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The document outlines the syllabus for three English literature courses at the University of Mumbai:
Paper VII covers English literature from 1750-1900, including romantic and Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfictional prose. Paper VIII covers 20th century literature, focusing on poetry, novels, drama, and nonfictional prose, including both Western and Indian works. Paper IX covers American literature from 1900-1990, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and background context on the development of modern American literature.
The document outlines the syllabus for three English literature courses at the University of Mumbai:
Paper VII covers English literature from 1750-1900, including romantic and Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfictional prose. Paper VIII covers 20th century literature, focusing on poetry, novels, drama, and nonfictional prose, including both Western and Indian works. Paper IX covers American literature from 1900-1990, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and background context on the development of modern American literature.
The document outlines the syllabus for three English literature courses at the University of Mumbai:
Paper VII covers English literature from 1750-1900, including romantic and Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfictional prose. Paper VIII covers 20th century literature, focusing on poetry, novels, drama, and nonfictional prose, including both Western and Indian works. Paper IX covers American literature from 1900-1990, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and background context on the development of modern American literature.
Paper VII, VIII, IX (With effect from the academic year 2008-2009)
PAPER VII: ENGLISH LITERATURE (1750-1900) 1. BACKGROUND A. Romantic Age: Impact of French Revolution and American Revolution; the Romantic concept of imagination; Classicism Versus Romanticism; Novel, Poetry and Prose in the Romantic Age B. Victorian Age: Impact of Industrialization and Carlyle's response; the Reformation Acts and the process of democratization; Scientific thought; the Age of Faith and doubt; Novel, Poetry, Prose and Drama in Victorian Age C. Utilitarianism, Pre Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Oxford Movement 2. ROMANTIC POETRY Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose; John Anderson, My Jo William Blake: Lamb; Tiger William Wordsworth: To a Skylark; Ode: Intimations of Immortality S. T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan P. B. Shelley: Ozamandias; Love's Philosophy John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale; On Looking into Chapman's Homer Lord Byron: All for Love; She Walks in Beauty 3. VICTORIAN POETRY Lord Tennyson: Tears, Idle Tears; O' Swallow, Swallow, Flying South; Crossing the Bar Robert Browning: Prospice; The Patriot Elizabeth Barret Browning: How Do I Love Thee?
Matthew Arnold: To Marguerite Poems D. G. Rossetti: Sleeping At Last Hopkins: Spring; I Wake and Feel Emily Bronte: Remembrance
4. NOVEL Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native 5. NON-FICTIONAL PROSE Charles Lamb: Dream Children William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers John Ruskin: Work Thomas Carlyle: The Hero as a poet; Dante; Shakespeare 6. PAPTTERN OF QUESTION PAPER (There will be five questions. Each question will carry twenty marks. Each question will have two internal options.)
PAPER VIII: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH I. BACKGROUND (A) The Russian Revolution; The Two World Wars; Imperialism and Decolonization; the Indian National Movement and Independence; Globalization (B) Freudian Thought; Existentialism; Feminism; Modernism and Post modernism; New Developments in Fiction and Drama; The Rise of New Literatures in English with Special Reference to Indian Writing in English II. POETRY T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock; The Hollow Man W. B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium; The Second Coming Dylan Thomas: Ferm Hill; On His Birth Day Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting;Arms and the Boy Emily Dickinson: Nature Is What We See; Nature the Gentlest Mother Is... Nissim Ezekiel: The Visitor; Night of the Scorpion III. (A) NOVEL J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye OR Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines (B) SHORT STORY O Henry: The Higher Pragmatism; The Last Leaf; The Gift of Magi A. E. Poe: The Green Door; The Cask of Amortillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Black Cat; Gold Bug
Shashi Deshpande: It Was Dark; The Legacy IV: DRAMA G. B. Shaw: The Apple Cat OR Bertold Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children OR Ratan Thiyam: Chakravyuha V. NONFICTIONAL PROSE Kapil Kapoor: Indian Knowledge System: Nature, Philosophy, Character Power K. B. : Quality: The Concept Amartya Sen: Reason Before Identity VI. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN (There will be five questions carrying 20 marks each. Each question will have two internal options.)
PAPER IX: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1900-1990 1. Joseph Heller: Catch 22 2. Amiri Baraka: Home on the Range 3. Selected American Verse (from The Treasures of American Poetry. Ed. Nancy Sullivan) Carl Sandburg: I Am the People the Mob; The Harbot; Chicago Robert Lowell: History; Reading Myself; The Public Garden William Carlos Williams: The Widow's Lament in Spring Time; The Young Housewife; Proletarian Portrait Wallace Stevens: Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself Joy Harjo: The Flood Lorna Dee Cervantes: Vision of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington Cathy Stone: Lost Sister; Heaven 4. Selected American Short Stories Malamud: The Jew Bird; How I Became a Jew John Updike: The Hermit; Killing Flannery O' Connor: The Displaced Person; Everything That Rises Must Converge Eudora Welty: Petrified Man; Powerhouse Dorothy Parker: Big Blonde Amy Tan: Immortal Heart; Two Kinds Willa Cather: A Death in the Desert; The Enchanted Bluff
Sherwood Anderson: I Want to Know Why 5. Background Study: American Literature of 20th century 1900-1990 (a) Factors contributing to the emergence of modernization in American Literature of the early 20th century; The impact of industrialization and urbanization; The influence of Psychology; The two World Wars; The depression Era; McCarthyism and the Cold War (b) Factors contributing to post-world war II American Literature- the ferment in the 1960s. The Beat Generation and the other counter cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Further developments in Psychology (c) A Survey of American Literature in the 20th century i. Fiction: From Realism to Naturalism; The Jazz Age and Lost Generation writers; the Novelists of the Depression Era; Post-World War II novelists- Jewish, Black and Women; the development of the short stories in American Literature. ii. Poetry: Tradition and Experiment in American Poetry from early 1900s to the 1940s; the Harlem Renaissance; Post World War II poetry iii. Drama: The rise of American drama in the early 20th century; the influence of 'Little Theatre Movement'; European Realism and Expressionism; American Drama between the two Wold Wars and after Wold War II. The impact of the Theatre of the Absurd; Black Theatre ***