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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