Major · English · Semester 6 · TY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours
Module 1: Background Topics
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Modernism
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2
Problem Play
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3
Theatre of the Absurd
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4
War Poetry
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5
Post- World War II novel
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6
Feminism and its impact on literature
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7
Postmodernism
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8
Decolonisation and postcolonial literature
Module 2: Drama
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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Module 3: Novel
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Module 4: Poetry
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W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming and Prayer for My Daughter
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2
T.S. Eliot: Preludes and Journey of the Magi
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3
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est and The Send-Off
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4
W.H. Auden: Musée des Beaux Arts and The Unknown Citizen
Text Books
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Golding, William Lord of the Flies 1999 India: Penguin Random House
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Shaw, G.B. Pygmalion, 2003, India: Penguin Classics.
Reference Books
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Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 2015 India: Cengage India.
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2
Auden, W.H. Selected Poems by W.H. Auden, 2025 India: Aedha Imprints.
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3
Davis, Alex et al The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry 2007 UK: Cambridge University Press Golding, William. Lord of the Flies: Casebook Edition 1987 Penguin Books
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Eliot, T.S. The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot, 2023 India: Grapevine Publications.
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5
Owen, Wilfred The Poems of Wilfred Owen, 2023 India: Grapevine Publications.
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Shepherd-Barr Kirsten Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction 2016 India: Oxford University Press
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Smart, John Twentieth Century British Drama 2002 UK Cambridge University Press.
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Wixson, Christopher George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction 2020 UK: Oxford University Press.
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Yeats, W.B. Selected Poems 2000 UK: Penguin Classics.
