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B.A ENGLISH (HONOURS) Syllabus
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
w. e. f. Admission Batch (2016-2017) for Affiliated Colleges
North Orissa University
Sriram Chandra Vihar
Takatpur, Baripada
Mayurbhanj-757003
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COURSE STRUCTURE (CBCS)
For B.A Honours (English)
Sem Core Course Ability Skill Elective Generic
Enhancement Enhancement Discipline Elective (No. of paper14) Compulsory Course Specific (GE)
Credit (4+2) Course (AECC) (SEC) (DSE) (No. of paper 4)
(No. of paper 2) (No. of Paper 2) (No. of paper 4) Credit (6)
Credit (4) Credit (4) Credit (6)
I CCH-1 Environmental GE-A-1 Science
CCH-2
II CCH-3 MIL/ Alt English GE-B-1
CCH-4
III CCH-5 GE-A-2 SEC-1
CCH-6 Communicative
CCH-7 English
IV CCH-8 GE-B-2 SEC-2
CCH-9
(Subject
Specific Skill)
CCH-10
V CCH-11 DSE-1
CCH-12 DSE-2
VI CCH-13 DSE-3
CCH-114 DSE-4
GE- A/B two different subjects other than English
Core Papers (C): (Credit: 06 each, Theory-04, Practical-02)
Discipline Specific Elective Papers: (Credit: 06 each) (4 papers)- DSE 1 – 4
Generic Elective/Interdisciplinary (04 papers –02 papers from two disciplines GE 1 to GE
4
1. ANTHROPOLOGY 2. ECONOMICS 3. EDUCATION 4. GEOGRAPHY 5. HOME SCIENCE 6. HINDI
7. HISTORY 8. MATHEMATICS
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9. ODIA 10. POL. SC. 11. PHILOSOPHY 12. PSYCHOLOGY 13. SANSKRIT 14. SOCIOLOGY
Skill Enhancement Courses (02 papers) (Credit: 04 each)- SEC1 to SEC 2)
1. Communicative English (Compulsory)
Generic Elective Papers (GE) (English) (any 2 for other honours student & any 4 for pass
student) for other Departments/Disciplines: (Credit: 06 each)
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SEMESTER-I
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-1
Subject: British Poetry and Drama: 14th
and 17th
Centuries Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with the three Ages/Periods of English Literature:
the Medieval; the Renaissance & the Reformation.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-1:
Chaucer- The wife of Bath’s Tale or The Pardoner’s Tale.
Unit-2 :
Sir Thomas Wyatt; “Farewell, Love”. Sir Philip Sidney : “ Leave me, O Love, which reaches
but to dust”, Edmund Waller. “Go lovely Rose” Ben Jonson; “Song to Celia”, William Shakespeare: Sonnets “Shall I compare “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”.
Unit-3:
A. William Shakespeare : As You like it.
Or B. Marlowe: Edward.II
Essential readings:
1. Sanders, Andrews : The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: OUP
2. Critical History of English Literature- David Daiches. 3. Harold Bloom: The Invention of the Human
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SEMESTER-I
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-2
Sub: British Poetry and Drama 17th
& 18th
Century Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
This paper seeks to introduce the students to the 17th Century period of English Revolution, the Jacobean
Period, the Metaphysicsl Poetry, Cavalier Poetry, Comedy of Humours, Masques & Beast fables, 18th
Century: Restoration; Neo classicism; Heroic Poetry; Restoration Comedy/ Comedy of Manners.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-1 :
John Milton: Lycidas Or Allegro and II Penserosa;
John Donne: A Nocturnall upon S. Lucie’s Day, Love’s Deity; and Andrew Marvel: The Coronet; The Definition of Love & To His Coy Mistress
Unit-2 : Pope: Ode on Solitude, a Little Learning; Know Then Thyself
Robert Burns: A Red Rose, A Fond Kiss, My Heart’s in the Highlands Unit-3 :
Ben Jonson: Volpone
Or Dryden: All for Love
Essential readings: 1. Lycidas- John Milton (Eds. Paul & Thomas), Orient Blackswan
2. Critical History of English Literature- David Daiches. 3. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol.B. The Sixteenth Century & The Early
Seventeenth Century 4. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
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SEMESTER-II
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-3
Subject: British Literature: 18th
Century Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with 18th Century of British Literature.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-1 : Joseph Addison :- On giving Advice
Reflection in Westminster Abbey
Defence and Happiness of Married Life
Richard Steel :- Recollections
On long winded people
Unit-2 :
Oliver Goldsmith:- A city Night Piece
On National Prejudices.
Man in Black.
Samuel John Son: Expectations of Pleasure frustrated
Domestic Greatness Unattainable
Mischief of Good Company
The Decy of Friendship
Unit-3 :
Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a country churchyars
Essential readings:
1. Critical History of English Literature; David Daiches. 2. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
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SEMESTER-II
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-4
Subject: Indian Writing in English Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
Ths objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with Indian writings in English.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-1 : Crystallization: R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts
Unit-2 : Maturation: Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines
Unit-3 :
Flowering: R. Parthasarathy (ed) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, The following poems are
to be studied. Nissim Ezekiel, “Good Bye Party for Miss Puspa T.S”, Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher”, Arun
Kolatkar, “The Boat Ride”, “Jejuri”, Kamala Das, “My Grandmother’s House”, “A Hot Noon in Malabar”, Jayanta Mahapatra, “Indian Summer”,, “Grass”, A.K. Ramanujan, “Looking for a
Cousin on a Swing”, “Small Scale Reflections on a Great House”
Essential readings:
1. R. Parthsarathy, Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets. Delhi: Oxford University
Press,1975.
2. Vinay Dharwadkar, The Historical Formation of India-English Literature in Sheldon
Pollock (ed.) Literature Cultures in History, New Delhi; Oxford University Press, 2003.
3. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, An illustrated History of Indian Literature in English.
Hyderabad; Orient Blackswan, 2003.
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SEMESTER-III
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-5
Subject: British Romantic Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The objective of this paper is to familiarize the students with the Romantic Period and some of its
representative writers. At the same time it aims at providing the students with broad idea of the social and
historical contexts that shaped this unique upheaval.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 : Blake: The Tiger, London, A Poison Tree
William Collins: Ode to Evening
Unit-2 : William Wordworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on Intimations of Immortality. S.T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode Jhon Keats: Ode to A Nightingale, Ode to Autumn P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, The cloud
Unit-3 :
William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads P.B. Shelley: A Defense of Poetry
Essential readings:
1. C.M. Bowra: Romantic Imagination
2. Graham Hough: The Romantic Poets
3. Harold Bloom: The Visionary Company
4. Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron Vol-V
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SEMESTER-III
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-6
Subject: British Romantic Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The paper seeks to explore students to the literature produced in Britain in the 19th Century. The focus is
mainly on prose (fictional and non fictional ) and criticism.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 : Charles Lamb: Dreeam Children : A Reverie
William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers
R.L. Stevenson: Walking Tours
Unit-2 : Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
OR R.L. Stevenson: Treasure Island
Unit-3 :
Mathew Arnold : The study of Poetry
OR
William Hazlitt: Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth.
Essential readings:
1. Chapter IV and V from A short Introduction to English Literature by Jonathan Bate.
2. Jerry Eagleton: The English Novel
3. Charles Darwin: Natural Selection and Sexual Selection in the Descent of Man in the
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th
Edition Vol.2 Ed. Stephen Green blat (New
York: Norton 2006) pp.1545-9.
4. J.S. Mill : The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature 8th
Edition Vol.2.
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SEMESTER-III
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-7
Subject: American Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
This paper seeks to introduce the students to American Literature.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 :
Walt Whitman: Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain!
Emily Dickinson : Because I could not stop for death
Robert Frost Mending Wall, Birches, The Road Not Taken.
Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning.
Unit-2 : Eugene O Neill: The Hairy Ape Authur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Unit-3 :
Emerson : The American Scholar.
OR
Thoreau : Pond in Winter, Economy, Where I lived and what I lived for.
Essential readings:
1. Lewisohn, Ludwigh, The Story of American Literature, The Modern Library, N.Y. 2. Horton, Rod & Herbert W. Edwards. Backgrounds of American Literary Thought, 3
rd
Edition 3. Stewart, Randall (ed.) Living Masterpieces of American Literature, Brown University. 4. Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8
th edition.
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SEMESTER-IV
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-8
Subject: British Literature : Early 20th
Century Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The objective of this paper is to familiarize the students with the new literature of Britain in the early
decades of the 20th century. The course focuses on the modernest canon founded on Ezra Pound’s idea
‘make it new’ but covers war poetry, social poetry of the 1930s and literary criticism.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 :
A Historical Overview
Highlights include social and economic developments leading to a crisis in Western Society
known as the First World War and the resultant change. Such triggers for the modern
consciousness as Marx’s concept of class struggle, Fred’s theory of the consciousness, Bergson’s
duree, Nietzsche’s Will to power and Einstein’s theory of relativity are to be discussed.
Unit-2 : T.S. Eliot: Gerovtion W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium Ezra Pound : In a station of the Metro Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting Louis Mac Neice: Prayer before Birth W.H. Auden : The Unknown Citizen Stephen Spender: An Elementary Classroom in a Slum
Unit-3 :
Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent.
Henry James : The Art of Fiction.
Essential readings:
1. Pelican Guide to English Literature: The Modern Age Ed. Boris Ford. 2. Jonathan Bate: English Literature : A very short Introduction, Oxford Paperback 3. Peter Fauluner Modernism London, Methuen.
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SEMESTER-IV
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-9
Subject: European Classical Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
This paper seeks to introduce the students to European classical Literature form 8th Century B.C. in
ancient Greece to the Decline of Roman Empire in the 5th Century A.D.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 :
Homer: Odyssey (Book1)
Sophocles: Oedipus the king
Unit-2 : Aristophanes Frogs.
Unit-3 :
Aristole: Poetics (Chapter 6,7, &8)
Horace : Ars Poetica
Longinus: On the Sublime (Chapter 7 & 39)
Essential readings:
1. Auerbach, Erich. Mimeses : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. USA:
Princeton Univ. Press, 2013.
2. Beye, Charles Rowan. Ancient Greek Literature and Society, Ithaca, New York: Cornell
Univ. Press. 1987
3. All the texts are available for access on Project Gutenberg https://www.guttenberg.org
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SEMESTER-IV
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-10
Subject: Women’s Writing Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The course aims to acquaint the students with complex and multifaceted literature by women of the World
reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences and their varied cultural moorings. It embraces different
literary forms such as poetry, fiction, critical writings. In certain respect it interlocks concerns of
Women’s literary history, women’s studies and feminist criticism.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 :
Mary Wollstonecraft : “Introduction” for A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
OR
Simone de Beahvior: Introduction from “The Second Sex”
Unit-2 :
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Prativa Ray: Yajnaseni
Unit-3 :
Kamala Das: “ An Introduction” and “The Sunshine Caste”
Sylvia Plath ! “Mirror” and “ Barren Woman”
Margaret Atwood : “This is Photograph of Me” and “The Sandlady”
Web Resources:
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Introduction
http://pinkmoney.com/dl/library/vindicate.pft
Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems http://monoskop.org/images/2/27/Plath Sylvia The collected
Poems 1981.pdf
Simon de Beauvoir: The Second Sex http://buraway.berkeley.edu/Reader.102/Beauvour.1.pdf.
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SEMESTER-V
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-11
Subject: Modern European Drama Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to the best of experimental and innovative dramatic
literature of Modern Europe.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 :
Henric Ibsen The Wild Duck
Unit-2 :
Eugene Ionesco: Chairs
Unit-3 :
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Essential readings:
1. Martin Esslin: Theatre of the Absurd.
2. Raymond Williams : Tragedy and Revolution in Modern Tragedy.
3. George Steiner : On Modern Tragedy in “The Death of Tragedy”.
4. William A Armstrong: Experimental Drama.
5. Hugh Kenner: A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett.
Web Resources:
Ibsen:// www.gutenberg.org/files/8121/8121-h/8121h.htm
Ionesc : http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/ejen-ionesko-kergedan-eng.pdf
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SEMESTER-V
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-12
Subject: Indian Classical Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The aim of this paper is to create awareness among the students of the rich and diverse literary culture of
ancient India.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25
Unit-1 :
Samjnana Sukta Rig Veda X. 19 Purusa Sukta : Yajur Veda XV.XXI.1-16 Ayodhya Kanda: Book II (1
st Canto-The Ramayana of Valmiki) Gita Press Edition
Unit-2 : Abhijnana Sakuntalam Kalidas Act IV.tr. M.R. Kale, Motilal Banarasi Das, New Delhi. Mruchhakatika by Sudraka, Act I tr. M.M.R. Kale, Motilal Banarasi Dass, New Delhi.
Unit-3 :
1. Indian Aesthetics
Bharat Natyasastra, Chapter VI on Rasa Theory
English Translation by M.M.Ghose,Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 1950.
2. Sahitya Darpan of Vishvanath Kaviraj
Ref:- Eng. Translation by P.V. Kane, Motilal Banarasi Dass, New Delhi
3. Nitisakaka of Bhartrhari 20 verses from the beginning
4. Ref: The Satakatraya ed. D.D. Kosambi, Published in Ananharma Series,
127,Poona,1945.
5. English Translation Published from Ramakrishna Mission, Kolkata.
Essential readings:
1. Kalidasa Critical Edition, Sahitya Akademy.
2. Bharat Natyashastra, tr. Manmohan Ghosh, Vol 1, 2nd
Edn Calcutta, Granthalaya, 1967
Chap ^ Sentiments PP 100-18.
3. Universals of Poetics by Haldhar Panda.
4. Vinay Dharwadkar: Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature, in Orientalism and
the Post colonial Predicament: Perspectives in South Asia, ed. Carol A. Breckuridge and
Peter Vander Veer ( New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158-95
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SEMESTER-VI
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-13
Subject: Post Colonial Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The aim of this paper is to familiarize the students with post colonial Literature a body of Literature that
responds to the discourses of European colonialism & imperialism in Asia, Africa, Middle East, the
Pacific & elsewhere. The objectives is to focus on compliance, resistance, mimicry & subversion that
colonial power has provoked from the nation’s in their search for literature of their own.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II / III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25marks
Unit-1 :
Concept- Definition & Characteristics: Resistant descriptions, appropriation of the colonizer’s
language, reworking colonial art forms.
Scope & Concerns: Reclaiming spaces & places; asserting cultural integrity, revising history. Unit-2 :Indian and Caribbean
R.K. Narayan: The English Teacher.
Or
V.S. Naipans: A House for Mr. Biswas.
Unit-3 : Criticism
Chinna Achebe- English & the African writer
Ngugi wa Thiong’O : The Quest for Relevance” from Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of
Language in African Literature.
https://mrvenglish.wikispaces.com/file/view/english+and+the+African+writer.pdf
Essential readings:
1. Achebe, Chinna- An image of Africa: Racism Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,
Research in African Literatures, Vol.9, No.1, special issue on Literary criticism. (Spring,
1978) pp. 1-15.
2. http://english.gradstudies.yrku.ca/files/2013/06/achebe-china.pdf
3. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin-Inntroduction”, The Empire writes Back:
Theory & Practice in Post Colonial Literature London, New York, Routledge, 2nd
edition,
2002.
4. Edward Said- Orientatilism, India: Penguin, 2001.
5. Homi K. Bhabha- The Location of Culture, Noida: Atlantic Books, 2012.
6. Spivak, Gayatri Chakraborty-Can the Subalterra speak ? UK: Macmillan, 1998.
7. http://Planetarities.web.unc.edu/files/2015/01/spivak-subaltern-speak.pdf
8. Thiong’s Ngugi wa- https://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/pdf/wellekreadings-Ngugi-
Quest for relevance.pdf
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SEMESTER-VI
ENGLISH (HONS) Paper: CCH- Eng-14
Subject: Popular Literature Duration : 3 HRS Lecturer: 60
Marks : 100 (Midterm-20, End Term-80)
The aim of this paper is to introduce the students to genres such as romance, detective fiction, campus
fiction, fantasy/mythology which have a “mass” appeal and can help us gain a better understanding of the
popular roots of literature.
Midterm Test: 20 marks ( 2 questions x 10 marks on unit I/II/III)
End Term Exam: 80 marks
Unit-I 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis 20+5 = 25 marks
Unit-II 1 long question + 1 annotation = 20+10 = 30 marks
Unit-III 1 long question + 1 short note/analysis = 20+5 = 25marks
Unit-1 :
Introduction to the concept:
What is Popular concept?
Debate between popular & high cultures (‘high brow’ v/s ‘low brow’)
What is Genre fiction ?
Debate between genre fiction and literary fiction.
Essays for discussion
Lev Grossman:- “Literary Revolution in the Super market Aisle: Genre Fiction is
Disruptive Technology”
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/23/genre-fiction-is-disruptive-technolgy
Arthur Krystal: “Easy writers : Guilty Pleasures without guilt.”
http://www.newyorkkr.com/magizine/2012/05/28/easy-writers
Joshua Rothman: “ A Better way to think About the Genre Debate”
http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/better-way-think-genre-debate
Stephen Marche: How Genre Giction Became More Important then Literary Fiction
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a33599/genre-fiction-vs-literary-fiction Unit-2 : Detective fiction & Romance
Sherlock Holmes – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Or
Shobha De- Socialite Evenings
Unit-3 : Criticism
Campus Fiction & Rewriting Mythology
Chetan Bhagat-Five Point Someone.
Or
Amiya Chandramouli-Arhuna: Sage of a Pandava Warrior- Prince.
Essential readings:
1. Leslie Fiedler, What was Literature ? Class, Culture & Mass Society
2. Leo Lowenthal, Literature, Popular culture & society.
3. Popular Fiction: Essays in Literature & History by Peter Humm, Paul Stigant, Peter
Widdowson.