Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous

Department of English
B.A (Double Major Programme under NEP)
Proposed Syllabus for English Literature- Paper V
British Literature Upto 1800
(Elizabethans to Pre- Romantics)
(Academic year 2022-23 onwards)
Total Number of Hours: 45
Course Code: Course Credits: 03
Formative Assessment Marks (Internal Assessment) – 40
Summative Assessment Marks (End Semester Exam) - 60
Teaching Objectives:
• Appraising the growth and development of British Literature.
• Examining canon formation through major periods in the history of British Literature.
• Understanding Literary movements from the Elizabethan Age to the Pre-Romantic Age.
Learning Outcomes:
⚫ Enhancing the students’ spirit of enquiry and sharpen their analytical skills.
⚫ Assessing the different genres for a deeper understanding of the canon.
⚫ Cultivating a liberal, humanistic and critical mind.
UNIT I- DRAMA ( 20 hrs)
1. William Shakespeare: As You Like It
2. Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta
3. Ben Jonson: Volpone
4. Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
5. Visual texts: The Merchant of Venice-Directed by Michael
Radford
The Merchant Of Venice (2004) FuLL MoVieYouTube
Hamlet- Directed by Laurence Olivier
HAMLET - Laurence Olivier - 1948 - HD Restored -4K - YouTube
UNIT II- PROSE (13 hrs)
1. Francis Bacon: Of Travaile
2. Joseph Addison: Sir Roger at Church
3. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
4. Aphra Behn: Oronooko
5. Lawrence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
UNIT III- POETRY (12 hrs)
1. Amelia Lanyer: Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women
2. Edmund Spenser: From ‘The Amoretti’-One Day I Wrote Her Name…
3. John Milton: Extract from Paradise Lost Book I
4. John Donne: The Sunne Rising
5. Alexander Pope: Extract from The Rape of the Lock
6. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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 Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous
Department of English
B.A (Double Major Programme under NEP)
Proposed Syllabus for English Literature- Paper VI
Indian Writing in Translation
(Academic year 2022-23 onwards)
Total Number of Hours: 45
Course Code: Course Credits: 03
Formative Assessment Marks (Internal Assessment) – 40
Summative Assessment Marks (End Semester Exam) - 60
Teaching Objectives:
⚫ Introduce students to the origins and development of Indian literatures in translation
⚫ Engage with issues and concerns of various historical periods
⚫ Familiarize students with the variations of genres in the principal literary languages

Learning Outcomes:
⚫ Students get familiarised with the area of Indian Literatures in Translation which focuses on
Bhasha or regional literatures that attempt to ‘rewrite’ the nation, breaking away from
dominant narratives.
⚫ Students get sensitised to issues reflecting significant historical and social movements
⚫ Students become aware of socio-political tensions within the social fabric viz. Partition, caste
conflict, political unrest, issues of identity, voices from marginalized spaces, women’s issues,
the nation state
UNIT I: POETRY (14 hours)
Chapter 1: Overview and writers: Sangam Literature, Bhakti Movement, Kuvempu,
Amrita Pritam, Gaddar, JP Das, Daya Pawar
Chapter 2: Illustrative texts
1. Iqbal: Verses
2. Gopalkrishna Adiga: Do Something Brother
3. Kunwar Narain: Words that Disappear
4. Parimal Hansda: Which Way do I Go?
5. Namdeo Dhasal: Kamathipura
6. Perumal Murugan: Songs of a Coward
7. Naoram Bidyasagar: Barak River, I Love You
8. Kaifi Azmi: Somnath

UNIT II: PROSE (16 hours)

Chapter 3: Overview and Writers: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Premchand, Shivram
Karanth, Bhisham Sahni, Maitreyi Pushpa, Naiyer Masud

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Chapter 4: Illustrative Texts

1. Sadat Hasan Manto: The Dog of Tetval

2. Mahasweta Devi: Mother of 1084
3. Bama: Karukku
4. U R Ananthmurthy: Samskara
5. Damodar Mauzo: Theresa’s Man
6. M T Vasudevan Nair: Little Earthquakes
7. J K Chakravorty: A Dip in the Sangam

UNIT III: DRAMA (12 hrs)

Chapter 9: Badal Sirkar, Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karnad, Chandrashekhar Kambar

1. Tagore: Post Office
2. Vijay Tendulkar: Kanyadaan
3. Habib Tanvir: Charandas Chor

UNIT IV: VISUAL TEXTS (3 hours)

1. Gulabi Talkies: Film directed by Girish Kasaravalli
2. Dev D: Film directed by Anurag Kashyap

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 Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous
Department of English
B.A (Double Major Programme under NEP)
Proposed Syllabus for English Literature- Paper VII
British Literature- 1800 and after
(Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Post- Modern)
(Academic year 2022-23 onwards)

Total Number of Hours: 45

Course Code: Course Credits: 03
Formative Assessment Marks (Internal Assessment) – 40
Summative Assessment Marks (End Semester Exam) – 60
Teaching Objectives:
⚫ Appraising the growth and development of British Literature from the 19th Century up to
Postmodern times.
⚫ Understanding Literary movements from the Romantics to the Post-moderns.

Learning Outcomes:
⚫ Assessing the different genres for a deeper understanding of the canon.
⚫ Developing critical insights into different historical periods of British Literature.

UNIT I: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (9 hours)

Chapter 1: Overview of the Age and Writers
William Blake, S T Coleridge, P B Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe
Chapter 2: Illustrative texts
1. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
2. William Wordsworth: Yarrow Unvisited
3. John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
4. Charles Lamb: Old China
UNIT II: THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (11 hours)
Chapter 3: Overview of the Age and Writers
Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, William Thackeray, Walter Pater, Pre-Raphaelites, George Eliot,
Elizabeth Gaskell, Francis Thompson, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde
Chapter 4: Illustrative Texts
1. Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
2. Matthew Arnold: Introduction to Culture & Anarchy
3. Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market
4. Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam
5. Rudyard Kipling: The Overland Mail
6. Visual Texts: Wuthering Heights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKO3e9mxbtA

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UNIT III: THE MODERN PERIOD (15 hours)
Chapter 5: Overview of the Age and Writers
G B Shaw, Wilfred Owen, Joseph Conrad, W B Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James
Joyce, Arnold Wesker, Samuel Beckett, D H Lawrence, Somerset Maugham,
Graham Greene, Terrence Rattigan, Doris Lessing

Chapter 6: Major trends in 20th century poetry

Chapter 7: Major trends in 20th century fiction
Chapter 8: Major trends in 20th century drama
Chapter 9: Illustrative texts

1. T S Eliot: Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

2. W H Auden: Shield of Achilles
3. John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
4. H E Bates: The Ox
5. Visual Texts: A Passage to India (CD)

UNIT IV: THE POST-MODERN PERIOD (10 hours)

Chapter 10: Overview of the Age and Writers
Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom Stoppard, A S Byatt, Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith, Neil
Gaiman

Chapter 11: Illustrative texts

1. Fleur Adcock: Heidi with Blue Hair

2. Seamus Heaney: Digging
3. Hilary Mantel: From The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
4. Harold Pinter: Birthday Party
5. Visual Texts: French Lieutenant’s Woman

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 Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous
Department of English
B.A (Double Major Programme under NEP)
Proposed Syllabus for English Literature- Paper VIII
Gender Studies
(Academic year 2022-23 onwards)

Total Number of Hours: 45

Course Code: Course Credits: 03
Formative Assessment Marks (Internal Assessment) – 40
Summative Assessment Marks (End Semester Exam) - 60
Teaching Objectives:

⚫ To examine representations and constructions of gender

⚫ To explore gender portrayals within various cultural contexts
⚫ To introduce the genre of gynocriticism

Learning Outcomes:

⚫ Understanding multi-disciplinary frames of gender

⚫ Sensitisation to social/cultural/institutional functions and practices of gender
⚫ Interpreting texts through the lens of gender

UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF GENDER (21 hours)

Chapter 1: Key Concepts and Writers
Gender and Language, Feminism, Masculinities, Sex and Gender, Patriarchy and
Power, Family, Sexuality
John Stuart Mill, Gilbert and Gubar, Joanna Russ, Kate Millet, Audrey Lorde,
Gayatri Spivak, R W Connell, V Geetha, Sharmila Rege
Chapter 2: Critical Reading

1. Mary Wollstonecraft: from Introduction to “Vindication of the Rights of

Women”
2. Frederich Engels: from Origin of the Family, Private Property and the
State
3. Virginia Woolf: from Introduction to “A Room of One’s Own”
4. Simone de Beauvoir: from The Second Sex
5. Elaine Showalter: Selections from A Literature of One’s Own
6. Helene Cixous: The Laugh of the Medusa
7. W E B Du Bois The Damnation of Women
8. Chimamanda Adiche We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie | TEDxEuston - YouTube
9. Mangesh Kulkarni: Indian Masculinities: A Million Mutations
10. Susie Tharu & K Lalitha: Introduction to Women’s Writing in India

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 11. Vandana Shiva speeches: Vandana Shiva | Ecofeminism and the decolonization
of women, nature and the future - Bing video
12. International Womxn’s Day Lecture: Dr. Vandana Shiva - Bing video
13. Malala Yousufza: ENGLISH SPEECH | MALALA YOUSAFZAI:
Education First (English Subtitles) - YouTube

UNIT II: LITERARY READINGS (18 hours)

Texts and writers:
Amelia Lanyer, Louisa May Alcott, Sylvia Plath, Savithribai Phule, Fathima Sheikh, Ismat Chugtai, Rajinder
Singh Bedi, Nabaneeta Debsen, K Revathi, MK Indira, Tasleema Nasrin, B Chandrika

1. William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew

2. Charlotte Gilman: Yellow Wallpaper
3. Edgar Allen Poe: The Oval Portrait
4. Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
5. Kamala Das: The Dance of Eunuchs
6. Mahasweta Debi: The Breast Giver
7. A Revathi: The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story (extract)
8. Meena Kandaswamy: Becoming a Brahmin
9. Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy

UNIT III : VISUAL TEXTS (6 hours)

Texts from advertisements, films, documentaries and other multimedia versions to discuss gendered
representations and constructions

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