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SYLLABUS
M.A. Honours & M.A.
Honours (Research)
ENGLISH
MA Hons and MA Honours with Research English 1 Syllabus Mumbai University by munotes
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M.A. Part I
Semester I
Paper I POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH
Paper III LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM I
Paper V GENDER IN LITERATURE - I
Paper VII THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE - I
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PAPER I
POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
To enable students to comprehend the sociopolitical backdrop to post- independence
Indian Literature and read English Fiction, written by Indians located mainly in India as
opposed to NRIs or Diasporics, against the backdrop of political, caste, gender and
religious issues.
To understand the linguistic policies and emergence of English as a link language in
India, a global language of communication and the rise of the Indian Novel in English
To understand the postmodernist and postcolonial linguistic and formal innovations in
the Indian Novel in English.
Background and Texts for Detailed Study
UNIT I – Background Themes and Issues :
• The Socio- Political and Linguistic Scenario: The influence on Literature of Nehruvian
Socialism; Caste Reforms; Gender Reforms; linguistic policies in India; The Politics of Language in Independent India; English as a Link Language in India; English as a global
language;
• Postmodernist and Postcolonial Literary Innovations : Impact on Indian Literature in English
of magic realism; postcolonial re -possessions/re -writings of history, Indian, folk and non-
Western literary modes, e.g. the Sheherezadic and the Indian classical/folk narrative style; debates on cosmopolitanism and nativism; Cultural hybridiy and Multiculturalism ; Linguistic
innovations.
UNIT 2– Anita Desai: Fasting Feasting
UNIT 3 – Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
UNIT 4 – Kiran Nagarkar: Cuckold
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Mulk Raj Anand: Across the Black Waters
2. R.K. Narayan: The World of Nagaraj
3. Shashi Deshpande: In the Country of Deceit
4. Khus hwant Singh: The Train to Pakistan
5. Nayantara Sahgal: Lesser Breeds
6. Geeta Hariharan: Fugitive Hist ories
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7. Amit Chaudhary : The Immortals
8. Cyrus Mistry: Corpse Bearer
9. Shashi Tharoor: The Great Indian Novel
10. Anita Nair: Ladies Coupe
11. Kiran Nagarkar : God’s Little Soldier
12. Upamanyu Chatterjee: The Last Burden
Recommended Reading
1. M.K. Naik, A History of Indian English Literature , Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, 1982
2. M.K. Naik, Aspects of Indian Writing in English, Macmillan, Delhi 1979
3. William Walsh, Indo -Anglian Literature 1800 -1970: A Survey, Orient Longman, Madras,
1976
4. Viney Kirpal, The New Indian Novel in English, Allied Publishers, Delhi, 1990
5. Viney Kirpal (ed.), The Postmodern Indian English Novel, Allied Publishers, 1996
6. Jasbir Jain and Amina Amin (eds.), Margins of Erasure: Purdah in the Subcontinental
Novel in English, Sterling, Delhi, 1995
7. Malashri Lal, The L aw of the Threshold, Women Writers in Indian English , Indian Institute
of Advanced Study, 1995
8. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1985
9. Viney Kirpal, The Third World Novel of Expatriation , Sterling, Delhi, 1989
10. Tabish Khair, Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels, Oxford University Press, India, 2005
11. Krishnaswamy and Archana S. Burde, The Politics of Indian’s English: Linguistic Colonialism and the Expanding English Empire , Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998
12. Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan (ed.), The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983
Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks) UNIT 1 - Background Themes and Issues
UNIT 2– Anita Desai: Fasting Feasting
UNIT 3 – Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
UNIT4 – Kiran Nagarkar : Cuckold
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2
hours.
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Internal Assessment (40 marks ) on texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is
reflected in the time table of the Department.
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PAPER III
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM I
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
To enable students to map developments in literary theory since the mid- twentieth
century.
To understand the primacy accorded to language and to critically engage with
poststructuralist and deconstructive theories against the background of Saussurean
linguistics
To interrogate the philosophy, politics and aesthetics of feminist, postmodern,
postco lonial and ethnicity studies
To understand meaning -making processes in literary texts, and the specificity of
discourses in given genres
To explore new conceptions of historicity and textual/interpretive locations.
To enable the students to read literary and cultural texts through multiple perspectives
Texts for Detailed Study
Unit 1 Raymond Williams, “Hegemony; Traditions, Institutions and Formations; Dominant,
Residual
and Emergent”. From Marxism and Literature
Unit 2 Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”
Unit 3 Wolfgang Iser, “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach”
Unit 4 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “What is Minor Literature?”
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator”
2. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”
3. Louis Althusser, “Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus”
4. Elaine Showalter, “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”
5. Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism , Chapter 1
6. Linda Hutcheon, “Historiographic Metafiction: Parody and the Intertextuality of History”
7. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind:
8. Edward Said, “Secular Criticism”
9. J. Hillis Miller, “The Critic as Host”
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10. Stanley Fish, “Interpreting the Variorum”
11. Barbara Christian, “On the Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism”
Recommended Reading
1. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Bangalore, Prism Books, 1993.
2. Achebe, Chinua. “Home and Exile” ……..
3. Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2003.
4. Eagleton, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996.
5. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996.
6. Eagleton, Terry and Drew Milne . (ed) Marxist Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
7. Frye, Northrop. The Anatomy Of Criticism.
8. Genette, Gerard. “Structuralism and Literary Criticism”.
9. Jefferson, A. D. Robey (ed.) Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction,
London: Batsford, 1 982.
10. Lentricchia, F. and Thomas McLaughlin (eds.) Critical Terms for Literary Study . Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1995.
11. Lodge, David. (ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Longman: New York, 1988.
12. Lodge, David. Twentieth Century Literary Cr iticism: A Reader . London: Longman, 1972.
13. Norris, Christopher. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London: Methuen, 1992.
14. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. London: Edward
Arnold, 1989.
15. Tompkins, Jane P. Reader Response Cr iticism: From Formalism to Poststructuralism .
Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks) Unit 1 Raymond Williams, “Hegemony; Traditions, Institutions and Formations; Dominant,
Residual
and Emergent”. From Marxism and Literature
Unit 2 Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”
Unit 3 Wolfgang Iser, “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach”
Unit 4 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “What is a Minor Literature?”
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours.
Internal Assessment (40 marks) on texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
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As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is
reflected in the time table of the Department.
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PAPER V
GENDER IN LITERATURE - I
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
• To enable students to ‘de -naturalise’ gender
• To critically read the gender politics in canonical literature
• To arrive at an understanding of the interplay of gender, writing and genre
• To explore the subversive strategies in texts that interrog ate hetero -normative
patriarchies
• To understand the need for new literary frameworks to accommodate the diversity in
contemporary literary production
Background and Texts for Detailed Study
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues
Schools of Feminist Thought - Liberal, Radical, Marxist, Socialist, Psychoanalytical, Postmodern,
Ecofeminist, ‘Third Wave’ Feminisms
Feminist Literary Theory
• Re-reading and Revisioning the canon
• Gynocritics
• French Feminist Theorists/Critics
• Alternative, n on-canonical literary paradigms
UNIT 2 William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
UNIT 3 Rekhti Poetry; Selections from Bhakti women poets
UNIT 4 Lorraine Hansberry, Raisins in the Sun
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. John Webster, The Duchess Of Malfi
2. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
3. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
4. Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
5. Selections from the poems of Emily Dickinson
6. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
7. Virginia Woolf, Orlando
8. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes are Watching God
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9. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
10. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
11. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
12. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Recommended Reading
1. Auerbach, Nina. Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press , 1978.
2. Barrett, Michele. Women and Writing. London: Women’s Press, 1979.
3. de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage, 1974.
4. Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
5. Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Gothic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1979.
6. Jacobus, Mary. Reading Women: Essays in Feminist Criticism . London: Methuen, 1986.
7. Loomba, Ania. Race, Gender and Renaissance Drama. New Delhi: Oxford India
Paperbacks. 1992.
8. Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday. 1970.
9. Moers, Ellen. Literary Women: The Great Writers. New York: Doubleday. 1976.
10. Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Sec rets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966 -1979. New York and
London : Norton, 1979.
11. Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History . Delhi:
Kali for Women, 1989.
12. Sangari, Kumkum. The Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, Histo ry, Narratives,
Colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999.
13. Sedgewick, Eve. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire .
Columbia: Columbia University Press. 1992.
14. Tharu, Susie and K. Lalitha. Ed. Women Writing in India Vols. I & II . New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
15. Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose . San Diego: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
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Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks)
Unit I Background Themes and Issues
Unit 2 William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Unit 3 Rekhti Poetry; Selections from women Bhakti poets
Unit 4 Lorraine Hansberry, Raisins in the Sun Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2
hours.
Internal Assessment (40 marks) on background or texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.
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PAPER VII
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE - I
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
To trace the history of Comparative Literature as a discipline and as a critical perspective
To understand the need for the comparative study of literature
To get acquainted with the various schools of comparative literature
Background and Texts for Detailed Study
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues
(A) Name, Definition and Function of Comparative Literature. The Need for and significance of
Comparative Stud ies.
(Readings: Rene Wellek, “The Name and Nature of Comparative Literature”; Henry Remak,
“Comparative Literature: Its Definition and Function”; Avadhesh K. Singh’s “The Future of
Comparative Literary Studies”)
(B) Schools of Comparative Literature - The French School ; The American Schoo l
(Reading: M. Ramezani, Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective )
UNIT 2 Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House
Vijay Tendulkar – Silence, the Court is in Session
UNIT 3 Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
UNIT 4 Langston Hughes (Selected poems)
Arjun Dangle (ed.), Poisoned Bread (Selected poems)
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Maxim Gorky – Mother
Bertolt Brecht – Mother Courage and Her Children
2. T. S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Becket
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3. Baby Kamble – The Prisons We Broke
Maya Angelou – I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4. William Shakespeare – Hamlet
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead
5. R. K. Narayan – Guide (The Film and The Novel)
6. Amrita Pritam – Pinjar (The Film and The Novel)
7. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
8. Vikram Seth – Golden Gate (selected sonnets)
Siegfried Sassoon – selected sonnets
9. Badal Sircar – Evam Indrajit
J D Salinger – Catcher in the Rye
10. Charlotte Gilman Perkins – “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Susanna Kaysen – Girl, Interrupted
11. Thomas Mann – Transposed Heads
Girish Karnad – Hayavadana
12. Louisa M. Alcott – Little Women
Buchi Emecheta – Joys of Motherhood
Recommended Reading
Amiya Dev, The Idea of Comparative Literature in India, Calcutta: Papyrus, 1984.
Bassnett, Susan, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
K. A. Koshi (ed.), Towards Comparative Literature , Aligarh : Aligarh Muslim University Publication,
1987.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Counterpoints: Essays in Comparative Literature , Calcutta : Prajna, 1984.
Naresh Guha (ed), Contributions to Comparative Literature: Germany and India, Calcutta:
Jadhavpur University Publication, 1973.
Rene Wellek, Comparative Literature: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the ICLA, Chapel Hill:
North C arolina University Press, 1959.
Ulrich Weisstein, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory: Survey and Introduction, Bloomington
and London : Indiana University Press, 1973.
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Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks)
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues
UNIT 2 – Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Vijay Tendulkar, Silence, the Court is in Session
UNIT 3 – Joseph Conrad , Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
UNIT 4 – Langston Hughes (Selected Poems)
Arjun Dangle (ed.) Poisoned Bread (Selected poems)
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours.
Internal Assessment (40 marks) on background or texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in
the time table of the Department.
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M.A. Part I
Semester I I
Paper II POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIAN DRAMA AND POETRY IN
ENGLISH
Paper I V LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM - II
Paper V I GENDER IN LITERATURE - II
Paper VII I THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE - II
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PAPER II:
POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIAN DRAMA AND POETRY IN ENGLISH
(6 Credits. 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
To enable students to comprehend Post- Independence Indian Drama and Poetry in
English against the changing social and ethical values in Indian s ociety
To enable students to comprehend the history and sociopolitical background to
Indian theatre and Poetry in English
To enable students to understand concepts of cultural hybridity and multiculturalism
Background and Texts for Detailed Study
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues :
• Liberalisation and Globalisation : The impact on Indian Drama and Poetry in English of
economic and social changes; the Globalisation of Indian culture; changes in social and ethical values; Influence of Feminism and rise of Dalit power; the expansion of the Indian Diaspora; communal vio lence; national and international terrorism.
• Indian Theatre and Poetry in English: The history of postcolonial Indian theatre in English;
the problems of finance and audience; the issue of authenticity of voice and accent;
influence of Western and Indian Classical theatres; canonization of Indian Drama in English.
The History of postcolonial Indian Poetry in English; the influences Indian and Western on
Indian Poetry in English; Cultural Hybridity and Multiculturalism in Indian Theatre and Poetry in Englis h; Cosmopolitanism and Nativism in Indian Theatre and Poetry in English
UNIT 2 – Mahesh Dattani: Brief Candle
UNIT 3- Girish Karnad: Broken Images
UNIT 4 - Selections of poems written by Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moares, Keki Daruwala, A.K.
Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Eunice De Souza, Imtiaz Dharker, Dilip Chitre, Gieve Patel, Meena
Alexander and Arun Kolatkar
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Makhija Anju : If Wishes Were Horses
2. Cyrus Mistry: Doongaji House
3. Dina Mehta: Brides are not for Bu rning
4. Mahesh Dattani: Tara
5. Gurcharan Das: Larins Sahib
6. Pratap Sharma: A Touch of Brightness
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7. Pratap Sharma: Begum Sumroo
8. Gieve Patel: Mr. Behram
9. Asif Currimbhoy : Goa
10. Manjula Padmanabhan: Harvest
11. Nissim Ezekiel: Nalini
12. Post -independence Indian Poets in English (not included for detailed study)
Recommended Reading
1. Paul C. Verghese, Essays on Indian Writing in English, N.V. Pubs., New Delhi, 1975
2. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vrinda Nabar (eds.), Mapping Cultural Spaces:
Postcolonial Indian Literature in English, Essays in Honour of Nissim Ezekiel, Vision
Books, Delhi, 1998
3. G.N. Devy, After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism ,
Orient Longman, Bombay, 1993
4. Ashis Nandy, S. Trivedy, S. Mayaram and A. Yagnik, Creating a Nationality
5. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997
6. Amartya Sen , The Argumentative Indian, Penguin, 2006
7. Bruce King, Modern Indian Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987
8. E.N. Lal, The Poetry of Encounter: Dom Moraes, A.K. Ramanujan and Nissim
Ezekiel , New Delhi, 1983
9. Kapil Kapoor& A.K. Singh, Indian Knowledge Systems Vol. 1 & 2, Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla, 2005
10. Sharma Ram: A History of Indian Drama in English, Sunoasis Writers Network,
2010
11. Chakravarty K.: Indian Drama in English, 2010
12. Bharucha Nilufer and Srihar Rajeswaran, ‘Whither Indian Drama?: The Politics of
Performatives, Performance and Performance Spaces’ , (Dis)Continuities: Trends
and Traditions, CDE, (Contemporary Theatre and Drama), ed. Elke Mett inger, Vol.
IX, May 2002, Vienna.
13. Vasant Shahane and Shivaram Krishnan (eds.), Indian Poetry in English: A CriticalAssessment , Macmillan, Madras, 1982
Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks)
1) UNIT 1 - Background Themes and Issues
2) UNIT 2 – Mahesh Dattani: Brief Candle
3) UNIT 3- Girish Karnad: Broken Images
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4) UNIT 4 - Selections of poems written by Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moares, Keki Daruwala,
A.K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Eunice De Souza, Imtiaz Dharker, Dilip Chitre, Gieve
Patel, Meena Alexander and Arun Kolatkar
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2
hours.
Internal Assessment (40 marks) on texts listed for internal assessment 20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is
reflected in the time table of the Department.
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PAPER IV
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM II
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
To enable students to map developments in literary theory since the mid- twentieth
century.
To understand the primacy accorded to language and to critically engage with
poststructuralist and deconstructive theories against the background of Saussurean linguistics
To interrogate the philosophy, politics and aesthetics of feminist, postmodern,
postcolonial and ethnicity studies
To understand meaning -making processes in literary texts, and the specificity of
discourses in given genres
To explore new conceptions of historicity and textual/interpretive locations.
To enable the students to read literary and cultural texts through multiple perspectives
Texts for Detailed Study
Unit 1 Mikhail Bakhtin, “Carnival and Carnivalesque”. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A
Reader . Ed. J ohn Storey.
Unit 2 Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”
Unit 3 Stephen Greenblatt, “Resonance and Wonder”
Unit 4 Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Mikhail Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel”
2. Raymond Williams, “The Country and the City” (Excerpt from The Country and the City )
3. Loomba, Ania, “Tangled Histories: Indian feminism and Anglo -American feminist
Criricism”
4. Caruth, Cathy. “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History”
5. Love, Glen A. “Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism”
6. bell hooks, “Essentialism and Experience”
7. Balibar, Etienne & Pierre Macherey, “Literature as an Ideological Form”
8. Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “English in the Caribbean”
9. Lisa Lowe, “Hetrogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Difference”
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10. Bali Sahota, “The Paradoxes of Dalit Cultural Politics”
11. Macherey, Pierre. From A Theory of Literary Production . Sections on “Explanation and
Interpretation”, “Implicit and Explicit” and “The Spoken and the Unspoken”
12. Bhabha Homi K. “Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism”
13. Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, “Planetarity”
Recommended Reading
1. Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Michael H olquist. Ed. Texas:
University of Texas Press. 2004.
2. Bhabha, Homi. K. The Location of Culture : New York: Routledge. 1994.
3. Colbrook, Claire. New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary
Criticism . Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 199 7.
4. Devy, G. N. Ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Hyderabad:
Orient Longman. 2002.
5. Gallagher, Catherine and Stephen Greenblatt. Practicing New Historicism. University
of Chicago Press. 2001.
6. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
7. Habib, M. A. R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History . Oxon: Blackwell.
2008.
8. Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. New Delhi: Sage. 2003.
9. Selden, Raman (ed.) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 8. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995
10. Selden, Raman. Ed. The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present. London: Longman, 1988.
11. Sethuraman, V. S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism : An Anthology. Madras: Macmillan,
1989.
12. Simon During. Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing . London &
New York: Routledge. 1992.
13. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Outside in the Teaching Machine . New York: Routledge
1993.
14. Sturrock, J. Ed. Structuralism and Since. Oxford: OUP, 1979.
15. Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide . Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 2006.
Evaluation Pattern
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External Assessment (60 marks)
Unit 1 Mikhail Bakhtin, “Carnival and Carnivalesque”. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture:
A Reader . Ed. John Storey.
Unit 2 Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”
Unit 3 Stephen Greenblatt, “Resonance and Wonder”
Unit 4 Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2
hours.
Internal Assessment (40 marks) on background or texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is
reflected in the time table of the Department.
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PAPER VI
GENDER IN LITERATURE II
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
• To enable students to ‘de -naturalise’ gender
• To critically read the gender politics in canonical literature
• To arrive at an understanding of the interplay of gender, writing and genre
• To explore the subversive strategies in texts that interroga te hetero -normative
patriarchies
• To understand the need for new literary frameworks to accommodate the diversity in
contemporary literary production
Background Themes and Prescribed Texts
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues
• Critiques of mainstream feminisms; Feminisms in ‘other’ locations
• Masculinity Studies, Rethinking Masculinities
• Queer Theory, Alternative Sexualities
UNIT 2 – Toni Morrison , Paradise
UNIT 3 – Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
UNIT 4 – Indian short stories:
1. Saadat Hasan Manto, “Mozail”
2. Mahasweta Devi, “The Hunt”
3. Ismat Chughtai, “The Mole”
4. Lalitambika Antherjanam, “Goddess of Revenge”
5. Urmila Pawar, “Armour”
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Selections from the poetry of Sylvia Plath
2. Toni Morrison, Son g of Solomon
3. Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place
4. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
5. Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors
6. Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters
7. Hiromi Goto , The Chorus of Mushrooms
8. Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Doorframe
9. Shani M ootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
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10. Mahesh Dattani, Thirty Days in September
11. Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
12. Chimamanda Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Recommended Reading
1. Abel, Elizabeth. Ed. Writing and Sexual Difference . Brighton: Harvester, 1982.
2. Ashton- Jones, Evelyn, and Gary Olson. Ed. The Gender Reader . Boston and London:
Allwyn and Bacon, 1991.
3. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity . London and
New York: Routledge. 1990.
4. Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist literature and Social Change .
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
5. Gallop, Jane. The Daughter’s Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1982.
6. Grosz, Elizabeth. Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists . St. Leonards: Allen and
Unwin, 1989.
7. Hite, Molly. The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary
Feminist Narratives. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
8. Humm, Maggie. Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary Critics. Brighton:
Harvester, 1986.
9. Kahn, Coppelia and Gayle Greene. Ed. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism.
New York and London: Methuen, 1985.
10. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. London: Methuen, 1985.
11. Showalter, Elaine. Ed. The New Feminist Criticism : Essays on Women, Literature and
Theory . New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
12. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York and
London: Methuen, 1987.
13. Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari. Real and Imagined Women: gender, culture, post coloniality .
New York and London: Routledge, 1993.
14. Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Westview Press. 1998.
15. Warhol, Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl. Ed. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary
Theory and Criticism . New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1993.
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Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks)
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues
UNIT 2 – Toni Morrison , Paradise
UNIT 3 – Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
UNIT 4 – Indian short stories
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours. Internal Assessment (40 marks) on background or texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.
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PAPER VIII
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE - II
(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)
Objectives
To appreciate the variety of literature in different languages
To under stand the concept of World Literature
To trace the development of New Literatures in English
To comprehend the complexity of literary translation
Background and Texts for Detailed Study
UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues
(A) The varieties of literature produced in different languages ; Regional Literature ; National
Literature ; Goethe’s Concept of World Literature ; World Literature Today.
(Readings: David Damrosch, “What is World Literature?”; Vilashini Cooppan, “World Literature
and Global Theory: Comparative Literature for the New Millennium”)
(B) Comparative Literary Studies in Multilingual Contexts: Indian Perspect ives
Literary Translations ; Contextuality , Textuality and Intertexuality; Problems of Literary
Translation ; Translation as Linguistic Bridge-building
(Readings: Sisir Kumar Das, “Comparative Literature and India: A Historical Perspective”; Amiya
Dev, “ Comparative Literature in India”)
UNIT 2 – Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
J. M. Coetzee – Foe
UNIT 3 – Albert Camus – Caligula
Girish Karnad – Tughlaq
UNIT 4 – Adrienne Rich (Selected poems)
Kamala Das (Selected poems)
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion
1. Albert Camus – Outsider
Bhalchandra Nemade – Cocoon
2. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy
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3. Vladimir Nab okov, Lolita
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. John Osborne – Look Back in Anger
Mohan Rakesh – Halfway House
5. Garcia Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
6. Girish Karnad – Tale -danda
Shiva Prakash – Mahachaitra
7. Rokeya Shekhawat Hossain – “Sultana’s Dream”
Charlotte Gilman Perkins – Herland
8. Selected poems of Sylvia Plath
Selected poems of Anne Sexton
9. Babura o Bagul – “Mother”
Lalitambika Antarjanam – “Admission of Guilt”
10. William Shakespeare – Othello
Vishal Bhardwaj (dir.) Omkara
11. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Novel and Film)
12. Bertolt Brecht – Galileo
Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons
Recommended Reading
Amiya Dev and Sisir Kumar Das (eds.), Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice , Shimla : Indian
Institute of Advanced Study in Association with Allied Publishers, 1988.
Bassnett, Susan, Translation Studies , New York: Routledge, 2002.
Bernheimer, C. (ed.) Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore: John Hopkins
University Press, 1995.
Earnest R. Curtius, Essays on European Literature, translated Michael Kowal, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1973.
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Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalisation, John Hopkins University Press,
2006.
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics ,
New York: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1973.
Rambhau Badode, Arvind Mardikar & A.G. Khan, New Directions in Comparative Literature,
Macmillan India Ltd. 2007.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, Death of a Discipline , Columbia University Press, 2003.
Sureshchandra (ed.) Essays in Comparative Literature , New Delhi : Anmol Publication, 1998.
Evaluation Pattern
External Assessment (60 marks)
UNIT 1 – Background
UNIT 2 – Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
J. M. Coetzee – Foe
UNIT 3 – Albert Camus – Caligula
Girish Karnad – Tughlaq
UNIT 4 – Adrienne Rich (Selected poems)
Kamala Das (Selected poems)
Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours.
Internal Assessment (40 marks) on background or texts listed for internal assessment
20 marks – Written Assignment
10 marks – Classroom Presentation
10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions
As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in
the time table of the Department.