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B.A. WITH ENGLISH MAJOR OR ENGLISH AS A MINOR SUBJECT OR A MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIONAL IN THE FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE

PROGRAMME DESIGNED AS PER NEP, BANKURA UNIVERSITY, 2023-24

SEMESTER – I

Course Title (Discipline Specific Core Course): Introduction to Literary Studies
Course Code: A/ENG/101/MJC-1
Credit: 04 Contact Hours/week: 04
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours

Course Objectives:

• To inihate undergraduate students to a basic understanding of the domain of literature and its different genres
• To equip them to appreciate and interpret a given text with crihcal insight
• To enable students to situate a text as mirror and provocator of its socio-historical context
• To introduce them to foundahonal concepts and methods of crihque as applied to different literary texts

Course Outcomes:

• On successful complehon of the course, students will be able to recognise, classify and engage with the different genres of literature.
• They would be able to apply diverse literary tools and concepts to crihcally engage with different types of literary texts.
• It would introduce them to processes of crihcal-creahve thinking in relahon to literature as a field of reflection and applicahon.
• The foundational course would serve as a prerequisite for higher level coursework in diverse domains of English Studies.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Reading Poetry

a) Poetry – Elements of Poetry e.g. lexical, visual/metaphorical and rhythmic dimensions, and the various forms of poetry; e.g. Ode, Lyric, Sonnet and other forms (Klarer, Mario. “Major Genres in Textual Studies”, An Introduction to Literary Studies, Chapter 2 sec. 2, pp. 27-43, and Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. “Poetry as a Way ofSaying”, Understanding Poetry, 4th ed., pp. 1-16.)

b) Illustrative texts: Shakespeare’s “Sonnet no. 29”, John Donne’s “Ecstasy”, John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”, “The Terror of Death”, Jayanta Mahapatra’s “Grass”

(Illustrative Notes:

a) Poetry – 

b) Illustrative texts:

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet no. 29”

John Donne’s “Ecstasy”

 John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”

 John Keats’s “The Terror of Death”

 Jayanta Mahapatra’s “Grass”

Unit 2: Understanding Fiction

a) Fiction – Types of Fiction and Elements of Fiction such as Plot, Narrator, Character, Point of View, newness and the novel. (Klarer, Mario. “Major Genres in Textual Studies”, An Introduction to Literary Studies, Chapter 2 Sec. 1, pp. 9-27, and Kaul, A.N. “A New Province of Wrihng”, The Domain of the Novel: Reflections on Some Historical Definitions, pp. 20-36.)

b) Illustrahve texts: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein/Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof, short stories e.g. James Joyce’s “Araby”, O Henry’s “The Last Leaf”, Mahasweta Devi’s “The Hunt”

Unit 3: Engaging with Drama

a) Drama - Types of Drama and Elements of Drama (Mayes, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature, pp. 1178 – 1186, and Klarer, Mario. “Major Genres in Textual Studies”, An Introduction to Literary Studies, Chapter 2 Sec 3, pp. 43-55.)

b) Illustrative texts: J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea/Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq

Marks Division:

The course will have an Internal Assessment Test of 10 marks.
Question Pattern for End Semester Examination: Total 40 marks

  • 1 long question worth 10 marks out of 2 questions to be attempted from each of Units 1 and 3: 2x10=20
  • 1 long question worth 10 marks out of 3 questions to be attempted from Unit 2: 1x10=10
  • 5 short questions worth 2 marks each out of 10 questions to be attempted from Units 1, 2 and 3: 5x2=10


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