudras?
Naomi Klein – The Brand Expands
Virginia Woolf – Shakespeare’s Sisters
Roland Barthes – Toys
Ngugi wa Thiango – Decolonizing the Mind
Prescribed Books:
The Individual Society: Essays, Stories and Poems, Pearson Publication
Living Literatures: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Orient Longman
Semester II
Paper Code - AC 1.2.3
Unit I Poetry
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T S Eliot: Prelude I
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est
Maya Angelou – Still I Rise
Wole Soyinka – Telephone Conversation
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Indian Movie, New
Jersey Unit II Short Stories
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Premchand – Deliverance
Omprakash Valmiki – Joothan
Rabindranath tagore – The Exercise Book
Bibha Sen – Zero-Sum Game
Amitav Ghosh – Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi
Unit III Play
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Vijay Tendulkar – Silence the Court is in Session
Prescribed Books:
The Individual Society: Essays, Stories and Poems, Pearson Publication
Living Literatures: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Orient Longman
IInd year Arts
IIIrd Semester
Compulsory EnglisH
Paper : AC 2.3.5
Unit 1 Prose: India and Greece by Jawaharlal Nehru
My Mother by Nirad C Chaudhury
Principles of Good Writing by L.A.Hill
An Ideal Individual by Bertrand Russell
What I found in my pocket by G.K.Chesterton
Book Prescribed:
The Modern Sensibility by S.K.Mohapatra (Kitab Mahal)
One long question – 10 marks
One short question - 5 marks
Unit 2 Poetry: The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan: A Vision in Fragments by S.T. Coleridge
Ode to the West Wind by P.B. Shelley
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Book Prescribed:
Auroral Musings ed. Deshmane and Chaskar (Orient Blackswan)
One long question – 10 marks
Unit 3 Stories: The Night the Tiger Came by Manoj Das
The Gifts by O’ Henry
The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
The Cow of the Barricades by Raja Rao
Book Prescribed:
Story World ed. T.Mishra
One long question – 10 marks
One short question – 5 marks
IInd Year Arts
IV Semester
Compulsory English
Paper No AC 2.4.7
Unit 1 Prose Mass Production by G.C.Thornley
The Way to Equal Distribution by Mahatma Gandhi
Water: The Elixir of Life by C.V.Raman
The Sporting Spirit by George Orwell
The Fight between Leopards by Jim Corbett
Book Prescribed:
The Modern Sensibility by S.K.Mohapatra (Kitab Mahal)
One long question – 10 marks
One short question - 5 marks
Unit 2 Poetry Pied Beauty by G.M.Hopkins
Sailing to Byzantium by W.B.Yeats
Brahma by R.W.Emerson
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
Because I Could not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Book Prescribed:
Auroral Musings ed. Deshmane and Chaskar (Orient Blackswan)
One long question – 10 marks
Unit 3 Play
Tara by Mahesh Dattani
One long question – 10 marks
One short question - 5 marks
Alternative English
The purpose of teaching English at this level is to help students develop a literary sensibility and
critical ability through an in- depth analysis of the texts. The course is so designed as to provide an
alternative to students who for various reasons are not in a position to pursue a course in their
mother tongue or an Indian language. This course would also provide an opportunity to students to
study English language and literature as an alternative to study of mother tongue or interest to study
English literature as a comparative study.
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+3 1 Year Arts
Semester I
Paper 1.1.2
FM: 10+40
There shall be three units. The questions shall have alternatives.
Marks, nature of questions and teaching hours are mentioned against each unit.
Unit 1: Poetry
Students should be able to grasp the content of each piece; explain specific words,
phrases and allusions; and be able to go beyond the to interpret the poems.
A) The following poems are prescribed:
i)
Sailing to Byzantium
W.B Yeats
ii)
Journey of the Magi
T.S Eliot
iii) Hawk Roosting
iv) Obituary
A.K Ramanujan
v)
J. Mahapatra
Dawn at Puri
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To be assessed by answering one long answer type question that is critical in
nature(1x8 marks) and one short answer type of question (2x2 marks) =12 marks
B)Stories prescribed:
i) Call of Life - Kunt Hume
ii) The Miraculous Revenge – G B Shaw
iii) War – L Pirandello
iv) Within and without – Hermann Hesse
v) The Guest- Albert Campus
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To be assessed by answering four short answer type of question (4 ×2 marks) = 8 marks
Unit II: Novel
12 teaching hours
To kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
Or
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
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To be assessed by answering one long question 1×10 marks= 10 marks
Unit III: Comprehension of an unseen passage
12 teaching hours
Paper 1.2.4
FM: 10+40
Time:2 hours
There shall be three units. The question shall have alternatives.
Marks, nature of questions and teaching hours are mentioned against each unit.
Unit I Short Stories
12 teaching hours
The following translated short stories are prescribed:
I)
Rebati – Fakir Mohan Senapati translation –KC Das
II)
Ants- Gopinath Mohanty translation – S. Mohapatra
III)
Farewell to a Ghost – Manoj Das translation M. Das
IV)
The Shroud- Premchand translation Rakshanda Jalil and Hafu Collins
V)
Arjun – Mahasweta Devi translation Mridula Nath Chakrabortty
Unit II Novel
12 teaching hours
Namesake- Jhumpa Lahri
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To be assessed by writing one long question marks
Unit III: Writing skills
1×10marks=10
12 teaching hours
I) Letter writing
II) Expansion of ideas into Paragraphs
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To be assessed by
a) Writing one personal letter
10marks
b) Expanding of one idea
10marks
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+3 2
Year Arts
Semester III
2.3.6
FM: 10+40
Time: 2 hours
There shall be three units. The question shall have alternatives marks,
nature of questions and teaching hours are mentioned against each unit.
Unit I: Essays
The following pieces are to be studied:
I)
On Habit- AG Gardiner
II)
What Makes People Unhappy – Bertrand Russell
III)
Student- Robert Lynd
IV)
Whistling of Bird – DH Lawrence
V)
Different Inside – JB Pristley
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 o be assessed answering two short answer type of questions (2×5
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marks)=10 marks
Unit II- Plays
12 teaching hours
Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Or
Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
To be assessed by writing an answer to one long question 1×10 marks= 10 marks
Unit III Writing Skills
I)
Short Tasks – Advertisement, Newspaper headlines, Preparing graphics
II)
Note Taking, Précis Writing and Abstracting
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To be assessed by writing one short dialogue based on given context 10 marks
And a short report based on a given situation
10 marks
Semester IV
Paper 2.4.8
FM: 10+40
Time: 2 hours
There shall be three units. The question shall have alternatives Marks,
nature of questions and teaching hours are mentioned against each unit.
Unit I:
a) Poetry : The following poems are prescribed:
I)
Prelude I - William Wordsworth
II)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death – Emily Dickinson
III)
Mirror - Sylvia Plath
IV)
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
V)
Night of the Scorpion – Nissim Ezekiel
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To be assessed by writing an answer to one long question 1×8 marks=8 marks
b) Short Stories: The following pieces are prescribed:
I)
Sun and Moon – Katherine Mansfield
II)
Listen to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl
III)
The Sacrificial Fig – Chinua Achebe
IV)
The Bet – Anton Chekov
V)
The Lagoon – Joseph Conrad
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To be assessed through two short answer (2×4 marks)=8 marks
Unit II: Comprehension of an unseen passage
This should imply
a) An understanding of the passage in question;
b) A grasp of general language skills and issues with reference to
words and usage within the passage and
c) Ability to produce short independent interpretations based on themes and
issues raised in the passage as well as an ability to go beyond the text.
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 o be assessed by both objective/ multiple- choice(2×1 marks=2
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marks)and short-answer type tests(2×3 marks =6marks) based on a
text of 400 words= 8 mark
Unit III: Writing Skills
a) Writing CV along with Covering Letter
b) Writing Memorandum and Reports
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 his will be assessed through producing two texts of the above types, each
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carrying 8 marks
16 marks
Choice-based Credit Course
Objective:
This paper aims at introducing to the students the rich variety of Odishan tradition and
culture through the translated works of a few major Odia novelists. It will not only enable
the students to trace the development of Odia fiction from the colonial times to the present,
but also to explore the shifting socio-cultural milieus of Odisha at different times that have
gone into its making. Moreover, the course is expected to develop amongst the
students an understanding of the role of ‘translation’ in transmitting the social and
cultural ethos from the local to the global.
End Semester University Examination
Unit I - One long-type answer question (16 marks)
Unit II - One long-type answer question (16 marks)
Unit III - One long-type answer question (18 marks)
Unit I: Six Acres And A third : Fakir Mohan Senapati
Unit II: A Time Elsewhere : J.P.Das
Unit III: Astride the Wheel: Chandrasekhar Rath