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5th Semester Bankura University
Study Materials & Suggestions by PKG SIR
SEMESTER-V (MJC-9)
Course Title: British Literature: The Early 20th Century
Code: A/ENG/501/MJC-9
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stream of Consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce
Bernard Shaw: Candida
Analyze the character of Candida. Is she a conventional Victorian wife or a "New Woman"?
W.B. Yeats: “The Wild Swans at Coole”
1. Bengali meaning of “The Wild Swans at Coole”
2. Discuss how Yeats explores the theme of change and permanence in “The Wild Swans at Coole.”
3. Summary of “The Wild Swans at Coole"
4. Discuss how Yeats explores the theme of change and permanence in “The Wild Swans at Coole.”
4. Short Questions and Answers
“An Acre of Grass”
Discuss “An Acre of Grass” as a reflection of Yeats’s concerns of old age and creativity.
T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Virginia Woolf: "Street Haunting: A London Adventure"
History of English Literature: Early 20th century (Till 1940s)
1. History of English Literature: Early 20th century (Till 1940s)
2. Novelists
4. Stream of Consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce
5. Discuss the contribution of W.B. Yeats to early 20th-century poetry
SEMESTER-V (MJC-10)
Course Title: Indian Writing in English
Code: A/ENG/502/MJC-10
R.K. Narayan: The Man Eater of Malgudi
Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain
H.L.V. Derozio: “Freedom to the Slave”, “The Orphan Girl”
1. The Orphan Girl
1. Bengali Meaning of The Orphan Girl
2. Freedom to Slave
Kamala Das: “My Grandmother’s House”, “The Anamalai Hills”
1. My Grandmother's House
Nissim Ezekiel: “Soap”, “Enterprise”
1. Soap
2. Enterprise
Mulk Raj Anand: “Two Lady Rams”
Khuswant Singh: 'A Bride For The Sahib'
SEMESTER-V (MJC-11)
Course Title: Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Code: A/ENG/503/MJC-11
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
Long Question-Theme of Alienation and Quest for Identity in A House for Mr. Biswas
Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
Essay / Short Stories
Salman Rushdie: “The Riddle of Midnight”
Jhumpa Lahiri: “Unaccustomed Earth” (Unaccustomed Earth)
Rohinton Mistry: “Swimming Lessons”
Deepak Unnikrishnan: ‘Birds’ (Temporary People)
Poems
A.K. Ramanujan: “Take care”
The Theme of Racial Prejudice in “Take Care” — A.K. Ramanujan
Sujata Bhatt: “The One who Goes Away”
Diasporic elements in Sujata Bhatt’s The One Who Goes Away
“A Different History”
SEMESTER-V (MJC-12)
Course Title: British Literature: Post World War II
Code: A/ENG/504/MJC-12
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Phillip Larkin: “An Arundel Tomb
Short Questions & Answers of An Arundel Tomb
“Aubade”
Bengali Meaning of Aubade, Line by line Bengali Meaning of Aubade
Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roosting”
Discuss how Ted Hughes presents the hawk as the symbol of absolute authority in “Hawk Roosting”
“Thought Fox”
Seamus Heaney: “Bogland”, “Punishment”
Carol Anne Duffy: “Text”, Originally”
History of English Literature: Post 1950s British Literature
Discuss Angela Carter as a novelist.
John Fowles & A. S Byatt as novelists.
Postmodernism in British Literature
Britishness after 1960s
Multiculturalism and the Rise of the Other
Literature and Counterculture
The South Asian Diaspora in Britain
Important Questions (Internal & External)
2. Features of Post-1950s British Poetry
3. Significance and Symbolism of Nataraj’s Printing Press in R.K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi
4. Discuss the key features of Fauvism as an art movement.
5. Compare and Contrast Morell and Marchbanks’ Characters in Candida
7. Character of Vasu in R.K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi
1. Stream of Consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce
2. Compare and Contrast Morell and Marchbanks’ Characters in Candida
3. Write a critical appreciation of The Wild Swans at Coole.
4. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — Discuss it as a dramatic monologue
1. Character of Vasu in R.K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi
2. Write a critical appreciation of Freedom to the Slave ➡️ Critical Appreciation
3. Write a critical appreciation of The Orphan Girl Critical Appreciation
4. Two Lady Rams — Justify the title.
5. A House for Mr. Biswas — Discuss the theme of alienation and quest for identity.
6. Diasporic elements in Sujata Bhatt’s The One Who Goes Away
7. Unaccustomed Earth — Comment on the significance of the title.
8. Take Care — Discuss the biographical elements in the story.
9. Critical Appreciation of Text
1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem
2. Explain Hawk Roosting as a dramatic monologue.
3. Discuss Thought-Fox as a poem of creative imagination.
4. Discuss The Thought Fox as a Dramatic Monologue
1. J.M. Synge as a dramatist/a>
2. G.B Shaw.
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