Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Introduction to Literatures in English - II Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
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Syllabus for Introduction to Literatures in English - II
Practise with the Semester 2 past papers. Papers in the subject folders were set on this syllabus. The year folders hold older papers, so check each topic against this one.
Module 1: Short Stories from the West
- O. Henry: “The Last Leaf”
- Anton Chekhov: " What Men Live By"
- Roald Dahl: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
Module 2: Short Stories from the East
- Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hungry Stones”
- Vilas Sarang: "A Revolt of the Gods” (from Fair Tree of the Void. Penguin Books (India)
- Ltd. New Delhi, 1990.
- Mridula Koshy: “The Good Mother” (from If it is Sweet, Tranquebar Press, 2009)
Module 3: Essays
- Francis Bacon, “Of Studies”
- Charles Lamb, “The Superannuated Man”
- Rebecca Solnit, “Men Explain Things to Me”
Module 4: Essays
- Shobha De: From “Speedpost”: “Dear Arundhati” Aug’99 and “Dear Aditya” June ‘99
- Subroto Bagchi : From Go kiss the world: “Learning to Listen” (p. 145-150)
- Sudha Murthy, “Three Thousand Stitches”
Reference Books
- Anthology of New Writing: Select Short Stories By Women Writers. Ed. Shireen Quadri. Niyogi Books.
- Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology. Ed. Harriet Devine Jump. 1998.
- Abrams, M.H. Glossary of Literary Terms. India, Macmillan Publishers, 2000.
- Auger, Peter. The Anthem Glossary of Literary Terms and Theory, India, Anthem Press, 2011.
- Cavanagh, Dermot Alan Gillis, Michelle Keown, James Loxley and Randall Stevenson (Ed). The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Eighth edition. Ed. Richard Bausch.