Courses on third year

THIRED YEAR B. A. HONERS
SESSION 2003-2004 EXAM-2007

English 301: Language-3: Language for Literary Studies
Text Recommended
  1. Language for Literature

English 302: American Literature from 17th to 19th Centuries
Text Recommended
1. Anne Bradstreet The Prologue
2. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation (Chapter 9)
3. John Winthrop The Journal (Nov 9, 1936 to Dec 15, 1940)
4. Cotton Mather From The Wonders of The Invisible World
5. Jonathan Edwards Sinners in The Hand of An Angry God
6. Benjamin Franklin From Poor Richard Improved
7. Michael Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur Letter 3 “What is An American?”
8. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
9. James Fennimore Cooper “On American Equality” “On The Disadvantages of Democracy” From The American Democrat
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance
11. Henry David Thoreau “Economy”, “Civil Disobedience” From Walden
12. Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
13. Fredrick Douglas Narrative & The Life of Frederick Douglas
Books Recommended
1. Walter Allen Tradition & Dream
2. Marcus Cunliffe The Literature of The United States 
3. Malcolm Bradbury (ed.) Introduction to American Studies
4. Lauther S Luedtke Making America The Society and Culture of The United States
5. R W B Lewis The American Adam
6. H N Smith Virgin Land
7. Leo Marx The Machine in The Garden
8. F O Mathiessen American Renaissance
9. Moses Cott Tayler History of American Literature (1607 to1765)
10. Steward Benedict (ed.) The Literary Guide to The USA 
11. Milton Konvitz & Stephen Whicher (ed.) Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays
12. Sherman Paul (ed.) Thoreau: A Collection of Critical Essays
13. Perry Miller The New England Mind: The 17th Century 
14. Perry Miller The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
15. Bercovitch Sacvan The Puritan Origin of American Self
16. Bercovitch Sacvan The American Jeremiad

Course-302 Question Pattern
American Literature

1. Essay-type 1 out of 2 (1*20) 20
2. Reference to the context (4*5) 20
3. Short notes (4*5) 20
4. Textual question 4 out of 6 (4*10) 40


English 303: Poetry from Chaucer to Pope
Text Recommended
1. Chaucer The General Prologue. Following portraits from the General Prologue 1. The Wife of Bath 2. The Clark of Oxford 3. The Summoner
2. Spencer The Fairy Queen (Book 1)
3. Donne 1.The Goodmorrow 2. The Sun Rising 3. The Canonization 4. Air & Angels 5. Twickman Garden 6. The Flea 7. The Ecstasy 8. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 9. A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day 10. Batter My Heart 11. Death Be Not Proud 
4. Marvell 1. To His Coy Mistress 2. The Definition of Love 3. The Picture of Little TC in A Prospect of Flower
5. Milton Paradise Lost (Book 1&2) 
6. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 
7. Pope The Rape of The Lock
Books Recommended
1. K S Banner Chaucer & The 20th Century
2. G L Kittredge Chaucer & His Poetry 
3. C S Lewis English Literature in The 16th Century
4. C S Lewis The Allegory of Love
5. C S Lewis A Preface to Paradise Lost 
6. H J Grierson Cross Currents in English Literature of The 17th Century
7. E M W Tillyard Elizabethan World Picture
8. E M W Tillyard Milton
9. Hugh Walker Satire and Satirists
10. C M Bowra From Virgil to Milton
11. John Beyley Faerie Queen
12. A Alvarez The School of Donne
13. A J Smith Donne Songs & Sonnets
14. G K Hunter Paradise Lost
15. Barnard Schilling Dryden: A Collection of Critical Essays
16. John Butt Augustan Age
17. Sutherland Preface to 18th Century Poetry
18. B S Hommond Pope
19. Hutchinson F E Milton & English Mind
20. John Carey John Donne: Life Mind and Art

English 304: Prose from 16th to 19th Centuries
Text Recommended
1. Bacon Essays Of Truth, Of Parents And Children, Of Marriage And Single Life, Of Studies, Of Great Places
2. Milton Areopagitica
3. Dryden The Preface to Fables: Ancient And Modern
4. Addison & Steele Coverley Papers Selections 1. The spectators account of himself psg1 2. Of the club psg2 3. Character of Will Wimble psg108 4. Of ghosts & apparitions psg110 5. Sir Roger at church psg112 6. His account of his disappointment in love psg113 7 On Witchcraft story of Mollwhite psg117
5. Swift Gulliver’s Travels
6. Cardinal Newman The Idea of The University
Books Recommended
1. The Bible: King James Version
2. Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. 1&2)
3. Basil Willey 17th Century Background
4. Basil Willey 18th Century Background
5. Hugh walker Satire & Satirists
6. Leslie Stephen English Literature & Society in 18th Century 
7. Gulliver’s Travels: Norton Critical Edition
8. A S Turvenville English Man & Manners in 18th Century
9. Richard Gavil (ed.) A Casebook of Gulliver’s Travels

English 305: Drama 16th to 18th Centuries
Text Recommended
1. Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
2. Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
3. Shakespeare: Macbeth
4. Ben Jonson: Volpone 
5. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
6. Congreve: The Way of The World
Books recommended
1. F L Lucas: Seneca & Elizabethan Drama
2. Vaughan: Types of Tragedy
3. G B Harrison: Introducing Shakespeare
4. J A Symonds: Shakespeare’s Predecessors in The English Drama
5. Jan Kott: Shakespeare: Our Contemporary
6. J P Brockbank: Marlowe: Dr. Faustus 
7. John Russell Browne: Shakespeare: Macbeth
8. Mark Van Doren: Shakespeare
9. Leo Salinger: Shakespeare And The Traditions of Comedy
10. G K & S K Hunter (ed.): John Critical Anthology
11. Norman Rabkin (ed.): 20th Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi
12. Alexander Leggat: Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love 
13. Jenash A Barish (ed.): Ben Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays
14. Khatleen M Lynch (ed.): The Way of The World
15. John McCall: 18th Century Restoration Plays 
16. Alan Rudram (ed.): Samson Agomstes
17. James Thorpe (ed.): Milton: Criticism Selection from Centuries
18. John Drakakis (ed.): Shakespearean Tragedy
19. Terry Eagleton: Shakespeare
20. Harold Bloom: Shakespeare
21. Frank Kermode: The Language of Shakespeare
22. Germaine Greer: Shakespeare 


Syful Islam Sumon
English CU
2003-2004


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