MA 2, EngLit, Elective4B, Semester 3, MumUni

Part II Semester III  Course: Elective IV Paper IV-B

Course Title: Modern Indian Fiction in English

1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective IV ii) Course Code : PAENG304 iii) Course Title : Modern Indian Fiction in English iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester -06 vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15 viii) No. of lectures per week :04 2. Scheme of Examination: 4 Questions of 15 marks each 3. Special notes, if any: No 4. Eligibility, if any: No 5. Fee Structure: As per University Structure

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

A.

i. Bandhumadhav: ‘The Poisoned Bread’

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

B.

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.

 

MA EngLit, Semester 3, Elective 4A

English Program: Part II Semester III

Course: Elective IV Course Title: Shakespeare Paper IV-A 

1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System 

i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective IV 

ii) Course Code : PAENG304 

iii) Course Title : Shakespeare 

iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus 

v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus 

vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester -06 

vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15 

viii) No. of lectures per week : 04 2. Scheme of Examination: 4 Questions of 15 marks each 3. Special notes, if any: No 4. Eligibility, if any: No 5. Fee Structure: As per University Structure 

Course Title:

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)