FOURTH SEMESTER

Course Codes Course Title Cr Hrs

GC 207 Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3
ELL 208 Introduction to Research Methodology 3
ELL 209 Novel (18th & 19th Century) 3
ELL 210 Romantic and Victorian Poetry 3
ELL 211 Literary Prose 3
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Course: Introduction to Research Methodology

Level: BS 4th
Course Code: ELL 208

Course Description:
The course introduces the basics of the research to the undergraduate students. It includes
language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research
process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. It is designed to assist
students understand the difference between different forms of research writings like book,
thesis and research paper.

Course Objectives:
This course aims to enable students to:
• develop an understanding of research terminology
• create awareness of the ethical principles of research, ethical challenges and approval
processes
• differentiate among quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to
research
learn the steps involved in research process
• identify the components of a literature review process
understand the difference between research paper, thesis and book writing
develop knowledge about different components of a synopsis and a research paper

Couse Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students are expected to:
frame the research problem with correct research methodology
apply research methods and process knowledge to produce quality term paper
critically analyze the published research

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prepare a synopsis

Course Contents:
1. Introduction to Research: The Wh-Questions of Research (What? Why? Who, Where?
How?)
2. Research process overview
3. Research methods: Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed method research
4. Types of Qualitative and Quantitative researches
5. Thinking like a researcher: Understanding concepts, constructs, variables, and definitions

6. Problems and Hypotheses: Defining the research problem, Formulation of the research
hypotheses
7. Reviewing literature
8. Data collection
9. Data processing and analysis
10. Difference between research paper, thesis and book writing
10. Parts of a synopsis
11. Research ethics and plagiarism
12. Research paper formatting: MLA and APA

Note: The division of marks for this subject is 40% -60%. 40 % marks for the theory;
whereas, 60% marks are for practical work including quiz, class performance, assignments,
exercises, practical activities, final term paper/ synopsis writing

Recommended Readings:
Bhattacherjee, Anol. (2012). Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices.
University of South Florida.
Bryman, Alan & Bell, Emma (2011). Business Research Methods (Third Edition), Oxford
University Press.

Chawla, Deepak & Sondhi, Neena (2011). Research methodology: Concepts and cases,
Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Delhi.

Creswell, J. W. (2014) . Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods

approaches. 4th Ed.. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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Kerlinger, F.N., & Lee, H.B. (2000). Foundations of Behavioural Research (Fourth Edition),
Harcourt Inc.

Rubin, Allen & Babbie, Earl (2009). Essential Research Methods for Social Work, Cengage
Learning Inc., USA.

Pawar, B.S. (2009). Theory building for hypothesis specification in organizational studies,
Response Books, New Delhi.
Neuman, W.L. (2008). Social research methods: Qualitative and quantitative approaches,
Pearson Education.
Walliman, Nicholas. (2001). Your Research Project. Sage Publications.

Assessment:

Total marks: 100

Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)
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Course: Novel (18th & 19th Century)

Level: BS 4th
Course Code: ELL 209

Course Description:

This course aims to introduce the students to the origin and development of relatively late-
emerging genre of literature, Novel, with a view to developing their understanding how it is
different from other genres of literature, poetry and drama. The students are given an in-depth
understanding of the making and mechanics of a novel, the role of narrator, narrative styles
and techniques, and the art of characterization. The teacher is also expected to explain how a
full-length fictional prose narrative is different from flash fiction, short story and novella.
Discussing the emergence of novel since eighteenth century, this course brings out the
significance of this genre as discoursed, for example, in great detail in Ian Watt’s seminal book,
Rise of the Novel (1955). While teaching novel, teachers are supposed to consult and have a
sound understanding of some of the ground breaking books as Rise of the Novel (1955) by Ian
Watt, Aspects of the Novel (1927) by E M Forster, and The English Novel (1953) by Walter
Allen. With a deeper understanding of the elements of fiction, the teachers will be able to
impart a holistic definition of this genre starting from the basic “long fictional prose narrative”
to a relatively complex definition of novel as can be extracted from Ian Watt’s book that “novel

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is a diverse and quite holistic depiction of human life which may be defined as a form of literary
prose; a vehicle for imitating reality and culture in a particular way; with certain characteristics
of realism; an attempt for the rejection of the accepted universals; and setting unprecedented
value on originality.” An understanding of these phrases and elements which constitute a novel
will enable the students to have a profound understanding of this genre and equip them to grasp
the complexities of modern fiction course in the coming semesters.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students

To have a full understanding of 18th and 19th century novel which is rich in diversity as well
as creativity.

To closely study the English society of these centuries and its impact upon human lives, and
its complex psychological phenomena.

To develop an insight into various factors responsible for the appeal of the subject matter of
these novels which was not only enjoyed by readers of the centuries in which they were written
but by Victorian readers or even for modern readers of contemporary times.

Core Texts:
Mid Term
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews (1742)
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Charles Dickens Hard Times (1854)
End Term
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native (1878)
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss (1860) (The Mill on the Floss can be covered in
Assignments, Presentations and Quizzes)

Course Outcomes:
To develop a clearer sense of some of the social, artistic, political, religious, and economic
influences that had shaped the 18th and 19th century novel.
Studying the historical factors responsible for the emergence of novel in the two centuries will
enable the students to appreciate its evolution into the Modern English Novel of the 20th and
21st century with its distinct and defining features very different from its original form.

They will also be able to identify and respond to elements of literary experimentation in the
field of novel writing.

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Recommended Books:
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel.(Pelican Paperback)
Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction. Jonathan Cape,
Church, Richard The Growth of the English Novel.
Watt, Ian The Rise of Novel. Chatto Windus, London, (1955-7)
Kettle, Arnold Introduction to the English Novel (vol. .I & II)
Allen, Walter The English Novel
Battestin, Martin C. The Moral Basis of Fielding’s Art: A study of Joseph Andrews
Butt, John Fielding
Collins, Philip, Dickens: The Critical Heritage, 1971
Smith, Grahame, Charles Dickens: A Literary Life, 1996
Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 1997
MacDonaugh, Oliver, Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds. 1993
Gard, Roger. Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity, 1998
Neill, Edward. The Politics of Jane Austen, 1999
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. London, 1996.
Beer, Gillian. George Eliot. Brighton, 1986.
Hardy, Barbara. The Novels of George Eliot. London, 1959.
Thomas, Jane. Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent, 1999
Elliot, Albert Pettigrew. Fatalism in the Works of Thomas Hardy, 1935
4. Bloom, Harold. (1988) George Eliot's the Mill on the Floss (Bloom's Modern Critical
Interpretations). Chelsea House Pub.
Neill, Edward. (1999). Trial by Ordeal: Thomas Hardy and the Critics (Literary Criticism in
Perspective). Camden House.

Assessment:

Total marks: 100

Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)

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Course Title: Romantic & Victorian Poetry

Level: BS 4th
Course Code: ELL 210

Course Description:

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This course analyzes representative examples of British poetry of the nineteenth century that
is from the French Revolution to the first stirrings of modernism in the early 1900s. It
comprises of the poetry of two eras which came one after each other, namely; Romantic and
the Victorian age. The first half of this module extends from the mid-1770s to the 1830s, a
period marked by what Wordsworth referred to as those ‘great national events’ which were
‘almost daily taking place’: the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars,
imperial expansion, industrialization, and the growth of the political reform movement. The
production and consumption of books took on a heightened political significance in these
decades and this selection includes selection from the ‘big six’ Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Keats, P.B. Shelley, Byron). The second half of this course includes the poetry of
the poets who are called as ‘cunning terminators of Romanticism’ by some critics. This era,
marked by the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837, known as Victorian age, spans till her
death in 1901. The Victorians saw the virtues attendant upon a strong will as central to
themselves and to their culture, and Victorian poetry strove to find an aesthetic form to
represent this sense of the human will. Through close study of the metre, rhyme and rhythm of
a wide range of poems - including monologue, lyric and elegy - the technical questions of
poetics are related, in the work of these poets, to issues of psychology, ethics and social change.

Course Objectives:

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the literary culture of this rich and exciting
period, which, in the first half, begins in the year of America’s declaration of independence
and ends with the British reform act of 1832 and from there onwards till the first decade of the
twentieth century.

Romantic Poetry
This part of the course aims

at pointing out the ways in which the poets of the Romantic era reflected upon their world.

at defining and identifying “Romanticism

At analyzing the impact of poetry on the society

at generating a discussion as to how much like poetry of Romantic age changed the world vie

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w of generations to come

at introducing students to the poetic specimens of the “Big Six” of the Romantic period.

Victorian Poetry:-
This portion of the course aims at:
Introducing students to basic poetic form.
The students will be assisted in developing a taste for appreciating the pleasure that different
forms of poetry generate.
The reading of the poetry will be aided by a knowledge of deciphering the prevalent rhyme
and meter in a poem.
Innovative study of the work of major Victorian poets

Exciting contribution to renewed interest in formalist readings of poetry

Illuminating study of important but hitherto neglected aspect of Victorian literature and cultur
e

Core Text:-The Longmans Anthology of British Literature vol 2A ,2B

Course Outline:-

William Wordsworth:-
The World is Too Much with us
Ode to Intimation of Immortality
We Are Seven
The Last of The Flock
S.T . Coleridge:-
Dejection: An Ode
Frost at Midnight
Christabel
Kubla Khan
John Keats:-
La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
A Thing of Beauty

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Ode on Melancholy
Ode to Nightingale
Ode on the Grecian Urn
P.B. Shelly:-
Ode To The West Wind
Ozymandis
Ode To A Sky Lark
The Indian Serenade
Love’s Philosophy
Lord Byron:-
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
I Watched Thee
So We’ll go No More A Roving
William Blake :-
The Sick Rose
London
A Poison Tree
The Tygre
Note: (Lord Byron and William Blake can be covered in presentations, assignments and
quizzes if the teachers find the time short).

Alfred Lord Tennyson:-

The Lotos Eaters
St Agnes Eve
Tears Tears Idle Tears
Robert Browning : -
Porphyria’s Lover
My Last Duchess
Mathew Arnold :-
Lines Written in Kensington Garden

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Dover Beach
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Choices 1, 2 ,3
Cristina Rossetti
Song
After Death
In an Artist’s Studio
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Choruses from Atlanta In Calydon
From the Triumph of Time
(I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother)

Course Outcome:-
Upon successful completion of this course the students should be able to appreciate:

Romantic and Victorian poetry, identify the different forms employed, themes expedited, styl
es incorporated. By the end of the module you will be expected to demonstrate:

Knowledge of a range of writers and works from these periods

A sense of the characteristics of some of the literary genres of the periods

An awareness of the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which works were written and re
ad

An understanding of the relation between cultural change and writing.

Further/Suggested readings:-

M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic theory and the Critical Tradition (1958)

Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics (1993)

Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961)

Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (1982)

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Joseph Bristow, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002)

Cynthia Chase, ed., Romanticism (1993)

Stephen Copley and John Whale, eds. Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and
Contexts 1780-1832 (1992)

Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism (1986)

Richard Cronin et al, ed., A Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002)

Aidan Day, Romanticism (1995)

Paula Feldman and Theresa Kelley, ed., Romantic Women Writers (1995)

Margaret Homans, Women Writers and Poetic Identity (1980)

Linda K. Hughes, The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010)

Iain McCalman, An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999)

Anne Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (1993)

Marlon B. Ross, The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's
Poetry (1989)

Sharon Ruston, Romanticism (2007)

Janet Todd, Sensibility: An Introduction (1986)

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958)

Assessment:

Total marks: 100

Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)

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Course: Literary Prose

Level: BS 4th
Course Code: ELL 211

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Course Description:
Derived from Latin expression prosa oratio (literally, straightforward or direct speech),
English literary prose has emerged as an influential genre of English literature. To imbue the
spirit of appreciating the words of great minds of human history, this particular course is
designed to enable the students to understand the use of arguments and rhetorical devices in
prose writings and utilize thoughts therein for practical life. The essays selected in this course
integrate some basic characteristics of literary prose in this selection, namely narrative,
expository, descriptive, persuasive and analytical. This course, therefore, helps in developing
reasoning abilities in young and receptive minds of students. Since this course is designed to
make students conversant with basics of literary prose writings, their message and their merits,
the teachers are supposed to point out other modes of prose expressions like letters, diaries,
travelogue, biographies/ autobiographies etc. which may be dealt with individually later on
once the students have whetted their cognitive skills against an array of prose styles and
profound rhetoric of the selected prose writers. Teachers may also exercise the option of
explaining two essays of a writer and giving the third for the class assignment etc. This course
offers a selection of some seminal essays intended for inculcating an understanding of a wide
variety of thoughts that are now standard fare for contemporary times.

Course Objectives:
This course aims at achieving the following
Students will develop an appreciation of how the formal elements of language and genre shape
meaning.
Students will gain a knowledge of a major tradition of literature written in English.
An appreciation for the diversity of the literary and social voices within a piece of literature.
It will also help the students to develop the ability to read works of literary, rhetorical and
cultural criticism.
Most importantly students will become accomplished, active, readers who appreciate
ambiguity and complexity.

Core Texts:
An Anthology of English Prose. NUML.
Selected essays from Unpopular Essays (1950) by Bertrand Russell.

Course Outline:

Francis Bacon (1561-1626):

Of Studies
Of Truth
Of Marriage and Single Life

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Charles Lamb (1775-1834) :
In praise of Chimney Sweepers
Poor Relations
That you must love me and love my Dog
Dream Children

John Ruskin (1819-1900):

Work, a selection from Crown of the Wild Olive (1871)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Self-Reliance
Nature (Optional)
John Stuart Mill (1806-83)
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion

Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) :

Minutes on Indian Education

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970):

The Future of Mankind.

Ideas That Have Helped Mankind.
Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind.

Outcomes of the Course:

Students will develop a passion for literary prose and enhance their skills for use of
effective language for communicating. They will cultivate their capacity to judge the
aesthetic and ethical value of literary texts and be able to articulate the standards behind
their Judgments. They will appreciate the expressive use of language as a fundamental
and sustaining human activity.

Recommended Books:
Vickers, Brian Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose. Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Walker, Hugh The English Essays and Essayists. S. Chand & Co. Delhi, 1959
Quintana, Ricardo Swift: An Introduction. O.U.P. 1966
Quintana, Ricardo The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift. London, 1936.
Davis, Herbert The Satires of Jonathan Swift. New York, 1947.
Gravil, Richard, ed. Gulliver’s Travels (Case-book Series). Macmillan, 1974.

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Barnett, George Leonard. Charles Lamb: The Evolution of Elia. Indiana UP 1964.
Park, Roy, ed. Lamb as Critic. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1980; U Nebraska P, 1980.
Lucas, E. V. Life of Charles Lamb. London: Macmillan, 1905.
Courtney, Winifred F. Young Charles Lamb: 1775-1802. New York: New York UP, 1982.
LaValley, A. J. Carlyle and the Ideal of the Modern, 1968
Cowling, Maurice. Mill and Liberalism, 1990
Gray, John. Mill on Liberty: A Defense, 1983
Schneewind, J. B. Mill: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1968
Schoeman, R. (ed.) Bertrand Russell, Philosopher of the Century.
Leavis, John. Bertrand Russell, Philosopher and Humanist.
Carr, Brian. Bertrand Russell: An Introduction.
Schlipp, P. (ed.) The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.

Assessment:

Total marks: 100

Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)

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