CU English Honours Syllabus - First Semester 2021

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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

Now you have got your hold on the latest CU English Honours Semester-wise syllabus for the First semester. Begin your study with confidence. 

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