BSC ENGLISH Syllabus || SEMESTER 3
( CC 5 ) Paper 5: American Literature
UNIT I
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
UNIT II
1. Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Purloined Letter’
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Crack-up’
3. William Faulkner ‘Dry September’
UNIT III
1.Anne Bradstreet ‘The Prologue’
2.Walt Whitman Selections from Leaves of Grass: O Captain, My Captain’
3. Alexie Sherman Alexie ‘Crow testament’ ‘Evolution’
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
The American Dream
Social Realism and the American Novel
Folklore and the American Novel
Black Women’s Writings
Questions of Form in American Poetry
Readings
1. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from an
American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105.
2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.
3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, in
Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York:
The Modern Library, 1964).
5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary
Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39.
6. Nandana Dutta, American Literature, ( New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan ,2016)
Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks=100
Internal Assessment: 20
Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8= 24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11
( CC 6 ) Paper 6: Popular Literature
UNIT I
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
UNIT II
Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy
UNIT III
Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability.
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
Coming of Age
The Canonical and the Popular
Caste, Gender and Identity
Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature
Sense and Nonsense
The Graphic Novel
Readings
1. Chelva Kanaganayakam, ‘Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary Sri
Lankan Literature’ (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and
Victor J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Delhi: Doaba
Publications, 2001) pp. 51–65.
2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and
Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix.
3. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super Culture:
American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green
University Press, 1975) pp. 29–38.
4. Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English Literary History,
vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.
Examination and distribution of marks:- Full marks=100
Internal Assessment: 20
Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11
( CC 7 )Paper 7: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries
UNIT I
John Milton Paradise Lost: Book 1
UNIT II
John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
UNIT III
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock, canto 1
Suggested Topics and Background P rose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th
Century The Stage, the State and the Market The
Mock-epic and Satire Women in the 17th Century
The Comedy of Manners
Readings
1. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and
22–4.
2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York:
Norton, 1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.
3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006)
chaps. 8, 11, and 13.
4. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New
York: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.
Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks- 100
Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24
(Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11
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