CU English Honours Syllabus - Second Semester 2021

CU English Honours syllabus for the Second Semester students.

Second Semester students under the University of Calcutta pursuing English Honours usually finds it tough to get a good grasp of the course they are about to study. Having a firm understanding of the syllabus allows a student to frame a good study plan which enables them to get through the course in due time. Here we are putting across the Second Semester syllabus for all the CU English Honours students. Kindly have a look at the CU English Honours syllabus.

B.A. ENGLISH (HONOURS) - UNDER UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

COURSE STRUCTURE

SEMESTER 2: CC3, CC4, AECC2 (ENVS), GE2 (From Other Subject)

 

Course Details

The Marks Division is as Follows:

End Semester - 65

Tutorial - 15

Internal - 10

Attendance - 10

 CC3 (Semester - 2, CODE-ENG-A-CC-2-4-TH/TU)

Indian Writing in English - 6 Credits

(5 Credits Theory and 1 Credit Tutorial)

POETRY

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, 'To Indian, My Native Land'

Toru Dutt, 'Our Causuarina Tree'

Kamala Das, 'Introduction'

A.K. Ramanujan, 'River'

Nissim Ezekiel, 'Enterprise'

Jayanta Mahapatra, 'Dawn at Puri'

DRAMA

Mahesh Dattani, 'Bravely Fought The Queen'

End Semester Question pattern:

Objective - 5 marks

Two questions of 15 marks each from poetry (out of four)

One question of 15 marks from novel (out of two)

One question of 15 marks from drama (out of two)

Recommended Reading:

1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v.vi.

2.  Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.

3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.

4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10

5. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, A Concise History of Indian Writing in English, Ranikhet: Permanent Black

CC4 (Semester - 2, CODE-ENG-A-CC-2-4-TH/TU)

British Poetry and Drama (14th - 17th Century - 6 Credits

(5 Credits Theory and 1 Credit Tutorial)

Social and Intellectual Background

POETRY

Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Edmund Spenser, 'One Day I Wrote Her Name'

William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18 & 130

John Donne, 'The Good Morrow'

Andrew Marvell, 'To His Coy Mistress'

DRAMA

Ovid, Selections from Metamorphosis, 'Bacchus' (Book III)

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II OR William Shakespeare, Macbeth 

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night OR As You Like It

End Semester Question pattern:

Objective - 5 marks 

Two questions of 15 marks each from poetry (out of three)

Two questions of 15 marks each (one from each) from drama (out of four, two from each)

Suggested Readings:

1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.

2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11.

3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. 1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.

4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D. Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP

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CU English Honours Syllabus - First Semester 2021

First Semester students under the University of Calcutta pursuing English Honours usually finds it tough to get a good grasp of the course they are about to study. Having a firm understanding of the syllabus allows a student to frame a good study plan which enables them to get through the course in due time. Here we are putting across the First Semester syllabus for all the CU English Honours students. Kindly have a look at the CU English Honours syllabus.

B.A. ENGLISH (HONOURS) - UNDER UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

COURSE STRUCTURE

SEMESTER 1: CC1, CC2, AECC1 (Communicative English/MIL), GE1 (From Other Subject)

Course Details

The Marks Division is as Follows:

End Semester - 65

Tutorial - 15

Internal - 10

Attendance - 10

 CC1 (Semester - I, CODE-ENG-A-CC-1-1TH/TU)

History of Literature and Philology - 6 Credits

(5 Credits Theory and 1 Credit Tutorial)

Group A : History of Literature 

Section 1:

Unit A - Old English Heroic Poetry, Old English Prose and Chaucer

Unit B - Elizabethan Sonnets, University Wits & Ben Jonson

Unit C- Restoration Comedy of Manners and Eighteenth Century Novels

Section 2:

Unit D- Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Non-fiction Prose

Unit E - Victorian Novel and the Pre-Raphaelites

Unit F- Modern Novel : Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce

             Modern Poetry : T.S.Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas

             Modern Drama : Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, John Osborne

End Semester Question pattern:

Objective 5 marks from Section 1

One question of 10 marks from Section 1 (out of 3, 1 from each unit)

One question of 5 marks from Section 1 (out of 3, 1 from each unit)

Objective 5 marks from Section 2

One question of 10 marks from Section 2 (out of 3, 1 from each unit)

One question of 5 marks from Section 2 (out of 3, 1 from each unit)

Recommended Reading:

Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature

Edward Albert: History of English Literature

Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature

G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History

Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

Group B : Philology 

Section 1: Latin Influence, Scandinavian Influence, French Influence, Americanism

Section 2: Consonant Shift and Word Formation Processes (Shortening, Back-Formation, Derivations), Short NOtes (Hybridism, Monosyllabism, Free & Fixed Compounds, Malapropism, ing-formation, Johnsonese)

End Semester Question pattern:

One question of 10 marks from Section 1 (out of three)

One question of 10 marks out of two, and one question of 5 marks out of two from Section 2

Suggested Readings:

1. Otto Jespersen: Growth and Structure of the English Language (Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 10)

2. C.L. Wren: The English Language (Chapters 6 & 7)

3. A.C. Baugh: A History of English Language

4. C.L. Barber: The Story of Language

 CC2 (Semester - I, CODE-ENG-A-CC-1-1TH/TU)

European Classical Literature - 6 Credits

(5 Credits Theory and 1 Credit Tutorial)

Group A : Social and Intellectual Background

Group B: 

Homer, The Iliad (Books I and II) translated by E.V. Rieu

Sophocles, Oedipus the King, in The Three Theban Plays, translated by Robert Fagles

Group C: 

Ovid, Selections from Metamorphosis, 'Bacchus' (Book III)

Plautus, Pot of Gold, translated by E.F. Watling 

OR

Horace, Satires, I:IV in Horace:Satires and Epistles and Persius, translated Niall Rudd, Penguin, 2005

End Semester Question pattern:

Objective - 5 marks ( from Group B and Group C)

Two questions of 15 marks (one from each text) from Group B (out of four, two from each text)

Two questions of 15 marks (one from each text) from Group B (out of four, two from each text)

Suggested Readings:

1. S.H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine art, New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers

2. Aristotle/Horace/Longinus: Classical Literary Criticism, translated with an Introduction by T.S. Dorsch, London: Penguin Books

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English Honours Syllabus Calcutta University Part-II

ENGLISH HONOURS- UNDER UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA PART-II

PART - II

PAPER – III (F.M. 100)

DRAMA

GROUP A: Marlowe – Edward II, Shakespeare –A Midsummer Night's Dream 

One question of 16 marks out of two from each of the two plays

Explanation of one passage of 8 marks out of two (one from each play)

GROUP B: Literary terms on drama

Two questions of 5 marks each out of four

16 X 2=	32
8 X 1=	8
5 X 2=	10
TOTAL	50

GROUP C: Sheridan – The Rivals, Shakespeare - Macbeth

One question of 16 marks out of two from each of the two plays

Explanation of one passage of 9 marks out of two from each of the two plays

16 X 2=	32
9 X 2=	18
TOTAL	50

PAPER – IV (F.M. 100)

 NOVEL, ESSAYS AND SHORT STORIES

GROUP A: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice OR Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth

One question of 16 marks out of two (two questions will be set from each of the two novels)

GROUP B: Essays: Francis Bacon, Of Studies, Charles Lamb,

The Superannuated Man, and George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

Recommended Reading: Eight Essayists, ed. A.S. Cairncross & Modern Prose ed. Michael Thorpe

One question of 16 marks out of two

Explanation of one passage of 8 marks out of two

GROUP C: Literary Terms on fiction

Two questions of 5 marks each out of four

16 X 2=	32
8 X 1=	8
5 X 2=	10
TOTAL	50

GROUP D: Stories - James Joyce, Araby, HE Bates, The Ox, and Katherine Mansfield, The Fly

Two questions of 16 marks out of three (one from each story)

Recommended Reading: Modern Prose ed. Michael Thorpe

GROUP E: Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

One question of 18 marks out of two

Recommended Reading: The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Edition)

16 X 2=	32
18 X 1=	18
TOTAL	50

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English Honours Syllabus Calcutta University Part-I

PART I

ENGLISH HONOURS- UNDER UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA PART-I

PART - I

PAPER – I (F.M. 100)

HISTORY OF LITERATURE: 60 MARKS

Group A: OE period to 1750

Section 1: Old English and Middle English Periods

Section 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods

Section 3: Civil War, Restoration and Augustan Periods

One question of 16 marks out of three (one from each section)

Two questions of 7 marks each out of six (two from each section)

16 X 1=	16
7 X 2=	14
TOTAL	30

 Three questions will have to be answered (one question of 16 marks and two questions of 7 marks each)taking only one from each section. Examinees are not allowed to answer twice from the same section.

Group B: 1750 to 2000

Section 1: Pre-Romantics and Romantics

Section 2: Victorian

Section 3: Modern and Post-Modern

One question of 16 marks out of three (one from each section)

Two questions of 7 marks each out of six (two from each section)

16 X 1=	16
7 X 2=	14
TOTAL	30

 Three questions will have to be answered (one question of 16 marks and two questions of 7 marks each)taking only one from each section. Examinees are not allowed to answer twice from the same section.

Recommended Reading:

Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature

G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History

Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature

Edward Albert: History of English Literature

Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History

PHILOLOGY: 40 MARKS

Group A: Latin, Greek, Scandinavian & French Influence

One question of 12 marks out of two

Group B: Word Notes

Four word-notes of 2 marks each out of eight

12 X 1=	12
2 X 4=	8
TOTAL	20

 Group C: Word-formation Processes and Americanism

One question of 12 marks out of two

Group D: Consonant Shift, Makers of English Language (Shakespeare, Milton & the Bible)

One question of 8 marks out of three

12 X 1=	12
8 X 1=	8
TOTAL	20

 Recommended Reading:

Otto Jespersen: Growth and Structure of the English Language (Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 10)

C.L. Wren: The English Language (Chapters 6 & 7)

Further Reading:

A.C. Baugh: A History of English Language

C.L. Barber: The Story of Language

PAPER – II (F.M. 100)

POETRY FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL

GROUP A: John Donne: The Good Morrow, Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, William Blake:The Tyger & The Lamb

One question of 14 marks out of two

GROUP B: William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, ST Coleridge: Kubla Khan, PB Shelley: Ode to the West Wind & To a Skylark, John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale & To Autumn

Two questions of 14 marks each out of four (one each from the four poets)

Explanation of one passage of 8 marks out of two passages (one each from Groups A and B)

14 X 3=	42
8 X 1=	8
TOTAL	50

 GROUP C: Shakespeare’s sonnets No. 87 (Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing) & No. 130 (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun)

One question of 14 marks out of two

GROUP D: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I

One question of 14 marks out of two

GROUP E: Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (First 3 Cantos)

One question of 14 marks out of two

GROUP F: Literary Terms on poetry

Two questions of 4 marks each out of four

Recommended Reading: M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms

14 X 3=	42
4 X 2=	8
TOTAL	50

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