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MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY (With effect from Academic Year 2019-20)

NAME OF THE SUBJECT: ENGLISH

M.A.

Credit and Semester System Syllabus

SEMESTER –1st

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PAPER NO.

NAME OF THE PAPER TOTAL MARKS

EXT+INT=TOTAL PASSING STANDARD

EXT+INT= TOTAL TOTAL TEACHING

HOURS CREDITS

1 Paper- I The Renaissance Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 2 Paper –II The Neo-Classical Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 3 Paper –III Literary Theory & Criticism – Western Poetics -1 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

4 Paper –IV-A Indian Writing in English (Pre-Independence)

70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 5 Paper –IV-B A Study of the Genre – Tragedy 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 6 Paper –IV-C The Translation Studies 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

* 5 Lectures / Paper in a week for directteaching.

INTERNAL MARKS Assignment/Presentation 10 Marks (For ICT integration, Blog & free web platforms shall be used for assignmentsubmission) Seminar/Attendance 05 Marks (For ICT integration, PowerPoint presentation & if possible, video resources shall be prepared)

Test 15 Marks (For ICT integration, ODOLE – On Demand On Line Exam shall be triedout)

(n.b.: Bonus marks / grades shall be considered for active participation in academic activities through ICT integration for C.I.A.)

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M.A.

Credit and Semester System Syllabus

SEMESTER – 2nd

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PAPER NO.

NAME OF THE PAPER TOTAL MARKS EXT+INT=TOTAL

PASSING STANDARD EXT+INT= TOTAL

TOTAL TEACHING HOURS

CREDITS

1 Paper- V The Romantic Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 2 Paper –VI The Victorian Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

3 Paper –VII Literary Theory & Criticism-2 (20th Cen. Western and Indian Poetics)

70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

4 Paper –VIII-A Indian Writing in English (Post-Independence)

70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 5 Paper – VIII-B The Comparative Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 6 Paper – VIII- C The Cultural Studies 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05





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M.A. Credit and Semester System Syllabus

SEMESTER – 3rd

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HOURS CREDITS

1 Paper –IX The Modernist English Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 2 Paper –X The American Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 3 Paper –XI The Post-Colonial Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 4 Paper –XII – A English Language Teaching-1 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 5 Paper –XII- B The Canadian Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 6 Paper –XII – C A Study of the Genre – Novel 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 7 Paper –XII - D Research Methodology 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05





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M.A. Credit and Semester System Syllabus

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HOURS CREDITS

1 Paper –XIII The New Literatures 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 2 Paper –XIV The African Literature 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 3 Paper-XV Mass Communication and Media Studies 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05 4 Paper-XVI – A English Language Teaching -2 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 5 Paper –XVI – B A Study of an Author – Thomas Hardy 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 6 Paper –XVI – C A Study of an Author- R.K. Narayan 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05

OR 7 Paper –XVI- D A Study of an Author – Kamala Das 70 + 30 = 100 28 +12 = 40 15 Weeks x 05 Hours = 75 05





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M.A. – English (Regular and External Studies)

Semester 1: Core Courses:

Course No. 1: The Renaissance Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit : Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Hamlet : William Shakespeare (1603-04) 20 hours 2 Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe (1592) 20 hours 3 The Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne (1572-1631): Death be not

Proud, Sweetest Love, The Dream, The Flea, The Ecstasy

15 hours

4 Paradise Lost Book IX: John Milton (1667) The History of the Renaissance Age / Background reading – The age of Renaissance

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ ‘The original texts’ are available on www.gutenberg.org ♣ Albert, Edward. The History of English Literature (for unit 5) ♣ Classical Rhetoric for the Modern – Corbett, Edward, New York, OUP, 1965. ♣ Compton-Rickett. A History of English Literature (For unit 5)

♣ Elizabethan Drama – Ford, Boris, OUP 1961. ♣ Elizabethan Poetry – Smith Hallet, Cambridge. ♣ Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy – Bowers, FredsonMangolia, Peter Smith 1958. ♣ English Literature in the 16th Cen. – Lewis, C S. OUP. 1954. ♣ Long, W.L. The History of English Literature (for unit 5)

♣ Puritanism and Revolution – Hill, Christopher, London. 1958. ♣ Renaissance Historicism – Kinney and Collins ♣ Seventeenth Century Prose – Fish, Stanely. Modern Essays in Criticism, London, OUP 1971. ♣ The Pelican Guide to English – Ford, Boris, Penguin, 1955. ♣ Women and the English Renaissance – Woodbridge Linda, Brighton. 1984.

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Course No. 2: The Neo-Classical Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit : Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Gulliver’s Travels: Swift (1726) 20 hours 2 Robinson Crusoe: Defoe (1719) 15 hours 3 Tom Jones: Fielding (1749) 20 hours 4

The Anti-sentimental Comedy: Sheridan and Goldsmith The History of the Age / Background Reading

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ “The original texts” are available on www.gutenberg.org

♣ A Harold Bloom Series on Critical Interpretations. ♣ Albert, Edward. The History of English Literature ( for unit 5) ♣Battestin, Martin. The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts. Oxford:

Clarendon, 1974. ♣ Compton-Rickett. A History of English Literature. (for unit 5) ♣ Gassier, Pierre. Les Dessins de Goya: Les Albums. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1973. ♣Gulliver's Travels: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Palgrave

Macmillan 1995 (p. 21). The quote has been misattributed to Alexander Pope, who wrote to Swift in praise of the book just a day earlier.

♣http://www.davyking.com/The%20Woman%20Gulliver%20Left%20Behind.pdf ♣ Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contextx of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. New

York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990. ♣ Long, W.L. The History of English Literature. (for unit 5) ♣ McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University

Press, 1987. ♣ Paulson, Ronald. Satire and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press,

1967. ♣Richetti, John. "Representing an Under Class: Servants and Prolatarians in Fielding and Smollett." The

New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature. Eds. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. London: Routledge, 1987.

♣Richetti, John. "The Old Order and the New Novel of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Narrative Authority in Fielding and Smollett." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2 (1990):99-126.

♣ Ross, Angus, ed. (1965) Robinson Crusoe. Penguin. ♣Shinagel, Michael, ed. (1994). Robinson Crusoe. Norton Critical Edition. ISBN 0-393-96452-3. ♣ Smallwood, Angela J. Fielding and the Woman Question. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. ♣The Lilliput Legion, Simon Hawke, 1989, Ace Books, New York, NY ♣Words, Words, Words, From the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century, La Spiga languages, 2003

♣ Wordsworth Classics Tom Jones (1992), with an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury (1999) ISBN 1 85326 021 5

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Course No. 3: Literary Theory & Criticism: Western – 1: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit : Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Poetics: Aristotle 20 hours 2 Essay on Dramatic Poesy: Dryden 20 hours 3

Preface: Wordsworth Biographia Literaria Ch. 14: Coleridge

20 hours

4 A Glossary of Selected Literary Terms: Criticism, Practical Criticism / applied criticism, Impressionistic, Criticism, Mimetic Criticism, Pragmatic Criticism, Expressive Criticism, Objective Criticism, Deus Ex Machina, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Song/Melody, Spectacle, Chorus, Tragedy, Three Unities, Tragic Hero, Hamartia, Catharsis

15 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Abram, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. ♣ Aristotle. 1974. "Poetics". Trans. S.H. Butcher. ♣ Carroll, J. (2007). Evolutionary Approaches to Literature and Drama. In Robin Dunbar and Louise

Barrett, (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Chapter 44. Fulltext ♣ Castle, Gregory. Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ♣Cuddon’s Literary Terms ♣ Culler, Jonathan. The Literary in Theory. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. ♣ Jean-Michel Rabaté. The Future of Theory. ISBN 0-631-23013-0. ♣ Jonathan Culler. (1997) Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

ISBN 0-19-285383-X. ♣ Jones, E. Michael; Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehaviour; pp. 79-84;

publshed 1991 by Ignatius Press. ISBN 0898704472 ♣ Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge and Nigel Wood. 2nd Ed. ISBN 0-582- 31287-

6 ♣ Peter Barry. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. ISBN 0-7190-6268-3.

♣ Poetics. Translated by Ingram Bywater ♣ Terry Eagleton. After Theory. ISBN 0-465-01773-8. ♣Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

(http://www.upress.umn.edu/) ♣ The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. ISBN 0-8018-4560-2. ♣ Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. Ed. Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral. ISBN 0-231-13417-7.

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Sem 1: Elective Courses: Any One from the following Electives Course No. 4-A: Indian Writing in English – Pre Independence:Total Teaching Hours: 75

CourseContent [Course Credit : Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The Fakeer of Jungheera: Henry Derozio (1828) 20 hours 2 Kanthapura – Raja Rao (1938) 20 hours 3 The Purpose: T.P. Kailasam (1944) 15 hours 4 Renaissance in India – Sri Aurobindo (1918)

The Background Reading – KRS Iyengar’s Indian Writing in English 20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ ‘The Purpose’ (unit 4) can be downloaded from: http://tpkailasam.blogspot.in/2011/11/purpose.html ♣ ‘The Renaissance in India’ can be downloaded from: www.sriaurobindoashram.org

♣Desani, G. V. All About H. Hatterr. London: 1948. ♣Haq, Kaiser (ed.). Contemporary Indian Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.

♣Hoskote, Ranjit (ed.). Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets. Viking/Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2002.

♣ Iyengar, KRS. Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishing Pvt. Lt., New Delhi. 1963.

♣ K.K. Sharma, (ed.) Perspectives on Raja Rao Ghaziabad: Vimal Prakashan, 1980. ♣ King, Bruce Alvin. Modern Indian Poetry in English: Revised Edition. New Delhi: Oxford University

Press, 1987, rev. 2001. ("the standard work on the subject and unlikely to be surpassed" — Mehrotra, 2003).

♣ King, Bruce Alvin. Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes. Madras: Oxford University Press, 1991.

♣ Meenakshi Mukherjee (ed.) Considerations: Twelve Studies of Indo-Anglian Writing, New Delhi: Allied, 1977.

♣ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

♣ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1992.

♣ NAIK, M.K. Perspectives on Indian Fiction in English New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1985. ♣ NAIK, M.K. Raja Rao Madras: Blackie & Sons, 1982. ♣NARASIMHAIAH, C.D. Raja Rao New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, 1973. ♣ NARAYAN, SHYAMALA A. Raja Rao: Man and His Works New Delhi: Sterling, 1988.

♣ Parthasarathy, R. (ed.). Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (New Poetry in India). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976.

♣ RAO, K. RAGHAVENDRA. The Fiction of Raja Rao Aurangabad: ParimalPrakashan, 1982. ♣SHAHANE, VASANT A. “Raja Rao: Kanthapura” in PRADHAN, N.S. ed. Major Indian Novels: An

Evaluation New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1986. ♣ Souza, Eunice de. "Nine Indian Women Poets", Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997. ♣ Souza, Eunice de. Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology : 1829-1947. New Delhi: Oxford

University Press, 2005. (Henry Derozio’s poem is from this anthology) ♣ Souza, Eunice de. Talking Poems: Conversations With Poets. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,

1999. ♣ Srikanth, Rajini. The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America'.

Asian American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2004

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Course No. 4-B: A Study of the Genre: Tragedy: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1

Oedipus Tyrannus – Sophocles Urubhanga – Bhasa

20 hours

2 Mother Courage and Her Children – Bertolt Brecht 15 hours 3 King Lear: Shakespeare 20 hours 4 The Death of A Salesman: Arthur Miller 20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Aristotle. 1974. "Poetics". Trans. S.H. Butcher. In Dukore (1974, 31-55).

♣ Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0521434378.

♣ Barker, Howard. 1989. Arguments for a Theatre. 3rd ed. London: John Calder, 1997. ISBN 0719052491.

♣ Benjamin, Walter. 1928. The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Trans. John Osborne. London and New York: Verso, 1998. ISBN 1859848990.

♣ Bradley, A. C.. 1909. Oxford Lectures on Poetry. Reprint ed. Atlantic, 2007. ISBN 8171563791. ♣ Carlson, Marvin. 1993. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the

Present. Expanded ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP. ISBN 0801481546. ♣ Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1972. Anti-Œdipus. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R.

Lane. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 1 . New Accents Ser. London and New York: Methuen. ISBN 0416720609.

♣Felski, Rita, ed. 2008. Rethinking Tragedy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. ISBN 0801887402.

♣ Hegel, G. W. F.. 1927. "Vorlesungen uber die Asthetik." In ''Samlichte Werke. Vol 14. Ed. Hermann Glockner. Stuttgart: Fromann.

♣ Miller, Arthur. 1949. "Tragedy and the Common Man." In Dukore (1974, 894-897). Originally published in The New York Times February 271949.

♣ Pfister, Manfred. 1977. The Theory and Analysis of Drama. Trans. John Halliday. European Studies in English Literature Ser. Cambridige: Cambridge UP, 1988. ISBN 052142383X.

♣ Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. 2008. Greek Tragedy. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World ser. Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 1405121610.

♣ Rehm, Rush. 1992. Greek Tragic Theatre. Theatre Production Studies ser. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415118948.

♣ Schlegel, August Wilhelm. 1809. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. Available online. ♣ Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus. Tr. Luci Berkowitz & Theodore Brunner. Norton.1966.

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Course No. 4-C: The Translation Studies: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 History of Translation, Strategies of translation, Nature of Translation and Process of

Translation 20 hours

2 Literary Translation:- Shiv Kumar’s Contemporary Indian English Short Stories and DaxaVamdata’sBharat Ma SampratAngreziToonkiVarta.

20 hours

3 Role of Translator; Translation as Perjury; Translation as Patriotism, Translation as New Writing, Translation as Testimony; Translation as Discovery

15 hours

4

Translation in Practice, Translation of Essay, Short story, Poetry Background reading, Translation in India.

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Bachmann-Medick, Doris (2009). Translational Turn, in: Doris Bachmann-Medick, CulturalTurns.

Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. 3rd. ed. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 238-283. ♣ Baker, Mona ed. (2001). Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. New York & London:Routledge. ♣ Bassnett, Susan (1980; revised 1991; 2002). TranslationStudies. ♣ Benjamin, Walter (1923). "The Task of the Translator," introduction to Benjamin's translation of Fleurs du

Mal. ♣ Catford, J.C., (1965). A Linguistic Theory of Translation.London. ♣ Gentzler, Edwin (2001). Contemporary Translation Theories. 2nd Ed. London & New York:Routledge

♣ George KM: Role of Translator in IndianLiterature ♣ HariyatoSugeng: The Implication of Culture on Translation Theory andPractice ♣ Holmes, James S. (1972/1988). "The Name and Nature of Translation Studies." In: James S. Holmes,

Translated! Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp.67–80.

♣ Kalyani P.K.: History ofTranslation ♣ Levy, Jiři (1967). "Translation as a Decision Process." In To Honor Roman Jakobson. The Hague: Mouton,

II, pp.1171-1182. ♣ Mounin, George (1963). Les problèmesthéoriques de la traduction.Paris. ♣ Mukherjee Sujeet: Translation as Discovery (OrientLongman) ♣ Newmark, Peter (1988). A Textbook of Translation, New York & London: PrenticeHall. ♣ Reiss, Katharina (1989). Text Types, Translation Types and Translation Assessment. In: Chesterman,

Andrew (ed.) (1989). Readings in Translation Theory. Helsinki: Oy Finn LecturaAb.

♣ Singh A.K.: Translation: its Nature andStrategies ♣ Singh A.K.: Translation: Its Theory and Practice (CreativeBooks)

♣ Steiner, George (1975). After Babel. Oxford UniversityPress ♣ Thiruvasagam G: Translator’s Role in the Global Scenario (UniNews) ♣ Toury, Gideon (1995). Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John

Benjamins. ♣ Towards TranslationStudies ♣ Translation Studies. An International Peer-reviewed Journal. Vol. 1,1 2008 and Vol. 1,2 2008. London:

Routledge. ♣ Translation: From Periphery toCentre-stage ♣ Venuti, Lawrence (1995). The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation. London & New York:

Routledge. ♣ Verma SK: Translation inIndia



Semester 2: Core Courses:

Course No. 5: The Romantic Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5

1 Grecian Urn, Nightingale, Psyche, Autumn: John Keats (1810-1821) 15 hours 2 Frankenstein: Mary Shelly (1818) 20 hours 3 Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen (1811) 20 hours 4 Wordsworth and Coleridge: A study of Poets (1798-1850)

The History of the Age / Background Reading 20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ ‘The original texts’ are available on www.gutenberg.org ♣ Abrams, M.H., Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature

(New York: W.W. Norton, 1973).

♣ Abrams, Meyer H. (1971). The Mirror and the Lamp. London: O. U. P. ISBN 0195014715. ♣ Albert, Edward. The History of English Literature. (for unit 5)

♣Berlin, Isaiah (1999). The Roots of Romanticism. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0691086621.

♣Ciofalo, John J. "The Ascent of Genius in the Court and Academy." The Self-Portraits of Francisco Goya. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

♣ Compton-Rickett. A History of English Literature

♣Fay,Elizabeth, Romantic Medievalism. History and the Romantic Literary Ideal. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.

♣Friedlaender, Walter, David to Delacroix, (Originally published in German; reprinted 1980) 1952.

♣Honour, Hugh, Romanticism, (Westview Press) 1979.

♣ Lim, Cwisfa, Romanticism - The dawn of a new era, 2002. (reprinted 2006) ♣ Long, W.L. The History of English Literature

♣Marcel, Brion (1966). Art of the Romantic Era. Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN 0275420906.

♣ Masson, Scott, 'Romanticism', Ch.7 in The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, (Oxford University Press)2007.

♣ Murray, Christopher, ed. Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850 (2 vol 2004); 850 articles by experts;1600pp

♣ Novotny, Fritz, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880, 1971. (2nd edition 1980) ♣ Rosenblum, Robert, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to

Rothko, (Harper & Row)1975.

♣Tekiner, Deniz, Modern Art and the Romantic Vision, (University Press of America) 2000. ♣ Workman, Leslie J., "Medievalism and Romanticism," Poetica39–40 (1994)



Course No. 6: The Victorian Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five (5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens (1838) 20 hours 2 Middle March: George Eliot (1871-72) 20 hours 3 Culture and Anarchy: Mathew Arnold (1867-68) 15 hours 4 Tennyson and Browning: A Study of Poets (1850-1890)

The History of the Age / Background Reading 20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ “All original texts” are available on www.gutenberg.org

♣ Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens, (2002), Vintage, ISBN 0099437090 ♣ Albert, Edward. The History of English Literature. (for unit 5) ♣Altick, Richard Daniel. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian

Literature. W.W. Norton & Company: 1974. ISBN 0-393-09376-X. ♣ Burton, Antoinette (editor). Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader. Palgrave Macmillan:

2001. ISBN 0-312-29335-6. ♣ Compton-Rickett. A History of English Literature ♣ Drabble, Margaret (ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, (1997), Oxford University Press ♣ Elson, Arthur; Woman's Work in Music; p. 93; reprint published 2007 by BiblioBazaar (original 1903).

ISBN 1-4346-7444-4 ♣ Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. W.W.

Norton & Company: 2004. ISBN 0-393-05209-5. ♣ Gay, Peter, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, 5 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1984-

1989 ♣Glavin, John. (ed.) Dickens on Screen,(2003), New York: Cambridge University Press. ♣Janowski, Diane, Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of America, 6 volumes, New York History Review

Press, 2007-2008. ♣ Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Biography William Morros, 1988 ♣ Lewis, Peter R. Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847, Tempus (2007) for a

discussion of the Staplehurst accident, and its influence on Dickens. ♣ Long, W.L. The History of English Literature

♣Meckier, Jerome. Innocent Abroad: Charles Dickens' American Engagements University Press of Kentucky, 1990

♣ Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Greenwood Press: 1996. ISBN 0-313-29467-4. ♣ Moss, Sidney P. Charles Dickens' Quarrel with America (New York: Whitson, 1984). ♣ Patten, Robert L. (ed.) The Pickwick Papers (Introduction), (1978), Penguin Books.

♣ Slater, Michael. "Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812 – 1870)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

♣ Slater, Michael. Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing, 2009 New Haven/London: Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-11207-8 [1],

♣The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. 1999. ♣ Wilson, A. N. The Victorians. Arrow Books: 2002. ISBN 0-09-945186-7



Course No. 7: Literary Theory & Criticism: The 20th Western & Indian Poetics – 2:

Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 New Criticism: T.S. Eliot’s Tradition & Individual Talent, I.A. Richards’s A

Figurative Language 20 hours

2 A New Computer-assisted Literary Criticism? Raymond G. Siemens& Archetypal Criticism: Northrop Frye

20 Hours

3 Structuralism and Post Structuralism – Gerard Genette’s Structuralism and Literary Criticism & Derrida’s Structure, Sign & Play

20 hours

4

Indian Poetics: Rasa Theory &Natya Shastra, Alamkara School – Bhamaha, Udbhata&Rudrata, Riti School – Dandin and Vamana, Vakrokti School – Kuntaka, Dhavani School – Ananda Vardhan, Auchitya School A Glossary of Selected Literary Terms: Modernism Post modernism, New Criticism, Diaspora, Postcolonial, Feminist Criticism, Psychoanalytical Criticism, New Historicism, Eco-Criticism, Queer Theory, Structuralism,

15 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Bakhtin, M. M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl

Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press ♣ Bharata: The Natyasastra (1996). Kapila Vatsyayan. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.p.6 Manmohan

Ghosh, ed. (1950). Natyashastra,. Asiatic Society,. See introduction p. xxvi for discussion ofdates ♣ Computer and Literary Criticism. From: http://www.sfu.ca/delany/litterengl.html ♣Dr. Asawari Bhat. "Glimpses of Natyashastra". course notes, IIT

Mumbai.http://www.hss.iitb.ac.in/courses/HS450/notes2.htm. ♣ G N Devy: Indian Literary Criticism. Orient Blackswan ♣ Ghosh, Manomohan (2002). Natyasastra. ISBN 81-7080-076-5 page = 2.

♣ Jean-Michel Rabaté. The Future of Theory. ISBN 0-631-23013-0. ♣ Jonathan Culler. (1997) Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

ISBN 0-19-285383-X. ♣ Jones, E. Michael; Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehaviour; pp. 79-84;

publshed 1991 by Ignatius Press. ISBN 0898704472 ♣ Kantor, The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature; p. 252. ISBN 1596980117 ♣Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

(Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) ♣Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization (Parallax:

Re-visions of Culture and Society) ♣MāniMādhavaChākyār (1996). Nātyakalpadrumam. Sangeet NatakAkademi, New Delhi.p.6 ♣Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge and Nigel Wood. 2nd Ed. ISBN 0-582- 31287-

6 ♣Oslen, Mark. Signs, Symbols and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literature Studies.

http://barkov.uchicago.edu/public/papers/signs-symbols.pdf ♣ Peter Barry. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. ISBN 0-7190-6268-3. ♣ Ryan, Marie-Laura. Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory



♣Siemens, Raymond G. A New Computer – Assisted Literary Criticism? http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30200526?uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid

= 21101097406561

♣ Terry Eagleton. After Theory. ISBN 0-465-01773-8. ♣ Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory: An Introduction. ISBN 0-8166-1251-X.

♣The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. ISBN 0-8018-4560-2. ♣Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. Ed. Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral. ISBN 0-231-13417-7.

♣ van Gelder, G. J. H. (1982), Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence an Unity of the Poem, Brill Publishers, pp. 1–2, ISBN9004068546

♣ Woodlief, Ann. Reader-Oriented Theory and Technology in the Literature Classroom



Sem 2: Elective Courses: Any One from the following Electives

Course No. 8-A: Indian Writing in English – Post Independence: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The Calcutta Chromosome: Amitav Ghosh (1995) 15 hours 2 Contemporary Indian Poems:

* Kamala Das: An Introduction, * Meena Kandasamy: Another Paradise Lost: A Hindu Way, Let my sisters title this, Born of NoPlacenta * Rachana Joshi: LeavingIndia * Sujata Bhatt: A Different History, MyTongue * Praveen Gadhavi: Poet, Bamiyaan Buddha,Buddha

20 hours

3

Tara: Mahesh Dattani( 1995) The Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai (2006)

20 hours

4 The History of the Age/ Background reading from: An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra & A History of Indian English Literature by M.K. Naik

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ “All poems” in unit 2 are selected from various sources. They can be made available on request from the

Dept. of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University. ([email protected]) ♣ Amar Nath Prasad “The plays of Mahesh Dattani: a fine fusion of feeling and form” in Amar Nath

Prasad. British and Indian English Literature : A Critical Study. New Delhi: Sarup and Sons,2007. ♣ Basavaraj Naikar (ed.). Indian English Literature, Vol.I – VI, New Delhi, Atlantic Pub., 2007. ♣Charu Mathur. “Dramatic structures in Mahesh Dattani’sTara and Final Solutions” in Urmil Talwar and

Bandana Chakrabarty (eds). Contemporary Indian Drama: Astride Two Traditions. New Delhi: Rawat, 2005.

♣Dattani, Mahesh. Tara –A Play in Two Acts. Orient Longman. 1995. Read Online: http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-tKaqHxCd4AC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

♣Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. Penguine. 2006. http://www.esnips.com/displayimage.php?pid=3893046

♣ Ghosh, Amitav. The Calcutta Chromosome. Penguine Books. 1996. 2008. ♣Haq, Kaiser (ed.). Contemporary Indian Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. ♣Hoskote, Ranjit (ed.). Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets. Viking/Penguin

Books India, New Delhi, 2002. ♣ Jaydeep Sarangi (ed). Explorations in Indian English Poetry New Delhi: Authorspress, 2007. ♣ K. Venkata Reddy and R.K. Dhawan (eds). Flowering of Indian Drama : Growth and Development.

New Delhi: Prestige, 2004. ♣ K.K. Singh.Indian English Poetry After Independence. Jaipur: Book Enclave, 2006.

♣Khair, Tabish. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.

♣ Khatri, C.L. and Kumar Chandradeep (ed.) Indian Drama in English : An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Jaipur: Book Enclave, 2006.

♣ King Bruce, Modern Indian English Poetry. New Delhi: OUP, 1989.



♣ King, Bruce Alvin. Modern Indian Poetry in English: Revised Edition. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987, rev. 2001. ("the standard work on the subject and unlikely to be surpassed" — Mehrotra, 2003).

♣ King, Bruce Alvin. Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes. Madras: Oxford University Press, 1991.

♣ Lal, Malashri. The Law of the Threshold. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1995. ♣M.K. Naik, S.K. Desai, G.S. Amur (eds.), Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English. Delhi: Macmillan

India,1972. ♣M.K. Naik. Indian English Poetry: from the Beginnings upto 2000. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2006.

♣ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

♣ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1992.

♣ Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction. New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann Publishers: 1971. ♣ Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Literature. ♣ Naik, M.K. Twentieth Century Indian English Fiction. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2004.

♣Nand Kumar. Indian English Drama: A Study in Myths. New Delhi: Sarup& Sons, 2003. ♣ Nandini Sahu. The Post-Colonial Space : Writing the Self and the Nation. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2007.

♣Narasimhaiah, C.D. (ed.). Makers of Indian English Literature. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2000 ♣Neeru Tandon (ed.). Perspectives and Challenges in Indian-English Drama. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2006. ♣Neeru Tandon. “Mahesh Dattani and Badal Sircar” in Neeru Tandon (ed.). Perspectives and Challenges

in Indian-English Drama. New Delhi: Atlantic,2006. ♣ Parthasarathy, R. (ed.). Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (New Poetry in India). New Delhi: Oxford

University Press, 1976. ♣R.K. Dhawan, (ed.), Indian Women Novelists, vol. I – IV, New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1991. ♣ Reena Mitra. “Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions and Other Plays: “A Living Dramatic Experience” in

Reena Mitra.Critical Response to Literatures in English. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2005. ♣ Sangeeta Das. “The sensational issues in the plays of Mahesh Dattani” in K. Venkata Reddy and R.K.

Dhawan.Flowering of Indian Drama : Growth and Development. New Delhi: Prestige, 2004. ♣Saryug Yadav and Amar Nath Prasad (eds.) Studies in Indian Drama in English. Bareilly: Prakash

Book, 2003. ♣Shirwadkar, K.R. The Indian Novel in English and Social Change. Bombay, ShalakaPrakashan: 1991. ♣Songs of Kobisenaby Steve Leblanc in Version 90, PMS Cafe Press, Alston, MS, USA. ♣ Souza, Eunice de. "Nine Indian Women Poets", Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997.

♣ Souza, Eunice de. Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology : 1829-1947. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

♣ Souza, Eunice de. Talking Poems: Conversations With Poets. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

♣ Srikanth, Rajini. The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America'. Asian American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2004.

♣ Sudhakar Pande, R. Raj Rao (eds.), Image of India in the Indian Novel in English 1960 – 1985. Bombay: Orient Longman, 1993

♣ Venkat Ramani. “Meaning in Abyss: Dattani’s seven steps around the fire” in Urmil Talwar and Bandana Chakrabarty (eds). Contemporary Indian Drama: Astride Two Traditions. New Delhi: Rawat, 2005.

♣VineyKirpal (ed.) The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980s. Bombay: Allied Publishers Limited, 1990.



Course No. 8-B: The Comparative Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 History of Development of schools of Comparative

Literature (French, American, British & Indian) 15 hours

2 a) Influence and Reception Study b) Genology, Literary History (Period & MovementStudy)

20 hours

3 a) Thematology b) TranslationStudy

20 hours

4

Comparative literature and Intercultural studies (a) Comparative Literature and other disciplines b) The future of Comparative Literature

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣C.L Wrenn, The Idea of Comparative Literature (Modern Humanities Research

Association,London,1968)

♣ F. Jost, Introduction to Comparative Literature (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1974) ♣Guillén, The Challenge of Comparative Literature, tr. C. Franzer (Harvard UP, 1993)

♣Koelb& S. Noakes (ed.), The Comparative Perspective on Literature (Cornell UP, 1977) ♣ N.P. Stallknecht& H. Franz, Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective (Southern

Illinois UP,1971)

♣ Owen Allridge, Comparative Literature: Matter and Method (Illinois UP, 1964) ♣ S. Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell, Oxford,1993) ♣ S. Prawer, Comparative Literary Studies: An Introduction (Duckworth, London,1973)

♣ U. Weisstein, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (tr. W. Riggan, Indiana UP, 1973)



Course No. 8-C: The Cultural Studies: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Cultural Studies:

What is Cultural Studies British Cultural Materialism New Historicism

20 hours

2 Types of Cultural Studies: American Multiculturalism Postmodernism and Popular Culture Postcolonial Studies Limitations of Cultural Studies

20 hours

3 Cultural Studies in Practice: Study of Hamlet Study of ‘To His Coy Mistress’

20 hours

4 Cultural Studies in Practice: Study of Frankenstein Hawthorne and his market

15 hours

Reference Books: ♣ B. Waites et al. (ed.), Popular Culture, Past and Present: A Reader (Croom Helm, London &

Open UP, 1982)

♣ C.P. Snow, F.R. Leavis and the ‘Two Cultures’ controversy

♣ Edward Said, Orientalism (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978); Culture and Imperialism (Chatto&Windus, London, 1993)

♣ Guerin, Wilfred, Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne Reesman, John Willingham. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.

♣ Harish Trivedi, Colonial Transactions (Papyrus, Calcutta, 1993)

♣ Hedges, Chris, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, New York : Nation Books, July 2009. ISBN9781568584379

♣Homi Bhabha, Nation and Narration (Routledge, London, 1990); The Location of Culture Routledge, London, 1994)

♣ P. Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (Temple Smith, London, 1978) ♣ Raymond Williams, The Soial Culture & The Society and the Culture.

♣ T. Bennett et al. (ed.), Popular Culture and Social Relations (Open UP, Milton Keynes, 1986)



Semester 3: Core Courses

Course No. 9: The Modernist Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot (1922) 20 hours 2 To the Lighthouse : Virginia Woolf (1927) 15 hours 3 Waiting for Godot: Samuel Becket (1949) 20 hours 4 The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter (1957)

The History of the Age / Background Reading – A C Ward’s ‘Twentieth Century Literature 1901-1940

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Ackroyd, Peter. T. S. Eliot: A Life. (1984) ♣ Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double. Tr. Mary Caroline Richards. New York: Grove

Weidenfeld, 1958. ♣ Asher, Kenneth T. S. Eliot and Ideology (1995)

♣ Beebe, Maurice (Fall 1972). "Ulysses and the Age of Modernism". James Joyce Quarterly (University of Tulsa) 10 (1): p. 176.

♣ Becket, Samuel. Waiting for Godot – a tragicomedy in two acts. Tr. Author. Groove Press. 1953. ♣ Brand, Clinton A. "The Voice of This Calling: The Enduring Legacy of T. S. Eliot," Modern Age

Volume 45, Number 4; Fall 2003 online edition, conservative perspective ♣ Bush, Ronald. T. S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. (1984) ♣ Christensen, Karen. "Dear Mrs. Eliot," The Guardian Review. (29 January 2005). ♣ Cohn, Dorrit. Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction, 1978. ♣ Crawford, Robert. The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot. (1987).

♣ Dawson, J.L., P.D. Holland & D.J. McKitterick, A Concordance to 'The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot'. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1995.

♣Esslin, Martin. Absurd Drama. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1965. ♣Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. 1961. ♣ Friedman, Melvin. Stream of Consciousness: A Study in Literary Method, 1955. ♣ Gardner, Helen. The Composition of Four Quartets. (1978). ♣ Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (1903)

♣ Humphrey, Robert. Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel, 1954. ♣ Ionesco, Eugène. Fragments of a Journal. Tr. Jean Stewart. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. ♣ Jacobus, Lee A. The Bedford Introduction to Drama. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford, 2005. ♣Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. New York: Grove P, 1996. ♣ Sachs, Oliver. "In the River of Consciousness." New York Review of Books, 15 January 2004.

♣ Sartre, Jean-Paul. "Beyond Bourgeois Theatre", Tulane Drama Review 5.3 (Mar. 1961): 6. ♣ T. S. Eliot, "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" (1923) ♣ The Structure of Obscurity: Gertrude Stein, Language, and Cubism, by Randa Kay Dubnick ♣ Ward, A.C. The 20th Century Literature – 1901-1940. ♣ Watt, Stephen and Gary A. Richardson, eds. American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary. Boston:

Thompson, 2003.



Course No. 10: The American Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Stopping by Woods, Fire & Ice, The Gift Outright, Design, Mending

Wall, Home Burial: Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Fall of House, The Purloined Letter, The Gold Bug, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado: E.A. Poe (1809-1849)

20 hours

2 The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) 20 hours 3 The Old man and The Sea: Earnest Hemingway (1952) 15 hours 4 Mourning Becomes Electra: Eugene O’Neill (1931) hours

Reference Books: ♣ “The Original texts” from unit 2, 3 and 4 are available on www.gutenberg.org

♣ All poems from unit 1 are available on http://www.internal.org/Robert_Frost/

♣Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000)

♣ Cambridge History of English and American Literature Edited by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller.The. An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

♣ Campbell, Donna M. "The Early American Novel: Introductory Notes." ‘’Literary Movements.’’ 14 July 2008. 1 March 2010.http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/earamnov.htm

♣ Campbell, Donna M. "The Early American Novel: Introductory Notes." ‘’Literary Movements.’’ 14 July 2008. 1 March 2010.http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/earamnov.htm

♣ Hamilton, Kristie. “An Assault on the Will: Republican Virtue and the City in Hannah Webster Foster’s “The Coquette.” ‘’Early American Literature.’’ 24.2: (1989) 135-151. ‘’JSTOR.’’ Web. 1 March 2010

♣http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/frameset.html ♣ Moses Coit Tyler A History of AmericanLiterature ♣New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage

by Alpana Sharma Knippling (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1996)

♣O’Niell, Eugene. The Hairy Ape and Other Plays, London: Jonathan Cape, 1923

♣ Reuben Post Halleck History of American Literature

♣ Reynolds, Guy. “The Winning of the West: Washington Irving’s ‘A Tour on the Prairies’.” ‘’The Yearbook of English Studies.’’ 34: (2004) 88-99. ‘’JSTOR.’’ Web. 1 March 2010.

♣ Richard J. Gray: A history of American literature ♣ Rutherford, Mildred. ‘’American Authors.’’ Atlanta: The Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., 1902. ♣ Schweitzer, Ivy. “Review: [untitled].” ‘’Early American Literature.’’ 23.2: (1988) 221-225. ‘’JSTOR.’’

Web. 1 March 2010.



Course No. 11: The Postcolonial Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

Course Content [Course Credit :Five (5)]

Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Black Skin, White Mask: Frantz Fanon (1952) 20 hours 2 Imaginary Homelands: Salman Rushdie (1981-91) 20 hours 3 A Tempest: AimeCesaire (1969) Tr. Richard Miller 15 hours 4 Orientalism: Edward Said (1977): Introduction

A background reading from: Ania Loomba’s colonialism/postcolonialism & Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin’s The Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge 2007)

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Alamgir Hashmi, Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter

Culture

♣ Bill Ashcroft (ed.) et al. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (Routledge, 1995) ♣ Bill Ashcroft, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature (1990)

♣ Britta Olinde, A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures ♣Cesaire, Aime. A Tempest. (1996). Tr. Richard Miller. TCG Translations New York. 2002.

♣ Chelsea 46: World Literature in English (1987) ♣Elleke Boehmer, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors

♣ Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly (eds.), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

♣Eurozine - What is postcolonial thinking? - Achille Mbembe. An interview with Achille Mbembe. 2008: 2http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-01-09-mbembe-en.htm

♣ Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Tr. Charles Lam Markmann. Grove Press, 1967. http://melodypanosian.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Frantz-Fanon-Black-skin-White-masks.pdf

♣ Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Tr. Richard Philcox, Grove Press, 2008.

♣ Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair (2005). Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism. Rutgers University Press.

♣ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. “Can the Subaltern Speak?.” 1990 ♣ John McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism, second edition (MUP, 2010). ♣ John Thieme, The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

♣ Kumaraswamy, P, R (March 2006) “Who am I?: The Identity Crisis in the Middle East” The Middle East Review of International Affairs Volume 10, No.1

♣ Peter Thompson, Littératuremoderne du monde francophone. Chicago: NTC (McGraw-Hill), 1997 ♣Poetry International 7/8 (2003-2004) ♣ Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict edited by Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson

Divine, Routledge (2008) ♣ Prem Poddar and David Johnson, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Liteartures in English, 2005 ♣ Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands, Essays in Criticism 1981-91. Penguine Books. 1992. ♣ Sadiki, L. (2004) The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses India: C. Hurst

& Co.Ltd ♣Said, Edward. Orientalims. 1978. Penguine Books. 2003.

http://www.odsg.org/Said_Edward(1977)_Orientalism.pdf

♣ Sharp, J. (2008). Geographies of Postcolonialism, chapter 6, Can the Subaltern Speak?. SAGE Publications.



Sem 3: Elective Courses: Any One from the following Electives Course No. 12 – A: English Language Teaching – 1:

Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The role of English in India 20 hours 2 The Nature of the Second language acquisition and learning.

The nature of language teaching. 20 hours

3 Various Approaches (structural, situational, functional, communicative etc.)

20 hours

4 Teaching of language skills. 15 hours

Reference Books: ♣Arter Ron Neran David Ed. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching ESOL. ♣ Davies G. (2007 - revised) "Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and

where are we going?" http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/UCALL_Keynote.htm

♣Haycraft John. An Introduction to ELT ♣Jarvis, H. (2009). Computers in EAP: change, issues and challenges. Modern English Teacher.

18(2)

♣ La Perla, Joann, "Order, Chaos and Gentle Revolutions: A Brief and Personal History of ESL Instruction for Immigrants", 1986-10-25, paper presented at Union County College's conference, "Literature and the Immigrant Experience" (Cranford, NJ, October 25,1986).

♣ Levy, M.& Hubbard, P. (2005). Why call CALL "CALL"? Editorial. Computer Assisted Language Learning 18(3)

♣ Meunier, Fanny; Granger, Sylviane, "Phraseology in foreign language learning and teaching", Amsterdam and Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008

♣ Quirk, Randolph (1981), “International Communication and the Concept of Nuclear English”, in: Smith, Larry E. (ed.), English for Cross-Cultural Communication, 151-165, London: Macmillan, and Stein, Gabriele (1979), “Nuclear English: Reflections on the Structure of Its Vocabulary”, Poetica(Tokyo)

♣Warschauer M. & Healey D. (1998) Computers and language learning: an overview, Language Teaching 31:57-71.

♣Warschauer M. (1996) Computer-assisted language learning: an introduction. In Fotos S. (ed.) Multimedia language teaching, Tokyo: Logos International.

♣ Wenger E. (1998) Community of practice: learning as a social system



Course No. 12 -B: The Canadian Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The Vision Tree: Phyllis Kean Webb 20 hours 2 Lives of Girls and Women: Munroe Alice 20 hours 3 The Stone Angle: Margaret Laurence 15 hours 4

Selected Poems: 1940-66: Earle Birney Brief History of Canadian Literature

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Blodgett. E D . Configurations.Ontario. ♣ Carl Klinck. Literary History ofCanada.

♣ D G Jones. Butterfly on Rock. ♣ Dhawan R K. Canadian Literature Today.

♣ Frank Davey. From There to Here. Ontario. ♣Greame Gibson. Eleven Canadian Novelists.

♣ Hammill Faye. Canadian Literature ♣ Mandel Eli Porcepic. Another Time.

♣Margararet Atwood. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto

♣Northrope Frye. The Bush Garden.



Course No. 12-C: A Study of the Genre: Novel: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours


An Introduction to Novel: Arnold Kettle Pamela: Samuel Richardson (1740)

20 hours

2 Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte (1847) 20 hours 3 Jude the Obscure: Thomas Hardy (1895) 20 hours 4 Ulysses – James Joyce (1922) 15 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Arthur Ray HeisermanThe Novel Before the Novel (Chicago, 1977) ISBN 0226325725

♣ Bakhtin, Mikhail. About novel. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1981. [written during the 1930s]

♣ Ben Edwin Perry The Ancient Romances (Berkeley, 1967) review

♣ Burgess, Anthony (1967). The Novel Now: A Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction. London: Faber.

♣ Burgess, Anthony (1970). "Novel, The" – classic Encyclopædia Britannica entry.

♣ Davis, Lennard J. (1983). Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-05420-3.

♣ Erwin Rohde Der Griechesche Roman und seine Vorläufer(1876) [un-superseded history of the ancient novel] (German)

♣Lukács, Georg (1971, 1916). The Theory of the Novel. trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press. ISBN 0-262-12048-8.

♣ Madden, David; Charles Bane, Sean M. Flory (2006) [1979]. A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers (revised ed. ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5708- 1. Updated edition of pioneering typology and history of over 50 genres; index of types and technique, and detailed chronology.

♣ Miller, H. K., G. S. (1970) Rousseau and Eric Rothstein, The Augustan Milieu: Essays Presented to Louis A. Landa(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970). ISBN 0-19-811697-7

♣Richetti, John J. (1969). Popular Fiction before Richardson. Narrative Patterns 1700-1739. Oxford: OUP. ISBN.

♣Spufford, Magaret, Small Books and Pleasant Histories (London, 1981).

♣ Watt, Ian (1957). The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkeley: University of Los Angeles Press. ISBN 0-520-23069-8. Watt reads Robinson Crusoe as the first modern "novel" and interprets the rise of the modern novel of realism as an achievement of English literature, owed to a number of factors from early capitalism to the development of the modern individual.



Course No. 12-D: Research Methodology: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent[Course Credit:Five (5)]

Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The Nature & Aims of Literary Research

The Stages of Research The Major Areas of Literary Research

15 hours

2 The Thesis lay-out. Preparing Research Proposal. Writing Research Course.

20 hours

3 Documentation. The Style of Research Writing Analysis & Interpretation of various Genres Generalization

20 hours

4

How to write a research paper Presentation of Research Course

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ A Glossary of Literary Terms by M. H. Abrams ♣ A Guide to English and American Literature by Frederick Wilse Bateson

♣ A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman ♣ An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies by William Proctor Williams

♣ Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader by Victor Villanueva ♣G. GraffandC.Bernstein,They Say,ISay:The MovesthatMatterinAcademicWriting

(London: Norton, 2006).

♣ J. Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th edn. (New York: MLA, 2003). ♣ J. L. Harner, Literary Research Guide. 5th ed. (New York: MLA, 2008).

♣ R D Altick. The Art of Literary Research ♣ Research Guide for Undergraduate Students (Sixth Edition) by Nancy L. Baker ♣ Selective bibliography for the study of English and American literature by Richard D. Altick

♣ T. Mann, The Oxford Guide to Library Research (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005). ♣ Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 1417)

by D. C. Greetham

♣ The Prentice Hall Writer's Guide to Research and Documentation by Kirk G. Rasmussen ♣ The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick

♣ Web Resource: http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/Research-Methods/



Course No. 13: The New Literatures:

Semester 4: Core Courses

Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Chetan Bhagat: One night @ the Call Centre (2005)

J.K Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) 20 hours

2 Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending (2011) 20 hours 3 Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) 20 hours 4 Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday (USA) and Bantam (UK), 2003. 15 hours

Reference Books: ♣Anelli, Melissa (2008). Foreword to Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and

Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon. PocketBooks. ♣ Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, SecondEdition.

Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

♣ Brown, Gordon (2006). Introduction to "Ending Child Poverty" in Moving Britain Forward. Selected Speeches 1997–2006. Bloomsbury.

♣ Bruce Sesto, Language, History, And Metanarrative In the Fiction of Julian Barnes, Peter Lang (2001) ♣ Foreword to "Harry, A History", written by Melissa Anelli, Pocket (2008) ♣ Hansen, Mark B. N. Bodies in Code: Interfaces With Digital Media. Routledge, 2006.

♣Landow, George.Hyper/Text/Theory, 1994 ♣Landow, George.Hypertext2.0 : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

(Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 1997 ♣Landow, George.Hypertext3.0 : Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization (Parallax: Re-

visions of Culture and Society), 2005 ♣Landow, George.Hypertext : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

(Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 1991 ♣ Matthew Pateman, Julian Barnes: Writers and Their Work, Northcote House, (2002)

♣ McNeil, Gil and Brown, Sarah, editors (2002). Foreword to the anthology Magic. Bloomsbury. ♣ Merritt Moseley, Understanding Julian Barnes, University of South Carolina Press (1997) ♣ Peter Childs, Julian Barnes (Contemporary British Novelists), Manchester University Press (2011)

♣Rowling, J.K. (2008, 5 June). "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination". HarvardMagazine.

♣ Rowling, J.K. (2009, 30 April). "Gordon Brown – The 2009 Time 100". Time Magazine. ♣ Rowling, J.K. (2010, 14 April). "The Single Mother's Manifesto". The Times.

♣ Sebastian Groes& Peter Childs, eds. Julian Barnes (Contemporary Critical Perspectives), Continuum (2011)

♣ Sussman, Peter Y., editor (2006, 26 July). "The First It Girl: J.K. Rowling reviews Decca: the Letters of Jessica Mitford. The DailyTelegraph.

♣ Tim O'Neill. "Early Christianity and Political Power". History versus the Da Vinci Code. 2006. 16 Feb 2009 <http://www.historyversusthedavincicode.com/chapterfiftyfive.htm#christpower>

♣ Vanessa Guignery& Ryan Roberts, eds. Conversations with Julian Barnes, University Press of Mississippi (2009)

♣ Vanessa Guignery, The Fiction of Julian Barnes: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism, Palgrave Macmillan (2006)



Course No. 14: The African Literature: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

Course Content [Course Credit :Five (5)]

Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dweller (1958) 15 hours 2 Ngugi WaThiongo, A Grain of Wheat(1987).

Select Poems: Senghor’s New York; Gabriel Okara’s Once Upon a Time, Were I to Choose, Mystic Drum; Chinua Achebe’s Refugee Mother & Child; Wole Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation & Dedication. (From: Anthology of Commonwealth Literature Ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah)

20 hours

3 Coetzee, J M., Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). 20 hours 4 Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart (1958). 20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Aijaz Ahmed, In Theory (Verso, London, 1992) ♣ B. Anderson, Imagined Communities (Verso, London, 1983) ♣ B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths & H. Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (Routledge, London, 1989), The

Postcolonial Studies Reader, Routledge (1995) ♣ Edward Said, Orientalism (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978); Culture and Imperialism

(Chatto&Windus, London, 1993) ♣ F. Barker, P. Hulme& M. Iversen, Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory (Manchester UP, 1994) ♣ F. Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks (tr. C.L. Markman, Grove Press, NY, 1967), The Wretched of the

Earth (tr. C. Farrington, Grove Press, NY, 1968); Studies in a Dying Colonialism (tr. H. Chevalier, Earthscan, London, 1989)

♣ Gayatri Chakravarty-Spivak, In Other Worlds (Methuen, London, 1987)

♣ George Lamming, The Pleasure of Exile (Michael Joseph, London, 1960) ♣ Harish Trivedi, Colonial Transactions (Papyrus, Calcutta, 1993) ♣Homi Bhabha, Nation and Narration (Routledge, London, 1990); The Location of Culture

♣Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban (tr. P.Powesland, Methuen, London, 1956) ♣ Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized, (tr. H. Grenfeld, Earthscan, London, 1990)

♣Narasimhaiah, C.D. An Anthology of Commonwealth Literature (For African Poems) ♣ Ngugi waThiong’o, Homecoming (Heinemann, London, 1972); Decolonizing the Mind ♣ Routledge, London, 1994), Moving the Centre (James Currey, London, 1993)

♣The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, ed AbiolaIrele and Simon Gikandi, 2 vls, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

♣ Walcott, Derek. Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Encyclopedia of African Literature, ed Simon Gikandi, London: Routledge, 2003.



Course No. 15: Mass Communication and Media Studies: An Introduction: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours


Meaning of Mass Media and its Importance Journalism

20 hours

2 Television, Radio, E-media 20 hours 3 Cinema 15 hours 4 Advertising 20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Bhatt SC. Broadcast Journalism.

♣ C. Wright Mills, The Mass Society, Chapter in the Power Elite, 1956 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_communication"

♣ Hartley, J.: "Mass communication", in O'Sullivan; Fiske (eds): Key Concept in Communication and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1997).

♣ Kumar Kevat. Mass Communication – A Critical Analysis. ♣ Levy, Steven: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984). ♣ Mackay, H.; O'Sullivan T.: The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation (Sage, 1999).

♣McQuail, D.: McQuail's Mass Communication Theory (fifth edition) (Sage, 2005). ♣McQuail: McQuail's Mass Communication Theory, p. 13. ♣ Ministry of Info and Broadcasting. Mass edia in India. Govt. of India, New Delhi. ♣Mody Bella. Designig Messages for Development Communication. ♣ Thompson, John B.: The Media and Modernity (Polity, 1995).

♣ Thompson: The Media and Modernity



Sem 4: Elective Courses: Any One from the following: Course No. 16-A: English Language Teaching - 2:

Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours Unit Course Content Credit – 5 1 The teaching of language through literature. 20 hours 2 Language Testing and Evaluation 20 hours 3 CALL – Computer Assisted Language Learning

Web tools and ELT 20 hours

4 Language Lab and ELT 15 hours

Reference Books: ♣Arter Ron Neran David Ed. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching ESOL. ♣ Davies G. (2007 - revised) "Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are

we going?" http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/UCALL_Keynote.htm ♣Haycraft John. An Introduction to ELT

♣ Jarvis, H. (2009). Computers in EAP: change, issues and challenges. Modern English Teacher. 18(2) ♣ Levy, M.& Hubbard, P. (2005). Why call CALL "CALL"? Editorial. Computer Assisted Language

Learning 18(3): ♣Warschauer M. & Healey D. (1998) Computers and language learning: an overview, Language Teaching

31:57-71. ♣Warschauer M. (1996) Computer-assisted language learning: an introduction. In Fotos S. (ed.)

Multimedia language teaching, Tokyo: Logos International. ♣ Wenger E. (1998) Community of practice: learning as a social system

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Course No. 16-B: A Study of an Author: Thomas Hardy as a Novelist: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 The Well-Beloved 15 hours 2 Tess of D’Urbervilles 20 hours 3 The Return of the Native 20 hours 4

The Mayor of Casterbridge Two on a Tower

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ All original texts are available on www.gutenberg.org

♣ Armstrong, Tim. "Player Piano: Poetry and Sonic Modernity" in Modernism/Modernity 14.1 (January 2007), 1–19.

♣ Blunden, Edmund. Thomas Hardy. New York: St. Martin's, 1942. ♣Brennecke, Jr., Ernest. The Life of Thomas Hardy. New York: Greenberg, 1925. ♣D'Agnillo, Renzo, "Music and Metaphor in Under the Greenwood Tree, in The Thomas Hardy Journal,

9, 2 (May 1993),pp.39–50. ♣ Deacon, Lois and Terry Coleman. Providence and Mr. Hardy. London: Hutchinson, 1966. ♣ Draper, Jo. Thomas Hardy: A Life in Pictures. Wimborne, Dorset: The Dovecote Press. ♣ Ellman, Richard &O'Clair, Robert (eds.) 1988. "Thomas Hardy" in The Norton Anthology of Modern

Poetry, Norton, New York. ♣Gatrell, Simon. Hardy the Creator: A Textual Biography. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988. ♣ Gibson, James. Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life. London: Macmillan, 1996.

♣Gittings, Robert. Thomas Hardy's Later Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. ♣ Halliday, F. E. Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work. Bath: Adams & Dart, 1972.

♣ Hands, Timothy. Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? : Hardy's religious biography and its influence on his novels. New York: St. Martin's Press,1989.

♣ Hardy, Evelyn. Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography. London: Hogarth Press, 1954. ♣ Hardy, Florence Emily. The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891. London: Macmillan, 1928.

♣ Harvey, Geoffrey. Thomas Hardy: The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group),2003.

♣ Hedgcock, F. A., Thomas Hardy: penseur et artiste. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1911. ♣ Holland, Clive. Thomas Hardy O.M.: The Man, His Works and the Land of Wessex. London: Herbert

Jenkins, 1933. ♣ Kay-Robinson, Denys. The First Mrs Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan, 1979. ♣Marroni, Francesco, "The Negation of Eros in 'Barbara of the House of Grebe’ ", in "Thomas Hardy

Journal", 10, 1 (February 1994)

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Course No. 16-C: A Study of an Author: R. K. Narayan as a Writer: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Guide 15 hours 2 Swami and his friends 20 hours 3 Waiting for the Mahatma 20 hours 4

Selected Short Stories A Writer’s Nightmare

20 hours

Reference Books: ♣ Kain, Geoffrey (1993), R.K. Narayan : contemporary critical perspectives, Michigan State University

Press, ISBN 9780870133305, OCLC 28547534 ♣Khatri, Chotte Lal (2008), RK Narayan: Reflections and Re-evaluation, Sarup & Son,

ISBN9788176257138, OCLC123958718, http://books.google.com/books?id=x8BwVbOEiGwC&lpg=PP1&dq=R.K.%20Narayan%3A%20reflecti ons%20and%20re-evaluation&lr=&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

♣ Pousse, Michael (1995), R. K. Narayan: A Painter of Modern India, Vol. 4, Lang, Peter Publishing, ISBN9780820427683, OCLC31606376, http://books.google.com/books?id=AbFlAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

♣ Prasad, Amar Nath (2003), Critical response to R.K. Narayan, Sarup& Sons, ISBN 8176253707, OCLC55606024, http://books.google.com/books?id=Vy0m8FpNXx8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

♣Ramtake, S. S. (1998), R.K. Narayan and his social perspective, Atlantic Publishers, ISBN9788171567485, OCLC52117736, http://books.google.com/books?id=28WFDCJmo5UC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

♣ Rao, Ranga (2004), R.K. Narayan, Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788126019717, OCLC 172901011, http://books.google.com/books?id=Lgs4ebrb6XAC&pg=PA24

♣ Sundaram, P. S. (1988), R.K.Narayan as a Novelist, B.R. Pub. Corp, ISBN 9788170185314, OCLC20596609.

♣ Walsh, William (1982), R.K. Narayan: a critical appreciation, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226872131, OCLC 8473827,http://books.google.com/books?id=UnDxdXvTscC&pg=PA13

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Course No.: 16-D: A Study of an Author: Kamala Das as a Writer: Total Teaching Hours: 75 Hours

CourseContent [Course Credit :Five(5)] Unit Content Credit – 5 1 Alphabet of Lust

My Story 20 hours

2 Poems from Only Soul Knows How to Sing 20 hours 3 Poems from Summer in Calcutta 20 hours 4 Poems form the Sirens and other collections 15 hours

Reference Books: ♣ AGRAWAL, ISHWAR NATH. “The Language and the Limits of the Self in the Poetry of Kamala Das”

in SINHA, KRISHNA NANDAN Indian Writing in English1979. ♣ BREWSTER, ANNE. “The Freedom to Decompose: The Poetry of Kamala Das” Journal of Indian

Writing in English7.1&2 1980. ♣Daruwalla, K.N. “Confessional Poetry as Social Commentary: A View of English Poetry by Indian

Women” in RAM, ATMA. ed. Contemporary Indian-English Poetry Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1989. ♣ De SOUZA, EUNICE. “Kamala Das” in Shahane, Vasant and Sivaramkrishna, eds. Indian Poetry in

English: A Critical Assessment. Madras: Macmillan, 1980 ♣ DWIVEDI, A.N. Kamala Das and Her Poetry Delhi: Doaba House, 1983. ♣JUSSAWALLA, FEROZA. “Kamala Das: The Evolution of the Self” in Journal of Indian Writing In

English 10.1&2, 1982. ♣ KOHLI, DEVINDRA. Kamala Das. New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1975. ♣KULSHRESHTHA, CHIRANTAN., ed Contemporary Indian-English Verse: An Evaluation. New

Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1980. ♣ RADHA, K. Kamala Das. Madras: Macmillan India, 1987. ♣RAGHUNANDAN, LAKSHMI, Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: with Special Emphasis on

Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Parthasarathy and Ramanujan, New Delhi: Reliance Publishing House, 1990. ♣Rahaman, Anisur. Expressive Form in the Poetry of Kamala Das. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications,

1981. ♣ RAMAKRISHNAN, E.V. “Kamala Das as a Confessional Poet” Journal of Indian Writing in

English 5.1,1977.

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