NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Subject: English
Session: 2013-2014
THIRD YEAR
| Paper Code | Paper Title | Marks | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 231101 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | 100 | 4 |
| 231103 | 16th and 17th Century Poetry | 100 | 4 |
| 231105 | 17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose | 100 | 4 |
| 231107 | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction | 100 | 4 |
| 231109 | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama | 100 | 4 |
| 231111 | Victorian Poetry | 100 | 4 |
| 231113 | Introduction to Literary Criticism (Up to Romantic Period) | 100 | 4 |
| 231115 | Introduction to Linguistics | 100 | 4 |
| Total | 800 | 32 |
Detailed Syllabus
| Paper Code: 231101 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | ||
| C. Marlowe | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | ||
| W. Shakespeare | Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice | ||
| Ben Jonson | Volpone | ||
| John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi | ||
| Paper Code: 231103 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | 16th and 17th Century Poetry | ||
| Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene, Book I Canto I | ||
| John Donne | 'The Sun Rising', 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', 'The Canonization', 'Batter my Heart','Death, be not proud' | ||
| Andrew Marvell | “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Definition of Love” | ||
| George Herbert | 'Easter Wings', 'The Collar' | ||
| John Milton | Paradise Lost, Book I | ||
| Paper Code: 231105 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | 17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose | ||
| F. Bacon | 'Of Marriage and Single Life', 'Of Truth', 'Of Plantation', 'Of Great Place', 'Of Revenge', 'Of Love' | ||
| Addison and Steele | 'The Spectator’s Account of Himself', 'Of the Club', 'Sir Roger at Church', 'His Account of His Disappointment in Love', 'Death of Sir Roger' | ||
| Samuel Johnson | 'Life of Cowley' | ||
| Edmund Burke | 'Speech on East India Bill' | ||
| Paper Code: 231107 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction | ||
| Aphra Ben | Oroonoko | ||
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | ||
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | ||
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver’s Travels | ||
| Paper Code: 231109 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama | ||
| John Dryden | Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem | ||
| William Congreve | The Way of the World | ||
| Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | ||
| Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | ||
| Paper Code: 231111 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Victorian Poetry | ||
| A. Tennyson | 'Locksley Hall', 'Oenone', 'The Lotos Eaters', 'Tithonus' | ||
| R. Browning | 'The Last Ride Together', 'Andrea del Sarto', 'Fra Lippo Lippi', 'My Last Duchess' | ||
| M. Arnold | 'Thyrsis', 'Dover Beach', 'The Scholar Gypsy' | ||
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 'The Windhover', 'Felix Randal', 'Spring and Fall: to a young child', 'Pied Beauty' | ||
| Paper Code: 231113 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Introduction to Literary Criticism (Up to Romantic Period) | ||
| Aristotle | Poetics (Chapter: 1-14, 24, 26) | ||
| Sydney | 'An Apology for Poetry' | ||
| Dr. S. Johnson | 'The Preface to Shakespeare' | ||
| W. Wordsworth | 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' | ||
| S.T. Coleridge | 'Biographia Literaria' ( 4, 14, 17) | ||
| Paper Code: 231115 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours : 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Introduction to Linguistics | ||
| The Paper introduces students to fundamentals of Linguistics. It covers: | |||
| a) Definition and characteristics of language | |||
| b) Basic concepts in Linguistics : Langue and Parole, Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic perspectives of language, Competence and performance. | |||
| c) Consonant and vowel sounds in English. Basic Rules of elision and assimilation, Stress and intonation. | |||
| d) Morphology : Free and Bound Morphemes, Word formation rules | |||
| e) Psycholinguistics : PS & IC rules of second language acquisition, Monitor Model Theory, Nativist Theory, Acculturation Theory, Accommodation Theory | |||
| f) Sociolinguistics : Language Varieties, Language and Social Class, Spir-Whorf Hypothesis. | |||
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