COURSE STRUCTURE AND SYLLABI FOR THREE YEAR B.A. DEGREE COURSE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ADAMAS UNIVERSITY
2019-22
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATE COURSE STRUCTURE UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
B.A. (Hons.) in ENGLISH
SEMESTER I
CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM TITLE OF THE COURSE PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE ARKS L T P C
CC HEN31101 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH 5 1 0 6 BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: CC HEN31103 TH TH 14 TO 17 CENTURIES 5 1 0 6 GENERIC ELECTIVE – (SUB-1; GE PAPER- 1) 5 1 0 6 AECC HEN31105 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION 2 0 0 2 GENDER: SOCIAL SCIENCE EXT HSO31107 PERSPECTIVES 2 0 0 2 SUB TOTAL 22
SEMESTER II
CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17TH CC HEN31102 TH AND 18 CENTURIES 5 1 0 6 CC HEN31104 INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 AECC SGY31106 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 2 0 0 2 GENERIC ELECTIVE – (SUB-1; GE PAPER- 2) 5 1 0 6 EXT HSO31108 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2 0 0 2
SUB TOTAL 22
SEMESTER III CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S BRITISH LITERATURE: 18TH CC HEN32101 CENTURY 5 1 0 6 CC HEN32103 BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 POPULAR LITERATURE CC HEN32105 5 1 0 6 SEC SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES-I 2 0 0 2 GENERIC ELECTIVE (SUB-2, GE PAPER-1) 5 1 0 6
SUB TOTAL 26 SEMESTER IV CONTACT HOURS REM SL. TYPE OF COURSE PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S
BRITISH LITERATURE: 19TH CC HEN32102 CENTURY 5 1 0 6 BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY CC HEN32104 20TH CENTURY 5 1 0 6 EUROPEAN CLASSICAL CC HEN32106 LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 GENERIC ELECTIVE (SUB-2, PAPER- GE 2) 5 1 0 6 SEC SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES-II 2 0 0 2
SUB TOTAL 26
SEMESTER V
SL. CONTACT HOURS TYPE OF COURSE REM NO PER WEEK COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK . L T P C S
CC HEN33101 MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA 5 1 0 6 CC HEN33103 AMERICAN LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 DSE DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE-I 5 1 0 6 DSE DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE-II 5 1 0 6 PRO/INT HEN33411 PROJECT/ INTERNSHIP 2 0 0 2
26 SEMESTER VI CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S
CC HEN33102 WOMEN’S WRITING 5 1 0 6 CC HEN33104 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES 5 1 0 6 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE- DSE III 5 1 0 6 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE- DSE IV 5 1 0 6 GDS HEN33112 DISSERTATION 2 0 0 2
26 TOTAL 148 (REQUIRED CREDIT)
Discipline Specific Electives (DSE): Students are required to study FOUR elective Papers from the Major/ Hons discipline during semester V and VI. The lists of the electives are given below. Choose any Two in Semester-V Choose any Two in Semester-VI 1. LITERATURES OF THE HEN33105 5. LITERATURE AND HEN33106 INDIAN DIASPORA CINEMA 2. BRITISH LITERATURE: HEN33107 6. WORLD LITERATURES HEN33108 POST WORLD WAR II 3. LITERARY THEORY HEN33109 7. TRAVEL WRITING HEN33114 4. SCIENCE FICTION AND HEN33111 8. AUTOBIOGRAPHY HEN33116 DETECTIVE LITERATURE ABBREVIATIONS:
CC Core Course
AECC: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course
DSE Discipline Specific Elective Course
EXT Extension
GE Generic Elective Course
GDS Graduate Dissertation
SEC Skill Enhancement Course
INT Internship
GENERIC ELECTIVE PAPERS DISCIPLINE WISE LIST OF GENERIC ELECTIVE PAPERS BENGALI ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY A BENGALI SHORT A INTRODUCTORY A GENERAL STORIES AND MICROECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY NOVELS (HBE31105) (CEC31101) (HPS31109) B BENGALI B INTRODUCTORY B APPLIED LINGUISTICS & MACROECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY GRAMMAR (CEC31102) (HPS31110) (HBE31106) C TAGORE C INDIAN ECONOMY C PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERATURE (CEC32103) VIRTUE (HPS32109) (HBE32107) D FILM & CULTURE D DEVELOPMENT D ABNORMAL STUDIES (HBE32108) ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY (CEC32104) (HPS32108) ENGLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE/ HISTORY INTERNAL RELATIONS/ PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION A INTRODUCTION TO A GOVERNANCE: A ENVIRONMENTAL LANGUAGE, ISSUES AND ISSUES IN INDIA LITERATURE AND CHALLENGES (HHS31105) CULTURE (HPO31105) (HEN31107) B ACADEMIC WRITING B GANDHI AND THE B MAKING OF AND COMPOSITION CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY (HEN31106) WORLD (HPO31106) INDIA (HHS31106) C ENGLISH C CONTEMPORARY C ISSUES OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICAL CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTICS ECONOMY WORLD (HHS32107) (HEN32107) (HPO32107) D TEXT AND D FEMINISM: THEORY D HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE BENGAL (HHS32108) (HEN32108) (HPO32108) JOURNALISM & MASS SOCIOLOGY COMMUNICATION A BASICS OF A INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (HSO31105) JOURNALISM HJM31105 B BASICS OF B INDIAN SOCIETY: IMAGES AND REALITY PHOTOGRAPHY (HSO31106) HJM31106 C FILM APPRECIATION C SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES (HSO32107) HJM32109 D DOCUMENTARY D METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL ENQUIRY PRODUCTION (HSO32108) HJM32210
SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES SEC-01- LANGUAGE TEACHING (HEN32109) SEC-02- CREATIVE WRITING (HEN32112)
SYLLABI FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN ENGLISH UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM AS PRESCRIBED BY UGC
OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, ADAMAS UNIVERSITY, BARASAT
PROPOSED TO BE IMPLEMENTED FROM AUGUST, 2019 Structure of B. A. Honours English (CBCS) Core Course
Semester I
Paper 1: Indian Writing in English
Unit I: Background The early history of Indian Writing in English — conflicts, controversies and debates — pre- Independence and post- Independence Contexts — readership— language and aesthetics in Indian English poetry — themes and issues in IE fiction — IE drama forms, language, performance
Unit II: Fiction R.K. Narayan: Swami and Friends/Anita Desai: In Custody
Unit III: Drama Mahesh Dattani: Bravely Fought the Queen
Unit IV: Poetry (Pre-Independence) H.L.V. Derozio: “Freedom to the Slave”, “The Orphan Girl” Toru Dutt: “Our Casurina Tree” / Sarojini Naidu: “To India” Rabindranath Tagore: “Where the Mind is Without Fear”/ Sri Aurobindo: “The Golden Light”
Unit V: Poetry (Post-Independence) Kamala Das: Introduction”/ “My Grandmother’s House” Nissim Ezekiel: “Enterprise”/ “The Night of the Scorpion” Arun Kolatkar: “Scratch” from Jejuri A. K. Ramanujan: “A River” Robin S. Ngangom: “The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom”/ “A Poem for Mother”
Unit VI: Prose/Short Story: Mulk Raj Anand: “Two Lady Rams” Shashi Despande: “The Intrusion” Temsula Ao: “Shadows” from These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone
Paper 2: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries
Unit I: Background Medieval to Renaissance society, culture and poetry— Renaissance Humanism -Court and City — Secular life— and Political Thought — religious formulations — Elizabethan Lyric Tradition and Tottel’s Miscellany— stage, performance and drama.
Unit II: Chaucer: Excerpts from “The General Prologue”
Unit III: Poetry Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti: Sonnet LXVII “Like as a huntsman...”/ Sonnet LVII “Sweet warrior...”/ Sonnet LXXV “One day I wrote her name...” William Shakespeare: “Sonnet 18” Philip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 1 “Loving in truth...”
Unit IV: Poetry John Donne: “The Sunne Rising”/ “The Good Morrow”/, “Valediction: forbidding mourning” Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”:
Unit V: Drama Christopher Marlowe: Tambourline Part I/Edward II
Unit VI: Drama William Shakespeare: Macbeth/ The Merchant of Venice/ Julius Caesar
Semester II Paper 3: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries
UnitI: Background Historical context —Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century — Evolution of poetic practice — The Mock-epic and Satire — Changes in stage practice—Women in the 17th Century—The Comedy of Manners
Unit II: John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 1
Unit III: William Congreve: The Way of the World
Unit IV: John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe
Unit V: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Canto I)
Unit VI (Poetry) Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” William Collins: “Ode to Evening”
Paper 4: Indian Classical Literature
Unit I: Background Society and culture in ancient India— Sanskrit and its literary traditions—The Indian Epic Tradition—Themes and Recensions — Classical Indian Drama —Theory and Practice — Alankara and Rasa—Dharma and the Heroic
Unit II: Kalidasa: Excerpts from Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New Delhi: Penguin, 1989)/ Meghadutam
Unit III: Vyasa: Extracts from “The Dicing”/”The Sequel to Dicing”/ “The Book of the Assembly Hall”/ “The Temptation of Karna”, Book V “The Book of Effort”, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed.J.A.B. van Buitenen (Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106–69.
Unit IV: Sudraka: Mricchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1962).
Unit V Ilango Adigal: “The Book of Banci”, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, tr. R. Parthasarathy (Delhi: Penguin, 2004) Book 3.
Unit VI Bharata: Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh, vol. I, 2nd edn (Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967) Chap. 6: “Sentiments”, pp. 100–18.
Semester III
Paper 5: British Literature: 18th Century
Unit I: Background The Augustan Age— Enlightenment thought — Neoclassicism— Post-Restoration Drama—The Periodical Press — Development of Prose— the rise of the novel— the country and the city
Unit II: Fanny Burney: Evelina
Unit III: Daniel Defoe: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Unit IV: Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Unit V: Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Books I and II)
Unit VI: Periodical Essays and Prose Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: Spectator Papers 1, 2/ Samuel Johnson (The Rambler— Essay 155, 156)/ Oliver Goldsmith “An Essay on the Theatre”. Steele; Addison; Swift
Paper 6: British Romantic Literature
Unit I: Background Reason and Imagination — Conceptions of Nature — Literature and Revolution — Lyric poetry— the Gothic—Romanticism
Unit II: Poetry: Early Romantics William Blake: “The Lamb”/ “The Chimney Sweeper” (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience)/ “The Tyger” (The Songs of Experience)/ “Introduction” to The Songs of Innocence Robert Burns: “A Bard’s Epitaph”/ “Scots WhaHae”
Unit III: Poetry William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”/ “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”/ “The world is too much with us” Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”/ “Dejection: An Ode”
Unit IV: Poetry: Late Romantics Lord George Gordon Noel Byron: “Childe Harold”: canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–405); canto IV, verses 178–86 (lines 1594–674) Unit V: Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”/ “Ozymandias”/ “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”/ “To Autumn”/ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
Unit VI: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Paper 7: Popular Literature Unit I: Background The Canonical and the Popular—Debates and Conflicts— Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature—-Sense and Nonsense — The Comic and The Graphic Novel Unit II:Herge: “Tintin in Tibet “/Asterix (“The Great Crossing”) Unit III: Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Unit IV: Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code Unit V: Lewis Caroll : “Jabberwocky”/ Edward Lear: “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” Unit VI: Sukumar Ray: Ha Ja Ba Ra La
Semester IV
Paper 8: British Literature: 19th Century Unit I: Background Intellectual milieu —Utilitarianism, Positivism, Darwinism —The 19th Century Novel — Marriage and Sexuality —The Writer and Society— Faith and Doubt —The Dramatic Monologue Unit II: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Unit III: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Unit IV: Charles Dickens:Oliver Twist/David Copperfield Unit V: Poetry Alfred Tennyson: “The Lady of Shallot”/ “Ulysses”/ “The Defence of Lucknow” Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”
Unit VI: Poetry Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”/ “The Last Ride Together’ Christina Rossetti: “Remember Me”/ Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “How do I Love Thee”
Paper 9: British Literature: The Early 20th Century Unit I: Background 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— The Avant Garde
Unit II: George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man/Candida Unit III: D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers Unit IV: Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Unit V: Poetry W.B. Yeats: “Leda and the Swan”/ “The Second Coming”/ “No Second Troy”/ “Sailing to Byzantium”
Unit VI: Poetry T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”/ “Sweeney among the Nightingales”/ “The Hollow Men” Paper 10: European Classical Literature
Unit I: Background Literary Cultures in Greece and Augustan Rome — The Epic — Classical Tragic Drama in the Athenian City State — Greek and Latin Comedy—Catharsis and Mimesis— Ode, Satire, Epistle
Unit II: Homer: Selections from The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985)/ Virgil: Selections from The Aeneid
Unit III: Sophocles: Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
Unit IV: Plautus: Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).
Unit V: Ovid Selections from Metamorphoses “Bacchus” (Book III)/ “Pyramus and Thisbe” (Book IV)/ “Philomela” (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).
Unit VI: Horace Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. Niall Rudd (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005)
Semester V Paper 11: Modern European Drama Unit I: Background Modern European Drama —Realism, Naturalism and Beyond — Social Milieu and Political Circumstances — New Trends and Patterns — The Theatre of the Absurd
Unit II: Text and Performance: Stage and Issues of Representation Unit III: Henrik Ibsen: The Doll’s House Unit IV: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage Unit V: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Unit VI: Eugene Ionesco: Rhinoceros Paper 12: American Literature
Unit I: Background The American Dream —Social Realism and the American Novel — Folklore and the American Novel —Black Women’s Writings — Questions of Form in American Poetry Unit II: Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Unit III: Toni Morrison: Beloved Unit IV: Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe: “The Purloined Letter” F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The Crack-up” William Faulkner: “Dry September” Unit V: Poetry Anne Bradstreet: “The Prologue” Walt Whitman: Selections from Leaves of Grass/ “O Captain, My Captain”/ “Passage to India” (lines 1–68) Alexie Sherman Alexie: “Crow Testament”/ “Evolution” Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Unit VI: Ernest Miller Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Semester VI Paper 13: Women’s Writing Unit I: Background Women's Writing and Sexual Politics —The Confessional and Autobiographical Mode— Race, Caste and Gender —Social Reform and Women’s Rights Unit II; Poetry Emily Dickinson: “I cannot live with you”/ “I’m wife; I’ve finished that” Sylvia Plath: “Daddy”/ “Lady Lazarus” Eunice De Souza: “Advice to Women”/ “Bequest” Unit III: Alice Walker: The Color Purple Unit IV: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper” Katherine Mansfield: “Bliss” Mahashweta Devi: “Draupadi”, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002)
Unit V: Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988) chap. 1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38./ Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own.
Unit VI: Ramabai Ranade ‘A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures’, in Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp. 295–324 Paper 14: Postcolonial Literatures Unit I: Background An Overview of Postcolonial Writing— Decolonization, Globalization and Literature— Identity Politics — Questions of Language and Form—Region, Race, and Gender
Unit II: Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories/ Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines Unit III: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera Unit IV: Poetry Margaret Atwood: “Happy Ending” Ama Ata Aidoo: “The Girl who can” Grace Ogot: “The Green Leaves” Bapsi Sidwa: “Their Language of Love” Unit V: A D Hope: “Australia” Pablo Neruda: “Tonight I Can Write”/ “The Way Spain Was” Jean Arasenyan: “All is Burning.”
UnitVI: Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa”/ “Names” David Malouf: “Revolving Days”/ “Wild Lemons” Mamang Dai: “Small Towns and the River”/ “The Voice of the Mountain”
Discipline Centric Elective (Any four) Paper Titles 1. Literature of the Indian Diaspora 2. British Literature: Post World War II 3. Literary Theory 4. Science fiction and Detective Literature 5. Literature and Cinema 6. World Literatures 7. Travel writing 8. Autobiography
Semester V (Any Two out of Four Options Offered )
Paper 1: Literature of the Indian Diaspora I Background: Exploring the concept of the Diaspora — Nostalgia for a forgotten home— Alienation and Exile— Language, Culture, Identity
II Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance
III V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
IV Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies (Any two stories will be selected)
V Poems Meena Alexander: “Muse”/ For My Father, Karachi, 1947” Vikram Seth: Two poems from The Golden Gate or “The Crocodile and the Monkey” from Beastly Tales. Sujata Bhatt: “A Definite History”
VI Salman Rushdie: “‘Commonwealth Literature’ Does not Exist” from Imaginary Homelands
Paper 2: British Literature: Post World War II
I Background: Postmodernism in British Literature —Britishness after 1960s —Intertextuality and Experimentation— Literature and Counterculture
II Jeanette Winterson: Sexing The Cherry/ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit / III Hanif Kureshi: My Beautiful Laundrette/ John Osborne: Look Back In Anger
IV Phillip Larkin: “Whitsun Weddings”/ “Church Going” Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roosting”/ “Crow’s Fall”
V Seamus Heaney: “Digging”/ “Casualty” Carol Anne Duffy: “Text”/ “Stealing” VI Roald Dahl: “Lamb to the Slaughter” Diana Athill: An Unavoidable Delay, and Other Stories (selections)
Paper 3: Literary Theory I Background: What is Literary Theory— How it can be used for Reading Literary Texts — Key Concepts and Historical Trends — Terms and their application
II Marxism: Genealogy and definition — Major theorists —Relevance in textual reading —Key terms and their application — Althusser III Formalism: Definition and approach — Close Reading and its advantages
IV Structuralism: What is structuralism — major theorists and key concepts—Key terms and 5heir application
V Poststructuralism :Genealogy and definition; Scope and relevance Major theorists; Key terms and their application: Logocentrism,, Binaries, Deconstruction, Hyperreal- Simulation.
VI Modernism and Postmodernism: Movements and their history — differences— key concepts—
Paper 4: Science Fiction and Detective Literature
I Background: Conceptual differences between science fiction and detective literature Crime across the Media — Constructions of Criminal Identity —Cultural Stereotypes in Crime Fiction — Social and thematic issues—Ethics and Censorship
II Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
III R. L. Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
IV Satyajit Ray: Prof. Shanku series (selected writing) V Feluda/Byomkesh (selected writing) VI Film Appréciation
Semester VI ( Any Two out of Four Options Offered )
Paper 5: Literature and Cinema I Background: Theories of Adaptation Transformation and Transposition Hollywood and ‘Bollywood’ —The ‘Two Ways of Seeing’ Adaptation as Interpretation—James Monaco: The language of film: signs and syntax’ in How To Read A Film : The World of Movies, Media & Multimedia (New York: OUP, 2009) chap. 3, pp. 170– 249.
II William Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors and Angoor (dir. Gulzar, 1982), / Macbeth and Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003)/ Othello and Omkara (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006)
III Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations: BBC TV mini-series (1995), Joe Wright (2005) and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (2004).
IV Rudaali (dir. Kalpana Lajmi, 1993) and Gangor or ‘Behind the Bodice’ (dir. Italo Spinelli, 2010). “Rudali” by Mahasweta Devi
V Ruskin Bond: “A Flight of Pigeons” and Junoon (dir. Shyam Benegal, 1979)/ “The Blue Umbrella” and The Blue Umbrella (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2005)/ “Suzanne’s Seven Husbands” and Saat Khoon Maaf (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2011).
VI Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man and Earth (1998; dir. Deepa Mehta, Cracking the Earth Films Incorp.)/ Amrita Pritam, Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories, tr. Khushwant Singh (New Delhi: Tara Press, 2009) and Pinjar (2003; dir. C.P. Dwivedi, Lucky Star Entertainment).
Paper 6: World Literatures
I Background : The Idea of World Literature —Memory, Displacement and Diaspora—Hybridity, Race and Culture —Literary Translation and the Circulation of Literary Texts Aesthetics and Politics in Poetry
II
Kōbō Abe: A Face of Another / Kenzaburō Ōe: Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids
III Gerald Robert Vizenor and Gerald Vizenor: Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (Harper Collins, 1995) (selections)
IV Antoine De Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (New Delhi: Pigeon Books, 2008) / Julio Cortazar: ‘Blow-Up’, in Blow-Up and other Stories (New York: Pantheon, 1985).
V Judith Wright: “Bora Ring”, in Collected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 2002) p. 8. Gabriel Okara: “The Mystic Drum”, in An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry, ed. C.D. Narasimhaiah (Delhi: Macmillan, 1990) pp. 132–3. Kishwar Naheed: “The Grass is Really like me”, in We the Sinful Women (New Delhi: Rupa, 1994) p. 41.
VI Shu Ting: “Assembly Line”, in A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry From the Democracy Movement, tr. Donald Finkel, additional translations by Carolyn Kizer (New York: North Point Press, 1991). Jean Arasanayagam, ‘Two Dead Soldiers’, in Fussilade (New Delhi: Indialog, 2003) pp. 89–90.
Paper 7: Travel Writing I Background: Travel Writing and Ethnography — Gender and Travel — Globalization and Travel— Orientalism and Travel —Travel Writing as a genre— terms and concepts— Sites and Destinations II Historical texts (Extracts or Chapters) Al Biruni: India ed. Qeyamuddin Ahmad. National Book Trust of India, Chapter LXIII, LXIV, LXV, LXVI. / The Travels of Ibn Battuta, trans by H.A.R. Gibb. Good Word, 2011. Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad/ Following the Equator Fanny Parkes: Begums, Thugs & White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes. Edited by William Dalrymple or Fanny Eden: Tigers, Durbars and Kings: Fanny Eden's Indian Journals 1837-38 edited by Janet Dunbar, John Murray, London, 1996. III (Selections from any two will be taught) Syed Mujtaba Ali: In a Land Far from Home (Deshe Bideshe) Speaking Tiger Nabaneeta Dev Sen: Holy Trail: a Pilgrim’s Plight. Supernova Publishers 2012 Nahid Gandhi: Alternative Realties: Love in the Lives of Muslim Women, Chapter ‘Love, War and Widow’, Westland, 2013 Elisabeth Bumiller: May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: a Journey among the Women of India, Chapters 2 and 3, pp.24-74 (New York: Penguin Books, 1991) IV India through Outsiders’ Eyes (Extracts from Any Two): Dominique Lapierre: City of Joy William Dalrymple: City of Djinns (Nine Lives in Search of the Sacred Mark Tully: No Full Stops India/ No Stop India V Contemporary Travelogues (Extracts): Ruskin Bond: Tales of the Open Road. Penguin. 2006. Bishwanath Ghosh: Chai Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop. Tranquebar. 2014.
VI Film Appreciation: Around the World in Eighty Days / The Motorcycle Diaries/ The Darjeeling Limited (2007) / Into the Wild (2007) /Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
Paper 8: Autobiography I Background: Self and society—Role of memory in writing autobiography — Autobiography as resistance —Autobiography as rewriting history II M. K. Gandhi: Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I/ Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom/ Annie Besant: Autobiography, Chapter VII, Atheism As I Knew and Taught It, pp. 141- 175 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917).
III A P J Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
IV Helen Keller : The Story of My Life / Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl/Revathi’s Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story, Chapters One to Four, pp. 1-37 (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2010.)
V Ruskin Bond: Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography / Satyajit Ray: Jokhon Chhoto Chhilam/ Dylan Chronicles/ Sharankumar Limbale: The Outcaste, Translated by Santosh Bhoomkar, pp. 1-39 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)/ Binodini Dasi: My Story and Life as an Actress, pp. 61-83 (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
VI Eric Shipton: That Untravelled World: The autobiography of a pioneering mountaineer and explorer /Geoffrey Boycott: The Corridor of Certainty: My Life Beyond Cricket/ Sunil Gavaskar: Sunny Days