BA ENGLISH HONOURS
SYLLABUS OF SEMESTER 3 – 2nd year (UGC) (2020)
B.A. ENGLISH HONOURS
Semester-II
Core-V, Core-VI &
Core-VII
Core-V
AMERICAN LITERATURE
UNIT 1:
HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE: 19th AND 20th
CENTURY POETRY, NOVEL
UNIT 2:
NATHANEIL HATHORNE – SCARLET LATTER
UNIT 3:
(I) EDGAR ALLANPOE – THE PURLOINED LETTER
(II) F. SCOTT
FITZGERALD – THE CRACK-UP
UNIT 4:
(I) ROBERT FROST – ROAD NOT TAKEN
(II)
WALT WHITMAN – (A) LEAVES OF GRASS
(B) O CAPTAIN, MY
CAPTION
(III)
H.W. LONGFELLOW – A PSALM OF LIFE
Core-VI
POPULAR LITERATURE
UNIT 1:
·
PHONETICS: DEFINITION, SCOPE AND BRANCHES.
·
PHONOLOGY:
DEFINITION, SCOPE AND UTILITY.
·
DIFFERENCE BATWEEN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY.
UNIT 2:
·
LETTER AND SPEECH SOUND OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
·
REASONS
FOR WIDE GAP BETWWEN ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY AND SPOKEN ENGLISH. THE NEED FOR IPA
SYMBOLS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
·
REFERENCE OF ENGLISH PRONUNCITION, GENERAL DICTIONARIES, ENGLISH
PRONOUNCING DICTIONARIES AND THEIR ADVANTAGES.
· THE BRITISH R.P.: CLASSIFICATION OF
VOWELS, DIPHTHONGS AND CONSONANTS, DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VOWELS AND CONSONANT
SOUND.
UNIT 3:
·
THE SYLLABLE: DEFINATION AND ITS STRUCTURE
·
WORD
STREES: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY, PATTERNS OF WORDS STRESS; PLACEMENT OF STREES
MARKS.
·
ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN ENGLISH BY NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH.
UNIT 4:
·
STREES, RHYTHM AND INTONATION IN CONNENCTED SPEECH IN SIMPLE SENTENCES,
FALLING AND RISING TONES AND THEIR USES IN VARIOUS CONTEXTS.
·
TRANSCRIPTION
OF WORDS AND ITS RELEVANCE IN ENGLISH, BROAD PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF ENGLISH
WORDS.
Core-VI
POPULAR LITERATURE
UNIT 1:
HISTORY OF THE 17th AND
18th CENTURIES POETRY AND DRAMA. THE AGE MILTON, AUGUSTAN AGE, THE RESTORATION
AGE.
UNIT 2:
JOHN MILTON – PARADISE LOST:
BOOK 1
UNIT 3:
WILLIAM CONGREVE – THE WAY
OF THE WORLD
UNIT 4:
ALEXANDER POPE – THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
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