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KaziNazrulUniversity
Asansol
B.A.HonoursinEnglish
UnderSemesterwithCBCSystem
NewSyllabus(asperUGCGuidelines)
Witheffectfrom 2018-19
**L-T-P,CreditandMarksremainthesameasin2017-18
CORECOURSETITLES
SemesterI
CoreCourseIBritishPoetry:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury
CoreCourseIIBritishProseandDrama:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury
SemesterII
CoreCourseIIIShakespeare
CoreCourseIVBritishLiterature:EighteenthCentury
SemesterIII
CoreCourseVBritishRomanticLiterature
CoreCourseVIBritishLiterature:NineteenthCentury(Victorian)
CoreCourseVIIClassicalLiterature:IndianandEuropean
SemesterIV
CoreCourseVIIIBritishLiterature:TheEarlyTwentiethCentury
CoreCourseIXIndianWritinginEnglish
CoreCourseXPopularLiterature
SemesterV
CoreCourseXIModernEuropeanDrama
CoreCourseXIIAmericanLiterature
SemesterVI
CoreCourseXIIIPostcolonialLiteratures
CoreCourseXIVWomen’sWriting
SEMESTERI
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC101
CoreCourseI
BritishPoetry:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialHistory:Anglo-SaxonPoetry,NormanConquest,MiddleEnglishPoetry,
Chaucer,Renaissance,GrowthandDevelopmentofEnglishSonnet,Puritanism,CivilWar.
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
Chaucer:ProloguetoTheWifeofBath’sTale(ModernEnglishversion)
Spenser:Sonnetno.75(from Amoretti)
Sidney:LovinginTruth(from AstrophelandStella)
QueenElizabethI:OnMonsieur’sDeparture
JohnDonne:TheSunneRising
AndrewMarvell:ToHisCoyMistress
Milton:ParadiseLost,BookI,Lines1-155
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
Twoshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffour:05x2=10)
UnitIII
RhetoricandProsody:10marks
Rhetoric:IdentificationandExplanationofrhetoricaltermsfrom onegivenpassage:
6marks
Prosody:Scanningonepassageoutoftwo,identifyingdominantmetrewithvariations:
4marks
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC102
CoreCourseII
BritishProseandDrama:Anglo-SaxontoSeventeenthCentury
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialHistory:OriginandDevelopmentofBritishProse,GrowthofPress,Origin
andDevelopmentofBritishDrama,UniversityWits,RevengeTradition,ComedyofHumours,
ComedyofManners.
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
FrancisBacon:“OfStudies”,“OfTravail”,“OfDeath”
AphraBehn:Oroonoko
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
UnitIII
ChristopherMarlowe:DrFaustus
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
SEMESTERI
GENERICELECTIVE
CourseTitle:ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowerment
UnitI(Concepts)
SocialconstructionofGender,Masculinity,Femininity,Feminism,Patriarchy,Sexand
Gender,LGBTQ
(Twoshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffour:
05x2=10)
UnitII(Issues)
WomenandNationalistMovementinIndia
WomenandPartition
WomenandLaw
WomenandViolence
(Twoshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffour:
05x2=10)
UnitIII(Texts)
KamalaDas:AnIntroduction
MamtaKalia:TributetoPapa
MahaswetaDevi:BreastGiver
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
SEMESTERI
MILI,AECC–I
RecommendedText:TSriraman.ed.MacmillanCollegeProse.Macmillan
UnitI
M KGandhi:VoluntaryPoverty
C.E.M.Joad:TheCivilizationofToday
VirginiaWoolf:ProfessionforWomen
R.K.Narayan:SnakeintheGrass
KatherineMansfield:ACupofTea
(Fiveshortquestionsof01markeachtobeattemptedoutofeight:01x5=05)
(Threeshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffive:
05x3=15)
UnitII
UnseenPassagetobeprovidedfrom whichobjectivequestionstobeansweredanda
summaryofthepassagetobeattempted.
(FiveshortanswertypeComprehensionquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutof
eight:02x5=10)
(Summaryofthegivenpassage:10x1=10)
InternalAssessment:FormalLetter/BusinessLetter
Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
SEMESTERII
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC201
CoreCourselll
Shakespeare
UnitI
Sonnets:65,73,130,154.
(Twoshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffour:
05x2=10)
UnitII
Macbeth
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
UnitIII
TwelfthNight
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC202
CoreCourseIV
BritishLiterature:EighteenthCentury
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialHistory:NeoClassical,Enlightenment,AugustanSatire,RiseoftheNovel,
CoffeeHouseandPeriodicals,CultofSensibility,GothicNovel.
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(PoetryandDrama)
AlexanderPope:TheRapeoftheLock,CantoI&II
RichardB.Sheridan:TheSchoolforScandal
Questionsfrom boththetextshavetobeattempted,i.e.Questionof5marksandquestion
of10markscannotbeattemptedfrom thesametext
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
DanielDefoe:RobinsonCrusoe
Addison&Steele:“SirRogeratChurch”,“SpectatorClub”
Questionsfrom boththetextshavetobeattempted,i.e.Questionof5marksandquestion
of10markscannotbeattemptedfrom thesametext
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
SEMESTERIIEnglish/MIL[AECC–2credit]
Recommendedtext:AshokChasker,BhartiS.Khairmar,R.S.Jain(ed.).Rainbow:An
AnthologyofShortStories.OrientBlackswan,2014.
UnitI
OHenry:AfterTwentyYears
RabindranathTagore:Kabuliwala
CharlesDickens:TheSignalMan
(Fiveshortquestionsof01markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:01x5=05)
(Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10)
(Threeshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffive:
05x3=15)
UnitII
ReportWriting:
MagazineReport,NewspaperReport,Areportaboutaneventorfunctionatinstitute/
organization,AccidentReport,EnquiryorSurveyReport
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
InternalAssessment:CV/Bio-DataWriting
Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
SEMESTERII
GenericEnglish
(forHonoursotherthanEnglish)/EnglishProgram
GE-2/C-3
CourseTitle:IndianWritinginEnglish–I
UnitI
SarojiniNaidu:IntheBazarsofHyderabad
JayantaMahapatra:InaNightofRain
KamalaDas:Freaks
DilipChitrre:ThefellingoftheBanyanTree
Nissim Ezekiel:GoodbyePartyofMissPushpaT.S
(Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof01markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
01x5=05)
(Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10)
(Twoshortanswertypequestionsof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoffour:
05x2=10)
UnitII
R.K.Narayan:TheEnglishTeacher
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo: 05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
SEMESTERIII
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC301
CoreCourseV
BritishRomanticLiterature
UnitI
Literary&SocialHistory:FrenchRevolution,Romanticism:BacktoNature,Fancyand
Imagination,SignificanceofLyricalBallads,Supernaturalism
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(Poetry)
Blake:TheLamb,TheTyger
Wordsworth:TinternAbbey
Coleridge:Christabel,Part–I
Shelley:OdetotheWestWind
Keats:OdetoaNightingale
Byron:ShewalksinBeauty
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
JaneAusten:PrideandPrejudice
CharlesLamb:“Dream Children:AReverie”
DeQuincey:“OnKnockingattheGateofMacbeth”
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.William Wordsworth,‘PrefacetoLyricalBallads’,inRomanticProseandPoetry,ed.
HaroldBloom andLionelTrilling(NewYork:OUP,1973)pp.594–611.
2.JohnKeats,‘LettertoGeorgeandThomasKeats,21December1817’,and‘Letterto
RichardWoodhouse,27October,1818’,inRomanticProseandPoetry,ed.Harold
Bloom andLionelTrilling(NewYork:OUP,1973)pp.766–68,777–8.
3.Jean-JacquesRousseau,‘Preface’toEmileorEducation,tr.AllanBloom
(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1991).¬
4.SamuelTaylorColeridge,BiographiaLiteraria,ed.GeorgeWatson(London:Everyman,
1993)chap.XIII,pp.161–66.
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENCG302
CoreCourseVI
BritishLiterature:NineteenthCentury(Victorian)
UnitI
IndustrialRevolution,Victorianism:CrisisofFaith,Reform Laws,CornLaws,Utilitarianism,
ChartistMovement,Darwinism,Marxism,NovelandRealism,PsychologicalNovel,Oxford
Movement,Pre-RaphaeliteMovement.
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(Poetry)
AlfredLordTennyson:Ulysses
RobertBrowning:MyLastDuchess
MatthewArnold:DoverBeach
EmileBronte:NoCowardSoulisMine
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:
05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
CharlesDickens:HardTimes
ThomasHardy:TheReturnoftheNative
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.KarlMarxandFriedrichEngels,‘ModeofProduction:TheBasisofSocialLife’,‘The
SocialNatureofConsciousness’,and‘ClassesandIdeology’,inAReaderinMarxist
Philosophy,ed.Howard Selsam and Harry Martel(New York:International
Publishers,1963)pp.186–8,190–1,199–201.
2.CharlesDarwin,‘NaturalSelectionandSexualSelection’,inTheDescentofManin
TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt
(NewYork:Northon,2006)pp.1545–9.
3.JohnStuartMill,TheSubjectionofWomeninNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,
8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)chap.1,pp.1061–9.
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC303
CoreCourseVII
ClassicalLiterature:IndianandEuropean
UnitI(Theory)
Bharata:Natyashastratr.ManmohanGhosh,vol.I,2ndedn(Calcutta:Granthalaya,1967)chap.
6
Aristotle:Poetics:Plot,TragicHero,EpicandTragedy
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(IndianTexts)
Sudraka:Mricchakatika,tr.M.M.RamachandraKale(NewDelhi:MotilalBanarasidass,1962)
IlangoAdigal‘TheBookofBanci’inCilappatikaran:TheTaleofanAnklet–TranslatedbyR.
Parthasarathy[Delhi:Penguin,2004,Book–3]
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII
EuropeanTexts
Homer:TheIliad
Sophocles:KingOedipus
(Onequestionof10markstobeattmptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.Bharata,Natyashastra,tr.ManomohanGhosh,vol.I,2ndedn(Calcutta:Granthalaya,
1967)chap.6:‘Sentiments’,pp.100–18.
2.VinayDharwadkar,‘Orientalism andtheStudyofIndianLiterature’,inOrientalism and
thePostcolonialPredicament:PerspectivesonSouthAsia,ed.CarolA.Breckenridge
andPetervanderVeer(NewDelhi:OUP,1994)pp.158–95.
3.Plato,TheRepublic,BookX,tr.DesmondLee(London:Penguin,2007).
4.Horace,ArsPoetica,tr.H.RushtonFairclough,Horace:Satires,EpistlesandArs
Poetica(CambridgeMass.:HarvardUniversityPress,2005)pp.451–73.
SEMESTER–III
GENERICELECTIVE
Paper:LiteratureandGender
UnitI(Term Concepts)
Patriarchy,Domination,Hegemony,Gender,Queer,LGBTQ,Inside/outside,Other,
Gynoertieism,Androgyny,Subaltern,Feminism.
(Fivequestionsof03markseachistobeattemptedoutoffive:03x5=15)
RecommendedReadings:
1.GlossaryofLiteraryTerms:M.HAbrams
2.ThePenguinDictionaryofLiteraryTermsandLiteraryTheory:J.A.Cuddon
UnitII(ProseandPoem)
OnRokeyaSakhawatHossain,followthisbook
Motichur:Sultana’sDream andOtherWritingsofRokeyaSakhawatHossain,
OUP:2015edition, translatedbyRatriRoyandPrantoshBandyopadhyay
(Chapters1and2ofthetext)
OnMahaswetaDevi’sBreastStoriesfollowthisbook:
MahaswetaDevi’sBreastStoriestranslatedbyGayatriChakravortySpivak,Seagull,
2016edition
ReadtheIntroductionbyGayatriSpivak,pagevii-xiv
ARoom ofOne’sOwn.VirginiaWoolf,(FirstChapter,Page7-29)GraftonPublication
1977edition
(Fivequestionsof01markeachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x1=05)(Fivequestionsof02markseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x2=10)
SylviaPlath:CircusinThreeRings;Event.
(Onequestionof10markseachistobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
Sec–I(Honours)
OptionOne:
ActualReportingandContentWriting
UnitI
ActualReporting:
1.NewspaperReporting
2.TelevisionReporting
3.OrganizationReporting
(Onequestionof10marksistobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
ContentWriting:
1.AdvertisementContentWriting
Advertisementonnewuniversities,newcareercourses,newvocationalprogrammes,
workshopsetc.
2.Contentwritingonleafletsandbrochures,posters
Leafletsoforganizations,postersandbrochuresofeventsandcourses.
3.ContentwritingofWebblogs
Webpagesorblogsofindividualsandinstitutions.
(Fivequestionsof01markseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x1=05)
(Fivequestionsof02markseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x2=10)
(Threequestionsof05markseachistobeattemptedoutoffive:03x5=15)
InternalAssessment:10
reports/contentsof10markstobewrittenintheclassasclasstest
OptionTwo:
TranslationSkills
UnitI
BasicConcepts:
SourceLanguageText,TargetLanguagetext,LiteraryTranslation,Non-LiteraryTranslation,
Machinetranslation,Freetranslation,CulturalEquivalence,Translator’sVisibility,
Translator’sInvisibility,TranslationTreason,Translationasdiscovery,Postcolonial
Translation
(Fiveshortquestionsof01markeachtobeattemptedoutofeight:01x5=05)
(Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10)
UnitII
Translator’sExperience
a.Roy,Sukhendu(Tr).TalesFrom ThakurmarJhuli:Translator’sNote.OxfordUniversity
Press.
b.William Radice(Tr).RabindranathTagore.SelectedPoems:Translator’sIntroduction.
Penguin.
(Fiveshortquestionsof01markeachtobeattemptedoutofeight:01x5=05)
(Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
RecommendedReading:
1.Baker,Mona.InOtherWords:ACoursebookonTranslation.Routledge.2001
SEMESTERIV
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC401
CoreCourseVIII
BritishLiterature:TheEarlyTwentiethCentury
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialBackground:
Modernism and the Postmodern Turn ,The World Wars,The Collapse ofthe Empire,
Women’sMovements,PsychoanalysisandtheStream ofConsciousness,TheusesofMyth,
TheAvant-garde
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(Poetry)
W.B.Yeats:TheSecondComing
T.S.Eliot:TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock
DylanThomas:Poem inOctober
PhilipLarkin:ChurchGoing
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
VirginiaWoolf:MrsDalloway
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
JamesJoyce:Araby
JosephConrad:TheLagoon
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.Sigmund Freud,‘TheoryofDreams’,‘Oedipus Complex’,and ‘The Structure ofthe
Unconscious’,inTheModernTradition,ed.RichardEllmanet.al.(Oxford:OUP,1965)pp.
571,578–80,559–63.
2.T.S.Eliot,‘TraditionandtheIndividualTalent’,inNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,
8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)pp.2319–25.
3.RaymondWilliams,‘Introduction’,inTheEnglishNovelfrom DickenstoLawrence(London:
HogarthPress,1984)pp.9–27.
SEMESTERIV
CoreCourseDetails :BAHENGC402
CoreCourseIX
IndianWritinginEnglish
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialBackground:
EvolutionofIndianLiteratureinEnglish,TheBeginnings,TheNationalistMovement,Partition,
Women’sIssues,Re-ReadingIndia:Post–1980s.
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(Poetry)
H.L.V.Derozio:SonnetWrittentothePupilsofHinduCollege
KamalaDas:AnIntroduction
JayantaMahapatra:DawnatPuri
RobinS.Ngangom:APoem forMother
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
KhuswantSingh:TheTraintoPakistan
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
R.K.Narayan:ToastedEnglish(from R.K.Narayan:TheWriterlyLife:SelectedNon-Fiction.ed.
S.Krishnan,Penguinbooks,2001.)
AmitavGhosh:TheGhostofMrsGandhi
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.RajaRao,ForewordtoKanthapura(NewDelhi:OUP,1989)pp.v–vi.
2.SalmanRushdie,‘CommonwealthLiteraturedoesnotexist’,inImaginaryHomelands
(London:GrantaBooks,1991)pp.61–70.
3.MeenakshiMukherjee,‘DividedbyaCommonLanguage’,inThePerishableEmpire(New
Delhi:OUP,2000)pp.187–203.
4.BruceKing,‘Introduction’,inModernIndianPoetryinEnglish(New Delhi:OUP,2ndedn,
2005)pp.1–10.
SEMESTERIV
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC403
CoreCourseX
PopularLiterature
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialBackground:
TheCanonicalandthePopular
Caste,Gender,Identity
SenseandNonsense
TheGraphicNovel
DetectiveFiction
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(PoetryandGraphicFiction)
SukumarRay:TheRuleofTwentyOne
EdwardLear:Mr.andMrs.SpikkySparrow
DurgaVyam andSubhasVyam:Bhimayana:ExperienceofUntouchability/
Or,B.R.Ambedkar:AutobiographicalNotes(OnlyFortheVisuallyChallengedstudents)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
J.K.Rowling:ThePhilosopher’sStone
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
AgathaChristie:TheJewelRobberyattheGrandMetropolitan
SatyajitRay:NakurbabuandElDorado
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.SumathiRamaswamy,‘Introduction’,in Beyond Appearances?:VisualPractices and
IdeologiesinModernIndia(Sage:Delhi,2003)pp.xiii–xxix.
2.LeslieFiedler,‘TowardsaDefinitionofPopularLiterature’,inSuperCulture:American
PopularCultureandEurope,ed.C.W.E.Bigsby(Ohio:BowlingGreenUniversityPress,1975)
pp.29–38.
3.FelicityHughes,‘Children’sLiterature:TheoryandPractice’,EnglishLiteraryHistory,vol.45,
1978,pp.542–61.
SEMESTERIV
GenericElective
Optionone:
IndianLiteratureII
UnitI
M KGandhi “Hardship”
SudhaMurthy “InSahyadriHills,ALessoninHumility”
APJAbdulKalam “ThePowerofPrayer”
KhuswantSingh“ThePortraitofALady”
(Fivequestionsofonemarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x1=05)
(Fivequestionsoftwomarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x2=10)
(Twoquestionsoffivemarkseachistobeattemptedoutoffour:05x2=10)
UnitII(Fiction)
Premchand TheChild
RKNarayan Anastrologer’sday
RKLaxman TheGoldFrame
RuskinBond TheBoyWhoBroketheBank
(Fivequestionsofonemarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x1=05)
(Onequestionoftenmarksistobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
OptionTwo:
AcademicWritingandComposition
UnitI
Structuringofarguments:Introduction,OrganizationandConclusion–basedonvarious
debatabletopics
Or,
CriticalThinking/appreciation:Synthesis,Analysis,evaluation
(Onequestionoftenmarksistobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
WritinginOne’sOwnWords:SummarizingandParaphrasing
(Threequestionsoffivemarkseachistobeattemptedoutoffive:05x3=15)
CitationResources:BasicKnowledge
(Fivequestionsofthreemarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x3=15)
InternalAssessment:10
RecommendedReadings:
1.LizHamp-LyonsandBenHeasley,Studywriting:ACourseinWritingSkillsforAcademic
Purposes(Cambridge:CUP,2006).
2.RenuGupta,ACourseinAcademicWriting(NewDelhi:OrientBlackSwan,2010).
3.IlonaLeki,AcademicWriting:ExploringProcessesandStrategies(NewYork:CUP,2nd
edn,1998).
4.GeraldGraffandCathyBirkenstein,TheySay/ISay:TheMovesThatMatterinAcademic
Writing(NewYork:Norton,2009).
SEC2
OptionOne:
CommunicativeEnglish
UnitI
VocabularyBuilding:wordFormation,Prefix,Suffix,OneWordSubstitutes
FunctionalGrammar:IdentifyingCommonerrorscommittedinPartsofSpeech,Tenses,
Conjunctions,Articles,Prepositions,DirectandIndirect,activeandPassivevoices.
(Fivequestionsofonemarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x1=05)
(Fivequestionsoftwomarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x2=10)
UnitII
Writing:MethodsofNotetaking,JumbledSentences
LetterWritting&Mail:CoveringLetter,ClaimingandadjustmentLetter,SalesLetter,E-Mails,
EssayWriting
ElementsofEffectiveWriting:Agenda,Notices,Circular,MinutesoftheMeeting&Proof
Reading
(Onequestionoftenmarksistobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Threequestionsoffivemarkseachistobeattemptedoutoffive:05x3=15)
InternalAssessment:10
RecommendedReadings:
1.FluencyinEnglish-PartII,OxfordUniversityPress,2006.
2.BusinessEnglish,Pearson,2008.
3.Language,LiteratureandCreativity,OrientBlackswan,2013.
4.LanguagethroughLiterature(forthcoming)ed.Dr.GauriMishra,DrRanjanaKaul,DrBrati
Biswas
OptionTwo:
CreativeWriting
UnitI
Concepts:ShortStoryideas,writingbasedonpictures,slogans,ads,posters,etc
(Twoquestionsoffivemarkseachistobeattemptedoutoffour:05x2=10)
DefinitionsofShortStory,Docu-drama,Tele-Play,ScreenPlay,Skit,Differencesbetween
screenPlayandstory,etc.
(Fivequestionsoftwomarkseachistobeattemptedoutofeight:05x2=10)
UnitII
Composition:OnCollegeSports,AnnualDay,youthparliamentets
(Twoquestionsoffivemarkseachistobeattemptedoutoffour,eachinabout300words:
05x2=10)
Comprehension:OnEcologicalandSocialawarenessissues
(Onequestionoftenmarksistobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
InternalAssessment:10
SEMESTERV
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC501
CoreCourseXI
ModernEuropeanDrama
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialHistory,Socio-PoliticalChangeandtheStage,EuropeanDrama:Realism
andBeyond,TheProblem PlayintheModernEra,TheTheatreoftheAbsurd
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
Plays-I
J.M.Synge:RiderstotheSea
HenrikIbsen:Ghosts
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII
Plays-II
BertoltBrecht:Galileo
EugeneIonesco:TheLesson
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.ConstantinStanislavski,AnActorPrepares,chap.8,‘FaithandtheSenseofTruth’,tr.
ElizabethReynoldsHapgood(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1967)sections1,2,7,8,9,
pp.121–5,137–46.
2.BertoltBrecht,‘TheStreetScene’,‘TheatreforPleasureorTheatreforInstruction’,
and‘DramaticTheatrevsEpicTheatre’,inBrechtonTheatre:TheDevelopmentofan
Aesthetic,ed.andtr.JohnWillet(London:Methuen,1992)pp.68–76,121–8.
3.GeorgeSteiner,‘OnModernTragedy’,inTheDeathofTragedy(London:Faber,1995)
pp.303–24.
CoreCourseDetails:BAHENGC502
CoreCourseXII
AmericanLiterature
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialBackground,TheAmericanDream,SocialRealism andtheAmerican
Novel,Harlem Renaissance,BlackWomen’sWriting
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(PlaysandPoetry)
TennesseWilliams:TheGlassMenagerie
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
H.W.Longfellow:TheSlave’sDream
RobertFrost:TheRoadNotTaken
WaltWhitman:OCaptain!MyCaptain
AdrienneRich:AuntJennifer’sTigers
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
ToniMorrison:Beloved
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
EdgarAllanPoe:ThePurloinedLetter
O’Henry:OneDollar’sWorth
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortquestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.HectorStJohnCrevecouer,‘WhatisanAmerican’,(LetterIII)inLettersfrom an
AmericanFarmer(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1982)pp.66–105.
2.FrederickDouglass,ANarrativeofthelifeofFrederickDouglass(Harmondsworth:
Penguin,1982)chaps.1–7,pp.47–87.
3.HenryDavidThoreau,‘BattleoftheAnts’excerptfrom ‘BruteNeighbours’,inWalden
(Oxford:OUP,1997)chap.12.
4.RalphWaldoEmerson,‘SelfReliance’,inTheSelectedWritingsofRalphWaldo
Emerson,ed.withabiographicalintroductionbyBrooksAtkinson(NewYork:The
ModernLibrary,1964).
5.ToniMorrison,‘RomancingtheShadow’,inPlayingintheDark:Whitenessand
LiteraryImagination(London:Picador,1993)pp.29–39.
DSE–I
LiteraryCriticism
UnitI
Aristotle:Poetics(Selectionsasbelow)
Introduction:PoetryasImitation
Chapter6–DescriptionofTragedy
Chapter7–TheScopeofthePlot
Chapter8–UnityofPlot
DrJohnson:PrefacetoShakespeare(Page133Line88–Page140Line354)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
W.Wordsworth:PrefacetoTheLyricalBallads(Page179Line674–Page182Lie767)
J.Keats:Letter(Page256-259)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII
T.S.Eliot:TheMetaphysicalPoets(Page302Line308,Line243)
MatthewArnold:TheStudyofPoetry(Page260Line01–Page265Line192)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
RecommendedReadings:
1.PenguinClassics:Aristotle/Horace/Longinus:ClassicalLiteraryCritism.Tr.
T.S.Dorsch.Penguin
2.EnglishCriticalTexts:D.J.EnrightandErnestDeChickera.Oxford.
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
DSEII
UNITI(Poetry)
SubramaniaBharati:Wind,9
GM Muktibodh:TheVoid
NirendranathChakraborty:Amalkanti
KaifiAzmi:Humiliation
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(ProseFiction)
Premchand:Kafan:TheShroud
IsmatChugtai:Lihaaf
PremendraMitra:Foreigner
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Drama)
DharamveerBharti:AndhaYug.(Tr.AlokBhalla.NewDelhi.OUP,2009.)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
RecommendedReadings:
1.PenguinBookofClassisUrdustories.ed.M.Assaduddin.NewDelhi:Penguin,2009.
2.PremendraMitra.SnakeandOtherStories,tr.RinaandPritishNandy.Calcutta:
Seagull,1990.
3.TheOxfordAnthologyofModernIndianPoetry.ed.VinayDharwadkarandA.K
Ramanujan,2003.
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
DSEIIA
Travelwriting
UnitI
IbnBatuta:‘TheCourtofMuhammadbinTughlaq’,KhuswantSingh’sCityImprobable:
writingsonDelhi,Penguin.
SaratChandraDas:Autobiography:NarrativeoftheIncidentsofMyEarlyLife(Selections:
FirstJourneytoTibet)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
MarkTwain:TheInnocentAbroad(ChapterVII,VIII,andIX)WordsworthClassisEdition.
ErnestoCheGuevara:TheMotorcycleDiaries:AJourneyaroundSouthAmerica(TheExpert,
HomeLandforVictor,TheCityofViceroys)HarperPerennial
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII
ElisabethBumiller:MayYoubeTheMotherofaHundredSons:aJourneyamongthe
WomenofIndia,Chapters2and3,pp24-74(NewYork:Penguin,1991)
KrishnabhabiniDas:ABengaliLadyinEngland(Selections:Prelude,Chapter10,Chapter15)
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
RecommendedReadings:
1.SusanBassnett,‘TravelWritingandGender’,inCambridgeCompaniontoTravel
Writing,ed.PeterHulmeandTim Young(Cambridge:CUP,2002)pp,225-241
2.TabishKhair,‘AnInterviewwithWilliam DalyrmpleandPankajMishra’inPostcolonial
TravelWritings:CriticalExplorations,ed.JustinDEdwardsandRuneGraulund(New
York:PalgraveMacmillan,2011),173-184
3.CaseyBalton,‘NarratingSelfandOther:AHistoricalView’,inTravelWriting:TheSelf
andTheOther(Routledge,2012),pp.1-29
4.SachidanandaMohanty,‘Introduction:BeyondtheImperialEyes’inTravelWritingand
Empire(NewDelhi:Katha,2004)pp.ix–xx.
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
DSEIIB
PostWorldWarIILiterature
UnitI(Poetry)
PhilipLarkin:WhitsunWeddings
TedHughes:HawkRoosting
SeamusHeaney:Casualty
CarolanneDuffy:Text
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII
JohnFowles:TheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman
AngelaCarter:Wolf-Alice
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII
SamuelBeckett:WaitingforGodot
William Golding:LordoftheFlies
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
RecommendedReadings:
1.AlanSinfield,‘LiteratureandCulturalProduction’,inLiterature,Politics,andCulturein
PostwarBritain(BerkleyandLosAngeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1989)pp.
23–38.
2.SeamusHeaney,‘TheRedressofPoetry’,inTheRedressofPoetry(London:Faber,
1995)pp.1–16.
3.PatriciaWaugh,‘CultureandChange:1960-1990’,inTheHarvestofTheSixties:
EnglishLiteratureAndItsBackground,1960-1990(Oxford:OUP,1997).
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
SEMESTERVI
CoreCourseDetails :BAHENGC601
CoreCourseXIII
PostcolonialLiteratures
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialBackground
Decolonization,GlobalizationandLiterature
LiteratureandIdentityPolitics
WritingfortheNewWorldAudience
Region,RaceandGender
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(DramaandPoetry)
MaheshDattani:Tara
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
PabloNeruda:TonightIcanWrite
DerekWalcott:FarCryfrom Africa
MamangDai:SmallTownsandtheRiver
DavidMalouf:RevolvingDay
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Fiction)
SalmanRushdie:HarounandtheSeaofStories
AmitavGhosh:TheShadowLines
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.FranzFanon,‘TheNegroandLanguage’,inBlackSkin,WhiteMasks,tr.CharlesLam
Markmann(London:PlutoPress,2008)pp.8–27.
2.NgugiwaThiong’o,‘TheLanguageofAfricanLiterature’,inDecolonisingtheMind(London:
JamesCurry,1986)chap.1,sections4–6.
3.GabrielGarciaMarquez,theNobelPrizeAcceptanceSpeech,inGabrielGarciaMarquez:
NewReadings,ed.BernardMcGuirkandRichardCardwell(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversity
Press,1987).
SEMESTERVI
CoreCourseDetails :BAHENGDSE604
CoreCourseXIV
Women’sWriting
UnitI
LiteraryandSocialBackground
EvolutionofFeminism:TheThreeWaves
TheConfessionalModeinWomen’swriting
GenderandClass/Caste/Race
PoliticsofSexuality
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
UnitII(DramaandPoetry)
ManjulaPadmanabhan:TheBrideisnotforBurning
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
EmilyDickinson:IcannotlivewithYou
PhillisWheatley:AnHymntotheMorning
SylviaPlath:LadyLazarus
EuniceDeSouza:Bequest
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
UnitIII(Prose)
AliceWalker:TheColorPurple
(Onequestionof10markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10)
MahaswetaDevi:Draupadi(Translated:G.C.Spivak)
CharlottePerkinsGilman:TheYellowWallpaper
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof05markstobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05)
InternalAssessment:10
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:
02x5=10
RecommendedReadings:
1.VirginiaWoolf,ARoom ofOne'sOwn(NewYork:Harcourt,1957)chaps.1and6.
2.SimonedeBeauvoir,‘Introduction’,inTheSecondSex,tr.ConstanceBordeandShiela
Malovany-Chevallier(London:Vintage,2010)pp.3–18.
3.Kumkum SangariandSudeshVaid,eds.,‘Introduction’,inRecastingWomen:Essaysin
ColonialHistory(NewDelhi:KaliforWomen,1989)pp.1–25.
4.ChandraTalapadeMohanty,‘UnderWesternEyes:FeministScholarshipandColonial
Discourses’,inContemporaryPostcolonialTheory:AReader,ed.PadminiMongia(NewYork:
Arnold,1996)pp.172–97.
SEMESTERVI
DSEIIIA
LiteraryTheory
UnitI
Marxism andCulturalStudies
LouisAlthusser:IdeologyandIdeologicalStateApparatuses(NotestowardsanInvestigation)
GeorgLukacs:CriticalRealism andSocialistRealism
RaymondWilliams:IntroductiontoCulturalandSociety
UnitII
Feminism
ElaineShowalter:TowardsaFeministPoetics
JulietMitchell:Femininity,NarrativeandPsychoanalysis.
GayatriC.Spivak:CantheSubalternSpeak
UnitIII
Postmodernism andPostColonialism
Jean-FrancoisLyotard:Answeringthequestion:WhatisPostmodernism
EdwardSaid:“TheScopeofOrientalism”inOrientalism.Penguin
AijazAhmad:‘IndianLiterature’;NotestowardstheDefinitionofCategory
Studentswillberequiredtoattemptonequestionof10marks(outoftwo)from eachofthe
threeunits(10X3=30marks),andtwoquestionsof5markseachfrom anytwoofthe
threeunits(5X2=10marks).
RecommendedReadings:
LiteraryTheory:AnIntroductoryReader.EditedbySngataBhaduriandSimiMalhotra.
Anthem Press.NewDelhi.
TheBlackwellGuidetoLiteraryTheory.GeorgeCastle.Blackwell.
InternalAssessment:10marks
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
marks
DSEIIIB
PartitionLiterature
UnitI(Poetry)
FaizAhmedFaiz:ForYourLoves,MyCountry,inEnglish:FaizAhmedFaiz,ARenownedUrdu
Poet(tr.Anded.RizRahim)
JibananandaDas:IShallReturntothisBengal(tr.SukantaChaudhuri,inModernIndian
Literature)
Gulzar:TobaTekSingh(TranslatingPartition,ed.TarunSaintet.at.)
TaslimaNasreen:BrokenBengal
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05
marks)
UnitII(Novel)
BapsiSidwa:TheIceCandyMan
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
UnitIII(ShortStories)
DibyenduPalit:Alam’sOwnHousetr.SarikaChaudhuri(BengalPartitionstories:An
UnclosedChapter.ed.bashabiFraser)
SadatHasanManto:TobaTekSingh,tr.M.Asaduddin(inBlackMargins:Manto)
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05
marks)
RecommendedReadingsandScreenings:
1.RituMenonandKamlaBhasin,‘Introduction’,inBordersandBoundaries(NewDelhi:Kali
forWomen,1998).
2.SukritaP.Kumar,NarratingPartition(Delhi:Indialog,2004).
3.UrvashiButalia,TheOtherSideofSilence:Voicesfrom thePartitionofIndia(Delhi:Kalifor
Women,2000).
4.SigmundFreud,‘MourningandMelancholia’,inTheCompletePsychologicalWorksof
SigmundFreud,tr.JamesStrachey(London:HogarthPress,1953)pp.3041–53.
Films:
Garam Hawa(dir.M.S.Sathyu,1974).
KhamoshPaani:SilentWaters(dir.SabihaSumar,2003).
Subarnarekha(dir.RitwikGhatak,1965)
InternalAssessment:10marks
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
marks
DSEIVA
Autobiography
UnitI
JeanJacquesRousseau:Confessions,PartOne,BookOne,pp.5-43,Tr.ByAngelaScholar
NewYork:OUP,2000.
M.K.Gandhi’s:AutobiographyortheStoryofMyExperimentswithTruth.PartI,ChapterIIto
IX.PP.5-26(Ahmedabad,Navajivan,1993)
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
UnitII
BinodiniDasi’s:MyStoryandLifeasanActress,pp.61-83.NewDelhi:KaliforWomen,1998.
HelenKeller:AStoryofMyLife(ChaptersItoXIII)
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05
marks)
UnitIII
ARevathi:TruthAboutMe:AHijraLifeStory,ChaptersonetoFour,pp.1-37,NewDelhi:
Penguin,2010.
SharankumarLimbale:TheOutcaste,Tr.BySantoshBhoomkar,pp1-39,NewDelhi:OUP,
2003.
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05
marks)
RecommendedReadings:
1.JamesOlney,‘ATheoryofAutobiography’inMetaphorsofSelf:themeaningof
autobiography(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1972)pp.3-50.
2.LauraMarcus,‘TheLawofGenre’inAuto/biographicalDiscourses(Manchester:
ManchesterUniversityPress,1994)pp.229-72.
3.LindaAnderson,‘Introduction’inAutobiography(London:Routledge,2001)pp.1-17.
4.MaryG.Mason,‘TheOtherVoice:AutobiographiesofwomenWriters’inLife/Lines:
TheorizingWomen’sAutobiography,EditedbyBellaBrodzkiandCelesteSchenck(Ithaca:
CornellUniversityPress,1988)pp.19-44.
InternalAssessment:10marks
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
marks
DSEIVB
ScienceFictionandDetectiveLiterature
UnitI
Begum Rokeya:Sultana’sDream
IsaacAsimov:2430A.D.
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05
marks)
UnitII
WilkieCollins:TheWomaninWhite
ArthurConanDoyle:TheAdventureoftheSpeckledBand
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
(Oneshortanswertypequestionof5markseachtobeattemptedoutoftwo:05x1=05
marks)
UnitIII
SatyajitRay:TheKey,from TheCompleteAdventuresofFeluda,tr.GopaMajumdar
SaradinduBandopadhyay:TheJewelCase,from TheMenagerieandOtherByomkeshBakshi
Mysteries,tr.SreejataGuha,Penguine,2006.
(Onequestionof10marksattemptedoutoftwo:10x1=10marks)
RecommendedReadings:
1.J.EdmundWilson,‘WhoCaresWhoKilledRogerAckroyd?’,TheNewYorker,20June1945.
2.GeorgeOrwell,RafflesandMissBlandish,availableat:
3.W.H.Auden,TheGuiltyVicarage,availableat:<harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty-
vicarage/>
4.RaymondChandler,‘TheSimpleArtofMurder’,AtlanticMonthly,Dec.1944,availableat:
<http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html>
InternalAssessment:10marks
Fiveshortanswertypequestionsof02markseachtobeattemptedoutofeight:02x5=10
marks