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14PAPER 11The Essay in English: Addison to DickensMarks 75 (60+15) [15 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 6This paper introduces students to the literary form of the essay through a selection of representativetexts from the 18 th and 19 th centuries. Students will have to acquaint themselves with the developmentof the form from the time of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and examine the emergence of the periodicalessay in the 18 th century in the hands of Addison and Steele particularly because of favourableconditions like the increase in literacy rates and the appearance of a large number of periodicals whichprovided a forum for the articulation of views on a variety of topics. The essays are to be studied inrelation to the wider political, social, and cultural context while noting the variety of themes that havebeen treated in the genre as also the diversity of styles of writing from the personal, intimate note ofLamb which is in keeping with the subjective thrust of Romantic literature to the detached,argumentative strain of later times.Students will have to answer 4 essay-type questions of 12 marks each (4x12=48) on the form as well ason the distinctive traits of an individual essayist, his outlook on life, attitude to society etc. as evidencedfrom the prescribed essays. Students will also have to explain two passages (2x6=12) with reference totheir contexts from the essays marked with asterisks.Texts:(4x12 + 2x6) Joseph Addison (1672-1719): The Aims of the Spectator* Richard Steele (1672-1729): The Spectator Club Charles Lamb (1775-1834): The Chimney Sweeper William Hazlitt (1778-1830): On Going A Journey* Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Washington: The Legislature and thePresident’s House(Chapter 8 of American Notes)Recommended Reading:See List at the end of Paper 12
15PAPER 12The Essay in English: The Twentieth CenturyMarks 75 (60+15) [15 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 6This paper will introduce students to developments in the genre of the essay in the 20 th century.Students will note how the genre has adapted in order to address a variety of contemporary issues andbecome the vehicle for representing personal experiences, moved into literary, social, and culturalcriticism and engaged in polemic and persuasion. The essays are to be read against their intellectual andsocio-cultural background, noting the shift away from the elevated, literary, and classical style of earliertimes to a general tendency towards factual and referential writing and a style more direct, immediate,and colloquial.Students will have to answer 4 questions of 12 marks each and explain two passages with reference totheir contexts; each explanation will carry 6 marks.Texts:(4x12 + 2x6) Virgina Woolf (1882-1941): The Art of the Essay D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930): Why the Novel Matters* Verrier Elwin (1902-1964): The Pilgrimage to Tawang George Orwell (1903-1950): Notes on Nationalism*Recommended Reading:Adorno,Theodor W. “The Essay as Form” in Notes to Literature, Vol.I Trans. Sherry Weber Nicholsen.New York : Columbia University Press,1991.Atkins, Douglas. Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.Butrym, Alexander J.(ed) Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre. Athens, Georgia: University of GeorgiaPress, 1993.Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B, Elizabeth Mittman, The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives. Indiana: IndianaUniv. Press, 1993Walker, Hugh. The English Essay and Essayists. New Delhi: S. Chand & Company, 1977Chevalier, Tracy (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Essay, London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
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