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UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

Syllabus in the Subject of English

Paper VII, VIII, IX

(With effect from the academic year 2008-2009)

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PAPER VII: ENGLISH LITERATURE (1750-1900)

1. BACKGROUNDA. Romantic Age: Impact of French Revolution and American Revolution; the Romantic concept of

imagination; Classicism Versus Romanticism; Novel, Poetry and Prose in the Romantic Age

B. Victorian Age: Impact of Industrialization and Carlyle's response; the Reformation Acts and the

process of democratization; Scientific thought; the Age of Faith and doubt; Novel, Poetry, Prose and

Drama in Victorian Age

C. Utilitarianism, Pre Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Oxford Movement

2. ROMANTIC POETRYRobert Burns: A Red, Red Rose; John Anderson, My Jo

William Blake: Lamb; Tiger

William Wordsworth: To a Skylark; Ode: Intimations of Immortality

S. T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan

P. B. Shelley: Ozamandias; Love's Philosophy

John Keats:Ode to a Nightingale; On Looking into Chapman's Homer

Lord Byron: All for Love; She Walks in Beauty

3. VICTORIAN POETRYLord Tennyson: Tears, Idle Tears; O' Swallow, Swallow, Flying South; Crossing the Bar

Robert Browning: Prospice; The Patriot

Elizabeth Barret Browning:How Do I Love Thee?

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Matthew Arnold:To Marguerite Poems

D. G. Rossetti: Sleeping At Last

Hopkins: Spring; I Wake and Feel

Emily Bronte: Remembrance

4. NOVELThomas Hardy:The Return of the Native

5. NON-FICTIONAL PROSECharles Lamb: Dream Children

William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers

John Ruskin: Work

Thomas Carlyle: The Hero as a poet; Dante; Shakespeare

6. PAPTTERN OF QUESTION PAPER(There will be five questions. Each question will carry twenty marks. Each question will have two

internal options.)

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PAPER VIII: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

I. BACKGROUND

(A) The Russian Revolution; The Two World Wars; Imperialism and Decolonization; the Indian National

Movement and Independence; Globalization

(B) Freudian Thought; Existentialism; Feminism; Modernism and Post modernism; New Developments in

Fiction and Drama; The Rise of New Literatures in English with Special Reference to Indian Writing in

English

II. POETRYT. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock; The Hollow Man

W. B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium; The Second Coming

Dylan Thomas: Ferm Hill; On His Birth Day

Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting;Arms and the Boy

Emily Dickinson: Nature Is What We See; Nature the Gentlest Mother Is...

Nissim Ezekiel: The Visitor; Night of the Scorpion

III. (A) NOVELJ. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye

OR

Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines

(B) SHORT STORY

O Henry: The Higher Pragmatism; The Last Leaf; The Gift of Magi

A. E. Poe: The Green Door; The Cask of Amortillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The

Black Cat; Gold Bug

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Shashi Deshpande: It Was Dark; The Legacy

IV: DRAMA

G. B. Shaw: The Apple Cat

OR

Bertold Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children

OR

Ratan Thiyam: Chakravyuha

V. NONFICTIONAL PROSE

Kapil Kapoor: Indian Knowledge System: Nature, Philosophy, Character

Power K. B. : Quality: The Concept

Amartya Sen: Reason Before Identity

VI. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN(There will be five questions carrying 20 marks each. Each question will have two internal options.)

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PAPER IX: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1900-1990

1. Joseph Heller: Catch 222. Amiri Baraka: Home on the Range3. Selected American Verse(fromThe Treasures of American Poetry. Ed. Nancy Sullivan)

Carl Sandburg:I Am the People the Mob; The Harbot; Chicago

Robert Lowell:History; Reading Myself; The Public Garden

William Carlos Williams: The Widow's Lament in Spring Time; The Young Housewife; Proletarian Portrait

Wallace Stevens: Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself

Joy Harjo: The Flood

Lorna Dee Cervantes:Vision of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington

Cathy Stone: Lost Sister; Heaven

4. Selected American Short StoriesMalamud: The Jew Bird; How I Became a Jew

John Updike:The Hermit; Killing

Flannery O' Connor: The Displaced Person; Everything That Rises Must Converge

Eudora Welty:Petrified Man; Powerhouse

Dorothy Parker: Big Blonde

Amy Tan: Immortal Heart; Two Kinds

Willa Cather: A Death in the Desert; The Enchanted Bluff

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Sherwood Anderson: I Want to Know Why

5. Background Study: American Literature of 20th century 1900-1990(a) Factors contributing to the emergence of modernization in American Literature of the early 20th

century; The impact of industrialization and urbanization; The influence of Psychology; The two World

Wars; The depression Era; McCarthyism and the Cold War

(b) Factors contributing to post-world war II American Literature- the ferment in the 1960s. The

Beat Generation and the other counter cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Further

developments in Psychology

(c) A Survey of American Literature in the 20th century

i. Fiction: From Realism to Naturalism; The Jazz Age andLost Generation writers; theNovelists of the Depression Era; Post-World War II novelists- Jewish, Black and Women;

the development of the short stories in American Literature.

ii. Poetry: Tradition and Experiment in American Poetry from early 1900s to the 1940s;the Harlem Renaissance; Post World War II poetry

iii. Drama: The rise of American drama in the early 20th century; the influence of 'LittleTheatre Movement'; European Realism and Expressionism; American Drama between

the two Wold Wars and after Wold War II. The impact of the Theatre of the Absurd;

Black Theatre

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