School of Social Sciences                                                                                                                                                        385

Department of English

 

 

First Year: Semester I

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  111	Introduction to Literature	3+0	3.0
ENG  112	Socio-Political History of England	3+0	3.0
ENG  113	Seminar Assignment + Viva Voce	0+2	0.5+0.5=1
ENG  101	English Language	2+0	2.0
ENG  102	English Language (Lab and Viva Voce)	0+2	1.0
BNG 101	Bangla Language	2+0	2.0
BNG 102	Bangla Language Lab.	0+2	1.0
PSS 102	Politics and Administration in Bangladesh	3+0	3.0
	Total	13+6 = 19	16.0

 

 

First Year: Semester II

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  121	Greco-Roman Epic Poetry	3+0	3.0
ENG  122	Drama: From Aeschylus to Seneca	3+0	3.0
ENG  123	Advanced English	2+0	2.0
ENG  124	Seminar / Viva Voce	0+2	1
SCW 201	Social Welfare Policy & Programme	3+0	3.0
SOC 101B	Principles of Sociology	3+0	3.0
ECO 103	Principles of Economics	4+0	4.0
	Total	18+2 = 20	19.0

 

Second Year: Semester I

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  211	History of English Literature	4+0	4.0
ENG  212	Old & Middle English Poetry	3+0	3.0
ENG  213	Elizabethan & Metaphysical Poetry	4+0	4.0
ENG  214	Seminar Article + Viva Voce	0+2	1.0
MAT 101	Mathematics	2+0	2.0
PAD 102	Introduction to Public Administration	3+0	3.0
	Total	16+2 = 18	17.0

 

Second Year: Semester II

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  221	American Poetry	3+0	3.0
ENG  222	Poetry from Chaucer to Milton	4+0	4.0
ENG  223	Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama	4+0	4.0
ENG  224	Seminar Paper + Viva Voce	0+2	1.0
ENG  225	Introduction to English Literature (for Bangla Dept. students)	4+0	4.0
CSE 2050	Database Management & Programming Theory	2+0	2.0
CSE 2060	Database Management & Programming Lab	0+6	3.0
	Total	17+8 = 25	21.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third Year: Semester I

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  311	Poetry from Dryden to Blake	3+0	3.0
ENG  312	17th Century Prose	3+0	3.0
ENG  313	English Critical Theory	4+0	4.0
ENG  314	Restoration Drama	3+0	3.0
ENG  315	18th Century Prose	3+0	3.0
ENG  316	History of Ideas	3+0	3.0
ENG  317	Viva Voce + Seminar Assignment	0+2	1.0
	Total	19+2 = 21	20.0

 

 

Third Year: Semester II

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  321	18th Century English Novel	4+0	4.0
ENG  322	Romantic Poetry	3+0	3.0
ENG  323	Victorian Poetry	3+0	3.0
ENG  324	19th Century English Novel	3+0	3.0
ENG  325	Research Methodology	3+0	3.0
ENG  326	Viva Voce	0+2	1.0
	Total	16+2 = 18	17.0

 

 

Fourth Year: Semester I

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  411	American Drama	3+0	3.0
ENG  412	American Fiction	3+0	3.0
ENG  413	20th Century British Drama	3+0	3.0
ENG  414	20th Century British Literature	3+0	3.0
ENG  415	Phonetics and Phonology	3+0	3.0
ENG  416	Literature in Translation	2+0	2.0
ENG  417	Viva Voce	0+0	1.0
	Total	17+0 = 17	18.0

 

 

Fourth Year: Semester II

Course No.	Course Title	Hours/Week Theory + Lab	Credits
ENG  421	Shakespeare	4+0	4.0
ENG  422	Continental Literature	3+0	3.0
ENG  423	ELT and Teacher’s Education	3+0	3.0
ENG  424	South-Asian Literature in English	3+0	3.0
ENG  425	The Short Story	4+0	4.0
ENG  426	Seminar Assignment + Viva Voce	0+2	2.0
	Total	17+2 19	19.0

 

 

Detailed Syllabus

 

ENG 101 BASIC ENGLISH (COMPULSORY)

2 Hours/week, 2 Credits

 

(Developing Writing, Reading, Listening, and Speaking Skills)

 

1. Problems with: (a) Main Verbs; (b) Tense; (c) Modals and Modal-related patterns; (d) Causatives; (e) Conditionals; (f) Subjunctives; (g) Infinitives; (h) Have + Participle; (i) Auxiliary Verbs; (j) Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Nouns and Adjectives, Nouns functioning as Adjectives and other Parts of Speech; (k) Determiners; (l) Comparatives; (m) Prepositions

and prepositional idioms; (n) Point of View for Syntactical Pattern; (o) Agreement of verbs; (p) Introductory verbal; Modifiers; (q) Sentences and Clauses; (r) Word Choice – Vocabulary – Antonym, Synonym, Homonym, Homograph, Homophone; (s) Wh. Questions; (t) Punctuations: Full stop, comma, colon, semi colon, apostrophe, capital letter, hyphen, quotation marks, titles etc.; (u) Proofreading;

2. One Reading Comprehension of 20 marks (6 questions carrying 2.5 marks each)

3. One Paragraph              

 

Recommended Books:

1. Barron's TOEFL: 2. Standard Grammar book of Instructor's choice

                                    

ENG 102 BASIC ENGLISH (LAB AND VIVA VOCE): (COMPULSORY)

2 Hours/week, 1 Credit

 

Five students to be brought on the dais at a time. Other students of the class will be interrogating and likewise every student should be brought in turn and questions should be asked from the fields of literature, science, current politics, international affairs, games and sports, etc. The Instructor will act as a conductor.

 

ENG 103 ADVANCED ENGLISH (Optional, in lieu of Bangla)

2 Hours/week, 2 Credits

 

Part: A (Marks: 25)

 

1. IPA Symbols

2. Writing Composition (Essay, Paragraph and Report)

(To answer one question of 10 marks out of two)

3. Letter Writing: Formal And Informal, Business Letters, Letters of Opinion, Application and CV writing, Fax, E-mail, Memo, etc.

(To answer one question of 10 marks out of two)

 

Part: B (Marks: 25)

 

1. Short Story: ‘Tolerance’ by E. M. Forster

2. ‘Dacca Gauzes’ by Aga Shahid Ali

(Five short questions will carry 4 marks each; one explanation will carry 5 marks)

 

Recommended Books: To be decided by the Instructor.

 

ENG 104 ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB & VIVA-VOCE (COMPULSORY, IF TAKEN ENG 103)

2 Hours/week, 1 Credit

 

1. Wide discussion on how to prepare a Seminar or Research paper (according to MLA Handbook 7th edition) on either the short story or the poem taught in ENG 103.

2. Individual and group discussion on the stories (in the form of both lecture and interrogation) in the class.

3. Viva Voce

 

ENG 111 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

3 Hours/ weeks (3+0), 3 Credits 

 

1. Linguistic competence to appreciate literature—nature, need and means of attainment.

2. Rhetoric and Prosody:

3. Poetry: a. Kinds and themes; b. Structural devices; c. Contrast; d. Illustration; e. Repetition; f. Mood; Imagery; Tone; Principal verse forms—descriptive, narrative, lyrical, reflective, etc.; Interrelationship; and Effect.

4. Non-fiction Prose:             

a. Theme; b. Structure; and c. Style.

5. Essay: a. Structure: Beginning, Middle, End;                b. Forms: Narrative, Descriptive, and Expository; c. Unity, Order, Coherence, Transition, Clarity, Using Examples, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect.

6. Drama: Plot—its Structure, Action, Conflict, Characterization, Style, and Dialogue.

7. Fiction: Plot—its Structure, Point of view, Characterization, Setting, Style, Narration, and Technique.

8. Short Story; 9. Novel; 10. Literary Terms; 11. Practical Criticism 12. i) Shall I compare thee…, by William Shakespeare; ii) Valediction Foreboding Mourning, by John Donne; iii) The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Tennyson; iv) The Solitary Reaper, by William Wordsworth; i) Lispeth, by R. Kipling; ii) Shooting an Elephant, by G. Orwell; The Arms and The Man, by G. B. Shaw

 

Books Recommended:

1. Ahmed, Sadruddin. Learning English the Easy Way.
2. Martinet & Thomson. A Practical English Grammar.
3. Hornby, A. S. The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Current English.
4. Cowie & MacKin. Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English.
5. Hornby, A. S. Guide to Pattern and Usage of English.
6. Burnet and Stubbs. Practical Guide to Writing.
7. Islam, Jahurul. A Handbook of Practical Writing.
8. Imhoof, Maurice. From Paragraph to Essay.
9. Taylor, Clive. Advancing Language Skills.
10. Close, R. A. The English We Use. 
11. Glover, A. J. Build Up Your English.
12. Jones, D. English Pronouncing Dictionary.
13. Quirk & Others. A Grammar of Contemporary English.
14. McRae. Chapters of Verse.
15. Leech. Communicative Grammar of English.
16. Hudson, William. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. Harrap. London. 1965.
17. Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms.
18. Cuddon, J. A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Penguin. Ed. 1984.
19. Bose & Sterling. Rhetoric & Prosody.
20. Aristotle. Poetics (with an introductory essay by Butcher, S. H.).
21. Willeck & Warren. Theory of Literature. Penguin.
22. The Norton Introduction to Literature (volumes of Poetry, Fiction, and Short Fiction).
23. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Vols. I & II.
24. Daiches, David. Critical Approaches to Literature.
25. Ford, B. The Pelican Guide to English Literature.
26. Brooks & Heilman. Understanding Drama.
27. Brooks & Warren. Understanding Poetry.
28. Murray, P. Literary Criticism: A Glossary of Major Terms.
29. Jones, R. T. Studying Drama: An Introduction.
30. Kelsall, M. Studying Drama: An Introduction.
31. Hawthorn, J. Studying the Novel: An Introduction.
32. Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel.
33. Hussain, Inari. A Handbook of English Literature. An Introduction to
34. Literature. Longman. Ed. Barnet, Berman, Burto, and Cain. New York. 1997.
35. Introduction to Literature. Ed. Kennedy, X. J.
36. Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Non—Fiction. Bogard. 1995.

 

ENG 112 SOCIO-POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND                                         

3 Hours/weeks, 3 Credits

 

1. The Phoenicians’ Trade with the Britons-BC 200-BC 79;
2. Roman Invasion by Julius Caesar’s Legionnaires-BC 79-449 AD (?);
3. The Landing of Hengist and Horsa in Britain-449-1066 (Anglo Saxon Period);
4. The Norman Invasion-1066-1400 (Anglo Norman Period);
5. The Revival of Learning-1400-1558 (The Renaissance);
6. The Age of Elizabeth I-1550-1620;
7. The Puritan Age-1620-1660;
8. Period of the Restoration-1660-1700;
9. The Eighteenth Century-1700-1800;
10. The Union of the Great Britain and Ireland to Crimean War-1800-1854; and
11. The Victorian Age-1850-1900.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Mahajan, V. D. History of England.

2. History of England—See Seminar Books.

3. Long, J. William. English Literature.

4. G M Trevelyan. A Shortened History of England. Penguin Books.

5. G M Trevelyan. English Social History. Penguin Books.

6. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer, David Smith. A History of England. ATTBS Publishers and Distributors.

7. Robert M Adams. The Land & Literature of England: A Historical Account. W. W. Norton.

8. Dr. A N Johri. A Social History of England.

9. Kemp Melone & Albert C Baugh. Literary History of England. Routledge.

 

ENG 113 SEMINAR ASSIGNMENT + Viva-Voce

Hours/weeks (0+2), (0.5+0.5) = 1 Credit

 

ENG 121 GRECO-ROMAN EPIC POETRY

3 Hours/week (3+0), 3 Credits                                          

 

1. Homer: The Iliad (Penguin Edition);
2. Virgil: The Aenied. Penguin Translation;
3. Dante: The Divine Comedy (The Paradiso);
4. Petrarch: Sonnets (Selected Pieces)

 

Note: The works prescribed are to be studied with reference to the following a, b, & c:

 

a.               i. Greek life and civilization; ii. The city state; iii. Position of Athens in Greek history; iv. Greek religion and mythology; v. Epic and drama; vi. Plato, Aristotle, and literary criticism; and vii. Classical tradition in Europe.

b.              i. Roman life and civilization; ii. Roman mythology; iii. Epic and drama; iv. Poetry, prose, and history in Latin; and v. Influence of Latin upon European Literature.

c.               i. Literary theory

 

Studies in Detail:

1. Brumble, David. H. Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings.
2. Zimmerman, E. J. Dictionary of Classical Mythology.
3. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Clarendor Press.
4. Rose, J. H. A Handbook of Greek Literature.
5. Murray, Gilbert. The Rise of the Greek Epic.
6. Norwood, G. Greek Tragedy.

 

Book Recommended:

1. Rose, J. H. A Handbook of Latin Literature.
2. MacKail, J. W. Roman Literature.
3. Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition.
4. Michael, Grant. Roman Literature. Pelican.
5. Knight, Jackson. Roman Virgil.
6. Graves, Robert. Greek Myths. Vols: I & II. Penguin.
7. Aristotle, Horace, Longinus. Classical Literary Criticism. Penguin Classics.
8. The Legacy of Greece.
9. The Legacy of Rome.
10. Landmarks in Classical Literature.
11. Williams, Gordon. The Nature of Roman Poetry.

 

ENG 122 DRAMA FROM AESCHYLUS TO SENECA

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Penguin Translation;

 

2. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex. Penguin Translation;

3. Euripides: Medea. Penguin Translation;

4. Seneca: Phaedra. Penguin Translation.

 

Reading knowledge: The works prescribed are to be studied with reference to the following a, b & c:

 

a.               i. Greek life and civilization; ii. The city state; iii. Position of Athens in Greek history; iv. Greek religion and mythology; v. Epic and drama; vi. Plato, Aristotle, and literary criticism; and vii. Classical tradition in Europe.

b.              i. Roman life and civilization; ii. Roman mythology; iii. Epic and drama; iv. Poetry, prose, and history in Latin; and v. Influence of Latin upon European Literature.

c.               i. Literary theory

 

Books Recommended:

1. Brumble, David. H. Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings.
2. Zimmerman, E. J. Dictionary of Classical Mythology.
3. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Clarendor Press.
4. Rose, J. H. A Handbook of Greek Literature.
5. Murray, Gilbert. The Rise of the Greek Epic.
6. Norwood, G. Greek Tragedy.
7. Rose, J. H. A Handbook of Latin Literature.
8. MacKail, J. W. Roman Literature.
9. Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition.
10. Michael, Grant. Roman Literature. Pelican.
11. Knight, Jackson. Roman Virgil.
12. Graves, Robert. Greek Myths. Vols: I & II. Penguin.
13. Aristotle, Horce, Longinus. Classical Literary Criticism. Penguin Classics.
14. The Legacy of Greece.
15. The Legacy of Rome.
16. Landmarks in Classical Literature.

 

ENG 123 ADVANCED ENGLISH (ENG-103)

2Hours/week (2+0), 2 Credits

 

ENG 124 SEMINAR/VIVA VOCE

2Hours/Week (0+2), 1 Credit

 

ENG 211 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

4 Hours/Week (4+0), 4 Credits

 

1. First Glimpses; 2. The Anglo—Saxon or the Old English Period; 3. The Anglo—Norman Period; 4. The Age of Chaucer; 5. The Elizabethan Period; 6. The Puritan Age; 7. The Restoration Period; 8. Eighteenth Century Literature; 9. The Romantic Age; and 10.  The Victorian Age; and 11. The 20th Century Literature (with special references to Science Fiction, Travel Literature, Colonial Writers, Whodunits, etc.)             

 

Books Recommended:

 

1.Edmonds, E. W. A Historical Summary of English Literature.

2. Hudson, W. H. An Outline History of English Literature.

3. Long, J. W. English Literature.

4. Bateson, F. W. A Guide to English Literature. Longman.

5. Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Ed. George Watson.

6. Legouis and Cazamian. History of English Literature.

7. Cambridge History of English Literature.

8. Oxford History of English Literature.

9. Sampson. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature.

10. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. 2 Vols. 11.Ford, Boris. History of English Literature. (6 volumes).

 

ENG 212 OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits              

 

A. 1. Beowulf; 2. The Seafarer; 3. The Wanderer; 4.  a. 7th Century: Caedmon  b. 8th Century: Cynewulf c. 9th Century: Alfred: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

B. 1. 4th Century Lyrics: Selected Pieces from Sisam’s edition; 2. Malory: The Tale of the Death of King Arthur. Ed. Vinaver; and 3. Anonymus: Pearl (1350).

             

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following matters: a) History and Meaning of Beowulf; b) Poetical Form; c) Dual Character of the Language; d) The First History of England; e) The Christ; f) Andreas and Elene; and g) The Saxon Chronicle.

 

Books recommended:

1. Long, W. J. English Literature.

2. Gordon, R. K. Anglo—Saxon Poetry. Everyman’s Library.

3. Penguin Classics: Beowulf.

4. Penguin Classics: The Earliest English Poems.

5. Penguin Classics: Medieval English Verse.

6. Renwick & Orton. The Beginnings of English Literature.

7. Wardel. Chapters on Old English Literature.

8. Penguin Classics: The History of English Church: Bede.

9. Anderson, G. K. The Literature of the Anglo—Saxons.

 

ENG-213 ELIZABETHAN & METAPHYSICAL POETRY

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

               

1. William Shakespeare: Selected Poems

2. Sir Philip Sidney:  When nature made her, chief work, Stella’s eyes

3. Donne: a) Death be not Proud; b) The Good Morrow; c)  A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day; d) The Cannonization; e) The Funeral; f) Twicknham Garden; and g) The Flea.

4. Herbert:  As in Grierson’s Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century

5. Vaughan

6. Marvell

 

Note:              Concerned authors should be studied with reference to—Metaphysical Poetry: Definition and Conceits.

 

For Further Studies:

1. Grierson, H. J. C. Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century.
2. Lewis, C. S. History of the 17th Century Literature
3. Grierson. Cross—Currents in the Literature of the 17th Century.
4. Wedgewood, C. V. Seventeenth Century English Literature.
5. Willey, Basil. Seventeenth Century Background.
6. Gardener, Helen. Metaphysical Poets.

 

ENG 214 SEMINAR/VIVA VOCE

2Hours/Week (0+2),1 Credit

 

ENG -221 AMERICAN POETRY

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Poe                            : a. Annabel Lee; and b) The Raven.

2. Whitman              : Song of Myself

3. Dickinson              : Selections from Poems by Emily Dickinson edited by Higginson & Todd.

4. Frost: a) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; b) The Road Not Taken; c) The Death of the Hired Man; d) Mending Walls; and e) Design.

5. Pound: a. In a Station of the Metro; b. The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter; and c. The Canto: I

6. Langston Hughes: a) Mother to Son; b) Dream Variations; and c) Mulatto.

7. Cummings: Selected Poems

8. Adrienne Rich: a) Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers; and b) Living in Sin.

9. Allen Ginsberg: September on Jessore Road

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues: a) American Civilization; b) American History: General Tools; c) Selected Histories of Ideas in the US; d) Psychology; e) Philosophy; f) Transcendentalism; g) Religion in the US; h) Chief General Bibliographies of American Literature; i) Literary Regionalism; and j) Racial and other Minorities.

 

Studies in Detail: 1. Moss, P. Sydney. The Critic in the Context of His Literary Milieu. 2. Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Regan, Robert. 3. Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life. 4. Kaplan, Justin. A Reader’s Guide to Walt Whitman. 5. Kaplan, Justin. New Whitman Handbook. 6. Whaitman’s "Song of Myself": Origin, Growth, Meaning. Ed. Miller, J. 7. Cook, L. Regiland. The Dimensions of Robert Frost. 8. Smythe, Daniel. Robert Frost Speaks. 9. Mertin, Louis. Robert Frost: Life and Talks—Walking. 10. Creeley, Robert. A Quick Graph. 11. Jarrel, Randall. Poetry and the Age. 12. Levertov, Denise. The Poet in the World.

 

ENG 222- POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO MILTON

4 Hours/Week (4+0), 4 Credits

 

1. Chaucer: a. The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; b. The Wife of Bath; and c. Knight’s Tale. Ed. Coffin, R. C.

2. Spenser. Faerie Queene: Book—I

3. Milton. Paradise Lost

 

Note:              Attention should be given to the following: a) Primary and Secondary Epic; b) Romantic Epic; c) Puritanism and Reformation Movements; and d) English Pastoral Poetry.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Bennet, H. S. Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century.

2. Ker, W. P. Mediaeval English Literature.

3. Chambers, E K. English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages.

4. Ker, W. P. The Dark Ages.

5. Kittredge, G. L. Chaucer and His Poetry.

6. Roat, R. K. The Poetry of Chaucer.

7. Legouis, Emile. Geoffrey Chaucer.

8. The Age of Chaucer. Ed. Ford, Borris. Pelican.

9. Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love.

10. Rose & McLaughlin. Mediaeval Reader.

11. Bowden, Muriel. A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

12. Power. Eileen. Mediaeval People. Pelican.

13. The Romance of the Rose. Translated by Robbins, Harry. W. Dutton Paperback.

14. Lewis, C. S. History of the 17th Century Literature.

15. Thomson, J. A. Classical Background of English Literature.

16. Tillyard, E. M. W. Elizabethan world Picture.

17. Grierson. Cross—currents in the English Literature of the 17th Century.

18. Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost.

19. Tillyard. Milton.

 

ENG 223 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA

4 Hours/Week (4+0), 4 Credits                            

1. Marlowe:                            Doctor Faustus;

2. Kyd:                                          The Spanish Tragedy;

3. Ben Jonson:                             Volpone;

4. Webster:                             The Duchess of Malfi.

5. Shakespeare:                         Othello

 

Note:              Teachers should take the following matters into consideration: a. The Origin of the Drama; b. Miracle and Mystery Plays; c. Cycles of Plays; d. The Stage and the Actors; e. Dramatic Unities; f. Two Schools of Drama; g. The Theatre and the Stage; h. The Methods of Early Dramatists; i. History of the Rise of English Drama since its Beginning to the 15th Century; j. Interludes; k. The Influence of Seneca in Elizabethan Drama; l. The Use of Blank Verse in Drama; m. The Comedy of Humors; n. Decadent Tragedy; and o. Tragic Comedy.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Boas, S. An Introduction to Stewart Drama.

2. Boas, S. D. An Introduction to Tudor Drama.

3. Bradbrook, M. C. The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy.

4. Bradbrook, M. C. Themes and Conventions in Elizabethan Tragedy.

5. Lucas, F. L. Seneca and Elizabethan Drama.

6. Schelling F. E. Elizabethan Drama.

7. Vaughn. Types of Tragedy.

8. Symonds, J. A. Shakespeare’s Predecessors in English Drama.

 

ENG 224 SEMINAR/VIVA VOCE

2Hours/Week (0+2), 1 Credit

 

ENG 225 INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE

4+0 =               4 credits

(For Bangla Department students)

 

Detailed course

1. My Oedipus Complex- Frank O’Connor
2. September on Jessore Road- Allen Ginsberg
3. The Horse Dealer’s Daughter- D. H. Lawrence
4. Desire Under the Elms- Eugene O’Neill
5. How Do I Love Thee- E. B. Browning

 

NB.              Course Instructors to recommend reference books

 

ENG 311 POETRY FROM DRYDEN TO BLAKE

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Dryden: Mac Flecknoe

2. Pope: The Rape of the Lock;

3. Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes.

4. Gray: a. An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; b. Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West; and c. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

5. Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

 

Note:              Particular attention should be devoted to: a) Neoclassicism in the Augustan Period; b) Heroic couplet and its issues; and c) Precursors of Romanticism.

 

 

Books Recommended:

1. Butt, John. Augustan Age. 2. Stephen, Leslie. English Language and Society in the 18th Century. 3. Willey, Basil. The 18th Century Background. 4 .Jack, Ian. Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry. 5. Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature (1730—1850). 6. Gosse, Edmund. History of the 18th Century Literature.

 

 

ENG 312 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PROSE

3 Hours/Week(3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Bacon’s Essays: a. Of Friendship; b. Of Death ;c. Of Adversary; d. Of Marriage; e. Of Travel; f. Of Ambition; and g. Of Studies. 2. Milton: Areopagitica; 3. Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress; 4. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.

Note:              The following topics need special attention: a) The English Essay and its Debate to Montaigne; b) Narrative Prose from Sidney to Bunyun; c) Euphemism; d) The Prose of the Bible; and d) Pamphleteering in English.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Bush, D. English Literature in the Early Seventeenth Century.

2. Willey, Basil. Seventeenth Century Background.

3. 17th Century Studies Presented to Sir Herbert Grierson. Oxford.

4. Wedgwood, C. V. 17th Century English Literature.

 

ENG 313 ENGLISH CRITICAL THEORY

4 Hours/Week (4+0), 4 Credits

 

1. Sydney: Apologie for Poetrie; 2. Dryden: Essay of Dramatic Poesy; 3. Johnson:  Preface to Shakespeare; 4. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads; 5. Arnold: The Study of Poetry; and; 7. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent. (Any Four)

Note:              The Course is to be studied with reference to the following: a) An outline of history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present day; b) Classification of criticism: Linguistic; Theoretical; and Descriptive; c) Criticism and a reflection of contemporary creative practice; and d) Beginnings of English criticism: Dr. Johnson; Neo—Classicism in the 18th Century; Criticism during the romantic revival; and Continental influence on English criticism in the 19th Century; and Trends in the 20th Century criticism.

 

Recommended Reading:

1. Wimsal & Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History.

2. Richards, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism.

3. Wellek, Rene. The Rise of English Literary History.

4. Warren, Austen. & Wellek, Rene. Theory of Literature.

5. Polts, T. D. Poetics: Aristotle.

6. Wetson, George. The Literary Critics. Pelican

 

ENG 314 RESTORATION DRAMA

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Wycherley: The Country Wife; 2. Congreve: The Way of the World; 3. Dryden, John: All for Love; 4. Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

 

Note:              Instructors should highlight the following matters: a) King and his Followers; b) Revolution of 1688; c) French Influence; d) New Tendencies; e) Realism and Formalism; f) Heroic Drama: Comedy of Manners; and g) Effect of the Restoration on Literature and Morals.

 

Books Recommended:

1.Grierson. Crosscurrents in the Literature of the 17th Century. 2.Wedgewood. 17th Century Literature. 3.Dobree, Bonami. Restoration Comedy. 4.Dobree, Bonami. Restoration Tragedy. 5.Nicoll, A. A History of Restoration Drama. 6 .17th Century Studies Presented to Sir H. Grierson. Oxford.

 

ENG 315 18TH CENTURY PROSE

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels; 2. Addison and Steele: Coverley Papers; 3. Dr. Johnson: Lives of Poets (Cowley and Milton); and 4. Boswell: Life of Johnson (abridged).

 

Note:              Particular attention should be given to the following: a) English Classicism in Augustan Period; b) The Rise of English Novels; c) The Domestic Novels; d) English Biography; and e) Dr. Johnson’s Influence on English Prose.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Butt, John. Augustan Age.

2. Stephen, Leslie. English Literature and Society in the 18th Century.

3. Willey, Basil. The 18th Century Background.

4. Jack, Ian. Augustan Satire.

5. Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature (1730-1850).

6. Gosse, Edmund. History of 18th Century Literature.

 

ENG 316 HISTORY OF IDEAS

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

a) Paganism; b) Secularism; c) Monotheism; d) Rise of Christianity; e) Reformation; f) Puritanism; g) Oxford Movement; h) Platonism; i) Neo-Platonism; j) Rationalism; k) Empiricism; l) Evolution; m) Pragmatism; n) Positivism; o) Individualism; p) Freudian Concept; q) Monarchy; r) Feudalism; s) Democracy; t) Utilitarianism; u) Renaissance; v) Colonialism; w) Capitalism; x) Socialism.

 

Books Recommended:

1. From Socrates to Sartre by T. Z. Lavine 2. Chadwick, Owen. The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century. 3 Aquinas, St. Thomas. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics. 4 Hobbes, Thomas. Laviathan 4. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Rousseau’s Political Writings.              

 

ENG 317 SEMINAR/VIVA VOCE

2Hours/Week (0+2), 1 Credit

 

ENG 321- 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL

4 Hours/Week (4+0), 4 Credits             

 

1. Richardson: Pamela; 2. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones; 3. Lawrence Sterne: Tristram Shandy.

Note:              Instructors should highlight the following issues: a) Social Development; b) An Age of Prose; c) Satire; d) The Classic Age; e) Pope’s "Essay on Criticism"; f) Character of Swift’s Prose; g) Addison’s Influence; and h) The English Dictionary.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Allen, Walter. The English Novel.

2. Forster, E. M. Aspects of Novel.

3. Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists.

4. Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction.

 

ENG 322 ROMANTIC POETRY

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Wordsworth: a) Tintern Abbey; b) Ode on Imitations of Immortality; and c) Prelude: Book—

2. Coleridge: a) Christabel; b) Dejection, an Ode; c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner; and d) Kubla Khan.

3. Byron: a) Don Juan: Canto: I & II (as in Norton); and b) She Walks in Beauty.

4. Shelley: a) Adonais; and b) Ode to the West Wind.

5. Keats: Odes. 

Note: The paper should be studied with the reference to the following: a) Meaning of Romanticism; b) Origin of Romantic Movements in Germany and France; c) Precursors of Romanticism in England; d) The French Revolutionary and English Poets; e) Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetic Diction; f) Supernaturalism in English Poetry; g) Idealism in Shelley and Byron; and h) Hellenism in Keats.

 

Books Recommended :

1. Hough, Graham. Romantic Poets.

2. Brailsford, H. N. Shelley, Godwin and their Circle.

3. Elton, Oliver. Survey of English Literature: 1780—1830.

4. Bowra, C. M. Romantic Imagination.

5. Prez, Mario. The Romantic Agony.

6. Lucas, F. L. The Decline and Fall of Romantic Ideal.

7. Willey, Basil. Nineteenth Century Studies.

8. Grierson, G. C. The Background of English Literature: Classical and Romantic.

 

ENG 323 VICTORIAN POETRY

4 Hours/Week, 4 Credits

                                         

1. Tennyson:              a) The Palace of Art; b) Oenone; c) Locksley Hall; d) Ulysses; e) Tithonus; and

f) Selections from In Memoriam as in the editions of Michael Millgate (New Oxford Series).

2. Browning:              a) A Grammarian’s Funneral; b) My Last Dutchess; c) Fra Lippo Lippi; d) Andrea del Sarto; and

e)  Rabbi Bin Ezra.

3. Browning, Elizabeth B.: The Sonnets from the Portuguese 13, 14, 21, 22, & 43.

4. Arnold: a) Thyrsis; b) Dover Beach; c) Rugby Chapel; and d) The Scholar Gipsy.

5. Swinburns: Selections from Norton’s  Anthology

b. Felix Rendal. c. God’s Grandeur

6. Rosetti, Dante G.: The Blessed Damzel.

 

Note:              Prescribed pieces should be studied with reference to the following: a. Meaning of Victorianism; b. Victorian Compromise; c. Rise of science & industry in the 19th Century; d. Pre-Raphaelitic Movement; e. Dramatic Monologue; f. The Debate of Science & Religion; and g. Expansion of British Imperialism.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Walker, Hugh. The Literature of the Victorian Era..

2. Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature(1830-1880).

3. Brandes, George. Main Currents in the 19th Century Literature.

 

ENG 324 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL

3 Hours/ Week (3+0), 3 Credits

1. Austen, Jane:               Pride and Prejudice
2. Bronte, Emily.:              Wuthering Heights;
3. Hardy, Thomas.:               Tess of the Durbervilles; and
4. Dickens, Charles.:               Great Expectations

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues of the Victorian era: a) Democracy; b) Social Unrest; c) The Ideal of Peace; d) Arts and Science; e) An Age of Prose; f) Moral Purpose; g) Idealism; and h) The Domestic Novel.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists.

2. Brandis, George. Main Currents in the 19th Century Literature. Vol. IV.

3. Walker, Hugh. The Literature of the Victorian Era.

4. Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature: 1830-1880.

5. Forster, E. M. Aspects of Novel. 6. Allen, Walter. The English Novel.

 

ENG 325 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY              

3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits

 

Part—A: 1.Statement of the Problem; 2.Review of Literature; 3.Objectives; 4.Theoretical Framework/Conceptual framework: a. Borrowed or b. Made on Personal Requirement; and 5.Limitations of the Research.

Part—B: 1.Methodology –Data collection, Data Analysis, Methods

Part—C: 1.Content Analysis: one of the several methods

Part—D: 1.Conclusion—Policy implication, summary, recommendation.

 

Books Recommended:

M.L.A. Handbook (latest edition)

 

ENG 326 SEMINAR/VIVA VOCE

2Hours/Week (0+2), 1 Credit

 

ENG 411 AMERICAN DRAMA

3 Hours/Week (3+0) 3 Credits

 

1. O’Neill: The Emperor Jones; 2. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire; 3. Arthur Miller: All My Sons; and 4. Edward Albee: Zoo Story.

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues: a) American Civilization; b) American History: General Tools; c) Selected Histories of Ideas in the US; d) Psychology; e) Philosophy; f) Transcendentalism; g) Religion in the US; h) Chief General Bibliographies of American Literature; i) Literary Regionalism; and j) Racial and other Minorities.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Aldridge, John. After the Lost Generation: A Critical Studies of the Writers of Two Wars. 1951.
2. Hoffman, J. Freudianism and the Literary Mind. 1957.
3. Klein, Marcus. Foreigners: The Making of American Literature.
4. Singal, J. Daniel. The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South 1919—1945. 1982.
5. Bigsby, C. W. E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama. Vol: 1. 1985.
6. O’Neil and His Plays: Four Decades of Criticism. Ed. Cargil, Oscar. 1962.
7. Miller, James. Eugene O’Neil and the American Critic. 1962.
8. Ranald, L. M. The Eugene O’Neil Companion. 1984.
9. Ed. Day, Christine and Woods, Bob. Where I Live: Selected Essays. 1978.
10. Quinn, Arthur. A History of the American Drama from the Civil War to the Present Day.
11. Manheim, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill.

 

ENG 412 AMERICAN FICTION

3 Hours/ (3+0) Week, 3 Credits

 

1. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn; 2. Hawthorn:               The Scarlet Letter; 3. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea; 4. S. Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby; and 5. Melville:               Moby Dick. 6. Faulkner: A Rose for Emily; 7. Steinbek: The Pearl.

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues: a) American Civilization; b) American History: General Tools; c) Selected Histories of Ideas in the US; d) Psychology; e) Philosophy; f) Transcendentalism; g) Religion in the US; h) Chief General Bibliographies of American Literature; i) Literary Regionalism; and j) Racial and other Minorities.

 

 

 

Books Recommended:

1. Aldridge, John. After the Lost Generation: A Critical Studies of the Writers of Two Wars. 1951.
2. Hoffman, J. Freudianism and the Literary Mind. 1957.
3. Klein, Marcus. Foreigners: The Making of American Literature.
4. Singal, J. Daniel. The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South 1919—1945. 1982.
5. Bigsby, C. W. E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama. Vol: 1. 1985.
6. O’Neil and His Plays: Four Decades of Criticism. Ed. Cargil, Oscar. 1962.
7. Where I Live: Selected Essays. Ed. Day, Christine and Woods, Bob. 1978.

 

ENG 413 20TH CENTURY BRITISH DRAMA

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Shaw, G. B.: Pigmalion; 2. Synge, J. M.: Riders to the Sea; 3. Beckett, S.: Waiting for Godot;; and 4. Osborn, J. J.: Look Back in Anger. 5. Pinter. H: The Birthday Party

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues: a) The Play of Balance; b) The Play of Dreams; c) Romantic Realism; d) Mystery Stories; e) Representative Poets; and f) Celtic Revival.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Forster, E. M. The Aspects of Novel.

2. Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction.

 

ENG 414 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE`             

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

               

1. Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers; 2. Forster, E. M. A. Passage to India; 3. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. T. S. Eliot; 6. Auden

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues: a) The Play of Balance; b) The Play of Dreams; c) Romantic Realism; d) Mystery Stories; e) Representative Poets; and f) Celtic Revival.

 

Books Recommended: 1. Forster, E. M. The Aspects of Novel. 2. Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction.

 

ENG 415 PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

Contents:               a. General Phonetics and Phonology

              Articulators and Air-system mechanism

              IPA, Chart, The Cardinal Vowels and Cardinal Vowel Diagram; Vowel/Consonant, Vocoid/Contoid, Fortis/ Lenis Distinctions; Segments; Description of vowels and Consonants of Different Languages in relation to the IPA Chart and Cardinal Vowel Diagram Phonological Theories: Daniel Jones’s Theory: Prague School Phonology; Sapir’s Theory, Bloomfield and the Post-Bloomfieldians; Distinctive Features Theory, Redundanat/Non-disctintive Feature; Free Variation

              English Phonetics and Phonology

              Syllables: Structure of English Syllables; English Consonant, The Combinatory Possibilities

              Stress: What is Stress Language? Factors Determining Stress Placement;

              Natural Stress Rules, Degrees of Stress, Levels of Stress, Placement of Stress in Simple, Complex and Compound words, Variable Stress.

              Intonation System in English: Function of intonation, Structure of Tone Unit; High and Low Heads, Pitch Possibilities in the Simple Tone Unit, Semantics of Intonation.

 

Recommended Readings :

1. Abercombie, David, Elements of General Phonetics
2. Varshney, Dr. R.L,  Phonetics and Phonology
3. Phonology Theory and Practice

 

ENG 416 LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

2 Hours/Week (2+0), 2 Credits

 

1. Mardruce, J. C.: One Thousand Nights and One Night. Aleppo version (Selected Pieces); 2. Khayyam, Omar.: Selected Rubayyats (Fitzerald’s translations); 3. Jibran, Kahlil.: Selected Poems; 4. Hussain, Taha.: The Stream of Days; and 5. Mahfouz, Naguib.: The Beginning and the End. 6. Jalaludding Rumi: Selections

 

Books Recommended:

1. Badawi, M. M. A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature.

2. Schwartz, Howard. Lilith’s Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural.

3. Schwartz, Howard. Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales.

4. Mack, Robert L. (Ed.) Arabian Night’s Entertainments.

5. Picard. (Tr.) Tales from Ancient Persia.

 

ENG 417 VIVA-VOCE,

(0+0) 1 Credit

 

ENG 421 SHAKESPEARE

4 Hours/ Week (4+0), 4 Credits

 

Shakespeare: a) As You Like It; b) King Lear; c) Antony and Cleopatra; d) The Tempest; e) Richard II; f) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

Note:              Teachers should discuss the following matters: a) The Wonder of Shakespeare; b) Genius or Training; c) Life; d) Four Periods; e) Classification according to Dramatic Type; f) Doubtful Plays; and g) Shakespeare’s Place and Influence.

 

Books Recommended:

1. Harrison, G. B.: Introducing Shakespeare.

2. Boas, S.: An Introduction to Stewart Drama.

3. Boas, S. D.: An Introduction to Tudor Drama.

4. Bradbrook, M. C.: The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy.

5. Bradbrook, M. C.: Themes and Conventions in Elizabethan Tragedy.

6. Bradley, A.C:. Shakespearean Tragedy.

7. Lucas, F. L.: Seneca and Elizabethan Drama.

8. Schelling F. E.: Elizabethan Drama.

9. Symonds, J. A.: Shakespeare’s Predecessors in English Drama.

10.: Vaughn. Types of Tragedy.

 

ENG 422 CONTINENTAL LITERATURE

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Strindberg: Miss Julie; 2. Ibsen: A Doll’s House; 3. Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children; 4. Camus, Albert: The Outsider; 5. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina; 6. Kundera, Milan: The Joke.

 

Note:              Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues: a) Psychology; b) Philosophy; c) Transcendentalism; d) Literary Regionalism; and e) Racial and other Minorities.

 

More: 1. An Introduction to Literature. Ed. Barnet, Berman, Burto, and Cain. Longman. XI editation. 2. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Jerome Beaty and Paul Hunter. 3. Webster, Mariam. Encyclopedia of Literature. 4. Introduction to American Studies. Ed. Malcolm Bradbary. 6. Luedike, L. S. Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States. 7. Mathiessen, F. O. American Renaissance. 8. Lewis, R. The American Adam. 9. Tayler, M. C. History of American Literature: 1607~1765. 10. Chase, Richard. The American Novel.

 

Books Recommended:

1. An Introduction to Literature. Ed. Barnet, Berman, Burto, and Cain. Longman. XI meditation.

2. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed.Jerome Beaty and Paul Hunter.

3. Webster, Miriam. Encyclopedia of Literature.

 

ENG 423 ELT and TEACHER’S EDUCATION

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Week

 

ELT (Skills & Methods)

The skills (Writing, Reading, Speaking, Listening)

The methods (Communicative, Direct, Audio-Lingual, GTM)

Teacher Education:

Theories and Principles of Teacher Education

Approaches to Teacher Training

In service and Pre-service

Lesson Plan and Evolution: Class room Observation

Criterion for Lesson Observation (Use of checklists, objective Vs Subjective observation)

Peer Observation

Counseling and Feedback

Modes of Teaching and Learning

Lecture, Seminar, Workshop, Self-Access

Micro Teaching/Practicum

Assessment of Teacher

 

Required Reading:

 

1. Wallace, J.M. 1991Training Foreign Language Teachers:

A Reflective Approach” Cambridge University Press

2. Wood word,T.1990 Models and Metaphors in Teacher Training” Cambridge University Press
3. D. Numan (eds.) 1990 The Second Language Curriculum” Cambridge University Press
4. Freeman, Larsen D. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching
5. Richards, J.C, Rodgers, T, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
6. Rivers, M.W, Teaching Foreign Language Teacher

 

ENG 424 SOUTH-ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

3 Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits

 

1. Tagore, Rabindranath.: Gitanjali (Selected pieces); 2. Islam, Kazi. Nazrul (Selected Poems) 3. Rokeya, Begum.: Sultana’s Dream; 4. Ghosh, Amitava.: The Shadow Lines; 5. Mukerjee, Bharathi: Jasmine; and 6. R. K. Narayan: The Financial Expert

 

ENG 425 THE SHORT STORY

4 Hours/Week (4+0), 4 Credits

 

Course—Plan in Detail:

 

1. Evolution of the genre

2. Selections: a) D.H. Lawrence: “The Woman Who Rode Away”; b) Ambrose Bierce: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”; c) Gabriel Garcia Marquez: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”; d) Chekov: “The Darling”; e) Guy de Moupassant: “The Diamond Necklace”; f) Franz Kafka: A Hunger Artist; g) Alice Walker: “Kindred Spirits”

 

ENG 426 RESEARCH PAPER/VIVA VOCE

2Hours/Week (0+2), 2 Credit (1+1)

(Research Paper Word Limit: 3000)