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Page 2 : Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Syllabus Prescribed for, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature, , Objectives and Outcomes, , We aim to open new windows for students and teachers to broaden their minds through poetry,, drama and classics. They will learn more about past in comparison with the present analysing the, point of view of very important literary figures from the World Literature. This will further enhance, , their critical acumen and help develop new ideas, , Semester I & II, , Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to Restoration Ages, Semester II] & IV, , Selections of Literature from Romantic to Victorian Ages, , Semester V & VI, Selections from Modern English Literature and Indian Writing in English, , Course Objectives:, , e To enhance the reading of poetry, drama and classics in all its contours, , e To create awareness of poetry/drama and classics as a part of modern life, , ¢ To help students learn and practice critical thinking — develop problem solving/, decision making, , © To put forward innovative and creative ideas with trained activities, , e To help realise cultural differences and accept them as they are, , ¢ To understand the importance of Intercultural learning, , e To educate students in both the originality and efficacy of the English language, through the study of literature and other contemporary forms of culture., , e To provide students with the critical faculties necessary in an academic environment,, on the job, and in an increasingly complex, interdependent world., , e To assist students in the development of intellectual flexibility, creativity, and, , cultural literacy so that they may engage in life-long learning.

Page 3 : Learning Outcomes:, , Students should be familiar with representative literary texts within a given historical,, geographical, and cultural context., , Students should be able to apply critical and theoretical approaches to the reading and, analysis of literary and cultural texts in multiple genres., , Students should be able to identify, analyse. interpret and describe the critical ideas, values,, and themes., , Students should be able to put forth ideas, values, and themes which inform and impact, culture and society, both now and in the past., , Students should be able to write analytically using language competencies, , Students should be able to understand the different variety of literatures in all forms, available, , Students should be able to imbibe ethical, moral, national and cultural values in an academic, , context.

Page 4 : Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Syllabus Prescribed for, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Part I Examination (First Semester), English Literature, (To be implemented from the session 2020-21 and onwards), , Theory marks: 80 Internal Assessment: 20, , Prescribed Textbooks:, , 1. Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to Restoration Ages, Edited by Kapil Singhel,, Madhavi Moharil, Dhanraj Shete (Orient BlackSwan), , 2. Shakespeare: interpreting a Play: The Merchant of Venice, Edited by Deepti Dharmani,, Pankaj Sharma and Umed Singh, Macmillan Education), , Section 1 (Poetry), , The following poems are prescribed from Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to Restoration, , 1. Easter: Edmund Spenser, , 2. Let Not Old Age Disgrace My High Desire: Philip Sidney, 3. Sonnet to Sir Philip Sidney’s Soul: Henry Constable, , 4. The Treasure of Our Tongue: Samuel Danial, , 5. Taking My Pen: Michael Drayton, , 6. All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare, , 7. A Hymn to God the Father: Ben Jonson, , Section 2 (Prose), , The following essays of Francis Bacon from Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to, Restoration Ages are prescribed:, , Of Friendship, Of Travel, Of Studies, Of Adversity, Section 3 (Shakespearean Drama), , Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Edited by Deepti Dharmani, Pankaj Sharma and Umed Singh,, Macmillan Education, , Section 4 (Literary Forms and Terms), , Forms of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi-Comedy, Farce & Melodrama, Chronicle Play, Poetic, Drama, Problem Play, Absurd Drama., , Literary Terms: Conceit, Decorum, Denouement, Dialect, Epigraph, Epiphany, Epitaph,, Euphemism.

Page 5 : Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Syllabus Prescribed for, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Part I Examination (Second Semester), English Literature, (To be implemented from the session 2020-21 and onwards), , Theory marks: 80 Internal Assessment: 20, , Prescribed Textbooks:, , 1. Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to Restoration Ages, Edited by Kapil Singhel,, Madhavi Moharil, Dhanraj Shete (Orient BlackSwan), , 2. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Abridged Edition, Macmillan Education), , Section 1 (Poetry), , The following poems from Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to Restoration Ages are, prescribed:, , Go and Catch the Falling Star: John Donne, , The Pulley: George Herbert, , On his Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three: John Milton, I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart: Sir John Suckling, , The Grasshopper: Abraham Cowley, , To the Memory of Mr Oldham: John Dryden, , Ode on Solitude: Alexander Pope, , VOSS 2 PS, , Section 2 (Prose), , The following Essays of Joseph Addison from Selections of Literature from Elizabethan to, Restoration Ages:, , Sir Roger at the Club, Sir Roger at His Country House, Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger in Town, Section 3 (Novel) Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Abridged Edition, Macmillan Education), Section 4 (Literary Forms and Terms), , Stanza Forms: Heroic Couplet, Blank Verse, Free Verse, Terza Rima, Chaucerian Stanza (Rhyme, Royal), Ottava Rima, Spenserian Stanza, Burns Stanza (Scottish Stanza), , Literary Terms: Exposition, Hyperbole, Hyperbaton, Idiom, Imagery, Laureate, Lyric,, Malapropism, , ‘\ Avs mee Sr) yt p, gor J : :, Wee a 9e"S er eehenae, , q