University of North Bengal

Syllabus in ENGLISH for FYUGP

(as per the New Curriculum & Credit Framework 2022)

SEMESTER IV

Paper Title Elizabethan Drama and Shakespeare

Paper Code UENGMAJ24006

Nature of the Major
Paper
Paper Level 200
Paper Type THEORY
Total Credits 4

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course aims to orient the young learners towards the development of British
drama with emphasis on Elizabethan drama. It also introduces the learners to the
early comic and tragic dramatists and the works of Shakespeare.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
After completion, a learner is expected to:
Form a brief overview of the Elizabethan dramatists and have an insight into the tragic and
comic worlds of William Shakespeare.

FULL MARKS: 75

(Marks for Semester End Theory/Written Examination: 60, Marks for Continuous
Evaluation/Internal Assessment/Mid Semester Examination conducted by the
Colleges: 10, Marks for Attendance: 5).

Duration of Examination: 2 Hours 30 Minutes.

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 Unit I: Historical and Literary Topics

● One question to be answered from Four questions set in sequence on the

following topics. [1x10=10]

 The Beginning of British Drama: Miracle Plays, Morality Plays, and
The Interlude
 Elizabethan Comedy
 Elizabethan Tragedy; Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
 The University Wits

Unit II: Shakespearean Comedy

 One question to be answered from Four questions set with alternatives from Two
texts. [1x10=10]
 Twelfth Night
 The Merchant of Venice
 Two short questions to be answered from Four questions arranged serially from
both texts. [2x5=10]

Unit III: Elizabethan and Shakespearean Tragedy

● Two questions to be answered from a s e t o f Eight questions set with alternatives

from each text. [2x10=20]

 Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus / Edward II
 William Shakespeare: Macbeth
 William Shakespeare: Hamlet

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 University of North Bengal
Syllabus in ENGLISH for FYUGP
(as per the New Curriculum & Credit Framework 2022)

SEMESTER IV

Paper Title 17th and 18th Century Literature — I

Paper Code UENGMAJ24007

Nature of the Major
Paper
Paper Level 200
Paper Type THEORY
Total Credits 4

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course is designed to familiarize the learners with the basic ideas, concepts,
theories and issues in 17th century British Literature.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
After completion, a learner is expected to:
Develop a general understanding of 17th century British Literature as a distinct
subject of study, and develop a comprehensive idea about the epic and the mock-
epic and the Restoration dramatic conventions.

FULL MARKS: 75

(Marks for Semester End Theory/Written Examination: 60, Marks for Continuous
Evaluation/Internal Assessment/Mid Semester Examination conducted by the
Colleges: 10, Marks for Attendance: 5).

Duration of Examination: 2 Hours 30 Minutes.

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 Unit I: Historical and Literary Topics

● One question to be answered from Four questions on the following topics. [1x10=10]

 Jacobean Drama (Thomas Dekker, Decadent Revenge Tragedy, Francis

Beaumont, John Fletcher)
 Restoration and Augustan Verse Satire — John Dryden, Alexander Pope
 Restoration Drama ( Heroic Tragedy, Sentimental and Anti-Sentimental Comedy)

Unit II: The Epic and the Mock-Epic

● Two questions to be answered from a s e t o f Four questions set with alternatives

from t h e two texts. [2x10=20]

 John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I

 Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Unit III: 17th Century Drama

● One question to be answered from Four questions set with alternatives from Two

texts. [1x10=10]
 John Webster: Duchess of Malfi
 William Congreve: The Way of the World

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● Four short questions to be answered from Eight questions asked serially from all

four texts in Units II and III. [4x5=20]

Reading:

1. Boris Ford. Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 4. From Dryden to
Johnson. 1955. Rpt. London: Penguin, 1982.
2. C.S. Lewis. A Preface to Paradise Lost. 1941. Rpt.
3. Harriet Raghunathan. Ed. John Milton’s Paradise Lost Book I. New Delhi: Worldview
Critical Editions, 2014.
4. Ian Jack. Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry, 1660-1750. London:
OUP, 1967.
5. David Fairer. Pope’s Imagination. Manchester, 1984.
6. David Fairer. The Poetry of Alexander Pope. London: Penguin, 1989.
7. J.S. Cunningham. Pope: The Rape of the Lock. London, 1961.
8. Geoffrey, Tillotson. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems. London and New Haven:
Methuen and Yale UP, 1962.
9. Peter Dixon. The World of Pope’s Satires. London, 1968.
10. Harriet Raghunathan. Ed. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock. Delhi: Worldview,
2003.
11. Irving Ribner. Jacobean Tragedy: The Quest for Moral Order. 1962. Rpt. London:
Routledge, 2017.
12. N. Rabkin. D. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi. Englewood
Cliffs. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
13. J.W. Lever. The Tragedy of State: A Study in Jacobean Drama. London: Methuen,
1980.

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14. K.M. Singh and Anand Prakash. John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi. Delhi:
Worldview, 2021. (Rpt.)
15. T. Mcalindon. English Renaissance Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 1988.
16. Kajal Sengupta. Ed. William Congreve: The Way of the World. Delhi: OUP, 1997.
17. P. Lyons. Ed. Congreve: Comedies. Casebook. London: Macmillan, 1982.
18. J.L. Styan. Restoration Comedy in Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1986.
19. J.W. Wilson. A Preface to Restoration Drama. Harvard: Harvard UP, 2000.

Question pattern:
For 60 Marks

Sl. Questions Marks for

Out of each Total Marks
No.
to be question
answered
1 1 4 10 1 × 10 = 10
2 2 4 10 2 × 10 = 20
3 1 4 10 1 × 10 = 10
4 4 8 05 4 x 5 = 20

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 University of North Bengal
Syllabus in ENGLISH for FYUGP
(as per the New Curriculum & Credit Framework 2022)

SEMESTER IV

Paper Title
17th and 18th Century Literature — II
Paper Code UENGMAJ24008
Nature of the Major
Paper
Paper Level 200
Paper Type THEORY
Total Credits 4

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course is designed to familiarize the learners with the basic ideas, concepts,
and theories of the Enlightenment, Neo-classical literature, the periodicals of the
18th century and the rise of the English novel.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
After completion, a learner is expected to:
Develop a comprehensive idea about Neo-classical literature and the origins of the English
novel.

FULL MARKS: 75
(Marks for Semester End Theory/Written Examination: 60, Marks for Continuous
Evaluation/Internal Assessment/Mid Semester Examination conducted by the
Colleges: 10, Marks for Attendance: 5).

Duration of Examination: 2 Hours 30 Minutes.

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 Unit I: Historical and Literary Topics

● One question to be answered from Four questions on the following topics. [1x10=10]

● The Enlightenment and Neo-classicism

● Realism and the Rise of the Novel (including individual novelists like Samuel

Richardson and Henry Fielding)

● Periodical Essays (Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Samuel Johnson)

● The Precursors of Romantic Poetry

Unit II: Drama and the Novel

 Two questions to be answered from a s e t o f Six questions with alternatives from

three texts. [2x10=20]

 Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
 Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals

Unit III: Poetry

 Two questions to be answered out of three on Three texts. [2x10=20]

 Samuel Johnson: “London”

 Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
 Oliver Goldsmith: “The Deserted Village”
 Two short questions to be answered from a s e t o f Six arranged in sequence
covering all the six texts in Units II and III. [2x5=10]

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Reading:

1. A.C. Baugh. Ed. A Literary History of England. Vol. III: The Restoration and the
Eighteenth Century. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
2. Ian Watt. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkely and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957.
3. Harold Bloom. Ed. The Eighteenth-Century English Novel. Philadelphia: Chelsea House,
2004.
4. Michael Shinagel. Ed. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe. A Norton Critical Edition.
London and New York: 1994.
5. G.A. Starr. Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton UP, 1965.
6. John Richetti. The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe. Cambridge: CUP, 2018.
7. Albert J. Rivero. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels. A Norton Critical Edition. London
and New York: 1970.
8. Christopher Fox. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
9. Brean S. Hammond. Gulliver’s Travels. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1988.
10. Charles H. Hinnant. Purity and Defilement in Gulliver’s Travels. London: Macmillan,
1987.
11. Ronald Knowles. Gulliver’s Travels: The Politics of Satire. New York: Twayne
Publishers, 1996.
12. F. P. Lock. The Politics of Gulliver’s Travels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
13. Roger Lund. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge,
2006.
14. Claude Julien Rawson. God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European
Imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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15. Frederick N. Smith. Ed. The Genres of Gulliver’s Travels. Newark, Delaware:
University of Delaware Press, 1990.
16. Pramod Nayar. Ed. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. India: Orient Blackswan, 2011.
17. Brian Tippett. Gulliver’s Travels. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1989.
18. Tiffany Stern. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals. London: Norton, 2004.
19. Peter Davison. Sheridan: Comedies. Casebook. London: Macmillan, 1986.
20. Harriet Raghunathan. Ed. Johnson, Gray, Goldsmith: Poet of the Mid-Eighteenth
Century. New Delhi: Worldview Critical Editions, 2014.

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Question pattern:
For 60 Marks

Sl. Questions Marks of

Out of each Total Marks
No.
to be question
answered
1 1 4 10 1 × 10 = 10
2 2 6 10 2 × 10 = 20
3 2 3 10 2 × 10 = 20
4 2 6 05 2 x 05 = 10

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 University of North Bengal
Syllabus of ENGLISH at
FYUGP
(as per the New Curriculum & Credit Framework 2022)

SEMESTERS: III & IV

PAPER: AEC

PAPER CODE: UENGAEM20002

PAPER LEVEL: 100
Paper Description: ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Paper Title: Literature and the Marginalized
Paper Type: Theory; Credits: 2
Full Marks: 50
(Marks for Semester End Theory/Written Examination: 30, Marks for
Continuous Evaluation/Internal Assessment/Mid Semester Examination
conducted by the Colleges: 15, Marks for Attendance: 5).

Duration of Examination: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

 Three long questions to be answered out of Six questions provided with

alternatives from each writer. 3 X 8=24
 Two short questions to be answered out of Six questions, two questions
from each writer: 2 X 3=06

1. Mahesh Dattani: Tara

2. Temsula Ao: The Jungle Major, The Last Song (from These Hills Called Home:
Stories from a War Zone)
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 3. Meena Kandaswamy: Aggression, Apologies for Living on

Question pattern:

• For 30 Marks

Sl. Questions Marks for

Out of each Total Marks
No. question
to be
answered
1 3 6 8 3 × 8 = 24

2 2 6 3 2 × 3 = 06

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 University of North Bengal
Syllabus of ENGLISH at FYUGP
(as per the New Curriculum & Credit Framework 2022)

SEMESTERS: III & IV

PAPER CODE: UENGAEL20002

PAPER LEVEL: 100
Paper Description: English Compulsory

Paper Title: Literary Appreciation

Skill

Paper Type: Theory; Credits: 2

Full Marks: 50
(Marks for Semester End Theory/Written Examination: 30, Marks for
Continuous Evaluation/Internal Assessment/Mid Semester Examination
conducted by the Colleges: 15, Marks for Attendance: 5).
Duration of Examination: 1 Hour 30 Minutes.

Unit I

 Three short questions to be answered out of Six questions provided covering the
two texts equally : 3x5=15

1. Anton Chekhov: The Bet

2. Ruskin Bond: The Blue Umbrella

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 Unit II

 Three short questions to be answered out of Six questions provided

covering the two texts equally : 3x5=15

 St. John Greer Ervine : Progress

 Lady Gregory: Rising of the Moon

Question pattern:

• For 30 Marks

Sl. Questions Marks for

Out of Each Total Marks
No. to be question
answered
1 3 6 5 3 × 5 = 15

2 3 6 5 3 × 5 = 15

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