skbu.ac.inskbu.ac.in/cvs/syllabus/20160411122651.pdf · Kamala Das : Ghanashyam, In Love, ... short fiction, essays, proverbs, songs, prose etc. ... The story of a farm Girl

Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University Dept of English

Syllabus for semester III.

Paper 301—Post-Fifties Fiction and Poetry( FM 50)

Group A—SM ( marks allotted : 25)

Ted Hughes: Thought-Fox,Hawk-roosting

Philip Larkin: Church Going, Aubade,The Whitsun Wedding

Andrew Motion: Veteran, The Last Call

Group B—SM ( marks allotted : 25)

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Graham Greene: Heart of the Matter

Paper 302—Post Fifties Drama( FM 50)

Group A—AH ( marks allotted : 25)

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern


Harold Pinter: Birthday Party

Edward Bond : Lear

Churchill: Top Girls

Paper 303—Literary Criticism: from classical to neo-classical( FM 50)

Group A—JSM ( marks allotted : 25)

Plato: Republic—Bk III and X

Aristotle: Poetics

Horace: ArsPoetica

Longinus: On the Sublime


Sidney Dryden Pope

Paper 304—Literary Criticism: Romantic to Modern( FM 50)

Group A—AS ( marks allotted : 25)

Wordsworth

Coleridge

Arnold


T S Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent, Metaphysical Poets, Hamlet

I A Richards: A Theory of Communication

F R Leavis: Philosophy and Literary Criticism

OPTIONAL PAPERS:

Paper 305 A—Linguistics and ELT( FM 50)—AS

Group A( marks allotted : 25)

Grammar-Translation Method

Direct Method

Audio-lingual Method

Total Physical Response Method

Community Language Teaching

Communicative Language Teaching

Stimulary Response, Behaviourist& Cognitive Theories of Language Teaching

Second Language Acquisition Theories

Recent trends in Language Teaching

Group B( marks allotted : 25)

Modern (Remedial) Grammar

Register

Speech Organs

Vowels & Diphthongs

Stress & Intonation

Basic Phonetics and Phonology

Materials Productions for ELT

Techniques for Skill Development in Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing

Distribution and Introduction to Social Linguistics

Paper 305 B; Indian English Literature: Home and Abroad( FM 50)—AH


Derozio : To India – My Native Land , The Harp of India, Sonnet to the Pupils of the Hindu

College

Toru Dutt : Our Casuarina Tree , The Lotus

Sarojini Naidu : To India , Indian Weavers, The Bangle-seller

Rabindranath Tagore : Gitanjali (any 3 poems except Where the Mind is Without Fear )

P. Lal : The Simplest Love , Yakshi from Didarganj

Nissim Ezekiel : Marriage, Enterprise, Bombay

A.K. Ramanujan : Moulting , Another View of Grace

Kamala Das : Ghanashyam, In Love, Hot day in Malabar


GirishKarnad : Tughlaq

Mahesh Dattani : Final Solutions

SaadatHasanManto : Toba Tek Singh

305 C—Modern European Classics: Poetry and Drama( FM 50)—JSM


Heine: Sonnets Selections: any two

Mallarme: Selections: any two

Baudelaire: Le Fleurs Du Mal : any two

Rilke: Selection : any two


Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Ibsen: A Doll’s House

Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard

Paper 306 A—Translation Studies( FM 50)—AS


Theories of Translation

Translation studies and its Problems

Translation and Comparative Literature

Translation and Nation Building

Translation and Culture Studies


Translation of a given text from English to Santali and/or Bengali

Translation of a given text from Santali/ Bengali to English

N.B. – Sample texts to include poetry, short fiction, essays, proverbs, songs, prose etc.

Paper 306 B—Indian English Fiction( FM 50)—AH


Raja Rao: Kanthapura

Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain


AmitavGhosh: The Shadow Lines

KunalBasu: The Opium Clerk

V S Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas

306 C—Modern European Classics: Fiction and Short Stories—JSM

Group A (any three of the following)( marks allotted : 25)

Camus: Outsider

Kafka: Metamorphosis

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment

Isabel Allende: The City of Beasts

GroupB( marks allotted : 25)

Kafka: Children on a Country Road

Gorky: Twenty six Men and a Girl

Maupassant: The story of a farm Girl

Semester IV

Paper 401—Contemporary Literary Theory I ( FM 50)

Group A—SM ( marks allotted : 25)

Kate Millet: Sexual Politics

Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author

Michel Foucault: What is an Author


TorilMoi: Sexual/textual Politics

Stephen Greenblatt: Resonance and Wonder

HomiBhabha: Location of Culture

Paper 402—Contemporary Literary Theory II ( FM 50)

Group A—SM( marks allotted : 25)

Structuralism

Russian Formalism

Myth criticism

Dialogic Criticism

Marxism


Post Structuralism

Psychoanalytical Criticism

Narratology

Post colonialism

Cultural Studies

Paper 403—Shakespearean Drama ( FM 50)

Group A—AH ( marks allotted : 25)

King Lear

Twelfth Night (non-detailed study)

The Tempest

Group B—JSM ( marks allotted : 25)

Measure for Measure

Henry IV Part I and II (non-detailed study)

Paper 404—Elizabethan Stage, Audience and Criticism ( FM 50)

Group A—AS ( marks allotted : 25)

Ben Jonson

Dryden

Lamb

Coleridge

Bradley

Group B—AS( marks allotted : 25)

Spurgeon

Wilson Knight

Freud

Sengupta

Drakakis

Loomba

OPTIONAL PAPERS:

Paper 405 A—Tribal and Ethnic Literature Writings in English or in Translation ( FM 50)—AH


Mahasweta Devi: Draupadi, Dhowli,Gunin, Dayin ( Any Two)

Verrier Elwin: The Murias

W.G. Archer: The Blue Globe or The Hill of Flutes


Bhaskar Roy Barman: Folk Tales of the North East

N. Scott Momaday: House Made of Dawn

Deben Bhattacharya: The Mirror of the Sky—Translations of the Bauls of Bengal

Paper 405 B; American Literature: ( FM 50)

Group A( marks allotted : 25)—SM

Crevecoeur : What is an American

Ralph Waldo Emerson : The Poet, Transcendentalism

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter

Group B( marks allotted : 25)—AS

Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar named Desire

or

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Edward Albee : The Zoo Story

Le Roi Jones: Dutchman

405 C—New Literatures in English: African and Caribbean Literature ( FM 50)—JSM


Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

Wole Soyinka : Bacchae of Euripides

John Maxwell Coetzee : Foe


Jean Rhys : Wide Saragasso Sea

Derek Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa, Adams, The Ruins of a Great House(any two)

Ben Okri : Lament of the Images

Paper 406 A—Dalit/Subaltern Writings around the World ( FM 50)—SM


Selections from Duniyar Dalit Kovita ed. D. N. Bandopadhyay et.al.:

English Versions of—

L. S. Rokade

TrynbakSapkale

Janet Campbell Hale

Sharan Kumar Limbale

BhimsenDethe

ArjunKamble

Shiva Ingole

BapuraoJagtap

JyotiLanjewar

Colin Johnson

Marshal Hembram (HeiKadak)


Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable

Sharan Kumar Limbale : The Outcast: Akkarmashi

Viramma, Josiane Racine & Jean Luc Racine: Viramma, Life of an Untouchable

Paper 406 B—American Literature: Poetry and Fiction ( FM 50)—AH


Ernest Hemmingway : The Old Man and the Sea

F. Scott Fitzgerald : The Great Gatsby

Ralph Ellison : The Invisible Man


Walt Whitman : One’s Self I Sing, O captain, my captain

Emily Dickinson : Because I could not sleep for Death, I never saw a Moor

Sylvia Plath : Daddy

Allen Ginsberg : Supermarket in California

Lawrence Ferlinghetti : America

Robert Frost : Stopping by the Woods, Mending wall

306 C—New Literatures in English: Australian and Canadian Literature—JSM


Judith Wright : 3 poems from Ajker Australian Kovita(Ed. D.N.Bandyopadhyay)

OodgerooNoonuccal : We are going

D. Hope : Australia, Krishna, the Flute Player

DuncunCampluee Scott : The Onondaga Madonna; The Half-breed Girl

Ray Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Jack Davis : No Sugar

GroupB( marks allotted : 25)any three:

Margaret Atwood : The Handmaid’s Tale

Patrick white : Voss

David Malouf : An Imaginary Life

Peter Carey: True History of the Kellygans

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