Syllabus of English (BDP) B.A. (Hons.) Course Code : EEG NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY 1‚ Woodburn Park‚ Kolkata-700 020 Tel. : 2283-5157 TeleFax : 033-2283 5082Course Structure For The Bachelor’s Degree Programme (BDP) in English 1. Compulsory Subjects : Foundation Course (a) Humanities and Social Science (FHS) 8 Credits (b) Science and Technology (FST) 8 Credits (c) Bengali (FBG) 4 Credits (d) English (FEG) 4 Credits 24 Credits 2. Elective Subjects : Honours Course (EEG) Paper 1 : Reading Poetry
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Sameer Al- Shraah Broad Area reading list Dr. Thomas Slater Albee‚ Edward. The American dream ; and‚ The zoo story : two plays. New York : Plume‚ 1997. Davis‚ Jack. No Sugar. Sydney : Currency Press‚ 1986. Fugard‚ Athol. My Children! My Africa! New York‚ NY : Theatre Communications Group‚ 1990. ---.Master Harold-- and the boys. New York : S. French‚ 1982. ---.The Blood Knot. Cape Town : Oxford University Press‚ 1992. Miller‚ Arthur. Death of a salesman. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea
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THE MOON AND SIX PENCE (Chapter XII) I. Introduction - “Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees‚ they must put their lives into the sting they give” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) -MS was written in 1919 by William Somerset Maugham‚ a famous English writer‚ a novelist and a short story teller. In his writings‚ he kept to the principles of Realism‚ but his method of writing was also influenced by Naturalism‚ Neo-romanticism and Modernism. -The chapter XII of MS depicts the conversation between
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aBiography Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)‚ French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer. Guy de Maupassant was probably born at the Château de Miromesniel‚ Dieppe on August 5‚ 1850. In 1869 Maupassant started to study law in Paris‚ but soon‚ at the age of 20‚ he volunteered to serve in the army during the Franco-Prussian War. Between the years 1872 and 1880 Maupassant was a civil servant‚ first at the ministry of maritime affairs‚
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Analyzing a short story The basic components of a short story 1. Plot (introduction‚ conflict‚ climax‚ resolution ) The sequence of events or incidents of which the story is composed. In the plot there may be diffferent kinds of conflicts (person agains person – person agains environment – person against him/herself). Artistic unity is essential to a good plot ; nothing irrelevant should be there that does not contribute to the total meaning.
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“A Searing Indictment of the Failure of the American Education System” – Is this a fair assessment of The Catcher in the Rye and Death of a Salesman? In The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Death of a Salesman (1949)‚ there are contemptuous references to the American Education that currently existed. This was a time of educational reform‚ which continued into the 1950s. These reforms were the result of the inadequacies discovered during recruiting for World War II when recruits were found to be almost
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1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
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Oedipus Complex‚ structuralism Texts: Lawrence‚ Sons and Lovers Lawrence‚ “The Snake” Lawrence‚ “The Rockinghorse Winner” Lawrence‚ “The Blind Man” Lawrence‚ “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” Lawrence‚ “Gladiatorial” Lawrence‚ “Sex versus Loveliness” Maugham‚ Of Human Bondage Additional resources: Powerpoint‚ “Freud and Modern Thought” Powerpoint‚ “Literary Theory” Powerpoint‚ “Structuralism and Semiotics” Various fine arts resources Handout‚ “An Incomplete List of Archetypes” Handout‚ “Structuralism
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Bildungsroman Bildungsroman is the name affixed to those novels that concentrate on the development or education of a central character. German in origin‚ “bildungs” means formation‚ and “roman” means novel. Although The History of Agathon‚ written by Christoph Martin Wieland in 1766–1767‚ may be the first known example‚ it was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship‚ written in 1795‚ that took the form from philosophical to personal development and gave celebrity to the genre
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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