English Literature, Mumbai University, MA

Elective 1
Poetry from Chaucer to the Present Paper I- A (More Details)
Unit 1: Chaucer to the Metaphysical Poetry
a)Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales
b)Edmund Spenser: “Prothalamion”
c)John Donne: “The Canonization”
d) Andrew Marvell: “A Dialogue between The Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure”

Unit 2: Milton to the Age of Transition
a)John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book II
b)Alexander Pope: Essay on Man (Epistle I )
c)Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in Country Churchyard” Unit

Unit 3: Romantic Revival to Pre-Raphaelite Poets
a)William Wordsworth: “Resolution and Independence”
P.B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”
b)Alfred Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”
Robert Browning: “Andrea Del Sarto
c)D.G.Rosetti: “The Blessed Damozel”
Swinburne : “The Forsaken Garden”

Unit 4: Modernism and After
a)T. S. Eliot :“ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
W. B. Yeats :“ A Prayer for My Daughter”
b)Siegfried Sasoon :“The Child at the Window”
W. H. Auden :“1st September 1939”
c)Dylan Thomas :“ Fern Hill”
Philip Larkin :“The Whitsun Weddings”
Craig Raine :“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”

English Language Teaching Paper I- B (More Details)
Unit 1: Relevance, History and Development
History and development of English language teaching in India
Theories of language learning- Behaviourism, Innateness Hypothesis and Language
Acquisition Device (LAD), Theory of Social Interaction
First language (L1) acquisition and Second language (L2) acquisition/learning,
Competence and performance, language proficiency: general language proficiency and Specific language proficiency

Unit 2: Methods and Techniques of Teaching Methods:
The Grammar-translation/classical method, the direct method, the audio-lingual method, the structural approach, the total physical response method and the communicative method
Techniques: use of ICT, language laboratory, language through literature, innovative practices
Teaching of four skills- Listening-Speaking-Reading- Writing (LSRW)
Teaching of vocabulary and grammar, Micro-teaching and lesson planning

Unit 3: Syllabus Designing
1)Curriculum and Syllabus, factors in syllabus designing, types of syllabus e.g. structural, situational, notional-functional, communicative.
2) English for General Purposes (EGP) course, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course
3) Error analysis and remedial English courses

Unit 4: Testing and Evaluation
Evaluation, assessment and test
Criteria for good test: Validity, Reliability and Practicality
Types of tests: Proficiency, Achievement, Diagnostic
Test formats: open-ended, cloze, multiple choice, transformation etc.
Washback effect in language testing

Ellective 2
Gendered Perspectives on Literature Paper II-A (Details)
Unit 1: Critical Theory related to Gender,
(Feminist Thought, Masculinity Studies, Queer/LGBT Theory);

Critical Approaches (Re-reading, Re-visioning, Gynocriticism, Trans-Criticism etc.);
Gender in theories of popular culture

N.B. The topics mentioned above will be introduced in the classroom. Students will then be expected to carry out a more detailed study of them independently.

Unit 2: Poetry:
Catherine Acholonu :“The Market Goddess” “The Way from The Spring’s Last Drop (1985)”
Arundhathi Subramaniam :“Meenakshi” “5:46, Andheri Local”
Sylvia Plath :“Daddy” “Lady Lazarus” W.H.Auden: “The Common Life” “Lullaby”
Countee Cullen: “Tableau” “Heritage”

Unit 3: Fiction:
1. Reading Lolita in Teheran by Azar Nafisi
Or The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Or Writing Caste, Writing Gender, Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonies (ed) Sharmila Rege

Unit 4: Drama
1. Sakharam Binder by Vijay Tendulkar
Or Tara by Mahesh Dattani
2. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on America by Tony Kushner
Or A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Critical essays:
Terry Eagleton :“Literary Theory: An Introduction” :“After Theory”
Julia Kristeva : “About Chinese Women”
Gayatri C Spivak :“French Feminism in an International Frame” :“Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Judith Butler :“Gender Trouble”
Luce Irigaray :“The Sex Which is Not One” :“Speculum of the Other Woman”
Michael S Kimmel :“Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
Andrea Dworkin : “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”
Vandana Shiva & Maria Mies :“Ecofeminism”
Jonathan Culler :“Reading as a Woman” (from “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism”)
•Gayle Greene & Coppélia Kahn :Introduction to Making a Difference

Fictional Texts:
•Mahesh Dattani – A Muggy Night in Mumbai
•Vijay Tendulkar - A Friend’s Story
•Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
•Alice Walker - The Color Purple
•Virginia Woolf - Orlando
•Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy
•Madeleine Miller - The Song of Achilles
•Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex

Films:
•Brokeback Mountain •Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
•The Danish Girl
•Bird on a Wire
•Transamerica
•Fire
•Pretty Woman

Nineteenth Century American Literature Paper II- B (More Details)
Unit 1: Important Terms and Concepts Romanticism and Transcendentalism,
American Civil War and its Impact on Literature,
Realism, Naturalism, Local Colour Movement,
19th century American women writers

Unit 2: Poetry
Walt Whitman:
“I Hear America Singing” “Thoughts” “I Sit and Look Out” “A Glimpse” “All is Truth”

Emily Dickinson:
“Because I could not Stop for Death” “I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died” “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” “A Bird Came Down the Walk” “A Light Exists in Spring”

Unit 3: Novel
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Herman Melville: The Confidence Man

Unit 4: Short Stories
Stephen Crane : “A Little Pilgrim” “The Angel Child”
Edgar Alan Poe : “The Gold Bug” “The Mask of the Red Death”
Kate Chopin : “The Storm” “The Locket”

Elective 3 Paper 3A

Unit 1 African Literature

A.African Fiction Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi: Purple Hibiscus

B.African Drama Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

Unit 2: Caribbean Literature

A.Caribbean Fiction Earl Lovelace: Salt

B. Caribbean Drama Derek Walcott: Pantomime

Unit 3: Canadian Literature

A. Canadian Fiction
Margaret Laurence: The Stone Angel

B. Canadian Poetry
1. Margaret Atwood:
“Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer”
“Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poem 1”

2. Daniel David Moses:
“The Sunbather’s Fear of the Moon”
“Inukshuk”

3. Leonard Cohen:
“The Genius”
“I have not Lingered in European Monasteries”

4. Lola Lemire Tostevin:
“The Color of Her Speech”
“Tuesday Poem #97”

Unit 4: Australian Literature

A. Australian Fiction
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

B. Australian Poetry
1. Judith Wright:
“Nigger’s Leap”
“Two Dream Times”

2. Oodgeroo Noonuccal:
“Assimilation – No!”
“The Dispossessed”

3. David Malouf:
“Notes on an Undiscovered Continent”
“this day, under my hand”

4. Les Murray:
“Poetry and Religion”
“The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever”

References:

1.Armstrong, Jeannette. (ed.) Looking at the Words of Our People: First Nations Analysis of Literature. Penticton: Theytus Books, 1993.

2.Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: Anansi Press, 1982.

3.Brydon, Diana & Helen Tiffin (Eds). Decolonising Fictions. Dangaroo, 1993.

4.Tiffin, Chris & Lawson, Alan (eds.) Describing Empire: Postcolonialism and Textuality.Routeledge, 1994.

5.Castles, S. Kalantzis, M. Cope, B. and Morissey, M. Mistaken Identity: Multiculturalism and the Demise of Nationalism in Australia. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1988.

6.Corkhill, Annette Robyn. The Immigrant Experience in Australian LiteratureMelbourne: Academia Press, 1995.

7.Emenyonu, Ernest.Studies on the Nigerian Novel. Heinemann, 1991.

8.Fanon, Frantz. Black Skins, White Masks. Pluto Press: London, 1986

9.Gates, Henry Louis.Race, Writing and Difference. Chicago, 1985.

10.Gibbs, James. Critical Perspective on Wole Soyinka. Three Continents Press, 1980.

11.Githae-Mugo, Mirce.Visions of Africa. Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978.

12.Gilroy, Paul.The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Verso, 1994.

13.Hergenhan, L. (Ed.). The Penguin New Literary History of Australia. Ringwood: Penguin, 1988.

14.Howells, Coral Ann & Kroller, Eva-Marie (Eds.) The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

15.Jones, Eldred. The Writing of Wole Soyinka. Heinemann, 1987.

16.King, Bruce. The New literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World. Macmillan, 1987. 17.Lutz, Hartmut. And Coomi S. Vevaina. Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature.(ed.) New Delhi: Creative Books, 2003.

18.Marlatt and Betsy Warland. Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures. Press Gang, 1990. 19.Nasta, Susheila. Motherlands: Women’s Writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia.Women’s Press, 1991.

20.Pandurang Mala and Anke Bartels. (eds.) African Women Novelists: Re-imaging Gender. New Delhi: Pencraft International. 2010.

21.Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. Literature of the Caribbean. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008 22.Pierce, Peter. The Cambridge History of Australian Literature. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

23.Soyinka, Wole. Myth, Literature and the African World. Oxford, 1991

24.Vevaina, Coomi and Barbara Godard.(ed.) Intersections: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s Writing. New Delhi: Creative, 1996.

25.White, R. Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1981. 26.Whitlock, Gillian and Carter, David (Ed). Images of Australia. Queensland: University of

27.Wright, Derek. Wole Soyinka: Life, Work, and Criticism. York Press: Queensland Press, 2001.

Elective 3 Part 3B

Unit 1: Terms and Concepts

The Liberal Humanism (Contesting Humanism and American Dream Problematised), The Lost Generation, Southern Renaissance, Beat Generation, The Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Movement, Expressionism in American Drama, Impact of the World Wars on American Literature, Confessional Poetry, Postmodernism in American Fiction, Jewish American Literature, African American women writers.

Unit 2: Poetry
Robert Frost:

“Out, Out--” “A Roadside Stand” “Fire and Ice”

Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar” “Another Weeping Woman” “Domination of Black” “ A Rabbit as the King of the Ghosts” Nikki Giovanni: “A Journey” “Crutches” “Life Cycles” “I Wrote a Good Omelet”

Unit 3: Novel
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Gloria Naylor: Mama Day

Unit 4: Drama

Eugene O’Neill: The Hairy Ape

Marsha Norman: Night, Mother

References:

1. Abrams, M. H.A Glossary of Literary Terms. (8th Edition) New Delhi: Akash Press, 2007.

2. Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

3. Bloom, Harold, ed. Short Story Writers and Short Stories. New York: Chelsea House, 2005.

4. Bruels, Marcia F. “Frost’s ‘Out, Out—,’ ” Explicator 55, no. 2 (Winter 1997): 85–88.

5. Cook, Bruce. The Beat Generation. New York: Scribners, 1971.

6. Gould, Jean. Modern American Playwrights. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966.

7. Drabble, Margaret and Stringer, Jenny. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

8. Fagan, Deirdre. Critical Companion to Robert Frost: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, Inc. An imprint of Infobase Publishing 2007

9. Faggen, Robert. Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, 152–153.

10. Faggen, Robert. The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost .Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008.

11. Fowler, Roger. Ed. A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms.Rev. ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

12. Frattali, Steven. Person, Place, and World: A Late-Modern Reading of Robert Frost. Victoria, BC: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 2002.

13. Hansen, Tom. “Frost’s Fire and Ice,” Explicator 59, no. 1 (Fall 2000): 27–30.

14. Harmon, Willliam; Holman, C. Hugh. A Handbook to Literature.7th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

15. Hoffman, Tyler B. Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2001.

16. Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2007.

17. Lawrence, Shaffer. History of American Literature and Drama. New Delhi: Sarup, 2000.

18. Little, Michael R. Bloom’s How to Write about Robert Frost. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

19. Locklear, Gloriana. “Frost’s ‘Out, Out—,’ “Explicator 49, no. 3 (Spring 1991): 167–169. 20. Ludwig, Richard M. and Nault, Clifford A. Annals of American Literature, 1602-1983. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986.

21. MacNicholas, John, ed. Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, 2 vols. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981.

22. Myerson, Joel, ed. The American Renaissance in New England. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.

23. Pack, Robert. Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost. Hanover, N.H.: Middlebury College Press, 2003.

24. Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: A Life. New York: Holt, 1999, 197–198.

25. Parker, Patricia L. Early American Fiction: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984.

26. Pattee, Fred Lewis. The Development of the American Short Story: An Historical Survey. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1975.

27. Rosenblatt, Roger. Black Fiction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.

28. Rush, Theressa Gunnels. Black American Writers Past and Present. 2 vols. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975.

29. Sears, John F. “The Subversive Performer in Frost’s ‘Snow’ and ‘Out, Out—,’ ” In The Motive for Metaphor: Essays on Modern Poetry, edited by Francis C. Blessington and Guy L. Rotella, 82–92. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983.

30. Thompson, Lawrance. Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1942.

31. Thompson, Lawrance. Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph: 1915–1938. New York: Holt, 1970.

32. Vendler, Helen. Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.

33. Voss, Arthur. The American Short Story: A Critical Survey. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

34. Woodress, James. American Fiction, 1900-1950: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1974.

Part II, Semester 3, Elective IV, A

Shakespeare Preamble: William Shakespeare, according to his contemporary Ben Jonson, “was not of an age but for all time.” Indeed, Shakespeare has become a literary icon for all places and spaces: more than four hundred years after his death, his works continue to be staged, adapted into films and studied in Universities around the world. This paper will examine the ways in which Shakespeare’s works may have been received against the philosophical and intellectual viewpoints of the Renaissance. The paper will also consider the literary scholarship which shaped the understanding of Shakespearean works. The paper will similarly help the learners consider Shakespeare’s enduring global appeal through investigation into the rich cultural and political complexities of Shakespeare adaptations. Objectives: 1.To familiarize the learner with timeless dimensions of Shakespeare’s works. 2. To help the learner understand the contemporary relevance of Shakespeare with reference to modern versions and films based on his plays. 3. To sensitize the learner to development of the genres of comedy, tragedy and history plays in the Elizabethan era. 4. To acquaint the learner with changing responses to Shakespeare’s plays Important Note: The following text should be taught with reference to the following: 1.The contemporary relevance of Shakespeare’s works 2.The socio-economic climate of Shakespeare’s age 3.The intellectual climate of the Elizabethan era 4.The manner in which Shakespeare differed from his fellow dramatists and poets 5.Shakespeare scholarship 6.Adaptations and stage performances of Shakespeare’s plays

Unit 1:

Tragedies: Hamlet King Lear

Unit 2:

Comedies: Much Ado about Nothing

Measure for Measure

Unit 3: History Plays

Anthony and Cleopatra Henry IV – Part I

Unit 4: Poetry Venus and Adonis

Sonnets

i. “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day” – Sonnet 18

ii. “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” – Sonnet 29

iii. “Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea” – Sonnet 65

iv. “That time of year thou may’st in me behold” – Sonnet 73

v.“Let me not to the marriage of true minds” – Sonnet 116

vi.“Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame” – Sonnet 129

vii. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” –Sonnet 130

viii. “When my love swears that she is made of truth” –Sonnet 138

References:

1. Adelman, Janet.The Common Liar: An Essay on Antony and Cleopatra (1973)

2. Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)

3. Bloom, Harold, ed. William Shakespeare. 3 vols.

4. One volume each on the tragedies (1984), comedies and romances (1986), andhistories and poems (1986).

5. Callaghan, Dympna. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare (2016)

6. Dollimore, Jonathan and Alan Sinfield, eds. Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism. 2nd Edition. (1994)

7. Elsom, John. Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary? (2004)

8. Harris, Jonathan Gil. Shakespeare and Literary Theory (2010)

9. Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964)

10. McDonald, Russ, ed. Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000 (2004)

11. Parker, Patricia and Geoffrey Hartmann, eds. Shakespeare and the Question of Theory. (1985)

12. Patricia Parker. Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context (1996)

13. Rackin, Phyllis. Shakespeare and Women (2005)

14. James Schiffer. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays (2000)

15. Lenz, Carolyn, Gayle Green and Carol Neely, eds. The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. 1980.

16. Smith, Bruce R. Shakespeare and Masculinity (2000)

17. Traub, Valerie. Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992)

18. Traub, Valerie. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race (2016)

19. Wells, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. (1986)

References by Genre: The Comedies and Romances

1. Adams, Roberts. Shakespeare: the Four Romances. (1989)

2. Bryant, J.A., Jr. Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy (1986)

3. Collins, Michael J., ed. Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies (1997)

4. Gay, Penny. As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (1994)

5. Hillman, Richard. William Shakespeare: The Problem Plays. (1993)

6. Mangan, Michael. A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies, 1594-1603. (1996)

7. Ornstein, Robert. Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery. (1986)

8. Ryan, Kiernan, ed. Shakespeare: The Last Plays. (1999)

9. Teague, Frances. Acting Funny: Comic Theory and Practice in Shakespeare's Plays (1994)

The Tragedies

1. Dollimore, Jonathon. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. (1984)

2. Garner, Shirley Nelson and Madelon Sprengnether. Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. (1996)

3. Mack, Maynard. Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies. 1993. Mangan, Michael. A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies (1992)

4. McAlindon, T. Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos (1991)

5. Zimmerman, Susan, (ed.) Shakespeare's Tragedies (1998)

The Histories

1. Holderness, Graham. Shakespeare: The Histories (2000)

2. Levine, Nina S. Women's Matters: Politics, Gender and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History Plays (1998)

3. Norwich, John Julius. Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages1337-1485 (1999)

4. Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles (1990)

5. Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare's English Kings. 2nd Edition (2000)

6. Spiekerman, Tim. Shakespeare's Political Realism: The English History Plays (2001)

Part II Semester III

Course: Elective IV Paper IV-B

Course Title: Modern Indian Fiction in English

Course Title: Modern Indian Fiction in English Preamble: Modern Indian Fiction is a body of literature, rich in varied styles, themes, techniques and genres. The term ‘Modern’ in this paper refers to the period from 1980’s onwards. This paper proposes to introduce students to a variety of texts stimulating their interest and honing their literary sensibilities. The syllabus aims to develop students’ ability to apply different approaches to the prescribed texts. The paper enables students to understand the growth and significance of Modern Indian Fiction in a globalised world. At the end of the course, students will become aware of different genres in Modern Indian Fiction. They will be able to read and analyse the prescribed texts from different perspectives. Further, they will be able to appreciate different styles of writing in the prescribed texts. Objectives: 1.To introduce students to Indian Fiction in English from 1980 onwards 2.To enable students to read texts in line with modern critical approaches 3.To familiarize students with different concepts and movements associated with Modern Indian Fiction

Unit 1: Terms

i. Indianness ii. Postmodernism iii. Postcolonialism iv. Diaspora v. Dalit Writing vi.Women’s Writing in English vii.Globalization in Indian Fiction

Unit 2: Novel

A. Kiran Nagarkar: God’s Little Soldier

B. Rupa Bajwa: The Sari Shop

Unit 3: Novel

A. Arundhati Roy: God of Small Things

B. Salman Rushdie: Midnight Children

Unit 4: Short Story

i. Bandhumadhav: ‘The Poisoned Bread’

ii. Keshav Meshram: ‘The Barriers’ (From Collection of stories The Poisoned Bread edited by Arjun Dongle)

i. Githa Hariharan: ‘The Art of Dying’

ii. Githa Hariharan: ‘Gajar Halwa’ (From The Art of Dying and other stories by Githa Hariharan)

References:

1. Bajwa, Rupa. The Sari Shop. New Delhi: Penguin, 2004.

2. Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

3. Bourdieu, Pierre. Masculine Domination. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Print.

4. Dangle, Arjun. Ed. Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992. Print

5. Dass Veena Nable and R.K.Dhawan (eds.) Fiction of Nineties. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1994. Print

6. Dhawan, R. K.. Eds. Indian Women Novelists. (Vol. I-V). New Delhi: Prestige, 1991. Print.

7. Fanon, Frantz Black Skin, White Mask. London, 1986. Print

8.––. The Wretched of the Earth. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1965. Print

9. Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Men and WomenNew York: Basic Books Inc, 1992. Print.

10. Findlen, Barbara ed. Listen Up: Voices of the Next Generation. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995. Print.

11. Fukuyama, Francis The End of History and the Lost Man. New York: Avon Books, 1992. Print.

12. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print.

13. Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. Print.

14. Hariharan, Githa. The Ghosts of Vasu Master. New Delhi: Penguin India, 1994. Print.

15. The Thousand Faces of Night. London: Women’s Press, 1996. Print.

16. When Dreams Travel. London: Picador, 1999. Print.

17. In Times of Siege. New Delhi: Viking, 2003. Print.

18. The Art of Dying stories. New Delhi: Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 1993. Print.

19. Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. Print.

20. Kirpal, Viney. The New Indian Novel in English: A study of the 1980s. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Ltd., 1990. Print.

21. Kristeva, Julia. The Kristeva Reader. Ed. Toril Moi. New York: Columbia UP, 1986. Print.

22. Landry, Donna and Gerald MacLean, ed. The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print.

23. Manohar, D.Murali.Ed. Critical Essays on Dalit Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2013. Print.

24. Manohar, D.Murali Ed. Dalit Hindu Narratives, New Delhi: Global, 2013. Print.

25. Mongia, Padmini (Ed) Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print.

26. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Technique of the Indian Novel in English. New Delhi: Heinenann, 1971. Print.

27. Nagarkar, Kiran. God’s Little Soldier. New Delhi ; New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers India, a joint venture with the India Today Group, 2006. Print.

28. Nityanandam Indira and Reena Kothari. (eds.) Indo-English Fiction: The LastDecade. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2002. Print.

29. Paranjape, Makarand. In Diaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts. New Delhi: Indialog Pub., 2001. Print.

30. Pinaki Roy's "Multicultural Differences: A Brief Rereading of Rupa Bajwa'sThe Sari Shop", in the Ketaki Dutta-edited Sahitya Akademi Award-winning English Collections: Critical Overviews and Insights.New Delhi: Authors Press, 2014. Print.

31. Ravi, P.S. Modern Indian Fiction:History, Politics and Individual in theNovels of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2003. Print.

32. Ravikumar. Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture and Politics. Calcutta: Samaya, 2009. Print.

33. Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, 1997. Print.

34. Rushdie Salman. Midnight’s Children. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. Print.

35. Said, Edward Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1991. Print.

36. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979. Print.

37. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years And More: Reminiscences. New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Print.

38. Uma, Alladi. Rani, K. Suneetha. and Manohar, D. Murali. Eds. English in the Dalit Context. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2014. Print.

39. Wolf, Naomi. Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the21st Century. New York: Random House, 1993. Print. 59 40.Yasmeen Lukhmani, ed. The Shifting Worlds of Kiran Nagarkar's Fiction, Indialog Publications, New Delhi, 2004. Print.

Part II Semester III Course:

Elective V Course Title: Postcolonial Literature Paper V-A

Course Title: Postcolonial Literature Preamble:

Nation states with a history of colonization behind them find themselves increasingly becoming victims of polarization today. Almost eighty per cent of the world has been colonized at some point of time or the other. Indian colonial discourse and African discourse offer fertile grounds to apply postcolonial theories especially in terms of modernity and decolonization strategies. It is necessary to have a paper on postcolonial literature at the Post Graduate level in order to help learners understand the impact of colonialism and neo-colonization on Indian history, literature, politics and cultural institutions. Such a course is also crucial in order to create an understanding among the learners that cultural roles are inscribed in history and social forces rather than in something innate or natural. Commencing with a definition of terms such as colonialism and Commonwealth literature, the course is so designed as to acquaint the learners with key concepts current in postcolonial discourse. There is, simultaneously, a need to look at literary texts as a microcosm of beliefs and values that give us an insight into decolonization strategies that resist the attempt to create stereotypes. The course will examine several contemporary deliberations in the study of postcolonial literature as well as the importance of location and representation.

Objectives:

1. To open up avenues of research in postcolonial studies by acquainting learners with the complexities and diversity in the studies of location and culture. 2. To encourage learners to interrogate rigid frameworks of the literary canon while sensitizing them to the increasing marginalization of the literature of nation states with a history of colonial rule. 3. To familiarize the learners with socio-cultural and political expressions in literary narratives from a postcolonial perspective. 4. To orient the learners towards the concepts of postcolonial literature and introduce them to various schools of thought evident in academic deliberations.

Unit 1: Concepts and Issues in Postcolonial Literature

i. Colonialism ii. Post-colonialism iii. The historical and ideological moorings behind Commonwealth Literature iv. Orientalism v. Neo-colonization vi. Cultural Hybridity

Unit 2: Novel

1) Kunzru, Hari. The Impressionist 2) Adiga, Aravind. Between the Assassinations

Unit 3: Essay

Said, Edward W. “Orientalism”

Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”

Hear, Nicholas Van. “Moving out, coming in, going back, moving on, staying put”

Huggan, Graham. "Post-coloniality"

Unit 4: Poetry

1. Kandasamy, Meena.

https://meenakandasamy.wordpress.com

i.“Apologies for Living” ii. “Advaita: The ultimate question” iii. “Inheritance” iv.“Justice is...” v.“Mascara” vi. “Touch”

2. Dharker, Imtiaz.

i.“Minority” ii. “They’ll Say: ‘She Must Be From Another Country” iii. “Postcards From God 1” iv. “Living Space” v. “At the Lahore Karhai” vi. “Choice

References:

1. Adiga, Aravind. 2008. Between the Assassinations. New York: Free Press.

2. Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” In Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp.27-47.

3. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. USA: Universityof Minnesota Press, 1996.

4. Bhambra, Gurminder K. Rethinking Modernity : Postcolonialism and the sociological imagination. New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

5. Damodaran, Vinita and Unnithan-Kumar, Maya. Postcolonial India : History, politics and culture. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers And Distributors, 2000.

6. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A critical Introduction. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

7. Hansen, Thomas Blom. Violence in urban India: Identity politics, 'Mumbai', and the postcolonial city. Delhi: Permanent Black 2001.

8. Hear, Nicholas Van. New Diasporas. London: UCL Press, 1998.

9. Huggan, Graham. "Post-coloniality" in Diasporas: concepts, intersections, identities.Ed. Kim Knott and Sean McLoughlin. London: Zed Books Ltd. 2010.

10. Jain, Jasbir; Singh, Veena. Contesting post-colonialisms. Jaipur: Rawat Publications 2004.

11. Hear, Nicholas Van. “Moving out, coming in, going back, moving on, staying put”. An extract from Hear, Nicholas Van. New Diasporas. London: UCL Press, 1998, pp. 40-47.

12. Huggan, Graham. "Post-coloniality ". In Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities. Ed.Kim Knott and Sean McLoughlin. London: Zed Books Ltd. 2010. pp. 55-58.

13. Kandasamy, Meena. 2006. Touch. Mumbai: Peacock Books.

14. King, Richard. Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial theory, India and 'The mystic East', New Delhi Oxford University Press, 1999.

15. Kunzru, Hari. 2003. The Impressionist. London: Penguin.

16. Quayson, Ato. Post-colonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2015.

17. Said, Edward W. “Orientalism” In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader Eds. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 87-91.

18. Saunders, Kriemild. Feminist Post - Development Thought: Rethinking modernity, post-colonialism & representation. New Delhi Zed Books, 2007.

19. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Critique of postcolonial reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present. Calcutta: Seagull Books Private Limited 1999.

Elective V Course Title: Indian Writing in Translation Paper V-B

Unit 1: Background Study

a)Historical Review of Indian Writing in translation – the spread of English language and democratic values in Post-Independence India, Partition literature, the emergence of regional and translated literatures in India, East-West Encounters, Impact of Western trends and movements on Indian literature and culture.

b)Contemporary trends and movements in Indian writing in translation – beginning and growth of marginalised literature, translated works of native writers from different languages in India and decolonization, development of women’s writings and gender studies, subaltern voices, tribal studies and protest literature.

Unit 2: Poetry

1) Songs of Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore, (Hard Press, First published 1518, available online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/)

Song No. 01- mo ko kahân dhûnro bande 05- avadhû, mâyâ tajî na jây 12- hamsâ, kaho purâtan vât 21- ghar ghar dîpak barai 38- bhram kâ tâlâ lagâ mahal re

2) Arun Kolatkar: Jejuri (RHUS, 2005)

3)Selected poems from Poisoned Bread edited by Arjun Dangle (Orient Blackswan, 2009)“Hunger” “An Ultimatum” “I will Belong to it” “In Our Colony” “To Be or Not To be Born”

Unit 3: Drama

Mohan Rakesh: One Day in the Season of Rain (translated by Aparna Dharwadkar Penguin, 2015)

Vijay Tendulkar: Ghashiram Kotwal (Seagull 1986, OUP 2004)

Unit 4: Fiction

Ismat Chugtai: Masooma (Women Unlimited, 2011)

U. R. Anantha Murthy: Samskara (OUP 1979)

References:

1. Bassnett, Susan, Political Discourse, Media and Translation, Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

2. Bassnett Susan and Trivedi Harish, “Post-Colonial Writing and Literary Translation” in Post- Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. Ed. London: Routledge, 1999.

3. Bassnett, Susan, Translation Routledge, 2014.

4. Didier, Coste, The Poetics and Politics of Literary Translation, New Delhi, 2011.

5. Ghurye, G.S Caste, Class and Occupation: Popular Book Depot, 1961.

6. Guha, Ranjit and Spivak Gayatri Selected Subaltern Studies: Eds., Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1988.

7. Lawrence, Venuti, (Edited by) Translation Studies Reader, 2012.

8. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English New Delhi: Heinemann Educational, 1971.

9. Naikar Basavaraj, Glimpses of Indian Literature in English Translation, Authorspress, 2008.

10. Pandey, A. P. A Revolutionary Fervour in Kabir’s Poetry, by Bhaskar Publications, Kanpur, 2008.

11. Rahman, Anisur. Indian Literature(s) in English Translation - The discourse of resistance and representation in Journal Of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 43, Iss. 2, 2007.

12. Samel, Swapna H. Dalit Movement in South India: 1857-1950: New Delhi, Serials, 2004.

13. Sharma, Pradeep K. Dalit Politics and Literature: Delhi, Shipra, 2006.

14. Zelliot, Eleanor From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement:Manohar, 1998.

15. Trivedi, Harish Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India, Manchester University Press, 1993.

16. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “The Politics of Translation” “The Politics of Translation”, in Lawrence Venuti (ed.), The Translation Studies Reader. London. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Semester 4,

Paper 1A, Creative Writing

Course Title: Creative Writing Objectives: 1.To acquaint the learners with some workable approaches that will enable them to creatively express themselves in specific genres, namely, fiction (the short story, the novella and the novel), non-fiction (with a focus on life writing and travel writing), and poetry 2.To equip the learners with a thorough understanding of these genres using texts prescribed for the purpose 3.To train them in producing creative writing by giving them practice exercises and tasks designed to empower them with this ability.

Unit 1: Introduction to Creative Writing (4 essays: fiction, poetry, life writing and travel writing)

Prescribed text: The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen

The exercises in the prescribed texts will empower the learners with skills that will help them produce short fiction, life writing, travel writing and poetry.

1. Carlson Ron. “A writing lesson: the three flat tyres and the outer story”

2. Lea, Bronwyn. “Poetics and Poetry”

3. Neilsen, Philip. “Life Writing”

4. Gislason, Kari. “Travel Writing”

Unit 2: Understanding Fiction Prescribed text: Studying Literature by Pramod Nayar

1. Narrative Vantage: point of view (narrator, narratee, implied author, implied reader, three types of narrators and narratives, reliable and unreliable narrators, narrative levels: extradiegetic, intradiegetic, hypodiegetic/second-level narrative, third-level narrative)

2. Plot (master plots, stasis, moment of crisis, rising action, falling action, denouement, linear, non-linear, flashback, flash forward, in medias res, proairetic code, hermeneutic code, diegesis)

3. a. Character (flat and round, stock characters, major and minor characters, characters as actants, stereotypes) b. Characterisation (showing, telling, speech and action) 4. Setting (place, landscape, atmosphere, historical setting, temporal order, frequency and duration)

Explanatory Note: This unit equips the student with a thorough understanding of the centrality of narrative, types of narrative (linear and non-linear) and types of plots. It also trains the learners in the various methods and techniques of characterisation such as showing and telling. It ensures that they are acquainted with the major types of characters such as flat, round, stock, major and minor as well as characters as actants. Last, but not the least, the unit seeks to develop an understanding of locations and locales in terms of atmosphere, socio-historical setting, temporal order, duration and frequency.

Unit 3: Understanding Poetry

Prescribed texts: Studying Literature by Pramod Nayar and A Background to the Study of English Literature by B. Prasad

A. Concepts

1. Voice, persona (prosopopeia /face-making)

2. Tone, mood and attitude

3. Hyperbole

4. Irony

5. Denotation

6. Connotation

7. Syntax

8. Rhythm (stress, metre)

9. Rhyme (end-rhymes, partial rhymes, internal rhymes, broken/split rhymes, initial/head rhyme, schemes, free verse)

10. Imagery

11. Symbolism

12. Figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy)

B. Genres

1. Lyric

2. Ode

3. Satire

4. Sonnet

5. Dramatic monologue

6. Ballad

7. Haiku

Explanatory Note: This unit seeks to equip the learners with a working understanding of the various literary forms in poetry such as the lyric, ode, satire, sonnet, dramatic monologue and the ballad. The segment will train the learners to produce these and other contemporary forms of poetry such as the haiku.

Unit 4: Editing and proofing

Prescribed text: Editing and Revising Text by Jo Billingham

1. Proof-reading

2. Copy editing

3. Punctuation

4. Spelling

5. Vocabulary

6. Grammar

7. Style

Explanatory Note: •The principles of editing and revising are to be integrated with the teaching of units 2 and 3 in particular. The knowledge of the concepts in this unit will empower the learners with the skills necessary for revising their creative output. •Learners are also to be introduced to newer forms of writing such as blogs, flash fiction, fan fiction, Instagram poetry in addition to the types listed in the syllabus. •The fourth unit should be tested in an applied and not in a theoretical manner where passages of prose and poetry are to be given to the student to edit and apply the techniques taught. •The learners are to be trained to identify errors in grammar, punctuation, style, spelling etc. and correct the prose and verse passages in order to achieve accuracy, clarity and a better flow.

Prescribed Texts:

1. Billingham, Jo. 2002. Editing and Revising Text. Oxford University Press.

2. Morley, David and Neilsen, Philip. Eds. 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

3. Nayar, Pramod K. Studying Literature: An Introduction to Fiction and Poetry. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited. 2013.

4. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Revised Edition. New Delhi:Trinity Press, 2012.

References:

1. Abbott, H. Porter. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge University Press. Second Edition.

2. Baumwell, Dennis and Saitz, Robert L. 1978.Advanced Reading and Writing: Exercises in English as a Second Language. Second Edition.

3. Behn, Robin and Twichell, Chase (eds.). 2001. The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets who Teach. New York: Harper Resource.

4. Bromberg, Murray and Liebb, Julius. 1997. The English You Need to Know. Second Edition. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.

5. Burke, Jim. 2003. Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques. Heinemann.

6. Earnshaw, Steven (ed.). 2007. The Handbook of Creative Writing. University of Edinburgh Press.

7. Jensen, Derrick. 2005. Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution. Chelsea Green Publishing.

8. Kooser, Ted. 2007. The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets. University of Nebraska Press.

9. La Plante, Alice. 2010. The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing. New York: W.W. Norton.

10. Rao, Cheryl et. al. 2009. Anyone Can Write. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.

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