If you are looking for the latest(2023) B.A English Honours syllabus for 2nd sem of KU (Kalyani University), you’re in the right website. Let’s have a look!
Core Course (CC)
- CC T3- INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
- CC T4- BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14th– 17th CENTURIES
Generic Elective (GE)
- GE T2- TEXT AND PERFORMANCE
Detailed Course (CC)
CC T3 (INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH) –
- Amitav Ghosh. “The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi”. The New Yorker. 17 Jul
1995 - Salman Rushdie. “The Free Radio”
- ShashiDeshpande. “The Intrusion”
- Kamala Das. “Introduction”
- Robin S. Ngangom. “The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom”, “A Poem for Mother”
- Nissim Ezekiel. “Enterprise”
- Toru Dutt. “Our Casurina Tree”
- ArunKolatkar. “The Bus”
- JayantaMahapatra. “Dawn at Puri”
- GirishKarnad. Hayavadana. Three Plays. New Delhi: OUP, 1997
- Anita Desai. In Custody.
CC T4 (BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14th– 17th CENTURIES) –
- Geoffrey Chaucer. “Wife of Bath”. The Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales.Ed. Neville Coghill. - Edmund Spenser. Sonnet LXXV. “One day I wrote her name…” Amoretti.
- Johne Donne. “The Sunne Rising” and “ Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
- Francis Bacon. “Of Empire”
- Christopher Marlowe. Doctor Faustus
- William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night
- William Shakespeare. Macbeth
Detailed Course (GE)
GE T2 (TEXT AND PERFORMANCE) –
- Introduction: (i) Introduction to theories of performance, (ii) Historical overview of Western and Indian theatre, (iii) Forms and Periods: Classical, Contemporary, Stylized, Naturalist.
- Theatrical Forms and Practices: (i) Types of theatre, semiotics of performative spaces, e.g. proscenium „in the round‟, amphitheatre, open-air, etc. , (ii) Voice, speech: body movement, gestures and techniques (traditional and contemporary), floor exercises: improvisation/characterization.
- Theories of Drama: (i) Theories and demonstrations of acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht. , (ii) Bharata.
- Theatrical Production: (i) Direction, production, stage props, costume, lighting, backstage support. , (ii) Recording/archiving performance/case study of production/performance/impact of media on performance processes.
*TEXTBOOK: Introduction to Undergraduate English: Book II. Cambridge University Press, 2018 is the only prescribed textbook for this course.
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