3rd Semester English Honours Syllabus Calcutta University

Here is the 3rd semester English Honours Syllabus for Clacutta University. So, let’s see what are included in the latest syllabus released by CU. It is comprises of CORE COURSES (CC), Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) and Generic Elective (GE) subject.Okay, let’s discuss it in details.

Core Course (CC)

• CC5 –AMERICAN LITERATURE
• CC6 –POPULAR LITERATURE
• CC7 –BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (17TH – 18TH CENTURY)

Skill Enhancement Course (SEC)

• SEC-A1 – TRANSLATION STUDIES

Detailed Course (CC)

CC5 – (AMERICAN LITERATURE)

POETRY :

1. Robert Frost, ‘After Apple Picking’
2. Walt Whitman, ‘O Captain, My Captain’
3. Sylvia Plath, ‘Daddy’
4. Langston Hughes, ‘Harlem to be Answered’
5. Edgar Allan Poe, ‘To Helen’

NOVEL :

1. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

STORIES :

1. Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Purloined Letter’
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘The Crack-up’
3. William Faulkner, ‘Dry September’

DRAMA :

1. Arthur Miller, Death of A Salesman

Suggested Readings :

1. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from
   an American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105.
2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
   (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.
3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, in
   Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson,‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph
   Waldo Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New
   York: The Modern Library, 1964).
5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness
   and Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39.

CC6 – (POPULAR LITERATURE)

1. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
2. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol (‘Nonsense Rhymes’, translated Satyajit Ray),
4. Kolkata: Writers’ Workshop
5. Herge, Tintin in Tibet

Suggested Readings :

1. Chelva Kanaganayakam, ‘Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary
   Sri Lankan Literature’ (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi,
   and Victor J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings
   (Delhi: Doaba Publications, 2001) pp. 51–65.
2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual
   Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix.
3. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super Culture:
   American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling
   Green University Press, 1975) pp. 29–38.
4. Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English Literary
   History, vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.

CC7 – BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (17TH – 18TH CENTURY)

POETRY :

1. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
2. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Cantos I-III

DRAMA :

1. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
2. Aphra Behn, The Rover

Suggested Readings :

1. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke,
   chaps. 1–7 and 22–4.
2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York:
   Norton, 1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.
3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton,
   2006) chaps. 8, 11, and 13.
4. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in
   The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen
   Greenblatt (New York: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.

Detailed Course (SEC)

• Unit 1 – Importance of translation in a multi-linguistic and multi-cultural
  society
• Unit 2 – Literal translation
• Unit 3 – Free translation
• Unit 4 – Transcreation

Suggested Readings :

1. Jyoti Bhattacharya, Transcreations: Some Experiments on Tagore Songs,
   Kolkata: Gangchil
2. Mona Baker, In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, Routledge, 2001.
3. I.C. Catford, A Linguistic Theory of Translation, London: OUP, 1965.
4. Ravinder Gargesh and Krishna Kumar Goswami eds. Translation and
   Interpreting: Reader and Workbook, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.
5. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Translation and Understanding, New Delhi: OUP
6. Lawrence Venuti (ed), The Translation Studies Reader, London and New
   York: Routledge, 2012

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