Paper 8: ENG-HC-4016
British Literature: The 18th Century
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial)
Marks: 80 (End-Semester Examination) + 20 (Internal Assessment)
This paper aims to familiarize the students with British literature in the 18th century. A very interesting age in which reason and rationality dominated, this age saw the publication of some of the best novels and works of non-fictional prose and poetry in the English language. Though it was not predominantly an age of drama yet one cannot but pay attention to the few plays of the century. Although the texts in the course are mostly by men it must be noted that quite a number of women writers were also part of the literary scene. The texts in the course are representative of the age and to some extent representative of the forms as well. The selected texts hope to give the students an overview of the age and the writings that the age produced.
Texts:
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Books III and IV)
• Samuel Johnson: ‘London’
• Thomas Gray: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
• Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
• Joseph Addison: “Pleasures of the Imagination”, The Spectator, 411
• Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
• The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism
• Restoration Comedy
• The Country and the City
• The Novel and the Periodical Press
Paper 9: ENG-HC-4026
British Romantic Literature
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial)
Marks: 80 (End-Semester Examination) + 20 (Internal Assessment)
The nineteenth century begins with the triumph of the Romantic imagination, expressing itself most memorably in the poetry of Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. The poetry of the age fashions itself partly in revolt to the spirit of the previous age, with very different ideas about the relationship between humans and nature and the role of the poet taking hold. This paper includes selections from works of major Romantic poets which address these issues, enabling students to appreciate the essence of the Romantic vision. In addition they will read that remarkable oddity, Frankenstein, a novel that also illuminates Romanticism from another angle.
Texts:
• William Blake: ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience); ‘The Tyger’ (The Songs of Experience); 'Introduction’ to The Songs of Innocence
• Robert Burns: ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’; ‘Scots Wha Hae’
• William Wordsworth: ‘Tintern Abbey’; ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Kubla Khan’; ‘Dejection: An Ode’
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ode to the West Wind’; ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’; The Cenci
• John Keats: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’; ‘To Autumn’; ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’
• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopics
• Reason and Imagination
• Conceptions of Nature
• Literature and Revolution
• The Gothic
• The Romantic Lyric
Paper 10: ENG-HC-4036
British Literature: The 19th Century
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial)
Marks: 80 (End-Semester Examination) + 20 (Internal Assessment)
The middle and later parts of the 19th century sees the novel coming into its own, although Jane Austen has already established the prestige of the novel form through her incisive explorations of the complexity of human motive and conduct, especially in their worldly affairs. The texts chosen will expose the students to the ground-breaking effortsof the poets as well to the works of fiction writers who manage to consolidate and refine upon the achievements of the novelists of the previous era. Austen to Rossetti represents a remarkable literary development and range of works, addressing a very diverse array of social preoccupations.
Texts:
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
• Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (Chapter 1 The Pickwickians; Chapter 2 The Journey Begins; Chapter 23 In Which Mr. Samuel Weller Begins to Devote His Energies; Chapter 56 An Important Conference Takes Place; Chapter 57 In which the Pickwick Club is Finally Dissolved)
• Thomas Hardy: ‘The Three Strangers’
• Alfred Tennyson: ‘The Defence of Lucknow’
• Robert Browning: ‘Love among the Ruins’
• Christina Rossetti: ‘Goblin Market’
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
• Utilitarianism
• The 19th Century Novel
• Marriage and Sexuality
• The Writer and Society
• Faith and Doubt
• The Dramatic Monologue
Paper 7: ENG-HG-4016
Literary Cross Currents: Forms: Prose, Poetry, Fiction & Play
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial)
Marks: 80 (End-Semester Examination) + 20 (Internal Assessment)
In almost every period of literary history works of non-fictional prose, fiction, poetry and drama have co-existed. Also, literary cross-currents have helped shape these literary forms in a way that demonstrates their affinities as well as differences. It’s important to study works with due attention to their ‘formal’ aspects so that what it is truly distinctive about the literary type, form, or genre to which they belong is not missed. At the same time it’s necessary to contextualize the study so that the evolutionary or historical dimension of the literary works, their growth and transformation over the years is not lost sight of. This paper will acquaint the students with different literary forms, with one part addressing formal concerns including definitions, while the other part will involve study of actual texts which exemplify a particular literary form or genre, and which will include some consideration of the contexts of their production.
Part A: Forms and movements 20 Marks
• Forms:
Epic and mock-epic, ballad, ode, sonnet, lyric, elegy, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurd drama, heroic drama, problem plays, expressionist plays, Gothic fiction, the historical novel, the bildungsroman, the personal essay, the periodical essay, memoir, autobiography, biography
● Movements and trends which influence forms and genres:
Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Augustanism, Victorianism, Realism, Naturalism, Expressionism, Existentialism, Dadaism and Surrealism
Part B: Study of individual texts
Epic and Poetry: (20)
• The Mahabharata (The Game of Dice)
• Ben Jonson: “Song to Celia”
• Lord Alfred Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”
• John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Prose (Fiction and Non-fiction) (20)
• Joseph Addison: “True and False Wit,” (Spectator 62)
• Charles Lamb: “The Dream Children”
• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
• Edgar Allan Poe: “The Black Cat”
• Kamala Das: My Story
Plays: (20)
• Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
• Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party.
Paper 8: ENG-HG-4026
Language, Literature and Culture
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial)
Marks: 80 (End-Semester Examination) + 20 (Internal Assessment)
This paper will introduce students to the relationship between language, literature and culture. Language varies according to the culture and world view of the group in which it is used. The language used in literature also has certain features which distinguish it from the language of everyday communication. Keeping these aspects in mind, students will study the following topics:
• Speech community
• Concept of dialect
• Register and style
• Diglossia
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• Language and gender
• Style in literature: cohesion, word-choice, point of view, figures of speech, the concept of genre.
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ALT-CC-4016
Alternative English II
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial) =6 Marks: 100 (80+20)
Course Objectives: The course has been designed to familiarise students with different forms of literature, texts and their contexts. The select texts would enable them to understand literary representations and a writer’s engagement with the social, cultural and political milieu.
Section A ESSAYS (15 marks)
• Charles Lamb: ‘Two Races of Man’
• A. G. Gardiner: ‘On Fear’
• George Orwell: ‘The Spike’
Section B POETRY (25 marks)
• George Herbert: ‘The Rose’
• William Wordsworth: ‘Scorn for the Sonnet’
• John Keats: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’
• Wilfred Owen: ‘The Send-off’
• Adrienne Rich: ‘Power’
Section C SHORT STORY (20 marks)
• R. K. Narayan: ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
• Vikram Chandra: ‘Dharma’
Section D DRAMA (20 marks)
• George Bernard Shaw: Candida
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ENG-RC-4016
Literary Cross Currents: Forms: Prose, Poetry, Fiction & Play
Credits: 5 (Theory) + 1 (Tutorial) =6 Marks: 100 (80+20)
In almost every period of literary history works of non-fictional prose, fiction, poetry and drama have co-existed. Also, literary cross-currents have helped shape these literary forms in a way that demonstrates their affinities as well as differences. It’s important to study works with due attention to their ‘formal’ aspects so that what it is truly distinctive about the literary type, form, or genre to which they belong is not missed. At the same time it’s necessary to contextualize the study so that the evolutionary or historical dimension of the literary works, their growth and transformation over the years is not lost sight of. This paper will acquaint the students with different literary forms, with one part addressing formal concerns including definitions, while the other part will involve study of actual texts which exemplify a particular literary form or genre, and which will include some consideration of the contexts of their production.
Part A: Forms and movements (20 Marks)
• Forms:
Epic and mock-epic, ballad, ode, sonnet, lyric, elegy, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurd drama, heroic drama, problem plays, expressionist plays, Gothic fiction, the historical novel, the bildungsroman, the personal essay, the periodical essay, memoir, autobiography, biography
● Movements and trends which influence forms and genres: Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Augustanism, Victorianism, Realism, Naturalism, Expressionism, Existentialism, Dadaism and Surrealism
Part B: Study of individual texts
Epic and Poetry: (20)
• The Mahabharata (The Game of Dice)
• Ben Jonson: “Song to Celia”
• Lord Alfred Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”
• John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Prose (Fiction and Non-fiction) (20)
• Joseph Addison: “True and False Wit,” (Spectator 62)
• Charles Lamb: “The Dream Children”
• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
• Edgar Allan Poe: “The Black Cat”
• Kamala Das: My Story
Plays: (20)
• Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
• Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party.
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SEC 2
ENG-SE-4014
Translation: Principles and Practice
Credits: 4 Marks: 100 (80+20)
This course is designed to give students basic skills in translation. It introduces students to the field of translation studies and gives them training in practical translation.
Unit 1 (Marks: 30)
Translation in India:
History; Challenges of translation in multilingual conditions; Institutions promoting and commissioning translation; Landmarks of translation in different languages.
Types and Modes of translation:
• Intralingual, Interlingual and Intersemiotic translation
• Free translation,
• Literal translation,
• Transcreation
• Communicative or functional translation
• Audio-visual translation
Concepts of Translation:
Accuracy, Equivalence, Adaptation, Dialect, Idiolect, Register, Style, subtitling, back-translation
Unit 2 (Marks: 50)
In this section questions may be in the nature of translation tests: short passages, speeches from the plays or a poem to be analysed and different aspects pointed out; and secondly to be translated into English from the original language
Practical translation activities:
a. Analyse texts translated into English keeping the above concepts, and especially that of equivalence, in mind, at the lexical (word) and syntactical (sentence) levels:
Novel : The Story of Felanee by Arupa Patangiya Kalita.
Play: The Fortress of Fire by Arun Sarma.
Poem: “Silt” by Nabakanta Barua, Trans. Pradip Acharya
Short Story: “Golden Girl” by Lakshminath Bezbarua, in the anthology Splendour in the Grass. Ed. Hiren Gohain.
b. Make a back translation into the original EnglishShort Story or passage from a text (Alice in Wonderland by Probina Saikia)
c. Subtitle a film (Assamese – Village Rockstars) (to be discussed in class, a sample shown and then used for internal assessment)
Resources for Practice:
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Thesaurus
• Glossaries
• Translation software
