HONOURS SYLLABUS

REVISED SYLLABUS (2008 2011)

Revised on 17
th
March 2008 after the BOS meeting on 17
th
March, 2008


SEMESTER 1
History of Literature 1A : An introduction to the study
of the History of English
Literature

1B : Substance writing and critical
appreciation

1C : Sidney : Loving in truth OR
Spenser : One day 1 wrote her
name upon the Strand

1D : Shakespeare : Sonnets 18, 73
& 116

Prose 1A : Francis Bacon : Of Studies :
Of Travel (any one essay)
Charles Lamb : Dream
Children : A Reverie : The
Superannuated Man (any one
essay)

A.C. Benson : The Art of the Essayist
1B : D.H. Lawrence : The While
Stocking
E.M. Forster : The Eternal
Moment

Paper Format Total marks : 80
History of Literature : 1B, C & D 2 x 12
Poetry : 1C & D 1 x 12
Prose : 1A & B 2 x 12
Poetry 1B (Substance & appreciation 15 + 5

Internal Assessment 20 marks
Literature terms (poetry)
Tutorial paper


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SEMESTER II

History of Literature 2A : Restoration and 18
th
Century Prose
and Drama
2B : The English Novel : Origins to 1832

Poetry 2A : Donee : The Good Morrow; Song : Go and catch
a falling star
Vaughan : The Retreat
Marvell : To His Coy Mistress

2B : Rhetoric

Prose 2A : Austen : Pride and Prejudice or Emma
2B : Introduction to the Study of Fiction (Literary
terms)

Drama 2A : Sheridan : The School for Scandal or The Rivals;
or Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

Paper Format 80 marks

History of Literature : 2 A & B 1 x 14
Poetry : 2A 1 x 14
Prose : 2A 1 x 14
Drama : 2A 1 x 14
Explanations : Poetry 2A 1 x 6
Explanations : Drama 2A 1 x 6
Poetry : 2B (Rhetoric) 12

Internal Assessment 20 marks

Literary terms (fiction)

Tutorial paper











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SEMESTER III

History of Literature 3A : Restoration and 18
th
Century Poetry
3B : Victorian Novel

History of Language : From Growth and Structure of the English
Language by Otto Jesperson/The English
Language by C.L. Wrenn :

a) Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, French
and American Influences (any two)
b) Native Resources
c) Shakespeare and the Language of
Poetry
d) Influence of Bible

Poetry 3A : Milton : Paradise Lost Book 1
3B : Dryden : MacFlecknoe or Pope : The Rape of the
Lock (First three Cantos)

Prose 3A : Dickens : Oliver Twist or Great Expectations or Hard
Times

Drama 3A : Introduction to the study of Drama (literary terms)


Paper Format 80 marks

History of Language : 3 A & B 1 x 14
History of Language 1 x 14
History of Language (short note) 1 x 6
Poetry : 3A 1 x 14
Poetry : 3b 1 x 14
Prose : 3A 1 x 14
Explanations : Poetry 3A & B 1 x 6

Internal Assessment 20 marks

Literary terms (drama)

Tutorial paper





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SEMESTER IV

History of Literature 4A : Romantic poetry
4B : Victorian Drama

Poetry 4A : Gray : Elegy written in Country Churchyard OR
Blake : The lamb, The Tyger, London, Garden of
Love (any two poems)

4B : Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey, By the Sea (it is a
beauteous evening)
upon Westminster Bridge (Earth has not
anything to show more fair)
Copleridge : Kubla Khan
Shelley : Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a
Nightingale, Bright Star

Prose 4A : Hardy : The Return of the Native or

Drama 4A : Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest


Paper Format 80 marks

History of Literature : 4 A & B 1 x 14
Poetry : 4A & B 2 x 14
Prose : 4A 1 x 14
Drama : 4A 1 x 14
Explanations : Poetry 4A & B 1 x 6
Explanations : Drama 4A 1 x 6

Internal Assessment 20 marks

Tutorial paper











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SEMESTER V

History of Literature 5A : Victorian poetry
5B : 20
th
century literature upto 2000
Poetry 5A : Tenyson : Ulysses
Browning : By Last Duchess, Porphyrias Lover
Arnold : Dover Beach
(Any two poets)
Prose 5A : Conrad : Lord Jim or The Secret Agent or Lawrence:
Sons and Lovers
Drama 5A : Shaw : Candida or Arms and the Man
Synge : Riders to the Sea
* History of Literature Victorian poetry and 20
th
century literature upto 1970
will not be tested in the External Examination at the end of Semester V. You will
be required to submit a term paper on these periods.

Special paper : Elizabethan Drama :
Shakespeare : Twelfth Night or As You Like It
Shakespeare : Macbeth or Julius Caesar
Marlowe : Edward II or Doctor Faustus

Paper Format 80 marks
Poetry : 5A 1 x 16
Prose : 5A 1 x 16
Drama : 5A 2 x 14
Explanations : Poetry 5A 1 x 6
Explanations : Drama 5A 2 x 7
Internal Assessment 20 marks
Term Paper*
Paper II
Elizabethan Drama
Paper Format 80 marks
Twelfth Night or As You Like It 1 x 16
Macbeth or Julius Caesar 1 x 15
Edward II or Dr. Faustus 1 x 15
Explanations : 3 x 8
Prosody : 10

Internal Assessment 20 marks



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SEMESTER VI

Poetry 6 : Eliot : Preludes or Marina or The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock.
Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium or An Acre f Grass
Owen : Spring Offensive
Dylan Thomas : Fern Hill
Auden : Shield of Achilles or Musee Des Beaux Arts
Ted Hughes : The Hawk in the Rain or The Thought
Fox
(Any four poets)

Drama 6 : Short Storied :
Joyce : Araby
Mansfield : The Fly

Literary Essay (including topics based on the background to 20
th

century literature and American literature).

Special paper : American Literature.
Introduction to American Literature.

Poetry : Robert Frost : The Road Not Taken; After Apple Picking
Langston Hughes : Harlem or The River
Sylvia Plath : The Moon and the Yew Tree; Tulips
Elizabeth Bishop : The Emperor of Ice-Cream
(any three poets but any four poems)

Drama : Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie or A
Streetcar Named Desire

Prose A : Novel (any two)
Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn
Earnest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
F. Scott Fitzgerald : The Great Gatsby
B : Short Stories (any two)
Poe : The Fall of the House of Usher
Hawthorne : The Ministers Black Veil
Steinbeck : The Chrysanthemums
Faulkner : The Bear
Alice Walker (story to be selected later)





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TOPICS (LITERARY ESSAY)


1. 19
th
century Transcendentalism.
2. Am. Theatre in the 1940s.
3. Avant Grade Theatre 1950s and 60s.
4. American Expressionist Drama
5. The Myth of the Frontier in 19
th
C
6. The Non fiction Novel
7. Jewish American Fictions
8. Theme of Rebellion and Conformity in American
Literature
9. The American Gothic
10. The Harlem Renaissance
11. Confessional Poetry
12. Self Reflexive Poetry
13. The Outsider in American Fiction
14. The Theme of Guilt in nineteenth century










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SEMESTER 6


Paper 1

Paper Format 80 marks
Poetry : 2 x 14
Prose : 1 x 16
Drama : 1 x 16
Literary Essay 20


Internal Assessment 20 marks



Paper - II

American Literature


Paper Format 80 marks
Poetry : 6 1 x 16
Prose : 6A Novel 2 x 16
Prose : 6B Short Stories 1 x 16
Drama : 1 x 16

Internal Assessment 20 marks

Internal Assessment will include a research paper based on the
syllabus.














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ST. XAVIERS COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SYLLABUS : ENGLISH GENERAL























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ST. XAVIERS COLLETE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SYLLABUS : ENGLISH GENERAL


SEMESTER 1 : July 2006 December 2006



Poetry 1 : Shakespeare : Shall I compare thee to a
summers day (3)
Milton : On his Blindness (2)
Wordsworth : Strange fits of Passion (2)
Three years she grew (2)
Shelley : To a Skylark (3)
Keats : Ode to Autumn (3)

Prose 1 : Joyce : Araby (6)
The Fly (6)

Drama 1: Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice (15)

Language 1a) Figures of speech (8)
1b) Punctuation (3)























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ENGLISH GENERAL SYLLABUS


SEMESTER II


Poetry 2 : Tennyson : Ulysses
Browning : The last Ride together
Yeats : Wild swans at Coole
Owen : Futility
Auden : Look Stranger
De la Mare : Farewell

Drama 2 : Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice

Language 2: Comprehension





























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SEMESTER III :

July 2007 to December, 2007

Prose 3A : Lamb : Dream Children : A Reverie (4)
Lynd : Seaside (4)
3B : Bates : The Ox (8)

Drama 3 : Shaw : Arms and the Man (15)

Novel 1 : Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge (15)


Literary terms ; Ballad, Comedy, DramaticMonologue, Elegy, Epic,
Image, Ode, Roy and Flat Character, Soliloquy, Sonnet, Symbol,
Tragedy (8).



SEMESTER IV :

January 2008 June 2008

Prose 4A : Benson : The Art of the Essayist (4)
Orwell : Shooting an elephant (4)
4B : Maugham : The Lotus Eater (8)

Drama 4 : Shaw : Arms and the Man (15)

Novel 2 : Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge (10)

Language 3 : Precise Writing (6)















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SEMESTER IV :

July 2008 to December, 2008

Language 4 : Dialogue writing (4)
Vocabulary : Antonyms and Synonyms (2)

Prose 5 : Bhabani Bhattacharya : A moment of Eternity(5)
Mulk Raj Anand : Duty (5)

Poetry 5 : Bhabani Bhattacharya : A moment of Eternity(5)

Mulk Raj Anand : Duty (5)

Poetry 3 : Toru Dutt : A Mon Pere; Sita; Lotus (5)
Kamala Das : An Introduction (4)

Proof Reading (8)


SEMESTER VI :

January 2009 July, 2009

Language 5 : Story writing (4)
Grammar : Articles, Prepositions, Agreement of
Verb with Subject, use of Tenes, Active and
Passive Voice, Idiomatic expressions (8)

Prose 6 : R.K. Narayan : Dasi the Bridegroom (6)
Raja Rao : The Cow of the Barricades (6)

Poetry 4 : A.K. Ramanujan : A River (3)
J. Mahapatra : The Abandoned British Cementry
at Balasore (3)
N. Ezekiel : Goodbye party for Ms. Puspa T.S.(3)











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ST. XAVIERS COLLEGE
SYLLABUS : COMPULSORY ENGLISH

(FOR B.A./B.Sc. STUDENTS)
























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SEMESTER II

Language :

Module 1A : Grammar :
Tenses
Prepositions
Articles
Order of words

Report Writing
Precis Writing

Module 1B : Grammar :
Agreement of verb with Subject
Transformation of Sentence
Comprehension
Letter writing

LITERTURE :

Module 2A : Robert Frost : Stopping by Woods
William Shakespeare : The Seven Ages of Man
Bhisham Sahni : The Boss Came to Dinner

Module 2B : O Henry : The Last Leaf
Rabindranath Tagore : Where the Mind is
without Fear
Bhabani Bhattacharya : The Faltering Pnedulum


















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ST. XAVIERS COLLEGE
SYLLABUS : ALTERNATIVE GENERAL



























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SEMESTER : I

Language 1
A : Report writing (1)
B : Letter writing (1)
C : Comprehension (2)

The following pieces are to be read :
Rabindranath Tagore : Ideals of Education
P.B. Shelley : On Love
G.B. Shaw : Freedom
Joseph Addison : Sir Roger at Home

D : Vocabulary : (1) From the prescribed
essays


Literature 1 : Poetry
William Wordsworth : London 1802(2)
W.B. Yeats : The Stolen Child (2)
Owen : Anthem for the Doomed (2)

Short Stories :
Rabindranath Tagore : The Wifes Letter
Joseph Conrad : The Lagoon (2)
R.K. Narayan : The Martyrs Corner (2)





















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PAPER FORMAT

Total Marks : 50

Time : 2 Hrs.


Language 1


A. - Report / Letter 10

B. - Comprehension 15

C. - Vocabulary 5


LITERATURE I (Poetry)

LITERATURE I (Short Stories)