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English Major, Semester 4
University of Kalyani B.A. English NEP 2020 syllabus. Each Major paper below is six credits and lists 60 end-semester marks.
MAJ401 · English Novel
- Unit I, eighteenth century: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels; Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.
- Unit II, nineteenth century: Charles Dickens, Hard Times; Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
- Unit III, after 1900: R. K. Narayan, The English Teacher; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. The relevant history of the novel is also listed.
MAJ402 · Literary Criticism up to 1800
- Unit I, classical: Aristotle’s Poetics, chapters on action; the sentiments chapter in the Natyasastra.
- Unit II, neoclassical: selections from Philip Sidney’s The Defence of Poesy and John Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
- Unit III, Romantic: William Wordsworth’s 1800 preface to Lyrical Ballads and Friedrich Schiller’s On Naive and Sentimental Poetry (Part I).
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