UG – Hons/ General – Question Bank
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UG Sem II
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CC4
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Chaucer’s
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.
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1.
Comment on the poetic style of Chaucer.
2.
Comment on the character of the Wife of
Bath.
3.
Comment on the Wife of Bath’s
perspective towards life.
4.
What are the Wife’s opinions regarding
her five husbands?
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Spenser’s
‘One day I wrote her name’.
Shakespeare’s
Son. 18 and 130.
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1.
Write a critical appreciation on
Spenser’s sonnet ‘One day I write her name’.
2.
Consider Spenser’s ‘One day I wrote her
name’ as an Elizabethan love poem.
3.
Comment on the style and structure of
Shakespeare’s sonnets with special reference to sonnet. 18 and 130.
4.
Comment on Shakespeare’s use of imagery
in his sonnets with special reference to sonnet 18 and 130.
5.
Comment on Shakespeare’s treatment of
Time and Love in Sonnet 18.
6.
Consider Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 as a
love poem.
7.
Do you think Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 is
anti- Petrarchan in nature? Give reasons.
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Metaphysical
Poetry:
John
Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’ and Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’
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1.
Consider Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’ as a
metaphysical poem.
2.
Consider Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’ as a
love poem.
3.
Comment on the use of conceits in
Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’ and Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress.
4.
Consider both Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’
and Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ as Metaphysical love poems.
Comment
on the use of levity and seriousness in Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’.
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CC 4
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Macbeth: William Shakespeare
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1.Analyse Macbeth
as a tragedy.
2.Compare and contrast the characters of Macbeth and
Banano.
3. Discuss Shakespeare's use of the supernatural elements
in Macbeth.
4. Lady Macbeth acts as the Fourth Witch in the play. Do
you agree? Give a reasoned answer.
5. Consider Macbeth
as a play about kings and kingship.
6. Analyse Macbeth
as a morality play.
7. Critically analyse the significance of the Banquet
Scene in Macbeth.
8. Discuss the psychological significance of the
Sleepwalking Scene.
9. Discuss the role and character of McDuff in the play.
10. Critically analyse the use of different kinds of
tragic conflicts in Macbeth.
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CC-
4
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Twelfth
Night
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1.
Character sketch of Viola (is she a typical romantic heroine?)/ Feste (focus
on his songs)/ Malvolio/ Orsino/ any three minor characters (select from the
sub-plot). 2. Festive Comedy
3. Plot and sub-plots
4. Title
and sub-title
5. Themes
6. Imageries 7. Opening
scene/ Garden Scene (Act II Sc v)/ closing scene
8. Blend of romance and realism. 9. Does
the melancholic strain disturb the comic ambience?
10. Romantic and classical elements of comedy. 11. Comic devices
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CC3
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“To
India, My Native Land”
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Short Questions:
1.What does the poet mean by ‘guerdon’?
2.What kind of a poem is “To India, My
Native Land”?
Broad Questions:
1.What
does the poet wish to do for his native land, and to what effect?
2.
How does the poet express his feelings of nationalism in the poem?
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CC3
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“Our
Casuarina Tree”
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Short Questions:
1.Why
is the phrase ‘darkling’ used in the first stanza of the poem?
2.Who
are the ‘sweet companions’ in the third stanza of the poem?
Broad
Questions:
1.
Toru Dutt’s poem is a poignant yearning for past bliss – Comment.
2.How
does Toru Dutt blend the Indian and the European elements in her poem?
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CC3
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“Enterprise”
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Short Questions:
1.
Which incident marks the first sign of difference in the group?
2.How
many times was the group attacked during its journey?
Broad
Questions:
1.
Analyse “Enterprise” as an allegory.
2.Explain
the significance of the last line of “Enterprise” in the light of the entire
poem.
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CC3
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“An
Introduction”
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Short Questions:
1.Who
is Madhavikutty?
2.How
old is the poet-persona’s husband at the time of marriage?
Broad
Questions:
1.
Give a critical appreciation of “An Introduction”.
2.How
does Kamala Das emerge as a feminist poet through her poem “An Introduction”?
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CC3
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“A
River”
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Short Questions:
1.What
are the names of the two cows mentioned in the poem?
2.What
was the sole way of differentiating the twins mentioned in the poem?
Broad
Questions:
1.
How does Ramanujan bring out the sufferings of the commoners in his poem “A
River”?
2.Give
a critical appreciation of “An Introduction”.
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CC3
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“Dawn
at Puri”
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Short Questions:
1.What
does Mahapatra mean by the phrase “Ruined, leprous shells”?
2.Apart
from pyre, which other symbol of death is mentioned in the poem?
Broad Questions:
1.Discuss
the role of symbols in “Dawn at Puri”.
2.How
does Mahapatra bring out the morbid aspects of life in Puri?
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GE2
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'Dream
Children: A Reverie'
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Short questions:
1.Where
did the narrator visit during his childhood holidays?
2.How
did the narrator’s grandmother die in “Dream Children”?
Broad
Questions:
1.Lamb’s
essay has elements of both pathos and humour – Discuss.
2.Analyse
Lamb’s prose style as reflected in “Dream Children”.
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GE2
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'Shooting
an Elephant'
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Short questions:
1.Where
was the narrator posted during the events of “Shooting an Elephant”?
2.What
eventually prompts the narrator to shoot the elephant?
Broad
Questions:
1.Discuss
the colonial elements evident in “Shooting an Elephant”.
2.What
role does irony play in Orwell’s essay?
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GE2
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Arms and the Man
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Short questions:
1.What
did Bluntschli have in his box?
2.Where
was Raina when she meets Bluntschli for the first time?
Broad
Questions:
1.How
does Shaw express his anti-war sentiments in Arms and the Man?
2.Is
Bluntschli a typical hero? Justify your answer.
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UG Sem IV
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CC 8
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Tintern
Abbey : William Wordsworth
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1.Discuss "Tintern Abbey" as a philosophical
poem.
2. Analyse "Tintern Abbey" as a
"consecrated formulary of the Wordsworthian creed."
3. Discuss the different stages of development of the
poetic self in "Tintern Abbey".
4. Comment on the role of Dorothy
in the poem.
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CC 8
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Kubla
Khan:. ST Coleridge
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1.How far do you agree with Coleridge that "Kubla
Khan" is "a fragment"? Give a reasoned answer.
2.Analyse "Kubla Khan" as a romantic poem.
3. Comment on"Kubla Khan" as a dream allegory.
4. Discuss how Coleridge achieves
a blend of form and content in the poem.
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CC 8
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The Way of the World
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1. Character sketch: Millamant/ Lady Wishfort/ 3 minor characters/
Mr. Fainall
2. Contrast Sir Wilfull and Witwoud. 3. Is the
play a typical Restoration Comedy? 4. Title 5. How
does Congreve make his protagonists balance mundane concerns with genuine
passion? 6.
Proviso Scene’s significance. 7.
Closet Scene’s importance in plot. 8. Plot
structure
9. In this play, Congreve presents knaves, fools
and villains—is this a fair and just view of the characters? 10. Mirabel is the Restoration rake in the
process of being transformed into a wit of the Age of Sensibility—discuss.
11. Is the play a document of contemporary society? 12.
Critically evaluate the importance of Act IV. How does it contribute to the
play’s resolution?
13.
The play is more realistic than romantic—do you
agree?
14. Blend of pragmatism
and entertainment. 15. Is
Congreve’s agenda moralistic?
16. Does family intrigue make up the play’s
plot?
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CC 8
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Essays of Addison
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1. Sir Roger’s characterization: how
is it a comic portraiture?/ How is he an ideal country gentleman? 2. Addison’s middle style and
balanced prose/ How does he belong to the Correct School.
3. Social satire in essays: how the
morality/ ethics is in moderation? / How is morality enlivened by wit?
4. Link between form and content of
the essays. 5. How are
the essays a mild banter?
6. How the essays are a social
document of 18th century manners/ country life? /How Addison
blends contemporary issues/ social history with creativity? / Representation
of everyday life in essays.
7. Use of wit and humour.
8. Literary significance of the
essays/ Addison’s contribution.
9. Reasons for continuing popularity
of the essays.
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CC 8
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Robinson Crusoe
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CC9
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Charles
Lamb’s ‘Dream Children: A Reverie’ and ‘The Superannuated Man’.
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1.
Comment on Lamb’s prose style with
special reference to the essays in your syllabus.
2.
Do you think Lamb’s essays are
autobiographical in nature? Give reasons.
3.
Comment on the element of humour and
pathos in Lamb’s essays with reference to the essays in your syllabus.
4.
Consider Lamb’s ‘Dream Children: a
Reverie’ as a personal essay.
5.
Consider Lamb’s ‘The Superannuated Man’
as a personal essay.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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1.
Do you consider Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a gothic novel? Give
reasons.
2.
Comment on the character of Victor Frankenstein.
3.
Comment on the role of Elizabeth in
Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
4.
What does the Monster symbolise and
signify?
5.
Do you think Frankenstein is a science fiction? Give reasons.
6.
Comment on the role of Nature in Frankenstein.
Frankenstein is a
story of Romantic Quest. Comment.
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CC10
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Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ and Browning’s ‘My
Last Duchess’
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1.
Consider Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ as a
representative Victorian poem.
2.
Do you think ‘Ulysses’ represents
Victorian optimism? Comment.
3.
What is a dramatic monologue? Do you
think Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ is a perfect dramatic monologue?
Comment
on the character of the Duke in Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’.
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CC8
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“Gray’s Elegy”
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Short Questions:
1. Comment on the Epitaph in “Gray’s Elegy”.
2. Write a short note on the ‘solitary poet’ in
“Gray’s Elegy”.
Broad Questions:
1.How does Gray extol the countryside in his
elegy?
2. “Gray’s Elegy” is a perfect blending
of the classical and the romantic – Would you agree? Justify your answer.
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CC8
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“London”
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Short questions:
1.
When was Johnson’s poem published?
2.Where
does Thales decide to go from London?
Broad
Questions:
1.Discuss
the satirical elements of Johnson’s poem.
2.Which
aspects of London force Thales to leave the city?
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CC9
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“The Lamb” & “The Tyger”
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Short questions:
1.What
does ‘mead’ mean in “The Lamb”?
2.What
does ‘shoulder’ imply in “The Tyger”?
Broad
Questions:
1.How
does Blake thematically link “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”?
2.How
do “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” present the motifs of Innocence and Experience?
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LCC2
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'The
Idea of India: India's Mosaic of Multiplicities'
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Short questions:
1.Which
Prime Minister of India is referred to in Tharoor’s essay?
2.Which
famous playback singer is mentioned in Tharoor’s essay?
Broad
Questions:
1.How does Tharoor highlight the ‘idea of India’ in his essay?
2.Show
how, according to Tharoor, India’s multiculturalism is its asset?
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LCC2
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'Roots'
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Short questions:
1.In
which part of India is the story “Roots” set?
2.Where
does Barre Bhai return from in the beginning of Chugtai’s story?
Broad
Questions:
1.How
does Chugtai portray the relationship between the various religious
communities in her story?
2.“Roots”
retains our faith in humanity – Discuss.
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LCC2
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'A
Gandhian in Garhwal'
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Short questions:
1.Chandi
Prasad Bhatt is associated with which famous movement?
2.From
where did the narrator start his journey to meet Chandi Prasad Bhatt?
Broad
Questions:
1.What
is the significance of Bhatt’s activities?
2.According
to Guha, what characteristics distinguish Bhatt from other conventional
leaders?
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LCC2
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'Gandhi
and the Western World'
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Short questions:
1.When
did the narrator first meet Mahatma Gandhi?
2.Where
was Fischer when he heard the news of Gandhiji’s assassination?
Broad
Questions:
1.Describe
Fischer’s initial impression of Mahatma Gandhi.
2.What,
according to Fischer, endeared Gandhiji to the western world?
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LCC2
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‘Rabindranath
Tagore’
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Short questions:
1.What
does the term ‘servocracy’ imply, according to Tagore?
2.Tagore’s
stay in which city inspired him to write his story “Hungry Stone”?
Broad
Questions:
1.Describe
the extensive travels of Rabindranath Tagore.
2.Analyse
Ghosh’s work as a biography.
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LCC2
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Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar: A Story
of His Life and Work (Chapter 1 & 2)
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Short questions:
1.How
far is Vidyasagar’s native village situated from the city of Calcutta?
2.What
was the name of Vidyasagar’s paternal grandmother?
Broad
Questions:
1.How
does Mitra give an overview of Vidyasagar’s family tree?
2.Describe
how Vidyasagar’s father earned his education and living.
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LCC (L2)
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Louis
Fischer: Gandhi and the Western World.
Sisir
Kumar Ghosh: Makers of Indian Literature: Rabindranath Tagore.
Subal Chandra Mitra: Isvar Chandra
Vidyasagar: A Story of His Life and Work. (Chs. 1-2)
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1.
Comment on Mahatma Gandhi’s response to
the western world.
2.
Comment on the response of the western
world towards the Indian Nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi.
3.
Comment on Tagore’s contribution to
Indian Literature.
4.
Comment on the integrity of character
found in child Vidyasagar.
Comment
on the disciplined life of Vidyasagar that helped him to mature as a social
reformer.
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GE4
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Citing
sources
Writing
Essays
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Unseen,
to be practiced n class.
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SEC
B
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Citing
sources
Writing
Essays
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Unseen,
to be practiced n class.
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GE IV
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Summarizing and Paraphrasing
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1.
Write a summary of the given passage
with a suitable title.
2.
Write a precise of the given passage
with a suitable title.
3.
Write a paraphrase of the given passage
with a suitable title.
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PG
– Sem II & IV – Question Bank
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PG Sem II
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CCVI (Unit I)
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W.B. Yeats’s Poems: ‘Byzantium’,
‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, Lapis Lazuli, ‘An
Acre of Grass’, ‘Easter 1916’.
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1.
Comment on Yeats’ poetic style.
2.
Comment on the use of Irish culture in
Yeats’ poems.
3.
Comment on the use of Irish myths and
folklores in Keats’ poems.
4.
Comment on Yeats’ idea of old age and
creativity in ‘An Acre of Grass’.
Comment
on Yeats’ treatment of the Revolution of 1916 in ‘Easter 1916’.
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CCVI (Unit II)
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Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
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1.
Comment on Virginia Woolf’s narrative
technique.
2.
Comment on the character of Mrs Ramsay.
3.
Comment on the character of Mr. Ramsay.
4.
What role does Lily play in the novel To the Lighthouse?
5.
Do you think Virginia Woolf has tried to
comment on art through the character of Lily Briscoe?
6.
To the Lighthouse is a store house of
memories. Comment.
Comment
on the significance of the journey which is also projected in the title of
the novel.
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CC 7
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Man and Superman
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1.
Plot structure
2.
Characterization: Ann/ Tanner
3.
Any 3 minor characters
4.
Themes
5.
Hell Scene analysis
6.
Title and sub-title
7.
Dramatic devices
8.
How does Shaw blend wit and philosophy?
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CC 7
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Murder in the Cathedral
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1. Role of 4 Tempters/ How are
they similar yet different? 2. Theme of Martyrdom 3. Dramatic relevance of
Interlude
4. Chorus/ commentary on 1st song of chorus/ How Eliot deviates
from classical mode in presentation of the chorus? 5. Role of Knights 6. Murder in the Cathedral as a Poetic Drama 7. Is the placing of
the Knights’ speeches after the murder justified? 8. Does ritual aspect express moral message? 9. Does the play convey
more than a Christian message? 10.
Do you think that the title should be “Waiting for God”? 11. ‘They know and do not know/ What
it is to act or suffer’‘You know and do not know/What it is to act or suffer’—How
are these comments related to Beckett’s spiritual progress?
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CC 7
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Lord
of the Flies: William Golding
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1.Golding refers to himself as a "fabulist".
Discuss the novel in this light.
2. Critically analyse the symbolism used in the novel.
3. Discuss Lord of
the Flies as a dystopia.
4. Compare and contrast the characters of Ralph and Jack.
5. Analyse Piggy as a figure of failed rationality.
6. What is the role played by Simon in the novel?
7. Consider the island in the novel as a microcosm of the
contemporary world.
8. Analyse Lord of the Flies from an eco- critical perspective.
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CC7
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‘Tradition
and Individual Talent’, ‘Baudelaire’,
‘What
is a Classic?’,
‘The
Frontiers of Criticism’, ‘The Social Function of Poetry’
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Short questions:
1.When
did Eliot deliver his lecture on Baudelaire?
2.Which
book does Eliot refer to in the context of horse-racing?
Broad
Questions:
1.How
does Eliot extol Baudelaire’s poetic art in his eponymous essay?
2.What,
according to Eliot, are the features of a classic?
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DSE3
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‘The
Ghat’s Story’,
‘Ramkanai’s
Folly’,
‘The
Exercise Book’, ‘Kabuliwala’,
‘Hungry
Stone’,
‘The
Wife’s
Letter’,
‘Woman
Unknown’, ‘Balai’
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Short questions:
1.How
does Mrinal address her husband in “The Wife’s Letter”?
2.What
was the narrator’s profession in “Kabuliwala”?
Broad Questions:
1.How does Tagore represent the
contemporary social condition through his short stories?
2.Comment
on the supernatural effect created by Tagore in “Hungry Stone”.
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PG Sem IV
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CCXII
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P.B.
Shelley: A Defence of Poetry.
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1.
How does Shelley define poetry and poet?
2.
Comment on Shelley’s idea of language in
poetry.
3.
Comment on Shelley’s concept of
utilitarianism in respect to art/ poetry?
Do you agree with Shelley that ‘poets are
the unacknowledged legislators of the world’? Comment.
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CCXIII
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Gilbert
and Gubar: The Mad Woman in the Attic.
Part I, Sec 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Women Writer and the Anxiety of
Authorship.
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1.
Comment on women’s writing and the
problem of authorship.
2.
Comment on the problem of ‘sociosexual
differentiation’ discussed in the essay.
3.
Comment on the ‘anxiety of authorship’
that the women writers felt due to lack of a female literary tradition.
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CC
XIII
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Barthes:
The Death of the Author
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1.
Show how Barthes concludes that the birth of the reader must be at the cost
of the death of the author.
2.
The philosophical implications of the essay echoes trends of
postmodernism—discuss.
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CC
XII
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Selected
Letters of Keats
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1.
Discuss the important thoughts of Keats’s critical thoughts as embodied in
his letters.
2.
Discuss the Keatsian ideas of the imagination, sensuousness, beauty and truth
as expressed in his letter to Bailey.
3.
What are the views on negative capability that Keats expresses in his letter
to his brothers?
4.
How do the letters of Keats combine the personal with the philosophical and
the aesthetic?
5.
Discuss the writing style of Keats’s letters.
6.
Analyse Keats’s viewpoints on beauty and on Endymion as elucidated in his
letter to John Taylor.
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DSE
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"Why write?": Jean Paul Sartre
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1.What are Sartre's views on writing as an aesthetic
pursuit? Discuss.
2. How are the contemporary philosophical and political
milieu relevant to Sartre's essay?
3. Why does Sartre feel commitment is necessary for
writers?
4. Relate Sartre's philosophy to the prescribed essay in
your syllabus.
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CC12
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‘To
Criticize a Critic’,
‘The
Metaphysical Poets’,
‘Hamlet
and his Problems’
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Short questions:
1.Which
German writer does Eliot refer to in his essay “Hamlet”?
2.When
was the essay “The Metaphysical Poets” first published?
Broad
Questions:
1.Why
does Eliot complain about the dissociation of sensibility evident in poetry
starting from the late 17th century?
2.‘Hamlet
is an artistic failure’ – Expound this statement by T. S. Eliot
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Lesson Plan for UG (Sem II & IV)
Semester
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Period of Semester
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Tentative Dates of University Exam*
(*follow the latest notification by
CU)
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Name of the Faculty
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Course Code
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Alotted topic/ text
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Sub-topic/Lesson Plan
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No. of Lectures
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Sem-2
(CC)
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Jan’20-Jun’20
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follow
the latest notification by CU
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Pritha
Chakraborty
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CC-4
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Twelfth
Night
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1.Elizabethan
Age and Drama: Background
2.
Shakespeare: Biography and Works
3.
Textual analysis.
4.
Analysis of important scenes.
5.
Discussion of plot, characterization, imageries, themes and comic devices.
6.
Romantic and Festive Comedies of Shakespeare.
7.
Discussion of important questions
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Dr.
Debasri Basu
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CC-3
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“To
India, My Native Land”
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Introduction
to Henry Louis Vivian Derozio; Explanation of the poem
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CC-3
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“Our Casuarina Tree”
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Introduction to Toru Dutt; Explanation of the poem
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CC3
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“An Introduction”
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Introduction to Kamala Das; Explanation of the poem
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CC3
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“A River”
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Introduction to A. K. Ramanujan; Explanation of the poem
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CC3
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“Dawn at Puri”
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Introduction to Jayanta Mahapatra; Explanation of the poem
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Abhijit
Sharma Roy
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CC 4
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Macbeth: William Shakespeare
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1.Introduction to Shakespearean tragedy, Discussion on stage,
publication etc., Detailed analysis of important scenes, major critical
ideas, and important questions. 30 classes
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Roopamala
Saha
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CC4
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Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.
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Intro. to Medieval English Lit. – Chaucer – analysis of the text.
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CC
4
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Spenser’s ‘One day I wrote her name’.
Shakespeare’s
Son. 18 and 130.
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Intro.
to Renaissance – sonnet structure – detailed study of the poet – textual
analysis.
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CC
4
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Metaphysical Poetry:
John Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’ and Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy
Mistress’
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Elizabethan
lyric poetry -Characteristics of Metaphysical poetry – metaphysical poets –
analysis of the texts.
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Anamitra
Chatterjee
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CC
3
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Mahesh Dattani-Bravely Fought the Queen
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CC
3
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay -Rajmohan's Wife
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Sem-2 (GE)
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follow
the latest notification by CU
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Dr.
Debasri Basu
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GE2
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'Dream Children: A Reverie'
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Introduction to Charles Lamb; Explanation of the text; Important
aspects of the personal essay
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GE2
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'Shooting an Elephant'
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Introduction to George Orwell; Explanation of the text; Impact of
Colonialism
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GE2
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Arms and the Man
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Introduction to George Bernard Shaw; Explanation of the important
dialogues in the three Acts; Important aspects of a Shavian play
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Anamitra
Chatterjee
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GE
2
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Shakespeare-
As You Like It
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GE
2
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Hardy-
Mayor Of Casterbridge
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Sem-4 (CC+ SEC)
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Jan’20-Jun’20
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Parimal Bhattacharya
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CC
8
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Robinson Crusoe
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Rise of novel in 18th century – Defoe and Robinson Crusoe - a
picaresque novel? - theme of slavery – imperialism -- In what ways is Robinson Crusoe typical of
its era --
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Abhijit
Sharma Roy
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CC 8
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Tintern Abbey : William Wordsworth
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Introduction to Romantic poetry, Context of the poem, a detailed
discussion of the text, important concepts and questions. 6 classes
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CC 8
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Kubla Khan:. ST
Coleridge
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Discussion on Coleridge"s poetry, detailed analysis of the
poem, important concepts and questions (partially online) 6 classes
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CC 10
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The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy
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Introduction to Victorian Age and fiction, Discussion on Hardy as
a novelist, introduction to Wessex and Casterbridge as background, Analysis
of important parts of the novel, significant concepts and
questions.(materials provided online). 30 classes
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Pritha
Chakraborty
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CC VIII
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The Way of the World
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1. Backdrop and Features of Restoration Comedy
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CC VIII
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Essays of Addison
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1. Socio-political backdrop and features of the 18th century
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Anamitra
Chatterjee
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CC-9
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Percy
Shelly- 'Ode To The West Wind' and
'Ode To A Skylark'
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CC-9
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John
Keats- 'Ode To Autumn' and 'Ode To A Nightingle'.
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CC 10
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Jane
Austen- Pride And Prejudice
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Dr
Debasri Basu
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“Gray’s Elegy”
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Introduction to Thomas Gray; Explanation of the poem; Pointing
out the figures of speech
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CC8
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“London”
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Introduction to Samuel Johnson; Explanation of the poem; Pointing
out the stylistic elements of the satire.
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CC9
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“The Lamb” & “The Tyger”
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Introduction to William Blake; Explanation of both poems;
Relation to the theme of Innocence and Experience
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10
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Roopamala
Saha
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CC
9
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Charles
Lamb’s ‘Dream Children: A Reverie’ and ‘The Superannuated Man’.
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Intro.
to personal essays – Romantic essay – Charles Lamb and the autobiographical
elements in his essays – style and structure – detailed analysis of the
texts.
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10
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CC
9
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Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein
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Intro.
to novel – Romantic novels– Gothic novel – Science and the Age of Reason –
Romanticism and the radicals – Nature and romanticism – Romanticism and
overreaching
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10
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CC
10
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Tennyson’s
‘Ulysses’ and Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’
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Intro.
to Victorian Lit. – Victorian Poetry – Socio-political- background – analysis
of the texts.
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10
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Sem-4 (LCC)
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Roopamala Saha
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L
2
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Louis
Fischer: Gandhi and the Western World.
Sisir
Kumar Ghosh: Makers of Indian Literature: Rabindranath Tagore.
Subal
Chandra Mitra: Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar: A Story of His Life and Work. (Chs.
1-2)
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Intro.
to Mahatma Gandhi and Indian National Movement – Mahamta Gandhi’s doctrines –
Mahatma Gandhi’s world view.
Rabindranath
Tagore and Indian Literature – Tagore’s work and philosophy – His response to
the Western world.
Vidyasagar
and social equality – His approach to society.
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Dr.
Debasri Basu
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LCC2
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‘The Idea of India: India’s Mosaic of Multiplicities’
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Introduction to Shashi Tharoor; Explanation of the text
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LCC2
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‘Roots’
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Introduction to Ismat Chugtai; Explanation of the text; Significance
as a Partition narrative
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8
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LCC2
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'A
Gandhian in Garhwal'
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Introduction to Ramachandra Guha; Explanation of the text
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LCC2
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'Gandhi
and the Western World'
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Introduction to Louis Fischer; Explanation of the text
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6
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Sem 4 GE
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Anamitra
Chatterjee
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GE 4
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Critical Appreciation
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Pritha
Chakraborty
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Summarizing and Paraphrasing
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1. Explanation of method of summary writing.
2. Practice sessions of summary writing.
3. Explanation of method of precise writing.
4. Practice sessions of precise writing.
5. Explanation of method of paraphrase writing.
6. Practice sessions of paraphrase writing.
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Semester
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Period of Semester
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Tentative Dates of University Exam*
(*follow the latest notification by
CU)
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Name of the Faculty
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Course Code
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Alotted topic/ text
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Sub-topic/Lesson Plan
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No. of Lectures
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Sem-2
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Jan’20-Jun’20
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Pritha
Chakraborty
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CC VII
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Man and Superman
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1.
Introduction to Modern Drama and Realism
2. Problem Plays and Play of Ideas
3. Ibsen’s influence
4. Shaw: life and major works
5. Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant; Prefaces
6. Theory of Life Force & Superman
7. Textual analysis
8. Themes, title, plot, characterization.
9.
Dramatic devices
10.
The New Man and the New Woman
10. Discussion of important questions.
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40
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CC VII
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Murder in the Cathedral
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1.
Introduction to Modern Drama
2. Poetic Drama
3. Eliot: life and major works
4. Concept of martyrdom
5. Textual analysis
6. Themes, title, characterization.
7.
Dramatic devices
8.
Dramatic Structure
9.
Classical elements of drama.
10. Discussion of important questions.
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20
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Dr.
Debasri Basu
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CC7
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‘Tradition
and Individual Talent’, ‘Baudelaire’,
‘What
is a Classic?’,
‘The Frontiers of Criticism’, ‘The
Social Function of Poetry’
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Introduction to T. S. Eliot as a critic;
Explanation of important critical tenets in these five essays;
Cross-reference with other essays of T. S. Eliot
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20
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DSE3
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‘The
Ghat’s Story’,
‘Ramkanai’s
Folly’,
‘The
Exercise Book’, ‘Kabuliwala’,
‘Hungry
Stone’,
‘The
Wife’s
Letter’,
‘Woman
Unknown’, ‘Balai’
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Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore;
Important literary and social aspects in these eight short stories
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10
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Abhijit
Sharma Roy
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CC 7
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Lord
of the Flies: William Golding
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Introduction to 20th century
fiction, Introduction to the novels of Golding and contextualising the same,
important themes, motifs, symbols, Discussion of important parts of the work,
salient concepts, and questions. (Materials provided online). 30 classes
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40
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Parimal
Bhattacharya
|
CC
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Discovery of India
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Historical perspective – Nehru’s secular
vision – the tradition of non-fiction prose in early 20th century
India – prose style --
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Roopamala
Saha
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CCVI (Unit I)
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W.B. Yeats’s Poems: ‘Byzantium’, ‘Sailing
to Byzantium’, ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, Lapis Lazuli, ‘An Acre of
Grass’, ‘Easter 1916’.
|
Intro. to Modern Poetry - Yeats and
Modernism – Revolution in Ireland – Irish legends and myths – Irish National
Movement – Irish Literary Movement - Yeats and Irish theatre – analysis of
the texts.
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15
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CCVI (Unit II)
|
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
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Modernism – ‘Modern Fiction’ –
stream-of-conscious technique -
Woolf’s art of writing – her inclination towards Impressionism and
Postimpressionism (in painting and literature) – Virginia Woolf’s life (for
the autobiographical elements)
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15
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Sem-2
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Dr.
Debasri Basu
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CC12
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‘To
Criticize a Critic’,
‘The
Metaphysical Poets’,
‘Hamlet and his Problems’
|
Introduction to T. S. Eliot as a critic;
Explanation of important critical phrases in these three essays;
Cross-reference with other essays of T. S. Eliot
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12
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Anamitra
Chatterjee
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Semester
IV
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Sem-4
|
Jan’20-Jun’20
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Parimal Bhattacharya
|
CC
8
|
One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
Latin American literature in the 20th
century – Garcia Marquez – Magic Realism – the socio-political background –
the narrative style of One Hundred Years of Solitude – the structure of the
novel – Major characters – the international impact --
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30
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Abhijit
Sharma Roy
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DSE
|
"Why write?": Jean Paul
Sartre
|
Introduction to existentialism,
Discussion on the context of the essay, Discussion on writing as an activity,
Analysis of the text, and questions.
20 classes.
|
10
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Pritha
Chakraborty
|
CC XIII
|
Barthes: The Death of the Author
|
1. Background of Roland Barthes: Life
and Works
2. Structuralism
3.Deconstruction
and poststructuralism
4.
Textual study
5.
Discussion of key concepts
6.
Modernism and postmodernism
7.
Foucault’s concept of the author
8.
Discussion of other critical essays by Barthes.
9.
Concept of the author down the ages
10. Examples from literary works.
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25
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CC XII
|
Selected Letters of Keats
|
1.
Background and tenets of the Romantic Age
2.
Keats: Life and Works
3.
Important concepts of Keatsian thought
4.
Analysis of the 3 letters
5.
Structure and theme of the letters
6. Discussion of important questions
|
15
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Dr
Debasri Basu
|
CC12
|
‘To
Criticize a Critic’,
‘The
Metaphysical Poets’,
‘Hamlet and his Problems’
|
Introduction to T. S. Eliot as a critic;
Explanation of important critical phrases in these three essays;
Cross-reference with other essays of T. S. Eliot
|
10
|
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|
|
|
CC12
|
‘To
Criticize a Critic’,
‘The
Metaphysical Poets’,
‘Hamlet and his Problems’
|
Introduction to T. S. Eliot as a critic;
Explanation of important critical phrases in these three essays;
Cross-reference with other essays of T. S. Eliot
|
10
|
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10
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Roopamala
Saha
|
CCXII
|
P.B. Shelley: A Defence of Poetry.
|
Romanticism –
Enlightenment and the Age of Reason – T. L. Peacock’s ‘The Four Ages of
Poetry’- Romantic poetic ideas.
|
10
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CCXIII
|
Gilbert and Gubar: The Mad Woman in the Attic. Part I, Sec 2. Infection in the
Sentence: The Women Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship.
|
Feminism – Feminist Literary Criticism –
Virginia Woolf and Feminist Literary Criticism – concept of androgynous
writing.
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10
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10
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Students please Click the Folders of individual teachers and go to the relevant files of your Semester according to file names.
P.C. - Click Folder Name - Archive 4
D.B.
Part I - Click Folder Name - Archive 5
Part II - Click Folder Name - Archive 6
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