📘 Fourth Year B.A. Honours in English

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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 (Victorian to Modern Age) 100 4
241119 Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching 100 -
241120 Viva-voce 100 4
Total 1000 40

📝 Detailed Course Content

241101: Nineteenth Century Novel
About the Authors

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known for her commentary on the British landed gentry. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) created some of the world's best-known fictional characters. The Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) were a 19th-century literary family. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a Victorian realist influenced by Romanticism.

241103: Twentieth Century Poetry
W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Easter 1916", "The Second Coming", "Sailing to Byzantium"

T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land

Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas

"Poem in October"

Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath

"Morning Song", "Words", "The Rival", "Crossing the Water"

Poetic Analysis

Twentieth century poetry often reflects the disillusionment following World War I, with modernist techniques like fragmentation and stream of consciousness. Yeats blends Irish mythology with personal symbolism, while Eliot's The Waste Land epitomizes modernist despair.

241105: Modern Drama
Theater Movements

Modern drama evolved from Wilde's witty comedies to Beckett's absurdist works. The "Theatre of the Absurd" rejected traditional narrative, while Osborne's "kitchen sink drama" brought working-class realism to the stage.

241107: Twentieth Century Novel
Literary Themes

These novels explore colonialism (Conrad, Forster), stream of consciousness (Woolf), psychoanalytic theory (Lawrence), and racial tensions in Africa (Lessing). They represent modernist experimentation with narrative form.

241109: American Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

"Wild Nights – Wild Nights!", "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain", "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "O Captain! My Captain!"

Robert Frost
Robert Frost

"After Apple-Picking", "Birches", "Mending Wall", "The Road Not Taken"

Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "I, Too", "The Weary Blues", "Harlem"

241111: American Literature – Fiction and Drama
241113: Classics in Translation
241115: Literary Criticism (Victorian to Modern Age)
241119: Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching
  • Theory of language, Theory of language learning
  • Classroom Practices, Teachers' roles and Learners' roles
  • Strength and weakness of Audio-lingual Method, Direct Method
  • Natural Approaches, Communicative Approaches
  • Task-based teaching and learning, Appropriate Methodology
  • Post-method pedagogy, Politics of English Language Teaching
Recommended Resources
241120: Viva-voce

Oral examination assessing knowledge, analytical ability, and communication skills based on the full year's content.

The viva voce tests comprehensive understanding through discussion of texts and critical approaches.
Preparation Resources

📚 Study Resources

Literary Analysis
Critical Essays

Collection of critical essays on all major texts in the syllabus with modern perspectives.

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Study Guides
Study Guides

Chapter-by-chapter summaries, character analyses, and theme explorations.

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Video Lectures
Video Lectures

Expert lectures covering key concepts, historical context, and textual analysis.

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