Dhaka International University
Department of English
Four-year B. A. (Honors) in English Program
Four-year Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English Program is to be completed in 12 semesters within 4 years starting
in January, May and September. Total credit will be 120. The Spring semester will start in January, the Summer
semester in May and the Fall semester in September. Duration of each semester will be 15 weeks including recess
before examination and time of semester Final Examination.
The Distribution of Marks for Continuous Assessment & Semester Final: The course performance of a student
will be assessed on the basis of different criteria of course work. Each course work will be marked out of 100. The
distribution of marks for a course will be as follows:
Description Marks
Mid-term Test 20
Assignment/Quiz 10
Presentation/Class Participation 10
Attendance & Behavior 10
Semester Final Examination 50
Total = 100
Class Attendance: A student will be required to attend two classes of 1:30 hours duration for each course in a week.
Each student has to have at least 70% class attendance for appearing at the Final Examination of the concerned
course.
Grading System and Grading Scale: The performance of the students in a course is monitored on the basis of
course work. Each course work will be marked out of 100. Students’ performance will be evaluated on the basis of
Grade Point Average (GPA) in each semester and Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) which is the Average
Grade Points of all semesters. The students of BA (Honors) will get opportunity to improve their GPA within 12
semesters i.e. within next four semesters or two years after completion of the course. Similarly, MA students will be
allowed to improve their GPA within 4 semesters i.e. within next two semesters or one year after completion of the
course. The total performance of a student in a course is scaled in a grading scale as following:
Numerical Grade Letter Grade Grade Point
80% and above A+ (plus) 4.00
75% to less than 80% A (regular) 3.75
70% to less than 75% A- (minus) 3.50
65% to less than 70% B+ (plus) 3.25
60% to less than 65% B (regular) 3.00
55% to less than 60% B- (minus) 2.75
50% to less than 55% C+ (plus) 2.50
45% to less than 50% C (regular) 2.25
40% to less than 45% D 2.00
Less than 40% F 0.00
Re-take/ Improvement: B.A. (Hons) students will get opportunity to improve their GPA within 12 semesters i.e.
within next four semesters or two years after completion of the course. Similarly M.A. students will be allowed to
improve their GPA within 4semesters i.e. within next two semesters or one year after completion of the course.
Research Requirements: A student undertakes research under the guidance of a supervisor in his/her final
semester. After the completion of research, every student prepares a thesis paper on the basis of the research
findings. It demonstrates the evidence that satisfactory knowledge is generated in their respective field.
Thesis Evaluation: A thesis is evaluated by two examiners. One is an internal examiner appointed from the
faculties of the department, who also acts as supervisor. And the other is an external examiner outside the
department, who is also the external member of the viva voce. A thesis is evaluated on the basis of the following
distribution of marks:
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Distribution of Marks for Thesis:
Description Marks
Thesis/ Research Monograph 50
Oral Defense 50
Total 100
Courses at a glance:
First Year First Semester First Year Second Semester
Eng-101 Basic English Language-I Credits: 3 Eng-106 Basic English Language-II Credits: 3
Eng-102 History of English Literature-I Credits: 3 Eng-107 History of English Literature-II Credits: 3
Eng-103 History of American Literature-I Credits: 3 Eng-108 History of American Literature-II Credits: 3
Eng-105 History of the World Credits: 3 Eng-110 History of England and India Credits: 3
Total Credits 12 Total Credits 12
First Year Third Semester Second Year Fourth Semester
Eng-104 Ancient Western Philosophy Credits: 3 Eng-109 Modern Western Philosophy Credits: 3
Eng-201 Functional English Credits: 3 Eng-203 Classics in Translation-I Credits: 3
Eng-202 Theory of Literature-I Credits: 3 Eng-204 Anglo Saxon Poetry Credits: 3
Total Credits 9 Eng-205 Elizabethan and Restoration Drama-I Credits: 3
Total Credits 12
Second Year Fifth Semester Second Year Sixth Semester
Eng-206 English Writing Skills Credits: 3 Eng-209 Old English Prose Credits: 3
Eng-207 Theory of Literature –II Credits: 3 Elizabethan and Restoration Drama-
Eng-210 Credits: 3
Eng-208 Classics in Translation-II Credits: 3 II
Total Credits 17 Eng-301 Linguistics-I Credits: 3
Total Credits 9
Third Year Seventh Semester Third Year Eighth Semester
Eng-302 Poetry from Chaucer to Donne Credits: 3 Eng-305 Victorian Poetry Credits: 3
Eng-303 Romantic Poetry-I Credits: 3 Eng-306 Linguistics-II Credits: 3
Eng-304 Prose From Bacon to Defoe Credits: 3 Eng-307 Poetry from Milton to Pope Credits: 3
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 9
Third Year Ninth Semester Fourth Year Tenth Semester
Eng-308 Romantic poetry-II Credits: 3 Eng-401 Contemporary Literary Criticism-I Credits: 3
Eng-309 Prose from Swift to G Eliot Credits: 3 Eng-402 American Prose Credits: 3
Eng-310 Victorian Novels Credits: 3 Eng-403 American Novels Credits: 3
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 9
Fourth Year Eleventh Semester First Year Twelfth Semester
Eng-404 Third World Literature-I Credits: 3 Eng-407 American Poetry Credits: 3
Eng-405 Comprehensive Test Credits: 3 Eng-408 American Drama Credits: 3
Eng-406 Contemporary literary Criticism-II Credits: 3 Eng-409 Third World Literature-II Credits: 3
Total Credits 9 Eng-410 Research Monograph & Viva-voce Credits: 3
Total Credits 12
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First Year – 1st Semester
Eng-101: Basic English Language-I
Uses of articles, Agreement between subject and verb, Uses of suitable words, Right forms of verbs, Conditionals,
Transformations of sentences, passage narrations, Voice change, Tenses and sequences of tenses, Use of transitive
and intransitive verbs, Appropriate use of prepositions, Parts of speech and its uses, Analysis of the clauses.
Books Recommended:
1. A S Hornby, Guide to Patterns and Usage in English
2. Wren and Martin, High School English Grammar and Composition
3. Sadruddin Ahmed, Learning English the Easy Way
4. Mohiuddin and Kashem, A Textbook of Advanced Functional English
5. Md Khalilullah, A Potential English Grammar and Composition
6. Raymond Murphy, Essential Grammar in Use
7. A J Thomson, A V Martinet, A Practical English Grammar
Eng-102: History of English Literature-I
Anglo-Saxon period: Beowulf, Dream of the Rood, Wanderer
Middle English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory, Sir Phillip Sydney
Elizabethan and Restoration Literature: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson,
John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson,
Books Recommended:
1. History of English Literature by J. Long
2. History of English Literature by Roghukul Tilak
3. Norton Anthology of English Literature
Eng-103: History of American Literature-I
Early American Literature: John Smith, Thomas Morton, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Michael
Wigglesworth, Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin.
American Revolution and literature: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Phillip Freneau, Phillip Whitley
Books Recommended:
1. Tilak Raghukul, History of American Literature
2. Mrs Many, S.David & Dr., Vaeshrey A History of American Literature
3. John Mc Cormick : American Literature
4. American Studies. Interdisciplinary Journal focusing on American Literature and Culture
5. American Literary History. Important Journal that focuses on Theoretical Approaches to American
Literature
Eng-105: History of the World
Classical Greek and Rome, Rise of Islam, Renaissance and reformation, industrial revolution, The American
revolution, The French revolution, unification of Italy and Germany, World war-I & II, The Russian Revolution and
its downfall.
Books Recommended:
1. John Burnet, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato
2. Theodor Gomperz: Greek Thinkers: A History of Ancient Philosophy
3. Werner Jaeger: The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers
First Year – 2nd Semester
Eng-106: Basic English Language-II
Gerund and its uses, Use of participles, Use of infinitives, Auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries, Wh questions, parts of
speech and its uses, Corrections, Joining of sentences, Uses of emotions and attitudes, Notion-function, Framing
sentences with a word, Combinations of sentences, Nominal groups,
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Books Recommended:
1. M A K Halliday, An Introduction to Functional Grammar
2. William Strong, Sentence Combining: A Composing Book
3. A S Hornby, Guide to Patterns and Usage in English
4. Wren and Martin, High School English Grammar and Composition
5. Manik Joshi. English Modal Auxiliary Verbs
6. Lisa Fontaine. Analysing English Grammar: A Systemic Functional Introduction
Eng-107: History of English Literature-II
Romantic Literature: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats
Victorian Literature: Carlyle, Cardinal Newman, John Stuart, Elizabeth, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emily
Bronte, George Eliot, Hardy, Dickens.
Modern English Literature: G.B. Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot,
George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Phillip Larkin, Nadine Gardiner, Ted Hughes.
Books Recommended:
1. Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature – Oxford Publications
2. Periods and Movements of English Literature – Syed Ainal Huque
3. Romantic Vision – Harold Bloom
4. Literature of Victorian Era - Waugh
Eng-108: History of American Literature-II
Literature During 1st National Period: Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry
Wordsworth Longfellow, Edger Allan Poe , H. D. Thoreau
Literature During 2nd National Period: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain , Emily Dickinson
Modern American Literature: Jack London, Robert Frost, Eugene O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway,
Tennesse Williams, Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller
Books Recommended:
1. Raghukul Tilak, History of American Literature
2. Mrs Many, S. David & Dr.,Vaeshrey A History of American Literature
3. John Mc Cormick : American Literature
4. American Studies. Interdisciplinary Journal focusing on American Literature and Culture
Eng-110: History of England and India
England under Ancient and Medieval period, Elizabethan England, Commonwealth of England and Restoration,
Glorious Revolution, Romantic Movement, Victorian Age, Modern England, India Under East India Company and
the Crown, The struggle for Independence, Introduction of English and Modernization of Indian Society
Books Recommended:
1. B. K. Gokhale: Western Civilization
2. Bipan Chandra: History of Modern India
3. G.M Trevelyan: English Social History
4. G.M Trevelyan: History of England
5. A. F. M Sayeed: Europe between the two World Wars
6. G.M. Trevelyan : A Shortened History of England
7. Dr. S. C Mundra : A Social History of England
First Year – 3rd Semester
Eng-104: Ancient Western Philosophy
The Rise of Greek Civilization, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenic World, Christianity
During the first four centuries, Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas
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Books Recommended:
1. John Burnet, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato
2. Theodor Gomperz, Greek Thinkers: A History of Ancient Philosophy
3. Werner Jaeger, The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers
Eng-201: Functional English
Short Essay, Letter, Dialogue, Précis, Comprehension
Books Recommended:
1. Bazerman and Wiener: Writing Skills Handbook
2. John Langan: College Writing Skills with Readings
3. Stephen Bailey: Academic Writing: A Practical Guide for Students
4. Shirley Tailor: Model Business Letters, E-mails & Other Business Documents
5. Pustak Mahal: Self Letter Drafting Course
6. Leech and Svartvik: A Communicative Grammar of English
7. Liz and John Soars: New Headway Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book
8. Haque et al : English Reading Skills
9. Storrie and Matson: English Usage
Eng-202: Theory of Literature-I
Philip Sydney: “An Apology for Poetry”
John Dryden: “An Essay on Dramatic Poesy”
Samuel Johnson: “Preface to Shakespeare”
Books Recommended:
1. Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
2. Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
3. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature by Wilfred L. Guerin
Second Year – 4th Semester
Eng-109: Modern Western Philosophy
Italian Renaissance, Machiavellian, Locke, Rousseau, Utilitarianism, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell
Books Recommended:
1. History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
2. Critical History of Western Philosophy by Y. Masih
3. Fifty Major Philosophers: A Reference Guide By Diane Collinson
4. Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy By John Shand
Eng-203: Classics in Translation-I
Homer: Iliad
Virgil: Aeneid
Sophocles: Oedipus
Books Recommended:
1. Encyclopedia of Modern Greek literature by Bruce Merry
2. Ancient Greek Literature- Britannica.com
3. Greek literature in the Classical Period by Gregory Nagy
4. Chiraoto Puran by Khandoker Ashraf Hossain
Eng-204: Anglo Saxon Poetry
Anonymous: Beowulf
Anonymous: Wanderer
Anonymous: Dream of the Rood
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Books Recommended:
1. The earliest English poems by Penguin Classics
2. The old English literature by D.C. Sinha and Frank Norris
3. Beowulf (critical views) by Friends Book Corner
Eng-205: Elizabethan and Restoration Drama-I
Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare: As You Like It
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Books Recommended:
1. G. K. Hunter: English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare
2. G. B. Harrison: Elizabethan Plays and Players
3. Charles T. Prouty : Studies in the Elizabethan Theatre
4. John V. Curry: Deception in Elizabethan Comedy
5. J. Mac Call : 18th Century Restoration Plays
6. M. C. Bradbrook : Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
Second Year – 5th Semester
Eng-206: Writing Skills
Paragraphs, Translation from Bengali to English, Story Building, Summary, Short Essay
Books Recommended:
1. Imhooof and Hudson, From Paragraph to Essay
2. Mohiuddin and Kashem, A Textbook of Advanced Functional English
3. P K De Sarkar, A Higher English Grammar of Composition and Translation
Eng-207: Theory of Literature –II
Wordsworth: “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
Coleridge: “Biographia Literaria”
Arnold: “Study of Poetry”
Books Recommended:
1. George Watson: The Literary Critics
2. Martin Travers: European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism
3. Mundra and Agarwal: Principle and History of Literary Criticism
4. M. H. Abrams: The Norton Anthology of English Literature (vol. 2)
Eng-208: Classics in Translation-II
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Euripides: Alcestis
Aristophanes: The Frogs
Books Recommended:
1. A handbook of Greek literature by H. J. Rose
2. Greek Tragedy by G. Norwood
Second Year – 6th Semester
Eng-209: Old English Prose
Wycliffe: On Translation of the Bible
Langland: Piers Plowman
Thomas Malory: Morte D’Arthur
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Books Recommended:
1. Euginee Vinaver ( Edited): King Arthur and His Knights
2. W. F. Oakeshott. The Text of Malory
3. A.W Ward, A.R Waller: Morte D’Arthur The Cambridge History of English Literature
4. Elizabeth J Bryan: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
5. J. M. Bowers : Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition
6. David Daniell : The Bible in English
Eng-210: Elizabethan and Restoration Drama-II
John Milton: Samson Agonistes
John Webster: Duchess of Malfi
William Congreve: The Way of the World
Books Recommended:
1. John V. Curry (1955) : Deception in Elizabethan Comedy
2. Frederick S. Boas (1950) : Queen Elizabeth in Drama and Related Studies
3. H. B. Charlton : The Shakespearean Comedy
4. J. Mac Call : 18th Century Restoration Plays
5. K. M. Lynch : The Way of the World
6. N. Robbins : 20th Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi
Eng-301: Linguistics-I
What is language, Characteristics of Language, what is linguistics, Nature and scope of Linguistics- Linguistics and
related fields, phonetics and phonology- definition, differences, speech articulators, vowel and consonant sounds,
places and manners of consonant sounds, stress, unstress, tone, intonation, IPA.
Books Recommended:
1. Language and Linguistics by John Lyons
2. English phonetics and phonology by Peter Roach
3. An introductory text book of linguistics and phonetics by Dr. R. L .Varshney.
4. Introduction to English language study, Dr. M Maniruzzaman
5. Longmans dictionary of Applied Linguistics by Richards, Platt, Weber
Third Year – 7th Semester
Eng-302: Poetry from Chaucer to Donne
Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser: Faerie Queene Book 1
John Donne: Selected Poems: The Sun Rising, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Canonization, The Good
Morrow, The Ecstasy
Books Recommended:
1. J. Bayley : Spenser: Faerie Queene
2. H. J. Grierson : Cross Current in English Literature of the 17th Century
3. A. J. Smith : Donne: Songs and Sonnets
4. F. R. Wilson : Seventeenth Century English Prose
Eng-303: Romantic Poetry-I
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Wordsworth: The Prelude 1, Tintern Abbey, Immortality Ode, Michael
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode
Books Recommended:
1. Abrams. Meyer Howard, English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism
2. Blackwell, Wiley. Romanticism: An Anthology
3. Bloom, Harold. The Rhetoric of Romantic Vision
4. Rosen Charles. Romantic Poets, Critics and Other Madmen
5. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
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Eng-304: Prose from Bacon to Defoe
Francis Bacon: Essays
Milton: Areopagitica
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Books Recommended:
1. Seventeenth Century Background by B. Willy
2. Milton by E.M. Tillyard
3. Seventeenth Century English Prose by F.R. Wilson
Third Year – 8th Semester
Eng-305: Victorian Poetry
Tennyson: The Lotos Eaters, Locksley Hall, Ulysses, In Memorium, Tithonus
Browning: Andrea Del Sarto, My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s Lover, A Grammarian’s unreal, Fra Lippo Lippi
Arnold: Dover Beach, The Scholar Gipsy, Thyrisis, Rugby Chapel
Books Recommended:
1. F.L. Lucas: Ten Victorian Poets
2. A. Sharp: Victorian Poets
3. Hugh Walker: Literature in the Victorian Age
4. Stopford H. Brooke: Poetry of Robert Browning
5. Oliver Elton: Tennyson and Matthew Arnold
Eng-306: Linguistics-II
Approaches and Methods of English Language Teaching: GTM, CLT
Psycholinguistics: First language (L1) acquisition, Stages of child language acquisition, Behaviorist theory
Second language (L2) acquisition (SLA) factors, Monitor model
Sociolinguistics: Language, standard language and other variety of language i.e. dialect, register, pidgin, creole, etc.
Morphology: Types of morpheme, Rules of word formation
Semantics: Meaning relations, Types of meaning
Books Recommended:
1. Language and Linguistics by John Lyons
2. ELT- theory and practice by Dr. Binoy Barman
3. Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis
4. Sociolinguistics by R. A. Hudson
5. Language in infancy and childhood by Alan Cruttenden
6. An introductory text book of linguistics and phonetics by Dr. R. L. Varshney.
7. Introduction to Linguistics by Dr. M Maniruzzaman
Eng-307: Poetry from Milton to Pope
Milton: Paradise Lost Book 1&2
Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Books Recommended:
1. G K Hunter: Paradise Lost
2. C.S Lewis: A Preface to Paradise Lost
3. Bernard Wright: Milton’s Paradise Lost: A Reassessment of the poem
4. Robert Halsband: The Rape of the Lock and its Illustrations
5. Christa Knellwolf: A Contradiction Still – Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope
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Third Year – 9th Semester
Eng-308: Romantic Poetry-II
Shelley: Ode to West wind, Adonais, Ode to Skylark
Keats: Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn
Byron: Don Juan Book 1&2
Books Recommended:
1. Visionary Company by Harold Bloom
2. The Romantic Imagination by Maurice Bowra
3. The Romantic Poets by Graham Hough
Eng-309: Prose from Swift to G. Eliot
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
George Eliot: Silas Marner
Books Recommended:
1. The Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition by Robert A. Greenberg
2. Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays on Criticism edited by Jones L. Clifford
3. Tom Jones: A Norton Critical Edition by Sheridan Baker
Eng-310: Victorian Novels
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urburvilles
Books Recommended:
1. The History of the English Novels by Earnest Baker
2. The Novels of Thomas Hardy by Ann Smith
3. The Novels of Charles Dickens by Ann Smith
4. Norton Anthology of Victorian Novels
5. A Comprehensive Approach to English Literature edited by Dr. Sazzad Hossain
Fourth Year – 10th Semester
Eng-401: Contemporary Literary Criticism-I
T.S Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
F.R Leavis: Literature and Society
Wilfred L. Guerin et al: Mythological and Archetypical Approaches to Literary Criticism
Books Recommended:
1. Abrams, M. H. Doing Things With Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory
2. Brooker, Peter, and Peter Widdowson. A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory.
3. Habib, Rafey. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History
4. Harmon, William, and Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature
Eng-402: American Prose
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
Thomas Paine: The Crisis
Emerson: The American Scholars
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Books Recommended:
1. Adrian Barlow: American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century
2. Carl Van Doren: Modern American Prose
Eng-403: American Novels
Herman Melville: Mobydick
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Saul Bellow: Seize the Day
Books Recommended:
1. J.B Hubbell: Who are the Major American Writers?
2. P. Rahu: Literature in America
3. R. Chase: The American Novel its Tradition
4. M. Cunliff: The Literature of the United States
Fourth Year – 11th Semester
Eng-404: Third World Literature-I
R.K Narayan: The Guide
Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali
Books Recommended:
1. John Thieme : The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literature in English
2. Marian A. L. Miller: The Third World in Global Environmental Politics
3. Michael Harris: Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in British and Post-Colonial
Fiction
4. Alfonso Gonzalez: The New Third World
Eng-405: Comprehensive Test
This course includes the readings of the previous courses
Eng-406: Contemporary Literary Criticism-II
I.A Richard: Literary Criticism
Peter Barry: Marxist Criticism
Terry Eagleton: Freudian Interpretation in Literature
Books Recommended:
1. Jackson, Leonard. The Dematerialisation of Karl Marx: Literature and Marxist Theory
2. Groden, Michael, et al. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
3. Laquer, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
4. Brooker, Peter, and Peter Widdowson. A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory
5. Castle, Gregory. The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
Fourth Year – 12th Semester
407: American Poetry
Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself, O Captain! My Captain!
Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods, On A Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, Death of a
hire Man, The Road not Taken
Emily Dickinson: I felt funeral in my brain, Success in sweets, Faith is a fine invention, Because I could not stop for
death.
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Books Recommended:
1. The History of American Literature by J. long
2. Norton Anthology of American Poetry
3. The Oxford Book of American Poetry by David Lehman
408: American Drama
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Earnest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Books Recommended:
1. Evans, Richard I. Psychology and Arthur Miller
2. Alice Griffin. Understanding Arthur Miller
3. Carpenter, Frederick I. Eugene O’Neill
4. Harold, ed. Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
5. Nagel, James. Critical essays on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
409: Third World Literature-II
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel
V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas / Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Books Recommended:
1. John Thieme : The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literature in English
2. Marian A. L. Miller: The Third World in Global Environmental Politics
3. Michael Harris: Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in British and Post-Colonial
Fiction
4. Alfonso Gonzalez: The New Third World
410: Research Monograph and Viva-voce
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