Honours 2nd Year Syllabus And Book List For English Department

Honours 2nd Year Syllabus And Book List For English Department

Honours 2nd Year 

Syllabus or Book List For English Department

জাতীয় বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এর অধীনে (ইংলিশ ডিপার্টমেন্ট এর)

অনার্স ২য়  বর্ষের বিস্তারিত সিলেবাস বা বুকলিস্ট।

নিচের পিডিএফ বাটনে ক্লিক করে ডাউনলোড করে নিতে পারেন।

আপনাদের অনার্স ২য় বর্ষের মোট সাবজেক্ট রয়েছে 6 টা। মেজর ৪ টা এবং নন-মেজর ৩ টা থাকবে সেখান থেকে যে কোনো ২ টা নিতে হবে।

সেগুলো হলো:-

মেজর বিষয়সমুহ:-

1.  Introduction to Drama
2.  Introduction to Poetry
3. Advanced Reading and Writing
4. History of English Literature

নন-মেজর বিষয়সমুহ:-

1. Sociology of Bangladesh.
2. Bangladesh Society and Culture.
3. Political System of United Kingdom & United State of America - (UK and USA)

দ্বিতীয় বর্ষের জন্য আপনাদের যে সব বইসমূহ পড়তে হবে তা নিচে বিস্তারিত দেওয়া হলো:-

Course Title: Introduction to Drama
Book Name & Author

• King Oedipus (Text) By Sophocles

King Oedipus By  Prof. Nirmal Ray (Reference Books)

King Oedipus By Ramji Lall (Reference Books)

• As You Like It (Text) By W. Shakespeare

As You Like It By  Dr. S. Sen (Reference Books)

As You Like It By  Ramji Lall (Reference Books)

• Arms and the Man (Text) By G. B. Shaw

Arms and the Man By  Dr. S. Sen (Reference Books)

Arms and the Man By  Ramji Lall (Reference Books)

• Riders to the Sea (Text) By  J. M Synge

Riders to the Sea By  Dr. S. Sen (Reference Books)

Riders to the Sea By Ramji Lall (Reference Books)

• The Lion and the Jewel (Text) By Wole Soyinka

The Lion and the Jewel By  Md. Habibullah

The Lion and the Jewel By  Shakti Batra

Course Title: Introduction to Poetry
Book Name & Author

William Blake

Selected Poems From Songs of Innocence and Experience.

(Innocence)

1. Introduction
2. Lamb
3. Chimney Sweeper
4. The Nurse's
5. Holy Thursday

Experience

1. Introduction
2. Tyger
3. Chimney Sweeper
4. The Nurse's Song
5. Holy Thursday
6. London

(Reference Books)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience Dr. S. Sen

Songs of Innocence and of Experience Ramji Lall 

Songs of Innocence and of Experience R. Tilak

William Wordsworth

1. Tintern Abbey
2. Immortality Ode
3. It is a beauties Evening
4. Calm and Free
5. London 1802
6. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

(Reference Books)

Selected Poems Dr. S. Sen

S. T. Coleridge

1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
2. Kubla Khan

(Reference Books)

Selected Poems Dr. S. Sen

George Gordon Byron

1. Don Juan, Canto -1

(Reference Books)

Selected Poems Dr. S. Sen

Don Juan KMA Kayum

Don Juan Neamat Imam

P.B. Shelley

1. To a Skylark
2. Adonais

(Reference Books)

Selected Poems Dr. S. Sen

Shelley: Studies in Poets Ramji Lall

John Keats

1. Ode on Melancholy
2. Ode on a Grecian Urn
3. Ode to a Nightingale
4. On His First Looking into Chapman's Homer.

(Reference Books)

Selected Poems Dr. S. Sen

Studies in Poets Ramji Lall

Course Title: Advanced Reading and Writing
Book Name & Author

This Paper aims at training students in the higher order sub-skills of reading and writing. In the reading part, the focus will be on close and critical reading. Students will be required to develop an awareness of the devices an author employs for producing an intended effect and the effects they really produce.

Reading will cover:

a) Understanding rhetorical devices used,

b) Finding explicit and implicit relationship between sentences, parts and elements of texts,

c) Distinguishing between facts and opinions

d) Indentifying author's position, attitude, and tone (negative, positive, neutral, sympathetic, satirical, angry, sarcastic, contemptuous, critical etc.)

e) Interpreting and evaluating ideas critically.

f) Commenting on style

Materials used for reading in this Paper will cover journalistic writing and literary texts of different genre.

Writing will focus on:

a) Writing with a sense of audience, focus,

b) Establishing the topic

c) Writer's voice, d) Taking a position (negative, positive or neutral).

e) Using appropriate style according to purpose and audience,

f) Writing academic essays and assignments using MLA and APA Style of Documentation.

Recommended Reading:

1. M.J. Murphy. Understanding Unseen (selections)
2. Roger Gower and M Pearson. Reading Literature. Longman. Simon Greenall and Michael Swan. 1986. Effective Reading Cambridge University Press.
3. T. U. Sachs. Now Read On. OUP

References:

1. Neil Mccaw. How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills
2. John Mc Cray, Roy. Reading between the Lines-Students' book. Walter, Catherine. 1982 Authentic Reading. CUP 
3. Barr. P. Clegg, J. and Wallace, C. 1981. Advanced Reading Skills. Longman.
4. Cleanth Brooks. 1960. Understanding Poetry. Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc.

For Writing:

Heath Guide to Writing 1990. Heath Publications Anderson, Duston and Poole. 1992 Thesis and Assignment Writing.

Wiley

H. Ramsey Fowels. 1983. The Little Brown Handbook. The Little Brown Company.

Reference:

1. John Longman, 2001 College Writing Skills (International edition) Mcgraw-Hill.
2. Josep Gibaldi and Walters S Achtert. MLA Handbook for Writers of Reasearch Papers. New Delhi: Affiliated East West Press. 
3. Karen L Greenberg. 1994. Advancing Writer, Book 2. Harper Collins.
4. Mary Stephens, Practise Advanced Writing. Longman.
5. R.R. Jordon. 1995 Academic Writing, OUP

(Reference Books)

Advanced Reading and Writing (Text) By Prof. KM A Bari & Md Layek Ali et all

Advanced Reading and Writing (Text) By Prof. Jahurul Islam

Course Title: History of English Literature
Book Name & Author

Main Text:-

1. Early and Middle English Periods
2. Age of Chaucer
3. Reformation Periods
4. Renaissance: Elizabethan, Jacobean and Puritan Age.
5. Restoration Age 
6. Neo Classical Age 
7. Romantic Age 
8. Victorian Age 
9. Modern Age

(Reference Books)

1. A Short History of English Literature By Prof. Kalyannath Dutta. (Question & Answers)
2. English Literature By W. J. Long
3. History of English Literature (Question & Answers) By Prof. Roy and Chakraborty & Prof A. K. Banerjee
4. ইংরেজী সাহিতর ইতিহাস লেখক:- ড. শীতল ঘোষ
5. ইংরাজী সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস লেখক:- ড. সৈয়দ সাজ্জাদ হোসেন
6. George Sampson: Cambridge History of English Literature.
7. Robert Barnard: A Short History of English Literature.

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