(English) Classical Literature & History of English Literature (Paper-1) | B.A. 5th Sem | NEP-2020 Syllabus | U.P State Univ

Unit

Topic

No. of Lectures

I

Historical Background

1)       The Epic

2)       Birth of Tragedy

3)       Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama

4)       The Athenian City State

5)       Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome

9

II

Prose

Plato- The Republic (Book VII)

9

III

Poetry

Homer- The Iiad (Book I)

9

IV

Drama

Sophocles-Oedipus Rex

9

V

English Literature From Chaucer to Renaissance

The age of Chaucer, The Dark Ages, Renaissance and Reformation; Miracle and Morality Play; University Wits; Elizabethan Poetry: Metaphysical Poetry

9

VI

Seventeenth Century and Eighteenth Century

Neo-Classicism, Growth of the Novel; Precursors of Romanticism; French Revolution; Growth of Romantic Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel)

10

VII

The Romantic Age and Nineteenth Century

Growth of Victorian Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel); Pre-Raphaelite Poetry; Naughty Nineties

10

VIII

The Twentieth Century

Georgian Poetry, Imagism and Symbolism: Twentieth Century Novel-Psychological Novel, Stream of Consciousness Novel; Twentieth Century Drama; Drama of Ideas; Epic Theartre; Feminism. 

10