6th Semester English Honours Syllabus 2023 – Kalyani University

If you are looking for the latest(2023) B.A English Honours syllabus for 6th sem of Kalyani University, you’re in the right website. Let’s have a look!

Core Course (CC)

• CC T13- MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA
• CC T14- POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

Discipline Specific Elective (DSE)

• DSE T4- LITERACY THEORY
• DSE T5- PARTITION LITERATURE
• DSE T6- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Read- get indian job.com

---

Detailed Course (CC)

CC T13 (MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA) –

1. Henrik Ibsen. “Ghosts”. Ghosts and Other Plays. Tr. Peter Watts.
   Penguin, 1964.
2. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot.OUP.
3. Anton Chekov. “The Seagull”. Plays. Tr. Peter Carson. Penguin, 2002.
4. Bertolt Brecht. The Good Person of Szechwan. Ed.&Tr. Ralph Manheim. Penguin, 2008.
5. Eugene Ionesco. “Rhinoceros”. Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson. Tr.Derek Prouse and Donald Watson. Penguin, 1974.
6. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Tr. John Linstrum. Bloomsbury, 2014.

CC T14 (POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES) –

1. Bessie Head. “The Collector of Treasures”.
2. Ama Ata Aidoo. “The Girl Who Can”
3. Grace Ogot. “The Green Leaves”.
4. Pablo Neruda. “Tonight I Can Write”, “The Way Spain Was.”
5. Derek Walcott. “A Far Cry from Africa”, “Names”.
6. David Malouf. “Revolving Days”, “Wild Lemons”.
7. Mamang Dai. “Small Towns and the River”, “The Voice of the Mountain”.
8. Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart.

Detailed Course (DSE)

DSE T4 (LITERACY THEORY) –

1. Marxism: a. Antonio Gramsci. “The Formation of the Intellectuals”
   and “Hegemony (Civil Society) and Separation of Powers”.Selections
   from the Prison Notebooks.Ed. and tr. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey
   Novell Smith . London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1971. p. 5, 245–6.
   Feminism: a. Elaine Showalter. “Twenty Years on: A Literature of Their
   Own Revisited.” A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists
   from Bronte to Lessing. 1977. Rpt. London: Virago, 2003. pp. xi–xxxiii.
2. Postcolonial Studies: a. Mahatma Gandhi. “Passive Resistance” and “Education”.HindSwaraj and Other Writings, ed. Anthony J Parel. Delhi: CUP, 1997. pp. 88–106.
3. Postcolonial Studies: b. Edward Said. “The Scope of Orientalism.” Orientalism.Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. pp. 29–110.
4. Postcolonial Studies: c. Aijaz Ahmad. ““Indian Literature: Notes towardsthe Definition of a Category”. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso, 1992. pp. 243–285.
5. Marxism: b. Louis Althusser. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”.Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006. pp. 85–126.
6. Feminism: b. Luce Irigaray. “When the Goods Get Together”.This Sex Which is Not One. New French Feminisms.Ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron. New York: Schocken Books, 1981. pp. 107–10.
7. Poststructuralism: a. Jacques Derrida. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Science.” Tr. Alan Bass. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge. London: Longman,1988. pp. 108–23.
8. Poststructuralism: b. Michel Foucault. “Truth and Power”.Power and Knowledge.Tr.Alessandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino. New York: Pantheon, 1977. pp. 109–33.

DSE T5 (PARTITION LITERATURE) –

1. DibyenduPalit, „Alam’s Own House‟, tr. SarikaChaudhuri, Bengal
   Partition Stories:An Unclosed Chapter, ed. Basabi Fraser . London:
   Anthem Press, 2008. pp. 453–72.
2. Manik Bandyopadhyay, „The Final Solution‟, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: PartitionStories from Two Bengals, ed. DebjaniSengupta. New Delhi: Srishti, 2003. pp.23–39.
3. Sa‟adatHasanManto, “Toba Tek Singh”, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M. Asaduddin. New Delhi: Katha, 2003. pp. 212–20.
4. LalithambikaAntharajanam. “A Leaf in the Storm”. Tr. K. NarayanaChandran, inStories about the Partition of India. Ed. AlokBhalla. New Delhi: Manohar, 2012. pp. 137–45.
5. Faiz Ahmad Faiz. “For Your Lanes, My Country” in In English: Faiz Ahmad Faiz,A Renowned Urdu Poet. Tr. and ed. Riz Rahim. California: Xlibris, 2008. p. 138.
6. Gulzar. “Toba Tek Singh”. Tr. AnisurRahman, in Translating Partition. Ed. TarunSaint et al New Delhi: Katha, 2001. p. x.
7. Intizar Husain, Basti. Tr. Frances W. Pritchett. New Delhi: Rupa, 1995.
8. Amitav Ghosh. The Shadow Lines.

DSE T6 (RESEARCH METHODOLOGY) –

1. Practical Criticism and writing a term paper.
2. Conceptualizing and drafting research proposals.
3. Style manuals and their uses.
4. Notes, references, and bibliography.

---

THANK YOU FOR VISITING US!

---

Stay connected to get latest Syllabi, Notes, Important questions and much more for free! No sign Up, No Login Stay hassle free!