3rd Semester English Honours Syllabus 2023 – Kalyani University

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Core Course (CC)

• CC T5- AMERICAN LITERATURE
• CC T6- POPULAR LITERATURE
• CC T7- BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17th and 18th CENTURIES

Generic Elective (GE)

• GE T3- LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Skill Enhancement Course (SEC)

• SEC T1- ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

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Detailed Course (CC)

CC T5 ( AMERICAN LITERATURE) –

1. Edgar Allan Poe. “The Purloined Letter”
2. William Faulkner. “Dry September”
3. Anne Bradstreet. “The prologue”
4. Walt Whitman. “Passage to India” (ll. 1-68). Leaves of Grass.
5. Adriene Rich. “Power”
6. Allen Ginsberg. “An Eastern Ballad”. Beat Poets. Ed. Carmela Ciuraru.
7. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
8. Abraham Lincoln. “Gettysburg Address”
9. Martin Luther King. “I have a Dream”
10. Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie.
11. Toni Morrison. Beloved.

CC T6 (POPULAR LITERATURE) –

1. ShyamSelvadurai. Funny Boy.
2. DurgabaiVyam and ShubhashVyam. Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability ./ Autobiographical Notes on Ambedkar (for visually challenged students).
3. Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass.
4. Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

CC T7 (BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17th and 18th CENTURIES) –

1. John Milton. Paradise Lost. Bk. I
2. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. (Books I and II)
3. John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi.
4. Aphra Behn. The Rover.

Detailed Course (GE)

GE T3 (LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS) –

1. Language: language and communication; language varieties: standard and non-standard language; language change. Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M Bhatt.WorldEnglishes: The study of New Linguistic Varieties .Cambridge UP, 2008.
2. Phonetics and Phonology: Introduction to English vowel and consonant sounds, Stress and phonemic transcription of connected speech, Syllabic structure and consonant cluster. T. Balasubramanian. A textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students. 2nd ed. Trinity, 2013. J. D.O‟Connor. Better English Pronunciation. CUP, 2000. Peter Roach. English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course. CUP, 2000.
3. Syntax and Semantics: Categories and Constituents, Phrase Structure, Maxims of conversations. Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M Harnish. Chapters 5 and 6.Liinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication.2 nded. MIT Press, 1984.Indian edition, Prentice Hall, 1991. Board of editors.Linguistics: An Introduction. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015. F.R.Palmer. Grammar. Penguin, 1983. George Yule. The Study of Language.CUP, 2016. David Crystal. English as A Global Language. 2 nd ed. CUP, 2003. Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams.Chapters 3, 6 and 7.An Introduction to Language. 11thed. Wadsworth, 2018.
4. Rhetoric and Prosody: Identification and explanation of the figures of speech, Scansion and identification of the metrical pattern of a poem, or an excerpt from a poem. Bose and Sterling.Elements of English Rhetoric and Prosody.

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

Detailed Course (SEC)

SEC T1 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING) – {Any Four}

1. Knowing the Learner
2. Structures of English Language
3. Methods of teaching English Language and Literature
4. Materials for Language Teaching
5. Assessing Language Skills
6. Using Technology in Language Teaching

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

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