2nd Semester English Honours Syllabus 2023 – Kalyani University

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Core Course (CC)

• CC T3- INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
• CC T4- BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14th– 17th CENTURIES

Generic Elective (GE)

• GE T2- TEXT AND PERFORMANCE

Detailed Course (CC)

CC T3 (INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH) –

1. Amitav Ghosh. “The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi”. The New Yorker. 17 Jul
   1995
2. Salman Rushdie. “The Free Radio”
3. ShashiDeshpande. “The Intrusion”
4. Kamala Das. “Introduction”
5. Robin S. Ngangom. “The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom”, “A Poem for Mother”
6. Nissim Ezekiel. “Enterprise”
7. Toru Dutt. “Our Casurina Tree”
8. ArunKolatkar. “The Bus”
9. JayantaMahapatra. “Dawn at Puri”
10. GirishKarnad. Hayavadana. Three Plays. New Delhi: OUP, 1997
11. Anita Desai. In Custody.

CC T4 (BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14th– 17th CENTURIES) –

1. Geoffrey Chaucer. “Wife of Bath”. The Prologue to the Canterbury
   Tales.Ed. Neville Coghill.
2. Edmund Spenser. Sonnet LXXV. “One day I wrote her name…” Amoretti.
3. Johne Donne. “The Sunne Rising” and “ Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
4. Francis Bacon. “Of Empire”
5. Christopher Marlowe. Doctor Faustus
6. William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night
7. William Shakespeare. Macbeth

Detailed Course (GE)

GE T2 (TEXT AND PERFORMANCE) –

1. Introduction: (i) Introduction to theories of performance, (ii) Historical overview of Western and Indian theatre, (iii) Forms and Periods: Classical, Contemporary, Stylized, Naturalist.
2. Theatrical Forms and Practices: (i) Types of theatre, semiotics of performative spaces, e.g. proscenium „in the round‟, amphitheatre, open-air, etc. , (ii) Voice, speech: body movement, gestures and techniques (traditional and contemporary), floor exercises: improvisation/characterization.
3. Theories of Drama: (i) Theories and demonstrations of acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht. , (ii) Bharata.
4. Theatrical Production: (i) Direction, production, stage props, costume, lighting, backstage support. , (ii) Recording/archiving performance/case study of production/performance/impact of media on performance processes.

*TEXTBOOK: Introduction to Undergraduate English: Book II. Cambridge University Press, 2018 is the only prescribed textbook for this course.