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SYLLABUS
T.Y.B. A. - English
Semester V & VI
Revised Syllabus as per CBCS pattern
(w.e.f. Academic Year - 2018-19)
SYLLABUS
T.Y.B. A. - English
Semester V & VI
Revised Syllabus as per CBCS pattern
(w.e.f. Academic Year - 2018-19)
T.Y.B.A. – English - Semester V & VI
Revised Syllabus as per CBCS pattern
(w.e.f. Academic Year 2018 -19)
Paper No. Name of the Course Semester Paper Code Name of the Paper
Paper IV 16th to 18th Century
English Literature Sem - V UAENG501 16th to 18th Century English Literature - I
Sem - VI UAENG601 16th to 18th Century English Literature - II
Paper V Literary Criticism Sem - V UAENG502 Literary Criticism - I
Sem - VI UAENG602 Literary Criticism - II
Paper VI -A Grammar and Art of
writing Sem - V UAENG503A Grammar and Art of writing - I
Sem - VI UAENG603A Grammar and Art of writing – II
Paper VI -B Translation Studies:
Theory and Practice Sem - V UAENG503B Translation Studies: Theory and Practice - I
Sem - VI UAENG603B Translation Studies: Theory and Practice - II
Paper VI -C Popular Culture Sem - V UAENG503C Popular Culture - I
Sem - VI UAENG603C Popular Culture - II
Paper VII 19th Century English
Literature Sem - V UAENG504 19th Century English Literature - I
Sem - VI UAENG604 19th Century English Literature - II
Paper VIII 20th Century British
Literature Sem - V UAENG505 20th Century British Literature – I
Sem - VI UAENG605 20th Century British Literature – II
Paper IX -A Literature and Gender Sem - V UAENG506A Literature and Gender - I
Sem - VI UAENG606A Literature and Gender - II
Paper IX -B Drama and Theatre Sem - V UAENG506B Drama and Theatre - I
Sem - VI UAENG606B Drama and Theatre - II
Paper IX -C Film and Literature Sem - V UAENG506 C Film and Literature - I
Sem - VI UAENG606C Film and Literature - II
Paper IX -D Literature of Protest Sem - V UAENG506D Literature of Protest - I
Sem - VI UAENG606D Literature of Protest - II
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B. A. English Paper IV
Semester: V & V I
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: 16th to 18th Century English Literature
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 201 8-19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG501 & UAENG601
iii) Course Title : 16th to 18th Century English
Literature
iv) Semester wise Course Contents: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 20
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04
ix) No. of Tutorials per week : --
2. Scheme of Examination : 5 Questions of 20 marks each .
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA Paper IV
Course: 16th to 18th Century English Literature
Course Code s: UAENG50 1& UAENG601
Objectives of the Course:
1) To introduce students to English Literature of the 16th, 17th and 18thcenturies.
2) To show them how background influences shaped the writer’s thinking.
3) To present them to the literary masters who dominated the scene
4) To familiarize students with different writing styles that each age adopted.
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1) To understand the distinctive features of English literature of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries
2) To comprehend how background influences shaped the writer’s thinking.
3) To recognize and appreciate the literary masters who dominated the scene .
4) To grasp the different writing styles that each age adopted.
Semester V: 16th to 18th Century English Literature –I
Course code - UAENG501 04Credits Total Lectures: 60
Unit 1: Important Concepts & Terms: 20 Lectures
A. The Elizabethan Age (1550 -1603)
i) Renaissance, Humanism and Reformation.
ii) Elizabethan Poetry – Sonnets, Epic and Pastoral
iii) Elizabethan Drama
iv) University Wits.
B. The Jacobean Period (1603 -1650)
i) Characteristics of the Jacobean Period
(Major influences and its impact on literature)
ii) Metaphysical Poetry
iii) Jacobean Drama - (Revenge Tragedy and Comedy)
Unit 2: William Shakespeare: Hamlet 20 Lectures
OR
William Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors
Unit 3: Selected Verse from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. 20 Lectures
Elizabethan Period:
a. Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophel and Stella sonnet sequence.
Sonnet 37 “My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell ”.
39 “Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace ”.
b. Edmund Spenser: from The Shepheardes Calender
“April Eclogue ”.
“November Eclogue ”.
c. William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the m arriage of true minds ”
Sonnet 138 “When my love swears that she is made of truth ”
Jacobean Period:
a. John Donne: “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning ”.
Holy Sonnet 10 –“Death Be Not Proud ”.
b. George Herbert: “The Pulley ”.
“Love ”.
c. Andrew Marvell: “The Coronet ”.
“On a Drop of Dew ”.
Semester VI: 16th to 18th Century English Literature –II
Course code - UAENG 601 04Credits Total Lectures: 60
Unit 1: Background and Important Concepts: 20 Lectures
A. The Restoration Period (1660 -1700)
i) Characteristics of Restoration Period
(Major events of the age and their impact on literature)
ii) Restoration Poetry - (Epic, Mock epic, Satire)
iii) Restoration Drama - Comedy of Manners, Heroic Tragedy
iv) Diary Writing
B. Neo-Classical Period (1700 -1798)
i) Neo-Classical/Augustan
ii) Age of Satire
iii) Rise of the Periodical Essay and the Novel
Unit 2: John Dryden: All for Love 20 Lectures
OR
Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
Unit 3: Selected Verse from the Puritan Era, the Restoration Period 20 Lectures
and the 18th Century
Restoration Period:
a. John Milton: from Paradise Lost Book I
(105-124) 105 - And shook his throne. What though the field he lost?
124- Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.
(242-270) 242 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime
270- Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?
(315-356) 315 - Of Hell resounded: ‘Princes, Potentates.
356- Forthwith, from every squadron and each band.
b. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock - Canto II Lines 1 -54
(1) Not with more Glories, in th’ Etherial Plain,
(54) Th’ impending Woe sate heavy on his Breast
c. John Dryden: “The Fire of London ”
Semester End Examination Pattern: 100 Marks 03 Hours
The Semester End Examination for 100 marks will have 5 questions (with internal
choice) of 20 marks each .
Question 1: A. Essay or Question 1: B. Essay or Question 1.C. Short Notes (two
out of four) - Unit I
Q.2 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 2
Q.3 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 3
Q.4 Short Notes (2 out of 4) - Unit 2
Q.5 Short Notes (2 out of 4) - Unit 3
Reference s:
1. Alpers, Paul E. Elizabethan Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism (OUP: 1967)
2. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature (Secker and Warburg:
London, 1960)
3. Ford , Boris Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature:
The Age of Shakespeare Vol. 2 (Penguin, 1993)
From Donne to Marvell Vol. 3 (Penguin, 1990)
4. Keast , William B. Seventeenth Century English Poetry: Modern Essays in
Criticism (OUP: 1971)
5. King, Bruce. Seventeenth Century English Literature (Macmillan: 1983).
6. Leggatt, Alexander. English Drama: Shakespeare to The Restoration 1590 -
1660 (Longman: Literature in English Series, 1988)
7. Perfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (Longman :
Literature in English Series,1992)
8. Parry, Graham. The Seventeenth Century: The Int ellectual and Cultural Context
of English Literature. 1603 -1700 (Longman : Literature i n English Series, 1989)
9.Pooley, Roger. English Prose of the Seventeenth Century (Longman : Literature
in English Series, 1992)
10.Ricks, Christopher. The Penguin History o f English Literature Vol.3. (Penguin,
1993)
11. Roston, Murray. Sixteenth Century English Literature (Macmillan, 1983)
12. Baugh, Alb ert C. A Literary Histo ry Of England, The Restoration a nd
Eighteenth Century (1660 -1789) , 2nd Edition, (London, Routledge a nd Kegan
Paul, 1967)
13. Clifford, James L. Ed. Eighteen th Century English Literature: Modern
Essays i n Criticism (OUP, 1959)
14. Craig, Hardin. Ed. A History o f English Literature Series. Literature of t he
Restoration and t he Eighteenth Century 1660 -1798.Vol III (London,
Macmillan, 1969)
15. Ford , Boris. Ed. The Pelican Guide To English Literature: From Dryden t o
Johnson, Vol.4, (Penguin, 1982) & From Blake t o Byron, Vol.5, (Penguin,
1982)
16. Jack, Ian. Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom i n English Poetry 1660 -1750
(OUP, 1978)
17. Roger. The Penguin History of English Literature: Dryden t o
Johnson. Vol.4, (Penguin, 1993)
18.Probyn, Clive T. English Fiction o f The Eighteenth Century 1700 -1789
(Longman Literature i n English Series, 1987)
19.Novak, Maximillian E. Eighteenth Century English Literature , (Macmillan,
1983)
20. Sambrook, James. The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectu al and Cultural
Context o f English Literature 1700 -1789 . (Longman Literature i n English
Series, 1986 )
21.Sutherland, James. A Preface t o Eighteenth Century Poetry , (OUP, 1975 ).
Syllabus Prepared by :
Dr. Marie Fernandes, St. Andrew’s College : Convener
Dr. Sr. Ananda Amritmahal, Sophia College : Member
Dr./Prof. Sumali Bose , NES Ratnam College : Member
Prof. Mythili Mukund , Maharshi Dayanand College : Member
Dr. Bharat Tupere , SRM College, Kudal : Member
Prof. Suresh Sutar , Dr. Tatyasaheb Natu College : Member
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
Syllabus for T.Y.B.A. English
Semester: V & VI
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: Literary Criticism
Course Codes: UAENG502 & UAENG602
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the academic year 2018 -19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Programme T. Y. B. A. English
ii) Course Code UAENG502&UAENG602
iii) Course Title Literary Criticism
iv) Semester -wise Course Contents Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure
No. of Credits per Semester
04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit 15
viii) No. of lectures per week 04
ix) No. of Tutorials per week --
2. Scheme of Examination 5 Questions of 20 marks each
3. Special notes, if any No
4. Eligibility, if any No
5. Fee Structure As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions, if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Literary Criticism
Course Code: UAENG502 & UAENG602
Objectives of the Course:
1) To introduce the learners to important critical terms
2) To make them aware of the nature and function of literature and criticism
3) To impart the technique of close reading of literary texts
4) To enable them to understand various literary theories and critical approaches
5) To familiarize the learners with the tenets of practical criticism
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1) use some important critical terms
2) become aware the nature and function of literature and criticism
3) impart the technique of close reading of literary texts
4) understand the various literary theories and critical approaches
5) be familiar with the tenets of practical cr iticism
Semester V Paper V: Literary Criticism - I
Course Code: UAENG502 04 Credits Total Lectures: 60
UNIT I: Critical Terms (15 lectures)
(i) Simile, (ii) Imagery, (iii) Symbol, (iv) Paradox, (v) Ambiguity, (vi) Myth
UNIT II: Nature and Function of Literature (15 lectures)
i. Literature as Imitation (Plato -Aristotle debate)
ii. Literature and Imagination (the Romantic Idea of the Imagination)
iii. Literature as an expression of the writer’s personality
iv. Function of Literature (aesthetic, moral and cognitive functions)
UNIT III: Nature and function of Literary Criticism (15 lectures)
i. Nature of Literary Criticism
ii. Functions of Literary Criticism (Explication, Analysis, Interpretation,
Evaluation, Theorizing)
iii. A survey of the Role of a Critic
UNIT IV: Practical Criticism: Scansion (15 lectures)
Two short passages of poetry (6 to 10 lines each) will be set for scansion.
Students should scan the poem, identify the base metre (iamb, trochee),
variations (pyrrhic, spondee, anapaest, dactyl, cretic, amphibrach, etc.),
rhyme scheme, stanza forms if any, and the metrical peculiarities such as
end-stopped lines, run -on lines, elision, caesura a nd other basic concepts of
versification.
(5 marks for scanning and identifying the base metre, 4 marks for identifying
modulations and other metrical peculiarities and 1mark for rhyme scheme)
Semester End Examination Pattern 100 Marks 03 Hours
Semester End Examination for 100 marks will have 5 questions (with internal
choice) of 20 marks each
Q.1 Short Notes (2 out of 4) – Unit I
Q.2 Essay type Question (1 out of 2) – Unit II
Q.3 Essay type Question (1 out of 2) – Unit III
Q.4 Short Notes: (2 out of 4) – Unit II and III
Q.5 Scansion of two extracts from poetry of about 6 -10 lines each
Semester VI Paper V: Literary Criticism - II
Course Code: UAENG602 04 Credits Total Lectures: 60
UNIT I: Literary Movements (15 lectures)
i. Classicism, ii. Romanticism, iii . Realism, iv . Naturalism, v . Symbolism,
vi. Aestheticism
UNIT II: Critical Approaches: (15 lectures)
i. New Criticism
ii. Structuralism
iii. Psychoanalytic Criticism
iv. Archetypal Criticism
UNIT III: Critical Approaches (15 lectures)
i. Marxist Criticism
ii. Feminist Criticism
iii. Postcolonial Criticism
iv. Eco Criticism
UNIT IV: Practical Criticism (15 lectures)
Critical Appreciation of an unseen poem: A short poem of about 20 lines will
be set for appreciation. The title of the poem will be given. The unit will test
the students' responsiveness to the poem and their linguistic ability in
analysing the poem. Students are expected to mobilize the techniques of close
reading and their understanding of literary devices like imagery, metaphor and
other poetic devices while learning this unit.
Semester End Examination Pattern 100 Marks 3 Hours
Semester End Examination for 100 marks will have 5 questions (with internal
choice) of 20 marks each
Q.1 Short Notes (2 out of 4) – Unit I
Q.2 Essay type Question (1 out of 2) – Unit II
Q.3 Essay type Question (1 out of 2) – Unit III
Q.4 Essay type Question (2 out of 4) – Unit II & III
Q.5 Critical Appreciation of an unseen poem
References :
Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms . (8th Edition) New Delhi: Akash
Press, 2007.
Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and Critical
Tradition . Oxford: OUP, 1971
Ashcroft, Bill etal. (ed.) The Post -Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge,
1995.
Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms . Oxford: OUP,2001.
Blackstone, Bernard. Practical English Prosody . Mumbai: Orient Longman, 1984.
Bodkin , Maud. Archetypal Patterns in Poetry . London: Oxford University Press,
1934.
Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination : Thoreau, Nature Writing, and
the Formation of American Culture . MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Daiches, David. Critical Approaches to Literature. London: Longman, 1984.
Drew, Elizabeth. Understanding Poetry. New York: Norton, 1959.
Dutton, Richard. Introduction to Literary Criticism. London: Longman, 1984.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory. London: Basil Blackwell, 198 3.
Enid, Hamer. The Metres of English Poetry . Booksway, 2014
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism . New York: Routledge, 2012.
Garrard, Greg, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism . New York: OUP, 2014.
Guerin, Wilfred et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Li terature. Oxford:
OUP, 1999.
Enright, D.J. and Chickera, E. English Critical Texts . Delhi: Oxford University
Press,1962.
Fowler, Roger (ed.) (rev.) A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms. London:
Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1987.
Frye, Northrop. " The Archetypes of Literature ."The Norton Anthology: Theory
andCriticism . Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: Norton, 2001.
Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present .
London:Blackwell, 2005.
Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to the Study of Literature . New Delhi:
Atlantic,2007.
Jump, John (ed.) Critical Idiom Series .Metheun.
Lentriccia, Frank. After the New Criticism . Chicago: Chicago UP, 1980.
Lodge, David (Ed.) Twentieth Century Literary Criticism . London: Longman,
1972.
Lodge, David, with Nigel Wood. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. 2nd Ed.
London:
Longman, 1988.
Nagarajan M. S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory
History .Hyderabad, Orient Black Swan, 2006.
Ramamurthi, Lalitha. An Introduction to Literary Theory. Chennai: University of
Madras,2006.
Richards, I. A. Practical Criticism . London: Kegan Paul, 1930.
Said, Edward. Orientalism . New York: Pantheon, 1978.
Schreiber, S. M. Introduction to Literary Criticism . Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1965.
Selden , Raman and Widdowson, Peter. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary
Literary Theory .
3rd ed. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993.
Selden, Raman. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London:
Harvester Press, 1985.
Scott, Wilbur. Five Approa ches to Literary Criticism. London: Longman, 1984.
Wellek, Rene and Austin, Warren. Theory of Literature .London: Jonathan Cape,
1955.
Wolfreys, Julian. (ed.) Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and
Glossary. Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Syllabus Prepared by:
Dr. L. B. Patil, A. S. P. College, Devrukh : Convener
Dr. Pratima Das , C.H.M. College, Ulhasnagar : Member
Ms. Saradha Balasubramanian , K. C. College, Churchgate: Member
Ms. Shanti P olamuri , Maharashtra College, Byculla : Member
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B.A. English
Semester V & VI
Course: Elective Paper
Course Title: Grammar and the Art of Writing
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the A cademic Year 2018 -19)
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1. Syllabus as per Credit Based Semester and Grading System:
i) Name of the Programme : T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code : UAENG 503A & UAENG 603A
iii) Course Title : TYBA English Paper VI --
Grammar and t he Art of Writing
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional References: Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester : 03
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 03
2. Scheme of E xamination : 4 Questions of 20 marks each and
a project of 20 marks
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any : No
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Syllabus for TYBA
Course: GRAMMAR AND THE ART OF WRITING
Course Codes: UAENG 503A & UAENG 603A
Objectives:
1. To develop among st learne rs an insight into the process of word formation and
transformation
2. To develop amongst them an insight into the sounds, stress patterns and intonations in
the English language to improve their speaking skills
3. To develop among them an insight into the structure of the English language and to
provide knowledge of the rules of grammar
4. To help them learn grammatical analysis and description and the skills of sentence
transformation
5. To introduce the mechanics of writing for effective writing for various domains
Outcome of the Course:
After the completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1. Gain a basic understanding of phonetics, morphology and word transformation
2. Have improved speaking skills
3. Have developed adequate knowledge of the rules of grammar , grammatical
analysis and sentence transformation
4. Write effectively in various domains.
SEMESTER - V: Paper VI – Grammar and the Art of Writing – I
Course Code: UAENG 503a 3 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Phonetics, Morphology, Grammar and the Art of Writing
Unit I: Phonetics and Morphology 15 lectures
A. Phonetics
Phoneme and its distinctive features
English Vowels and Consonants (Difference between BRP and Indian English)
Diphthongs
Consonant Clusters
Transcription using phonetic script
B. Morphology
Morph, Allomorph and Vowel Mutation
Free and Bound Morphemes
Root and stem
Inflection and Derivation
Morphological Analysis
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Unit 2: Grammar: Words and Phrases 15 lectures
Open word classes: nouns, adjectives, verbs , adverbs
Closed word classes : pronouns , determiners, operator verbs, prepositions,
conjunctions , enumerators, interjections
Noun Phrase, Genitive Phrase, Prepositional Phrase, Adjective Phrase and Adverb
Phrase
Verb Phrase
Unit 3: Art of Writing 15 lectures
I. Discourse Analysis
Tenor
Mode
Domain
Domain and language change – journalism, advertising and literature, scientific and
technical writing
II. Mechanics of Writing
Understanding paragraph divisions and topic sentences of paragraphs
III. Writing for Print Media
Print – News Report
Evaluation Pattern:
1) Semester End Examination: 80 Marks - 2 1/2 Hours
2) Project: 20 Marks
1) Semester End Examination (80 marks):
Q.1 a. Phrase analysis 20 marks
Q.2 a. Verb Phrases 06 marks
b. Morphological analysis 14 marks
Q.3 a. Stress Marking and Intonation 10 marks
b. Transcription 10 marks
Q. 4. Writing a news report on the basis of the facts given 20 marks
2) Project work (20 marks) :
Students should be tested on –
1. Breaking a passage of about 250 -300 words into appropriate paragraphs, picking up
the topic statement of each paragraph 10 marks
AND
2. Identifying the register of a passage about 250-300 words 10 marks
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SEMESTER - VI: Grammar and the Art of Writing – II
Course Code: UAENG 603A 3 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Grammar and the Art of Writing
Unit I: Grammar 20 lectures
I. Clauses:
Clause elements and subject –verb concord
Basic clause patterns
Types of clauses : finite – non-finite (tensed – tenseless), independent – dependent
(Main – Subordinated)
Kinds of subordinate clause : Noun clause, Prepositional Clause , Relative
clause , Adverb Clause, Comparative Clause
Co-ordinated Clauses
II. Sentences:
Basic and Derived structures
Following rules to be studied – Fronting, Inversion, Passive reconsideration,
Substitution of PP for Indirect Object, Tag Questions, Postponement of the post -
modifier, Cleft Sentence, Existential Sentence and Ext raposition.
Unit 2: Art of Writing
Mechanics of Writing 05 lectures
Char acteristics of typical writing and typical speech
Cohesion and Coherence
Correct use of Articles, Prepositions, Adverbs, Adjectives
Common Errors – Grammatical, Syntactical, Lexical, Punctuation, Logical
Writing a Thesis Statement
Rhetorical Structures 10 lectures
Classification, Comparison – Contrast, Cause – Effect, Chronological and Spatial
Ordering, Order of Importance, Statement and Elaboration, Restatement,
Exem plification, Listing
Understanding connotations, Using bias -free language, Avoiding jargon and
archaic/ outdated language, Eliminating repetition and redundancy, Content
Analysis, and Rhetorical Devices
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Unit 3: Types/ Domains of Writing 10 lectures
Argumentative/ reflective writing
Analytical writing
Creative / Figurative writing
Advertisement / Body Copy writing
Evaluation Pattern:
1) Semester End Examination: 80 Marks - 2 1/2 Hours
2) Project: 20 Marks
1) Semester End Examination Pattern (80 marks)
Q 1. Identify ing elements of the Clause (SPOCA) 20 marks
Q 2. a . Identify ing MCL and SCL 10 marks
b. Basic and Derived Structure s 10 marks
Q. 3. a. Identify ing errors in the given passage. 08 marks
b. Rewrit ing the passage to make it more fluent and coherent . 12 marks
Q.4. Form ing a thesis statement on the given topic (1 out of 3) and develop ing it in about
150 words and s pecify ing its rhetorical structures . 20 marks
2) Project work (20 marks) :
Students should be tested on
1. Writing a Literary Passage (creative/ figurative) of about 250 -300 words 10 marks
AND
2. Writing an advertisement copy on the basis of facts provided 10 marks
Prescribed Text:
1. Leech, Geoffrey , Deuchar, Margaret and Hoogenraad, Robert, English Grammar
for Today: A New Introduction . London : Macmillan, 1973
Additional R eading:
1 Quirk, R . and Greenbaum . S. A University Grammar of English , Longman ,
1973
2 Rajimwale , Sharad . Elements of General Linguist ics, Vol. I , New Delhi: Rama
Brothers
3 Varshney , Dr. R.L. An Introductory Text Book of Linguistics and Phonetics ,
New Delhi: Prakash Book Depot
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Recommended Books for Further Reading :
1. Payne, Lucile Vaughan. The Lively Art of Writing . New York: Mentor,
1969
2. Kleiser , Grenville . The Art of Writing . New Delhi: A P H, 2011
3. Trimble , John R.Writing with Style, Conversations on the Art of Writing .
New Jersey: Prentice Hall , 1975
4. Bailey , Stephen . Academic Writing: A Handbook for International
Students . New York: Routl edge , 2011
5. Huddl eson, Rodney and Pullum, Geoffrey. A Student’s Introduction to
English Grammar . New Delhi: Cambridge University Press , 2005
6. Leech, Geoffrey and Svartvik, Jan. A Communicative Grammar of
English . New York: Routledge, 1975
7. Singh Sukhdev and Singh Balbir. Grammar of the Modern English
Language: A Resource Book . New Delhi: Cambridge University Press
India Pvt. Ltd., 2012
8. Turton, Nigel D. A B C of Common Grammatical Errors . New Delhi:
Macmillan India Ltd., 1996
9. Sethi, J. and Dha mija, P.V. A Course in Phonetics and Spoken English .
New Delhi: Prentice -Hall of India Private Ltd., 2006
10. Jones, Daniel. Everyman’s English Pronunciation Dictionary The English
Language Books Society, ELBS
11. Gimson, A. C. An Introduction to the Pronunciatio n of English . ELBS
12. Rahman, Tariq. A General Introduction to Linguistics . Orient Blackswan
13. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language . Cambridge
University Press
14. Crystal, David. A Little Book of Language . Orient Blackswan.
15. Sreedharan, V. How to Write Correct English. New Delhi: Goodwill
Publishing House
16. Lowe, Michelle and Graham, Ben. Language and Powe r: A Resource
Book for Students. Orient Longman, 1998
17. Simpson, Paul and Mayr, Andrea . Language and Power: A Resource
Book for Students. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2010
18. Mohan, Krishna and Raman, Meenakshi. Advanced Communicative
English: A Comprehensive Course for Undergraduate Learners . New
Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, 2010
19. Gurman, Pamela J. Strategies for Suc cessful Writing: Written
Communication in the Modern World . Pearson Custom Publishing.
20. Grammar Handbook (Capella University) available in pdf format
at http://www.capella.edu/interactivemedia/onlinewritingcenter/download
s/grammar.pdf
21. Brighton, Laurel J. The Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic
Introduction available in pdf format at http://npu.edu.ua/!e -
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Syllabus prepared by :
Dr. Deepa Murdeshwar -Katre, Vartak College, Vasai , Dist. Palghar : Convener
Mrs. Deepti Mujumdar , Patkar - Varde College, Goreg aon, Mumbai : Member
Mrs. Susan Lobo , St. Andrews College, Bandra, Mumbai : Member
Mr. Vinodsinh Patil, Arts & Commerce College, Phondaghat,
Dist. Sindhudurg : Member
Dr. Dattaguru Joshi , Banda College, Banda : Member
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B. A. English
Semester: V & V I
Course: Elective Paper
Course Title: Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 201 8-19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG50 3B& UAENG60 3B
iii) Course Title : Translation Studies : Theory and
Practice
iv) Semester wise Course Contents: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester
04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 03
ix) No. of Tutorials per week : --
2. Scheme of Examination : 4 Questions of 20 marks each and a
project of 20 marks
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
Course Code s: UAENG UAENG503B &UAENG603B
Objectives of the Course:
1. To make students aware of various types of translation
2. To enable students to undertake translation of literary texts
3. To enable students to use translation in official contexts and mass media
4. To help students to avail of job opportunities
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1) Understand variety of translations
2) Able to undertake Literary Translation work at primary level.
3) Able to undertake translation in official contexts and mass media
4) Equipped to take up jobs.
Semester V: Translation Studies : Theory and Practice
Course code - UAENG50 3B04 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1: Terms & Concept : 15 Lectures
1. Translation
2. Transliteration
3. Source Languag e Text and Target Language Text
4. Loss and Gain in Transaction
5. Creative & Free Translation
6. Word to word & Structural Translation
Unit 2: Indian Theories of Translation : 15 Lectures
1. Bha rtrhari’s Sphota and Translation
2. The ory of Auchitya and Translation
3. Sri. Aurobrindo Ghosh’s Theory of Translation
4. Rabindranath Tagore’s Theory of Translation
Unit 3: Translated Non - Fictional texts 15 Lectures
1. Annihilation of C aste (Pages 1 -5) (English to Marathi/ Hindi)
2. 1958 Literary Conference Speech by Anna Bhau Sathe (Marathi / Hindi to
English)
Evaluation Pattern:1) Semester End Examination: 80 Marks - 2 1/2 Hours
2) Project: 20 Marks
Semester End Examination:
Q.1. 2 Short Notes based on Unit -I (2 out of 4)
Q.2. Essay type question based on Unit -II (One out of two)
Q.3. Essay type question based on Unit -III (One out of two)
Q.4. Translation of Unseen Non -literary passage from English into Hindi/Marathi
Project Work (20 marks) :
A Non -literary passage of about 500 words from Hindi or Marathi to be
translated into Eng lish by the students. It should also include the introduction of
the SL text, list of the problems faced and the loss and gain in the process of
translation.
Semester VI: Translation Theory and Practice
Course code - UAENG603B 04 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit I: Terms & Concepts 15 Lectures
1. Formal and Dynamic Equivalence
2. Interlingual and Intralingual Translation
3. Qualities and Strategies of Translator
4. Lexicography bilingual dictionaries
5. Commercial and collaborative Translation.
6. Audiovisual, Subtitling and Dubbing
Unit 2: Types of Translation -process and problems 15 Lectures
1. Translation of Prose and fiction
2. Translation of Poetry
3. Translation of Drama
Unit 3: Translated Literary Texts 15 Lectures
1. Premchand's short story "Gulli Danda" translated from Hindi i nto English
(Premchand's Selected Stories 1, Translated and adapted by Anupa Lal,
Ratna Sagar, P. Ltd. New Delhi 1995)
2. Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Night of the Scorpion" translated from English into
Marathi ( Adhunik - Stotre by Pradeep Deshpande)
Evaluation Pattern:1) Semester End Examination: 80 Marks – 2 ½ Hours
2) Project: 20 Marks
Semester End Examination for both Semesters :
Q.1. 2 Short Notes based on Unit -I (2 out of 4)
Q.2. Essay type question based on Unit -II (One out of two)
Q.3. Essay type question based on Unit -III (One out of two)
Q.4. Translation of Unseen Non -literary passage from English into Hindi/Marathi
Project Work for both semesters (20 marks) :
A Literary text of about 500 words from Hindi or Marathi to be translated into
English by the students. It should also include the introduction of the SL text, list
of the problems faced and the loss and gain in the process of translation.
Recommended Reading :
1. Bassnett, Susan, Political Discourse, Media and Translation, Cambridge
Scholars , 2010 .
2. Bassnett Susan and Trivedi Harish, “Post -Colonial Writing and Literary
Translation” in Post -Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. Ed. London:
Routledge , 1999 .
3. Didier, Coste, The Poetics and Politics of Literary Translation, New Delhi,
2011. 71
4. Ghurye, G.S Caste, Class and Occupation : Popular Book Depot, 1961.
5. Guha, Ranj it and Spivak Gayatri Selected Subaltern Studies: Eds., Oxford
University Press, New York and Oxford, 1988.
6. Lawrence, Venuti, (Edited by) Translation Studies Reader, 2012.
7. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of
theIndian Nov el in English New Delhi: Heinemann Educational, 1971.
8. Naikar Basavaraj, Glimpses of Indian Literature in English
Translation, Authorspress , 2008 .
9. Pandey, A. P. A Revolutionary Fervor in Kabir’s Poetry, by Bhaskar
Publications, Kanpur, 2008.
10. Rahman, Anisur. I ndian Literature(s) in English Translation - The discourse
of Resistance and representation in Journal Of Postco lonial Writing Vol.
43, 2007.
Websites & You Tube Videos
1. https://complit.artsci.wustl.edu/graduate/translation_studies
2. http://cw.ro utledge.com/textbooks/translationstudies/data/samples/9780415584
890.pdf
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZXhzP3mBsA
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP3bheM6fmg
Syllabus Prepared by :
Dr. B. N. Gaikwad : Convener
Asst. Professor & Head, Department of English
Acharya & Marathe College, Chembur, Mumbai
Dr.Bhagyashree Varma : Member
Associate Professor, Department of English
University of Mumbai
Dr. Savita Patil : Member
Asst. Professor, Department of English
Elphinston College, Mumbai
Dr. Ambreen Kharbe : Member
Asst. Professor
G. M. Momin Women’s College, Bhiw andi
Dr. Anil Ashok Sonawane : Member
Asst. Professor, Department of English
St. Gonsalo Garcia Coll ege of Arts and Commerce, Vasai
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B. A. English
Semester: V & V I
Course: Elective
Course Title: Popular Culture
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 201 8-19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG503C & UAENG603C
iii) Course Title : Popular Culture
iv) Semester wise Course Contents: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 03
ix) No. of Tutorials per week :
2. Scheme of Examination : 4 Questions of 20 marks each and a
Project of 20 marks
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Popular Culture
Course Code s: UAENG50 3C& UAENG603C
Objectives of the Course:
1. To understand the nature and politics of Popular Culture.
2. To explore the interplay between Culture and Popular Culture and their influence over
each other.
3. To expand existing c ritical thinking to enable textual analysis
4. To understand different perspectives on politics and control.
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1. To articulate in writing responses to thinking critically about Popular Culture
2. To be able to assert agency over events involving their lives
Semester V: Popular Culture
Course code - UAENG50 3C 4 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1: Understanding the Concept of Popular Culture 15 Lectures
Culture, Ideology and the Concept of the Popular
Culture and Civilisation Tradition
Culturalism
High Culture vs Culture Debate
Unit 2 Control over Meaning through perpetuation of Myths ( 15 Lectures )
Semiotics -Understanding the construction of the Sign - Saussure
Barthes –Structuralism and post structuralism -
Will Wright - Myth and the Western Film
Critical terms: myth, genre, theme, language, structure, character
To be applied to any texts/images of popular culture
Unit 3: The Politics of Culture -Hegemony and Post Marxist Perspectives (15 Lectures)
Encoding/Decoding of Meaning
Negotiation and Agency
Caste/Gender Discrimination -Perpetuating Rape Culture
Recommended study from the p erspective of contemporary case studies/films
Project: Deconstructing Texts of Popular Culture 20 Marks
● Folk Tales/Fairytales/Animal fables
● Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/Thriller/Suspense
● Comics - Tarzan, Wonderwoman, Peanuts (Marvel/Shultz)
● Identify and analyse the historical, socio -political and literary dynamics as well as themes
and concerns which define genre, reflect culture, extend across cultures or appeal to a
particular culture
Semester VI: Popular Culture - II
Course code - UAENG6 03C 4 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1 Gender and Popular Culture 15 Lectures
Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture
Subversions of Femininity/Masculinity in Popular Culture
Visual Pleasure/Narrative Cinema: Scopophilia and the Male Gaze/Ignoring the
Female Spectator/Bechdel Test
Mainstream Cinema and Female Spectatorship
Recommended Films - Films of Alfred Hitchcock from the perspective of his
treatment of women/Films of Madhu rBhandarkar 2011 female -centric films/any other
films with strong female protagonists (Hindi and Regional Films may be studied.
Unit 2: Postmodernism and Culture: 15 Lectures
The Global Postmodern
Reality/Mediated Reality/Pluralism of Value
John Storey/Francois Lyotard/Frederic Jameson/Jean Baudrillard
Case studies from the perspective of how both Western and Indian cultural paradigms
have evolved
Unit 3 Taste/Identity and Popular Culture 15 Lectures
Culture Industry Revisited
Frankfurt School/Consumerism
The Politics of Popular Taste
Privilege and Taste
Case studies from the perspective of advertising/consumerism
Semester End Examination Pattern: 80 Marks 2 ½ Hours
The Semester End Examination for 80 marks will have 4 questions (with internal choice) of 20
marks each:
Question 1: A. Essay or Question 1: B. Essay or Question 1.C. Short Notes ( 02 out of 04) - Unit I
Q.2 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 2
Q.3 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 3
Q.4 Short Notes (2 out of 4) -02 each on Unit 2 & 3
Project: One project of 20 marks
Project: Deconstructing Texts of Popular Culture (20 Marks)
Music/Music Videos/Pop Art/Dance/Reality Shows on Television ; Identify and analyse the
historical, socio -political and literary dynamics as well as themes and concerns which define
genre, reflect culture, extend across cultures or appeal to a particular culture
Recommended Reading :
Appadurai, Arjun, and Carol A. Breckenridge."Public Modernity in India." Consuming
Modernity .Ed. Carol A. Breckenridge. Delhi: Oxford UP, 1995. 1 -17. Print.
________. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis, MN: U
of Minnesota, 1996. Print.
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy . N.p.: n.p., 1869. Print.
Barrett, Michèle. "Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics." Feminism, Culture,and
Politics . Ed. Rosalind Brunt and Caroline Rowan. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1982.
37-58. Print.
Barthes, R oland. Mythologies .Trans. Annette Lavers. Hertfordshire: Paladin, 1973. Print.
(Essays Novels and Children: page 50, The Face of Garbo: page 56, Striptease: page 84,
Accessed on the internet: 16th May, 2016)
Bartky, S. "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modern ization of Patriarchal Power." Feminismand
Foucault: Reflections on Resistance . Ed. I. Diamond and L. Quinby. Boston:
Northeastern UP, 1988. 61 -86. Print.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing . London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin, 2008.
Print. (Ch apter 7, Accessed on the internet: 5th May, 2016)
Butler, Judith. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New
York:Routledge, 1990. Print.
Chatterji, Shoma A., Subject: Cinema Object: Woman: A Study of the Portrayal of Women
in Indian Cinema. Calcutta: Parumita Publications, 1998.
Cook, Pam. "Masculinity in Crisis?" Screen 23.3-4 (1982): 39 -46. Web.
Durham, Meenakshi Gigi., and Douglas Kellner. Media and C ultural Studies: Keyworks .
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001. Print.
Dwyer, Rachel. All You Want Is Money, All You Need Is Love: Sexuality and Romance in
Modern India . London: Cassell, 2000. Print.
Dwyer, R. "Bombay Ishtyle." Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explor ations, and Analysis . Ed. S.
Bruzzi and G. P. Church. New York: Routledge, 2000. 178 -90. Print.
Ellis, John. Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video . London: Routledge, 1992. Print.
Fiske, J. "Active Audiences," and "Pleasure and Play." Television Culture . London and NY:
Methuen, 1987. N. pag. Print.
Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture . Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Print.
Foucault, Michel as cited in Barrett, Mich èle. The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault .
Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1 991. Print.
Gamman, Lorraine, and Margaret Marshment. The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of
Popular Culture . London: Women's, 1988. Print.
Ganham, Nicholas, and Raymond Williams. "Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture:
An Introduction." Media, Cultur e and Society 2.3 (n.d.): 215. Print.
Gehlawat, Ajay. Reframing Bollywood: Theories of Popular Hindi Cinema .N.p.: Sage
Publications, 2010. Print.
Gledhill, Christine., "Pleasurable Negotiations." Female Spectators: Looking at Film and
Television . Ed. D. E. Pribram. London: Verso, 1988. 64 -89. Print.
Gledhill, Christine., Recent Developments in Feminist Criticism in Film Theory and
Criticism, Introductory Readings. Eds: Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
Gledh ill, Christine. Stardom: Industry of Desire . London: Routledge, 1991. Print.
Hall, Stuart. "Encoding/Decoding." The Cultural Studies Reader .Ed. S. During. London and
NY: Routledge, 1993. N. pag. Print.
Kaarsholm, Preben, ed. City Flicks City Flicks: India n Cinema and the Urban
Experience . Calcutta, New Delhi: Seagull, 2004. Print.
Kaplan, E. Ann. Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze . New York:
Routledge, 1997.Web.
Kasbekar, A. "Hidden Pleasures: Negotiating the Myth of the Fem ale Ideal in Popular Hindi
Cinema." Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics, and Consumption of Public
Culture in India . Ed. C. Penney and R. Dwyer. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2001. 286 -308.
Print.
Kavoori, Anandam P., and AswinPunathambekar. Global Bolly wood . New Delhi: Oxford
UP, 2009. Print.
Kuhn, A. "Women's Genres." Screen 25.1 (1984): 18 -29. Web.
Mathur, Vrinda. "Women in Indian Cinema: Fictional Constructs." Films and Feminism:
Essays in Indian Cinema . Ed. Jasbir Jain and SudhaRai. Jaipur and New D elhi: Rawat
Publications, 2002. N. pag. Print.
McGuigan, Jim. Cultural Populism . London: Routledge, 1992. Print.
Modleski, Tania. Loving with a Vengeance: Mass -produced Fantasies for Women . Hamden,
CT: Archon, 1982. N. pag. Print.
Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." 1975. Visual Culture: The Reader .
Ed. Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall. London: SAGE Publications inAssociation with the
Open U, 1999. 381 -89. Print.
Nandy, Ashis. The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability, and Indian
Popular Cinema . London: Zed, 1998. Print.
Nayar, Pramod K. An Introduction to Cultural Studies . New Delhi: Viva, 2008. Print.
Philip, Michelle. Reel VS Real: The Portrayal of Women in Mainstream Bollywood Cinema.
Mumbai. 2014. Print.
Philip, Michelle. Re-possessing the Female Gaze: The Woman as Active Spectator of
Mainstream Bollywood Cinema. Mumbai. 2014. Print.
Philip, Michelle. The Indian Woman’s Search for Identity Vis a Vis Mainstream
Bollywood Cinema . 2014. Print.
Philip, Michelle. The Treatment of Women in Reel VS Real Life as Influenced by Mainstream
Bollywood Cinema . 2014. Print.
Philip, Michelle. Peddling Fantasies: The Role of Bollywood Cinema in Coping with Reality
with Reference to MadhurBhandarkar’s Film, Fashion . 2015. Prin t.
Pinto, Jerry. The Greatest Show on Earth: Writings on Bollywood . New Delhi: Penguin,
2011. Print.
Prasad, M. Madhava. Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction . Delhi: Oxford
UP, 1998. Print.
Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature .
London: Verso, 1987. N. pag. Print.
Saltzman, Joe. "Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist in Popular
Culture." Image of the Journalist in Pop Culture (2003): n. pag. Web. 5 Mar. 2017.
Smelik, Anneke. And the mirror cracked: feminist cinema and film theory . New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1998. Print.
Stacey, Jackie. Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship . London:
Routledge, 1994. Print.
Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction . Sixth ed. N.p.: Dorling
Kindersley, 2014. Print. Indian Reprint
Vasudevan, Ravi. Making Meaning in Indian Cinema . New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2000. Print.
Vasudevan, R. “Cinema in Urban Space.” Seminar, No. 525.N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2004.
Virdi, Jyotika. The Cinematic ImagiNation: Indian Popular Films as Social History . New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003. Print.
White, Patricia. Film Studies: Critical Approaches . Ed. John Hill and Pamela Church.
Gibson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Print.
Willi s, Paul. Common Culture . Buckingham: Open UP, 1990. 3. Print.
Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women . London:
Vintage, 1991. Print.
Syllabus Prepared by :
Dr. Madhavi Nikam
R.K.Talreja College of Arts, Science and Commerce : Convener
Ulhasnagar
Dr. Michelle Philip : Member
Wilson College , Mumbai
Prof. Vrushali Gharat : Member
PNP College, Alibag
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B.A. in English
Semester: V&VI
Course: Core Paper
Course Title : 19thCentury English Literature
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 2018 -2019)
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Programme : T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code : UAENG504 &UAENG604
iii) Course Title : 19th Century English L iterature
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Copy of the syllabus Enclosed
v) References and additional references : Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit structure :
No. of Credits per Semester : 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 20
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04
ix) No. of Tutorial per week : ---
2 Scheme of Examination : 5 Questions of 20 marks each
3 Special notes, if any : No
4 Eligibility, if any : No
5 Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6 Special Ordinances / Resolutions, if any : No
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Syllabus for TYBA
Course: 19thCentury English Literature
Course Codes: UAENG504 &UAENG604
Objectives of the Course:
1. To introduce to students the major trends and ideas in the literature and culture
of the Romantic and Victorian Eras
2. To help students understand the texts in the context of prevailing socio -
cultural conditions & their historical, political location
3. To impress upon students the characteristically rebellious / radical nature of
British Romanticism and the stupendous range of changes in the socio -
political conditions of Early (1837 -1851), Middle (1851 -1870) and Late
(1870 -1901) Victorian Era
4. To familiarize and highlight major representative texts, genres, thema tic
concerns and select key concepts/terms pertaining to the respective periods
5. To help students apply a variety of critical, historical, and theoretical
approach es to prescribed literary texts
6. To sensitize students to diverse sensibilities and humanitaria n concerns
through literature of the nineteenth century
Course Outcomes:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1. To view literary works in their dynami c interface with the background
2. To understand the literature of the 19th century as a complex outcome of
artistic, intellectual and socio -political cross -currents
3. To appreciate poetry as mirroring private personality, protest an d
subsequently, public concerns
4. To view the development of the Victorian Novel as informed by Victoria n
morality as well as by larger democratic processes
5. To contextualize the impulses behind the significant emergence of women
writing in the 19th century
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The Romantic Revival (1798 -1832)
Unit I: A. Background: 20 Lectures
Romanticism as a reaction to Neo -classicism
Influence of Rousseau and French Revolution
Survey of Literature: Novel, Poetry and Prose (Types, Trends and
Characteristics)
Rise of women writers in the period
B. Concepts:
Romanticism : Features
Romantic Imagination
German Transcendentalism
The Gothic Revival
Medievalism
Pantheism
Semester V:Paper VII: 19th Century English Literature I
Course Codes: UAENG504 04 Credits Total Lectures: 60
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Unit II: Poetry : Selected Verse from the Romantic Period: 20 Lectures
William Blake : ‘The Divine Image’ from Songs of Innocence
‘The Human Abstract’ from Songs of Experience
William Wordsworth : ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’
‘Lucy Gray’
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : ‘Kubla Khan’
Lord Byron : ‘Darkness’
P.B. Shelley : ‘Ozymandias’
John Keats: : ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’
‘Ode to Psych e
Unit III: 20 Lectures
A. Novel : Jane Austen: Emma
OR
B. Essays: Charles Lamb: From Essays of Elia
‘Christs’ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago’
‘The Dream Children: A Reverie’
‘Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading’
William Ha zlitt: From Table -Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
‘On the Pleasure of Painting’ – Essay 1
‘Why Distant Objects Please’
‘On Going on a Journey’
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Semester VI:Paper VII: 19th Century English Literature - II
Course Codes: UAENG504 Total Lectures: 604 Credits
The Victorian Age (1837 -1901)
Unit I: A. Background20 Lectures
Effects of Industrial Revolution
Middle class complacency and the rise of the working class
Age of Science, Age of Faith and Doubt (the Victorian Dilemma)
Survey of Literature of the period: Types, features and development
(Novel, Poetry and Prose)
B. Concepts
Utilitarianism
Darwinism
Victorian Concept of Morality
Aestheticism
Pre-Raphaelitism
The Oxford Movement
Bildungsroman and the Vic torian Novel
Unit II: Poetry: Selected Verse from the Victorian Period: 20 Lectures
Alfred Tennyson : From In Memoriam
Lyric 7: ‘Dark house, by which once more I stand’
Lyric 54: ‘Oh, yet we trust that somehow good’
Robert Browning :‘Porphyria’s Lover’
‘Fra Lippo Lippi’
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese :
‘Sonnet 21’ : ‘Say over again, and yet once over again ’
Matthew Arnold :‘The Forsaken Merman’
Dante Gabrielle Rosetti :‘The Cloud Confines’
Thomas Hardy :‘Channel Firing’
‘Dead Man Walking’
Unit III: 20 Lectures
A. Novel : Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
OR
B. Essays: John Newman: From The Idea of a University
Discourse V ‘Knowledge its Own End’
John Ruskin: From Sesame and Lilies
‘Of Kings' Treasur ies’
‘From the Queens’ Gardens’
Evaluation: Semester End Examination Pattern 100 Marks: 3 Hours
Question 1: A. Essay*or
Question 1: B. Essay or
Question 1.C. Short Notes (two ou t of four) from Unit I
Question 2: Essay on Unit II (1out of 2)
Question 3: Essay on Unit III (1 out of 2)
Question 4: Short Notes on Unit II (2 out of 4)
Question 5: Short Notes on Unit III (2 out of 4 )
*In question 1 the essay questions will be based on Unit I A and Short Notes will be
based on Unit I:B
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Recommended Reading :
Abel, Elizabeth, et al. The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development . University
Press of New England.
Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp : Romantic Theory and the Critical
Tradition. OUP, 1971.
Abrams, M.H. Natural Supernaturalism : Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
Literature . W.W. Norton and Company, 2002 .
Adams, James Eli. A History of Victorian Literature. Wiley -Blackwell, 2009.
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature . Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Appignanesi, Richard (ed.) Introducing Romanticism .Totem Books, 2000.
Armstrong, I., Victorian Poetry, Poetics and, Politics . London: Routledge, 1993.
Arnold, Matthew. Culture a nd Anarchy. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Austen, Jane. Emma . W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Baker, William. Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work , 2008.
Basil Willey. Coleridge to Matthew Arnold Cambridge , Cambridge UP ,1980 .
Beer, John. Wordsworth and his Human Heart , Macmillan Press Ltd.,1978.
Bloom, Harold. English Romantic Poetry. Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
Bloom, Harold. (ed.) Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism . W.W.
Norton & Co. 1970.
Bloom, Harold. Charles Dicken s’s David Copperfield . Chelsea House Publishers,
1987.
Boris Ford, (ed.) A Pelican Guide to English Literature from Blake To Byron ,
Vol.5,Penguin, 1982.
- - - . A Pelican Guide to English Literaturefrom Dickens to Hardy , Vol. 6, P enguin ,
1982 .
Bottum,Joseph, “The Gentleman's True Name: David Copperfield and the
Philosophy of Naming” , Nineteenth -Century Literature , Vol. 49, No. 4, Mar.,
1995, pp. 435 -455.
Bowra, Maurice C. The Romantic Imagination . Oxford University Press, 1961.
Bristow, Joseph. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge .
Cambridge University Press, 2000 .
Buckley, Jerome H. “The Identity of David Copperfield.” Victorian Literature and
Society:Essays Presented to Richard D. Altick . Ed. James R. Kincaid and Albert
J. Kuhn.Ohio State UP, 1984. 225 -39.
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Butler, M. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its
Background, 1760 -1830 , Oxford: Oxford University Press,1982.
Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and the Beautifu l., Oxford University Press,2015.
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Syllabus Prepared by:
Dr. Deepa Mishra, Smt. C.H.M College : Convener
Ms. Jayashree Deshpande, K.C. College : Member
Vasudev M. Athalye, GogateJogalekar College : Member
Dr. Savitha Sukumar, G.M.Momin Women's College : Member
Ms. Shweta Salian, Mithibai College : Member
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B.A. English
Semester: V & VI
Course: Core paper
Course Title: 20th Century British Literature
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 2018 -19)
Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG505 &UAENG605
iii) Course Title : 20th Century British Literature
iv) Semester wise Course Contents: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 20
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04
ix) No. of Tutorials per week : --
2. Scheme of Examination : 5 Questions of 20 marks each
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: 20th Century British Literature
Course Codes: UAENG505 &UAENG605
Objectives of the Course:
1) To expose students to literary genres, trends, and literary movements of
Britain in the 20th Century.
2) To enable students to create linkage s between social and historical contexts
and literary texts .
3) To train students to develop skills for a critical and analytical
understanding of the text.
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1) Students will be equipped with comprehensive understanding of literary
genres, trends and movements in 20th Century British Literature; thereby
,enabling them to understand the valuable co –relation between the socio -
cultural ,economical and historical contexts ; behind the literary production.
2) Students will acquire the discipline to become reflective and imaginative
thinkers through a close, critical and analytical reading of the prescribed
texts .
Semester V: 20th Century British Literature – I
Course code - UAENG505 4 Credits Total Lectures: 60
Unit 1: Background Topics 20 Lectures
1. Modernism
2. Imagism
3. Symbolism
4. War Poetry
5. Movement Poets
6. Poetic Drama
7. Social Realism and its impact on English Drama
8. The Theatre of the Absurd
Unit 2: Drama 20 Lectures
A. JOHN OSBORNE : Look Back in Anger (1956)
OR
B. BERNARD SHAW: Saint Joan (1923)
Unit 3: Poetry 20 Lectures
1. T.S. ELIOT: i)‘The Hippopotamus’ ii) ‘Portrait of a Lady ’
2. W. B . YEATS: i) ‘The Second Coming’ ii) ‘A Prayer for My Daughter ’
3. W.H . AUDEN : i) ‘The Shield of Achilles’ ii) ‘In Memory o f W.B. Yeats’
4. WILFRED OWEN : i) ‘Insensibility’ ii) ‘Strange Meeting’
Semester VI: 20th Century British Literature – II
Course code -UAENG605 4 Credits Total Lectures: 60
Unit 1: Background Topics : 20 Lectures
1. Feminism in Modern Literature
2. Psychological Novel
3. The rise of Science Fiction
4. Post World War II Novel
5. Political Satire/Allegory as rising literary trends
6. Imperialism and Post colonialism in Modern British Fiction
7. Existentialism and Modern British Literature
Unit 2: Novel: 20 Lectures
A. GEORGE ORWELL: 1984 (1949)
OR
B. IRIS MURDOCH: The Black Prince (1973)
Unit 3: Short stories : 20 Lectures
1) JAMES JOYCE: Eveline
2) ROALD DAHL: Lamb to the Slaughter
3) GRAHAM GREENE: The Invisible Japanese Gentleman
4) ANGELA CARTER: The Courtship of Mr. Lyon
Semester End Examination Pattern: 100 Marks 03 Hours
The Semester End Examination for 100marks will have 5 questions (with internal
choice) of 20 marks each
Question 1: A. Essay or Question 1: B. Essay or Question 1.C. Short Notes (two
out of four) - Unit I
Q.2 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 2
Q.3 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 3
Q.4 Short Notes (2 out of 4) - Unit 2
Q.5 Short Notes ( 2 out of 4) - Unit 3
Recommended Reading :
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms . 1978. Madras: Macmillan,
1988.Print .
Bayley, John. An Elegy for Iris. New York : St. M artins's Press, 1999. Print.
Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the Art of Drama . Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1973. Print.
Billington, Michael. State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945.
London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Print.
Bloom, Harold (ed.). George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: Modern Critical
Interpretations . New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.Print.
Bove, Cheryl K. Understanding Iris Murdoch. Columbia (South Carolina):
University of South Carolina Press, 1993. Print.
Burton, Richard. Iris Murdoch.Writers and their Work. Essex: Longman
Group Ltd., 1976 Print
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Secker and
Warburg, 1993. Print.
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories.
London: Penguin (UK), 1988. Print.
Byatt, A.S. Degrees of Freedom: The Novels of Iris Murdoch. London:
Chatto and Windus, 1975. Print.
Chinitz, David. A Companion to T.S. Eliot (Volume 62 of the Blackwell
Companions to Literature and Culture). Chicago: John Wiley and Sons,
2009. Print.
Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History: 1950 – 1995. London and
New York: Routledge, 1996. Print.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch: The Saint and The Artist. London :
Macmillan, 1986 Print.
Cowell, Raymond (ed.). Critics on Yeats. New Delhi: Universal Book Stall,
1992. Print.
Crompton, Louis. Shaw the Dramatist: A Stud y of the Intellectual
Background of the Major Plays. London: George Allen &Unwin Ltd, 1971.
Print.
Das, Santanu (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First
World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print.
Dawson, Ashley. The R outledge Concise History of Twentieth Century
British Literature. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis
Group), 2013. Print.
Deer, Patrick. Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire and Modern British
Literature. London: Oxford University Press, 200 9. Print.
Drabble, Margaret (ed.). The Oxford Companion to English Literature .
Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1996.Print.
Draper, R.P. An Introduction to twentieth -century poetry in English . New
York: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1999. Print.
Featherstone, Simon. War Poetry: An Introductory Reader. London and
New York: Routledge, 1995. Print.
Forsberg, Niklas. Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the
Limits of Philosophical Discourse. New York, London, New Delhi and
Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013. Print.
France, Anatole. The Life of Joan of Arc Whitefish . Kessinger Publishing,
2005.Print .
Gale Research and Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for George Orwell’s
1984. Farmington Hills: Gale Research and Cengage Learning, 2015. Print.
Gibbs, A.M . Man and Superman and Saint Joan: A Casebook. London:
Macmillan Education Ltd., 1992. Print.
Griffith, Gareth. Socialism and Superior Brains: The political thought of
Bernard Shaw. London: Routledge, 1993. Print.
Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introductio n to Modern British Fiction,
1950 – 2000. Cambridge, New York and Cape Town: Cambridge University
Press, 2002. Print.
Heilpern, John. John Osborne: A Patriot for Us. London: Chatto&Windus,
2006. Print.
Hensher, Philip (ed). The Penguin Book of the Briti sh Short Story Vols I
.UK.Penguin Random House , 2017. Print
Hugo, Leon. Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher. Great Britain:
Methuen & Company Ltd, 1971. Print.
Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: 1890 -1990 . Cambridge:
University Press, 1992. Print
Janik, Vicki K., Del Ivan Janik and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson. Modern
British Women Writers: An A -Z Guide. Westport, Connecticut and London:
Greenwood Press, 2002. Print. .
Kendall, Tim (ed.). Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2013. Print.
Kermode, Frank and John Hollander. The Oxford Anthology of English
Literature Volume Six:Modern British Literature. London: Oxford
University Press, 1973. Print.
Khogeer, AfafJamil(ed.). The Integration of the Self: Wome n in the Fiction
of Iris Murdoch and Margaret Drabble . New York: University Press of
America,2005. Print.
Lee-Brown, Patrick. The Modernist Period: 1900 – 1945. London: Evans,
2003. Print.
Lewis, Peter. George Orwell: The Road to 1984. London: Heinemann , 1981.
Print.
Luprecht, Mark (ed.). Iris Murdoch Connected: Critical Essays on Her
Fiction and Philosophy Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2014.
Print.
Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian Playground: All Exploration of the Art of
George Bernard S haw. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1972.Print.
Murdoch, Iris . The Black Prince . New York: Penguin,1973. Print.
Nelson, Gerald. Changes of the Heart: A Study of the Poetry of W.H. Auden.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Print.
Orwell, George. The Complete Novels. London: Penguin, 2000. Print.
Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger (3rd ed.) . London: Faber and Faber,
1983. Print
Shaw, George Bernard. Saint Joan . Toronto: Penguin Books Canada,
2003.Print.
Sierz, Aleks. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger: Modern Theatre Guides.
London and New York: Continuum, 2008. Print.
Smith, Stan (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge,
New York, Madrid, Cape Town and Melbourne: Cambridge University
Press, 2004. Print.
Steinhoff, William R. George Orwell and the Origins of 1984. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1976. Print.
Stevenson, Randall. A Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth -Century Novel in
Britain. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Print.
Tyson, Brian. The Story of Shaw’s Saint Joan. Montreal: McGill Queen’s
University Press, 1982. Print.
Unterecker, John. A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats. London and
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1959. Print.
Unterecker, John (ed.). Yeats: A Collect ion of Critical Essays. Eaglewood
Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice -Hall Inc., 1963. Print.
Wandor, Michelene. Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender .
London: Routledge, 2001. Print.
Walter, Matthew George. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry.
London: Penguin, 2006. Print.
Warner, Marina. Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism . New York: A.
Knopf, 1981.Print.
Williamson, George. A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot: A Poem -by-Poem
Analysis. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1953. Print.
Wilson, Colin. The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of Angry Young Men.
New York: Pavilion Books, 2014. Print.
Internet Sources:
https://www.bl.uk/20th -century -literature/articles/angela -carter -gothic -
literature -and-the-bloody -chamber
https://www.askwillonline.com/2013/06/the -courtship -of-mr-lyon-by-
angela.html
https://the -artifice.com/angela -carter -beauty -and-the-beast -feminist -
romance/
http://sittingbee.com/the -invisible -japanese -gentlemen -graham -greene/
http://britishliteratureoverview.blogspot.in/2008/09/invisi ble-japanese -
gentlemen.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1sBQZfDh0I
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/lamb -to-the-slaughter/summary -and-analysis
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dubliners/summary -and-
analysis/eveline
https://interestingliterature.com/2017/07/18/a -summary -and-analysis -of-
james -joyces -eveline/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Iris_Murdoch
Syllabus Prepared by:
Dr. Sudhir Nikam , B.N.N. College - Convener
Prof. Santosh Akhade , Phondaghat College - Member
Prof. Mrinalini B. Chavan , Kirti M.Doongursee College - Member
Prof. GayatriGadgil , D.G. Ruparel College College - Member
Prof. Deepna Rao, Jai Hind College - Member
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B.A. English
Semester: V & VI
Course: Elective Paper
Course Title: Literature and Gender
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 2018 -19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code UAENG506 A& UAENG606 A
iii) Course Title Literature and Gender
iv) Semester wise Course Contents Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester
04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit 15
viii) No. of lectures per week 03
ix) No. of Tutorials per week --
2. Scheme of Examination 4 Questions of 20 marks each and a
project of 20 marks
3. Special notes , if any No
4. Eligibility , if any No
5. Fee Structure As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances /
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Literature and Gender
Course Codes: UAENG506A & UAENG606A
Objectives of the Course:
1) To introduce students to t he politics of gender identity
2) To enable students to analyze gender
3) To empower students to scr utinize gendering in literature
4) To appreciate popular culture and divers e gender and sexu al identities
5) To discern masculinities and femininities
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1) Understand politics of gender identities
2) Under take gender analysis
3) Understa nd the gendering in literature
4) Appreciate popular culture and gender identities
5) Interpret masculinities and femininities
Semester V: Gender and Literature
Course code - UAENG50 6A 04 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit I: 15 Lectures
Schools of Feminism: Liberal and Marxist Feminism
Concepts: Patriarchy, Masculinity Studies, Sex and Gender, The Politics of
Feminism(s), Gynocriticism , Indian Feminism
Unit II: Short -Stories 15 Lectures
Anne Petry: Like a Winding Sheet
Katherine Mansfield: The Fly
Dorothy Parker : The Waltz
Anita Desai: The Domestic Maid
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birthmark
Vishwapriya Iyengar : The Library Girl
Unit III: Novel 15 Lectures
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
OR
Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the only Fruit
Semester End Examination Pattern: 80 Marks 2 1/2 Hours
Semester End Assessment: 80 marks
Q 1. (a) Essay type question on School of Feminism 20 marks
OR
(b) Essay type question on School of Feminism
OR
(c) Short notes on Unit I: Concepts (Two out of Four)
Q 2. Essay type question on Unit II (One out of two) 20 marks
Q 3. Essay type question on Unit III (One out of two) 20 marks
Q 4 (a) Short notes from Unit II (One out of Two) 10 marks
(b) Short notes from Unit III (One out of Two) 10 marks
Internal Assessment (Project): 20 marks
A project of 20 marks/semester to be undertaken by the students with particular
focus on the schools of feminism studied in that particu lar semester. Students to
analyse a novel of their choice (not prescribed in the syllabus) through the lens
of Liberal/Marxist Feminism in Semester V and Socialist/Radical Feminism in
Semester VI
Semester V I: Gender and Literature
Course Code- UAENG 606A 04 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit I: 15 Lectures
Schools of Feminism: Socialist and Radical Feminism
Concepts: Ecofeminism, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Feminism,
Psychoanalytic Feminism, Postmodern Feminism
Unit II: Poetry 15 Lectures
Carol Ann Duffy: Little Red Cap
Imtiaz Dharker : Purdah I
Walt Whitman: We Two, How Long We were Fool’d
Amrita Pritam : I will Meet You Again
Audre Lorde: Coal
Langston Hughes : Young Sailor
Café : 3 am
Unit III: Drama 15 Lectures
Mahesh Dattan i: Tara
OR
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Su n
Evaluation Pattern:1) Semester End Examination: 80 Marks – 3Hours
2) Project: 20 Marks
The Semester End Examination for 80 marks will have 4 questions of 20 marks
each.
Q 1. (a) Essay type question on School of Feminism 20 marks
OR
(b) Essay type question on School of Feminism
OR
(c) Short notes on Unit I: Concepts (Two out of Four)
Q 2. Essay type question on Unit II (One out of two) 20 marks
Q 3. Essay type question on Unit III (One out of two) 20 marks
Q 4 (a) Short notes from Unit II (One out of Two) 10 marks
(b) Short notes from Unit III (One out of Two) 10 marks
Internal Assessment (Projest) : 20 marks
A project of 20 marks/semester to be undertaken by the students with particular
focus on the schools of feminism studied in that particular semester. Students to
analyze a novel of their choice (not prescribed in the syllabus) through the lens
of Socialist/Radical Feminism in Semester VI .
References:
1. Singh Navsharan and Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay. 2007. Gender Justice,
Citizenship Development. Zubaan.
2. Rai Shirin. 2008. The Gender Politics of Development. New Delhi:
Zubaan.
3. Kapadia Karin. 2003. The Violence of Development. New Delhi : Zubaan.
4. Tsikata Dzodzi and Pamela Golah. 2010. Land Tenure, Gender, and
Globalisation. New
5. Maithreyi Krishna Raj Women Studies in India – Some Perspectives
(Bombay: Popular Prakasham, 1986).
a. Barbare Sinclaire Deckard: The Women’s Movement, (New York: Harper
& Row, 1983)
6. Ella Rule (Ed): Marxism and the Emancipation of Women (Great Britain
Harpal Brar, 2000).
7. Reina Lewis, Sara Mills (Ed.), Feminist Postcolonial Theory – A Reader
Edinburgh University Press, Edinbu rgh, 2003.
8. Hasan Zoya (ed) 1994) Forging Identities: Gender Communities and Stat e,
New Delhi, Kali for Women. KapurRatna (ed) (1996 ) Feminist Terrains in
Legal Domains, New Delhi, Kali for Women.
9. Hasan Zoya (ed) 1994) Forging Identities: Gender Communiti es and State,
New Delhi, Kali for Women.
10. Kapur Ratna (ed) (1996) Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains, New Delhi,
Kali for Women.
11. Menon, Nivedita (2004), Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond
the Law, New Delhi, Permanent Black.
12. Sangari K. Politics of Diversity: Religious Communities and Multiple
Patriarchies, EPW 23 Dec, 1995
13. Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies. London: Methuen, 1980.
14. Venuti, Lawrence, ed. The Transl ation Studies Reader. London:
Routledge, 2000.
15. Baker, Mona, ed. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies.
London: Routledge , 1998.
16. Trivedi, Harish Susan Bassnet. Postcolonial Translation: Theory and
Practice. London: Routledge, 1999.
17. Gentzler, Edwin. Contemporary Translation Theories. London: Routledge,
1993.
Syllabus Prepared by:
Dr. B.N. Gaikwad : Convenor
Acharya & Marathe College, Chembur, Mumbai
Dr. Mangesh Gore : Member
Sundarrao More College, Poladpur
Prof. Vinita Mathew Wilson College : Member
Prof. Seema C. : Member
SIES College of Arts Science Commerce , Sion
Prof. SonaliKhandekar : Member
Acharya & Marathe College, Chembur, Mumbai :
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B. A. English
Semester: V & V I
Course: Elective Course
Course Title: Drama and Theatre
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 201 8-19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG506B & UAENG606B
iii) Course Title : Drama and Theatre
iv) Semester wise Course Contents: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 03
ix) No. of Tutorials per week : --
2. Scheme of Examination : 4 Questions of 20 marks each a
Project of 2 0 marks
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Drama and Theatre
Course Code s: UAENG50 6B & UAENG60 6B
Objectives of the Course:
1) To acquaint the learners of literature with various types of drama.
2) To sensitize them to the techniques and types of theatre.
3) To identify and discuss the theoretical and practical elements of drama.
4) To introduce them to drama as a performing art.
5) To enhance their understanding of the elements of theatre.
6) To enable the learners to critically watch a play, write a review and to put up a play.
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1) Analyse the social and artistic movements that have shaped theatre and drama.
2) Apply discipline -specific skills to the creation of drama.
3) Analyze the difference between the concepts of drama and theatre.
4) Demonstrate knowledge of the history of drama and theatre as a literature and
performing art.
Semester V: Drama and Theatre
Course code - UAENG50 6B 4 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1: Literary Terms (15 Lectures)
i) Sanskrit Theatre
ii) Greek Tragedy
iii) Senecan Tragedy
iv) Indian English Drama in Translation
v) Structure of Elizabethan Theatre
vi) Poetic Drama
Unit 2: A) Tendulkar Vijay: The Vultures (15 Lectures)
OR
B) AdyaRangacharya: Sanjivani
Unit 3 : A) Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (15 Lectures)
OR
B) Eliot T.S.: The Cocktail Party
Semester VI: Drama and Theatre
Course code - UAENG6 06B 4 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1: Literary Terms (15 Lectures)
i) Problem Play
ii) Expressionism
iii) Theatre of the Absurd
iv) Angry Young Men Theatre
v) Make -up and Costume
vi) One Act Play
Unit 2: A) O’Neill Eugene: Desire under the Elms (15 Lectures)
OR
B) Ibsen Henrik: An Enemy of the People
Unit 3 : A) Albee Edward: The Zoo Story (15 Lectures)
OR
B) Chekhov Anton: The Proposal
Semester End Examination Pattern: 80 Marks 2 ½ Hours
Semester End Examination Pattern:
Q.1 A. Essay type Or B. Essay type Or C. Short Notes (2 out of 4) - Unit 1 (20 Marks)
Q.2 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 2 (20 Marks)
Q.3 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 3 (20 Marks)
Q.4 Short Notes (2 out of 4) – 02 each on Unit 2 and 3 (15 Marks)
Project 2 0 Marks:
Writing new/original one act play. Transcreation: A short story to be adopted as a one act play.
Translation of any one act play in Indian Language into English . Group performance of any one
act play.
Recommended Reading :
AllardyceNicoll . A History of English Drama 3 Vol. Set. Cambridge: 1946.
Bentley, Eric. The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Theatre and Drama.
London: Penguin Books, 1968.
Beth Osnes. Sa nta Barbara(ed.) Acting: an International Encyclopedia . California; Denver
Colorado : ABC -CLIO, c2001. Main Stack PN 2035 .O84 2001
Bratton, J. S . New Readings in Theatre History: Theatre and Performance Theory . Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Brockett, Oscar. The Essential Theatre : New York: Wadsworth Publishing, 2007.
Brustein, Robert. The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama. New York: Atlantic
Monthly Press, 1965.
Clark, Darect H. A Study of Modern Drama. Philadelphia: Century Books -Bindery, 1982.
Frank, Marcie . Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism : From Dryden to Manley.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Fuchs, Elinor, and Una Chaudhuri. Land/Scape/Theater: Theater -Theory/Text/Performance : Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Gascoigne, Bamber . Twentieth Century Drama: London: Hutchinson, 1967.
Gassner, John . Masters of Drama. New York: Dover Publications, 1954.
Jonathan Law, etc. Rev. and enlarged (ed.). The new Penguin Dictionary of the the atre. London:
Penguin Books, 2001. Doe Reference PN 2035 .N474 2001
Kobialka, Michal. Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Lumley, Fredrick. New Trends in the Twentieth Century Drama: A Survey since Ibsen and
Shaw . Oxford: O.U.P, 1972.
Malekin, Peter, and Ralph Yarrow. Consciousness , Literature, and Theatre: Theory and Beyond.
New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
Martin Harrison. The Language of Theatre . New York: Routledge, 1998. Main Stack PN 2035
.H297 1998
McAuley, Gay. Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre. Theater -
Theory/Text/Performance: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Michael Patterson. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays . Oxford; New York: Oxford Universit y Press,
c2005.
Nicoll, Allardyce. The Theatre and Dramatic Theory : London: Harrap, 1962.
Oscar Lee Brownstein and Darlene M. Daubert. Analytical sourcebook of concepts in dramatic
theory . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Doe Reference PN 1631 .B7
Rai, Rama Nand. Theory of Drama : A Comparative Study of Aristotle and Bharata : New Delhi:
Classical Pub. Co. 1992.
Rangacharya, Adya. Introduction to Bharata's Natyasastra . Delhi: Munshirm Manoharlal Pub,
Reprint 2005.
Styan, J. L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice . New York: Cambridge University Press,
1980.
Taylor, Russell John: Anger and After: Guide to the New British Drama. London: Eyre
Methune, 1977.
Williams, Raymond . Drama from Ibsen to Brecht .London: Penguin Books, 1973.
Syllabus Prepared by :
Dr. Rajesh Mali Arts, Com. and Sci. College, Lanja (Convener )
Dr. Mahendra Kamat Shri S.H. Kelkar College, Devgad (Member)
Dr. Kishan Pawar M.D. College Parel (Member)
Dr. Pramod Patil SGAS and GPC College, Shivale (Member)
Mr. Balchand Wakchaure S.B. Co llege, Shahapur (Member)
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B. A. English
Semester: V & V I
Course: Elective Paper
Course Title: Film and Literature
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 201 8-19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG5 06C & UAENG60 6C
iii) Course Title : Film and Literature
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 03
ix) No. of Tutorials per week : --
2. Scheme of Examination : 4 Questions of 20 marks each a nd a
Project of 20 marks
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Film and Literature
Course Code s: UAENG50 6C & UAENG60 6C
Objectives of the Course:
To introduce the nature of film as an ‘art’ form.
To explore how film as art and literature influence each other.
To expand analytical skill towards film adaptation.
To appreciate and evaluate diff erent perspectives on film adaptations.
To create responses in thinking critically about films.
Outcome of the Course:
After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
To understand the nature of film as an ‘art’ form.
To explore ways in which film as art and literature influence each other.
To expand existing textual analytical skill towards an understanding of film
adaptation.
To understand different perspectives on film adaptations.
To aid students to think critically and articulat e in writing responses about
films.
Semester V: Film and Literature – I
Course code - UAENG50 6C 4 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1 Image and Art 15 Lectures
Early Theories of Film.
Cinema’s evolution a s a distinct art form.
Unit 2 Evolving technological innova tions in cinema and 15 Lectures
directorial interventions
Movement -Lumiere Brothers
Cinematic effects - Georges Méliès
Editing -Edwin Porter and Sergei Eisenstein
Cinematography and narrat ive – D.W. Griffith and Orson
Unit 3 Film and ideology 15 Lectures
Defining ideology in film
Disrupting hegemony of western models of performance and
cultural dominance in Shakespearean adaptations.
Recommended Films: Omkara (2006) , Haider (2014) Director: Vishal
Bharadwaj adapted from William Shakespeare’s Othello and Hamlet
Topics for Project:
Application of Film Terms as Point of View, Mise -en-Scene
Editing, Narrative in Film
Researching on movies
Writing a screening report
Writing a movie revie w
Comparing the earlier and later versions of the same movie
Semester VI: Film and Literature -II
Course code - UAENG 606C 4 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1 Critical Approaches toward Films Analysis 15 Lectures
Gender -based Approach
Marxist Approach
Psychoanalytical Approach
Post-Colonial Approach
Recommended Films: Mirch Masala (1987) Director: Ketan Mehta ,
Metropolis (1927) Director: Fritz Lang
Vertigo (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Satya (1998) Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Chungking Express (1994) Director: Wong Kar Wai
In the Mood for Love (2000) Director: Wong Kar Wai
Unit 2 Adaptations: Definitions and Approaches 15 Lectures
Defining the concept of adaptations and understanding literal, tr aditional,
and radical translations of the source text
Recommended Film: Adaptation (2002). Director Spike Jonze
Unit 3 Novel to Film 15 Lectures
Passage to India . E.M. Forster (1924)
Film: Passage to India (1984) dir. David Lean
OR
The Hours . Micha el Cunningham (1998)
Film: The Hours (2002) dir. Stephen Daldry
Topics for Project :
Writing a report on inter -genre adaptations
Observations on Cinema and digital culture
Transitions in adaptations of literary sources as narratives
Reviews on adaptation s of identity and history
Recommended Novel and Film: Watchmen (1987) Alan Moore and Dave
Gibbons
Watchmen (2009) Director: Zack Snyder
Evaluation Pattern:1) Semester End Examination: 80 Marks – 2 ½ Hours
2) Project: 20 Marks
The Semester End Examination for 80 marks will have 4 questions (with internal
choice) of 20 marks each:
Question 1: A. Essay or Question 1: B. Essay or Question 1.C. Short Notes (two
out of four) - Unit I
Q.2 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 2
Q.3 Essay Type Question (1 out of 2) - Unit 3
Q.4 Short Notes (2 out of 4) - Unit 2 & Unit 3
Recommended Reading:
Austerlitz, Saul. Black and White. Reverse Shot Online. n.d. Web. 22 Sept
2009.
Bharucha, Rustom. “Foriegn Asia/ Foriegn Shakespeare. Dissenting notes on
New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality and Recolonization”. Theatre
Journal , vol 56, issue 1, 2004, pp1 -28.
Burke, Liam. The Co mic Book Film Adaptation : Exploring Modern
Hollywood’s Leading Genre, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2015
Cahir, L. Literature into film: Theory and practical approaches . Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland& Company, 2006.
Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to writing A bout Film, Pearson Education
Inc. 2007
Elliot, Kamila. “Literary Cinema and the Form/Content Debate” Rethinking
the Novel / Film Debate Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.133 -183.
Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies (11th edition), Prentice Hall, 2008.
Grant, Barry Keith. Auteurs and authorship: a film reader, Blackwell
Publications 2008
Hess, John. “Film and Ideology ”. Jump Cut, no. 17, April 1978, pp. 14-16.
Hutcheon, Linda. “In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural
Production.” M/C Journal, vol.10, issue 2, 2007. Web article
Jeong,Seung -hoon . Cinematic Interfaces : Film Theory After New Media ,
Routledge, 2013.
Keane, Stephen. CineTech : Film, Convergence and New Media , Macmillan
Education,2006.
Khan, Maryam Wasif (2016 -06-22). “Enlightenment Orientalism to
Mod ernist Orientalism: The Archive of Forster's A Passage to India ”. MFS
Modern Fiction Studies . 62 (2): 217 –235.
McDonald , Kevin. Film Theory: The Basics , Routledge, 2016.
Monaco, James .How to read a film: Movies, Media and Beyond . Oxford
University Press. (2004)
Leitch, Thomas. “Adaptation studies at a crossroads”. Adaptation vol. 1,
issue 1, pp 63 -77.
“Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory”. Criticism vol. 45,
issue 2, (2003): 149 -171
Said, Edward Culture and Imperialism (1st Vintage books ed.). New York:
Vintage Books, 1994
Stam, Robert “The Theory and Practice of Adaptation.” Literature and F ilm:
A Guide to the Theory and practice of Film Adaptation. Oxford Blackwell,
2005, pp 1 -30.
Suleri., Goodyear, Sara (1992). The Rhetoric of English India . Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. pp. 132–135.
Žižek, Slavoj. The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between
Theory and Post -Theory . 2001
Syllabus Prepared by :
Convener Dr. Bhagyashree S. Varma ,
University Department of English, University of Mumbai
Member Prof. Michelle Philips , Wilson College, Mumbai
Member Prof. Kavita Peter , K.C. College , Mumbai
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for T.Y.B. A. English
Semester: V & V I
Course: Optional Paper
Course Title: Literature of Protest
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 201 8-19)
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program :
T.Y.B.A. English
ii) Course Code :
UAENG50 6D& UAENG60 6D
iii) Course Title : Literature of Protest
iv) Semester wise Course Contents: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional :
References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure :
No. of Credits per Semester 04
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 03
ix) No. of Tutorials per week : --
2. Scheme of Examination : 4 Questions of 20 marks each, and a
Project of 20 marks
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / :
Resolutions if any No
Syllabus for TYBA
Course: Literature of Protest
Course Code s: UAENG50 6D& UAENG60 6D
Objectives of the Course:
1. To explore voices of discord, rhetoric and cultural contexts.
2. To compare and contrast the artistic manoeuvres.
3. To examine the protest spectrum in literature.
4. To bring in panoramic understanding of global protest literature and ideologies .
5. To learn the historical links between forms of protest and meanings of literature
Outcome of the Course : After completion of the course, students are expected to be
able to:
1. Read and interpret cross cultural texts.
2. Understand protest literature .
3. Get sensitized towards global issues .
4. Learn to look into past, correlate it to present and future .
5. Understand the historicity of protest literature .
Semester V: Literature of Protest – I
Course code - UAENG50 6D 04 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit 1: Background Topics: 15 Lectures
1. Literature and Protest
2. Politics and Language of Protest
3. Translation and Literature of Protest
4. Concept of Caste, Varna Theory and Division of Labor
5. Concept of Race and Discrimination
6. Protest in African American, Dalit and Tribal Literature
Unit 2: Autobiography: 15 Lectures
I Want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir - Mallika Amar Shaikh Translated by Jerry Pinto
Or
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama
Unit 3: Short Story 15 Lectures
1. Death of a Rich Man
2. When the Sun God Refused to Set
3. Loneliness of An Ex -soldier
4. Confessions of a Graveyard Keeper
(The stories are from Desperate Men and Women: Ten Dalits Short Stories from India,
edited by Rangrao, B., Kalpaz Publications, 2013)
Semester End Examination Pattern: 80 Marks 3 Hours
Q 1. (a) Short notes on Unit I: Con cepts (Two out of Four) 20
Q 2. (a) Essay type question on Unit II(One out of Two) 20
Q 3. (a) Essay type question on Unit III (One out of Two) 20
Q 4. (a) Short notes on Unit II (One out of Two) 10
(b) Short notes on Unit III (One out of Two) 10
Internal Assessment: 20 marks
A project of 20 marks/semester (1500 -2000 words) to be undertaken by the students
with particular focus on the protest literature in the writings such as Aborigin al
literature , Dalit literature, Tribal Literature, African American literature . Students to
analyse an autobiography or 5 short stories of their choice (not prescribed in the
syllabus) through the lens of protest in Semester V )
Semester VI: Literature of Protest – II
Course code - UAENG60 6D 03 Credits Total Lectures: 45
Unit I: Protest in Contemporary Regional Writings: 15 Lectures
1. Marathi Literature
2. Tamil Literature
3. Gujrati Literature
4. Kannada Literature
5. Hindi Literature
6. Bengali Literature
Unit 2: Novel: 15 Lectures
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Or
My Father Baliah - Y.B.Satyanarayana
Unit 3: Poetry 15 Lectures
Kamala Das: 1. The Looking Glass 2. Forest Fire
Meena Kandasamy: 1. Advaita: The Ultimate Question, 2. The Gods Wake Up
Jyoti Lanjewar: 1. The Nameless Ones (anamikas ), 2. Caves,
Semester End Examination Pattern: 80 Marks 3 Hours
Q 1. (a) Short notes on Unit I: Concepts (Two out of Four) 20
Q 2. (a) Essay type question on Unit II (One out of Two) 20
Q 3. (a) Essay type question on Unit III (One out of Two) 20
Q 4. (a) Short notes on Unit II (One out of Two) 10
(b) Short notes on Unit III (One out of Two) 10
Internal Assessment: 20 marks
A project of 20 marks/semester (1500 -2000 words) to be undertaken by the students
with particular focus on the protest literature in the writings such as Aboriginal
literature, Dalit literature, Tribal Literature, African American literature . Students to
analyse a novel or 5 poems of their choice (not prescribed in the syllabus) through the
lens of pro test in Semester VI)
Recommended Reading :
Ambedkar B. R., 1978, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Writings and Speeches , vol 1,
Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, Bombay
Lohia, Rammanohar, 1964, The Caste System , Rammanohar Lohia Samta Vidyalaya
Nyas, Hyderabad.
Dangle , Arjun. Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature .
Orient Longman, 1992 –
Faye, Harrison. The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy
of Racism. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:47 -74.
Nath, J.P., 2002, Socialist Leadership in India , Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi
Sharan Kumar Limbale and Jaydeep Sarangi, 2018. Dalit Voice: Literature and
Revolt . Authors Press, New Delhi
Zoe, Trodd. American Protest Literature .2008. Belknap P ress of Harvard University
Press.
Drake, Kimberly. Literature of Protest.2013.Salem Press.
Patricia D. Netzley 1999, Social Protest Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works,
Characters, Authors, and Themes . ABC -CLIO Literary Companion
Faye, Harrison.2008. Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age .
Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Guru, Gopal, 2008. Humiliation: Claims and Context . Oxford University Press Delhi.
Hilliard, Nunn, 1998. Representing African Women in Movies in J. D. Hamlet (Ed.),
Afrocentric Visions: Studies in Culture and Communication . Sage Publications . USA .
Bhowmik, Davinder & Steve Rabson. 2016. Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature
from Okinawa
University of Hawai Press.
Reed, T.V. “Introduction” and “Reflections on the Cultural Study of Social
Movements.” in The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights
Movement to the Streets of Seattle . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005
Syllabus Prepared by :
Dr. Shivaji D. Sargar : Convener
Professor & Head,
Department of English, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
Dr. Madhavi Nikam : Member
Asst. Professor, Department of English
R.K.T. College, Ulhasnagar
Dr. Bhagyashree Varma : Member
Associate Professor
Department of English, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
Dr. B.N. Gaikwad : Member
Asst. Professor & Head, Department of English
Acharya Marathe College, Chembur, Mumbai
Dr. Santosh Rathod : Member
Asst. Professor cum Asst. Director
IDOL, University of Mumbai
University of Mumbai
Board of Studies in English
1 Dr. Shivaji D. Sargar Professor & Head, Department of English,
University of Mumbai, Mumbai Convener
2 Dr. L.B. Patil A. S. P. College, Devrukh Member
3 Dr. Deepa
Murdeshwar -Katre Vartak College, Vasai , Dist. Palghar Member
4 Dr. Sudhir Nikam B.N.N. College, Bhiwandi Member
5 Dr. Marie Fernandes St. Andrew’s College, Mumbai Member
6 Dr. Bhagyashree
Varma Associate Professor, Department of English,
University of Mumbai, Mumbai Member
7 Dr. Deepa Mishra Smt. C.H.M College, Ulhasnagar Member
8 Dr. Rajesh Mali Arts, Commerce and Science College, Lanja Member
9 Dr. Madhavi Nikam Asst. Professor, Department of English,
R.K.T. College, Ulhasnagar Member
10 Dr. B.N. Gaikwad Asst. Professor & Head, Department of English,
Acharya Marathe College, Chembur, Mumbai Member
11 Dr. R.M. Badode Professor (Retd.) Department of English,
University of Mumbai, Mumbai Spl. Invitee