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2026–27 intake · Honours extension

Semester VII

Fourth-year honours courses. Check the programme and elective choices prescribed for your enrolment.

Major · 01/ENG/MJR/401T

Literary Criticism

6 credits10 entries

  1. Unit INatyashastra, Chapter 6 / Theory of Poetry and Fine Arts
  2. Unit IIAn Essay of Dramatic Poesy / Preface to Shakespeare
  3. Unit IIIPreface to Lyrical Ballads / Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIV and XVII
  4. Unit IVThe Study of Poetry / Tradition and the Individual Talent
  5. Unit VThe Imagination / The Two Uses of Language

Major · 01/ENG/MJR/402T

Elementary Linguistics

6 credits27 entries

  1. Unit ILanguage and its nature / Seven major features of language
  2. Unit IIOrgans of speech and their functions / Vowels and more
  3. Unit IIIPhonemes / Allophones and more
  4. Unit IVStress / Stress shift and more
  5. Unit VMorpheme / Morph and more

6 credits20 entries

  1. Unit IThe Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
  2. Unit III Find No Peace / My Lute Awake and more
  3. Unit IIIThe Canonization / A Lecture upon the Shadow and more
  4. Unit IVDiscipline / Church Monuments and more
  5. Unit VLycidas

Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/401T

American Literature

4 credits15 entries

  1. Unit ISong of Myself, sections 1–6 / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and more
  2. Unit IIThe American Scholar / Mending Wall and more
  3. Unit IIII Taste a Liquor Never Brewed / I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died and more
  4. Unit IVDeath of a Salesman
  5. Unit VA Street Car Named Desire

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Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/402T

Gender And Literature

4 credits15 entries

  1. Unit IThe Picture of Dorian Gray
  2. Unit IIVindication of Rights of Women, Introduction and Chapter 2
  3. Unit IIIThe Bluest Eye / Purdah1 and more
  4. Unit IVPinjar (trans. Khushwant Singh) / My Story
  5. Unit VWhen I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife / Difficult Daughters

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4 credits19 entries

  1. Unit ILanguage and discourse / Language and representation and more
  2. Unit IILiterary appreciation of a poem / Literary appreciation of a prose piece
  3. Unit IIILiterary appreciation of a film
  4. Unit IVFactual report writing / Analytical report writing and more
  5. Unit VResume writing / Oral presentations of literary works and more

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Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/404T

Travel Literature

4 credits12 entries

  1. Unit IDefinition of travel literature / Academic travel and more
  2. Unit IIHistorical overview of travel literature
  3. Unit IIIKim
  4. Unit IVRoads to Mussoorie
  5. Unit VTravel / Song of the Open Road and more

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