2ND SEMESTER COURSE ASSIGNMENT JAN MAY 2016 CORE COURSE V

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1 2 ND SEMESTER COURSE ASSIGNMENT JAN MAY 2016 A. CORE COURSE V ROMANTIC & VICTORIAN: POETRY AND DRAMA a. Unit I Poetry at least two poets i. Sub-unit-1: ( One considerably long poem like In Memoriam or three midlength poems, or ten short poems): BH ii. Sub-unit-2: (One considerably long poem like In Memoriam or three midlength poems, or ten short poems.): BH b. Unit II Drama by at least two playwrights i. Sub-unit-1: (One full-length play or three one-act plays.) MI ii. Sub-unit-2: (One full-length play or three one-act plays.): SCH Unit I. Poetry: Sub-unit 1 & 2: Baishali Hui Sub-unit I. Romantic Poetry William Wordsworth, Upon Westminster Bridge, Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, The Daffodils, To the Skylark, Written in early Spring, She was a phantom of delight. John Keats To Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Bright Star, When I have fears that I may cease to be. Sub-unit II. Victorian Poetry Lord Alfred Tennyson Tithonus, The Lady of Shalott, Morte D Arthur, Break, Break, Break, Milton, Crossing the Bar G.M. Hopkins Windhover, Felix Randal, I Wake and Feel, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child. Course Description: (i) Treatment of myth in Tennyson s poetry (ii) Tennyson s poetry epitomizing Victorian ideals and conflicts (iii) Theme of death and renewal of life in Tennyson s poetry (iv) Style and diction of Tennyson (v) Hopkins s experiments with language use and style (vi) The conflict of priestly vocation and poetic sensibility in Hopkins s poetry Unit II. Drama: Sub-unit 1: Manirul Islam Remorse by S.T. Coleridge Course Description: The text will be read in detail and some of the issues that will be part of the discussion are: 1. British drama in the Romantic period 2. Gothic conventions and Remorse 3. Coleridge s syncretism in Remorse 4. Coleridge, Spinoza and Remorse 5. Combination of the dramatic and the poetic in Remorse.

2 Unit II. Drama: Sub-unit 2: Sarbani Chaudhury G. B. Shaw Mrs Warren s Profession Course Description A. THEMES: 1. Social critique 2. Capitalism 3. Prostitution 4. The New Woman 5. Realism B. CHARACTERS 1. Art of Characterization 2. Relationships Filial/ Love/ Friendship 3. Characters: Their Role & Function C. STYLE & STRUCTURE 1. Language - Humour & Satire 2. Structure B. CORE COURSE VI ROMANTIC & VICTORIAN: FICTION AND NON-FICTIONAL PROSE a. Unit I Fiction by at least two authors i. Sub-unit-1: (one novel or five short stories.): SML ii. Sub-unit-2: (one novel or five short stories.): SML b. Unit II Non-fictional prose at least two authors i. Sub-unit-1: (One full book-length text or three essays.): IR ii. Sub-unit-2: (One full book-length text or three essays.): IR Unit I Fiction: Sub-units 1 & 2: Fiction: Sandip Mondal Sub-unit 1 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Course Description: The text will be taught in relation to the following topics: i) Gothic Novel ii) Narrative Structure iii) Psychoanalytical Reading Sub-unit 2 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Course Description: The text will be taught in relation to the following topics: i) Criminality ii) Narrative Style iii) Characters iv) Country and the City Unit II Fiction: Sub-units 1 & 2: Non-fictional Prose: Ishita Roy Sub Unit 1: Romantic Non-Fictional Prose This section involves a detailed study of 1.William Wordsworth's "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads (1800), 2.Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (Chapters XIV, XVII, and part of XVIII), and 3.P.B. Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" Course Description: The aim and design of this section is to inquire into the nature of what has come to be called as Romantic literary criticism, through the study of these primary texts.what characteristics go into identifying a specifically 'romantic' theory of art and aesthetics is a question that this section devotes itself to. The 'romantic' preoccupation with nature of poetry or art as a whole (theorisation on aesthetics), its concomitant relation to the human mind and other human concerns (social and political criticism) has made a significant contribution to the

3 entire tradition of literary criticism. This course intends to understand the "poetics" of the Romantics. Background and accompanied texts: Selections from the following texts 1. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran 2. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle 3. Poetics, Aristotle 4. The Mirror and the Lamp, M. H. Abrams 5. Ion, Plato 6. The Republic, Plato 7. "On the Discrimination of Romanticisms", Arthur O. Lovejoy 8. "The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery", W.K.Wimsatt 9. "The Case of Shelley", Frederick A. Pottle Sub Unit 2: Victorian Non-Fictional Prose J.S. Mill, On Liberty Course Description: A detailed study of the entire text of J.S. Mill's On Liberty shall be taken up for introducing students to one of the most influential English political philosophers in nineteenth century, and his thoughts on the understanding of that elusive idea called 'freedom'. Mill's conception of freedom, his understanding of the nature of political authority, his defence of liberty against the state, his idea of a protected private sphere and the subsequent feminist critique of it are some of the topics of discussion that will serve as points of departure for a deeper analysis of freedom in all its aspects: social, political and intellectual. Reference 1. Mill on Liberty, C.L.Ten 2. Harm to Others, Joel Feinberg 3. An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Jonathan Wolff 4. Women in Western Political Thought, Susan Okin Note: Reference texts, texts for background discussion are subject to change C. CORE COURSE IX STRUCTURE OF MODERN ENGLISH, ELT AND STYLISTICS a. Unit I Phonetics, Phonology and ELT i. Sub-unit-1: (Phonetics & Phonology): KB ii. Sub-unit-2: (English Language Teaching): KB b. Unit II Morphology, Syntax and Stylistics i. Sub-unit-1 (Morphology & Syntax): BH ii. Sub-unit-2 (Stylistics): BH Course Objective: This course intends to develop both the learners theoretical perspectives on the nature and structure of the English language in use today and their practical skills in using the language in speech and writing. Teaching theories are discussed with a focus on the teaching-learning scenario of English as L 2 in post-colonial India. Modes of stylistic analysis will enhance the learners skills in the study and appreciation of literature. The overall objective of the course, therefore, is to make the students aware of the new developments in the fields of linguistics and English language and literature teaching.

4 Unit I Sub-unit I : Phonetics & Phonology: K.B. Phonetics & Phonology Course Description: The general study of speech sounds and their characteristics by considering them as physically representable entities is kown as phonetics while in phonology speech sounds are considered as linguistic units. Among the three areas of study in phonetics (namelyarticulatory, acoustic, auditory), this course will focus on articulatory phonetics which is the study of the formation of speech sounds by putting emphasis on the following topics- The Phonetic Medium: Articulatory Phonetics, Phonetic and Orthographic Representation: IPA, RP; Speech Mechanism and Organs of Speech, Classification of English Speech Sounds- Consonants:Voiced/Voiceless, Place & Manner of Articulation: Chart (and its limitation);vowel sounds & Dipthongs, Phonological Analysis of Language System, Phonemes, Phones and allophones, Minimal Pairs and sets, Syllables and clusters, Assimilation, Elision. Reading list: Lyons, John. Language and Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP, Print. (Chapter- 2&3) Yule, George. A Study of Language. New Delhi: CUP, Print. (Chapters-1, 4 and 5) Unit I Sub-unit-II: ELT: K.B. English Language Teaching Course Description: This part of the course aims to explore different methods of teaching English as a second language by taking the following topics into account: Second language acquisition; Basic skills of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, writing; Methods of teaching language: Grammar translation method, Direct method, Audio lingual method; Communicative language teaching; Error analysis; testing etc. (N.B. - Extended reading list and study materials along with some web resources will be provided during the semester) Unit II. Morphology, Syntax and Stylistics: Baishali Hui Unit II Sub-unit I: Morphology and Syntax of English (i) Notions of grammar, grammaticality and acceptability Descriptive and prescriptive approaches to language study Different paradigms of linguistics (ii) Morphology Morphemes and allomorphs Derivation and inflection Morphological analysis Morphophonemic processes (iii) Syntactic analysis IC analysis Basics of Transformational Generative Grammar the Noun Phrase, Verb phrase and the relationals (iv) Surface structure and deep structure configuration of sentences Aspects model Linguistic competence and Universal Grammar Unit II Sub-unit II [Stylistics] Theories and strategies of stylistic analysis Style, context, register Functions of language and language use Practical stylistic analysis

5 D. OPTIONAL COURSE XII. i EUROPEAN DRAMA AND FICTION a. Unit I Drama i. Sub-unit-1: (One classical play): NC ii. Sub-unit-2: (One modern play): NC b. Unit II Fiction i. Sub-unit-1: (One 19 th Century novel): AB ii. Sub-unit-2: (One 20 th Century novel): AB Unit I. Drama: Sub-units 1 & 2: Niladri Ranjan Chatterjee Sub-Unit 1. One Classical Play "The Misanthrope" (1666) by Moliere Sub-Unit 1. One Modern Play "The House of Bernarda Alba" (1936) by Federico Garcia Lorca Course Description The texts will be taught with respect to the following topics, among other others that may arise from classroom discussions: 1. Socio-Cultural Context of the plays 2. The Classical Structure of the plays (adherence to the three unities) 3. Individual vs. Society 4. Comment on society 5. Action on- and off-stage Unit II. Fiction: Sub-units 1 & 2: Anirban Bhattacharjee Sub-Unit 1. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830) Course Description a) The Red and The Black and the Political Chronology of France ( ) b) Madness and the Illusion of Realism c) Imitation and Desire: An Anatomy of Hypocrisy and Happiness d) Stendhal and the Ambiguities of Freedom e) The Quest for the (m)other: Toward a Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading Sub-Unit 2. Albert Camus: The Stranger (1942) Course Description a) Death, Absurdism and the Poetics of Strangeness b) Moments of (mis)understanding : Sexism, Racism and Colonialism c) Meursault and the Messianic Myth d) Levinas, Camus and Political Nietzscheanism : Moving beyond the Tragedy of Modernity E. OPTIONAL COURSE XII. iii. AMERICAN FICTION AND POETRY a. Unit I Fiction at least two authors i. Sub-unit-1: (One 19 th Century Novel): AS ii. Sub-unit-2: (One 20 th Century Novel): AS b. Unit II Poetry at least two poets i. Sub-unit-1: (19 th Century Poetry): SM ii. Sub-unit-2: (20 th Century Poetry.): SM

6 Unit I. American Fiction: Sub-units 1 & 2: Ashok Sengupta Sub-Unit 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) (Norton Edition) Course Description: Introduction to the American Novel (Beginnings to Nathaniel Hawthorne). The following topics to be discussed: a) The Scarlet Letter as a historical romance; b) The Scarlet Letter as a Puritan allegory; c) A feminist reading of The Scarlet Letter; d) The character of Pearl in the novel. Sub-Unit 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby (1926) (Oxford University Press) Course Description: The following topics to be discussed: a) The Great Gatsby and the theme of the American Dream; b) The theme of time in The Great Gatsby; c) Structure and symbol in The Great Gatsby; d) The Great Gatsby as a modern American Novel. Unit II. American Poetry: Sub-units 1 & 2: Sharmila Majumdar Sub-Unit 1. Poetry (Nineteenth Century) Walt Whitman 1. One s Self I Sing (Inscription) 2. As I Ponder d in Silence (Inscription) 3. Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd ( Children of Adam) 4. For You O Democracy (Calamus) 5. O Captain! My Captain! (Memories of President Lincoln) Emily Dickinson 1. Because I could not stop for Death 2. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 3. The Soul selects her own Society 4. After great pain, a formal feeling comes 5. I am Nobody! Who are you? Sub-Unit 2. (Poetry Twentieth Century) Robert Frost 1. Mending Wall 2. After Apple Picking 3. Road Not Taken Wallace Stevens 1. Sunday Morning 2. The Emperor of Ice Cream e.e.cummings 1. next to of course god america i 2. as freedom is a breakfastfood

7 Langston Hughes 1. Cross 2. The Negro Speaks of River Adrienne Rich 1. Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law F. OPTIONAL COURSE XII. v. INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: FICTION AND NON- FICTIONAL PROSE a. Unit I Fiction in English from 1865 to the present any two authors i. Sub-unit-1: (One novel or five short stories): NC ii. Sub-unit-2: (One novel five short stories): NC b. Unit II Non-fictional prose from the beginning to the present any two authors i. Sub-unit-1: (A book-length text or three essays or three speeches.): MI ii. Sub-unit-2: (A book-length text or three essays or three speeches.): MI Unit I. Fiction in English from 1865 to the present : Sub-units 1 & 2: Niladri Ranjan Chatterjee Sub-Unit I. Untouchable (1935) by Mulk Raj Anand Sub-Unit II. The Miniaturist (2003) by Kunal Basu Course Description: The texts will be taught with respect to the following topics, among others that may arise from classroom discussions: 1. Fiction as History 2. Masculinity and Sexuality in India 3. Socio-Cultural Politics of Exclusion 4. The Omniscient Narrator 5. Discussion of the Main and Marginal Characters Unit II: Sub-units 1 & 2: Non-fictional prose from the beginning to the present: Manirul Islam Sub-unit 1. Three Essays by Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo): 1. The Renaissance in India 2. Indian Culture and External Influence 3. Is India Civilised? Course Description: The texts will be read keeping in view the following issues: a. The Asiatic Society of Bengal, the revival of India s past and the Indian Renaissance b. British imperial rhetoric and representation of India c. Intercultural communication d. Problematization of the idea of Indian Renaissance e. Writing back from empire. Sub-unit 2: Three Essays by Amartya Sen: 1. Tagore and His India 2. Our Culture, Their Culture 3. Indian Traditions and Western Imagination Course Description:

8 Sen s book The Argumentative Indian attempts to dismantle some of the Western stereotypes of Indian civilization and culture. The three essays from this book will be read in the context of contemporary efforts of Indian intellectuals to understand and redefine Indian culture and civilization. The essays will be closely examined in an attempt to understand the history of communications between India and the outside world (chiefly the West), Empire as help or hindrance in such interactions and role of Rabindranath Tagore in this cross-cultural exchange. Old syllabus students are offered a choice between OC XII. iii (American Fiction and Poetry) and OC XII. V (Indian Literature in English: Fiction and Non-Fictional Prose)