SEMESTER V
( CC11 ) Paper 11: Women’s Writing
UNIT I
Emily Dickinson ‘I cannot live with you’
Sylvia Plath ‘Lady Lazarus’
Eunice De Souza ‘Advice to Women’
UNIT II
Alice Walker The Color Purple
UNIT III
Mahashweta Devi ‘Draupadi’, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002.
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988)
chap. 1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38.
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations
TopicsThe Confessional Mode in Women's Writing
Sexual Politics
Race, Caste and Gender
Social Reform and Women’s Rights
Readings
1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6.
2. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’,Within the Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde and
Shiela Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–18.
3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Recasting Women:
Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for ladies, 1989) pp. 1–25.
4. Chandra Talapade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and
Colonial Discourses’, in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Padmini
Mongia (New York: Arnold, 1996) pp. 172–97.
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 12 ) Paper 12: British Literature: The Early 20th Century
UNIT I
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
UNIT II
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
UNIT III
1. W.B. Yeats ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Leda and the Swan’
2. T.S. Eliot ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations
Topics
Modernism, Post-modernism and non-European Cultures
The Women’s Movement in the Early 20th Century
Psychoanalysis and the Stream of consciousness
The Uses of Myth , The Avant Garde
Readings
1. Sigmund Freud, ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of
the Unconscious’,within the Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman et. al. (Oxford:
OUP, 1965) pp. 571, 578–80, 559–63.
2. T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Norton Anthology of English
Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) pp.
2319–25.
3. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, within the English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
(London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.
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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