5th Semester English Honours Syllabus 2023 – Kalyani University

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Core Course (CC)

  • CC T11- WOMEN’s WRITING
  • CC T12- BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY 20th

Discipline Specific Elective (DSE)

  • DSE T1- MODERN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
  • DSE T2- BRITISH LITERATURE: POST WORLD WAR II
  • DSE T3- LITERACY CRITICISM

Detailed Course (CC)

CC T11 (WOMEN’s WRITING) –

  1. Emily Dickinson. “I cannot live with you”. “I‟m „wife‟- I‟ve finished
    that”.
  2. Sylvia Plath. “Daddy”, “Lady Lazarus”.
  3. Maya Angelou. “Caged Bird”. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. Random House Inc., 1994.
  4. Katherine Mansfield. “Bliss”.
  5. Mahashweta Devi. “Draupadi”. Translated with a foreword by GayatriChakravortySpivak. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 2, Writing and Sexual Difference. (Winter, 1981), pp. 381-402.
  6. Rassundari Debi. Excerpts from Amar Jibanin Women’s Writing in India. Vol.1. Eds. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita. New Delhi: OUP, 191-2.
  7. Alice Walker. The Color Purple.
  8. Mary Wollstonecraft. Chapter II. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Norton Critical Edition. 1988. Pp.19-38. Ramabai Ranade. “A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures”. Pandita Ramabai through Her Own Words: Selected Works. Tr. Meera Kosambi. New Delhi: OUP, 2000. pp. 295-324.

CC T12 (BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY 20th) –

  1. William Butler Yeats. “Byzantium”, “Sailing to Byzantium”.
  2. Thomas Stearns Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Preludes”, “Hollow Men”.
  3. Wystan Hugh Auden. “Unknown Citizen”.
  4. David Herbert Lawrence. “Odour of Chrysanthemums”.
  5. Virginia Woolf. “Mark on the Wall”.
  6. W. Somerset Maugham. “Rain”.
  7. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness.
  8. John Millington Synge. Riders to the Sea.
  9. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Detailed Course (DSE)

DSE T1 (MODERN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION) –

  1. Premchand. “The Shroud”. New Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories.
    Ed. M. Assaduddin. Penguin, 2006.
  2. Ismat Chughtai. “The Quilt”. Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of IsmatChughtai. Tr. M. Assaduddin. Penguin, 2009.
  3. Gurdial Singh. “A Season of No Return”. Earthy Tones. Tr. Rana Nayar. Fiction House, 2002.
  4. Fakir Mohan Senapati. “Rebati”. Oriya Stories. Ed. Vidya Das. Tr. KishoriCharan Das. Srishti, 2000.
  5. G.M.Muktibodh. “The Void” (Tr. VinayDharwadker) and “So Very Far” (tr. Vishnu Khare and Adil Jussawala). Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry. OUP, 2000.
  6. Amrita Pritam. “I Say unto Waris Shah” (Tr. N.S.Tasneem). ModernIndian Literature: An Anthology. Plays and Prose. Vol.3.Ed. K. M. George. SahityaAkademi, 1992.
  7. ThangjamIbopishak Singh. “Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Clours ofWind” and “The Land of the Half-Humans”. Tr. Robin S. Ngangom. The Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast. NEHU, 2003.
  8. Rabindranath Tagore. Red Oleanders or DharamveerBharati. Andha Yug. Tr. AlokBhalla. OUP
  9. G. KalyanRao. Untouchable Spring. Tr. AlladiUma and M. Sridhar. Orient Blackswan.

DSE T2 (BRITISH LITERATURE: POST WORLD WAR II) –

  1. Phillip Larkin. “Whitsun Weddings” and “Church Going”.
  2. Ted Hughes. “Hawk Roosting” and “Crow‟s Fall”.
  3. Seamus Heaney. “Digging” and “Casualty”.
  4. Carol Anne Duffy. “Text” and “Stealing”.
  5. George Orwell. Animal Farm.
  6. John Osborne. Look Back in Anger.
  7. Julian Barnes. England, England.

DSE T3 (LITERACY CRITICISM) –

  1. William Wordsworth. “Preface” to the Lyrical Ballads (1802).
  2. Virginia Woolf. “Modern Fiction”.
  3. T.S. Eliot: “Tradition and the Individual Talent”.
  4. S.T. Coleridge. BiographiaLiteraria. Chapters XIII and XIV.
  5. I.A. Richards. Principles of Literary Criticism. Chapters 1, 2 and 34. London, 1924.
  6. Cleanth Brooks. “The Heresy of Paraphrase”, and “The Language of Paradox”.

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