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B.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
(Syllabus for Student Admitted prior to 2020 -
2021)
SIXTH SEMESTER
Semester VI - Core Paper – XIII -
Contemporary Literature
Unit-1: Introduction
➢ Multiculturalism,
➢ Diasporic Writing
➢ Displacement and Alienation and Identity
crisis
➢ Theme of Acculturation, Assimilation, Globalisation,
Hybridity
Unit-2: Prose
1. Joseph Anton - A Memoir: An Extract-
Chap. II – Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Paragraph
beginning: “On the day he received the bound proofs of The Satanic
Verses.......” Paragraph ending “It was Valentine’s Day”)
2. The Bomb and I - Arundathi Roy
3. The
Medicine Bag - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
4.
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5.
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Unit 3: Poetry
1. Black
Berry Picking - Seamus Heaney
2. A
Far Cry from Africa - Derek Walcott
3. Hamlet
- Wole Soyinka
4. I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Unit 4 Drama -
Harvest- Manjula Padmanabhan
Unit
5: Fiction - Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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Core Paper – XIV :Post-Colonial
Literature in English II: Canadian Literature
Unit-1: Introduction
➢ Post-Colonial
Literature
➢ Origins
of Canadian Literature
➢ Oral
traditions including myths, folklore, and legends
➢ The
First Nations: Native Literature
➢
Colonization and the Colonizers: British and French and economically colonized
by the Americans
➢ The
Garrison mentality as a common theme in Canadian literature
➢
Recent developments and mainstream writers.
Unit-2: Prose
1. Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial – Thomas King
2.
Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy - Robert Kroetsch
Unit-3: Poetry
1. First Neighbours – P K Page
2. Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga – A M
Klein
3. The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson
4. Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A J
M Smith
Unit-4 : Drama
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga
Unit -5: Short Stories and Fiction
1. Face – Alice Munro
2. “The Hostelry of Mr Smith” (Sunshine
Sketches of a Little Town) – Stephen Leacock
3. Cannibal Woman – Ron Geyshick
Fiction
4. The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
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Semester VI -Core Paper – XV:
Shakespeare
Unit-1: Introduction
➢ The Age of Shakespeare
➢ Life of Shakespeare,
➢ Shakespearean theatre
➢ Shakespearean audience,
➢ Shakespearean players,
➢ Shakespeare Canon,
➢ Shakespeare’s Texts: Quartos and Folios,
➢ Shakespeare and Classical conventions,
➢ Shakespearean comedies, tragedies,
histories, romances, problem-plays,
Unit-2: Tragedy - Macbeth
Unit-3: Comedy - Twelfth
Night
Unit-4: History - Richard
II
Unit-5: Critical Essays
1. “From
Hamlet to Lear” from Shakespeare in a Changing World – Arnold Kettle
2. “On
the Tragedies of Shakespeare” – Charles Lamb from The English Critical
Tradition – Ed. S. Ramaswami & V.S. Sethuraman (Vol. I)
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Semester VI: Elective Paper-II - World
Literature in Translation
Unit-1: Introduction
➢ Goethe’s concept of World literature
➢ Tragedy of Fate
➢ French Revolution
➢ Realistic drama of Ibsen and Chekhov
➢ Multiculturalism
➢ Realism
➢ Concept of the Absurd
➢ Postmodernism
Unit-2: Poetry
1. The
Gate of Hell : Canto III (Inferno) - Dante Alighieri
2. Ithaca-
Constantine Petrou Cavafy
3. The
Burning of the Books- Bertolt Brecht
4. Lot’s
Wife- Anna Akhmatova
5. The
End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska
Unit-3: Drama
- Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Unit-4: Short Stories
1.The Guest-Albert Camus
2. The Convert - Guy de Maupassant
3. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding - Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
4.One Autumn Night - Maxim Gorky
5.The Blizzard - Alexander Pushkin
6.The Fairy Amoureuse– Emile Zola
Unit-5: Fiction
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
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Semester VI: Elective Paper – III:
Journalism
Unit-1: Introduction
➢ Introduction to Journalism
➢ A Short History of Journalism in India
➢ Ethics of Journalism
Unit-2: The Press
➢ Freedom of Press and Threats to Press
Freedom
➢ The Government and the Press
➢ Press Laws: Defamation, Libel, Contempt of
Court, Slander, Copyright Laws, Press Regulation Act, Press Registration Act,
Law of Privileges
Unit-3: Reporting News
➢ Role of the Reporter and the Editor
➢ Types of News Reports – Straight,
Interpretive, Investigative, Scoop, Sting
➢ Headlines - Editorial, Feature Writing,
Personal Column, Reviews, Interviews and Press Conferences
➢ Reporting – News Values, Human Interest,
Story Angle, Obituaries
Unit-4: Layouts, Advertising and News
Agencies
➢ Make-up of a newspaper - Editing, Proof-Reading
➢ Photographic Journalism, Cartoons, News
Agencies, Press Council of India
➢ Advertisements – Types and Social
Responsibility
Exercises - Editing, Proof-reading, Feature
Writing, News Reporting, Planning Interviews and Reviews
Unit 5: Electronic and New Media
➢ Electronic Media- Radio, Television
➢ Emergence of New Age Media-Definition &
Conceptualization of New Media, Future of New Media
➢ Ethics and Social Responsibilities of New
Media
