Semester 1

Syllabus for B.A English honours students according to CBCS pattern under Ranchi University.


Core Course 1 (CC1)

INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

Unit 1 

1. The History of Indian Classical Drama: Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manmohan Ghosh, Vol.1, 2nd ed. 

(Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967) chap. 6: Sentiments, pp.100—18.

Unit 2

2. Kalidasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time 

 (New Delhi: Penguin, 1989).

Unit 3 

3. Valmiki The Ramayana Book 9 (Translated by R.C. Dutta)

Unit 4

4. Premchand Godan (Trans. By Jai Ratan and P. Lal)


Core Course 2 (CC2)

EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

Unit 1
1. Homer The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985). Book 3
Unit 2 
2. Sophocles Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
Unit 3
3. Aristotle: Poetics, translated with an introduction notes by Malcolm Heath, (London: Penguin, 1996)
chapter, 6—17, 23, 24, and 26.
Unit 4
4. Horace Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. Niall Rudd
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005).