UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI

REVISED SYLLABUS

FOR THREE YEARS B.A. DEGREE COURSE

IN

ENGLISH
(HONOURS, GENERAL, COMPULSORY AND
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH )

According to the New Examination Pattern

Part – I, Part- II & Part- III

WITH EFFECT FROM THE SESSIO N

2009 – 2010
 UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI
KALYANI, NADIA
COUNCIL FOR UNDER GRADUATE STUDIES

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21 ST MEETING OF THE (PREVIOUS) COUNCIL FOR UG STUDIES

HELD ON 13/09/2005

Revised Structure and Distribution of Marks for Bachelor of Arts Degree Course w.e.f.
Academic Session 2005-2006

BACHELOR OF ARTS (GENERAL) PART-I PART-II PART-III

Compulsory English : One half paper : 50 Marks 50 Marks – –

Modern Indian Language : One half paper : 50 Marks 50 Marks – –
– –
Environmental Studies : One full paper *: 100 Marks* 100 Marks*

Elective Subjects : Three : Four full papers : 3x4x100 3x1x100 Marks 3x2x100 Marks 3x1x100 Marks
each = 1200 Marks = 300 Marks = 600 Marks = 300 Marks

AGGREGATE MARKS : 1400 500 Marks 600 Marks 300 Marks

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS) PART-I PART-II PART-III

Compulsory English : One half paper : 50 Marks 50 Marks - -

Modern Indian Language : One half paper : 50 Marks 50 Marks - -

Environmental Studies : One full paper*: 100 Marks* 100 Marks* - -

Elective Subjects : Two : Three full papers : 2x3x100 2x1x100 Marks 2x2x100 Marks -
each = 600 Marks =200 Marks =400 Marks -

2 x 100 Marks 4 x 100 Marks

One Honours Subject : Eight full Papers : 8x 100 Marks 2x 100 Marks = 200 Marks
= 800 Marks = 200 Marks = 400 Marks

AGGREGATE MARKS : 1600 600 Marks 600 Marks 400 Marks

* With effect from the session 2009 -2010.

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Revised Syllabus of English
(w.e.f. the session 2009-2010)

C o n t en t s

HONOURS COURSE

Part-I
Paper-I From the beginning to 1400 (Page-H-1)
Paper-II From 1400 to 1642 (Page-H-1)

Part-II
Paper- III From 1642 to 1798 (Page-H-2)
Paper- IV Uses of English (Page-H-2)

Part-III
Paper- V From 1798 to 1832 (Page-H-3)
Paper- VI From 1832 to 1922 (Page-H-3)
Paper- VII From 1922 to the Present (Page-H-4)
Paper- VIII Special Author and Critical Appreciation (Page-H-4)

GENERAL COURSE

Part-I
Paper-I Prose (Page-G-1)

Part-II
Paper- II Drama (Page-G-1)
Paper- III Poetry and Comprehension (Page-G-1)

Part-III
Paper- IV Poetry, Essay, Short Story, etc. (Page-G-2)

COMPULSORY ENGLISH

Compulsory English (Page-C-1)

ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

Alternative English (Page-A-1)

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Revised Syllabus for B.A. (Honours) Course in

ENGLISH
(w.e.f. the session 2009-2010)

According to the New Examination Pattern

Part – I, Part – II & Part – III
University of Kalyani Honours Course in English

PART – I
Paper – I (From the beginning to 1400) (Full Marks 100)
No. of lectures

a) History of English Literature : Anglo-Saxon 15

b) History of English Literature : Middle English 15
c) Literary Types : Lyric, Novel, Tragedy, Comedy 40
d) Literary Terms : Humanism, Classicism, Neoclassicism, 30
Romanticism, Realism,
Naturalism, Image, Symbol, New Criticism,
Modernism, Post-modernism, Structuralism

Suggested reading for (c)

1. Methuen /Routledge series on literary types.

Suggested Reading for (d)

1. M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms

2. Roger Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
3. Michael Ryan, Literary Theory-A Practical Introduction
4. Wilfred Geurin et al, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

Suggested Reading for History of Literature :

1. Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature (2 nd ed.)

2. Albert, A Short History of English Literature
3. A.C. Baugh, A Literary History of England
4. Oxford and Cambridge Guides of English Literature
5. Boris Ford (ed.), Pelican Guide to English Literature
6. A. Toyne, An English Reader’s History of England

Paper – II ( From 1400 to 1642) (Full Marks 100)

No. of lectures
a) History of Literature of the period 20

b) Drama
i) Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustus (Worldview ed.) 20
ii) William Shakespeare : Macbeth (Arden ed.) 20
iii) William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night (New Cambridge ed.) 20

c) Poetry
20
i) Sidney : ‘Loving In Truth’
ii) William Shakespeare: ‘Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day’ (sonnet no. 18)
‘Let Me Not to the Marriage …’ (sonnet no. 116)
‘My Mistress’ Eyes are …’ (sonnet no. 130)
iii) John Donne : ‘The Sunne Rising’,
‘Goe and Catch a Falling Star’
iv) Henry Vaughan : ‘The Retreat’
v) Andrew Marvell : ‘To His Coy Mistress’

d) Explanation from (b) and (c)

Text Recommended for (c)

H.M. Williams (ed.), Six Ages of English Poetry

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PART – II
Paper – III ( From 1642 to 1798 ) (Full Marks 100)

No. of lectures
a) History of Literature of the period 20

b) Drama
R.B. Sheridan : The Rivals 20

c) Poetry

i) John Milton : ‘Lycidas’ 10

ii) John Dryden : Mac Flecknoe 10
iii) Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I-III) 10

d) Prose
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver’s Travels, Books I & II 20

e) Essay 10
Joseph Addison : ‘The Vision of Justice’
‘Sunday in the Country’
Richard Steel : ‘Recollections of Childhood’
Oliver Goldsmith : ‘Beau Tibbs’
‘Man in Black’

f) Explanation from (c) and (e)

Text Recommended for (e)

W.E. Williams (ed.) , A Book of English Essays

Paper – IV (Uses of English) (Full Marks 100)

No. of lectures
1. a) Philology (including word notes) 40

b) Phonetics :

i) Phonemic transcription of words (according to Advanced Learners’ Dictionary)

ii) Speech sounds (a) Vowels and (b) Consonants and (c) Syllable structure in English
iii) Stress, rhythm and intonation (weak and strong forms)
30
c) i) Identification and explanation of figures of speech 20
ii) Scansion

d) Literary Essay 10

Text Recommended for (a)

1. Otto Jespersen , Growth and Structure of English Language
2. A.C Baugh & T.Cable, History of the English Language

Suggested Reading for (b)

1. J.D.O’ Connor, Better English Pronunciation
2. T. Balasubramanian , A Textbook of English Phonetics for Inidan Students
3. Dhamija & Sethi, A Course in Phonetics and Spoken English

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PART – III
Paper – V (From 1798 to 1832) (Full Marks 100)
No. of lectures
a) History of Literature of the period 20

b) Poetry 35
i) William Blake : ‘The Lamb’
‘The Tyger’
ii) William Wordsworth: ‘Ode on the Intimations of Immortality on Recollections
of Early Childhood’
‘Tintern Abbey’

iii) S.T. Coleridge : ‘Christabel I’

iv) P.B. Shelley : ‘One Word is Too Often Profaned’
‘To a Skylark’
‘Ode to the West Wind’
v) John Keats : ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’
c) Novel
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice 25

d) Essay
i) Charles Lamb :‘Dream Children : a Reverie’ 20
‘Super annuated Man’
‘Poor Relations’
ii) William Hazlitt : ‘On Going a Journey’
‘ On Familiar Style’
e) Explanation from (b) and (d)

Text Recommended for (b)

Palgrave’s, Golden Treasury, Book IV

Text Recommended for (d)

W.E. Williams (ed.) , A Book of English Essays

Paper – VI (From 1832 to 1922) (Full Marks 100)

No. of lectures
a) History of Literature of the Period 20

b) Novel
Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities 20

c) Drama
i) George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man 20
ii) John Millington Synge : Riders to the Sea 20

d) Poetry 20
i) Alfred Tennyson : ‘The Lotos Eaters : a Chorice Song’
‘Ulysses’
ii) Robert Browning : ‘The Last Ride Together’
iii) Matthew Arnold: ‘Dover Beach’
iv) Thomas Hardy : ‘The Darkling Thrush’
v) W. B. Yeats : ‘Wild Swans at Coole’
vi) G.M. Hopkins : ‘Pied Beauty’
vii) Edward Thomas : ‘Cockcrow’
viii) T.S. Eliot : ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
ix) Wilfred Owen : ‘Strange Meeting’

f) Explanations from (c) & (d)

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Paper – VII (From 1922 to the Present) (Full Marks 100)

No. of lectures
a) History of Literature of the Period 30

b) Drama
John Osborne : Look Back in Anger 15

c) Poetry 15

i) W.H. Auden : ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’

ii) Louis Macneice : ‘Bagpipe Music’
iii) Seamus Heaney : ‘Digging’
iv) Dylan Thomas : ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London’
v) Philip Larkin : ‘The Whitsun Weddings’
vi) Ted Hughes : ‘Hawk Roosting’
viii) Stephen Spender: ‘ The Express’

d) Novel

George Orwell : Animal Farm 20

e) Prose
i) Joseph Conrad : ‘The Lagoon’ 20
ii) D. H. Lawrence : ‘The White Stocking’
iii) James Joyce : ‘Araby’
iv) Viginia Woolf : ‘The Mark on the Wall’
v) H.E. Bates : ‘The Ox’
vi) Katherine Mansfield : ‘The Fly’
vii) O’ Henry : ‘A Retrieved Reformation’
viii) Ruskin Bond : ‘The Coral Tree’

f) Explanations from (b), (c), (e)

Text Recommended for (c)

1. Palgrave’s, Golden Treasury,
2. Phyllis M.Jones (ed.), Modern Verse 1900-1950 (OUP 1969),
3. A Alvarez (ed.), The New Poetry (Penguin 1962),
4. Kenneth Allott (ed.), Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (Penguin 1953)

Text Recommended for (e)

1. Michael Thorpe(ed.) , Modern Prose
2. Ruskin Bond, Night Train at Deoli and Other St ories

Paper – VIII ( Special Author and Critical Appreciation ) (Full Marks 100)

No. of lectures
1. One of the following special authors

A) John Milton :

i) Drama
Samson Agonistes 25

ii) Poetry
a) ‘L’ Allegro’ 20
b) ‘Il Penseroso’
c) Paradise Lost, Book I 25
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B) Rabindranath Tagore No. of lecturers

i) Drama
Sacrifice 20

ii) Poetry
Geetanjali Nos. 30, 35, 49, 56, 73 20

iii) Essay 15
‘My School’
‘Civilization and Progress’

iv) Short Story 15

‘The Parrot’s Training’
‘The Patriot’

C) Hemingway
i)Novel
A Farewell to Arms 20

ii) Prose 20
A Moveable Feast

iii) Short Story 30

a) ‘Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’
b) ‘Snows of Kilimanjaro’
c)‘A Clean Well-Lighted Place’
d)‘Hills Like White Elephants’
e) ‘The Undefeated’

D) T.S. Eliot
i) Poetry 30
a) ‘Preludes’
b) ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’
c) ‘The Hollow Men’
d) ‘Journey of the Magi’
e) ‘Marina’

ii) Drama 25
Murder in the Cathedral

iii) Essay 15
‘The Metaphysical Poets’

E) D.H. Lawrence
i) Poetry 10
a) ‘Snake’
b) ‘Piano’
c) ‘Bat’

ii) Novel 30
Sons and Lover

iii) Short Story 30

a) ‘The Prussian Officer’
b) ‘England, My England’
c) ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’

2. a) Critical appreciation of a poem 15

b) Substance and critical appreciation of a prose Passage 15
[Item numbers 2 (a) & (b) are compulsory for the paper]

Text Recommended for B

Sisir Das (ed.), Sahitya Akademi Publication
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Revised Syllabus for B.A. (General) Course in

ENGLISH
(w.e.f. the session 2009-2010)

According to the New Examination Pattern

Part – I, Part – II & Part – III
University of Kalyani General Course in English

General Course in English

PART - I
Paper – I (Prose) (Full Marks 100)

a) Essay
i) E.V. Lucas : ‘Bores’
ii) G.B. Shaw : ‘Freedom’
iii) J.B.S. Haldane: ‘What I Require From Life’
iv) J.B. Priestly : ‘Student Mobs’

b) Short Story
i) Karel Capek : ‘The Fortune Teller’
ii) Katherine Mansfield : ‘The Doll’s House’
iii) Leo Tolstoy : ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?’
iv) Arthur Conan Doyle: ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’

Text Recommended
Kaushik and Bhatia(ed.), Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays(OUP)

PART - II
Paper – II (Drama) (Full Marks 100)
(a) William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
(b) Anton Chekhov : ‘A Marriage Proposal’
(c) W.W. Jacobs : ‘The Monkey’s Paw’

Text Recommended for (b) & (c)

Kaushik and Bhatia(ed.), Essays, Short Stories, and One -Act Plays’

Paper – III (Poetry and Comprehension) (Full Marks 100)

a) Poetry

i) William Shakespeare: ‘That Time of Year’

ii) John Milton : ‘On His Blindness’
iii) William Wordsworth: ‘She Dwelt Among …’
‘Three Years She Grew…’
iv) P.B. Shelley : ‘To a Skylark’
v) John Keats : ‘To Autumn’
vi) Alfred Tennyson : ‘Ulysses’
vii) Robert Browning : ‘My Last Duchess’
viii) Wilfred Owen : ‘Strange Meeting’
ix) Louis Macneice : ‘Prayer Before Birth’

b) Précis (including title)

c) Essay (unseen)

Text Recommended for (a)

H.M. Williams (ed.), Six Ages of English poetry

Text Recommended for (b) & (c)

N. Gupta (ed.), English for All (Macmillan)
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PART - III

Paper – IV (Full Marks 100)

a) Poetry
i)Thomas Hardy : ‘The Darkling Thrush’
ii) De la Mare : ‘Autumn’

b) Essay
i) Nirad C. Chaudhuri : ‘My Birthplace’
ii) Jawaharlal Nehru : ‘British Government in India’

c) Short Story
i) Mulk Raj Anand : ‘The Barber’s Trade Union’

d) Use of English

i) To write a story on the basis of outline given

ii) English proof reading (not more than 5 sentences)
iii)English punctuation
iv) Grammar and usage (use of words in different sentences with at least two different meanings : words
may be chosen from the prescribed texts).
v) Syntax of English sentence (artic le preceding subject-noun, adjective preceding subject -noun,
prepositional phrase, gender, participle adjective).
vi) Forming adjectives, verbs, nouns from given words and using them in sentences (prescribed texts
may be used).

Text Recommended
1. Kaushik and Bhatia (ed.), Essays, Short Stories, and One -Act Plays’ (OUP)
2. N. Gupta (ed.), English for All (Macmillan)

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 Compulsory English
Full Marks – 50 Pass Marks – 15

Distribution of Marks

1. Unseen 30 marks

2. Literary Texts 20 marks

The unseen part shall consist of the following :

1. a) Comprehension (Passage on some current topic)

i) Five-short-answer type questions 5 marks
ii) Vocabulary & Grammar 5 marks

b) Modes of Writing 10 marks

Description, Narration, Exposition

c) Forms of Writing 10 marks

Letter writing, writing a bio -data, writing a précis, writing a r eport

(any one of the items to be answered)

While teaching these reading and writing skills, the teacher should aim at improving the pupils’
communicative skill by devising exercises on dialogue/conversation in different situations, by
encouraging them to speak in English and by generally ensuring class -room participation.

2. a) Prose
i) Woolf : ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’
ii) V. Elwin ‘Dear as the Moon’

b) Poetry
i) Keats : ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’
‘ ’
ii) Hardy : In Time of the “Breaking of Nations”

c) Short Story
i) O. Henry : ‘After Twenty Years’
ii) R.K. Narayan : ‘Selvi’

Detailed break-up of marks

i) Textual questions (mainly language oriented) 2 X 5 = 10 marks

ii) Short-answer type questions to test comprehension 2 X 5 = 10 marks

Text Recommended
N.Gupta (ed.), English for All

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 Alternative English (Full Marks- 50 marks)

(Alternative to the half-paper of ‘ Modern Indian Language’ )

a) Short Story
i) W.S. Maugham : ‘The Lotus Eater’
ii) H.E. Bates : ‘The Ox’
iii) Katherine Mansfield: ‘The Fly’

b) Poetry
i) John Keats : ‘To Autumn’
ii) Alfred Tennyson : ‘Ulysses’

Distribution of Marks :

1. One essay-type question (1 out of 2) 10 marks

2. Five short-answer type questions (5 out of 10) 10 marks
3. Five objective-type questions (5 out of 10) 5 marks
4. Comprehension test (on an unseen prose passage) 15 marks
5. Letter- writing and précis 10 marks
(Questions are to be set on both items, but the students will attempt one only).

Text Recommended
1. Michael Thorpe (ed.), Modern Prose
2. H.M. William (ed.), Six Ages of English Poetry

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