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ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper : A Unit I: Unit II:    Unit III: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Poetry/History of English Literature-I Max Marks 75 Poetry Shakespeare: Donne: Milton: Blake: Wordsworth: Coleridge: Shelley: Since Brass, Nor Stone That Time of Year The Flea Go and Catch a Folling Star Lycidas The Clod and the Pebble The Human Abstract Lines Composed near Tintern Abbey Dejection: an Ode Ode on a Grecian Urn Introduction to Literary Genres Poetry-narrative (epic, bailad, romance), tyric (sonnet, ode, etegy) Drama-Comedy, Tragedy, Romance, Historical Play Novel-Picaresque, Epistolary, Stream of Consciousness History of English Literature (1500-1830) Elizabethan Drama Metaphysical Poetry Eighteenth Century Novel Eighteenth Century Prose Romantic Revival For Unit II students can consult the following books:  MH Abrams A Glossary of Literary Terms  Patrick Murray Literary Criticism: A glossary of major terms  John Peck & Martin Coyle Literary Terms and Criticism  Jeffrey Wainwright Poetry: The Basics, Routledge (Foundation Books, New Delhi) For Unit III students can use any stander book on the history of English Literature including the following:  George Sampson: The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature    Ronald Carter & John Mc Rae: The Routledge History of Literature in English A Sanders: A History of English Literature (Oxford) Arthur Compton-Ricket: A History of English Literature Examination Pattern In the examination there shall be five questions.  Q1 shall consist of 6 stanzas for reference to the context from Unit I, out of which candidates shall be required to attempt three. 3x5=15 marks  Q2 and Q3 shall be essay type questions with internal/parallel choices on the poems not covered in Q1. 2x15=30 marks  Q4 shall be based on Unit II and shall have internal choice. 10 marks  Q5 shall be based on Unit III and shall have three questions on short notes out of which candidates shall be required to attempt 2. 2x10=20 marks Paper : B Unit I Unit II Unit III Charles Dickens Charlotte Broote Thomas Hardy Novel-I Max Marks 75 Hard Times Jane Eyre Tess of the D’Urbevilles Examination Pattern There shall be five questions in the paper. All questions shall carry equal wieghtage.  Q1 shall hav three parts, each part containing a short answer type question with an alternative from Units I-III in order to test close reading of the text by students.  Q2-Q4 shall be essay type questions with internal/parallel choice, one on Units I-III.  Q5 shall be general in nature. Candidates shall be required to write notes’ on 2 of the 3 given choices on the socio-historical background against which Dickens, Bronte and Hardy, respectively, were writing.