SEMESTER I
(CC1 ) Paper 1: Indian Classical Literature
UNIT I
The History of Indian Classical Drama: Bharata Natyashastra, tr. Manmohan Ghose, vol. 1, 2 nd edition Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967, ch.6, ‘Sentiments’pp.100-18.
UNIT II
Kalidasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New Delhi: Penguin, 1989).
UNIT III
Valmiki The Ramayana, Book 9, translated by R.C. Dutta.
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
The Indian Epic Tradition:
Themes and Recensions
Classical Indian Drama:
Theory and Practice
Alankara and Rasa
Dharma and the Heroic
Readings
1. Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh, vol. I, 2nd edn (Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967) chap. 6: ‘Sentiments’, pp. 100–18.
2. Iravati Karve, ‘Draupadi’, in Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Hyderabad: Disha, 1991) pp. 79–105.
3. J.A.B. Van Buitenen, ‘Dharma and Moksa’, in Roy W. Perrett, ed., Indian Philosophy, vol. V, Theory of Value: A Collection of Readings (New York: Garland, 2000) pp. 33–40.
4. Vinay Dharwadkar, ‘Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature’, in Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158–95.
Examination and distribution of marks:-
Full Marks=100
Internal Assessment: 20 Marks
End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8 =24 (Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11
( CC 2 )Paper 2: European Classical Literature
UNIT I
Homer The Iliad,Book 3 tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
UNIT II
Sophocles Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
UNIT III
Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath, (London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–16, 23, 24.
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
The Epic
Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama
The Athenian City State Catharsis and Mimesis
Satire
Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome
Readings
1. Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by MalcolmHeath, (London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, and 26.
2. Plato, The Republic, Book X, tr. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin, 2007).
3. Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) pp. 451–73.
Examination and distribution of marks:-
Full Marks=100
Internal Assessment: 20 Marks End Semester: 80
1. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 1 1x15=15
2. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 2 1x15=15
3. One long question to be attempted out of two alternatives from Unit 3 1x15=15
4. Three explanations to be attempted out of six. 3x8=24 (Explanations from each unit to be set)
5. Eleven Objective types questions from prescribed texts. 1x11=11
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