2nd Semester English Honours Syllabus 2023 – Calcutta University

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CORE COURSE (CC)

• CC3 –INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
• CC4 –BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (14TH – 17TH CENTURY)

Detailed Course (CC)

CC3 – (INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH)

POETRY :

1. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, ‘To India, My Native Land’
2. Toru Dutt, ‘Our Casuarina Tree’
3. Kamala Das, ‘Introduction’
4. A.K. Ramanujan, ‘River’
5. Nissim Ezekiel, ‘Enterprise’
6. Jayanta Mahapatra, ‘Dawn at Puri’

NOVEL :

1. Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay: Rajmohan’s Wife

DRAMA :

1. Mahesh Dattani, Bravely Fought the Queen

Suggested Readings :

1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
2. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in Imaginary
   Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The Perishable
   Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi:
   OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10
5. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, A Concise History of Indian Writing in English,
   Ranikhet: Permanent Black

CC4 – BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (14TH – 17TH CENTURY)

POETRY :

1. Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Wife of Bath’s Prologue’
2. Edmund Spenser, ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name’
3. William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18 & 130
4. John Donne, ‘The Good Morrow’
5. Andrew Marvell, ‘To His Coy Mistress’

DRAMA :

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II OR William Shakespeare, Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night OR As You Like It

Suggested Readings :

1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The
   Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin
   McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance
   Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York:
   Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11.
3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book
   4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth:
   Penguin, rpt. 1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D. Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP

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