Gauhati University Question Papers for English 2nd Semester
Gauhati University Question Papers for English 2nd Semester
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SEMESTER II
PAPER 3
The Social and Literary Context: Restoration to the Romantic Age
Marks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8
The objective of this paper is to acquaint students with the contexts of the English literary tradition from the Restoration of Charles II and the reopening of the theatres in 1660 to the Age of Romanticism. Students are expected to understand the circumstances that influenced, shaped and contributed to the process of literary production and topics identified in this paper are necessary and useful markers. There would be four questions of 14 marks each (14×4=56) and four questions of 6 marks each (6×4=24) on broad trends, authors and works:
Women’s Writing as a distinctive genre: Katherine Philips (1631-64), Anne Killigrew (1660-85),
Mary Astell (1666-1731) and Aphra Behn (1640-89)
Restoration Drama: tragedy and comedy
Prose: Sprat, History of the Royal Society; Clarendon, The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
The poetry of Pope
The periodical essay: Addison and Steele
James Thompson, The Seasons
Defoe and the rise of the Novel – Richardson, Fielding, Smollet and Sterne
Dr Johnson (1709-84) and his Circle
The shift from sensibility to romanticism in Gray (1716-71), Cowper (1731-1800), Blake (1757-
1827) and Burns (1759-96)
The poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats
The Novel of Manners; Gothic fiction; the Historical Novel
The Personal Essay: Hazlitt and Lamb
PAPER 4
English Poetry, Drama and Fiction: Restoration to Romanticism
Marks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8
In this paper students will have the opportunity to study the literary texts that reflect the socio-cultural and political interests of the period studied in Paper III and also examine the ways in which texts take part in and are produced by urgent issues of a time. They will be expected to answer 4 questions (4x14=56) from both sections that will test their skill in making these connections, 2 context questions(2x6=12) from the starred texts of Section I, and 2 questions of 6 marks each (2x6=12) from Section II.
Section I: Poems:
(3x14 + 2x6)
John Milton (1608-74): Invocation (from Paradise Lost), Book 1, Lines 1-68.
John Dryden (1631-1700): Mac Flecknoe*
Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Rape of the Lock, Canto 2
William Blake (1757-1827): The Chimney Sweeper ( SI ) ; The Little Black Boy , The
Tiger *
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Tintern Abbey*; She dwelt among the untrodden ways; Lucy Gray, (or Solitude).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Kubla Khan
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Ozymandias*; The Indian Girls Song (The Indian
Serenade).
John Keats (1795-1821): La Belle Dame Sans Merci; To Autumn*
Section I: Plays and Novels
(1x14 + 2x6)
William Congreve (1670-1729): The Way of the World
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2014
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2015
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2016
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