DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Post-Graduate Syllabus for Regular Students in English (Under Semester System) Effective from 2008-2009 Academic Sessions

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL

There are sixteen papers, each carrying 100 marks. Papers 101-103, 201203, 301-303, 401-402 contain six texts/units each. Paper 403, termed Special Paper, offers four choices, out of which any one is to be opted for. Each such choice contains seven texts/units. Papers 104, 204, 304, & 404 are for Group Discussion and Viva-Voce. Students are required to do papers 101-104 for the first semester, papers 201-204 for the second semester, papers 301-304 for the third semester, and papers 401-404 for the fourth and final semester. They must study all the texts/units in order to be able to answer all questions. In each paper meant for written examination, four essay-type questions (20 marks each) from any four texts/units with alternatives will be set. In each such paper, eight short questions (5 marks each) will be serially set, out of which any four are to be answered. N.B. Rules for the Special Paper on Linguistics and Phonetics are different, which are mentioned in the relevant section itself. Semester-wise Break-up of Marks (Total Marks: 1600) Semester I: Written: 300 (Papers 101-103); Group Discussion: 50 & Vivavoce: 50 (Paper 104) Semester II: Written: 300 (Papers 201-203); Group Discussion: 50 & Vivavoce: 50 (Paper 204) Semester III: Written: 300 (Papers 301-303); Group Discussion: 50 & Vivavoce: 50 (Paper 304) Semester IV: Written: 300 (Papers 401-403); Group Discussion: 50 & Vivavoce: 50 (Paper 404) N.B. The text/broad topic for Group Discussion shall be announced ahead of schedule, but different aspects of the text/topic, to be decided by the tutor, shall be given to the students by draw of lots on the spot.

SEMESTER I
PAPER 101 Edmund Spenser- Faerie Queene, Book 1 Francis Bacon -Of Adversity, Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Friendship, Of Youth and Age, Of Envy, Of Garden John Milton - Samson Agonistes Philip Sidney - An Apology for Poetry Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus Thomas More - Utopia PAPER 102 Shakespeare - Hamlet Measure for Measure A Midsummer Nights Dream Henry IV, Part I John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi Ben Jonson - Everyman Out of His Humour PAPER 103 John Drylen - All for Love William Congreve - The Way of the World Alexander Pope - Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism Jonathan Swift - Gullivers Travels Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Samuel Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare PAPER 104 Group Discussion 50, Viva-Voce 50

SEMESTER II

PAPER 201 Edmund Burke - Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [Excerpts]; Kant, Analytic of the Sublime (From Critique of Judgment, BK II) William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge Selections from Biographia Literaria (Chapter 13, 14, 17) William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell John Keats - Letters [1817-19]; Odes (Indolence, Autumn, Psyche, Melancholy) P.B. Shelley - Prometheus Unbound; Wordsworth - Prelude I & II Mary Shelley - Frankenstein PAPER 202 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights George Eliot - Middlemarch Victorian Prose - Ed. V.S. Seturaman (Macmillan) (a) Carlyle - The Hero as Poet; Dante; Shakespeare (b) Newman - Knowledge its Own End; Literature (c) Arnold - Sweetness and Light; Doing as One Likes

Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady

Victorian Prose Selections (a) Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Norton edition) Introduction; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter V; Section I. (b) John Stuart Mill - From Subjection of Women Victorian Poetry (a) Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot; In Memoriam-11, 14, 16, 41, 45; Morte D Arthur (b) Browning - Rabbi Ben Ezra;The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church; One Word More (c) Arnold - Dover Beach; Growing Old; The death of Sohrab

(d) Hardy - In Front of the Landscape: The Darkling Thrush; Moments of Vision PAPER 203 Gerald Manley Hopkins - The Wreck of Deutschland; The Windhover; Pied Beauty Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Rudyard Kipling - Kim Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan Virginia Woolf - Modern Fiction PAPER 204 Group Discussion 50; Viva-voce 50

SEMESTER III
PAPER 301 D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Modern Poetry I (a) T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land (b) Auden - A Summer Night; In Memory of W.B. Yeats; Memorial for the City; A Shilling Life (c) Spender - The Express; At the Edge of Being; Darkness and Light; I can never be a Great Man Modern Poetry II (a) Dylan Thomas - The force that through the Green Fuse; Poem in October; Do not go into that Good Night. (b) Larkin - Church Going; The Explosion; Wants; At Grass (c) Ted Hughes - Hawk Roosting; The Thought-fox; A Childish Prank; Thrushes

Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory William Golding - Lord of the Files

PAPER 302 John Osborne - Look Back In Anger Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter - The Caretaker Albert Camus - The Outsider Kafka - The Trial Brecht - Mother Courage PAPER 303 Plato Ion; Republic Books II, III, X; Aristotle - Poetics Arnold - The Study of Poetry; Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent Wimsatt and Beardsley - The Intentional Fallacy; Cleanth Brooks: The Language of Paradox Said - Inteoduction (From Orientalism); Bhabha - The Other Question (Source: Padmini Mongia - Contemporary Postcolonial Theory) Derrida - Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; M.H. Abrams - Deconstructive-Angel (Source: David Lodge) Showalter - Feminist Criticism in Wilderness (Source: Lodge); Chandra T. Mohanty - Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (Source: Mongia) PAPER 304 Group Discussion 50; Viva-voce 50

SEMESTER IV

PAPER 401 Thoreau - Walden Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie Arthur Miller - Death of Salesman Robert Frost - Provide, Provide; Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight; Birches; Mending Wall; Directive; The Gift Outright; Come in Gordimer - My Sons Story Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Or Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems PAPER 402 Raja Rao - Kanthapura Derek Walcott - Pantomime Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart Margaret Atwood - Surfacing V.S. Naipaul - The Mimic Men Patrick White - A Fringe of Leaves PAPER 403 (Special Paper) American Literature Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury Sylvia Plath - Point Shirley; The Colossus; Daddy; Fever 103; Ariel; Purdah; Lady Lazarus Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues; Dream Variations; The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Ballad of the Landlord; Theme for English B; Fire; 50-50; Heaven; Personal Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye August Wilson - Ma Raineys Black Bottom Philip Kan Gotanda - Day Standing on Its Head Indian English Literature Mulk Raj Anand - Coolie Girish Karnad - The Fire and the Rain

Salman Rushdie - Midnights Children Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things Mahesh Dattani - Dance like a Man Indian English poetry - A. K. Mehrotra, ed. (Arun Kolatkar, A. K. Ramanujan, Agha Sahid Ali, Dilip Chitre)

Texts in Translation Rabindranth Tagore - The Home and the World (Penguin) U.R. Anantha Murthy - Samskara (Oxford India) Munshi Premchand - Godan (Oxford India) P. Sivakami - The Grip of Change (Orient Longman) Mahasweta Devi - Breast Stories (Seagull) Gurajada Apparao - Girls for Sale (Indian Univ. Press) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer - Poovanbanana and Other Stries (Orient Longman) Linguistics and Phonetics Group A Linguistics: (50 marks) Unit I : Notions of grammar; Grammaticality; Correctness; Some basic concepts in grammar: words and lexims, constituent structure, sentence and clause, morphological processes, components of a linguistic description, descriptive grammar vs. prescriptive grammar Unit II : Phrases; Kernel and non-kernel clauses; Clause/sentence type: Subordinationand coordination; Thematic Systems of the clause Unit III: The Noun Phrase Structure; Determiners and Article features Unit IV: Verbs; Adjectives; Prepositions; Tense, Aspect and Modality. Unit V: Surface and Deep Structure interrelation; the notion of Universal Grammar Unit VI: Stylistics and New Stylistics UnitVII: Language and language acquisition: the Behaviourist, Innatist and Interactionist schools.

 Group B Phonetics: (Theoretical: 35 marks; Practical: 15 marks) Unit I: International Phonetic Alphabet; Phonetics and Phonology Unit II: Air-Stream Mechanism and Organs of Speech Unit III: Description of English Vowels and Consonants; Sylable and Syllable structure Unit IV: Suprasegmental features: Stress, Rhythm, Intonation; Assimilation and Elison Unit V: The so-called RP; the notion of General Indian English (GIE); Problems of Indian learners of English; Phonetic and Phonemic Transcription. Practical: Oral tests on Units III, IV & V. PAPER 404 Group Discussion 50; Viva-voce 50.