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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