Non-CBCS

 

SEMESTER I

• Aristotle: Poetics

• Horace: The Art of Poetry

• Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book I

• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

• Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

 

SEMESTER II

• William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

• S. T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria, Ch. 13, 14 and 17

• Edgar Alan Poe: The Poetic Principle

• Henry James: The Art of Fiction

• William Wordsworth:
  i. The Prelude, Book I (1850)

       ii. Lucy Poems
       iii. The Tables Turned
       iv. London, 1802
       v. Michael

• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park​

• Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

• Charles Darwin:
  a. On the Origin of Species: Introduction; Chapter 3; and Chapter 14
  b. The Descent of Man: Chapter 5; and Chapter 21

 

SEMESTER III

• Sigmund Freud: "Uncanny"

• Jacques Lacan: "The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious"

• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot​

• John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

• Virginia Woolf: Orlando

• Rudyard Kipling: Kim

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SEMESTER IV

• Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

• Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author

• Cheryl Glotfelty: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis

• William Howards: Some Principles of Eco-criticism

• Jonathan Bate: From 'Red' to 'Green'

• Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

• Amitav Ghosh: The Hungry Tide

• Indian Short Stories