Semester-1
CORE COURSE. (CC)
CC-1: British Poetry and Drama: Beginning to 14th Century and History of English Language (Credit 06)
Group: A (History of Literature)
Group: B (Philology)
- Influences: Greek. Latin. Scandinavian, French
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics:
- Birth of English Literature and Language
- Advent of Christianity and its influence on English Literature
- Influence of Norman conquest and Black death
- Three phases of Chaucer
Suggested Readings:
- C. L. Wren: The English Language
- S.A.J Bradley: Anglo-Saxon Poetry
- Greenfield & Calder: A New Critical History of Old English Literature
- Aditi Choudhury: A History of English Literature(Orient Blackswan)
CC-2: British Poetry and Drama: Renaissance to 17th and 18th Centuries (Credits 06)
- Edmund Spenser: Sonnet I.XXV “One day I wrote her name”
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet I30 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
- Donne: God Morrow’
- Milton: Parodist, Lost Book-1
- Pope: Rope of the Lock (3 cantos)
Plays:
- Christopher Marlowe: Edward II
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Literary terms related to Poetry and drama:
- Allegory
- Ballad
- Blank Verse
- Heroic Couplet
- Bathos
- Comedy
- Dramatic monologue
- Elegy
- Image
- Ode
- Carpe-diem
- Soliloquy
- Symbol
- Tragedy
- Catharsis
- Hamartia
- Three Unities
- Anagnorisis
- Antagonist
- Chorus
- Denouement
- Comic-relief
- Aside
- Anti-hero
- Catastrophe.
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
- Renaissance Humanism
- The Stage, Court and City
- Religious and Political lhought
- Ideas of love and marriage
- The Writer in Society
Suggested Readings:
- Pico Della Mirandola. Excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in the Portabe Renaissance Reader, ed James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York Penguin Books. 1953) pp. 476 -9.
- John Calvin: “Predestination and Free Will in The Portable Renaissance Reader,
- ed James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York Penguin Books. pp. 704-11
- Baldassare Castiglione: “Longing for Beauty” and “Invocation of Love” in Book 4 of the Courtier. “Love and Beauty”, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin.), pages 124-8, 300-5
- Sidney: An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest C. Robinson (Indianapolis Dobbs-Meirill. 1970) 13-18.