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Ideas of Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance;

Control and Censorship of Drama;

The Poet in Society;

Renaissance Humanism.

11 Paper 9: English Literature

2 (i) Unit-1. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Unit-2. John Webster The Duchess of Malfi Unit-3. Background Prose Readings and Topics: Readings: a. The Holy Bible, '

Genesis'

, chapters 1-4 (Adam and Eve. Cain and Abel) : '

Luke'

, chapters 1-7 and 22-24 (the Nativity, the Miracles and the Passion of Christ). b. Niccolo Machiavelli 2Xi from The Prince, chapters

15 (How not to be virtuous),

16 (Generosity),

18 (Princes need not honour their word) and

25 (On fortune). c. Francis Bacon. '

Of Marriage and Single Life'

. '

Of Truth and '

Of Studies'

(Norton Edition, Vol 1, pp. 1563-8) d. Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan, Part I, Selections from chapters 8,11 and

13 (Penguin edition. pp. 134-137, 160-161 and 185-186). e. John Dryden, from '

A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire'

(Norton vol.1, pp. 1767-8). f. Topics : Religion in the Seventeenth Century;

Attitude to Women in the Seventeenth Century : The Beginnings of Secular Thought;

Epic and Mock-epic;

Comedy and Satire.

12 Paper 10: Any one of the following. Students opting for Part (i) of a given option will be required to opt for Part (ii) of the same option in Paper

11 Option A. Nineteenth-Century European Realism (i) Unit-1. Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons Unit-2. Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Unit-3. Background Prose Readings and Topics : Readings a. Honore de Balzac, '

Society as Historical Organism'

, Preface to the The Human Comedy, in Ellman........