ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
(For those students not offering a full paper of Hindi as a compulsory subject)
ENGLISH (Higher Standard)
(For non-Indian domicile students) PAPER-I
ENGLISH (General/Subsidiary Course) -1
ENGLISH HONOURS COURSE
PAPER-I: - History of English Language / Literature
Duration of examination : 3 hrs. Full Marks;- 100
SECTION 1 - History of English There shall be four groups in this section
GROUP-A History of Poetry .
1. Old English Poetry
2. Middle English Poetry
3. Elizabethan lyrics and Sonnets
4. Metaphysical Poetry
5. Cavalier Poetry
6. Eighteenth-Century Poetry
7. Precursors of the romantic Revival
8. Romantic revival .
9.Major Romantic Poets
10.Victorian Poetry
11. Pre Raphaelite Poetry
12.Geogrian Poetry
13.Symbolist Movement in English Poetry
14. Imagist Poetry
15.Trench Poetry
16.Modern Poetry
Major Poets- Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, John Donne, Dryden; Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Lord A Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, T.S. EHot
GROUP B History of Drama
1. Beginning of English Drama;
2. Mystery, Miracle and Morality Plays;
3. Pre-Shakespearean Drama or University Wits;
4. Shakespearean Drama; Jacobean Dramatists;
5. Heroic Tragedy
6. Restoration Comedy
7. Eighteenth century Drama
8. Modern Drama;
9. Modern Verse Drama;
10. One Act Plays;
11. Theatre of the Absurd
12. Major Dramatists Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare; Ben Jonson; R. B. Sheridan, John Galsworthy, George Bernard Shaw
GROUP-C: History of Novel & Prose
1. The Authorised Version of the Bible,
2. Severnteenth Century Prose,
3. Eighteenth Century Prose :
4. 19th Century Prose;
5. Victorian Prose;
6. Eighteenth Century Novel;
7. 19th Century Novel;
8. Gothic Novels;
9. Women Novelists of the Victorian Era;
10. Stream of Consciousness Technique in Fiction;
11. Modern Novel;
12. 18th century Periodicals;
13. Modern Short Story.
Major Prose Writers- Sir Francis Bacon : Jonathan Swift: Samuel Johson; Jane Austen,
Emily Bronte; Charles Dickens; Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence; E. M. forster
GROUP -D :
Ten objective type multiple choice questions or and matching type or and true-false type or fill in the blanks types questions carring one mark each.
SECTION II : History of the English Language 50 Makrs
There shall be four groups in section as detailed below:
GROUP-E ; Old English
1. Origins of language: Classification of languages; Indo-European Family of languages;
2. Origins of the English language
3. Characteristics of Old English:
4. Old English Dialects :
5. Grimm's Law and Verner's Law
GROUP-F: Middle English and Modern English
1 Characteristics of Middle English,
2.Middle English Dialects;
3. The Rise of Standard English.
4. Characteristics of Modern English,
5. Modern English Dialects :
6. British English;
7. American English
8. Indian English:
9. English Today World English;
10. and English as a language of global Communication.
GROUP-G: Enrichment of English Vocabulary
A. Borrowings in English-Latin / Scandinavian / French, Greek and Indian Loan words
B. Word Formation
(i) Process of Word Formation--composition derivation (Affixation)
(ii) Prefixes / Suffixes
(iii)Root creation
(iv)Reduplication
(v) Portmanteau Words (Contantination)
(vi)Shortening, Back Formation
(vii) Acronym, Analogy,
C. Folk Etymology. Slang:
D. Semantic Change : Phonological Change : and Grammatical Change.
GROUP-H : Phonemic Transcription
Phonemic transcription of Ten isolated words Examinees may be required to show word stress marks. Phonemic transcription is to be used in IPA symbols as used in Daniel Jones's English Pronouncing Dictionary (Fourteenth/Fifteenth edition)
Division of marks:
Group A : One question out of four alternative : 14 marks
Group B: One question out of four alternative : 13 marks
Group C: One question out of four alternative : 13 marks
Group D : Ten objective type Multiple Choice questions: 10 marks
GROUP-E One question out of four alternatives 14 marks
GROUP-F One question out of four alternatives 13 marks
GROUP-G One question out of four alternatives 13 marks
GROUP-H Phonemic transcription of isolated words 10 marks
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total marks 100
THE BOOKS RECOMMENDED :
SECTION -I
1.The Cambridge History of English Literature
2. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature : George Sampson
3. A Literary History of England : A.C. Baugh
4. A Critical History of English Literature : David Daichas
5.The Pelican Guide to English Literature
6.A short History of English Literature :E Albert
SECTION -II
1. A History of the Language - A.C. Baugh
2. The Making of English : H Bradley.
3. Growth and Structure of English : Otto Jespersen
4. Modern English Structure : B.M. H. Strang
5. A University Grammar of English : Randolph Quirk and Sidney Creenbaum
6. Drills and Tests in English Sounds: L.A. Hill
7. Drills in English Strees Pattern : L. Guierre
8. English Pronouncing Dictionary Daniel Jones revised by (14th/15th edition) A.C. Gimson/P Roach & J. Partman
9. Phonetics : J.D.O. Connor
10. A Text book of English Phonetics for Indian Students : T. Balasubramanian (Macmillan)
11. English Phonetics for Indian Students A Work Book : T. Balasubramanian (Macmilan)
PAPER II Poetry from Chaucer to Arnold
Duration of examination- 3 hrs. Full Marks- 100
The Books Prescribed : THE MYSTIC DRUM-Eds, Vilas Salunke (Orient Longman) The following poems are prescribed :-
1.Men Call you fayre. (Amoretti, Sonnet No. 79) :Edmunnd Spenser
2. Poor Soul, the Centre (Sonned No. 146) :William Shakespear
3. The Invocation (Paradise Lost, Book I) :John Milton
4. The Sunne Rising :John Donne
5. Easter Wings :George Hebert
6. To His Coy Mistress :Andrew Marvell
7. London :William Blake
8. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal :William Wordsworth
9. Kubla Khan :ST Coleridge
10. She Walks in Beauty :Lord Byron
11. Ode to the West Wind :PB Shelly
12. Ode on a Grecian Urn :John Keats
13. Break, Break, Break :Alfred Lord Tenyson
14. My Last Duches :Robert Browing
15. Neutral Tones :Thomas Hardy
16. Futility :Wilfred Owen
17. Spring and Fall :GM Hopkins
18. Sailing to Byzantium :WB Yeats
19. Journey of the Magi :T.S. Eliot
20. Do not go Gentle ... : Dyalan Thomas
Book Prescribed :
Group B. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK : Alexander Pope
Book Prescribed :
Group C. THE SCHOLAR GIPSY : Matthew Arnold.
Group D. Literary and Prosodic Terms and scansion of a stanza.
Poetry, Elegy, Sonnet, Ballad, Epic, Irony, Similie, Metaphor, Alliteration, Rhyme, Metre. Questions may be set on other prosodic terms as well.
Division of marks
Q. No I shall be compulsory out of two alternatives from each text in A, B &C set. Candidates have to attempt three explanations one from each text.
Group A
1. One Critical Question out of Two alternatives from the prescribed poems.
2. One Critical Question out of Two alternatives based on Evaluation of a poet on the basis of the prescribed poems
Group B &C
3. One Critical Question out of Two alternatives each from THE RAPE OF THE LOCK and THE SCHOLOAR GIPSY
Group D
Candidates have to Define two Literary Terms with suitable illustrations out of 4 alternatives in about 100 words each.
Distribution of marks:
1. Explanation 8x3 = 24
2. Critical Questions from Group A, B & C 14 x 4 = 56
3. Literary & Prosudic Terms 3x2 = 6
4. Scansion of a stanza 4x1=4
5.Objective type questions 10 x 1 = 10
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Aggregate 100 mark
Books Recommended :
1. THE ESSENTIALS OF RHETORIC, PROSODY AND PHONETICS M.N. BOSE ( Motilal Banarsidas)
2. PRACTICAL ENGLISH PROSODY: B Blackstone (Orient Longman)
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
(For those students not offering a full paper of Hindi as a compulsory subject)
PAPER-1
Full Marks-50
Duration of examination : 1.30 hrs.
A. Poetry
The Book Prescribed :-
THE MYSTIC DRUM : Eds.
The Poems Prescribed :
1. Men Call you Fayre :: E. Spenser
2. The Invocation : : J Milton
3. The Sunne Rising :: Donne
4. Easter Wings :: G Herbert
5. To His Coy Mistress :: A Marveell
6. Kubla Khan :S.T. Coleridge
7. My Last Duches :R Browing
8. Journey of the Magi :T.S. Eliot
9. Sailing to Byzantium :W.B. Yeats
10. Swan and Shadow :J Hollander
B. Fiction
The book prescribed : Where Angels Fear to Tread :- E.M. Forster
C. Comprehension
(The Books Recommended )
COMPREHENSION EXERCISE FOR COLLEGE: M.Q. Towheed (Orient Longman D. Translation/Phonemic transcription
The book recommended :
1.. The fourteenth/fifteenth edition of Daniel Jone's
ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY
2. The Current edition of the ADVANCED LEARNER'S DICTIONARY
3. The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
Division of marks:
1. One question with an alternative on poetry : 10 marks
2. One question with an alternative on fiction : 10 marks
3. One short comprehension passage followed by three Questions, two of which carrying threee marks each and one carrying four marks (3+3+4): 10 marks .
4. A passage in English for translation into Hindi : 10 marks .
5. Phonemic transcription of ten isolated words from the prescribed texts : 1x10 = 10 marks
ENGLISH (Higher Standard)
(For non-Indian domicile students) PAPER-I
Full Marks : 100
A. Poetry - The book prescribed ; THE NEW GOLDEN TREASURY Eds. R.C. Prasad and M.Q. Towheed (Motilal Banarsidas)
The Poems prescribed :
1. A Renouncing of Love :Sir Thomas Wyatt
2. Prothalamion :Edmund Spenser
3. Loving in Truth :Sir Philip Sidney
4. Cleopatra :William Shakespeare
5. If It Were Done :William Shakespeare
6. The Pulley : George Herbert
7. Go, Lovely Rose :Edmund Waller
8. The Scholar's Life : Samuel Johnson
9. The Tiger :William Blake
10. Books and Nature :William Wordsworth
11. Kubla Khan : S.T. Coleridge
12. Ode to the West Wind :P.B. Shelley
13. Ode to a Nightingale :John Keats
14. The Brook :Alfred Lord Tennyson
15. God's Grandeur : G.M. Hopkins
16. The Wild Swans at Coole :W.B. Yeats
17. Gerontion : T.S. Eliot
18. Strange Meeting : WilfredOwen
19. Affinity : R.S. Thomas
B. A Long Poem
The text Prescribed : THE EVE OF ST AGNES : John Keats
C. A Modern Play
The text Prescribed ALL MY SONS : Arthur Miller
D. A Travelogue ! An Anthology of Prose .
Text Prescribed : A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND Nirad C. Choudhuri
E. Notes on Literary and Prosodic Terms (For Example) Poetry, Drama, Novel, Short Story. Essay, Lyric, Sonnet, Ballad. Elegy. Epic, Melodrama, One Act Play, Story Irony, Simile. Metaphor, Alliteration, Rhyme.
Division of marks
A. One question to be answered from each of the four prescribed texts15 x 4 = 60 marks
B. Explanation of two passages out of the prescribed texts in Group A & B containing two passages from each of them 10 x 2 = 20 marks
C. Short Notes with Illustrations 5x 2 = 10 marks
D. Objective type questions 1 x 10 = 10 marks
Total 100 marks
ENGLISH (General/Subsidiary Course) part-1
Full Marks- 100
Duration of examination : 3hrs
PAPER
(A) 1. Basic language skill : Grammar and usage of common Errors. Correct form of verbs,Joining of Clauses, Re. Writing sentences, Single words for groups of words, synonyms and antonyms
2.. Comprehension of unseen passage
3. Composition: Paragraph writing :
4. Precis/Summary writing.
Books Recommended :
1. Living English Grammar and Composition : Tickoo, subramanniam and Subramanniam.
2. Modern English : A Book of Grammar, Usage and Composition (N. Krishnaswamy) : Macmillan
3. Practical English Grammar : Thomson and Martin ELBS
( B) Poetry
The book prescribed : The Mystic Drum, Edts Vilas Salunke at al Orient Longman
1. Poor soul, the centre : William Shakespeare
2. Londen : William Blake
3. A Slumber did my spirit seal : Willian Wordsworth
4. She walks in Beauty : Lord Byron
5. Break Break Break : Alfred Lord Tennyson
6. Neutral Tones :Thomas Hardy
7. Futility :Wilfred Owen
8. Spring and Fall : Gerard Manley Hopkins
9. A Noiseless Patient Spider :Walt Whitman
10. After Great Pain : Emily Dickinson
11. Hunger : Jayant Mahapatra
12. The Old Playhouse : Kamla Das
(C) Prose :
Book Prescribed : Exploration of Ideas orient Blacks-Wan)
The following pieces are prescribed:
1. India Our Mother land :Swami Vivekanand
2. Face to Face with Ahims : M. K. Gandhi
3. The Spirit of Freedom : R. N. Tagore
4. Womens Role in tional Development : Subhash Chandra Bose
5. Unity Amidst Diversity :Dr. Rajendra Prassad
6. Purdah: The Need for its Abolition : Dr. Rukhmabai
7. How Free is the Press : Dorothy L Sayers
8. Work Brings Solace : APJ Abdul Kalam
9. Annihilation of Caste : BR Ambedkar
Division of marks:
1. Grammar- four items of five marks each (Objective type question) 1 x 5 x 4 = 20 marks
2. Comprehension 14 marks
3.Paragraph Writing - 10 marks
4. Precis Writing 12 marks
5. One critical questions with an alternative on Poetry 15 marks
6. One critical question with an alternative on Prose 15 marks
7. Two passages for explanation out of two alternatives each from poetry and prose
14 marks
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Total 100 marks