NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Subject: English
Effective from the Session: 2013-2014
Fourth Year Syllabus
| Paper Code | Paper Title | Marks | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 241101 | Nineteenth Century Novel | 100 | 4 |
| 241103 | Twentieth Century Poetry | 100 | 4 |
| 241105 | Modern Drama | 100 | 4 |
| 241107 | Twentieth Century Novel | 100 | 4 |
| 241109 | American Poetry | 100 | 4 |
| 241111 | American Literature: Fiction and Drama | 100 | 4 |
| 241113 | Classics in Translation | 100 | 4 |
| 241115 | Literary Criticism (From Victorian to Modern Age) | 100 | 4 |
| 241117 | Continental Literature, or | 100 | 4 |
| 241119 | Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching | ||
| 241120 | Viva-voce | 100 | 4 |
| Total = | 1000 | 40 |
Detailed Syllabus
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| Paper Code: 241101 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Nineteenth Century Novel | ||
| Jane Austin | Pride and Prejudice | ||
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | ||
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | ||
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D’ Urbervilles |
| Paper Code: 241103 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Twentieth Century Poetry | ||
| WB Yeats | “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, “Easter 1916”, “The Second Coming”, “Sailing to Byzantium” | ||
| TS Eliot | “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, “The Waste Land” | ||
| Dylan Thomas | “Poem in October” | ||
| Sylvia Plath | “Morning Song”, “Words”, “The Rival”, “Crossing the Water” |
| Paper Code: 241105 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Modern Drama | ||
| Oscar Wilde | Importance of Being Earnest | ||
| Samuel Becket | Waiting for Godot | ||
| Harold Pinter | The Caretaker | ||
| Osborne | Look Back in Anger |
| Paper Code: 241107 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Twentieth Century Novel | ||
| J. Conrad | Heart of Darkness | ||
| EM Foster | A Passage to India | ||
| V. Wolf | To the Light House | ||
| DH Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | ||
| Doris Lessing | The Grass is Singing |
| Paper Code: 241109 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | American Poetry | ||
| Emily Dickinson | “Wild Nights Wild Nights”, “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”, “I Taste a Liquor” | ||
| W. Whitman | “When Lilacs Last at My Dooryard Bloomed”, “O Captain, My Captain” | ||
| R. Frost | “After Apple Picking”, “The Birches”, ‘Mending Wall”, “The Death of the Hired Man”, “Road Not Taken”, “Tree at My Window” | ||
| Langston Hughes | “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, “I too Speak of America”, “Weary Blues”, “Harlem” |
| Paper Code: 241111 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | American Literature: Fiction and Drama | ||
| N. Hawthorne | Young Good Man Brown | ||
| E. O’ Neil | Hairy Ape | ||
| E. Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises | ||
| S. Bellow | Seize the Day | ||
| Tony Morrison | Beloved |
| Paper Code: 241113 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Classics in Translation | ||
| Homer | Iliad | ||
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon | ||
| Euripides | Medea | ||
| Aristophanes | The Frogs | ||
| Seneca | Hyppolytus |
| Paper Code: 241115 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Literary Criticism (From Victorian to Modern Age) | ||
| Mathew Arnold | “The Study of Poetry” | ||
| T.S. Eliot | “The Metaphysical Poets” | ||
| Edward Said | “Introduction” to Culture and Imperialism | ||
| Aristophanes | The Frogs | ||
| Terry Eagleton | “The Rise of English” |
| Paper Code: 241117 | Marks: 100 | Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 hrs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Title: | Continental Literature | ||
| F. Kafka | Metamorphosis | ||
| A. Camus | The Outsider | ||
| Bertolt Brecht | Mother Courage and Her Children | ||
| H. Ibsen | A Doll’s House | ||
| F. Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment |
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