Department of English, Gauhati University Structure of B

DepartmentofEnglish,GauhatiUniversity

StructureofB.A.ProgrammeandB.A.HonoursinEnglishunderCBCS

OutlineofChoiceBasedCreditSystem:1. CoreCourse:Acourse,whichshouldcompulsorilybestudiedbyacandidateasacorerequirementistermedasaCorecourse.2. Elective Course: Generally a course which can be chosen froma pool ofcoursesandwhichmaybeveryspecificorspecializedoradvancedorsupportiveto the discipline/ subject of study or which provides an extended scope or whichenables an exposure to some other discipline/subject/domain or nurtures thecandidate’sproficiency/skilliscalledanElectiveCourse.2.1DisciplineSpecificElective(DSE)Course:Electivecourseswhichmaybeofferedby the main discipline/subject of study is referred to as Discipline SpecificElective.TheUniversity/InstitutemayalsoofferdisciplinerelatedElectivecoursesofinterdisciplinarynature(tobeofferedbymaindiscipline/subjectofstudy).2.2 Dissertation/Project: An elective course designed to acquirespecial/advancedknowledge,suchassupplementstudy/supportstudytoaprojectwork,andacandidatestudyingsuchacourseonhisownwithanadvisorysupportbyateacher/facultymemberiscalleddissertation/project.2.3Generic Elective (GE) Course:Anelectivecoursechosengenerallyfromanunrelated discipline/subject, with an intention to seek exposure is called aGenericElective.P.S.:Acorecourseofferedinadiscipline/subjectmaybetreatedasanelectivebyotherdiscipline/subjectandviceversaandsuchelectivesmayalsobereferredtoasGenericElective.3.AbilityEnhancementCourses(AEC):TheAbilityEnhancement(AE)Coursesmaybe of two kinds: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC) and SkillEnhancement Courses (SEC). “AECC” courses are the courses based upon thecontent that leads to Knowledge enhancement; i. Environmental Science and ii.English/MILCommunication.Thesearemandatoryforalldisciplines.SECcoursesarevalue-based and/or skill-based and are aimed at providing hands-on-training,competencies,skills,etc.3.1AbilityEnhancementCompulsoryCourses(AECC):EnvironmentalScience,EnglishCommunication/MILCommunication.3.2SkillEnhancementCourses(SEC):Thesecoursesmaybechosenfromapoolofcoursesdesignedtoprovidevalue-basedand/orskill-basedknowledge.

DetailsofcoursesunderB.A.English(Honours)Course Credits

Theory+Tutorial=================================================================I.CoreCourse 14X5=70(14Papers)CoreCourseTutorials(14Papers) 14X1=14II.ElectiveCourses(8Papers)A.1.DisciplineSpecificElective 4X5=20(4Papers)A.2.DisciplineSpecificElective

Tutorials 4X1=4(4Papers)B.1.GenericElective/Interdisciplinary 4X5=20(4Papers)B.2.GenericElectiveTutorials 4X1=4(4Papers)

III.AbilityEnhancementCourses1.AbilityEnhancementCompulsoryCourses(AECC) 2X4=8(2Papersof4creditseach)

EnvironmentalScienceEnglishCommunication/MIL

2.SkillEnhancementCourses(SEC)(2Papersof4creditseach) 2X4=8

Totalcredits=148

SCHEMEFORCHOICEBASEDCREDITSYSTEMINB.A.Honours

SEMESTERCORECOURSE(14)

AbilityEnhancementCompulsoryCourse(AECC)(2)

SkillEnhancementCourse(SEC)(2)

Elective:DisciplineSpecific(DSE)(4)

Elective:Generic(GE)(4)

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C1(English/MIL

Communication)/

EnvironmentalScience

GE1

C2

II

C3Environmental

Science/

(English/MIL

Communication)

GE2

C4

III

C5

SEC1 GE3C6

C7

IV

C8

SEC2 GE4C9

C10

V

C11

DSE1

C12 DSE2

VI

C13

DSE3

C14 DSE4

DetailsofCoursesUnderUndergraduateProgramme(B.A.)

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Paper+TutorialI.CoreCourse 12X5=60(12Papers)Twopapers–EnglishTwopapers–AltE/MILFourpapers–Discipline1.Fourpapers–Discipline2.CoreCourseTutorial* 12X1=12(12Tutorials)II.ElectiveCourse 6X5=30(6Papers)Twopapers-Discipline1specificTwopapers-Discipline2specificTwopapers-InterdisciplinaryTwopapersfromeachdisciplineofchoiceandtwopapersofinterdisciplinarynature.ElectiveCourseTutorials* 6X1=6(6Tutorials*)Two papers- Discipline 1specificTwo papers- Discipline 2specificTwopapers-Generic(Interdisciplinary)Twopapersfromeachdisciplineofchoiceincludingpapersofinterdisciplinarynature.III.AbilityEnhancementCourses1.AbilityEnhancementCompulsoryCourses(AECC)2X8=8(2Papersof4creditseach)

EnvironmentalScienceEnglish

Communication/MIL2.SkillEnhancementCourses(SEC) 4X4=16(4Papersof4creditseach)

Totalcredits=132

SCHEMEFORCHOICEBASEDCREDITSYSTEMINB.A./B.Com

SEMESTER

CORECOURSE(12)

AbilityEnhancementCompulsoryCourse(AECC)(2)

SkillEnhancementCourse(SEC)(4)

Elective:DisciplineSpecific(DSE)(4)

Elective:Generic(GE)(2)

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English1

(English/MILCommunication)/EnvironmentalScience

DSC1A

DSC2A

II

English2

(English/MILCommunication)/EnvironmentalScience

DSC1B

DSC2B

III

AltEnglish1/MIL1

SEC1 DSC1C

DSC2C

IV

AltEnglish2/MIL2

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V SEC3

DSE1A

GE1

DSE2A

VI SEC4

DSE1B

GE2

DSE2B

StructureofB.A.HonoursinEnglishunderCBCS

DisciplineSpecificCore(Compulsory)SemesterI• ENG-HC-1016IndianClassicalLiterature• ENG-HC-1026EuropeanClassicalLiteratureSemesterII• ENG-HC-2016IndianWritinginEnglish• ENG-HC-2026BritishPoetryandDrama:14thto17thCenturiesSemesterIII• ENG-HC-3016HistoryofEnglishLiteratureandForms• ENG-HC-3026AmericanLiterature• ENG-HC-3036BritishPoetryandDrama:17thand18thCenturiesSemesterIV• ENG-HC-4016BritishLiterature:The18thCentury• ENG-HC-4026BritishRomanticLiterature• ENG-HC-4036BritishLiterature:The19thCentury

SemesterV• ENG-HC-5016BritishLiterature:The20thCentury• ENG-HC-5026Women’sWritingSemesterVI• ENG-HC-6016ModernEuropeanDrama• ENG-HC-6026PostcolonialLiteratures

DisciplineSpecificElective(Anyfour)

SemesterV(AnyTwo)

• ENG-HE-5016PopularLiterature• ENG-HE-5026ModernIndianWritinginEnglishTranslation• ENG-HE-5036LiteratureoftheIndianDiaspora• ENG-HE-5046Nineteenth-CenturyEuropeanRealism• ENG-HE-5056LiteraryCriticismandLiteraryTheory• ENG-HE-5066SciencefictionandDetectiveLiteratureSemesterVI(AnyTwo)• ENG-HE-6016LiteratureandCinema• ENG-HE-6026WorldLiteratures• ENG-HE-6036PartitionLiterature• ENG-HE-6046Travelwriting• ENG-HE-6056LifeWriting• ENG-HE-6066WritingsfromNorthEastIndia

GenericElective(Anyfour)SemesterI(AnyOne)• ENG-HG-1016AcademicWritingandComposition• ENG-HG-1026TheIndividualandSocietySemesterII(AnyOne)• ENG-HG-2016ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowerment• ENG-HG-2026ModernIndianLiteraturesSemesterIII(AnyOne)

• ENG-HG-3016LanguageandLinguistics• ENG-HG-3026BritishLiteratureSemesterIV(AnyOne)• ENG-HG-4016Language,LiteratureandCulture• ENG-HG-4026LiteraryCrossCurrentsSelectionsfromLivingLiteratures

AbilityEnhancementCourse(TwoCompulsoryPapers)

PaperTitles(Tobepreparedbytheconcerneddepartments)• ENG-AE-1014EnglishCommunication(MILtohaveadifferentcode)• EnvironmentalStudies

SkillEnhancementCourse(Anytwo)

SemesterIII• ENG-SE-3014CreativeWritingSemesterIV• ENG-SE-4014Translation:PrinciplesandPractice

DetailedSyllabi

I. B.A.HonoursEnglishunderCBCS

DisciplineSpecificCore(Compulsory)

SemesterIPaper1:ENG-HC-1016IndianClassicalLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)

Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

ThispaperintroducesstudentstoaselectionofliteraturesofIndiainEnglishtranslation.GiventhatIndianClassicalLiteratureoffersarichanddiversecanvasthat

spansacrossgenreslikedrama,poetry,theepicnarrativeaswellasshortfictionalfables,tonameafew,itisessentialthatstudentsstudyingEnglishliteraturearefamiliarwithatleastafewofthese.Thispaperencouragesstudentstothinklaterallyaboutliteraturesoftheworld,andthepossibilityofculturalexchange.

Texts:

• Kalidasa:AbhijnanaShakuntalam,tr.ChandraRajan,inKalidasa:TheLoomof

Time(NewDelhi:Penguin,1989).• Vyasa:‘TheDicing’and‘TheSequeltoDicing,‘TheBookoftheAssemblyHall’,

‘TheTemptationofKarna’,BookV‘TheBookofEffort’,inTheMahabharata:tr.anded.J.A.B.vanBuitenen(Chicago:Brill,1975)pp.106–69.

• Sudraka:Mrcchakatika,tr.M.M.RamachandraKale(NewDelhi:MotilalBanarasidass,1962).

• IlangoAdigal:‘TheBookofBanci’,inCilappatikaram:TheTaleofanAnklet,tr.R.Parthasarathy(Delhi:Penguin,2004)book3.

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheIndianEpicTradition:ThemesandRecensions• ClassicalIndianDrama:TheoryandPractice• AlankaraandRasa• DharmaandtheHeroic

Readings

• Bharata,Natyashastra,tr.ManomohanGhosh,vol.I,2ndedn(Calcutta:Granthalaya,1967)chap.6:‘Sentiments’,pp.100–18.

• IravatiKarve,‘Draupadi’,inYuganta:TheEndofanEpoch(Hyderabad:Disha,1991)pp.79–105.

• J.A.B.VanBuitenen,‘DharmaandMoksa’,inRoyW.Perrett,ed.,IndianPhilosophy,vol.V,TheoryofValue:ACollectionofReadings(NewYork:Garland,2000)pp.33–40.

• VinayDharwadkar,‘OrientalismandtheStudyofIndianLiterature’,inOrientalismandthePostcolonialPredicament:PerspectivesonSouthAsia,ed.CarolA.BreckenridgeandPetervanderVeer(NewDelhi:OUP,1994)pp.158–95.

Paper2:ENG-HC-1026EuropeanClassicalLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

ClassicalwritinginEuropesawtheemergenceoftraditionsthatcutacrossmanygenres,whichincludedpoetry,theatre,andgeneraldiscourses.WhiletheAristotelianfocusontheexaminationoftheessentialsofpoetryextendedtoincorporatediscussionsonepicanddrama,subsequentwriterssuchasHoracedrewattentiontothepurposefulnessofthecreativeexercise.InthetheatrethewidelydivergentcompositionsbySophoclesandPlautusrespectivelyshowtheconsolidationofarichculturaldiscourse.ItisthisenrichingliterarytraditionthatthispaperseekstofamiliarizewiththroughthestudyofrepresentativetextsbelongingtotheClassicalPeriod.Texts:

• Homer:TheOdyssey,tr.E.V.Rieu(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1985)BookI• Sophocles:OedipustheKing,tr.RobertFaglesinSophocles:TheThreeTheban

Plays(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1984).• Plautus:PotofGold,tr.E.F.Watling(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1965).• Ovid:SelectionsfromMetamorphoses‘Bacchus’,(BookIII),‘PyramusandThisbe’

(BookIV),‘Philomela’(BookVI),tr.MaryM.Innes(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1975).Horace:SatiresI:4,inHorace:SatiresandEpistlesandPersius:Satires,tr.NiallRudd(Harmondsworth:Penguin,2005).

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheEpic• ComedyandTragedyinClassicalDrama• TheAthenianCityState• CatharsisandMimesis• Satire• LiteraryCulturesinAugustanRome

Readings• Aristotle,Poetics,translatedwithanintroductionandnotesbyMalcolm

Heath,(London:Penguin,1996)chaps.6–17,23,24,and26.• Plato,TheRepublic,BookX,tr.DesmondLee(London:Penguin,2007).• Horace,ArsPoetica,tr.H.RushtonFairclough,Horace:Satires,EpistlesandArsPoetica(CambridgeMass.:HarvardUniversityPress,2005)pp.451–73.

SemesterIIPaper3:ENG-HC-2016IndianWritinginEnglishCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

ThispaperonIndianWritinginEnglishintroducesstudentstothehistoricaldevelopmentofthisbodyofwriting-thechallengesfacedbyearlywriters,thegrowingsenseofaccomplishmentinthewritingofdifferentformsandtheinterpretationofindividualandcollectiveexperienceincolonialandpostcolonialIndia.Thepaperisdividedintothreeunits,eachdealingwithaspecificliteraryform.Questionswillbemostlytextualbutwithsomereferencetothecontextsinwhichindividualwritershaveproducedtheirworks.CourseObjectives:

• IntroducestudentstothefieldofIndianWritinginEnglish• Giveahistoricaloverviewofthedevelopmentofvariousliteraryforms• Understandhoweachauthorcreativelyuseshisorherchosenliteraryform

CourseOutcomes:• Developfamiliaritywiththeissuesofpoliticsoflanguageandgender,

nationalismandmodernitypertainingtopreandpost-IndependenceIndiathathavebeenresponsiblefortheemergenceofIndianEnglishliterature

• UnderstandtheplaceofEnglishWritinginIndiainthelargerfieldofEnglishLiterature

• Learntodiscusscriticallytheuseofliteraryformsofthenovel,poetryanddramabyIndianEnglishwritersindistinctivewaysagainstIndianhistoricalandculturalcontexts

Texts:

• H.L.V.Derozio:‘FreedomtotheSlave’;‘TheOrphanGirl’• KamalaDas:‘Introduction’;‘MyGrandmother’sHouse’• NissimEzekiel:‘Enterprise’;‘NightoftheScorpion’,‘VeryIndianPoemin

English’• RobinS.Ngangom:‘TheStrangeAffairofRobinS.Ngangom’;‘APoemforMother’• MulkRajAnand:‘TwoLadyRams’• R.K.Narayan:SwamiandFriendsSalmanRushdie:‘TheFreeRadio’• AnitaDesai:InCustody• ShashiDespande:‘TheIntrusion’• ManjulaPadmanabhan:LightsOut• MaheshDattani:Tara

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• IndianEnglish• IndianEnglishLiteratureanditsReadership• ThemesandContextsoftheIndianEnglishNovel• TheAestheticsofIndianEnglishPoetryandDrama• ModernisminIndianEnglishLiterature

Readings

• RajaRao,ForewordtoKanthapura(NewDelhi:OUP,1989)pp.v–vi.

• SalmanRushdie,‘CommonwealthLiteraturedoesnotexist’,inImaginaryHomelands(London:GrantaBooks,1991)pp.61–70.

• MeenakshiMukherjee,‘DividedbyaCommonLanguage’,inThePerishableEmpire(NewDelhi:OUP,2000)pp.187–203.

• BruceKing,‘Introduction’,inModernIndianPoetryinEnglish(NewDelhi:OUP,2ndedn,2005)pp.1–10.

Paper4:ENG-HC-2026BritishPoetryandDrama:14thto17thCenturiesCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)This paper aims to familiarize the students with the two major forms in Britishliteraturefromthe14thtothe17thcenturies–poetryanddrama,apartfromacquaintingthem with the contexts that generated such literatures. The larger contexts of theRenaissance,thenatureoftheElizabethanAgeanditspredilectionsforcertainkindsofliteraryactivities,andtheimplicationsoftheemergenceofnewtrendswillbefocusedinthispaper.Itwillalsohighlighttheseminalissuesandpreoccupationsofthewritersandtheiragesasreflectedinthesetexts.Texts:

• GeoffreyChaucer:TheWifeofBath’sPrologue• EdmundSpenser:SelectionsfromAmoretti:SonnetLXVII‘Likeasahuntsman...’;

SonnetLVII‘Sweetwarrior...’;SonnetLXXV‘OnedayIwrotehername...’• JohnDonne:‘TheSunneRising’;‘BatterMyHeart’;‘Valediction:Forbidding

Mourning’• ChristopherMarlowe:DoctorFaustus• WilliamShakespeare:Macbeth• WilliamShakespeare:TwelfthNight

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

andAssignments

Topics

• RenaissanceHumanism• TheStage,CourtandCity• ReligiousandPoliticalThought• IdeasofLoveandMarriage• TheWriterinSociety

BackgroundProseReadings

• PicoDellaMirandola,excerptsfromtheOrationontheDignityofMan,inThePortableRenaissanceReader,ed.JamesBruceRossandMaryMartinMcLaughlin(NewYork:PenguinBooks,1953)pp.476–9.

• JohnCalvin,‘PredestinationandFreeWill’,inThePortableRenaissanceReader,ed.JamesBruceRossandMaryMartinMcLaughlin(NewYork:PenguinBooks,1953)pp.704–11.

• BaldassareCastiglione,‘LongingforBeauty’and‘InvocationofLove’,inBook4ofTheCourtier,‘LoveandBeauty’,tr.GeorgeBull(Harmondsworth:Penguin,rpt.1983)pp.324–8,330–5.

• PhilipSidney,AnApologyforPoetry,ed.ForrestG.Robinson(Indianapolis:Bobbs-Merrill,1970)pp.13–18.

SemesterIIIPaper6:ENG-HC-3016HistoryofEnglishLiteratureandFormsCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)ThispaperintroducesstudentstotheHistoryofEnglishLiteratureandthemajorliteraryforms.Itadoptsachronologicalapproachtothestudyofpoetry,drama,fictionandnon-fictionalprose,showingthedevelopmentofeachformasitmovesthroughthevariousperiodsofEnglishliteratureanditsexpansionintoglobalEnglishwriting.Whileauthorshavebeennamedinsomeinstancesasrepresentativeofformsandperiods,inothercases,especiallyinthe20thand21stcenturies,theexpansionofthefieldhasmeantthatindividualauthorsaretoonumeroustoname.Hencecertaindirectionsandareasofstudyhavebeenindicated.QuestionsinthispapershouldbelinkedtothemannerinwhichthedifferentUnitshavebeenstructuredwithfocusonformsandperiodsandtheauthorsnamedusedasexamples.Thesectionson20thand21stcenturydevelopmentsaretoocomplexandwidespreadtohaveindividualauthorsnamed–thismaybereadandevaluatedintermsofageneralpictureandauthorsofchoice.Objectives:Topreparethegroundforthedetailedstudyoftheliteraturefeaturedinsubsequentpapersandgiveastronghistoricalsenseofliterarydevelopment.Outcomes:

• Acquireasenseofthehistoricaldevelopmentofeachliteraryform.• Gainunderstandingofthecontextsinwhichliteraryformsandindividualtexts

emerge.• Learntoanalyzetextsasrepresentativeofbroadgenericexplorations.

Unit1:PoetryfromChaucertothePresent:

• Chaucerandnarrativepoetry• Spenser,Shakespeare,Milton(sonnet,sonnetsequencesandtheepicpoem)• JohnDonneandmetaphysicalpoetry• Dryden,Popeandtheheroiccouplet• RomanticPoetry(lyric,sonnet,ode,pastoral,blankverse)• Tennyson,Browning,Hopkins(fromVictoriantoModern)• ModernandpostmodernPoetryanditsinternationalassociations• Walcott,RamanujanandPostcolonialpoetry

Unit2:DramafromEverymantothePresent

• Miracles,MoralitiesandInterludes• MarloweandtheUniversityWits• ElizabethanStage,ShakespeareandJonson• JacobeanDrama,Webster• Restoration,WycherleyandCongreve• Goldsmith,Sheridanandthesentimentaldrama• TheIrishdrama• ModernandpostmodernDrama(England,Europe,America)• Postcolonialdrama(India,Africa,WestIndies)

Unit3:Fiction

• Narrativeprecursors• TheEighteenthcenturynovel(Defoe,Richardson,Fielding,Sterne)• TheGothicnovel(Walpole,Beckford,Radcliffe)• WalterScottandthehistoricalnovel• Thenineteenthcenturywomennovelists• TheVictoriannovel(Dickens,Thackeray,Hardy)• Modernismandthenovel(Conrad,Lawrence,VirginiaWoolf,JamesJoyce)• PostmodernismandtheNovel(EnglandandAmerica)• Postcolonialismandthenovel(SouthAsiaandAfrica)

Unit4:NonFictionalProse(LifeWriting,Essays,PhilosophicalandHistoricalProse,Satire)

• 16thcenturyprose(JohnFoxe,Hooker,Hakluyt,Burton,Bacon)• 17thand18thcenturyprose

• ThomasBrowne,JeremyTaylor,Milton,IzaakWalton,Dryden)• Hobbes,LockeandSwift• AddisonandSteele(theriseoftheperiodicals)• Berkeley,Hume,Gibbon• Johnson,Boswell,Burke

• 19thCenturyProse(Essays,Criticism,ScientificProse,LifeWriting)• Lamb,Hazlitt,deQuincey,• Wollstonecraft,Godwin• Coleridge,Wordsworth,• Darwin• Carlyle,Ruskin,Pater,Arnold• LyttonStrachey

• 20thand21stcenturyprose• LiteraryCriticismandTheory• Nationalistmovementsandpolemicalwriting• Letters,Autobiographies,Biographies• Travelwriting• Journalisticprose(editorials,op-edpieces,reports)

RecommendedBooks:

• B.IforEvans:AShortHistoryofEnglishLiterature(availableforpurchaseandontheinternetarchive)

• AndrewSanders:TheShortOxfordHistoryofEnglishLiterature(1994)• JohnPeckandMartinCoyle:ABriefHistoryofEnglishLiterature(2002)

• DinahBirch(Editor):TheOxfordCompaniontoEnglishLiterature(7thedition,2009)

• TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature(Allvolumes-forlibrary)(10thedition,2018)

Paper5:ENG-HC-3026AmericanLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)ThispaperseekstoacquaintthestudentswiththemaincurrentsofAmericanliteratureinitssocialandculturalcontexts.ThetextsincorporatedinthepaperareahistoricalreflectionofthegrowthofAmericansocietyandofthewaytheliteraryimaginationhasgrappledwithsuchgrowthandchange.Astudyofthepaper,hence,shouldleadtoanacquaintancewiththeAmericansocietyinitsevolutionarystagesfromthebeginningsofmodernismtothepresentaswellaswithexcitinggenericinnovationsanddevelopmentsthathavetriedtokeeppacewithsocialchanges.Texts:

• TennesseeWilliams:TheGlassMenagerie• MarkTwain:TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn• EdgarAllanPoe:‘ThePurloinedLetter’• F.ScottFitzgerald:‘TheCrack-up’• AnneBradstreet:‘ThePrologue’• EmilyDickinson:‘ABirdCameDowntheWalk’;‘BecauseICouldnotStopfor

Death’• WaltWhitman:SelectionsfromLeavesofGrass:‘OCaptain,MyCaptain’;‘Passage

toIndia’(lines1–68)• LangstonHughes:‘Itoo’• RobertFrost:‘MendingWall’• ShermanAlexie:‘CrowTestament’;‘Evolution’

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheAmericanDream• SocialRealism,FolkloreandtheAmericanNovel• AmericanDramaasaLiteraryForm• TheSlaveNarrative• QuestionsofForminAmericanPoetry

Readings

• HectorStJohnCrevecouer,‘WhatisanAmerican’,(LetterIII)inLettersfromanAmericanFarmer(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1982)pp.66–105.

• FrederickDouglass,ANarrativeofthelifeofFrederickDouglass(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1982)chaps.1–7,pp.47–87.

• HenryDavidThoreau,‘BattleoftheAnts’excerptfrom‘BruteNeighbours’,inWalden(Oxford:OUP,1997)chap.12.

• RalphWaldoEmerson,‘SelfReliance’,inTheSelectedWritingsofRalphWaldoEmerson,ed.withabiographicalintroductionbyBrooksAtkinson(NewYork:TheModernLibrary,1964).

• ToniMorrison,‘RomancingtheShadow’,inPlayingintheDark:Whitenessand• LiteraryImagination(London:Picador,1993)pp.29–39.

Paper7:ENG-HC-3036BritishPoetryandDrama:17thand18thCenturiesCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Thispaperaims to familiarize thestudentswithBritish literature in the17thand18thcenturies,atime-periodwhichseestheemergenceandestablishmentofgreatlydiversekinds of writings. The selected texts may encourage the students to look at theeconomic,politicalandsocialchangesin(primarily)Britainduringthisperiod,suchastheshiftsfromthePuritanAgetotheRestorationandNeoclassicalperiods.Thepaperalso seeks to familiarize the students with the larger contexts that generated suchliteraturesaswellasthepossibleimpactsoftheliteratureonsociety.Thesignificanceofthescientificrevolutionduringthisperiodmayalsobestudiedinrelationtotheliteraryproductions.Texts:

• JohnMilton:ParadiseLost:BookI• JohnWebster:TheDuchessofMalfi• AphraBehn:TheRover• JohnDryden:MacFlecknoe• AlexanderPope:TheRapeoftheLock

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• ReligiousandSecularthoughtinthe17thCentury

• TheStage,theStateandtheMarket• TheMock-epicandSatire• Womeninthe17thCentury• TheComedyofManners

Readings

• TheHolyBible,Genesis,chaps.1–4,TheGospelaccordingtoSt.Luke,chaps.1–7and22–4.• NiccoloMachiavelli,ThePrince,ed.andtr.RobertM.Adams(NewYork:Norton,1992)chaps.15,16,18,and25.• ThomasHobbes,selectionsfromTheLeviathan,pt.I(NewYork:Norton,2006)chaps.8,11,and13.• JohnDryden,‘ADiscourseConcerningtheOriginandProgressofSatire’,inTheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,vol.1,9thedn,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton2012)pp.1767–8.

SemesterIVPaper8:ENG-HC-4016BritishLiterature:The18thCenturyCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)ThispaperaimstofamiliarizethestudentswithBritishliteratureinthe18thcentury.Avery interesting age in which reason and rationality dominated, this age saw thepublicationofsomeof thebestnovelsandworksofnon-fictionalproseandpoetry intheEnglishlanguage.Thoughitwasnotpredominantlyanageofdramayetonecannotbutpayattentiontothefewplaysofthecentury.Althoughthetextsinthecoursearemostlybymenitmustbenotedthatquiteanumberofwomenwriterswerealsopartofthe literary scene. The texts in the course are representative of the age and to someextentrepresentativeoftheformsaswell.Theselectedtextshopetogivethestudentsanoverviewoftheageandthewritingsthattheageproduced.Texts:

• JonathanSwift:Gulliver’sTravels(BooksIIIandIV)• SamuelJohnson:‘London’• ThomasGray:‘ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard’• DanielDefoe:MollFlanders• JosephAddison:“PleasuresoftheImagination”,TheSpectator,411• OliverGoldsmith:SheStoopstoConquer

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheEnlightenmentandNeoclassicism• RestorationComedy• TheCountryandtheCity• TheNovelandthePeriodicalPress

Readings

• JeremyCollier,AShortViewoftheImmoralityandProfanenessoftheEnglishStage(London:Routledge,1996).

• DanielDefoe,‘TheCompleteEnglishTradesman’(LetterXXII),‘TheGreatLawofSubordinationConsidered’(LetterIV),and‘TheCompleteEnglishGentleman’,inLiteratureandSocialOrderinEighteenth-CenturyEngland,ed.StephenCopley(London:CroomHelm,1984).

• SamuelJohnson,‘Essay156’,inTheRambler,inSelectedWritings:SamuelJohnson,ed.PeterMartin(Cambridge,Mass.:HarvardUniversityPress,2009)pp.

• 194–7;RasselasChapter10;‘Pope’sIntellectualCharacter:PopeandDrydenCompared’,fromTheLifeofPope,inTheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,vol.1,ed.StephenGreenblatt,8thedn(NewYork:Norton,2006)pp.2693–4,2774–7.

Paper9:ENG-HC-4026BritishRomanticLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)ThenineteenthcenturybeginswiththetriumphoftheRomanticimagination,expressingitselfmostmemorablyinthepoetryofBlake,Burns,Wordsworth,Coleridge,Shelley,andKeats.Thepoetryoftheagefashionsitselfpartlyinrevolttothespiritofthepreviousage,withverydifferentideasabouttherelationshipbetweenhumansandnatureandtheroleofthepoettakinghold.ThispaperincludesselectionsfromworksofmajorRomanticpoetswhichaddresstheseissues,enablingstudentstoappreciatetheessenceoftheRomanticvision.Inadditiontheywillreadthatremarkableoddity,Frankenstein,anovelthatalsoilluminatesRomanticismfromanotherangle.Texts:• WilliamBlake:‘TheLamb’,‘TheChimneySweeper’(fromTheSongsofInnocence

andTheSongsofExperience);‘TheTyger’(TheSongsofExperience);'Introduction’toTheSongsofInnocence

• RobertBurns:‘ABard’sEpitaph’;‘ScotsWhaHae’• WilliamWordsworth:‘TinternAbbey’;‘UponWestminsterBridge’• SamuelTaylorColeridge:‘KublaKhan’;‘Dejection:AnOde’• PercyByssheShelley:‘OdetotheWestWind’;‘HymntoIntellectualBeauty’;The

Cenci• JohnKeats:‘OdetoaNightingale’;‘ToAutumn’;‘OnFirstLookingintoChapman’s

Homer’• MaryShelley:FrankensteinSuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentationsTopics• ReasonandImagination

• ConceptionsofNature• LiteratureandRevolution• TheGothic• TheRomanticLyricReadings• WilliamWordsworth,‘PrefacetoLyricalBallads’,inRomanticProseandPoetry,ed.• HaroldBloomandLionelTrilling(NewYork:OUP,1973)pp.594–611.• JohnKeats,‘LettertoGeorgeandThomasKeats,21December1817’,and‘Letterto• RichardWoodhouse,27October,1818’,inRomanticProseandPoetry,ed.Harold• BloomandLionelTrilling(NewYork:OUP,1973)pp.766–68,777–8.• Jean-JacquesRousseau,‘Preface’toEmileorEducation,tr.AllanBloom• (Harmondsworth:Penguin,1991).• SamuelTaylorColeridge,BiographiaLiteraria,ed.GeorgeWatson(London:• Everyman,1993)chap.XIII,pp.161–66.Paper10:ENG-HC-4036BritishLiterature:The19thCenturyCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Themiddleandlaterpartsofthe19thcenturyseesthenovelcomingintoitsown,althoughJaneAustenhasalreadyestablishedtheprestigeofthenovelformthroughherincisiveexplorationsofthecomplexityofhumanmotiveandconduct,especiallyintheirworldlyaffairs.Thetextschosenwillexposethestudentstotheground-breakingeffortsofthepoetsaswelltotheworksoffictionwriterswhomanagetoconsolidateandrefineupontheachievementsofthenovelistsofthepreviousera.AustentoRossettirepresentsaremarkableliterarydevelopmentandrangeofworks,addressingaverydiversearrayofsocialpreoccupations.Texts:

• JaneAusten:PrideandPrejudice• CharlotteBronte:JaneEyre• CharlesDickens:ThePickwickPapers(Chapter1ThePickwickians;Chapter2TheJourneyBegins;Chapter23InWhichMr.SamuelWellerBeginstoDevoteHisEnergies;Chapter56AnImportantConferenceTakesPlace;Chapter57InwhichthePickwickClubisFinallyDissolved)• ThomasHardy:‘TheThreeStrangers’• AlfredTennyson:‘TheDefenceofLucknow’• RobertBrowning:‘LoveamongtheRuins’• ChristinaRossetti:‘GoblinMarket’

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• Utilitarianism• The19thCenturyNovel• MarriageandSexuality• TheWriterandSociety• FaithandDoubt• TheDramaticMonologue

Readings

• KarlMarxandFriedrichEngels,‘ModeofProduction:TheBasisofSocialLife’,‘TheSocialNatureofConsciousness’,and‘ClassesandIdeology’,inAReaderinMarxistPhilosophy,ed.HowardSelsamandHarryMartel(NewYork:InternationalPublishers,1963)pp.186–8,190–1,199–201.

• CharlesDarwin,‘NaturalSelectionandSexualSelection’,inTheDescentofManin The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)pp.1545–9.

• JohnStuartMill,TheSubjectionofWomeninNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)chap.1,pp.1061–9.

SemesterVPaper11:ENG-HC-5016BritishLiterature:The20thCenturyCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)WhileliterarymodernitycantraceitsrootstotheworksofsomeEuropeanwritersofthe19thcentury,inEnglanditisinthe20thcenturythattheeraofModernismfindsitsvoice in arts and literature. Theworks of thewriters chosen for this paper are goodintroductionstothespiritofmodernism,withitsurgentdesiretobreakwiththecodesand conventions of the past, experiment with new forms and idioms, and itscosmopolitanwillingnesstoopenitselfuptoinfluencescomingfromothershores.ThepapergoesbeyondtheHighModernperiodof theearlycenturyandthestudentswillalsogetacquaintedwiththeethosofpostmodernismthroughareadingofrecentpoeticandfictionalworks.Texts:

• JosephConrad:HeartofDarkness• VirginiaWoolf:MrsDalloway• W.B.Yeats:‘TheSecondComing’;‘SailingtoByzantium’• T.S.Eliot:‘TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock’;‘JourneyoftheMagi’• W.H.Auden:‘InMemoryofW.B.Yeats’• HanifKureshi:MyBeautifulLaunderette• PhillipLarkin:‘ChurchGoing’• TedHughes:‘HawkRoosting’• SeamusHeaney:‘Casualty’

• CarolAnnDuffy:‘StandingFemaleNude’SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• Modernism,Post-modernismandnon-EuropeanCultures

• TheWomen’sMovementintheEarly20thCentury

• PsychoanalysisandtheStreamofConsciousness• TheUsesofMyth• TheAvantGarde• PostmodernisminBritishLiterature• Britishnessafter1960s• IntertextualityandExperimentation• LiteratureandCounterculture

Readings

• SigmundFreud,‘TheoryofDreams’,‘OedipusComplex’,and‘TheStructureoftheUnconscious’,inTheModernTradition,ed.RichardEllmanet.al.(Oxford:OUP,1965)pp.571,578–80,559–63.

• T.S.Eliot,‘TraditionandtheIndividualTalent’,inNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature,8thedn,vol.2,ed.StephenGreenblatt(NewYork:Norton,2006)pp.2319–25.

• RaymondWilliams,‘Introduction’,inTheEnglishNovelfromDickenstoLawrence(London:HogarthPress,1984)pp.9–27.

• AlanSinfield,‘LiteratureandCulturalProduction’,inLiterature,Politics,andCultureinPostwarBritain(BerkleyandLosAngeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1989)pp.23–38.

• SeamusHeaney,‘TheRedressofPoetry’,inTheRedressofPoetry(London:Faber,1995)pp.1–16.

• PatriciaWaugh,‘CultureandChange:1960-1990’,inTheHarvestofTheSixties:• EnglishLiteratureandItsBackground,1960-1990(Oxford:OUP,1997).

Paper12:ENG-HC-5026Women’sWritingCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Thispaperseekstodirectthestudents’attentiontonineteenthandtwentiethcenturywritingsbywomenlivingindifferentgeographicalandsocioculturalsettings.Studentswillgetacquaintedwiththesituationallydistinctexperiencesofwomenarticulatedinavarietyofgenres-poetry,novels,shortstories,andautobiography,whiletheselectionsfromMaryWollstonecraft-theonly18thcenturytextprescribed,willacquaintstudents

withtheideascontainedinoneoftheearliestfeministtreatisesofthewesternworld.Apartfromanexaminationofthethemesandstylesintheprescribedtexts,studentswillberequiredtoengagethemselveswiththespecificitiesofthecontextsfromwhichthetextsemergedandalsoanalyzethewomenwriters’handlingofthedifferentgenrestoarticulatetheirwomen-centricexperiences.Themes:Gender,sexual/textualpolitics,feminism,body,identity,class,location,voice,space,genderandnarrative.Texts:

• MaryWollstonecraft:AVindicationoftheRightsofWoman(NewYork:Norton,1988)chap.1,pp.11–19;chap.2,pp.19–38.

• RassundariDebi:ExcerptsfromAmarJibaninSusieTharuandK.Lalita,eds.,Women’sWritinginIndia,vol.1(NewDelhi:OUP,1989)pp.191–2.

• KatherineMansfield:‘Bliss’• SylviaPlath:‘Daddy’;‘LadyLazarus’• AliceWalker:TheColorPurple• MahashwetaDevi:‘Draupadi’,tr.GayatriChakravortySpivak(Calcutta:

Seagull,2002)• NirupamaBargohain:‘Celebration’• AdrienneRich:‘Orion’• EuniceDeSouza:‘AdvicetoWomen’;‘Bequest’

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheConfessionalModeinWomen'sWriting• SexualPolitics• Race,CasteandGender• SocialReformandWomen’sRights

Readings

• VirginiaWoolf,ARoomofOne'sOwn(NewYork:Harcourt,1957)chaps.1and6.• SimonedeBeauvoir,‘Introduction’,inTheSecondSex,tr.ConstanceBorde

andShielaMalovany-Chevallier(London:Vintage,2010)pp.3–18.• KumkumSangariandSudeshVaid,eds.,‘Introduction’,inRecasting

Women:EssaysinColonialHistory(NewDelhi:KaliforWomen,1989)pp.1–25.

• SusieTharu&K.Lalitha,IntroductiontoWomenWritinginIndia:600BCtothePresent,Vol.I:600BCtotheEarly20thCentury,Eds.TharuandLalitha,(NewDelhi:Oxford,1997(rpt))pp.1-37.

SemesterVIPaper13:ENG-HC-6016ModernEuropeanDramaCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)ThepaperaimsatintroducingstudentstotheinnovativedramaticworksofplaywrightsfromdifferentlocationsinEurope,whichtakentogetherrepresentsthewiderangeofmoderndramaanditsfortunesonthewrittenpageandthestage.Theselectedplayswouldallowanunderstandingoftheemergenceofavantgardemovementsandtrendsanddramaticdevicesandtechniquesduringtheperiodofmodernismwhicheventuallyinfluencedtheatricalpracticesinothernationsoftheworld.Texts:• HenrikIbsen:Ghosts• AntonChekhov:TheCherryOrchard• BertoltBrecht:TheCaucasianChalkCircle• SamuelBeckett:WaitingforGodot

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• Politics,SocialChangeandtheStage• TextandPerformance• EuropeanDrama:RealismandBeyond• TragedyandHeroisminModernEuropeanDrama• TheTheatreoftheAbsurd

Readings• ConstantinStanislavski,AnActorPrepares,chap.8,‘FaithandtheSenseofTruth’,tr.

ElizabethReynoldsHapgood(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1967)sections1,2,7,8,9,pp.121–5,137–46.

• BertoltBrecht,‘TheStreetScene’,‘TheatreforPleasureorTheatreforInstruction’,and ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, inBrecht on Theatre: TheDevelopmentofanAesthetic,ed.andtr.JohnWillet(London:Methuen,1992)pp.68–76,121–8.

• GeorgeSteiner,‘OnModernTragedy’,inTheDeathofTragedy(London:Faber,

1995)pp.303–24.Paper14:ENG-HC-6026PostcolonialLiteraturesCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

EuropeanColonialismsincethefifteenthcenturychangedthefaceoftheworldinmanysignificantways,andtheeffectsoftheexperienceofcolonialismremaininmanycountriesaroundtheworldeveninthepostcolonialera.Thispapergivesthestudentsanopportunitytoacquaintthemselveswithsomeofthenovels,shortstoriesandpoemsfrompostcolonialliteraturesacrosstheworld,withthetextsshowcasingthemanyregional,culturaldifferencesandpeculiarities,aswellascommonandsharedexperiencesofthepostcolonialcondition.Texts:

• ChinuaAchebe:ThingsFallApart• GabrielGarciaMarquez:ChronicleofaDeathForetold• BessieHead:‘TheCollectorofTreasures’AmaAtaAidoo:‘TheGirlwhocan’• GraceOgot:‘TheGreenLeaves’• ShyamSelvadurai:FunnyBoy• PabloNeruda:‘TonightIcanWrite’;‘TheWaySpainWas’• DerekWalcott:‘AFarCryfromAfrica’;‘Names’• DavidMalouf:‘RevolvingDays’;‘WildLemons’• EasterineKire:WhentheRiverSleeps

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• De-colonization,GlobalizationandLiterature• LiteratureandIdentityPolitics• WritingfortheNewWorldAudience• Region,Race,andGender• PostcolonialLiteraturesandQuestionsofForm

Readings

• FranzFanon,‘TheNegroandLanguage’,inBlackSkin,WhiteMasks,tr.CharlesLamMarkmann(London:PlutoPress,2008)pp.8–27.

• NgugiwaThiong’o,‘TheLanguageofAfricanLiterature’,inDecolonisingtheMind(London:JamesCurry,1986)chap.1,sections4–6.

• GabrielGarciaMarquez,theNobelPrizeAcceptanceSpeech,inGabrielGarciaMarquez:NewReadings,ed.BernardMcGuirkandRichardCardwell(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1987).

• ChelvaKanaganayakam,‘DancingintheRarefiedAir:ReadingContemporarySriLankanLiterature’(ARIEL,Jan.1998)rpt,MalashriLal,AlamgirHashmi,andVictorJ.Ramraj,eds.,PostIndependenceVoicesinSouthAsianWritings(Delhi:DoabaPublications,2001)pp.51–65.

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Paper1:ENG-HE-5016PopularLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Overtheyearspopularliteraturehasmovedfromthemarginstoearnforitselfafairlyimportantplaceintheliteraryandcriticalconsciousness.Thispaperseekstohighlightthenatureof‘popular’literatureasagenreandthecriticalideasunderpinningthetheorizationofpopularliterature.Thiswillbedonethroughapracticalengagementwithvarioustextsfallingunderitsambit.Texts:

• LewisCarroll:AliceinWonderland• AgathaChristie:TheMurderofRogerAckroyd• J.K.Rowling:HarryPotterandthePhilosopher’sStone• DurgabaiVyamandSubhashVyam:Bhimayana:Experiencesof

Untouchability/AutobiographicalNotesonAmbedkar(FortheVisuallyChallengedstudents)

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• ComingofAge• TheCanonicalandthePopular• Caste,GenderandIdentity• EthicsandEducationinChildren’sLiterature• SenseandNonsense• TheGraphicNovel

Readings

• SumathiRamaswamy,‘Introduction’,inBeyondAppearances?:VisualPracticesandIdeologiesinModernIndia(Sage:Delhi,2003)pp.xiii–xxix.

• LeslieFiedler,‘TowardsaDefinitionofPopularLiterature’,inSuperCulture:AmericanPopularCultureandEurope,ed.C.W.E.Bigsby(Ohio:BowlingGreenUniversityPress,1975)pp.29–38.

• FelicityHughes,‘Children’sLiterature:TheoryandPractice’,EnglishLiteraryHistory,vol.45,1978,pp.542–61.

Paper2:ENG-HE-5026ModernIndianWritinginEnglishTranslationCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

LiteratureinthevariousIndianlanguagespresentsahugebodyofworktestifyingtothediverseculturalandregionalpreoccupationsintherespectiveregionstheselanguagesbelongto.ThispaperattemptstogivestudentsanintroductoryglimpseintothisrichnessanddiversityofIndianliteraturewrittenintheregionallanguages.Texts:

• Premchand:‘TheShroud’,inPenguinBookofClassicUrduStories,ed.M.Asaduddin(NewDelhi:Penguin/Viking,2006).

• IsmatChugtai:‘TheQuilt’,inLiftingtheVeil:SelectedWritingsofIsmatChugtai,tr.M.Asaduddin(NewDelhi:PenguinBooks,2009).

• BhabendranathSaikia:‘Celebration’,Tr.PracheeDewri,inSplendourintheGrass:SelectedAssameseShortStories,ed.HirenGohain(NewDelhi:SahityaAkademi,2010)

• FakirMohanSenapati:‘Rebati’,inOriyaStories,ed.VidyaDas,tr.KishoriCharanDas(Delhi:SrishtiPublishers,2000).

• RabindraNathTagore:‘Light,OhWhereistheLight?'and'WhenMyPlaywaswiththee',inGitanjali:ANewTranslationwithanIntroductionbyWilliamRadice(NewDelhi:PenguinIndia,2011).

• G.M.Muktibodh:‘TheVoid’,(tr.VinayDharwadker)and‘SoVeryFar’,(tr.Tr.VishnuKhareandAdilJussawala),inTheOxfordAnthologyofModernIndianPoetry,ed.VinayDharwadkerandA.K.Ramanujan(NewDelhi:OUP,2000).

• AmritaPritam:‘ISayUntoWarisShah’,(tr.N.S.Tasneem)inModernIndianLiterature:AnAnthology,PlaysandProse,SurveysandPoems,ed.K.M.George,vol.3(Delhi:SahityaAkademi,1992).

• ThangjamIbopishakSingh:‘Dali,Hussain,orOdourofDream,ColourofWind’and‘TheLandoftheHalf-Humans’,tr.RobinS.Ngangom,inTheAnthologyofContemporaryPoetryfromtheNortheast(NEHU:Shillong,2003).

• DharamveerBharati:AndhaYug,tr.AlokBhalla(NewDelhi:OUP,2009).• HirenBhattacharyya:‘WhatIsItThatBurnsinMe?’

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-it-that-burns-in-me/SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheAestheticsofTranslation• LinguisticRegionsandLanguages• ModernityinIndianLiterature• Caste,GenderandResistance• QuestionsofFormin20thCenturyIndianLiterature.

Readings

• NamwarSingh,‘DecolonisingtheIndianMind’,tr.HarishTrivedi,IndianLiterature,no.151(Sept./Oct.1992).

• B.R.Ambedkar,AnnihilationofCasteinDr.BabasahebAmbedkar:WritingsandSpeeches,vol.1(Maharashtra:EducationDepartment,GovernmentofMaharashtra,1979)chaps.4,6,and14.

• SujitMukherjee,‘ALinkLiteratureforIndia’,inTranslationasDiscovery(Hyderabad:OrientLongman,1994)pp.34–45.

• G.N.Devy,‘Introduction’,fromAfterAmnesiainTheG.N.DevyReader(NewDelhi:OrientBlackSwan,2009)pp.1–5.

Paper3:ENG-HE-5036LiteratureoftheIndianDiasporaCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Inthelightofgloballiteraturetodayfocusingextensivelyonideasoftransnationalism,exile,migration,displacement,andsoon,literatureofthediasporahascometoexertastrongpresenceintheglobalscene.ThispaperwilllookatthediasporicexperiencewithparticularreferencetoIndiandiasporicwriters.Texts:

• M.G.Vassanji:TheBookofSecrets(Penguin,India)• RohintonMistry:AFineBalance(AlfredAKnopf)• MeeraSyal:AnitaandMe(HarperCollins)• JhumpaLahiri:TheNamesake(HoughtonMifflinHarcourt)

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentationsTopics

• TheDiaspora• Nostalgia• NewMedium• Alienation

Reading

• “Introduction:Thediasporicimaginary”inMishra,V.(2008).LiteratureoftheIndianDiaspora.London:Routledge

• “CulturalConfigurationsofDiaspora,”inKalra,V.Kaur,R.andHutynuk,J.(2005).Diaspora&hybridity.London:SagePublications.

• “TheNewEmpirewithinBritain,”inRushdie,S.(1991).ImaginaryHomelands.London:GrantaBooks.

Paper4:ENG-HE-5046NineteenthCenturyEuropeanRealismCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)

Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Theinsistenceonliteraryrepresentationwhoseobjectivewasto‘mirror’realitygainedground in nineteenth-century Europe across the different cultural spaces of theContinent.Thatiswhyvarietiesofrealismsurfacedintheliterarytraditionswhichwereas culturally divergent as Russia and Spain. This paper is designed to provide aninterestingsamplingofthetraditionsthatcontributedtothegrowthandconsolidationofEuropeanRealisminthenineteenthcentury.Studyof thesetextswillalso facilitatethe understanding of the gradual movement towards modernism in the twentiethcentury which was, in many ways, both a response and a reaction to the majortendenciesofEuropeanRealism.

Texts:

• IvanTurgenev:FathersandSons,tr.PeterCarson(London:Penguin,2009).• LeoTolstoy:‘Kholstomer:TheStoryofaHorse’• NikolaiGogol:‘TheNose’• HonoredeBalzac:OldGoriot,tr.M.A.Crawford(London:Penguin,2003).• GuydeMaupassant:

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• History,RealismandtheNovelForm• EthicsandtheNovel• TheNovelanditsReadershipinthe19thCentury• PoliticsandtheRussianNovel:SlavophilesandWesternizers

Readings

• LeoTolstoy,‘ManasacreatureofhistoryinWarandPeace’,ed.RichardEllmannet.al.,TheModernTradition,(Oxford:OUP,1965)pp.246–54.

• HonoredeBalzac,‘SocietyasHistoricalOrganism’,fromPrefacetoTheHumanComedy,inTheModernTradition,ed.Ellmannet.al(Oxford:OUP,1965)pp.265–67.

• GustavFlaubert,‘Heroichonesty’,LetteronMadameBovary,inTheModernTradition,ed.RichardEllmannet.al.(Oxford:OUP,1965)pp.242–3.

• GeorgeLukacs,‘BalzacandStendhal’,inStudiesinEuropeanRealism

(London,MerlinPress,1972)pp.65–85.• ViktorShklovsky,‘ArtasTechnique’

Paper5:ENG-HE-5056LiteraryCriticismandLiteraryTheoryCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Thispaperwillfamiliarizestudentswithsomeimportanttextsonliterarycriticismandliterarytheory.BeginningfromWilliamWordsworth’sPrefacetotheLyricalBalladsthepurposewillbetoinformthestudentsontheshiftsinliteraryinterpretationsandcriticalapproachessoastoequipthemwhilereadingtextsacrossgenres.Texts:

• WilliamWordsworth:PrefacetotheLyricalBallads(1802)• S.T.Coleridge:BiographiaLiteraria.ChaptersIV,XIIIandXIV• VirginiaWoolf:“ModernFiction”• T.S.Eliot:“TraditionandtheIndividualTalent”(1919)• I.A.Richards:PrinciplesofLiteraryCriticismChapters1,2and34.London1924• CleanthBrooks:“TheLanguageofParadox”inTheWell-WroughtUrn:Studiesin

theStructureofPoetry(1947)• TerryEagleton:IntroductiontoMarxismandLiteraryCriticism(Universityof

CaliforniaPress,1976)• ElaineShowalter:‘TwentyYearson:ALiteratureofTheirOwnRevisited’,inA

LiteratureofTheirOwn:BritishWomenNovelistsfromBrontetoLessing(1977.Rpt.London:Virago,2003)pp.xi–xxxiii.

• TorilMoi:“Introduction”inSexual/TextualPolitics(1985.NewYorkandLondon:Routledge,2002,2ndEdn.)pp.1-18.

• JacquesDerrida:“Structure,SignandPlayintheDiscourseoftheHumanScience”,tr.AlanBass,inModernCriticismandTheory:AReader,ed.DavidLodge(London:Longman,1988)pp.108–23.

• MichelFoucault:‘TruthandPower’,inPowerandKnowledge,tr.AlessandroFontanaandPasqualePasquino(NewYork:Pantheon,1977)pp.109–33.

• MahatmaGandhi:‘PassiveResistance’and‘Education’,inHindSwarajandOtherWritings,ed.AnthonyJParel(Delhi:CUP,1997)pp.88–106.

• EdwardSaid:‘TheScopeofOrientalism’inOrientalism(Harmondsworth:Penguin,1978)pp.29–110.

• FrantzFanon:BlackSkin,WhiteMaskstr.CharlesLamMarkmann(Chapter4“TheSo-CalledDependencyComplexofColonizedPeoples”)(London:PlutoPress,1986)pp.83-108

SuggestedBackgroundProseReadingsandTopicsforClassPresentations

Topics

• SummarisingandCritiquing• PointofView• ReadingandInterpreting• MediaCriticism• PlotandSetting

• CitingfromCritics’Interpretations• TheEastandtheWest• QuestionsofAlterity• Power,Language,andRepresentation• TheStateandCulture

Readings

• TerryEagleton,LiteraryTheory:AnIntroduction(Oxford:Blackwell,2008).• PeterBarry,BeginningTheory(Manchester:ManchesterUniversityPress,2002).• C.S.Lewis,IntroductioninAnExperimentinCriticism,CambridgeUniversity

Press1992• M.H.Abrams,TheMirrorandtheLamp,OxfordUniversityPress,!971• ReneWellek,StephenG.Nicholas,ConceptsofCriticism,Connecticut,Yale

University1963• TaylorandFrancisEds.,AnIntroductiontoLiterature,Criticismand

Theory,Routledge,1996Paper6:ENG-HE-5066ScienceFictionandDetectiveLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)ScienceFictionandDetectiveLiteraturehaveafairlyvenerableancestry,goingbackatleasttwocenturies.Somefineliterarymindshaveengagedwiththesegenres,andtheircreationscanbefruitfullystudiedtoexplorewaysinwhichnewnarrativepossibilitieshaveemergedduetothehumanfascinationforcrime,mysteryandimprobableoccurrences.Texts:

• WilkieCollins:TheWomaninWhite• ArthurConanDoyle:TheHoundoftheBaskervilles• RaymondChandler:TheBigSleep• H.R.F.Keating:InspectorGhoteGoesbyTrain• DorisLessing:Shikasta

SuggestedTopicsandReadingsforClassPresentation

Topics

• CrimeacrosstheMedia• ConstructionsofCriminalIdentity• CulturalStereotypesinCrimeFiction• CrimeFictionandCulturalNostalgia• CrimeFictionandEthics

• CrimeandCensorshipReadings

• J.EdmundWilson,‘WhoCaresWhoKilledRogerAckroyd?’,TheNewYorker,20June1945.

• GeorgeOrwell,RafflesandMissBlandish,availableat:<www.george-orwell.org/Raffles_and_Miss_Blandish/0.html>

• W.H.Auden,TheGuiltyVicarage,availableat:<harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty-vicarage/>

• RaymondChandler,‘TheSimpleArtofMurder’,AtlanticMonthly,Dec.1944,availableat:<http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html

SemesterVI(AnyTwo)Paper7:ENG-HE-6016LiteratureandCinemaCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)• JamesMonaco:‘Thelanguageoffilm:signsandsyntax’,inHowToReadaFilm:

TheWorldofMovies,Media&Multimedia(NewYork:OUP,2009)chap.3,pp.170–249.

• Romeo&Juliet(1968;dir.FrancoZeffirelli,Paramount);andRomeo+Juliet(1996;dir.BazLuhrmann,20thCenturyFox)[AdaptationsofWilliamShakespeareRomeoandJuliet,anditsadaptations]• Earth(1998;dir.DeepaMehta,CrackingtheEarthFilmsIncorp.)[BapsiSidhwa:Ice-Candy-Man’sadaptation];andPinjar(2003;dir.C.P.Dwivedi,LuckyStarEntertainment)[AmritaPritam,Pinjar:TheSkeletonandOtherStories,tr.KhushwantSingh(NewDelhi:TaraPress,2009)anditsadaptation]• Ganashatru(1989;dir.SatyajitRay,NFDC)[HenrikIbsen:AnEnemyofthePeople’sadaptation];Rudaali(1993;KalpanaLajmi,NFDC)[MahaswetaDevi:Rudaali]

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics• TheoriesofAdaptation• TransformationandTransposition• Hollywoodand‘Bollywood’• The‘TwoWaysofSeeing’• AdaptationasInterpretation

Readings• LindaHutcheon,‘OntheArtofAdaptation’,Daedalus,vol.133,(2004).• ThomasLeitch,‘AdaptationStudiesatCrossroads’,Adaptation,2008,vol.1,no.1,pp.63–77.• PoonamTrivedi,‘FilmiShakespeare’,LitfilmQuarterly,vol.35,issue2,2007.

• TonyBennettandJanetWoollacott,‘FiguresofBond’,inPopularFiction:Technology,Ideology,Production,Reading,ed.TonyBennet(LondonandNewYork:Routledge,1990).• Gulzar–Angoor(1982)[AdaptationofWilliamShakespeare’sTheComedyofErrors]• VishalBhardwaj–Maqbool(2003),Omkara(2006)[AdaptationofWilliamShakespeare’sMacbethandOthellorespectively]• BBCTVmini-series(1995),JoeWright(2005)andGurinderChadha’sBrideandPrejudice(2004)[JaneAusten,PrideandPrejudiceanditsadaptations]• ItaloSpinelli–Gangoror‘BehindtheBodice’(2010).• ShyamBenegal–Junoon(1979)

VishalBhardwaj–TheBlueUmbrella(2005),andSaatKhoonMaaf(2011)[AdaptationofRuskinBond’sshortstories]

• DavidLean–PassagetoIndia(1984)[AdaptationofE.M.Forster’sPassagetoIndia]Note:• Foreveryunit,4hoursareforthewrittentextand8hoursforitscinematicadaptation(Total:12hours)• Tointroducestudentstotheissuesandpracticesofcinematicadaptations,teachersmayusethefollowingcriticalmaterial:• DeborahCartmellandImeldaWhelehan,eds.,TheCambridgeCompaniontoLiteratureonScreen(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2007).• JohnM.DesmondandPeterHawkes,Adaptation:StudyingFilmandLiterature

(NewYork:McGraw-Hill,2005).• LindaHutcheon,ATheoryofAdaptation(NewYork:Routledge,2006).• J.G.Boyum,DoubleExposure(Calcutta:Seagull,1989).• B.Mcfarlens,NoveltoFilm:AnIntroductiontotheTheoryofAdaptation(ClarendonUniversityPress,1996).

Paper8:ENG-HE-6026WorldLiteraturesCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

• V.S.Naipaul:ABendintheRiver(London:Picador,1979).• MarieClements:TheUnnaturalandAccidentalWomen,inStagingCoyote’s

Dream:AnAnthologyofFirstNations,ed.MoniqueMojicaandRicKnowles(Toronto:PlaywrightsCanada,2003)

• AntoineDeSaint-Exupery:TheLittlePrince(NewDelhi:PigeonBooks,2008)

• JulioCortazar:‘Blow-Up’,inBlow-UpandotherStories(NewYork:Pantheon,1985).

• JudithWright:‘BoraRing’,inCollectedPoems(Sydney:Angus&Robertson,2002)p.8.

• GabrielOkara:‘TheMysticDrum’,inAnAnthologyofCommonwealthPoetry,ed.C.D.Narasimhaiah(Delhi:Macmillan,1990)pp.132–3.

• KishwarNaheed:‘TheGrassisReallylikeme’,inWetheSinfulWomen(NewDelhi:Rupa,1994)p.41.

• ShuTing:‘AssemblyLine’,inASplinteredMirror:ChinesePoetryFromtheDemocracyMovement,tr.DonaldFinkel,additionaltranslationsbyCarolynKizer(NewYork:NorthPointPress,1991).

• JeanArasanayagam:‘TwoDeadSoldiers’,inFusillade(NewDelhi:Indialog,2003)pp.89–90.

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

Topics

• TheIdeaofWorldLiterature• Memory,DisplacementandDiaspora• Hybridity,RaceandCulture• AdultReceptionofChildren’sLiterature• LiteraryTranslationandtheCirculationofLiteraryTexts• AestheticsandPoliticsinPoetry

Readings• SarahLawall,‘Preface’and‘Introduction’,inReadingWorldLiterature:Theory,

History,Practice,ed.SarahLawall(Austin,Texas:UniversityofTexasPress,1994)pp.ix–xviii,1–64.

• DavidDamrosch,HowtoReadWorldLiterature?(Chichester:Wiley-Blackwell,2009)pp.1–64,65–85.

• FrancoMoretti,‘ConjecturesonWorldLiterature’,NewLeftReview,vol.1(2000),pp.54–68.

• TheoD’haenet.al.,eds.,‘Introduction’,inWorldLiterature:AReader(London:Routledge,2012).

Paper9:ENG-HE-6036PartitionLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

• IntizarHusain:Basti,tr.FrancesW.Pritchett(NewDelhi:Rupa,1995).• AmitavGhosh:TheShadowLines.

• DibyenduPalit:‘Alam'sOwnHouse’,tr.SarikaChaudhuri,BengalPartitionStories:AnUnclosedChapter,ed.BashabiFraser(London:AnthemPress,2008)pp.453–72.

• ManikBandhopadhya:‘TheFinalSolution’,tr.RaniRay,Mapmaking:PartitionStoriesfromTwoBengals,ed.DebjaniSengupta(NewDelhi:Srishti,2003)pp.23–39.

• Sa’adatHasanManto:‘TobaTekSingh’,BlackMargins:Manto,tr.M.Asaduddin(NewDelhi:Katha,2003)pp.212-20.

• LalithambikaAntharajanam:‘ALeafintheStorm’,tr.K.NarayanaChandran,inStoriesaboutthePartitionofIndiaed.AlokBhalla(NewDelhi:Manohar,2012)pp.137–45.

• FaizAhmadFaiz:‘ForYourLanes,MyCountry’,inInEnglish:FaizAhmadFaiz,ARenownedUrduPoet,tr.anded.RizRahim(California:Xlibris,2008)p.138.

• JibanandaDas:‘IShallReturntoThisBengal’,tr.SukantaChaudhuri,inModernIndianLiterature(NewDelhi:OUP,2004)pp.8–13.

• Gulzar:‘TobaTekSingh’,tr.AnisurRahman,inTranslatingPartition,ed.RavikantandTarunK.Saint(NewDelhi:Katha,2001)p.x.

SuggestedTopicsandReadingsforClassPresentation

Topics

• Colonialism,Nationalism,andthePartition• CommunalismandViolence• HomelessnessandExile• WomeninthePartition

BackgroundReadingsandScreenings

• RituMenonandKamlaBhasin,‘Introduction’,inBordersandBoundaries(NewDelhi:KaliforWomen,1998).

• SukritaP.Kumar,NarratingPartition(Delhi:Indialog,2004).

• UrvashiButalia,TheOtherSideofSilence:VoicesfromthePartitionofIndia(Delhi:KaliforWomen,2000).

• Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete PsychologicalWorksofSigmundFreud, tr. JamesStrachey(London:HogarthPress,1953)pp.3041–53.

Films

• GaramHawa(dir.M.S.Sathyu,1974).• KhamoshPaani:SilentWaters(dir.SabihaSumar,2003).• Subarnarekha(dir.RitwikGhatak,1965)

Paper10:ENG-HE-6046TravelWriting

Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

• IbnBatuta:‘TheCourtofMuhammadbinTughlaq’,KhuswantSingh’sCityImprobable:WritingsonDelhi,Penguin

• AlBiruni:ChapterLXIII,LXIV,LXV,LXVI,inIndiabyAlBiruni,editedbyQeyamuddinAhmad,NationalBookTrustofIndia

• MarkTwain:TheInnocentAbroad(ChapterVII,VIIIandIX),WordsworthClassicsEdition

• ErnestoCheGuevara:TheMotorcycleDiaries:AJourneyaroundSouthAmerica(theExpert,Homelandforvictor,Thecityofviceroys),Harper

• WilliamDalrymple:CityofDijnn(Prologue,ChaptersIandII),Penguin• RahulSankrityayan:FromVolgatoGanga(TranslationbyVictorKierman)(SectionI

toSectionII)PilgrimsPublishing• NahidGandhi:AlternativeRealties:LoveintheLivesofMuslimWomen,

Chapter‘Love,WarandWidow’,Westland,2013• VikramSeth:FromHeavenLake“HeavenLake”• ElisabethBumiller:MayYoubetheMotherofaHundredSons:aJourneyAmong

theWomenofIndia,Chapters2and3,pp.24-74(NewYork:PenguinBooks,1991)

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforClassPresentations

• TravelWritingandEthnography• GenderandTravel• GlobalizationandTravel• TravelandReligion• OrientalismandTravel

Readings

• SusanBassnett,‘TravelWritingandGender’,inCambridgeCompaniontoTravelWriting,ed.PeterHulmeandTimYoung(Cambridge:CUP,2002)pp,225-241

• TabishKhair,‘AnInterviewwithWilliamDalyrmpleandPankajMishra’inPostcolonialTravelWritings:CriticalExplorations,ed.JustinDEdwardsandRuneGraulund(NewYork:PalgraveMacmillan,2011),173-184

• CaseyBalton,‘NarratingSelfandOther:AHistoricalView’,inTravelWriting:TheSelfandTheOther(Routledge,2012),pp.1-29

• SachidanandaMohanty,‘Introduction:BeyondtheImperialEyes’inTravelWritingandEmpire(NewDelhi:Katha,2004)pp.ix–xx.

Paper11:ENG-HE-6056LifeWritingCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

• Jean-JacquesRousseau:Confessions,PartOne,BookOne,pp.5-43,Translatedby

AngelaScholar(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2000).• MayaAngelou:IKnowWhytheCagedBirdSings,Chapter6,pp.37-49(NewYork:

Virago,2004)• M. K. Gandhi: Autobiography or the Story ofMy Experimentswith Truth, Part I

ChaptersII-IX,pp.5-26(Ahmedabad:NavajivanTrust,1993).• IsmatChugtai,ALifeinWords:Memoirs,Chapter1(NewDelhi:PenguinIndia,

2013).• BinodiniDasi:MyStoryandLifeasanActress,pp.61-83(NewDelhi:Kalifor

women,1998).• Revathi:TruthAboutMe:AHijraLifeStory,ChaptersOnetoFour,1-37(New

Delhi:PenguinBooks,2010.)• RichardWright:BlackBoy,Chapter1,pp.9-44(UnitedKingdom:Picador,1968).• SharankumarLimbale:TheOutcaste,TranslatedbySantoshBhoomkar,pp.1-39

(NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,2003)SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforclassPresentations

• Selfandsociety• Roleofmemoryinwritingautobiography• Autobiographyasresistance• Autobiographyasrewritinghistory

Readings:

• JamesOlney,‘ATheoryofAutobiography’inMetaphorsofSelf:themeaningofAutobiography(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1972)pp.3-50.• LauraMarcus,‘TheLawofGenre’inAuto/biographicalDiscourses(Manchester:ManchesterUniversityPress,1994)pp.229-72.• LindaAnderson,‘Introduction’inAutobiography(London:Routledge,2001)pp.1-17.• Mary G. Mason, ‘The Other Voice: Autobiographies of women Writers’ inLife/Lines:TheorizingWomen’sAutobiography,EditedbyBellaBrodzkiandCelesteSchenck(Ithaca:CornellUniversityPress,1988)pp.19-44.• Carolyn G. Heilbrun, ‘Introduction’ in Writing a Woman’s Life (New York:BallantineBooks,1988)pp.11-31.

Paper12:ENG-HE-6066WritingsfromNorthEastIndia

Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)

Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

SectionI:OralNarratives

• MamangDai:OnCreationMythsandOralNarratives

• TashiChopel:TheStoryofCreation• KynphamSingNongkynrih:UThlen:TheMan-EatingSerpent

SectionII:Poetry

• DevaKantaBarua:‘AndweopentheGates’• AjitBarua:‘LovelyisOurVillage’,PartsI&II• RajendraBhandari:‘TimeDoesNotPass’

SectionIII:Fiction

• HomenBorgohain:‘SpringinHell’• TemsulaAo:‘AnOldManRemembers’• MahimBora:‘Audition’

SectionIV:Prose

• GopinathBardoloi:‘ReminiscencesofGandhiji’• MojiRiba:‘Rites,InPassing’

SectionV:Drama

• ArunSarma:Aahar

SuggestedTopicsandBackgroundProseReadingsforclassPresentations

• TheFolkinNarrative• MythsandLegends• MemoryandTelling• WritingNortheastIndia

Readings:

• GeetiSen.ed.WheretheSunRisesWhenShadowsFall:TheNorthEast,OUP,2006• HomenBorgohain.TheCollectedWorksofHomenBorgohain.Amaryllis,2017• HomenBorgohainandHirenDutta.Eds.HundredYearsofAssamesePoetry,

PublicationBoard,Assam,1998• MitraPhukaned.Assamese:HandpickedFictions,Katha,2003• RobinSinghNgangom,andKSNongkynrih.eds.DancingEarth:AnAnthologyof

PoetryfromNortheastIndia,2009

IIIGenericElective(FourPapers)Note:OneGenericElectivepaperineachsemestergivenbelowisdesignedtobeacommononeforbothBAHonoursandBARegularstudents.TheDepartmentscan,therefore,offerthesepapersiftheyfinditconvenienttodoso.However,theyarealsofreetooffertheotherpapersiftheychooseto.

SemesterI(AnyOne)

Paper1:ENG-HG-1016AcademicWritingandComposition

Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)

Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

• IntroductiontotheWritingProcess• IntroductiontotheConventionsofAcademicWriting• Writinginone’sownwords:SummarizingandParaphrasing• CriticalThinking:Syntheses,Analyses,andEvaluation• StructuringanArgument:Introduction,Interjection,andConclusion• CitingResources;Editing,BookandMediaReview

SuggestedReadings

• LizHamp-LyonsandBenHeasley,Studywriting:ACourseinWritingSkillsforAcademicPurposes(Cambridge:CUP,2006).

• RenuGupta,ACourseinAcademicWriting(NewDelhi:OrientBlackSwan,2010).

• IlonaLeki,AcademicWriting:ExploringProcessesandStrategies(NewYork:CUP,2ndedn,1998).

• GeraldGraffandCathyBirkenstein,TheySay/ISay:TheMovesThatMatterinAcademicWriting(NewYork:Norton,2009).

Paper2:ENG-HG-1026IndividualandSociety

Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)

Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6Marks:100(80+20) Thispaperexaminesakeyaspectofliterarycomposition–thefigureoftheindividualinherinteractionswiththesocietyinwhichshelives.Literaryworksrepresenttheseelementsindifferentways.Theindividualappearsascharacter,narrator,writer,whilethesocietyfeaturesasmilieuinwhichindividualsfunction,andasthatwhichcreatestheconditionsforemergenceoftheliterarytext.Individualsliveinharmonyorinconflictwithsociety.Textsinthispaper,selectedfromthemanyliteraturesinEnglishbeingproducedtoday,willprovidetheopportunitytostudyalloftheseaspects.Studentswillalsonotethewaysinwhichindividual-societyrelationshipsandtheirrepresentationchangeindifferenthistoricalperiodsofliterature.Eachtextinthispaperwillbestudiedagainstitssocialandculturalmilieu.CourseOutcomes:

• Understandtherelationshipbetweentheindividualwriterandthesocietyabout/inwhichshewrites

• Developskillinanalyzingtheauthor’srepresentationofsocietyandtheindividualininteractionandwritecritiquesdrawingout.

• Learntodistinguishbetweenliteraryrepresentationandactualcharacterandmilieu

Texts:• GeoffreyChaucer:TheProloguetotheCanterburyTales• Pope:Epistle3(fromAnEssayonMan)• CharlesDickens:OliverTwist• T.S.Eliot:‘Preludes’,• AllenGinsberg:Howl• VijayTendulkarKamala(Play.TranslatedfromMarathi)• KamilaShamsie:BurntShadows• E.L.Doctorow:Ragtime

SuggestedReadings:-TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature(Allvolumes-forlibrary)(10thedition,2018)-AndrewSanders:TheShortOxfordHistoryofEnglishLiterature(1994)-RaymondWilliams:CultureandSociety(1958)

SemesterII(AnyOne)Paper3:ENG-HG-2016ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowermentCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Course Objectives/Course Description: This coursewill look atWomen’s Issues inIndiainthelightofthevarioushistoricalandsocialcontexts.Itwilltracetheevolutionof Women’s Empowerment both in terms of policy and discourse in postcolonial,contemporaryIndiaandatthesametimetrytolocatethewomen’spositioninearliertimes.

Thecourseaimsto:

• Studythepositionofwomeninpre-colonialtimes

• Showhowcolonialmodernityimpactswomen

• Studytheimpactofnationalismonwomen

• TracktheWomen’smovementandEmpowermentissuesincontemporaryIndia

CourseOutcome:

Thelearnerwillbeequippedwith:

• AhistoricalunderstandingofthespaceaccordedtowomeninIndiathroughhistory

• Anunderstandingofthemannerinwhichthesocialconstructionofgendercomesabout.

• Theabilitytocritiquethegivenandstereotypicalnotionsofsuchconstructions.

UNIT1:SocialConstructionofGender (15)

• MasculinityandFemininity

• Patriarchy

• WomeninCommunity

UNIT2:HistoryofWomen'sMovementsinIndia(Pre&PostIndependence)(20)

• WomenandNation

• WomenandthePartition

• Women,EducationandSelf-fashioning

• WomeninthePublicandPrivateSpaces

UNIT3:WomenandLaw (15)

• WomenandtheIndianConstitution

• PersonalLaws(CustomarypracticesoninheritanceandMarriage)

• Workshoponlegalawareness

UNIT4:Women’sBodyandtheEnvironment (15)

• Stateinterventions,KhapPanchayats

• Femalefoeticide,Domesticviolence,Sexualharassment

• Eco-feminismandtheChipkoMovement

UNIT5:FemaleVoices (15)

• KamalaDas,“TheOldPlayhouse”

• MahashwetaDevi,Motherof1084

• KrishnaSobti,Zindaginama

RecommendedReading:

• UrvashiButalia,TheOtherSideofSilence:VoicesfromthePartitionofIndia• KumkumSanagari,RecastingWomen:EssaysinColonialHistory

• JudithWalsh,DomesticityinColonialIndia:WhatWomenLearnedWhenMenGaveThemAdvice

• TanikaandSumitSarkar,WomenandSocialReforminModernIndia-Vol1&Vol

• NiveditaMenon,GenderandPoliticsinIndia:ThemesinPolitics

• VandanaShiva&MariaMies,Ecofeminism

Paper4:ENG-HG-2026ModernIndianLiteraturesCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)The Modern Indian Literatures comprise extensive writings in all genres in manylanguages. The different historical and cultural backgrounds of the various Indianlanguages and literatures add to the complexity ofwhat is termed asModern IndianLiteratures. However, there are also things that hold India together, manycommonalities,bondings,andsharedexperiencesdespitethevarieties.ThelistofshortstoriesandpoemsprescribedforthiscoursegivethestudentatasteofIndianwritingfrom different regions of the country. The selection has been culled from EnglishtranslationsofwritingsinIndianlanguagesandEnglishcompositionsofIndianauthors.ShortStories: 50Marks

• AmritaPritam:“TheWeed”• U.R.AnanthaMurthy:“TheSkyandtheCat”• GopinathMohanty:“TheSomersault”• RKNarayan:“AnotherCommunity”• SunilGangopadhyay:“ShahJahanandHisPrivateArmy”• SaurabhKumarChaliha:“RestlessElectrons”

Poems: 30Marks

• NissimEzekiel:“Poet,Lover,Birdwatcher”• JayantaMahapatra:“TheAbandonedBritishCemeteryatBalasore”• KekiN.Daruwalla:“Wolf”• MamangDai:“TheVoiceoftheMountain”• NavakantaBarua:“Bats”• DilipChitre:“TheFellingoftheBanyanTree”

RecommendedTexts:

-ThePenguinBookofModernIndianShortStories.EditedbyStephenAlterandWimalDissanayake.2001.

-TheOxfordAnthologyofTwelveIndianPoetschosenandeditedbyArvindKrishnaMehrotra.OxfordUniversityPress,1992.

-TheOxfordAnthologyofWritingsfromNorth-EastIndia:PoetryandEssays.EditedbyTilottomaMisra.OUP,2011.

SuggestedReading:

-Sarkar,Sumit.ModernTimes:India:1880s-1950s:Environment,Economy,Culture.Ranikhet:PermanentBlack,2014.

-Mehrotra,ArvindKrishna.PartialRecall:EssaysonLiteratureandliteraryHistory.OrientBlackswan,2012.

SemesterIII(AnyOne)Paper5:ENG-HG-3016LanguageandLinguisticsCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)• Language:languageandcommunication;languagevarieties:standardand

non-standardlanguage;languagechange.

RecommendedReading:• Mesthrie,RajendandRakeshMBhatt.WorldEnglishes:Thestudyofnewlinguistic

varieties.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2008.• Lyons,John.LanguageandLinguistics.AnIntroduction.CambridgeUniversity

Press,1981

• Structuralism:FerdinandDeSaussure.1966.Courseingenerallinguistics.NewYork:McGrawHillIntroduction:Chapter3

• PhonologyandMorphology:Theorgansofspeech,vowelandconsonantsounds,thesyllable,wordstressandsentencestress,basicintonationpatterns.Morphemes/Allomorphs/Morphs,word-formationprocessesinEnglish,inflectionalandderivationalsuffixes.

RecommendedReading:• Akmajian,A.,R.A.DemersandR,M.Harnish,Linguistics:AnIntroductiontoLanguageandCommunication,2nded.Cambridge,Mass,:MITPress,1984;Indianedition,PrenticeHall,1991

• Fromkin,V.,andR.Rodman,AnIntroductiontoLanguage,2nded.NewYork:Holt,RinehartandWinston,1974(Chapters3,6and7)

• Syntaxandsemantics:categoriesandconstituentstructure;maximsof

conversation,thediversityofmeaning-synonymy,antonymy,homonymyandpolysemy.

RecommendedReading:

Akmajian,A.,R.A.DemersandR,MHarnish,Linguistics:AnIntroductiontoLanguageandCommunication,2nded.Cambridge,Mass,:MITPress,1984;Indianedition,PrenticeHall,1991(Chapter5and6)Paper6:ENG-HG-3026BritishLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

ThispaperisdesignedtoofferarepresentativesamplingofthemajorliterarytraditionsofBritish life and culture through a studyof texts in different genres. Thepaperwillcompriseof80marksexternalexaminationand20marksinternalevaluation.SectionAPoetry: 30marks

• WilliamShakespeare:‘Sonnet116’• JohnMilton:‘OnhisBlindness’• SamuelTaylorColeridge:‘Christabel’• W.B.Yeats:‘TheSecondComing’• TedHughes:‘TheThought-Fox’• EmilyBronte:‘Remembrance’• DylanThomas:‘PoeminOctober’• VickyFeaver:‘SlowReader’

SectionBFiction: 30marks

• ElizabethGaskell:MaryBarton• JamesJoyce:“TheDead”• E.M.Forster:“TheCelestialOmnibus”• WilliamTrevor:TheStoryofLucyGault

SectionCDrama: 20marks

• OscarWilde:TheImportanceofBeingEarnest• J.B.Priestley:AnInspectorCalls

SemesterIV(AnyOne)

Paper7:ENG-HG-4016Language,LiteratureandCultureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)Thispaperwillintroducestudentstotherelationshipbetweenlanguage,literatureandculture.Languagevariesaccordingtothecultureandworldviewofthegroupinwhichitisused.Thelanguageusedinliteraturealsohascertainfeatureswhichdistinguishit

fromthelanguageofeverydaycommunication.Keepingtheseaspectsinmind,studentswillstudythefollowingtopics:

• Speechcommunity• Conceptofdialect• Registerandstyle• Diglossia• Bilingualismandmultilingualism• Languageandgender• Styleinliterature:cohesion,word-choice,pointofview,figuresofspeech,the

conceptofgenre.

RecommendedReading:

• Romaine,Suzanne.LanguageinSociety:AnIntroductiontoSociolinguistics.OUP,1994

• Trudgill,Peter.Sociolinguistics:AnIntroductiontoLanguageandSociety,1995Revisededition.

• Toolan,Michael.LanguageinLiterature:AnIntroductiontoStylistics,London:Arnold,1998

• Carter,R.(ed)LanguageandLiterature:AnIntroductoryReaderinStylistics.London:AllenandUnwin,1982

• Crystal,David.TheCambridgeEncyclopediaoftheEnglishLanguage.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1995

Paper8:ENG-HG-4026LiteraryCrossCurrents:Forms:Prose,Poetry,Fiction&PlayCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)Marks:80(End-SemesterExamination)+20(InternalAssessment)

In almost everyperiodof literaryhistoryworksof non-fictional prose, fiction, poetryand drama have co-existed. Also, literary cross-currents have helped shape theseliterary forms in a way that demonstrates their affinities as well as differences. It’simportanttostudyworkswithdueattentiontotheir‘formal’aspectssothatwhatitistruly distinctive about the literary type, form, or genre to which they belong is notmissed. At the same time it’s necessary to contextualize the study so that theevolutionary or historical dimension of the literary works, their growth andtransformationovertheyearsisnotlostsightof.Thispaperwillacquaintthestudentswith different literary forms, with one part addressing formal concerns includingdefinitions, while the other part will involve study of actual texts which exemplify aparticular literary form or genre, and which will include some consideration of thecontextsoftheirproduction.

PartA:Formsandmovements 20Marks• Forms:

Epicandmock-epic,ballad,ode,sonnet,lyric,elegy,tragedy,tragicomedy,absurddrama,heroicdrama,problemplays,expressionistplays,Gothicfiction,thehistoricalnovel,thebildungsroman,thepersonalessay,theperiodicalessay,memoir,autobiography,biography

• Movementsandtrendswhichinfluenceformsandgenres:Neo-classicism,Romanticism,Augustanism,Victorianism,Realism,Naturalism,Expressionism,Existentialism,DadaismandSurrealismPartB:StudyofindividualtextsEpicandPoetry: (20)

• TheMahabharata(TheGameofDice)• BenJonson:“SongtoCelia”• LordAlfredTennyson:“TheLadyofShalott”• JohnKeats:“OdeonaGrecianUrn”

Prose(FictionandNon-fiction) (20)

• JosephAddison:“TrueandFalseWit,”(Spectator62)• CharlesLamb:“TheDreamChildren”• CharlotteBronte:JaneEyre• EdgarAllanPoe:“TheBlackCat”• KamalaDas:MyStory

Plays: (20)• HenrikIbsen:ADoll’sHouse• HaroldPinter:TheBirthdayParty.

SuggestedReading:• PakmajaAsho.ACompaniontoLiteraryForms• ChrisBaldick.TheOxfordDictionaryofLiteraryterms• TheConciseOxfordCompaniontoEnglishLiterature(OxfordQuickReference)• LillianHerlandsHornstein,G.D.Percy,andCalvinS.Brown,Eds.TheReader'sCompaniontoWorldLiterature

IV.AbilityEnhancementCompulsoryCourse

Paper1:English/MILCommunication Credits:4 (ENG-AE-1014:EnglishCommunication)Paper2:EnvironmentalStudies Credits:4

V.SkillEnhancementCourse(TwoPapers)

Note:TherewillbeacommonpoolofpapersintheSkillEnhancementCoursesforbothBAEnglishHonoursandBAEnglish.ThesepapersaredesignedinsuchawaythattheycanbetaughtinbothBAEnglishHonoursandBAEnglish(Regular).TheSECpapersforSemestersIIIandIVinbothBAEnglishHonoursandBAEnglishwillbecommoneventhoughtheywillhaveseparatecoursecodesforthetwoprogrammes.ThesepapersmaybetaughtinclassescommontoboththeHonoursandtheRegularstudents.

SemesterIIIPaper1:ENG-SE-3014CreativeWritingCredits:4 Marks:100(80+20)Thestudentsinthiscoursewillfocusonthreecreativegenres,fiction,non-fictionandpoetry.Theemphasiswillbetobuildproficiencyinreadingsandwritings.Thecourseencouragesactiveclassparticipationandlotsofwritings.Oneofthebasicobjectivesofthecourseistoallowstudentstoexploreideas,feelings,experiencesandeffectivelycommunicatethesestimulususingthewrittenword.Eachlecturewillbetiedtoreadingoftexts,techniques,narratologyandrhetoricalpositions.Thesetofreadingswillbegivenduringthecourseandmayvaryeachsemester,wheneverthecourseisonoffer.

Theweightageoftheprogrammewilldependon:10%--classlectures;20%--journalwritingsondiscussionsofideas,photographs,paintings,memoriesandexperiences;30%--classparticipation/assignments/workshops/writingsfollowingprompts/writingwithmusic40%-- submission of fiction (20000 words) /non-fiction(20000 words) / poetry(15poemsof150000words)atthetimeofcompletionofthecourse.SectionA:Poetry 15MarksDiscussion/Classparticipationtopics:

• Whatisgoodpoetry?• Writingpoetry• Whypoetry• Readingpoetry

Thestudentswillbeintroducedto• Historyofpoetry,• Formsofpoetry.• Rhetoricandprosody.• Imagesandsymbols

SectionB:Fiction 30MarksDiscussion/Classparticipationtopics:

• Whatisagoodstory?

• Writingshortstories• Writingnovels• Characterisation• Structure• Dialogues

The selected texts will inform of style, sentence structure, and tone and how theseconnect to the purpose and meaning/effect of the story. There will be specific textshighlighting

• LyricalProse• Focusongroupratherthanindividual• Narratology• Useofsymbols• Individualandthecollectivevoice• Useoftime• Repetition• Genderroles

SectionCNon-Fiction 15MarksDiscussionsandassignments:Thestudentswillbeintroducedto

• Formsofessays• Memoirs• Travelogues• Reportwriting• Literaryjournalism

SectionD:Workshop(1000--3000words) 20Marks

• Discussing--whyyouwrite,howyouwrite,andwhatyouhopetogainfromthiscourse.

• Howisyourwritingdifferent/similartoothers?• ReadingstoriesbyWriters-in-residenceandbyparticipants.• Considerhowthiscoursehaschangedyourwritingskills.• Howhasthiscoursehelpedyoutoencouragereadingofvarioustexts?• Howhasthiscoursehelpedyoutounderstandofliterature?• Howhaveyougrownasawriter?• DiscussiononPublicationandMarket.• Promptwritingsforeachsection.

RecommendedReadings:

• A Writer’s Time: A guide to the creative process from vision through revision:KennethAtchity

• HowdoyouWriteaGreatWorkofFiction:JenniferEgan• InthePalmofYourHand:ThePoet'sPortableWorkshop:SteveKowit• TheMaking of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic FormsEavan Boland and

MarkStrand• Rhyme’sReason:AGuidetoEnglishVerse:JohnHollander

SemesterIVPaper2:ENG-SE-4014Translation:PrinciplesandPracticeCredits:4 Marks:100(80+20)

Thiscourseisdesignedtogivestudentsbasicskillsintranslation.Itintroducesstudentstothefieldoftranslationstudiesandgivesthemtraininginpracticaltranslation.

Unit1 (Marks:30)

TranslationinIndia:History;challengesoftranslationinmultilingualconditions;institutionspromotingandcommissioningtranslation;Landmarksoftranslationindifferentlanguages.TypesandModesoftranslation:

• Intralingual,Interlingualandintersemiotictranslation

• Freetranslation,

• Literaltranslation,

• Transcreation

• Communicativeorfunctionaltranslation

• Audio-visualtranslation

ConceptsofTranslation:Accuracy,Equivalence,Adaptation,Dialect,Idiolect,Register,Style,subtitling,back-translation

Unit2 (Marks:50)

Inthissectionquestionsmaybeinthenatureoftranslationtests:shortpassages,speechesfromtheplaysorapoemtobeanalysedanddifferentaspectspointedout;andsecondlytobetranslatedintoEnglishfromtheoriginallanguage

Practicaltranslationactivities:

a.AnalysetextstranslatedintoEnglishkeepingtheaboveconcepts,andespeciallythatofequivalence,inmind,atthelexical(word)andsyntactical(sentence)levels:Novel:TheStoryofFelaneebyArupaPatangiyaKalita.Play:TheFortressofFirebyArunSarma.Poem:“Silt”byNabakantaBarua,Trans.PradipAcharyaShortStory:“GoldenGirl”byLakshminathBezbarua,intheanthologySplendourintheGrass.Ed.HirenGohain.b.MakeabacktranslationintotheoriginalEnglishShortStoryorpassagefromatext(AliceinWonderlandbyProbinaSaikia)c.Subtitleafilm(Assamese–VillageRockstars)(tobediscussedinclass,asampleshownandthenusedforinternalassessment)

ResourcesforPractice:

• Dictionaries• Encyclopedias• Thesaurus• Glossaries• TranslationsoftwareSuggestedReadings:

• Baker,Mona,InOtherWords:ACoursebookonTranslation,Routledge,2001.(Usefulexercisesforpracticaltranslationandtraining)

• Gargesh,RavinderandKrishnaKumarGoswami.(Eds.).TranslationandInterpreting:ReaderandWorkbook.NewDelhi:OrientLongman,2007.

• Lakshmi,H.ProblemsofTranslation.Hyderabad:BooklingsCorporation,1993.

• Newmark,Peter.ATextbookofTranslation.London:PrenticeHall,1988.

• Toury,Gideon.TranslationacrossCultures.NewDelhi:BahriPublicationsPrivateLimited,1987.

• Palumbo,Guiseppe.KeyTermsinTranslationStudies.LondonandNewYork:Continuum,2009.