Department of English Burdwan University

Hi buddy I want to get syllabus of MA English program offered by Department of English Burdwan University along with faculty name bcoz I want to do PG from there ??

[Pathak]

Department of English Burdwan University offered MA English designed to
lend competence in English language skills, through a close reading of literature. At the same time, the course hones research skills, making students aware of the cultural contexts of literary studies, For admission in this program you must completed graduation

The University of Burdwan
Department of English faculty
1

Prof. Lakshmi Narayan Gupta

2

Prof. Rama Kundu (Ghosh)

3

Prof. anima Biswas

4

Prof. Asok Kr. Hui

5

Prof. Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay

6

Prof. Parbati Charan Chakraborty

7

Prof. Pradip Kr Dey

8

Prof. Bijay Kr Das

9

Dr. Himadri Lahiri

10

Dr. Angshuman Kar

Department of English Burdwan University MA English syllabus
Semester I
Paper 101 & 102: Medieval and Renaissance English Literature
(Excluding Shakespeare)
These courses propose to study Medieval, Renaissance
and Refor
mation
English literature in the
context of social, political and religious
events that contributed to the formation of early modern
culture in England.
Paper 101
:
Medieval and Renaissance English
Literature
(Excluding Shakespeare)
I
Unit I
(Any two
)
Geoffrey Chaucer:
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
/
The Nun’S Priest’s Tale
, Edmund Spenser:
The Faerie Queene BK I
,
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
, Pearl
,
Everyman
Unit II (Milton and any t
wo
poets)
John Donne:
‘The Flea’, ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mour
ning’;
Andrew
Marvell: ‘The Garden’,
‘An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’
; Herbert: ‘The Collar’, ‘The Pearl’;
Mary Wroth
: ‘ Bee you all pleas'd, your pleasures grieve not me
’, ‘No time, no roome, no
thought, or writing can give rest’
; Chap
man: ‘Bridal Song’, ‘The Shadow of Night’
; Henry
Vaughan
: ‘The Retreat’ , ‘The Storm’; John Milton
:
Paradise Lost
BK IV
Paper 102: Medieval
and Renaissance English Literature
(Excluding Shakespeare)
II
Unit I (Any three
)
Thomas Kyd:
The Spanish Tragedy
, Christopher
Marlowe:
Doctor Faustus
/
Tamburlaine
, John
Webster:
The Duchess of Malfi
/
The Whi
te Devil
, Ben Jonson:
Volpone
/
The Alchemist
Unit II (Any two
)
Selections from Pico della Mirandola’s
Oration on the Dignity of Man
, John
Lyly’s
Eupheus
,
Philip Sidney’s
Arcadia
,
Machiavelli’
s
The Prince
, John Hobbes’s
The Leviathan
Recommended Reading for 101 and 102:
Peter Brown, e
d.
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture: c.1350-
c.1500
Pico della Mirandola.
Oration on the Dignity of Man: A New Translation and Commentary
.
Trans. and Ed.
Francesco Borghesi, Michael Papio, and Massimo Riva, 2012.
Machiavelli. The Prince. Trans. and Ed.
Jacques le Goff.
Time, Work and Culture in the M
iddle Ages
, 1980.
Eileen Power.
Medieval Women
, 1975.
Paul O. Kristeller.
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources
, 1979.
William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden.
The Idea of the Renaissance
, 1989
.
J.B. Trapp, ed.
Background to the English Renaissance
, 1974.
Robert Ashton.
Reformation and Revolution, 1558-
1660
, 1984.
Stephen Greenblatt
.
Renaissance Self
-Fashioning
, 1980.
Margaret L. King.
Women in the Renaissance
, 1991.
M. Bluestone and N. Rabkin, eds.
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
, 1961.
Paper 103
: William Shakespe
are I (Plays & Poe
ms
)
This paper
proposes a study
of select tragedies,
comedies and
sonnets of William Shakespeare
with the express intent
of making
students aware of
the enduring importance of Shakespeare in
his times and ours.
Unit I
(Any three
)
King L
ear, Hamlet,
Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra
,
Richard III
Unit II
(Any two
plays
)
Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice
,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest
,
Measure for
Measure
Ten sonnets
: Sonnet No. 1, 19, 29, 32, 46, 55, 65, 71, 116, 147
William Shakespeare
II (
Background, Reception & Translation)
This paper will exp
ose the students to Shakespeare’s time and stage and give them an overview
of different critical approaches to Shakespeare. It will also map the reception of Shakesepeare
through translations and adaptations with a particular focus on the Indian context.
Unit I
Shakespeare: Critical Approaches
Neo
-classical: Dryden, Dr Johnson, Maurice Morgan
Romantic: Coleridge, Lamb, Thomas De Quincey
Victorian: Carlyle, A.C. Bradley
Modern: Wilson Knight, L.C. Knights, Caroline Spurgeon, E.M.W. Tillyard, S.C. Sengupta
Recent Trends: Gender
-informed Approach, New Historicist Approach, Cultural Materialist
Approach, Postmodernist Approach
Unit II
Shakespeare’s Time and Stage
Shakespeare’s
Reception
in India (1850-
till date): A Brief History
Shakespeare in Films:
Romeo and Juliet
(Dir.
Franco Ze
ffirelli),
Hamlet
(Dir.
Kenneth Branagh)
,
Maqbool
,
Omkara
(any one)
Shakespeare in Translations and Adaptations
: Hurro Chunder Ghose
:
Bhanumati Chittobilas
,
Girish Ghosh:
Macbeth
, Utpal Dutt
:
Chaitali Rater Swapno
(any one
)
Recommended Reading for 102 and 103:
E.K. Chambers.
William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems
, 1930.
E.K. Chambers.
The Elizabethan Stage
, 1923.
G.E. Bentley.
The Jacobean and Caroline Stage
, 1941-
68.
O.J. Campbell and E.G. Quinn, eds.
A Shakespeare Encyclopaedia
(also published as
Reader’s
Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare
) 1966.
C.L. Barber.
Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy
, 1959-
1972.
E.M.W. Tillyard.
Shakespeare’s Last Plays
, 1938.
E.M.W. Tillyar
d.
The Elizabethan World Picture
, 1942.
Stephen Greenblatt.
Renaissance Self Fashioning
, 1980.
Jan Kott.
Shakespeare: Our Contemporary
, 1983.
Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, eds.
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion
, Oxford 1987
Ivo Kemps, ed.
Shakespeare: Left and Right
, 1991.
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, eds.
Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural
Materialism
, 1985.
John Drakakis, ed.
Alternative Shakespeares
, 1985.
Jean Wilson.
The Archaeology of Shakespeare
, 1995.
Ania Loomba.
Shakesp
eare, Race and Colonialism
, 2002.
Amitava Roy,
Hemlat: The Prince of Garanhata
, 2012
.
Paper 105
: Classical Literature and Criticism (European and Indian)
The classical European literature and critical thought course reminds students of the ideological
and aesthetic assumptions of British literature and situates such writing within and between
European linguistic/cultural traditions
.
T he course
also exposes students to Indic aesthetic traditions, and enables them
to appreciate
cross
-cultural aesthetics.
The inclusion of Indic aesthetic texts takes into account the culturally
hybrid space within which English operates in India.
Unit I
(Any three European and any one Indian text)
Plato:
The Republic
(Books III & X), Aristotle:
The Poetics
, Horac
e:
Ars Poetica
, Longinus:
On
the Sublime
, Rasa-
Siddhanta
with special reference to Bharatmuni
’s “On Natya and Rasa:
Aesthetic of Dramatic Experience”,
Dhavni
-siddhanta
with special reference to
Anandvardhana’s , “Dhavni: Structure and Meaning”,
Vakrokti
-Siddhanta
with special reference
to Kunatak’s “Language of Poetry and Metaphor”
Unit II (Any
three
)
Homer:
The Iliad
(Selections), Virgil:
The Aenied
(Selections)
, Aeschylus:
Agamemnon
,
Sophocles:
King Oedipus
, Euripides
:
Medea
, Plautus:
The Ghost
, Arist
ophanes:
The Frogs
Recommended Reading:
Penelope Murray & T.S. Dorch (trans).
Classical Literary Criticism
. 2000.
Manomohan Ghosh (trans).
The Natyasastra: A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy and Histrionics
.
1959.
Semester II
Paper 201
& 202: Eighteenth Century English Literature I and II
The Eighteenth century course (I and II) exposes students to the coming of Enlightenment
modernity, print cultures, Romantic sensibilities, and the emergence of new genres (and modes)
such as the novel, the periodical essay, gothic narratives, children’s writing; sentimental
literature, travel narratives
, life narratives and more
. These emergent genres operating within the
oral
-literate dynamic; engaging with technological innovations and cross
-cultural concerns (as a
result of imperial expansions) now demand newer and more complex modes of reading
-response.
The course hopes to sensitize students to the same.
Paper 201
: Eighteenth Century
English Literature I
Unit I (Any three)
Aphra Behn:
Oroonoko,
Daniel Def
oe:
Moll Flanders/Robinson Crusoe/Roxana, The Fortunate
Mistress
, Eliza Haywood:
Fantomina, or Love in a Maze,
Fanny Burney:
Evelina: Or the History
of a Young Lady’s Ent
rance into the World
, Jonathan Swift:
Gulliver’s Travels,
Lawrence
Sterne:
Tristam Shandy,
Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones/Joseph Andrews
Unit II
(Two
play
s and one prose work)
Dr. Samuel J
ohnson:
Rambler: (No. 134. 1751
), Joseph Addison:
Spectator
(Selections)
, James
Boswell:
Life of Samuel Johnson
(Selections)
, John Dryden: Translation of
Plutarch’s Lives,
Alexander Pope: Translation of Homer’s
Iliad,
John Dryden:
Aurangzebe
, Richard Steele:
The
Conscious Lovers
, Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
The School for Scandal,
William
Goldsmith:
She
Stoops to Conquer ,
William Hogarth.
Paper 202: Eighteenth Century
English Literature II
Unit I
(Any three)
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus
, Horace Walpole.
The Castle of
Otranto: A Gothic Story
, M.G. Lewis:
The Monk: A Romance
, Samuel Richardson:
Pamela or
Virtue Rewarded,
Maria Edgeworth:
Castle Rackrent
, Walter Scott:
Ivanhoe/Rob Roy/Waverly
,
Jane Austen:
No
rthanger Abbey
/Mansfield Park/Sense and Sensibility

Address

The University of Burdwan
Rajbati
Burdwan, West Bengal 713104

more detail attached a pdf file;