UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

Syllabus in the Subject of English

Paper VII, VIII, IX
(With effect from the academic year 2008-2009)

PAPER VII: ENGLISH LITERATURE (1750-1900)
1. BACKGROUND
A. Romantic Age: Impact of French Revolution and American Revolution; the Romantic concept of
imagination; Classicism Versus Romanticism; Novel, Poetry and Prose in the Romantic Age
B. Victorian Age: Impact of Industrialization and Carlyle's response; the Reformation Acts and the
process of democratization; Scientific thought; the Age of Faith and doubt; Novel, Poetry, Prose and
Drama in Victorian Age
C. Utilitarianism, Pre Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Oxford Movement
2. ROMANTIC POETRY
Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose; John Anderson, My Jo
William Blake: Lamb; Tiger
William Wordsworth: To a Skylark; Ode: Intimations of Immortality
S. T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan
P. B. Shelley: Ozamandias; Love's Philosophy
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale; On Looking into Chapman's Homer
Lord Byron: All for Love; She Walks in Beauty
3. VICTORIAN POETRY
Lord Tennyson: Tears, Idle Tears; O' Swallow, Swallow, Flying South; Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning: Prospice; The Patriot
Elizabeth Barret Browning: How Do I Love Thee?


Matthew Arnold: To Marguerite Poems
D. G. Rossetti: Sleeping At Last
Hopkins: Spring; I Wake and Feel
Emily Bronte: Remembrance

4. NOVEL
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native
5. NON-FICTIONAL PROSE
Charles Lamb: Dream Children
William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers
John Ruskin: Work
Thomas Carlyle: The Hero as a poet; Dante; Shakespeare
6. PAPTTERN OF QUESTION PAPER
(There will be five questions. Each question will carry twenty marks. Each question will have two
internal options.)

PAPER VIII: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
I. BACKGROUND
(A) The Russian Revolution; The Two World Wars; Imperialism and Decolonization; the Indian National
Movement and Independence; Globalization
(B) Freudian Thought; Existentialism; Feminism; Modernism and Post modernism; New Developments in
Fiction and Drama; The Rise of New Literatures in English with Special Reference to Indian Writing in
English
II. POETRY
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock; The Hollow Man
W. B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium; The Second Coming
Dylan Thomas: Ferm Hill; On His Birth Day
Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting;Arms and the Boy
Emily Dickinson: Nature Is What We See; Nature the Gentlest Mother Is...
Nissim Ezekiel: The Visitor; Night of the Scorpion
III. (A) NOVEL
J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
OR
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
(B) SHORT STORY
O Henry: The Higher Pragmatism; The Last Leaf; The Gift of Magi
A. E. Poe: The Green Door; The Cask of Amortillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The
Black Cat; Gold Bug

Shashi Deshpande: It Was Dark; The Legacy
IV: DRAMA
G. B. Shaw: The Apple Cat
OR
Bertold Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
OR
Ratan Thiyam: Chakravyuha
V. NONFICTIONAL PROSE
Kapil Kapoor: Indian Knowledge System: Nature, Philosophy, Character
Power K. B. : Quality: The Concept
Amartya Sen: Reason Before Identity
VI. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN
(There will be five questions carrying 20 marks each. Each question will have two internal options.)

PAPER IX: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1900-1990
1. Joseph Heller: Catch 22
2. Amiri Baraka: Home on the Range
3. Selected American Verse (from The Treasures of American Poetry. Ed. Nancy Sullivan)
Carl Sandburg: I Am the People the Mob; The Harbot; Chicago
Robert Lowell: History; Reading Myself; The Public Garden
William Carlos Williams: The Widow's Lament in Spring Time; The Young Housewife; Proletarian Portrait
Wallace Stevens: Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
Joy Harjo: The Flood
Lorna Dee Cervantes: Vision of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington
Cathy Stone: Lost Sister; Heaven
4. Selected American Short Stories
Malamud: The Jew Bird; How I Became a Jew
John Updike: The Hermit; Killing
Flannery O' Connor: The Displaced Person; Everything That Rises Must Converge
Eudora Welty: Petrified Man; Powerhouse
Dorothy Parker: Big Blonde
Amy Tan: Immortal Heart; Two Kinds
Willa Cather: A Death in the Desert; The Enchanted Bluff

Sherwood Anderson: I Want to Know Why
5. Background Study: American Literature of 20th century 1900-1990
(a) Factors contributing to the emergence of modernization in American Literature of the early 20th
century; The impact of industrialization and urbanization; The influence of Psychology; The two World
Wars; The depression Era; McCarthyism and the Cold War
(b) Factors contributing to post-world war II American Literature- the ferment in the 1960s. The
Beat Generation and the other counter cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Further
developments in Psychology
(c) A Survey of American Literature in the 20th century
i. Fiction: From Realism to Naturalism; The Jazz Age and Lost Generation writers; the
Novelists of the Depression Era; Post-World War II novelists- Jewish, Black and Women;
the development of the short stories in American Literature.
ii. Poetry: Tradition and Experiment in American Poetry from early 1900s to the 1940s;
the Harlem Renaissance; Post World War II poetry
iii. Drama: The rise of American drama in the early 20th century; the influence of 'Little
Theatre Movement'; European Realism and Expressionism; American Drama between
the two Wold Wars and after Wold War II. The impact of the Theatre of the Absurd;
Black Theatre
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