Semester-I (English, Honours) Burdwan University

SYLLABUS FOR B.A. HONOURS PROGRAMME 

in 

English 

The University of Burdwan

Semester-I

CC - I: Indian Classical Literature 

Section A 

1. Vyasa: ‘The Book of the Assembly Hall’, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed. J.A.B. van Buitenen (Chicago: Brill, 1975) (ND) 

2. Sudraka: Mrcchakatika, tr. M. M.Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1962).  

Section B 

3. Banabhatta:Kadambari (Chapter I , II) (ND) 

4. Kalidasa: Abhijnana Shakuntalam in  The Loom of Time (tr. Chandra Rajan, New Delhi: Penguin, 1989) 

Topics  

The Indian Epic Tradition: Themes and Recensions, Classical Indian Drama: Theory and Practice, Alamkara and Rasa, Dharma and the Heroic  

CC - II: European Classical Literature  

Section A 

1. Homer: The Iliad, Book I & II (tr. E. V. Rieu; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) (ND) 

2. Sophocles:  Oedipus the King, in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (tr. Robert Fagles  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984) 

Section B 

3. Ovid: Selections from Metamorphoses ‘Bacchus’, (Book III).  

4. Plautus:  Pot of Gold, (tr. E. F. Watling; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965). (ND) 

Topics  

The Epic, Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama, The 

Athenian City State, Catharsis and Mimesis, Satire, Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome  

GE-1:   POETRY & SHORT STORY 

1. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 

William Wordsworth: “A Slumber did my Spirit   Seal” 

2. John Keats – “Bright Star” 

Wilfred Owen – “Strange Meeting” 

3. Charles Lamb – “Dream Children” 

4. H. E. Bates – “The Ox” 

AECC-I: Environmental Studies  

(Syllabus prescribed by the department concerned to be followed)

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