COURSE CONTENTS (Effective from the Academic …

1 0 (HONOURS) ENGLISH (Three Year Full Time Programme) COURSE CONTENTS ( effective from the Academic Year 2011-2012 onwards) DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI - 110007 1 COURSE : (Hons.) English Semester I Paper 1: English Literature 4(i) Paper 2: Twentieth Century Indian Writing(i) Paper 3: Concurrent Qualifying Language Semester II Paper 4: English Literature 4(ii) Paper 5: Twentieth Century Indian Writing(ii) Paper 6: English Literature 1(i) Paper 7: Concurrent Credit Language Semester III Paper 8: English Literature 1(ii) Paper 9: English Literature 2(i) Paper 10: Option A: Nineteenth Century European Realism(i) Option B: Classical Literature (i) Option C.

2 Forms of Popular Fiction (i) Paper 11: Concurrent Interdisciplinary Semester IV Paper 12: English Literature 2(ii) Paper 13: English Literature 3(i) Paper 14: Option A: Nineteenth Century European Realism(ii) Option B: Classical Literature (ii) Option C: Forms of Popular Fiction (ii) Paper 15: Concurrent Discipline Centered I Semester V Paper 16: English Literature 3(ii) Paper 17: English Literature 5(i) Paper 18: Contemporary Literature(i) Paper 19: Option A: Anglo-American Writing from 1930(i) Option B: Literary Theory (i) Option C: Women s Writing of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (i) Option D: Modern European Drama (i) Semester VI Paper 20: English Literature 5(ii) Paper 21: Contemporary Literature(ii) Paper 22: Option A: Anglo-American Writing from 1930(ii) Option B: Literary Theory (ii) Option C: Women s Writing of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (ii) Option D: Modern European Drama (ii) Paper 23.

3 Concurrent Discipline Centered II 2 SEMESTER BASED UNDER-GRADUATE HONOURS COURSES Distribution of Marks & Teaching Hours The Semester-wise distribution of papers for the (Honours), (Honours), B. Com., (Honours) Statistics and (Honours) Computer Science will be as follows: Type of Paper Max. MarksTheory Exam. Teaching per week Main Papers 100 75 25 5 Lectures 1 Tutorial Concurrent Courses 100 75 25 4 Lectures 1 Tutorial Credit Courses for (Hons.)

4 Mathematics 100 75 25 4 Lectures 1 Tutorial Size of the Tutorial Group will be in accordance with the existing norms. The existing syllabi of all Concurrent/Credit Courses shall remain unchanged. The existing criteria for opting for the Concurrent /Credit Courses shall also remain unchanged. 3 Main Discipline COURSE : English Detailed Courses of Reading SEMESTER - I Paper 1: English Literature 4 (i) Unit-1 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Unit-2 Charles Dickens Hard Times Unit-3 Background Prose Readings and Topics Readings: a.

5 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selections from A Reader in Marxist Philosophy ed. Sels and Martel (New York. I 963). Pp. 186-8, I 90-1, 199-201. b. Charles Darwin, Selections from The Descent of Man (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 3rd edn., vol. 2) pp. 1647-52. c. John Stuart Mill, Selections from The Subjection of Women (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2) pp. 1647-52. d. Matthew Arnold, Selections from Culture and Anarchy (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol.)

6 2) pp. 1403-12. e. Topics: The Novel form in Nineteenth-Century England; Faith and Doubt; The Writer and Society; Fiction and its Readers. 4 Paper 2: Twentieth Century Indian Writing (i) Unit-1 Rabindranath Tagore The Home and the World tr. Surendranath Tagore Unit-2 Premchand, The Holy Panchayat Narayan The Vaikom Muhammad Basheer The Card-Sharper s Daughter Saadat Hasan Manto Toba Tek Singh Ismat Chughtai Lihaf

7 (The Quilt) Ambai Squirrel Unit-3 Background Prose Readings and Topics Readings: a. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism (Delhi : Rupa, 1992), Chapter 1 and 3. b. Namvar Singh, Decolonising the Indian Mind , Indian Literature, no. 151 (Sept/Oct. 1992). c. Ananthamurthy, Being a Writer in India , from Tender Ironies, ed. Dilip Chitre et. al., pp. 127-46. d. Topics : Nationalism; The Theme of the Partition; Language and Audience; in Modern India; Tradition and Experiment in Modern Indian Theatre; The Individual and Society in Modern Indian Literature.

8 Note: Texts prescribed in Unit 2 are available in an anthology prepared and published by the Department of English, University of Delhi, Modern Indian Literature: Poems and Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1999. 5 PAPER 3 CONCURRENT QUALIFYING LANGUAGE 6 SEMESTER - II Paper 4 English Literature-4 (ii) Unit-1 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Unit-2 George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Unit-3 Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shalott , Ulysses , Crossing the Bar , The Defence of Lucknow Robert Browning My Last Duchess.

9 The Last Ride Together , Porphyria s Lover , Fra Lippo Lippi Christina Rossetti The Goblin Market 7 Paper 5 Twentieth Century Indian Writing(ii) Unit-1 Jibanananda Das Before Dying , Windy Night I Shall return to this Bengal Sri Sri Forward March From Some People Laugh, Some People Cry.

10 Muktibodh The Void , So Very Far Nissim Ezekiel Enterprise , The Night of the Scorpion Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa .S. Jayanta Mahapatra Hunger , Dhauli , Grandfather , A Country Unit-2 Vijay Tendulkar Ghasiram Kotwal tr.