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13th July 2015, 03:58 PM
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Re: Alternative English Syllabus of North Bengal University

As you need North Bengal University Post-Graduate Syllabus for Regular Students in English Alternative English course detailed syllabus, here I am giving:

Post-Graduate Syllabus for Regular Students in English Alternative English course
NBU Alternative English syllabus

SEMESTER – I
PAPER 101
• Edmund Spenser- Faerie Queene, Book 1
• Francis Bacon -Of Adversity, Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Friendship, Of Youth and Age, Of Envy, Of Garden
• John Milton - Samson Agonistes
• Philip Sidney - An Apology for Poetry
• Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
• Thomas More - Utopia

PAPER 102
• Shakespeare - Hamlet
Measure for Measure
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Henry IV, Part I
• John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
• Ben Jonson - Everyman Out of His Humour

PAPER 103
• John Drylen - All for Love
• William Congreve - The Way of the World
• Alexander Pope - Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
• Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
• Samuel Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare

PAPER 104
• Group Discussion – 50, Viva-Voce – 50
SEMESTER II

PAPER 201
• Edmund Burke - Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [Excerpts]; Kant, “Analytic of the Sublime” (From Critique of Judgment, BK II)
• William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge - Selections from Biographia Literaria (Chapter 13, 14, 17)
• William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• John Keats - Letters [1817-19]; Odes (Indolence, Autumn, Psyche,
Melancholy)
• P.B. Shelley - Prometheus Unbound; Wordsworth - Prelude I & II
• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

PAPER 202
• Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
• George Eliot - Middlemarch
• Victorian Prose - Ed. V.S. Seturaman (Macmillan)
(a) Carlyle - The Hero as Poet; Dante; Shakespeare
(b) Newman - Knowledge its Own End; Literature
(c) Arnold - Sweetness and Light; Doing as One Likes
• Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
• Victorian Prose Selections
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Norton edition)
Introduction; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter V; Section I.
(b) John Stuart Mill - From “Subjection of Women”
• Victorian Poetry
(a) Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot; In Memoriam-11, 14, 16, 41, 45; Morte D’ Arthur
(b) Browning - Rabbi Ben Ezra;The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church; One Word More
(c) Arnold - Dover Beach; Growing Old; The death of Sohrab
(d) Hardy - In Front of the Landscape: The Darkling Thrush; Moments of Vision

PAPER 203
• Gerald Manley Hopkins - The Wreck of Deutschland; The Windhover; Pied Beauty
• Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
• Rudyard Kipling - Kim
• Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
• Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan
• Virginia Woolf - ‘Modern Fiction’

PAPER 204
• Group Discussion – 50; Viva-voce – 50
SEMESTER III

PAPER 301
• D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
• James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Modern Poetry I
(a) T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
(b) Auden - A Summer Night; In Memory of W.B. Yeats; Memorial for the City; A Shilling Life
(c) Spender - The Express; At the Edge of Being; Darkness and Light; I can never be a Great Man
• Modern Poetry II
(a) Dylan Thomas - The force that through the Green Fuse; Poem in October; Do not go into that Good Night.
(b) Larkin - Church Going; The Explosion; Wants; At Grass
(c) Ted Hughes - Hawk Roosting; The Thought-fox; A Childish Prank; Thrushes
• Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
• William Golding - Lord of the Files

PAPER 302
• John Osborne - Look Back In Anger
• Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
• Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
• Albert Camus - The Outsider
• Kafka - The Trial
• Brecht - Mother Courage

PAPER 303
• Plato – Ion; Republic Books II, III, X; Aristotle - Poetics
• Arnold - The Study of Poetry; Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent
• Wimsatt and Beardsley - The Intentional Fallacy; Cleanth Brooks: The Language of Paradox
• Said - Inteoduction (From Orientalism); Bhabha - The Other Question
(Source: Padmini Mongia - Contemporary Postcolonial Theory)
• Derrida - Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; M.H. Abrams - Deconstructive-Angel (Source: David Lodge)
• Showalter - Feminist Criticism in Wilderness (Source: Lodge);
• Chandra T. Mohanty - Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (Source: Mongia)

PAPER 304
• Group Discussion – 50; Viva-voce – 50

SEMESTER IV

PAPER 401
• Thoreau - Walden
• Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie
• Arthur Miller - Death of Salesman
• Robert Frost - Provide, Provide; Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight; Birches; Mending Wall; Directive; The Gift Outright; Come in
• Gordimer - My Son’s Story
• Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Or
• Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems

PAPER 402
• Raja Rao - Kanthapura
• Derek Walcott - Pantomime
• Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
• Margaret Atwood - Surfacing
• V.S. Naipaul - The Mimic Men
• Patrick White - A Fringe of Leaves

PAPER 403 (Special Paper)
American Literature
• Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
• Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
• Sylvia Plath - Point Shirley; The Colossus; Daddy; Fever 103; Ariel;
Purdah; Lady Lazarus
• Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues; Dream Variations; The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Ballad of the Landlord; Theme for English B; Fire; 50-50; Heaven; Personal
• Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye
• August Wilson - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Philip Kan Gotanda - Day Standing on Its Head
Indian English Literature
• Mulk Raj Anand - Coolie
• Girish Karnad - The Fire and the Rain
• Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
• Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines
• Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
• Mahesh Dattani - Dance like a Man
• Indian English poetry - A. K. Mehrotra, ed. (Arun Kolatkar, A. K.
Ramanujan, Agha Sahid Ali, Dilip Chitre)

Texts in Translation
• Rabindranth Tagore - The Home and the World (Penguin)
• U.R. Anantha Murthy - Samskara (Oxford India)
• Munshi Premchand - Godan (Oxford India)
• P. Sivakami - The Grip of Change (Orient Longman)
• Mahasweta Devi - Breast Stories (Seagull)
• Gurajada Apparao - Girls for Sale (Indian Univ. Press)
• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer - Poovanbanana and Other Stries (Orient Longman)

Linguistics and Phonetics
• Group – A
Linguistics: (50 marks)
Unit I : Notions of grammar; Grammaticality; Correctness; Some basic concepts in grammar: words and lexims, constituent structure, sentence and clause, morphological processes, components of a linguistic description, descriptive grammar vs. prescriptive grammar
Unit II : Phrases; Kernel and non-kernel clauses; Clause/sentence type: Subordinationand coordination; Thematic Systems of the clause
Unit III: The Noun Phrase Structure; Determiners and Article features
Unit IV: Verbs; Adjectives; Prepositions; Tense, Aspect and Modality.
Unit V: Surface and Deep Structure interrelation; the notion of Universal Grammar
Unit VI: Stylistics and New Stylistics
UnitVII: Language and language acquisition: the Behaviourist, Innatist and Interactionist schools.

• Group – B
Phonetics: (Theoretical: 35 marks; Practical: 15 marks)
Unit I: International Phonetic Alphabet; Phonetics and Phonology
Unit II: Air-Stream Mechanism and Organs of Speech
Unit III: Description of English Vowels and Consonants; Sylable and Syllable structure
Unit IV: Suprasegmental features: Stress, Rhythm, Intonation; Assimilation and Elison
Unit V: The so-called RP; the notion of General Indian English (GIE); Problems of Indian learners of English; Phonetic and Phonemic Transcription.

Practical: Oral tests on Units III, IV & V.

PAPER 404
• Group Discussion – 50; Viva-voce – 50.
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Re: Alternative English Syllabus of North Bengal University

Hello sir, I want syllabus of 1st year examination of Alternative English Syllabus of North Bengal University? Will you please provide me?
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13th February 2016, 08:24 AM
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Re: Alternative English Syllabus of North Bengal University

Here I’m providing you syllabus of Alternative English first year of North Bengal University:

1st year consist 2 semesters in each sem.

SEMESTER – I
PAPER 1
Edmund Spenser- Faerie Queene, Book 1
Francis Bacon -Of Adversity, Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Friendship, Of Youth and Age, Of Envy, Of Garden
John Milton - Samson Agonistes
Philip Sidney - An Apology for Poetry
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
Thomas More - Utopia

PAPER: 2
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Measure for Measure
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Henry IV, Part I
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson - Everyman Out of His Humour

PAPER 3
John Drylen - All for Love
William Congreve - The Way of the World
Alexander Pope - Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Samuel Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare

PAPER 4
Group Discussion – 50, Viva-Voce – 50


SEMESTER II

PAPER 1
Edmund Burke - Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [Excerpts]; Kant, “Analytic of the Sublime” (From Critique of Judgment, BK II)
William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge - Selections from Biographia Literaria (Chapter 13, 14, 17)
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
John Keats - Letters [1817-19]; Odes (Indolence, Autumn, Psyche,
Melancholy)
P.B. Shelley - Prometheus Unbound; Wordsworth - Prelude I & II
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

PAPER 2
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Victorian Prose - Ed. V.S. Seturaman (Macmillan)
(a) Carlyle - The Hero as Poet; Dante; Shakespeare
(b) Newman - Knowledge its Own End; Literature
(c) Arnold - Sweetness and Light; Doing as One Likes
Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
Victorian Prose Selections
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Norton edition)
Introduction; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter V; Section I.
(b) John Stuart Mill - From “Subjection of Women”
Victorian Poetry
(a) Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot; In Memoriam-11, 14, 16, 41, 45; Morte D’ Arthur
(b) Browning - Rabbi Ben Ezra;The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church; One Word More
(c) Arnold - Dover Beach; Growing Old; The death of Sohrab
(d) Hardy - In Front of the Landscape: The Darkling Thrush; Moments of Vision

PAPER 3
Gerald Manley Hopkins - The Wreck of Deutschland; The Windhover; Pied Beauty
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan
Virginia Woolf - ‘Modern Fiction’

PAPER 4
Group Discussion – 50; Viva-voce – 50


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