TDC 3rd year syllabus


Paper - 5

    1. Shakespeare’s Criticism editor- D.N. Smith

    1. Ben Jonson De Shakespeare Nostrati

    2. Dryden Of Dramatic Poesie

    3. Dr. Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare

    4. S.T. Coleridge-From Biographia Literaria

    5. De Quincey-On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth


    1. I.A. Richards - Principles of Literary Criticism

    1. I.A. Richards' as a Literary Critic.

    2. Ideas contained in 'Two Uses of Language'

    Or, Views of I. A. Richards on the scientific and emotive uses of language.

    1. How does I. A. Richards define poetry in "The Definition of A Poem'?


    1. Two Uses of Language

    2. The Definition of a poem


    1. Three Essays - Eliot

    1. Tradition and the Individual Talent

    2. The Functions of Criticism


Paper - 6 

  1. A Passage to India - Forster's novel

  2. Candida - Shaw  drama

  3. Huxley 

  1. Work & Leisure 

  2. Revolution

  3. Belief & Action

  4. Literature and science 

  5. The planned society


  1. Palgrave’s poetry 

  1. Wants - Larkin 

  2. Piano - D.H Lawrence 

  3. Among school children - Willam Butler Yeats

  4. Sailing to Byzantium - Willam Butler Yeats

  5. Gerontion - T.S Eliot

  6. The second coming - Willam Butler Yeats

  7. Seascape - W.H Auden

  8. Marina - T.S Eliot 

  9. Missing my daughter - Stephen Spender

  10. Strange meeting - Wilfred Owen 

Paper - 7 

  1. Indo-Anglian Literature 

  2. Novel ⤵️

  1. Guide - novel

  2. Untouchable - novel 

  3. Kantapura - novel

  1. Indo-Anglian poetry 

  1. Poetry -Derozio 

  2. Our Casuarina Tree - Toru Dutt

  3. Introduction - Kamla Das

  4. Dawn at Puri - Jayanta Mahapatra

  5. Tiger and the Deer - Sri Aurobindo 

  6. A plant - A.K. Ramanujan

  7. Silence step - Rabindranath Tagore

  8. Songs of Radha - Sarojini Naidu

  9. Island - Nissim Ezekiel 

  10. Delhi - Parth Sarthy Kaushik


Paper - 8 

  1. Write an Essay on any 1 of the following:(50 marks)


2019

Literature and Morality

Jacobean Drama

Neo-Classical Poetry

Social Realism in Friction

Functions of Criticism


2018

Shakespearean Tragic Hero

Psychological Novel 

University wits 

Romantic Poetry 

Modern Short stories 


2017

Shakespeare's Comedy 

Precursors to the Romantics

Art for the Art's of Sake

The Function of Criticism 

Victorian poetry 

Indian English poetry 


2016

Metaphysical Poetry 

Modern Novel 

Art and Morality 

Classicism & Romanticism 

Antisentiment comedy 

Literature & its Function 

English short story 

2015


Poetry drama

War poetry

Pre-Raphaelite poetry

Poetry as a criticism of life

Modern literary criticism

Trends in modern

English drama

Influence of science on modern poetry


  1. Write an Essay on any 1 of the following:(50 marks)

2019

Higher Education in Bihar

India of my dream

The Future of Mankind

Cinema and society

Importance of free press


2018

Terrorism in India 

Internet & its advantage 

Discipline 

India's Foreign Policy 

Role of Literature in Life


2017

Globalization 

Secularism in India 

Corruption 

Student in politics 

Flood in Bihar 

Demonstration & its Impact


2016

The problem of  unemployment 

Flood problem 

Student's Unrest 

The abuse of cinema 

Global warming 

Pollution 

Town life & Village life


2015

Political Indiscipline

among the leader

The role of media

Problems Faced by Higher

Education

Growing terrorism

across the world

Impact of Globalization

Global Warming