First Year: Semester I

First Year: Semester II

Second Year: Semester I

Second Year: Semester II

Third Year: Semester I

Third Year: Semester II

Fourth Year: Semester I

Fourth Year: Semester II

(Developing Writing and Reading Skills)

(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

(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.

 

(Developing Listening and Speaking Skills)

1. One Reading Comprehension of 20 marks (10 questions carrying 2 marks each)

2. One Paragraph of 5 marks

1. Barron's TOEFL

2. Standard Grammar book of Instructor's choice

 

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.

1. Reading Comprehension

(To answer questions carrying 5 marks)

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)

 

1. Short Story: ''The Jewelry'' by Guy De Maupassant

2. Poem: ''To His Coy Mistress'' by Andrew Marvell

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

 

To be decided by the Instructor.

ENG 104 ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE (COMPULSORY, IF TAKEN ENG 103)

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

2. Individual and group discussion on the short story and the poem (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;

g. Imagery;

h. Tone;

i. Principal verse forms—descriptive, narrative, lyrical, reflective, etc.;

j. Interrelationship; and

k. 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, Characterisation, Style, and Dialogue.

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

8. Short story

9. Novel

10. Literary Terms

11. Practical Criticism

12 a) i) Shall I compare thee… by William Shakespeare

ii) Valediction Foreboding Mourning by John Donne

iii) Happy the Man by Alexander Pope

iv) Ode to Autumn by John Keats

b) i) Lispeth by R. Kipling

ii) Shooting an Elephant by G. Orwell

c. Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge

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

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 Cremean War—1800~1854; and

11. The Victorian Age—1850~1900.

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

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

1. Homer: The Iliad (Penguin Edition);

2. Virgil: The Aenied. Penguin Translation;

3. Dante: The Inferno;

4. Petrarch: Sonnets (Selected Pieces)

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

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.

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.

i. Literary theory

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.

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.

1. Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Penguin Translation;

2. Sophocles: Antigone;

3. Euripides: Medea. Penguin Translation;

4. Aristophanes: Frogs; and

5. Seneca: Phaedra.

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

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.

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.

i. Literary theory

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 211 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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 20^th Century Literature (with special references to Science Fiction, Travel Literature, Colonial Writers, Whodunits, etc.)

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).

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

1. William Shakespeare:

1. Full many a glorious morning I have seen

2. That time of year thou mayst in me behold

2. Sir Philip Sidney:

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. Vaughn

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 17^th Century Literature

3. Grierson. Cross—Currents in the Literature of the 17^th Century.

4. Wedgewood, C. V. Seventeenth Century English Literature.

5. Willey, Basil. Seventeenth Century Background.

6. Gardener, Helen. Metaphysical Poets.

ENG 213 ROMANTIC POETRY

1. Wordsworth:

a. Tintern Abbey;

b. Ode on Imitations of Immortality;

c. Prelude: Book—I.

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:

a. 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.

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 221 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1.Statement of the Problem;

2.Review of Literature;

3.Objectives;

4.Theoretical Framework:

a. Borrowed or

b. Made on Personal Requirement; and

5.Limitations of the Research.

Part—B:

1.Methodology

1.Content Analysis

1.Conclusion

Texts will be chosen (and changed if required) on the basis of the instructor’s and students’ choice

1. Chaucer:

a. The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales;

b. Nun’s Priest’s Tale; and

c. Knight’s Tale. Ed. Coffin, R. C.

2. Spenser. Faerie Queene: Book—I: Cantos: I—IV.

3. Milton. Paradise Lost: Books: IX & X.

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.

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 17^th 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 17^th Century.

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

19.Tillyard. Milton.

ENG 223 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA (excluding Shakespeare)

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

1. Marlowe: Dr. Faustus;

2. Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy;

3. Ben Jonson: Volpone; and

4. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi.

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 15^th 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.

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 225 CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE (For Bangla Department students)

ENG 311 POETRY FROM DRYDEN TO BLAKE

1. Dryden:

Absalom and Achitophel

2. Pope:

a. The Rape of the Lock; and

b. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

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.

1. Butt, John. Augustan Age.

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

3. Willey, Basil. The 18^th 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 18^th Century Literature.

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 merit 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

e. Pamphleteering in English.

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

2. Willey, Basil. Seventeenth Century Background.

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

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

ENG 313 ENGLISH CRITICAL THEORY

1. Sydney: Apologie for Poetrie;

2. Dryden: Essay of Dramatic Poesy;

3. Johnson: Johnson on Shakespeare. Ed. Raleigh.;

4. Shelley: In Defense of Poetry

5. Arnold: The Study of Poetry; and

6. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent.

Note: The Course is to be studied with reference to the following:

i. An outline of history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present day;

ii. Classification of criticism:

a.        Linguistic;

b.       Theoretical; and

c.        Descriptive.

i. Criticism and a reflection of contemporary creative practice; and

ii. Beginnings of English criticism:

a. Dr. Johnson;

b. Neo Classicism in the 18^th Century;

c. Criticism during the romantic revival; and

d. Continental influence on English criticism in the 19^th Century; and

e. Trends in the 20^th Century criticism.

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

1. Wycherley: The Country Wife;

2. Congreve: The Way of the World;

3. Dryden, John: All for Love;

4. Sheridan: The Rivals.

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.

1.Grierson. Crosscurrents in the Literature of the 17^th Century.

2.Wedgewood. 17^th Century Literature.

3.Dobree, Bonami. Restoration Comedy.

4.Dobree, Bonami. Restoration Tragedy.

5.Nicoll, A. A History of Restoration Drama.

6 .17^th Century Studies Presented to Sir H. Grierson. Oxford.

ENG 315 18TH CENTURY PROSE

1. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels;

2. Addison and Steele: Coverley Papers;

3. Dr. Johnson: Lives of Poets; 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.

1. Butt, John. Augustan Age.

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

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

4. Jack, Ian. Augustan Satire.

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

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

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.

1. Chadwick, Owen. The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19^th Century.

2. Aquinas, St. Thomas. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics.

3. Hobbes, Thomas. Laviathan

4. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Rousseau’s Political Writings.

ENG 321 OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY

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

A.

1. Beowulf;

2. The Seafarer;

3. The Wanderer;

a. 7^th Century: Caedmon

b. 8^th Century: Cynewulf

c. 9^th Century: Alfred: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

B.

1. 4^th 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.

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 322 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL

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

1. Richardson: Pamela;

2. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; and

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.

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.

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.:

Sonnets from Portuguese 13, 14, 21 & 22

4. Arnold:

a. Thyrsis;

b. Dover Beach;

c. Rugby Chapel; and

d. The Scholar Gipsy.

5. Hopkins From the selections edited by G. St

a. The Wreck of Deutschland; and

b. Felix Rendal.

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.

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.

1. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice

2. Bronte, Emily.: Wuthering Heights;

3. Hardy, Thomas.: Far from the Madding Crowd; 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.

1. Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists.

2. Brandis, George. Main Currents in the 19^th Century Literature. Vol: 4.

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 AMERICAN POETRY

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:

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:

1. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers; and

2. 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.

1. O’ Neil: Desire under the Elms;

2. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire;

3. Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman; 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.

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. Where I Live: Selected Essays. Ed. Day, Christine and Woods, Bob. 1978.

10. Quinn, Arthur. A History of the American Drama from the Civil War to the Present Day.

ENG 412 AMERICAN FICTION

1. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn;

2. Hawthorn: The Scarlet Letter;

3. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea;

4. S. Fitzgerald: Great Greatsby; and

5. Melville: Moby Dick.

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.

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.

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

1. Shaw, G. B.  Saint Joan;

2. Synge, G. M. The Playboy of the Western World;

3. Beckett, S. Waiting for Godot;; and

4. Osborn, J. J. Look Back in Age.

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 20^TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL

1. Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers;

2. Forster, E. M. Passage to India;

3. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness;

4. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and

5. Woolf, Virginia. To the Light House.

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.

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

2. Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction.

ENG 415 20^TH CENTURY BRITISH POETRY

1. Yeats

2. Eliot

3. Auden

4. Ted Hughes

Note: Teachers should put stress on the following points:

a. Imperialism;

b. Social Unrest;

c. Marxism;

d. Feminism;

e. Capitalism; and

f. Two Great Wars.

1. Cunliffe, J. W. English Literature During the Last Half Century.

2. Bowra, C. M. The Heritage of Symbolism.

3. Solapinta, V. Crisis in Modern Poetry.

4. Betho and Dobree. The Victorian and After.

5. Frazer, G. S. The Modern Writer and his World.

ENG 416 OTHER LITERATURES

1. Mardruce, J. C.  One Thousand Nights and One Night. Aleppo version (Selected Pieces);

2. Khayyam, Omar. Selected Rubayyats (Fitzerald’s translations);

3. Zibran, Kahlil. Selected Poems;

4. Hussain, Taha. The Stream of Days; and

5. Mahfouz, Naguib. The Beginning and the End.

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.

(0+0) 1 Credit

Shakespeare:

a. Hamlet;

b. The Twelfth Night;

c. The Tempest; and

d. Richard II.

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.

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

7. Schelling F. E. Elizabethan Drama.

8. Vaughn. Types of Tragedy.

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

1. Moliere:The Affected Young Ladies;

2. Ibsen: A Doll’s House;

3. Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children; and

4. Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Note: Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues:

a. Psychology;

b. Philosophy;

c. Transcendentalism;

d. Literary Regionalism; and

e. Racial and other Minorities.

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, Miriam. Encyclopedia of Literature.

1. Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina;

2. Dostoyevsky, F. Crime and Punishment;

3. Mann, Thomas. Magic Mountain;

4. Camus, Albert. The Outsider; and

5. Kundera, Milan. The Joke.

For Studies in Detail:

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.

5. Luedike, L. S. Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States.

6. Mathiessen, F. O. American Renaissance.

7. Lewis, R. The American Adam.

8. Tayler, M. C. History of American Literature: 1607~1765.

9. Chase, Richard. The American Novel.

1. Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali (Selected pieces);

2. Rokeya, Begum. Sultana’s Dream;

3. Gosh, Amitava. In an Antique Land;

4. Mukerjee, Bharathi. Jasmine; and

5. Choudhury, Nirod C. Unknown Indian

Course—Plan in Detail:

1. Evolution of the genre

2. Selections:

i. D.H. Lawrence: "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

ii. Ambrose Bierce: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

iii. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

iv. Checkov: "The Darling"

v. Guy de Mupassant: "The Diamond Necklace"

vi. Franz Kafka: "Metamorphosis"