Third Year Syllabus- Department of English- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Third Year Syllabus
Department of English
Four-Year B.A. (Honours) Course
Effective from the Session: 2013–2014
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N A T I O N A L U N I V E R S I T Y
Syllabus for Four Year B.A. Honours Course
Subject: English
Session: 2013-2014
THIRD YEAR
Paper Code Paper Title Marks Credits
231101 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 100 4
231103 16th and 17th Century Poetry 100 4
231105 17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose 100 4
231107 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction 100 4
231109 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama 100 4
231111 Victorian Poetry 100 4
231113 Introduction to Literary Criticism
(Up to Romantic Period)
100 4
231115 Introduction to Linguistics 100 4
Total = 800 32
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Detailed Syllabus
Paper Code : 231101 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
C. Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
W. Shakespeare Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice
Ben Jonson Volpone
John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
Paper Code : 231103 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : 16th and 17th Century Poetry
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene, Book I Canto –I
John Donne “The Sun Rising”, “A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning”,“The
Canonization”, “Batter my Heart”, “Death, be not proud”
Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Definition of Love”
George Herbert “Easter Wings”, “The Collar”
John Milton Paradise Lost, Book –I
Paper Code : 231105 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : 17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose
F. Bacon “Of Marriage and Single Life”, “Of Truth”, “Of Plantation”,
“Of
Great Place”, “Of Revenge”, “Of Love”
Addison and Steele “The Spectator’s Account of Himself”, “Of the Club”, “Sir
Roger at Church”, “His Account of His
Disappointment in Love”, “Death of Sir Roger”
Samuel Johnson “Life of Cowley”
Edmund Burke “Speech on East India Bill”
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Paper Code : 231107 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction
Aphra Ben Oroonoko
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
Paper Code : 231109 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
William Congreve The Way of the World
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
Paper Code : 231111 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : Victorian Poetry
A. Tennyson “Locksley Hall”, “Oenone”, “The Lotos Eaters”, “Tithonus”
R. Browning “The Last Ride Together”, “Andrea del Sarto”, “Fra Lippo
Lippi”, “My Last Duchess”
M. Arnold “Thyrsis”, “Dover Beach”, “The Scholar Gypsy”
G. Manley Hopkins “The Windhover”, “Felix Randal”, “Spring and Fall: to a
young child”, “Pied Beauty”
Paper Code : 231113 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : Introduction to Literary Criticism (Up to Romantic Period)
a) Aristotle Poetics (Chapter: 1-14, 24, 26)
b) Sydney “An Apology for Poetry”
c) Dr. S. Johnson “The Preface to Shakespeare”
d) W. Wordsworth “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
e) S.T. Coleridge “Biographia Literaria” ( 4, 14, 17)
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Paper Code : 231115 Marks : 100 Credits : 4 Class Hours : 60 hrs.
Paper Title : Introduction to Linguistics
The Paper introduces students to fundamentals of Linguistics. It covers:
a) Definition and characteristics of language,
b) Basic concepts in Linguistics : Langue and Parole, Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
perspectives of language, Competence and performance.
c) Consonant and vowel sounds in English. Basic Rules of elision and assimilation,
Stress and intonation.
d) Morphology : Free and Bound Morphemes, Word formation rules
e) Psycholinguistics : PS & IC rules of second language acquisition, Monitor Model
Theory, Nativist Theory, Acculturation Theory, Accommodation Theory
f) Sociolinguistics : Language Varieties, Language and Social Class, Spir-Whorf
Hypothesis.