English syllabus - Gauhati University

58Women and natureSection BIn this section students will study diverse texts representing attitudes to nature at different points oftime in England and America and answer 5 questions of 12 marks each in this section.Texts PrescribedAlexander Pope (1688-1744):William Blake (1757-1827):William Wordsworth (1770-1850):Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862):Emily Dickinson (1830-1886):Epistle to BurlingtonTo Spring, To AutumnTintern AbbeySelection from Walden [“The Ponds”]A Bird Came Down the Walk, A Narrow Fellow in theGrass.Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): From In Memoriam [Sections 55, 56]Charles Darwin (1809-1882): FromG. M. Hopkins (1844-1889): SpringD. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): SnakeDylan Thomas (1914-1953):Ted Hughes (1930-1998):The Origin of Species [Struggle for Existence]Fern HillThe Jaguar, Second Glance at a JaguarRecommended Reading:Armbruster, Karla, and Wallace, Kathleen (eds.) Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries ofEcocriticism. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001.Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2004.Gifford, Terry. Pastoral. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.Glotfelty, Cheryl (ed.) The Ecocriticism Reader. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press,1996.PAPER 8Other LiteraturesMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8The internationalization of disciplines which began with Modernism and increased with globalizationand the internet has made it imperative for students of English literature to familiarize themselves withliteratures produced in regions other than the Anglo-American. This paper is an attempt to bring to