Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/452T · 2026–27 intake
American Fiction
Semester VIII · 4 credits · 5 units
Examination scheme & source discrepancies
The source lists 3 hours, 80 end-semester marks and 20 sessional marks.
Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.
Examination Scheme Maximum Marks: 80 Time: 03 Hours Part-1 (10 X 2 =20) Total ten questions. Answer to these questions shall be limited to 30 words each. Part -2 : (5 X 12 =60) Candidate shall answer one out of two questions from each unit. Answer to these questions shall be limited to 500 words.
Detailed header says session 2028-2029 but course belongs to Semester VIII, which overview/cohort schedule places in 2029-30.
Not present in the owner-supplied 2026–27 PDF (jnvu_ba.pdf), which covers English Major papers only; this paper is retained from the G.D. Memorial College full syllabus copy.
Unit IThe Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter.
Source syllabus · page 142Unit IIMoby-Dick
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Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
Source syllabus · page 142Unit IIIAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Source syllabus · page 142Unit IVThe Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Source syllabus · page 142Unit VGone with the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
Source syllabus · page 142