Syllabus of BA II Year: English Literature (Theory) - Major I (Session 2022-23 onwards)

 Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards)

Program: Diploma Course

Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major I

Course Title: Study of Prose (Paper 1, Theory)

Course Code: A2-ELIT1T

Course Type: Core Course

Credit Value: 4

Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 33

Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions)

CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.)

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UNIT- I

1. Early Prose Writers

1.1 Prose and its forms

1.2 Michel de Montaigne: On Sorrow (Translated by Charles Cotton)

1.3 Francis Bacon: Of Studies, Of Truth

1.4 Oliver Goldsmith: The Man in Black

(Keywords/Tags: Elizabethan Age, Aphoristic Essay, Satire, Brevity, Idiomatic Language,Ornamental Prose.)

UNIT II

2. Eighteenth/ Nineteenth Century Prose

2.1 Joseph Addison: The Spectator's Account of Himself

2.2 William Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned

2.3 Charles Lamb: Dream Children

(Keywords/Tags: Periodical Essay, Dispersed Meditation, Humour and Pathos,Autobiographical Prose)

UNIT III

3. Prose in Modern Period

3.1 AG Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road

3.2 Robert Lynd: The Pleasure of Ignorance

3.3 Aldous Huxley: The Divine Within (Chapter 1-2)

(Keywords/Tags: Modern Essayist, Prose Style, Irony, Spirituality, Civic Sense, Philosophical Prose)

UNIT IV

4. Political Writings

4.1 Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

4.2 Rajmohan Gandhi: Why Gandhi Still Matters

(Keywords/Tags: Political Writing, Social Upheaval, Dandi March, Satyagraha, Unsentimental View)

Sandal S Anshu, Satna