Major · English · Semester 2 · FY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours
Module 1: Short Stories from the West
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O. Henry: “The Last Leaf”
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Anton Chekhov: " What Men Live By"
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Roald Dahl: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
Module 2: Short Stories from the East
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Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hungry Stones”
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Vilas Sarang: "A Revolt of the Gods” (from Fair Tree of the Void. Penguin Books (India)
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Ltd. New Delhi, 1990.
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Mridula Koshy: “The Good Mother” (from If it is Sweet, Tranquebar Press, 2009)
Module 3: Essays
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Francis Bacon, “Of Studies”
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Charles Lamb, “The Superannuated Man”
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Rebecca Solnit, “Men Explain Things to Me”
Module 4: Essays
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Shobha De: From “Speedpost”: “Dear Arundhati” Aug’99 and “Dear Aditya” June ‘99
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Subroto Bagchi : From Go kiss the world: “Learning to Listen” (p. 145-150)
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Sudha Murthy, “Three Thousand Stitches”
Reference Books
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Anthology of New Writing: Select Short Stories By Women Writers. Ed. Shireen Quadri. Niyogi Books.
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Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology. Ed. Harriet Devine Jump. 1998.
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Abrams, M.H. Glossary of Literary Terms. India, Macmillan Publishers, 2000.
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Auger, Peter. The Anthem Glossary of Literary Terms and Theory, India, Anthem Press, 2011.
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Cavanagh, Dermot Alan Gillis, Michelle Keown, James Loxley and Randall Stevenson (Ed). The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Eighth edition. Ed. Richard Bausch.
