SEMESTER - II

Paper 4 English Literature-4 (ii)
Unit-1 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Unit-2 George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
Unit-3 Alfred Tennyson ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘Ulysses’, ‘Crossing
the Bar’, ‘The Defence of Lucknow’
Robert Browning ‘My Last Duchess’.’The Last Ride Together’,
‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’
Christina Rossetti ‘The Goblin Market’
Paper 5 Twentieth Century Indian Writing(ii)
Unit-1 Jibanananda Das ‘Before Dying’, Windy Night’
‘I Shall return to this Bengal’
Sri Sri ‘Forward March’
From Some People Laugh,
Some People Cry.
G.M. Muktibodh ‘The Void’, ‘So Very Far’
Nissim Ezekiel ‘Enterprise’, ‘The Night of the
Scorpion’
‘Goodbye Party for
Miss Pushpa .S.’
Jayanta Mahapatra ‘Hunger’, ‘Dhauli’, ‘Grandfather’,
‘A Country’
Unit-2 Vijay Tendulkar Ghasiram Kotwal tr. Jayant
Karve and Eleanor Zelliot
Mohan Rakesh Half-way House tr. Bindu Batra
Unit-3 Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines

SEMESTER - I

Paper 1: English Literature 4 (i)


Unit-1 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Unit-2 Charles Dickens Hard Times
Unit-3 Background Prose Readings and Topics

Readings:

(A)
       Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selections from A Reader in Marxist Philosophy ed. Sels and Martel  (New York. I 963). Pp. 186-8, I 90-1, 199-201.

(B)
     Charles Darwin, Selections from The Descent of Man (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 3rd edn., vol. 2) pp. 1647-52.

(C)
     John Stuart Mill, Selections from The Subjection of Women (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2) pp. 1647-52.

(D)
   Matthew Arnold, Selections from Culture and Anarchy (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2) pp. 1403-12.

 Topics:
The Novel Form in Nineteenth-Century England; Faith and Doubt; The
Writer and Society; Fiction and its Readers



Paper 2: Twentieth Century Indian Writing (i)
Unit-2 

Premchand :-                                  ‘The Holy Panchayat’
R.K. Narayan :-                            ‘The ‘M.C.C.’
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer       ‘The Card-Sharper’s ‘Daughter’
Saadat Hasan Manto                    ‘Toba Tek Singh’
Ismat Chughtai                              ‘Lihaf’ (The Quilt)
Ambai                                              ‘Squirrel'


 Unit-3 Background Prose Readings and Topics
Readings:
a. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism (Delhi : Rupa, 1992), Chapter 1 and 3.
b. Namvar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, Indian Literature, no. 151
(Sept/Oct. 1992).
c. U.R. Ananthamurthy, ‘Being a Writer in India’, from Tender Ironies, ed.
Dilip Chitre et. al., pp. 127-46.
d. Topics :
Nationalism; The Theme of the Partition; Language and Audience; in
Modern India; Tradition and Experiment in Modern Indian Theatre; The
Individual and Society in Modern Indian Literature.
Note: Texts prescribed in Unit 2 are available in an anthology prepared and published by
the Department of English, University of Delhi, Modern Indian Literature: Poems and
Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1999.