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Theory paper

English – II

Examined on Set texts — law and literature, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). A literature paper read for the places where law operates on a character, a speaker or a society: trials and judgments, rights and punishment, evidence and justice. Answers are marked for close reading of the text you were set, so every chapter works from the passages themselves.

This page is the map of the paper: every syllabus unit, the leading cases with full summaries, and the exam questions the paper actually sets.

Units

  1. Unit 1 · Law and Literature: Texts — Module 1 — Galsworthy, Justice; Shaw, Saint Joan; Forster, A Passage to India; Rice, Counsellor-at-Law; Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
  2. Unit 2 · Law and Literature: Speeches and Essays — Module 2 — Susan B. Anthony and United States v. Susan B. Anthony; Brown v. Board of Education; Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists; Gandhi on child marriage; Emma Watson at the United Nations
  3. Unit 3 · Literature for Analytical Study — Module 3 — Doyle, The Greek Interpreter; Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers; Kafka, The Judgement; London, The Benefit of the Doubt; Greene, The Case for the Defence
  4. Unit 4 · Language Enhancement — Module 4 — paragraph, note, summary, report and article writing; oral communication and its barriers; listening; public speaking and interviews

Exam questions

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