WBCS English
Optional Paper
Index
S/L | Chapters | Chapter Details |
Paper 1 | ||
SECTION-A | ||
1 | An essay on a literary topic | In Section A, candidates will have to write an essay. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below |
SECTION-B | ||
2 | William Shakespeare- -Macbeth -As You Like It | |
3 | Christopher Marlowe - Edward II | |
4 | John Donne- Canonization, Death be not proud, The Good Morrow | |
5 | Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress, The Garden | |
6 | John Milton-'Lycidas'; -Paradise Lost, Book I | |
7 | Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock | |
8 | William Wordsworth- -'Ode on Intimations of Immortality'; -'Tintern Abbey' | |
9 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge -'Kubla Khan'; -'Dejection: an Ode' | |
10 | Percy Bysshe Shelley- - 'Ode to the Westwind' ; -' Ozymandias' | |
11 | John Keats- -'Ode to a Nightingale' -'Ode on a Grecian Urn' | |
12 | Alfred Tennyson-'Ulysses'; -'The Lotus Eaters'; -'Tithonus' | |
13 | Robert Browning-'The Last Ride Together' | |
14 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning-' How do I love thee!' | |
SECTION-C | ||
15 | Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice | |
16 | Charles Dickens-Great Expectations | |
17 | Thomas Hardy-The Mayor of Caster bridge | |
18 | Mark Twain-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
19 | Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights | |
20 | Mary Shelley - Frankenstein | |
Paper 2 | ||
SECTION-A | ||
1 | Critical analysis/response to an unseen passage in prose/verse | In Section A, candidates will have to respond critically to an Unseen Passage. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below. |
SECTION-B | ||
1 | W. B. Yeats-'Easter 1916'; -'Sailing to Byzantium'; -'Leda and the Swan' | |
2 | T. S. Eliot- -'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'; -'The Journey of the Magi'; -'Burnt Norton' | |
3 | W.H. Auden- -'In Memory ofW.B.Yeats'; -'Lay your sleeping head, my love'; -'The Shield of Achilles' | |
4 | John Osborne-Look Back in Anger | |
5 | Samuel Beckett-Waiting for Godot | |
6 | Sylvia Plath - -'Mirror'; - 'Nick and the Candlestick' | |
7 | Henry Louis Vivian Derozio-'To India My Native Land'; -'My Country' | |
8 | Kamala Das -' An Introduction' | |
SECTION-C | ||
1 | D.H. Lawrence-The Rainbow | |
2 | Raja Rao-Kanthapura | |
3 | Amitava Ghosh-The Shadow Lines | |
4 | Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart | |
5 | James Joyce -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
6 | Rabindranath Tagore - 'Crisis in Civilization' | |
7 | Virginia Woolf - 'A Room of One's Own' | |
The standard of English Optional subjects will be approximately that of an Honours Degree Examination as prescribed by the recognized Indian Universities
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