English syllabus - Gauhati University
English syllabus - Gauhati University English syllabus - Gauhati University
10SEMESTER IVPAPER 7The Social and Literary Context: Modernism and AfterMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8This paper will acquaint students with the circumstances that shaped the processes of literaryproduction from the twentieth century to the present. Students will answer 4 questions of 14 markseach (14×4=56) and 4 questions of 6 marks each (6×4=24) on literary trends, cultural movementsand significant figures and events.Fiction: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence and James JoyceThe Little MagazinesThe Poetry of WB Yeats, T.S. Eliot and the Auden CircleThe ‘Rise of English’: Scrutiny and its influenceThe New Theatre: John Osborne, Christopher Fry, Samuel Beckett, John Arden, ArnoldWeskerPoetry from the Sixties: Ted Hughes and Seamus HeaneyThemes and issues in Post-colonial literature: nation, identity, culturePostmodernism: Globalisation and Popular CultureRecommended Reading:Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature, Basingstoke Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000Birch, Dinah ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford: OUP, 2009Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: OUP, 2004Widdowson, Peter . The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts 1500-2000, BasingstokeHampshire:Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
11PAPER 8English Poetry and Fiction: Modernism and AfterMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8This paper brings to the student a selection of the poetry and fiction of the modern and postmoderneras that is representative of important trends, critical shifts and formal experimentation. In keepingwith the internationalization associated with these cultural phases the selection is no longer strictlyBritish but includes examples from other literary cultures like the American and the Latin American.Questions (4x14=56) and (4x6=24) will take into account these distinctions even as they test thestudent’s familiarity with the canonical modernist texts.Section I: Poems(2x14 + 2x6) W. B. Yeats (1865-1939): Lake Isle of Innisfree, Easter 1916* T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock* W. H. Auden (1907-73): The Shield of Achilles* Dylan Thomas (1914-53): Poem in October * Seamus Heaney (1939-): Digging*; Skunk ; The Forge Carol Ann Duffy (1955-): Warming her PearlsSection II: Fiction(2x14 + 2x6)Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): The Secret SharerJames Joyce (1882-1941):A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJohn Barth (1930-):‘The Literature of Exhaustion’E. L. Doctorow (1931-): RagtimeRecommended ReadingBradbury, Malcolm, The Modern British Novel London: Penguin, 1993Eagleton, Terry, The English Novel Oxford: Blackwell, 2005Roberts, Neil ed. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003
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11PAPER 8<strong>English</strong> Poetry and Fiction: Modernism and AfterMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8This paper brings to the student a selection of the poetry and fiction of the modern and postmoderneras that is representative of important trends, critical shifts and formal experimentation. In keepingwith the internationalization associated with these cultural phases the selection is no longer strictlyBritish but includes examples from other literary cultures like the American and the Latin American.Questions (4x14=56) and (4x6=24) will take into account these distinctions even as they test thestudent’s familiarity with the canonical modernist texts.Section I: Poems(2x14 + 2x6) W. B. Yeats (1865-1939): Lake Isle of Innisfree, Easter 1916* T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock* W. H. Auden (1907-73): The Shield of Achilles* Dylan Thomas (1914-53): Poem in October * Seamus Heaney (1939-): Digging*; Skunk ; The Forge Carol Ann Duffy (1955-): Warming her PearlsSection II: Fiction(2x14 + 2x6)Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): The Secret SharerJames Joyce (1882-1941):A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJohn Barth (1930-):‘The Literature of Exhaustion’E. L. Doctorow (1931-): RagtimeRecommended ReadingBradbury, Malcolm, The Modern British Novel London: Penguin, 1993Eagleton, Terry, The <strong>English</strong> Novel Oxford: Blackwell, 2005Roberts, Neil ed. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003
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