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B.A ENGLISH HONOURS PROGRAMME

CBCS SYLLABUS

Academic Session 2017-2018. SEMESTER - l

COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDI MARKS NO.OF HOURS CODE T I.A ESE TOTA LEC. Tu Pr. L UG/ENG/H/ INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE 101/C-1 UG/ENG/H/ EUROPEAN CLASSICAL 102/C-1 LITERATURE 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/H/ Academic Writing and 103/GE-1 Composition 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/H English/MIL Communication 104/AEC-1 6 5 1 0 TOTAL IN SEMESTER - l 4 4 0 0 22

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COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDI MARKS NO.OF HOURS CODE T I.A ESE TOTAL LEC. Tu Pr. UG/ENG/20 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH 1/C-3 UG/ENG/20 BRITISH POETRY AND 2/C-4 DRAMA:14TH TO 17TH CENTURIES 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/20 Media and Communication 3/GE-2 Skills 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/20 Compulsory english 4/AEC-2 5 1 0 TOTAL IN SEMESTER - ll 2 2 0 0 20 SEMESTER - lll

COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDI MARKS NO.OF HOURS CODE T I.A ESE TOTAL LEC. Tu Pr. UG/ENG/H American Literature /301/C-5 UG/ENG/3 Popular Literature 02/C-6 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/3 British Poetry and 03/C-7 Drama:17th 18th Centuries 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/3 Text and performance 04/GE-3 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/3 POETRY AND SHORT STORY 05/SEC-1 6 4 0 0 TOTAL IN SEMESTER - lll 2 1 0 2 26

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COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDI MARKS NO.OF HOURS CODE T I.A ESE TOTAL LEC. Tu Pr. UG/ENG/ British Literature: 18th Centuries 401/C-8 UG/ENG/ British ROMANTIC LITERATURE 402/C-9 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/ British Literature: 19th Century 403/C-10 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/ Contemporary -Women and 404/GE-4 Empowerment 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/ ESSAY AND DRAMA 405/SEC- 6 2 0 0 2 TOTAL IN SEMESTER – lV 2 1 0 2

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COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDI MARKS NO.OF HOURS CODE T I.A ESE TOTAL LEC. Tu Pr. UG/ENG/5 Woman’s Writing 01/C-11 UG/ENG/5 British Literature:The Early 02/C-12 20th century 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/5 Modern Indianwriting in 03/DSE-1 English Translation 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/5 British literature:Post World 04/DSE-2 War:ll 6 5 1 0 TOTAL IN SEMESTER - V 6 5 0 0 24

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COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDI MARKS NO.OF HOURS CODE T I.A ESE TOTAL LEC. Tu Pr. UG/ENG/ Modern European drama 601/C-13 UG/ENG/ Post colonial literatures 602/C-14 6 5 1 0 UG/ENG/ Literary Theory 603/DSE- 6 5 1 0 3 UG/ENG/ Partition literature 6 5 1 0 604/DSE- 4 TOTAL IN SEMESTER – Vl 6 2 0 0

24 SYLLABUS OF THE COURSES TO BE OFFERED IN DETAIL

Core Courses, Elective Courses & Ability Enhancement Courses

Structure of B. A. English (Honours) under CBCS Core Course Paper Titles

1. Indian Classical Literature 2. European Classical Literature 3. Indian Writing in English 4. British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries 5. American Literature 6. Popular Literature 7. British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries 8. British Literature: 18th Century 9. British Romantic Literature 10. British Literature: 19th Century 11. Women’s Writing 12. British Literature: The Early 20th Century 13. Modern European Drama 14. Postcolonial Literatures Discipline Centric Elective

Paper Titles

1. Modern Indian Writing in English Translation. 2. British Literature: Post World War II. 3. Literary Theory. 4. Partition Literature.

Generic Elective

Paper Titles

1. Academic Writing and Composition. 2. Media and Communication Skills 3. Text and Performance A6. bGeinlditeyr aEndnHhuamnanceRimghtesnt Course Paper Titles

DEnegltisahi/lMeIdL CSomymlluanbicaition

I. B. A. Honours English under CBCS

Core Course

Paper 1: Indian Classical Literature

Abhijnana Shakuntalam, Kalidasa: The Loom of Time

1. Kalidasa tr. Chandra Rajan, in (New Delhi: Penguin, 1989). The Mahabharata: 2. Vyasa ‘The Dicing’ and ‘The Sequel to Dicing, ‘The Book of the Assembly Hall’, ‘The TemptationMorfcKchaarnka’t,ikBaook V ‘The Book of Effort’, in tr. and ed. J.A.B. van Buitenen (Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106–69. 3. Sudraka , tr. M.M. RamaCcihlaapnpdartaikKaarlaem(:NTehwe DTaelheio:fMaontiAlanlklet Banarasidass, 1962). 4. Ilango Adigal ‘The Book of Banci’, in , tr. R. SPuargtgheasstaerdatThoyp(Diceslhain:dPeBnagcukignr, o2u00n4d)Pbroooske3R. eadings for Class Presentations Topics

The Indian Epic Tradition: Themes and Recensions Classical Indian Drama: Theory and Practice Alankara and Rasa RDehardminagasnd the Heroic Natyashastra,

1. Bharata, tr. MaYnuogmanothaanThGehEosnhd,ovfoal.nI,E2pnodchedn (Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967) chap. 6: ‘Sentiments’, pp. 100–18. 2. Iravati Karve, ‘Draupadi’, in : (HydeIrnadbiadn: Disha, P19hi9lo1s)oppph.y79vo–l1.0V5T. heory of Value: A Collection of Readings 3. J.A.B. Van Buitenen, ‘Dharma and Moksa’, in Roy W. Perrett, ed., , , (New York: GarOlrainedn,talism a2n0d00th)epPpo. 3st3c–o4lo0n.ial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia 4. Vinay Dharwadkar, ‘Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature’, in , ed. Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158–95. 4 Paper 2: European Classical Literature The Iliad, Oedipus the King Sophocles: The Three Theban P1.laHyosmer tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985). 2. SophoclePsot of Gold, , tr. Robert Fagles in (HSaerlmecotinodnsswfroormthM: Peetanmguoirnp,h1o9s8e4s). 3. Plautus tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965). 4. Ovid Horace: Satires an‘BdaEcpcihsutlse’s, (aBnodoPkeIrIsIi)u,s‘P: Syaratimreuss and Thisbe’ (Book IV), ‘Philomela’ (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975). Horace Satires I: 4, in , tr. Niall SRuugdgde(sHteadrmToonpdiscws aonrtdh:BPaecnkggurionu, 2n0d0P5r)o. se Readings for Class Presentations Topics

The Epic Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama The Athenian City State Catharsis and Mimesis Satire RLieteardairnygCsultures in Augustan Rome Poetics

1. AristotTlhe,e Republ,itcr,anslated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath, (London: PAernsgPuoinet,i1c9a96) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, andH2o6ra. ce: Satires, Epistles and Ars P2.oPetlaictao, Book X, tr. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin, 2007). 3. Horace, , tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Paper 3(:CIanmdbiarnidWgerMitiansgs.:inHaErnvgalridshUniversity Press, 2005) pp. 451–73. Swami and Friends In Custody 1. R.K. Narayan 2. 3. H.L.V. Derozio ‘Freedom to the Slave’ ‘The Orphan Girl’ Kamala Das ‘Introduction’ ‘My Grandmother’s House’ ‘Enterprise’ ‘The Night of the Scorpion’ Robin S. Ngangom The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom’ ‘A Poem for Mother’ 4. ‘Two Lady Rams’ Salman Rushdie ‘The Free Radio’ Rohinton Mistry ‘Swimming Lesson’ ShuagsgheisDteedspTaonpdiecs‘TahnedInBtarucskigorno’ und Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Indian English Indian English Literature and its Readership Themes and Contexts of the Indian English Novel The Aesthetics of Indian English Poetry RMeoaddeirnngissm in Indian English Literature Kanthapura Imaginary H1.oRmaejalaRnados, Foreword to (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi. 2. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, Tinhe Perishable Empire (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70. 3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘DivideMdobdyeranCIonmdimanoPnoLeatrnyguinagEen’g, ilnish (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203. 4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd Pedanp,e2r040:5B)rpipti.s1h–P10o.etry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries The Wife of Bath’s Prologue Amoretti: 1. Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser Selections from Sonnet LXVII ‘Like as a huntsman...’ Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior...’ Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’ John Donne ‘The Sunne Rising’ ‘Batter My Heart’ Doctor Faustus ‘Valediction: forbiddingMmaocubrentihng’ 2. Christopher MarloweTwelfth Night 3. William Shakespeare 4. William Shakespeare Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Renaissance Humanism The Stage, Court and City Religious and Political Thought Ideas of Love and Marriage RTheeadWinrigtser in Society Oration on the Dignity of Man, The Portable Renaissance Reader 1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the in , ed. James Bruce RoTshseaPnodrMtaabrlye MReanratiinssManccLeaRuegahdlienr, (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9. 2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, T19he53C)opurpt.i7er04–11. 3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of , ‘LovAenaAnpdolBoegayuftoyr’,Ptor.eGtreyorge Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. 1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5. 4. Philip Sidney, , ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: Bobbs- PMaeprreirll,51:9A7m0)erpipc.a1n3L–i1t8e.rature The Glass Menagerie Beloved 1. Tennessee Williams: 2. Toni Morrison 3. Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Purloined Letter’ F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘T‘ he Crack-up’ William Faulkner ‘Dry SeptembLeera’ ves of Grass 4. Anne Bradstreet The Prologue’ Walt Whitman Selections from : ‘O Captain, My Captain’ ‘Passage to India’ (lines 1–68) Alexie Sherman Alexie ‘Crow Testament’ ‘Evolution’ Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

The American Dream Social Realism and the American Novel Folklore and the American Novel 7 7 Black Women’s Writings RQueaesdtiinogns of Form in American Poetry Letters from an American Farm 1. Hector St John CrevecoNuaerrr,a‘WtivheaotfisthaenlAifemoefrFicraend’e,r(iLcektDteoruIgIIl)asins er (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105. 2. Frederick Douglass, A (HarmondswoWrtahl:den Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87. 3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’TehxeceSrepletcftreodmW‘BrirtuintgesNoefiRghalbpohuWrsa’,lidno E(Omxeforsrodn: OUP, 1997) chap. 12. 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in , ed. with a biographical introduction PblyayBirnogoiknstAhtekDinasrokn: W(NheitwenYeosrska:nTdhe LMitoedrearrny LImibargairnya, t1i9on64). 5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Paper 6: Popular Lit(eLroantduorne: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39. Through the Looking Glass The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1. Lewis Carroll Funny Boy 2. Agatha Christie Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability/ 3. Shyam Selvadurai 4. Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam SAuugtogbeisotgerdapThoipcaiclsNaontedsBoancAkmgrboeudnkdarP(rFoosrethReeaVdisiunaglslyfoCrhaClllaesnsgePdresstuednetantiso)ns Topics

Coming of Age The Canonical and the Popular Caste, Gender and Identity Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature Sense and Nonsense RTheeadGirnagpshic Novel

ARIEL 1. Chelva KanagPaonsatyInadkeapme,n‘dDeanncceinVgoicnetshienRSoaruethfieAdsiAainr:WRreiatidnignsg Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature’ ( , Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and Victor J. Ramraj, eds., (Delhi: Doaba Publications, 2001) pp. 51–65. 8 Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and I8deologies in Modern India 2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Super Culture: American Popular Culture a(nSdagEeu:rDoeplehi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix. 3. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in 4. , ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: BEonwglliisnhgLGitreereanry History University Press, 1975) p.p. 29–38. Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, , Pvoalp. 4er5,71:9B7r8it, ipsph. P54o2e–tr6y1and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries Paradise Lost: Book 1 The Duchess of Malfi 1. John Milton The Rover 2. John Webster The Rape of the Lock 3. Aphra Behn S4u. AglgeexsatneddeTr oPpoipces and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century The Stage, the State and the Market The Mock-epic and Satire Women in the 17th Century RTheeadCionmgsedy of Manners , Genesis The Gospel according to St. Luke

1. The Holy Bible Th,ecPhraipnsc.e1–4, , chaps. 1–7 and 22–4. 2. Niccolo Machiavelli, , edT.haenLdevtria. Rthoabne,rt M. Adams (New York: Norton, 1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25. 3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from pt. I (New York: Norton, 20T06he) Nchoarptosn. 8A, n1t1h,oalnodgy1o3f. English Literature, 4. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New PYoarpke:rN8o:rBtornit2is0h1L2i)tpepra. 1tu7r6e7:–188. th Century The Way of the World Gulliver’s Travels 1. William Congreve 2. Jonathan Swift (Books III and IV) 3. Samuel Johnson ‘London’ 9 9 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ S4u. LgaguersetnecdeTSoteprincse and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism Restoration Comedy The Country and the City RTheeadNionvgesl and the Periodical Press Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage

1. Jeremy Collier, A (London: Routledge, 1996). L2i.tDeraantiuerleDaenfodeS, o‘TchiaelCOormdeprlienteEEignhgtleieshntThr-CadenetsumryanE’n(gLleatntedr XXII), ‘The Great Law of Subordination Considered’ (Letter IV), and ‘The Complete English Gentleman’, in The Rambler Selected, Wedr.iStitnegpsh:eSnamCoupelley J(oLhonnsdoonn: Croom Helm, 1984). 3. SamuReal sJosehlnason, ‘Essay 156’, in , in , ed. PeterTMhearLtiifne(oCfaPmopberidgeT,hMeaNsosr.:tHonarAvnatrhdoUlongiyveorfsEitnygPlisrhesLsi,t2er0a0t9u)repp. 194–7; Chapter 10; ‘Pope’s Intellectual Character: Pope and Dryden Compared’, from , in , vol. P1,aepde.rSt9e:pBhreintiGshreReonmblatnt,ti8cthLietdenra(tNuerwe York: Norton, 2006) pp. 2693–4, 2774–7.

The Songs of Innocence The Songs of E1.xWpeirlileianmceBlake ‘The Lamb’, ‘The ChimneyThSewSeoenpgesr’o(ffEroxmperience and ) The Songs of Innocence ‘The Tyger’ ( ) 'Introduction’ to Robert Burns ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’ ‘Scots Wha Hae’ 2. William Wordsworth ‘Tintern Abbey’ ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘Kubla Khan’ ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 3. Lord George Gordon Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–405); canto IV, verses 178–86 (lines 1594–674) 10 10 Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ‘Ozymandias’ ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ ‘To Autumn’ Frankenstein ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ S4u. MggaersytSehdeTlloeypics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Reason and Imagination Conceptions of Nature Literature and Revolution The Gothic RTheeadRionmgsantic Lyric Romantic Prose and

1. William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in Poetry, ed. Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New YorRko: mOUanPt,i1c9P7r3o)sepapn. 5d94–611. 2. John Keats, ‘Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817’, and ‘Letter to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October, 1818E’m, inile or Education, Poetry, ed. Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 766–68, 777–8. 3.. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘PBrieofgarcaep’ htoia Literaria tr. Allan Bloom (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991). ı Samuel Taylor Coleridge, , ed. George Watson (London: PEvaepreyrm1a0n:,B1r9i9ti3s)hcLhiatpe.rXaItIuI,rpep: .1196t1h–C6e6n. tury Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre 1. Jane Austen Hard Times 2. Charlotte Bronte 3. Charles Dickens 4. Alfred Tennyson ‘The Lady of Shalott’ ‘Ulysses’ ‘The Defence of Lucknow’ Robert Browning ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘The Last Ride Together’ ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ Christina Rossetti ‘The Goblin Market’ 11 S1u1ggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Utilitarianism The 19th Century Novel Marriage and Sexuality The Writer and Society Faith and Doubt RTheeadDirnagmsatic Monologue

A Reader in Marxist P1.hKilaorsloMphayrx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life’, ‘The Social Nature of Consciousness’, and ‘Classes and Ideology’, in , ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel (New York: ITnhteerDneastcioenatlof Man TPhueblNisohretrosn,1A9n6t3h)olpopg.y1o8f6E–n8g,l1is9h0L–i1te, r1a9t9u–r2e01. 2. Charles Darwin, ‘Natural Selection and Sexual Selection’, in in , 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt The Subjection of Women Norton Anthology of English (New York: Northon, 2006) pp. 1545–9. 3. John Stuart Mill, in Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) chap. 1, Pppa.p1e0r6111–:9W. omen’s Writing

1. Emily Dickinson ‘I cannot live with you’ ‘I’m wife; I’ve finished that’ Sylvia Plath ‘Daddy’ ‘Lady Lazarus’ Eunice De SouzaTh‘AedCvoicloertPouWrpolme en’ ‘Bequest’ 2. Alice Walker 3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Katherine Mansfield ‘Bliss’ Mahashweta Devi ‘DrauApaVdini’d, ticra. GtiaoynaotrfithCehaRkigrahvtsorotfyWSopmivaank (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002) 4. Mary Wollstonecraft (NewPYaonrdki:taNoRratmona,b1a9i88) Tchharpou. 1g,hpHpe. r11O–w1n9W; cohradps.:2S,eplepc.t1e9d–W38o.rks Ramabai Ranade ‘A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures’, in , tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp. 295–324. 12 Amar Jiban W12omen’s Writing in India, Rassundari Debi Excerpts from in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Suggested Topics and Bavcoklg. 1ro(uNnedwPDreolshei:ROeUaPd,i1n9g8s9f)oprpC.l1a9s1s–P2r.esentations Topics

The Confessional Mode in Women's Writing Sexual Politics Race, Caste and Gender RSoecaidalinRgesform and Women’s Rights A Room of One's Own , The Second Sex 1. Virginia Woolf, (New York: Harcourt 1957) chaps. 1 and 6. 2. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in , tr. CRoencsatsatnincge WBoormdena:nd EShssiaelyasMinaCloovloanniya-lCHhiesvtoarllyier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–18. 3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Co(nNteewmpDoerlahriy: KPaolsitfcoorloWnioaml Tehne, o1r9y8:9A)Rpepa.d1e–r25. 4. Chandra Talapade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’, in , ed. Padmini PMaopnegria1(2N:eBwriYtiosrhk:LAitrenroaltdu, r1e9:9T6h)eppE.a1r7ly2–2907th. Century Heart of Darkness

1. Joseph Conrad Sons and Lovers Mrs Dalloway 2. D.H. Lawrence 3. Virginia Woolf 4. W.B. Yeats ‘Leda and the Swan’ ‘The Second Coming’ ‘No Second Troy’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ T.S. Eliot ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ ‘Sweeney among the Nightingales’ S‘TuhgegHesotlelodwTMopeinc’s and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Modernism, Post-modernism and non-European Cultures The Women’s Movement in the Early 20th Century Psychoanalysis and the Stream of Consciousness The Uses of Myth RTheeadAivnagnst Garde

The Modern Tradition 1. Sigmund Freud, ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of the Unconscious’, in , ed. Richard ENllomrtaonneAt.nathl.o(lOoxgfyoordf :EOngUlPis,h L1i9t6er5a)tpupre. ,571, 578–80, 559–63. 2. T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen GTreheenEbnlagtltis(hNNewoveYlofrrko:mNDorictokenn, s20to06La)wppre. nce 2319–25. 3. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in P(Laopnedro1n3: H: MogoadrethrnPrEeusrso, 1p9e8a4n)Dprpa.m9–a27. Ghosts The Good Woman of Szechuan 1. Henrik Ibsen Waiting for Godot 2. Bertolt Brecht Rhinoceros 3. Samuel Beckett S4u. EguggeesnteedIoTnoepsiccos and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Politics, Social Change and the Stage Text and Performance European Drama: Realism and Beyond Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama RTheeadTihnegastre of the Absurd An Actor Prepares

1. Constantin Stanislavski, , chap. 8, ‘Faith and the Sense of Truth’, tr. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, pp. 121–5, 137–46. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of a2n. BAeersttohlettBicrecht, ‘The Street Scene’, ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction’, and ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in The Death of Tragedy , ed. and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 68–76, 121–8. 3. George Steiner, ‘On Modern Tragedy’, in (London: Faber, 1995) pp. 303–24. 14 P14aper 14: Postcolonial Literatures Things Fall Apart Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1. Chinua Achebe 2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. Bessie Head ‘The Collector of Treasures’ Ama Ata Aidoo ‘The Girl who can’ Grace Ogot ‘The Green Leaves’ 4. Pablo Neruda ‘Tonight I can Write’ ‘The Way Spain Was’ Derek Walcott ‘A Far Cry from Africa’ ‘Names’ David Malouf ‘Revolving Days’ ‘Wild Lemons’ Mamang Dai ‘Small Towns and the River’ S‘TuhgegVeosticeedoTfothpeicMs oaunndtBaianc’kground Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

De-colonization, Globalization and Literature Literature and Identity Politics Writing for the New World Audience Region, Race, and Gender RPoesatdcoinlognsial Literatures and Questions of Form Black Skin, White Masks

1. Franz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Decolon,itsrin. CghtahreleMsind Lam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27. 2. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, ‘The Language of African Literature’, in Gabriel Garcia M(Laornqduoenz: JNaemweRs eCaudrirnyg,s1986) chap. 1, sections 4–6. 3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in , ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). II. Discipline Centric Elective (Any Four)

Detailed Syllabi

Paper 1: Modern Indian Writing in English Translation Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories 1. Premchand ‘The Shroud’, in , ed. M. Assaduddin (NLeiwftinDgelthhie: Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai Penguin/Viking, 2006). Ismat Chugtai ‘The Quilt’, in Earthy Tones , tr. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009). ‘A Season of No RetuOrrniy’,ainStories , tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi: Fiction House, 2002). Fakir Mohan Senapati ‘Rebati’, in , ed. Vidya Das, tr. Kishori Charan Das (DelGhi:taSnrijsahlit:iAPNubewlisThrearsn,s2la0t0io0n).with an Introduction 2. Rabindra Nath Tagore ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?' and 'When My Play was with thee', in by William Radice (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011). The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry G.M. Muktibodh ‘The Void’, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) and ‘So Very Far’, (tr. Tr. Vishnu Khare and Adil Jussawala), in Modern Indian , ed. LViitnearyatDuhrea:rAwnadAknethroalnodgyA,.PKl.aRyasmanadnuPjraomse(, NSuerwveDyeslahni:dOPUoPe,m2s000). Amrita Pritam ‘I Say Unto Waris Shah’, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in , ed. K.M. George, vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992). The ATnhtahnogljoagmy oIbfoCpoinstheamkpSoirnagrhy‘PDoaelit,rHyufrsosmainth, oerNOodrtohueraostf Dream, Colour of Wind’ and ‘The LandAonf dthheaHYualgf-Humans’, tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in Untouchable Spring (NEHU: , 2003). 3. Dharamveer Bharati , tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP, 2009). 4. G. Kalyan Rao , tr. Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar (Delhi: Orient SBulagcgkeSswteadn,T2o0p1i0c)s and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

The Aesthetics of Translation Linguistic Regions and Languages Modernity in Indian Literature Caste, Gender and Resistance Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature. 16 R16eadings Indian Literature

1. Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi, , no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992). Annihilation of Caste Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches 2. B.R. Ambedkar, in , vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education DepartmTenrat,nGsloavteiornmaseDntisocfoMvearhyarashtra, 1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14. 3. Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link LiteratAufrteerfoArmInndesiaia’, in The G.N. Devy Reader (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45. 4. G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from in (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2009) pp. 1–5. Paper 2: British Literature: Post World War II The French Lieutenant’s Woman Sexing the Cherry 1. John Fowles My Beautiful Launderette 2. Jeanette Winterson 3. Hanif Kureshi 4. Phillip Larkin ‘Whitsun Weddings’ ‘Church Going’ Ted Hughes ‘Hawk Roosting’ ‘Crow’s Fall’ Seamus Heaney ‘Digging’ ‘Casualty’ Carol Anne Duffy ‘Text’ S‘Sutegagleinstge’ d Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

Postmodernism in British Literature Britishness after 1960s Intertextuality and Experimentation RLieteardaitnugrse and Counterculture Literature Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain 1. Alan Sinfield, ‘Literature and Cultural Production’, in , , (Berkley and Los Angeles: UTnhieveRresditryesosfoCfaPliofeotrrnyia Press, 1989) pp. 23–38. 2. Seamus Heaney, ‘The Redress of Poetry’, in The Harvest(oLfoTnhdeoSnix: tFiaesb:er, E19n9gl5is)hpLpi.t1er–a1t6u.re And Its Background, 1960-1990 3. Patricia Waugh, ‘Culture and Change: 1960-1990’, in Paper 3: Literary Theory (Oxford: OUP, 1997).

1. Marxism Selections from the Prison Notebooks a. Antonio Gramsci, ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’ and ‘Hegemony (Civil Society) and Separation of Powers’, in , ed. and tr. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Novell Smith (London: LawrencLeenainndand Wishart, 1971) pp. 5, 245–6. b. Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, in Philosophy and Other Essays

(New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006) pp. 85–126. A Literature of Their Own A L2i.tFeermatiunriesmof Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing a. Elaine Showalter, ‘Twenty Years on: Revisited’, in This Sex Which is(N1o9t7O7n. e), RpNt.eLwonFdreonnc:hVFireamgoin, i2s0m0s3, ) pp. xi–xxxiii. b. Luce Irigaray, ‘When the Goods Get Together’ (from in ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (New York: Schocken Books, 1981) pp. 107–10. 19 19

3. Poststructuralism Modern Criticism and Theory: Reader, a. Jacques Derrida, ‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Science’, tr. Alan Bass, in Power and KnoAwledge ed. David Lodge (London: Longman, 1988) pp. 108–23. b. Michel Foucault, ‘Truth and Power’, in , tr. Alessandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino (New York: Pantheon, 1977) pp. 109–33. Hind Swaraj and O4.thPeorstWcorliotinnigasl Studies a. Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Passive Resistance’ and ‘OErdiuencatatiloisnm’, in , ed. Anthony J Parel (Delhi: CUP, 1997) pp. 88–106. b. Edward Said, ‘The Scope of Orientalism’ in (Harmondsworth: IPnenTghueoinr,y1: 9C7la8s)sepsp, N. 2a9t–io1n1s0, L. iteratures c. Aijaz Ahmad, ‘“Indian Literature”: Notes towards the Definition of a Category’, in Suggested Background Prose Readin(LgsonadnodnT: Voepriscos,f1o9r9C2l)aspspP. 2r4e3se–n28ta5t.ions Topics

The East and the West Questions of Alterity Power, Language, and Representation RTheeadSitnatgesand Culture Literary Theory: An Introduction Beginning Theory 1. Terry Eagleton, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008). P2.aPpeetrer4B: Pararryt,ition Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).

Basti

1. Intizar Husain,The S,htard. FowranLicneessW. . Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa, 1995).

2. , Bengal Partition Stories An Unclosed Chapter 3. a) Dibyendu Palit, ‘Alam's Own House’, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, : , ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008) pp. 453– 72. Mapmaking: Partition Stories from Two Bengals b) Manik Bandhopadhya, ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, , ed. Debjani SengupBtlaa(cNkeMwarDgeilnhsi::MSrainshtoti, 2003) pp. 23–39. c) Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in , tr. M. SAtsoardieusdadbinou(tNtehwe PDaerlthiit:ioKnatohfaI,n2d0ia03) pp. 212–20. d) Lalithambika Antharajanam, ‘A Leaf in the Storm’, tr. K. Narayana Chandran, in ed. Alok Bhalla (NewInDEelnhgi:liMsha:nFoahizarA,h2m01ad2)Faiz, AppR.e1n3o7w–n4e5d. Urdu Poet , 4. a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz, ‘For Your Lanes, My Country’, in Modern Indian Literature , tr. and ed. Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris 2008) p. 138. b) Jibananda Das, ‘I Shall Retu.rn to This Bengal’, trT.rSaunksalanttiangChPaurtdihtiuorni, in (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13. c) Gulzar, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, tr Anisur Rahman, in , ed. Tarun Sauigngteestt.eadl. (TNoepwicDsealnhdi: RKaetahdai,n2g0s0f1o)rpC.lxa.ss Presentation Topics

Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition Communalism and Violence Homelessness and Exile BWaocmkgenroiunnthdeRPeaardtiitniogns and Screenings Borders and Boundaries

1. and KaNmarlaraBtihnagsiPna,r‘Itnittiroonduction’, in (New Delhi: Kali for WomTehne,O1t9h9e8r)S. ide of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India 2. Sukrita P. Kumar, (Delhi: Indialog, 2004). 3. , The Complete Psychological(WDeolrhki:s oKfaSliigfomruWndomFreenu,d2000). 4. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in Films , tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp. 3041–53. Garam Hawa Khamosh Paani: Silent Waters Subarnarekha(dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974). (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003). III Generic(diEr.lReitcwtiikvGeha(tAakn, 1y96F5o) ur)

Paper 1: Academic Writing and Composition

1. Introduction to the Writing Process 2. Introduction to the Conventions of Academic Writing 3. Writing in one’s own words: Summarizing and Paraphrasing 4. Critical Thinking: Syntheses, Analyses, and Evaluation 5. Structuring an Argument: Introduction, Interjection, and Conclusion S6u. CgigtiensgteRdesRoeuardceins;gEsditing, Book and Media Review Study writing: A Course in Writing Skills for Academic Purposes 1. Liz Hamp-LyAonCsoaunrsdeBinenAHcaedaesmleiyc,Writing Academ(CiacmWbrriitdingge::ECxUpPlo, r2i0n0g6P)r.ocesses and Strategies 2. Renu Gupta, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010). 3. Ilona Leki, They Say/I Say: The Moves Th(aNteMwaYttoerrki:nCUP, A2ncaddeedmni,c1W99ri8t)in. g 4. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, Paper 2: Media an(NdeCwomYomrku:nNiocarttoionn, 2S0k0i9ll)s. 1. Introduction to Mass Communication

1. Mass Communication and Globalization 2. Forms of Mass Communication Topics for Student Presentations: a. Case studies on current issues Indian journalism b. Performing street plays 2c..WAdrivtienrgtipsaempehnltets and posters, etc.

1. Types of advertisements 2. Advertising ethics 3. How to create advertisements/storyboards Topics for Student Presentations: a. Creating an advertisement/visualization b. Enacting an advertisement in a group c. Creating jingles and taglines 329. Media Writing 29

1. Scriptwriting for TV and Radio 2. Writing News Reports and Editorials 3. Editing for Print and Online Media Topics for Student Presentations: a. Script writing for a TV news/panel discussion/radio programme/hosting radio programmes on community radio b. Writing news reports/book reviews/film reviews/TV program reviews/interviews c. Editing articles d. Writing an editorial on a topical subject 4. Introduction to Cyber Media and Social Media

1. Types of Social Media 2. The Impact of Social Media P3.aIpnetrro3d:uTcteixotnatnodCyPbeerrfoMrmedaiance

1. Introduction

1. Introduction to theories of Performance 2. Historical overview of Western and Indian theatre 3. Forms and Periods: Classical, Contemporary, Stylized, Naturalist Topics for Student Presentations: a. Perspectives on theatre and performance b. Historical development of theatrical forms 2c..FTohlkeatrtaridciatiloFnosrms and Practices

1. Types of theatre, semiotics of performative spaces, e.g. proscenium ‘in the round’, amphitheatre, open-air, etc. 2. Voice, speech: body movement, gestures and techniques (traditional and contemporary), floor exercises: improvisation/characterization Topics for Student Presentations: a. On the different types of performative space in practice b. Poetry reading, elocution, expressive gestures, and choreographed movement 30 30. Theories of Drama

1. Theories and demonstrations o:f acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht 2. Bharata Topics for Student Presentations 4a..ATchteinagtrsihcoarltPsroolod/ugcrtioounp performances followed by discussion and analysis with application of theoretical perspectives

1. Direction, production, stage props, costume, lighting, backstage support. 2. Recording/archiving performance/case study of production/performance/impact of media on performance processes. Topics for Student Presentations: a. All aspects of production and performance; recording, archiving, interviewing performers and data collection. Paper 4: Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment

1. Social Construction of Gender (Masculinity and Feminity) Patriarchy

2. History of Women's Movements in India (Pre-independence, post independence) Women, Nationalism, Partition Women and Political Participation

3. Women and Law Women and the Indian Constitution Personal Laws

(Customary practices on inheritance and Marriage) (Supplemented by workshop on legal awareness)

4. Women and ESnuvltiaronnam’s eDnrteam State interventions, Domestic violence, Female foeticide, sexual harassment Female Voices: Dalit Discourse. Ability Enhancement Course Compulsory

English/MIL Communication

English compulsory

Credits: 4

The paper provides an introduction to functional and communicative English that will enhance the ability of the students and develop their skills in using the English language.

i. Letter Writing ii. Precis Writing iii. Rhetorics iv. Prosody v. Critical appreciation of an unseen passage / verse extract. vi. Essay writing. vii. Proof reading. viii. Comprehension(unseen) English/MIL communication

Credits 2

Introduction

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TLhaenogruyaogfeCofmCmomunmicuatnioicna,tTioynpes and modes of Communication

: Non-verbal communication Personal, Social and Business Barriers and Strategies Intra-personal, Inter-personal and Group communication and the usage of English Rgeenceormalmly.ended Readings: Fluency in English Business English 31. Language, Literatu-rPeaarntdIIC, rOexaftoirvdityUniversity Press, 2006. 2. Language throug, hPeLaitresroant,u2r0e08. , Orient Blackswan, 2013. 4. (forthcoming) ed. Dr. Gauri Mishra, Dr Ranjana Kaul, Dr Brati Biswas SEC - 1

1.Shakespeare :Sonnets—29,30,64,65

Donne :The Good Morrow,The Anniversarie

Wordsworth :Upon Westminister Bridge,To The Skylark

Shelley :To a Skylark, Ode to the west Wind.

Modern English Short Stories,ed. Derek Hudson,OUP

V.Woolf The duchess and the jeweller. w.plomer-ever such a nice boy w.sanson the vertical ladder

R. Lehman a dream of winter SEC - 2

Lamb: New Year’s Eve,Dream Children

Symonds:Personal style

CLUTTON – BROCK: what is ART?

SHAW : Arms and the man

Osborne:look back in angar