DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
ALLOTMENT OF TEXT OF SEMESTER III (2023)

PAPER UNIT SUBUNIT

Aristotle – Poetics
Unit I
CCX Longinus – On the Sublime
Philip Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
Unit II
Alexander Pope – ‘An Essay on Criticism’
P.B. Shelley – A Defence of Poetry
Unit I S.T. Coleridge – Biographia Literaria (Chapters 4, 5
and 17)
CC XI T. S. Eliot – ‘To Criticize a Critic’, ‘The
Metaphysical Poets’, ‘Hamlet and his Problems’
Unit II Raymond Williams – Culture and Society: 1780-
1950 (‘Introduction’ and Chapter 2: ‘The Romantic
Artist’)
Unit I Sociolinguistics
All components except Language and gender;
Language and power

Phonetics & Phonology

All components except Idiosyncrasies of Indian
speakers of English; Teaching of
English pronunciation
DSE V
Question Pattern for End Sem
[Sociolinguistics,
Phonetics and Unit II Sociolinguistics (16 marks):
2 questions (out of 3) of 3 marks each* (3x2=6)
Phonology] 1 question (out of 2) of 10 marks* (10x1=10)
Phonetics & Phonology) (24 marks):
3 questions (out of 4) of 3 marks each* (3x3=9)
1 question (out of 2) of 10 marks* (10x1=10)
1 question of 5 marks (5x1=5)
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Total : (16+24)=40

* may include internal break ups

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 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
ALLOTMENT OF TEXT OF SEMESTER III (2023)

Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyan and et al –

Unit I Bhimayana
DSE VI [Indian Amitav Ghosh – The Hungry Tide
Literature II] Girish Karnad – Fire and the Rain
Unit II
Jayanta Mahapatra – ‘Ash’, ‘The Captive Air of
Chandipur on Sea’, ‘Sanskrit’
Langston Hughes – ‘Let America Be America
DSE VIII [American Unit I Again’, ‘Harlem’, ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’
Literature of the Arthur Miller – All my Sons
Twentieth Century] Unit II Toni Morrison – Beloved
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Early European Film Movement: Surrealism and
Unit I German Expressionism
GE I [Film and Postcolonial Cinema: The Indian Context
Literature] Satyajit Ray: Charulata [1964]
Unit II
Vishal Bharadwaj: Maqbool [2003]

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