B.A.+English+(S1)+HEL

//**[|Curriculum] / B.A. English / Semester I**//

Curriculum & Scheme of Examination HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Course Code: BHELT 10001 Credit Units: 14 Course Objective: The course is designed to give a broad background of English Literature and English language to the students. The History of English Literature will give an insight to the major literary periods with their characteristic trends and genres with major literary authors and texts. History of English Language will enable the students to get a broad perspective of the origin and development of English Language from the olden period to the modern period. Course Contents: Theories of Origin of Language; Indo European family of languages; Borrowings (Latin, Greek, French, Scandinavian) **Module II** Old English; Middle English; Modern English  Module III Grimms Law; Verner's law  Module IV    American English; Indian English   Module V    Characteristics of language; Word formation, Derivation; Phonetic transcription; Slang, English as a Global Language **Module VI** Rhetoric and Prosody **PART B: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE** **Module VII** Middle Ages **Module VIII** Renaissance (Elizabethan Period; Jacobean Age; Caroline; Puritan age **Module IX**     Classical Age (Restoration; Augustan)
 * PART A: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE**
 * Module I**

**Module X** Romanticism **Module XI** Victorian Novel **Module XII** Modernism and Post-Modern period. Examination Scheme Components  CT H TP EE Weightage (%)  20 10 10 60

Text & References:

• History of English Literature • History- of English Literature, Vol. I, II, III. • The Modern Novel • The History- of Language • The Story of Language • The Language Longman David Daiches Walter Allen C.L. Wren Simeon Potter Barber.

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