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

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   2019

 ENGLISH-HONOURS

Paper : CC - 2

Full Marks- 65

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

 Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-B

(Answer within 600 words)

1. (a) To what effect does Homer employed the Invocation in the first two books of The Iliad ? Discuss.                                 15

Or,

(b) Write a note on the character of Agamemnon as revealed in Books I and II of The Iliad.              15

2. (a) Would you agree with the view that Sophocles' Oedipus the King is a tragedy of destiny? give reasons for your answer.                                                                                                                        15

Or,

(b) Discuss the role of Jocasta in shaping the course of events in Sophocles' play Oedipus.                                                                                                                                                15

Group-C

(Answer within 600 words)

3. (a) Describe the events leading to the rejection of Echo by Narcissus. what was its final outcome.  15

Or,

(b) Narrate the story of Actaeon's transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book-III.     15

4. (a) Critically analyse the women characters in Plautus' the Pot of Gold.                     15

Or,

(b) How does Plautus use the classical conventions of comedy in the Pot of Gold?          15

Or,

(c) What, according to Horace, is the moral purpose of satire? Discuss, with reference to Horace's Satires 1:IV.                                                                                                                       15

Or,                     

(d) What does Horace say about his upbringing in his 'Satires I:IV' ?                              15

5. Answer the following questions :                      1x5

(a) What favour does Thetis ask of Zeus?

(b) Name the three goddesses who lay claim to the golden apple.

(c) Why was Creon sent to Delphi?

(d) How did Semele's baby survive?

(e) By whom was Phaedria ravished?

Or,

What, according to Horace, is the stating point of all knowledge?

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 2019

 ENGLISH-HONOURS

Paper : CC - 1

Full Marks- 65

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

 Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-A

(History of English Literature)

Section- I

1. Answer the following:       1 x5

(a) Name one Old English heroic poem.

(b) Who wrote The Faerie Queene? 

(c) Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy? 

(d) Name one play by William Congreve? 

(e) Mention a novel by Henry Fielding. 

2. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):  10 x 1

(a) Assess the importance of Geoffrey Chaucer? 

(b) Comment on the importance of the University Wits in the history of English drama?

(c) Write a short essay on the rise if the novel in the 18th century with special reference to any two novelists.

3. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words):    5 x 1

(a) Write a short note on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 

(b) Briefly discuss Ben Jonson's Comedy of Humours.

(c) Show your acquaintance with Congreve.

Section - II

4. Answer the following:   1 x 5

(a) Name one pre-Romantic English poet.

(b) Name one poem by W.B. Yeats.

(c) Who wrote Wuthering Heights?

(d) Who wrote Biographia Literaria? 

(e) Name one drama by John Osborne. 

5. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):   10 x 1

(a) give an account of the non-fiction prose of the Romantic period with special reference to any two essayists. 

(b) Write a short essay on Pre-Raphaelite poetry with special reference to the works of any two poets.

(c) Assess the contribution of Samuel Beckett to 20th Century English drama.

6. Answer any one question from the following (within 200 words):   5 x 1

(a) Briefly discuss the importance of W. B. Yeats.

(b) Write a short note on David Copperfield. 

(c) Show your acquaintance with Virginia Woolf.

Group - B

(Philology)

Section - I

7. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):   10 x 1

(a) Discuss Scandinavian influence on the English Language.

(b) How does the linguistic evidence show that French was the language of the rulers and the upper class after Norman Conquest. 

(c) What is Americanism in English language?

Section - II

8. Answer any one question from the following (within 400 words):  10 x 1

(a) Discuss Grimm's Law.

(b) Examine any two word-formation processes, prescribed in your syllabus.

9. Write a short note on any one of the following:  5 x 1

(a) Hybridism

(b) Johnsonese 

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2018

 ENGLISH-HONOURS

Paper : CC - 2

Full Marks- 65

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

 Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group - B

(Answer within 600 words)

1. (a) Discuss with examples, the epic conventions employed by Homer in the first two books of The Iliad. 

                                                                    Or,

(b) Analyse the character of Achilles as revealed in Books I and II of The Iliad.                        15

2. (a) Is it Fate or Free Will that is responsible for Oedipus’s tragedy? Analyse.                        15

                                                                    Or,

(b) The role of the Chorus in Sophocles’ Oedipus The King is more than a mere dramatic device. Discuss.                                                                                                                                      15

                                                                            Group - C

(Answer within 600 words)

3. (a) Describe, in detail, Pantheus’ death at the instigation of Bacchus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book III).                                                                                                                              15

Or,

(b) Narrate how Teiresias became blind. How was Teiresias recomposed for his loss?                                                                                                                                           15

 4. (a) Sketch the character of Euclio in Plautus’ The Pot of Gold.                                          15

Or,

(b) The Pot of Gold portrays a picture of the Roman society during Plautus’ time. Elucidate.                                                                                                                                  15

Or,

(c) What are Horace’s views on satire and its moral content as stated in his Satires I. IV? Discuss.                                                                                                                                    15

Or,

(d) What does Horace say in his Satires I. IV about his father’s training in providing a key to his satiric art?                                                                                                                                          15

5. Answer the following questions: (1 x 5)

(a) How was Narcissus born?

(b) Name the two maidens whom the soldiers of Agamemnon had captured.

(c) Name Oedipus’s foster parents.

(d) With what did Oedipus blind himself?

(e) Who finally steals Euclios’ guarded pot of gold?

         Or,

    Name the writers of ancient comedy as mentioned in Horace’s Satires I.IV.

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