B.A. Honours Course in English (CBCS Syllabus) under the University of Gour Banga
Semester I:
Paper Code: 102-ENGH-C-2 (British Poetry and Drama: 17th and18th Centuries): The Rover by Aphra Behn
Recommended Books: 1.The Rover edited by Asha S. Kanwar and Anand Prakash, Worldview Publications, 2000
2. The Theatre of Aphra Behn by Derek Hughes, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
Semester II:
Paper Code: 201-ENGH-C-3 (British Literature: 18th Century) Samuel Johnson ‘London’; Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
Recommended Books:
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by David Fairer, Routledge, 2002.
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson edited by Greg Clingham, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Eighteenth–Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerard, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2014 11. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry edited by Christine Gerrard, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
English Social and Cultural History: An Introductory Guide and Glossary, by Bibhash Choudhury, PHI, 2010.
Paper Code: 202-ENGH-C-4 (British Romantic Literature): William Blake's ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience), and ‘The Tyger’ (The Songs of Experience); Robert Burns's ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’ and ‘To a Mouse’.
Recommended Books:
Romantic Poets edited by Kanav Gupta, Worldview Publications, 2016.
Reading Robert Burns: Texts, Contexts, Transformations by Carol McGuirk, Pickerring and Chatto, 2014.
Romanticism by Aidan Day, Routledge, 1995.
Semester III:
Paper Code: 301-ENGH-C-5 (British Literature: 19th Century): Charles Dickens's Hard Times.
Recommended Books:
Victorian Literature and Culture by Maureen Moran,Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.,2006.
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Paper Code: 303-ENGH-C-7 (European Classical Literature): Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses: ‘Bacchus’, (Book III), ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (Book IV), ‘Philomela’ (Book VI); Horace's Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles
Recommended Books:
A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, Palala Press, 2016.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature edited by M.C. Howatson, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Metamorphoses(Norton Critical Edition) edited by Charles Martin, W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.
The Satires of Horace and Persius edited by Niall Rudd, Penguin, 2005.
Classical Mythology, International Edition by Mark P.O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, and Michael Sham, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Semester IV:
Paper Code: 402-ENGH-C-9 (American Literature): Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie; Earnest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
Recommended Books:
This Unsettling Place Readings in American Literature edited by Akhil Katyal and Anannya Dasgupta, Worldview Publications, 2016.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, RHUK, 1994.
Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms (Modern Critical Interpretations) edited by Harold Bloom, Viva, 1988.
The Glass Menagerie edited by Stephen Bottom, Methuen, 2008.
The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams edited by Matthew C. Roudane, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Semester V:
Paper Code: 501-ENGH-C-11 (Postcolonial Literature):
Pablo Neruda: ‘Tonight I can Write’, ‘The Way Spain Was’
Derek Walcott: ‘A Far Cry from Africa’, ‘Names’
Kaiser Haq: ‘Published in the Streets of Dhaka’, ‘Bangladesh 71’
Mamang Dai: ‘Small Towns and the River’, ‘The Voice of the Mountain’
Paper Code: 503-ENGH-DSE-1A (Basics of English Language): Rhetoric & Prosody
Semester VI:
Paper Code: 601- ENGH-C-13 (Popular Literature): Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass
Paper Code: 604-ENGH-DSE-4A (Research Methodology): Using data: Sources, resources and style
B.A. General (CBCS Syllabus) under the University of Gour Banga
Semester II:
Paper Code: 201-ENGG-C-2 (Poetry):
W.B.Yeats: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘No Second Troy’
T. S. Eliot: ‘Preludes’, ‘Marina’,
Semester III:
Paper Code: Paper 304-ENGG-SEC-1 (Business Communication)
Semester V:
Paper Code: 501-ENGG-DSE-1A (Basics of English Language): Rhetoric & Prosody
Paper Code: 504-ENGG-SEC-2 (Soft Skills): Emotional Intelligence & Adaptability
M.A. in English (CBCS Syllabus) under Malda College (Affiliated to the University of Gour Banga)
Semester I:
Paper Code: ENGL 101: Criticism and Theory 1
I. Immanuel Kant: Book I ‘Analytic of the Beautiful’ and Book II ‘Analytic of the Sublime’ From
Critique of Judgment
ii. Edmund Burke: From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
Paper Code: ENGL 102: Poetry 1
Elizabethan Sonnets:
i. Shakespeare’s Sonnets: 30, 80, 116, 130, 144
ii. Edmund Spenser: Amoretti (No. 13, 30, 37, 79, 81)
Paper Code: ENGL 106 English for Communication
Development of reading and writing skills
Semester II:
Paper Code: ENGL 204: Drama 2: Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Paper Code: ENGL 206: Cultural Studies: Understanding Cultural Studies: Terms, Concepts and Theories
Semester III:
Paper Code: ENGL 301: Criticism and Theory 3
i. Stephen Greenblatt: “Introduction” to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance,
ii. Jonathan Dollimore: “Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism” from Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism
Paper Code: ENGL 305: Option A: Academic Writing: Organization of writing
Paper Code: ENGL 306: Folklore Studies: Understanding Folklore Studies: Terms, Concepts and Theories
Semester IV:
Paper Code: ENGL 401: New Literatures in English (Excluding India): Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Paper Code: 403A: World Literature in Translation I (Excluding India)
Franz Kafka: The Trial, and Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
Paper Code: ENGL 405: Dissertation: as per allotments
Paper Code: ENGL 406: Literature and Film: Adaptations and Appropriations
BA HONOURS OLD PATTERN (1+1+1) under the University of Gour Banga
Part II
Paper -3, Unit- 2: Rhetoric & Prosody
Part III
Paper -5, Unit-5: Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Paper -6
Unit-4: E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
Unit-5: G. B. Shaw: Arms and the Man
Paper-7, Unit- 5: Girish Karnad: Hayavadana
Paper -8A, Unit-5:
a) Sarojini Naidu: ‘The Song of the Coromandel Fishers’; ‘The Flute Player of Brindaban’; ‘Humayun to Zubaida’
b) R. Parthasarathy: ‘Exile’, ‘Trial’; ‘Delhi’
d) Keki N. Daruwalla: ‘Boat-ride Along the Ganga’; ‘The Ghaghra in Spate’; ‘The Unrest of Desire’
BA GENERAL OLD PATTERN (1+1+1) under the University of Gour Banga
Part II
PAPER 3; UNIT 1: Literary Types
PAPER 4; UNIT 9: O’Neill: The Emperor Jones
PAPER 4; UNIT 7: Shakespeare: Macbeth
Netaji Subhas Open University (Study centre: Malda Women's College, Malda
Part I
Module – I, Unit 2 : Spenser: Amoretti (1 Sonnet), Prothalamion, The Faerie Queen
Module – III:
Unit 6 : Tennyson: Extracts from In Memoriam (Great English Poems. Ed. V. Young)
Unit 7 : Browning: Andreadel Sarto and Child Roland to the Dark Tower Came