First Year B.A. Honours
English-101: Language-1
1. Reading and Writing Skills
First Year B.A. Honours
English-102: Introduction to Literature
A. Poetry
1. Anonymous: The Three
Ravens
2. Shakespeare: Sonnet 104
(To Me Fair Friend)
3. John Donne: Song: Go and
Catch a falling Star
4. William Wordsworth: It is
a Beauteous Evening
5. John Keats: To Autumn
6. Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Ulysses
7. Thomas Sterns Eliot:
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
8. Robert Browning: My Last
Duchess
9. William Butler Yeats: The
Lake Isle of Innisfree.
10. Ted Hughes: The Jaguar
11. Seamus Heany: Digging
B. Drama
C. Fiction
First Year B.A. Honours
Minor-I: History of Western Ideas-I
1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Machiavelli
4. John Locke
5. Hobbes
6. Hume
7. Descartes
8. Berkley
First Year B.A. Honours
Minor-II
A-English History
55 BC-AD 1603
1. The Military Conquest
2. The Feudal System
3. The Manorial System
4. Monarchy and the Church
5. Richards I-The Crusades
6. Magna Carta
7. The Hundred Years’ War
8. Religion: Wycliff and the
Lollards.
9. The Black Death and Social
Changes
10. Richard II.
11. The House of Lancaster.
12. Henry VIII
13. Mary Tudor
14. Elizabeth I
B-English Literary History
(From Beowulf to 17th Century
Second Year B.A. Honours
English-201: Language
A.
Advanced Reading: Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
B.
Writing: Comprehension or Literary Essay
Second Year B.A. Honours
English-202: Classics in Translation (Graeco-Roman)
1.
Homer: Iliad
2.
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
3.
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
4.
Aristophanes: Frogs
5.
Seneca: Phaedra
6.
Aristotle: Poetics
Second Year B.A. Honours
Minor-III: History of Western Ideas-II
1.
Kant
2.
Rousseau
3.
Hegel
4.
Schopenhauer
5.
Karl Marx
6.
Nietzsche
7.
Sartre
Second Year B.A. Honours
Minor-IV: English Socio-Literary History
English History-II: From
17th Century to Mid-20th Century
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
English Literary
History-II: From 18th Century to 20th Century
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Third Year B.A. Honours
English-301: New Literature in English
A. Novel
1.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
2.
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
3.
R.K. Narayan: The Guide
4.
Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
B. Poetry
1.
Derek Walcott: i) As John to Patmos ii) A Far Cry from Africa iii) The Gulf iv)
The Glory Trumpeter v) LIV-The Midsummer Sea, The Hot Pitch Road, This Grass,
These Shacks that Made Me.
Modern Contemporary South
Asian Poetry
1.
Nissim Ezekiel: My Cat, Case Study
2.
Ramanujan: Selection
3. Arun
Kolatkar: The Bus, Between Jejuri and the Railway Station,
4.
Dom Moraes: Autobiography, Future Plans,
5.
Kamala Das: selections
6.
Agha Shahid Ali: Snowmen, The Dacca Gauzes, Strange Pleasures, Civil Service
romance, A happy Farewell, The Logopathic Reviewer’s Song
C. Play: Wole Soyinka: The Swamp
Dweller
Third Year B.A. Honours
English-302: American Literature: 17th to
19th Century
1.
Anne Bradstreet: The Prologue
2.
Cotton Mather: From The Wonders of the
Invisible World
3.
Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of
An Angry God
4.
Machel-Guillaume-Jean De Crevecoeur: Letter III, What is an American?
5.
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of
Independence
6.
James Fennimore Cooper: On American
Equality, On the Disadvantage of Democracy From The American Democrat
7.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-reliance
8.
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
9.
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
10.
Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass
Third Year B.A. Honours
English-303: Poetry: From Chaucer to Pope
1. Geoffrey Chaucer : The General Prologue (The Wife of Bath,
The Clerk of Oxford, The Summoner)
2. Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen-Book-1
3. John Donne:
i) The Good-Morrow,
ii)
The Rising Sun,
iii) The Canonization,
iv) Air and Angels,
v)
Twicknam Garden,
vi) The Flea,
vii) The
Ecstasy,
viii) A Valediction,
ix) Forbidding Mourning,
x) A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day,
xi) Batter My Heart,
4. Andrew Marvell:
i) To His Coy Mistress
ii)
The Definition of Love
iii)
The Picture of Little TC in a Prospect of
Flowers
5. John Milton: Paradise Lost-Book-I
Third Year B.A. Honours
English-304: Poetry: Prose From 16th to 19th
Century
i) Of
Truth
ii)
Of Friendship
iii)
Of Marriage & Single Life
iv)
Of Studies
v)
Of Great Place
4. Addison & Steele: Coverley Papers
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
Third Year B.A. Honours
English-305: Poetry: Drama From 16th to 17th
Century
Fourth Year B.A. Honours
English-401: Poetry (18th and 19th
Centuries)
1. Blake: Songs of
Innocence & Experience
2. Wordsworth: Tintern
Abbey, Immortality Ode, The Prelude Book-1
3. Coleridge: The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
4. Byron: Don Juan
(Canto-1)
5. Shelley: Ode to the
West Wind, To a Skylark
6. Keats: Ode to Psyche,
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
7. Tennyson: The Lotos
Eaters, Tithonus, In Memoriam (Selections)
8. Browning: Andrea del
Sarto, A Grammarian’s Funeral, Fra Lippo Lippi
9. Arnold: Dover Beach,
Thyrsis
English-402: British Fiction (18th and 19th
Centuries)
1. Fielding: Tom Jones
2. Jane Austen: Pride and
Prejudice
3. Bronte: Wuthering
Heights
4. Dickens: Great
Expectation
5. Hardy: The Return of
the Native
English-403: American Fiction (19th and 20th
Centuries)
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The
Scarlet Letter
2. Stephen Crane: The Red
Badge of Courage
3. Richard Wright: Native
Son
4. Henry James: The Turn
of the Screw
5. Saul Bellow: Seize the
Day
English-404: Twentieth Century British Literature
Group: A
1. W.B. Yeats: Selected
Poems (ed) A Norman Jefferes
2. T. S. Eliot: Selected
Poems (Faber Edi4tion)
3. Auden: Consider, In
Memory of W. B. Yeats, Miss Gee, The Shield of Achilles, The Unknown Citizen,
In Parise of Limestone, Musee des Beaux Arts.
Group: B
4. Conrad: Heart of
Darkness
5. Lawrence: Sons and
Lovers
6. Joyce: A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man
7. E. M. Forster: A
Passage to India
Group: C
8. Synge: The Playboy of
the Western World
9. Beckett: Waiting for
Godot
10. Pinter: The Caretaker
English-405: Criticism and Critical Theory
Group: A- English Literary
Criticism:
1. Dryden: Of Dramatic
Poesy
2. Samuel Johnson: Preface
to Shakespeare
3. William Wordsworth: Preface
to Lyrical Ballads
4. S. T. Coleridge:
Biographia Literaria
5. Matthew Arnold: The
Study of Poetry
6. T. S. Eliot: Tradition
and the Individual Talent
Group: B- Critical Theory
1. Peter Berry: Beginning
Theory
Students should acquire
familiarity with the leading trends in contemporary critical theory:
Structuralism and Formalism, Deconstruction and New Historicism, Psychoanalytic
Criticism, Feminist’ Criticism, Postcolonial Theory, Reader Response Theory.