SEMESTER II
( CC3 )Paper 3: Indian Writing in English
UNIT I
Girish Karnad Tuglaq
UNIT II
Shashi Despande That Long Silence
UNIT III
1. H.L.V. Derozio ‘Freedom to the slave’
2. Kamala Das ‘Introduction’
3. Nissim Ezekiel ‘The Night of the Scorpion’
4. Robin S. Ngangom ‘A Poem for Mother’
Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
Indian English
Indian English Literature and its Readership
Themes and Contexts of the Indian English Novel
The Aesthetics of Indian English Poetry
Modernism in Indian English Literature
Readings
1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
2. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991)
3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.
4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10.
5. K R S Iyengar, Indian Writing in English, Sterling, 2012
6. M K Naik, A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Akademi
7. Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Critical Perspectives, ed, Angelie Multani (Delhi: Pencraft, 2007)
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 4 )Paper 4: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries
UNIT I
Geoffrey Chaucer The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti:
1. Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior...’
2. Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’ John Donne ‘The Good Morrow’
UNIT II
Thomas Dekker The Shoemaker’s Holiday
UNIT III
William Shakespeare Macbeth
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
Renaissance Humanism
The Stage, Court and City
Religious and Political Thought
Ideas of Love and Marriage
The Writer in Society
Readings
1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11.
3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. 1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1970) pp. 13–18.
5. Philip Weller ed., Macbeth , ( New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2015 )
Examination and distribution of marks:- Full Marks100
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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