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BA Studies

Hello Friends,

In this blog, there are different genres of the BA syllabus that are studied by me in my BA.


 Tragedy

Othello - William Shakespeare


Novels

Moby-Dick Herman Melville FYBA

Kim Rudyard Kipling SYBA

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy TYBA

The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri TYBA

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison TYBA


Stories

FYBA

A Cup of Tea Katherine Mansfield

The Postmaster Rabindranath Tagore

How much land does a Man need? Leo Tolstoy

A True Story Mark Twain

Blow up with the Ship Wilkie Collins

Mother Somerset Maugham

SYBA

The Trunk of Ganesha Jayanta Mahapatra

The Tiger Smiled Jim Corbett

The Sage of Tarungiri and Seven Old Seekers Manoj Das

The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde

The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe

I Want to Know Why? Sherwood Anderson

The Heathen Jack London


Plays

FYBA

All My Sons Arthur Miller

Tughlaq Girish Karnad

SYBA

The Proposal Anton Chekhov

The Boy Comes Home A. A. Milne

The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs

Reunion W. St. John Taylor

TYBA

Ghashiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar

The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill


Novella 

FYBA

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

SYBA

Animal Farm George Orwell

TYBA

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

 

Poems 

FYBA

1. La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats

2. The Slave's Dream H. W. Longfellow

3. Yussouf J. R. Lowell

4. The Old Woman Joseph Campbell

5. I Love All Beauteous Things Robert Bridges 

6. The Eagle Lord Tennyson

7. A Fine Day Michael Drayton

8. Fear No More Shakespeare

9. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron

10. Virtue George Herbert 

11. Ozymandias Shelley

12. Fame and Friendship H. A. Dobson

13. The Daffodils Wordsworth

14. The Fly William Blake

15. The Character of a Happy Life H. Wotton 

16. Joy and Woe are Woven Fine William Blake

17. The Soldier Rupert Brook

18. Light F. W. Bourdillon

19. How Sleep the Brave W. Collins

20. Daybreak H. W. Longfellow


SYBA

1. From the Amoretti Edmund Spenser 

2. To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell

3. Ode on Solitude Alexander Pope

4. When We Two Parted Lord Byron

5. Prayer Before Birth Louise Macneice 

6. The Blessed Damozel D. G. Rossetti


TYBA

1. A Prayer for My Daughter W. B. Yeats 

2. Baby Running Barefoot D. H. Lawrence 

3. To The Indians Who Died in South Africa T. S. Eliot

4. My Grandmother Elizabeth Jennings 

5. Each and All Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Compensation R. W. Emerson

7. Friendship Henry David Thoreau

8. Conscience H. D. Thoreau

  

TYBA Compulsory English Fiction/Non-fiction

1. Astronomy - Our Picture of the Universe

2. Information Technology - A Very Short History of Computer Ethics

3. Travel and Transport - The Climb to Annapurna

4. Humor - The Gold Frame 

5. Health and Medicine - Save Your Liver

6. Environment - Water: The Elixir of Life

7. Inspiration - Reaching for the Stars

8. Human Interest - A Service of Love 

9. Media - Freedom of the Press


Keep watching for more updates..

Thank you.

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