HLB

SEMESTER II/2011

23/II William Shakespeare - The Tempest

24/II William Shakespeare - The Tempest

2/III John Milton - Paradise Lost (selections)

3/III Thomas More - Utopia

16/III Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

17/III Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

30/III Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto

31/III Romantic Poetry - William Blake; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

13/IV Romantic Poetry - John Keats; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley

14/IV Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

11/V Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

12/V Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

25/V Joseph Conrad - The Heart of Darkness

26/V T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

1/VI RESERVE

CRITICISM

  1. Mikhil Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. p. 106-137.

  2. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction: E . J . Clery, “The genesis of `Gothic' fiction.”

  3. Harold Bloom, William Blake: “Critical Analysis of `The Tyger'”; “Critical Views on `The Tyger'.”

  4. Duncan Heath - Introducing Romanticism.

  5. Caroline Franklin, Byron, p. 59-62.

  6. J. Hillis Miller, Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the "Uncanny."

  7. Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen: Life and times; The literary context. Pride and Prejudice.

  8. Brian Cheadle, “The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.”

  9. Michael Greaney, Conrad, Language, and Narrative. Chapter Four: “Modernist storytelling: `Youth' and `Heart of Darkness'”

  10. T.S. ELIOT - The Waste Land. Norton Edition: Cleanth Brooks, Jr., “The Waste Land: An Analysis.”

GRADING

  1. Class participation - 30%

  2. Oral Report - 10%

  3. In-Class exam - 60%