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Core Course (CC)
- CC1 – HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY
- CC2 –EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC)
- AECC1 – COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH OR MIL
Detailed Course (CC)
CC1 – (HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY)
Group A: History of Literature
Section 1:
Unit A –Old English Heroic Poetry, Old English Prose and Chaucer
Unit B – Elizabethan Sonnets, University Wits and Ben Jonson
Unit C–Restoration Comedy of Manners and Eighteenth Century
Novels
Section 2:
Unit D – Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Non-fiction Prose
Unit E–Victorian Novel and the Pre-Raphaelites
Unit F–Modern Novel: Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce
Modern Poetry: T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas
Modern Drama: Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, John
Osborne
Suggested Readings :
- Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature
- Edward Albert: History of English Literature
- Michael Alexander: A History of English Literature
- G.M. Trevelyan: English Social History
- Bibhash Choudhury: English Social and Cultural History
Group B: Philology
Section 1: Latin Influence, Scandinavian Influence, French Influence,
Americanism
Section 2: Consonant Shift and Word Formation Processes
(Shortening, Back-formation, Derivations), Short Notes (Hybridism,
Monosyllabism, Free & Fixed Compounds, Malapropism, information, Johnsonese)
Suggested Readings :
- Otto Jespersen: Growth and Structure of the English Language (Chapters 4,5, 6, 8, 10)
- C.L. Wren: The English Language (Chapters 6 & 7)
- A.C. Baugh: A History of English Language
- C.L. Barber: The Story of Language
CC2 – (EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE)
Group A: Social and intellectual background
Group B:
Homer, The Iliad (Books I and II) translated byE.V. Rieu
Sophocles, Oedipus the King, in The Three Theban Plays, translated by
Robert Fagles
Group C:
Ovid, Selections from Metamorphosis, ‘Bacchus’ (Book III)
Plautus, Pot of Gold, translated byE.F. Watling OR
Horace, Satires, I: IV in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius,
translated Niall Rudd, Penguin, 2005.
Suggested Readings :
- S.H. Butcher, Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, New Delhi: Kalyani
Publishers - Aristotle/Horace/Longinus: Classical Literary Criticism, Translated with an Introduction by T.S. Dorsch, London: Penguin Books
Detailed Course (AECC)
- Correction of sentences
- Transformation (Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences; Degrees of Comparison; Affirmative and Negative Sentences; Interrogative and Assertive Sentences; Exclamatory and Assertive Sentences)
- Identifying True/False Statements from Given Passages
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