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English Literature Semester II: About the Syllabus and NotesBook Name: 18th Century Literature
Course Objectives:
- To get an historical overview of Pre- Romantic and Romantic Age, its socio-political happenings and its impact on the literary production of the age.
- To understand literary features of the age, prose, poetry and fiction of the period
- To explore the interrelationship between society and literature.
Learning Outcomes:
On the successful completion of the course, the students shall be able to:
- evaluate an author’s work with reference to historical context, political backdrop and author’s life experiences that influenced her/his writings.
- explore the genre of farcical comedy/social satire, through the prescribed text- form and content.
- comprehend and evaluate the various aspects of novel writing with special focus on the gothic elements.
18th Century Literature Book Syllabus:
Unit I
Literary Terms: Ode, Imagery, Elegy, Personification, Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Meter, Couplet, Picaresque Novel, Epistolary Novel, Bildungsroman, Comedy of Manners, Satire, Sentimental Comedy, Periodical Essay.
Introduction to the Age and Movements: Neo-Classical, Pre Romantic and Romantic, Realism, Graveyard Poetry.
Unit II
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Collins: Ode to Evening
William Blake: The Tyger (from Songs of Experience) The Lamb (from Songs of Innocence)
William Cowper: Light shining out of Darkness
Unit III
G.C. Byron: She walks in Beauty
John Keats: Ode to Autumn
P.B Shelley: To a Skylark
William Wordsworth: The World is too much with us The Solitary Reaper
S. T Coleridge: Christabel (Lines 1-55)
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Unit IV
William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers
Charles Lamb: Dream-Children; A Reverie
Richard Steele: The Spectator Club
Joseph Addison: Meditations in Westminster Abbey
Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Unit V
Voices from India:
Tukaram: Poems of Tukaram : Section 1 Autobiography: Thoughts about the world (1- 12)
Surdas: Maiya mori (1) pg 41, maiya mohe (2)pg 42-43, kat tu suman (22) pg 65
Bhagwatgita: Verses : 1-5 Ch.XVI- The Nature of the Godlike and Demonic Mind. (Bhagwatgita.English Translation by Dr. Radhakrishnan.GerorgeAllen& Unwin Ltd, London ,pp334- 335)
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English Literature Semester IV: About the Syllabus and Notes
Book Name: 20th Century Literature
Course Objectives:
- To sensitize the learners to socio- economic, political, religious and linguistic issues of the 20th century.
- Understand historical and cultural context of 20th century
- Identify and analyze key literary movements such as modernism, postmodernism, and Harlem renaissance.
- Examine and explore the evolution of literary forms and genres throughout the century.
Learning Outcomes:
On the Successful completion of the course, the students shall be able to:
- evaluate and appreciate the influence of the diverse movements of 20th century on Modernist Literature.
- understand the concept of play of ideas and its application in the context of the prescribed text.
- emerge with a comprehensive perspective of the different dimensions of human psyche through prescribed texts.
20th Century Literature Book Syllabus:
Unit-I
Literary Terms: Stream of Consciousness, Dystopia, Allusion, Symbolism. Introduction to Age and Movements: Modernism, Post Modernism, Magic Realism, Existentialism, Surrealism, Harlem Renaissance, Post Colonial
Unit II
Auden: In Memory of W. B.Yeats
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill
Robert Frost: After Apple Picking; Stopping by Woods
Edwin Thumboo: Words
Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
W.B Yeats: A Prayer for my Daughter
Unit-III
Zadie Smith : “Joy”
E.F. Schumaker : Technology with A Human Face
O’Henry : The Last Leaf
Katherine Mansfield : A Cup of Tea
William Golding- Lord of the Flies
Unit-IV
G. B.Shaw: Pygmalion
Unit V
M.K.Gandhi: “ What is Swaraj”(CH. 4)from Hind Swaraj
Subramaniam Bharati: Phoenix ((Bharat Dying and Resurgent Bharat), Freedom, Ode to Freedom
Rabindranath Tagore: The Postmaster
English Literature Semester VI: About the Syllabus and Notes
Book Name: Contemporary World Literature
Course Objectives:
- Demonstrate familiarity with important authors, works, genres, and themes of contemporary world literature.
- Analyze and interpret themes found in the literature using the conventions of critical literary analysis.
- Relate the literary works to their historical, philosophical, social, political, religious, regional, and/or aesthetic contexts.
Learning Outcomes:
On the successful completion of the course, the students shall be able to:
- examine the representation of contemporary trends, thematic concerns and innovations in genres
- identify key concepts like, multiculturalism, globalization, acculturation, displacement, alienation and identity crisis in contemporary texts post World War II
- analyze the inter-connectedness of human experiences with a developed understanding of their social, cultural and aesthetic contexts.
Contemporary World Literature Book Syllabus:
Unit I
Introducing Multiculturalism, Diaspora, Globalization, Hybridity, Alienation, Acculturation, Assimilation, Identity , Ecofeminism
Unit II
Seamus Heaney : Blackberry Picking
Kishwar Naheed : Talking to Myself
Judith Ortiz (Cofer) : Latin Women Pray
Arundhati Subramaniam : Home
Shirley Lim : My Father’s Sadness
Pablo Neruda : A Dog has Died
Wislawa Szymborska : A Great Number
Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
Agha Shahid Ali : Postcard from Kashmir
Unit III
Amy Tan : Mother Tongue
Haruki Murakami: Birth Day Girl
Orhan Pamuk: Distant Relations
Gabriel García Márquez: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Unit IV
Khaled Hossaini : The Kite Runner
Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel
Unit V
Voices from India
Vinay Dharwadker: English in India and Indian Literature in English: The Early History, 1579-1834 (Section I, II and IV)
Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive: Women Ecology and Development.Chapters :2&4
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