English syllabus - Gauhati University

49SEMESTER IIIPAPER 3FictionTotal Marks:100 (80+20); Credits: 8This paper on Fiction introduces the genres of the novel and the short story. Students will be expectedto answer four questions of 15 marks each out of six given ( 4x15=60) and 2 questions of 10 markseach out of four(2x10=20) from the prescribed texts.Texts: Jane Austen (1775-1817): Pride and Prejudice Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): “The Gold Bug” Mark Twain (1835-1910): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer William Golding (1911-1993): The Lord of the Flies. Vikram Chandra (1961 - ): “Shanti”SEMESTER IVPAPER 4Non-Fictional ProseTotal Marks:100 (80+20); Credits: 8Students will be expected to answer 3 questions of 15 marks each out of five given (3x15=45) and 2questions of 10 marks each out of four given (2x10=20) from the prescribed texts.Texts: Joseph Addison (1672-1719): Sir Roger at Home Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): On Idleness William Hazlitt (1778-1830): On Nicknames Charles Lamb (1775-1834): Dream Children Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894): Pan’s Pipes Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): Letter to Gandhi written on the eve of the JallianwalaBagh massacre. April 12, 1919.