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Structure of B. A. Honours English under CBCS

Core Course

Paper Titles

1. Indian Classical Literature

2. European Classical Literature
3. Indian Writing in English
4. British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries
5. American Literature
6. Popular Literature
7. British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries
8. British Literature: 18th Century
9. British Romantic Literature
10. British Literature: 19th Century
11. Womens Writing
12. British Literature: The Early 20th Century
13. Modern European Drama
14. Postcolonial Literatures

Discipline Centric Elective (Any four)

Paper Titles

1. Modern Indian Writing in English Translation

2. Literature of the Indian Diaspora
3. British Literature: Post World War II
4. Nineteenth Century European Realism
5. Literary Theory
6. Literary Criticism
7. Science fiction and Detective Literature
8. Literature and Cinema
9. World Literatures
10. Partition Literature
11. Research Methodology
12. Travel writing
13. Autobiography

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Generic Elective (Any four)

Paper Titles

1. Academic Writing and Composition

2. Media and Communication Skills
3. Text and Performance
4. Language and Linguistics
5. Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment
6. Gender and Human Rights*
7. Language, Literature and Culture

*Syllabus not received

Ability Enhancement Course (Compulsory)

Paper Titles

1. Environmental Study*
2. English/MIL Communication

* Syllabi not received

Ability Enhancement Elective Course (Any two)

Paper Titles

1. Film Studies *
2. English Language Teaching
3. Soft Skills
4. Translation Studies
5. Creative Writing
6. Business Communication
7. Technical Writing

*Syllabus not received

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Detailed Syllabi

I. B. A. Honours English under CBCS

Core Course

Paper 1: Indian Classical Literature

1. Kalidasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time
(New Delhi: Penguin, 1989).
2. Vyasa The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing, The Book of the Assembly Hall, The
Temptation of Karna, Book V The Book of Effort, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed.
J.A.B. van Buitenen (Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 10669.
3. Sudraka Mrcchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal
Banarasidass, 1962).
4. Ilango Adigal The Book of Banci, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, tr. R.
Parthasarathy (Delhi: Penguin, 2004) book 3.

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. 10018.
2. Iravati Karve, Draupadi, in Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Hyderabad: Disha,
1991) pp. 79105.
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. 3340.
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. 15895.

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Paper 2: European Classical Literature

1. Homer The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985).

2. Sophocles Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban
Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
3. Plautus Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).
4. Ovid Selections from Metamorphoses Bacchus, (Book III), Pyramus and Thisbe
(Book IV), Philomela (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).
Horace Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. Niall
Rudd (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005).

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 Malcolm Heath,

(London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 617, 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. 45173.

Paper 3: Indian Writing in English

1. R.K. Narayan Swami and Friends

2. Anita Desai In Custody
3. H.L.V. Derozio Freedom to the Slave
The Orphan Girl
Kamala Das Introduction
My Grandmothers House
Nissim Ezekiel Enterprise
The Night of the Scorpion
Robin S. Ngangom The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom
A Poem for Mother

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4. Mulk Raj Anand Two Lady Rams

Salman Rushdie The Free Radio
Rohinton Mistry Swimming Lesson
Shashi Despande The Intrusion

Suggested Topics and Background 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. vvi.
2. Salman Rushdie, Commonwealth Literature does not exist, in Imaginary
Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 6170.
3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Divided by a Common Language, in The Perishable Empire
(New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187203.
4. Bruce King, Introduction, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd
edn, 2005) pp. 110.

Paper 4: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries

1. Geoffrey Chaucer The Wife of Baths Prologue

Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti:
Sonnet LXVII Like as a huntsman...
Sonnet LVII Sweet warrior...
Sonnet LXXV One day I wrote her name...
John Donne The Sunne Rising
Batter My Heart
Valediction: forbidding mourning
2. Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
3. William Shakespeare Macbeth
4. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

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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. 4769.
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. 70411.
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. 3248, 3305.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill, 1970) pp. 1318.

Paper 5: American Literature

1. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie

2. Toni Morrison Beloved
3. Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Crack-up
William Faulkner Dry September
4. Anne Bradstreet The Prologue
Walt Whitman Selections from Leaves of Grass:
O Captain, My Captain
Passage to India (lines 168)
Alexie Sherman Alexie Crow Testament
Evolution

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The American Dream

Social Realism and the American Novel
Folklore and the American Novel

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Black Womens Writings

Questions of Form in American Poetry

Readings

1. Hector St John Crevecouer, What is an American, (Letter III) in Letters from an

American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66105.
2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1982) chaps. 17, pp. 4787.
3. Henry David Thoreau, Battle of the Ants excerpt from Brute Neighbours, in Walden
(Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York: The
Modern Library, 1964).
5. Toni Morrison, Romancing the Shadow, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and
Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 2939.

Paper 6: Popular Literature

1. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass

2. Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy
4. Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability/
Autobiographical Notes on Ambedkar (For the Visually Challenged students)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Coming of Age
The Canonical and the Popular
Caste, Gender and Identity
Ethics and Education in Childrens Literature
Sense and Nonsense
The Graphic Novel

Readings

1. Chelva Kanaganayakam, Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary Sri

Lankan Literature (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and Victor
J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Delhi: Doaba
Publications, 2001) pp. 5165.
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2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Introduction, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and

Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiiixxix.
3. Leslie Fiedler, Towards a Definition of Popular Literature, in Super Culture:
American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green
University Press, 1975) pp. 2938.
4. Felicity Hughes, Childrens Literature: Theory and Practice, English Literary History,
vol. 45, 1978, pp. 54261.

Paper 7: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

1. John Milton Paradise Lost: Book 1

2. John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
3. Aphra Behn The Rover
4. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century

The Stage, the State and the Market
The Mock-epic and Satire
Women in the 17th Century
The Comedy of Manners

Readings

1. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 14, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 17
and 224.
2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York: Norton,
1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.
3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006)
chaps. 8, 11, and 13.
4. John Dryden, A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire, in The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New
York: Norton 2012) pp. 17678.

Paper 8: British Literature: 18th Century

1. William Congreve The Way of the World

2. Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels (Books III and IV)
3. Samuel Johnson London
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Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

4. Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism

Restoration Comedy
The Country and the City
The Novel and the Periodical Press

Readings

1. Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
(London: Routledge, 1996).
2. Daniel Defoe, The Complete English Tradesman (Letter XXII), The Great Law of
Subordination Considered (Letter IV), and The Complete English Gentleman, in
Literature and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Stephen Copley
(London: Croom Helm, 1984).
3. Samuel Johnson, Essay 156, in The Rambler, in Selected Writings: Samuel
Johnson, ed. Peter Martin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009) pp.
1947; Rasselas Chapter 10; Popes Intellectual Character: Pope and Dryden
Compared, from The Life of Pope, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.
1, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, 8th edn (New York: Norton, 2006) pp. 26934, 27747.

Paper 9: British Romantic Literature

1. William Blake The Lamb,

The Chimney Sweeper (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of
Experience)
The Tyger (The Songs of Experience)
'Introduction to The Songs of Innocence
Robert Burns A Bards Epitaph
Scots Wha Hae
2. William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
Dejection: An Ode
3. Lord George Gordon
Noel Byron Childe Harold: canto III, verses 3645
(lines 316405); canto IV, verses 17886
(lines 1594674)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind

Ozymandias
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
To Autumn
On First Looking into Chapmans Homer
4. Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Reason and Imagination

Conceptions of Nature
Literature and Revolution
The Gothic
The Romantic Lyric

Readings

1. William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed.
Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 594611.
2. John Keats, Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, and Letter to
Richard Woodhouse, 27 October, 1818, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed. Harold
Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 76668, 7778.
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Preface to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson (London:
Everyman, 1993) chap. XIII, pp. 16166.

Paper 10: British Literature: 19th Century

1. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

2. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
3. Charles Dickens Hard Times
4. Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shalott
Ulysses
The Defence of Lucknow
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
The Last Ride Together
Fra Lippo Lippi
Christina Rossetti The Goblin Market

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Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Utilitarianism
The 19th Century Novel
Marriage and Sexuality
The Writer and Society
Faith and Doubt
The Dramatic Monologue

Readings

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life, The
Social Nature of Consciousness, and Classes and Ideology, in A Reader in Marxist
Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel (New York: International
Publishers,1963) pp. 1868, 1901, 199201.
2. Charles Darwin, Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, in The Descent of Man in
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt
(New York: Northon, 2006) pp. 15459.
3. John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature,
8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) chap. 1,
pp. 10619.

Paper 11: Womens Writing

1. Emily Dickinson I cannot live with you

Im wife; Ive finished that
Sylvia Plath Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Eunice De Souza Advice to Women
Bequest
2. Alice Walker The Color Purple
3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Katherine Mansfield Bliss
Mahashweta Devi Draupadi, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull,
2002)
4. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988)
chap. 1, pp. 1119; chap. 2, pp. 1938.
Ramabai Ranade A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures, in Pandita Ramabai
Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP,
2000) pp. 295324.

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Rassundari Debi Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds.,
Womens Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 1912.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Confessional Mode in Women's Writing

Sexual Politics
Race, Caste and Gender
Social Reform and Womens Rights

Readings

1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6.
2. Simone de Beauvoir, Introduction, in The Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde and
Shiela Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 318.
3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., Introduction, in Recasting Women:
Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989) pp. 125.
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. 17297.

Paper 12: British Literature: The Early 20th Century

1. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

2. D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
3. Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
4. W.B. Yeats Leda and the Swan
The Second Coming
No Second Troy
Sailing to Byzantium
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Sweeney among the Nightingales
The Hollow Men

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Modernism, Post-modernism and non-European Cultures

The Womens Movement in the Early 20th Century
Psychoanalysis and the Stream of Consciousness
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The Uses of Myth

The Avant Garde

Readings

1. Sigmund Freud, Theory of Dreams, Oedipus Complex, and The Structure of the
Unconscious, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman et. al. (Oxford: OUP,
1965) pp. 571, 57880, 55963.
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.
231925.
3. Raymond Williams, Introduction, in The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
(London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 927.

Paper 13: Modern European Drama

1. Henrik Ibsen Ghosts

2. Bertolt Brecht The Good Woman of Szechuan
3. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
4. Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Politics, Social Change and the Stage

Text and Performance
European Drama: Realism and Beyond
Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama
The Theatre of the Absurd

Readings

1. Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, chap. 8, Faith and the Sense of Truth,
tr. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) sections 1, 2, 7, 8,
9, pp. 1215, 13746.
2. Bertolt Brecht, The Street Scene, Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction,
and Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre, in Brecht on Theatre: The Development of
an Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 6876, 1218.
3. George Steiner, On Modern Tragedy, in The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber,
1995) pp. 30324.

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Paper 14: Postcolonial Literatures

1. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold
3. Bessie Head The Collector of Treasures
Ama Ata Aidoo The Girl who can
Grace Ogot The Green Leaves
4. Pablo Neruda Tonight I can Write
The Way Spain Was
Derek Walcott A Far Cry from Africa
Names
David Malouf Revolving Days
Wild Lemons
Mamang Dai Small Towns and the River
The Voice of the Mountain

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

De-colonization, Globalization and Literature

Literature and Identity Politics
Writing for the New World Audience
Region, Race, and Gender
Postcolonial Literatures and Questions of Form

Readings

1. Franz Fanon, The Negro and Language, in Black Skin, White Masks, tr. Charles
Lam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 827.
2. Ngugi wa Thiongo, The Language of African Literature, in Decolonising the Mind
(London: James Curry, 1986) chap. 1, sections 46.
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in Gabriel Garcia
Marquez: New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1987).

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II. Discipline Centric Elective (Any Four)

Detailed Syllabi

Paper 1: Modern Indian Writing in English Translation

1. Premchand The Shroud, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu

Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi:
Penguin/Viking, 2006).
Ismat Chugtai The Quilt, in Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai, tr.
M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009).
Gurdial Singh A Season of No Return, in Earthy Tones, tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi:
Fiction House, 2002).
Fakir Mohan Senapati Rebati, in Oriya Stories, ed. Vidya Das, tr. Kishori Charan
Das (Delhi: Srishti Publishers, 2000).
2. Rabindra Nath Tagore Light, Oh Where is the Light?' and 'When My Play was with
thee', in Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction by William Radice (New
Delhi: Penguin India, 2011).
G.M. Muktibodh The Void, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) and So Very Far, (tr. Tr. Vishnu
Khare and Adil Jussawala), in The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, ed.
Vinay Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujam (New Delhi: OUP, 2000).
Amrita Pritam I Say Unto Waris Shah, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in Modern Indian
Literature: An Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems, ed. K.M. George,
vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992).
Thangjam Ibopishak Singh Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour
of Wind and The Land of the Half-Humans, tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in The
Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU: Shillong, 2003).
3. Dharamveer Bharati Andha Yug, tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP, 2009).
4. G. Kalyan Rao Untouchable Spring, tr. Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar (Delhi: Orient
BlackSwan, 2010)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Aesthetics of Translation

Linguistic Regions and Languages
Modernity in Indian Literature
Caste, Gender and Resistance
Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature.

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Readings

1. Namwar Singh, Decolonising the Indian Mind, tr. Harish Trivedi, Indian Literature,
no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992).
2. B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and
Speeches, vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra,
1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14.
3. Sujit Mukherjee, A Link Literature for India, in Translation as Discovery (Hyderabad:
Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 3445.
4. G.N. Devy, Introduction, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (New Delhi:
Orient BlackSwan, 2009) pp. 15.

Paper 2: Literature of the Indian Diaspora

1. M. G. Vassanji The Book of Secrets (Penguin, India)
2. Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance ( Alfred A Knopf)
3. Meera Syal Anita and Me (Harper Collins)
4. Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics
The Diaspora
Nostalgia
New Medium
Alienation

Reading

1. Introduction: The diasporic imaginary in Mishra, V. (2008). Literature of the Indian

diaspora. London: Routledge
2. Cultural Configurations of Diaspora, in Kalra, V. Kaur, R. and Hutynuk, J. (2005).
Diaspora & hybridity. London: Sage Publications.
3. The New Empire within Britain, in Rushdie, S. (1991). Imaginary Homelands.
London: Granta Books.

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Paper 3: British Literature: Post World War II

1. John Fowles The French Lieutenants Woman

2. Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
3. Hanif Kureshi My Beautiful Launderette
4. Phillip Larkin Whitsun Weddings
Church Going
Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting
Crows Fall
Seamus Heaney Digging
Casualty
Carol Anne Duffy Text
Stealing

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Postmodernism in British Literature

Britishness after 1960s
Intertextuality and Experimentation
Literature and Counterculture

Readings

1. Alan Sinfield, Literature and Cultural Production, in Literature, Politics, and Culture
in Postwar Britain (Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
pp. 2338.
2. Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry, in The Redress of Poetry (London: Faber,
1995) pp. 116.
3. Patricia Waugh, Culture and Change: 1960-1990, in The Harvest of The Sixties:
English Literature And Its Background, 1960-1990 (Oxford: OUP, 1997).

Paper 4: Nineteenth Century European Realism

1. Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons, tr. Peter Carson (London: Penguin, 2009).
2. Fyodor Dostoyvesky Crime and Punishment, tr. Jessie Coulson London: Norton,
1989).
3. Honore de Balzac Old Goriot, tr. M.A. Crawford (London: Penguin, 2003).
4. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, tr. Geoffrey Wall (London: Penguin, 2002).

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Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

History, Realism and the Novel Form

Ethics and the Novel
The Novel and its Readership in the 19th Century
Politics and the Russian Novel: Slavophiles and Westernizers

Readings

1. Leo Tolstoy, Man as a creature of history in War and Peace, ed. Richard Ellmann
et. al., The Modern Tradition, (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 24654.
2. Honore de Balzac, Society as Historical Organism, from Preface to The Human
Comedy, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Ellmann et. al (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 265
67.
3. Gustav Flaubert, Heroic honesty, Letter on Madame Bovary, in The Modern
Tradition, ed. Richard Ellmann et. al. (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 2423.
4. George Lukacs, Balzac and Stendhal, in Studies in European Realism (London,
Merlin Press, 1972) pp. 6585.

Paper 5: Literary Theory

1. Marxism
a. Antonio Gramsci, The Formation of the Intellectuals and Hegemony (Civil
Society) and Separation of Powers, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed.
and tr. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Novell Smith (London: Lawrence and
Wishart, 1971) pp. 5, 2456.
b. Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, in Lenin and
Philosophy and Other Essays (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006) pp. 85126.

2. Feminism
a. Elaine Showalter, Twenty Years on: A Literature of Their Own Revisited, in A
Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977.
Rpt. London: Virago, 2003) pp. xixxxiii.
b. Luce Irigaray, When the Goods Get Together (from This Sex Which is Not One),
in New French Feminisms, ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (New
York: Schocken Books, 1981) pp. 10710.

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3. Poststructuralism
a. Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human
Science, tr. Alan Bass, in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. David
Lodge (London: Longman, 1988) pp. 10823.
b. Michel Foucault, Truth and Power, in Power and Knowledge, tr. Alessandro
Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino (New York: Pantheon, 1977) pp. 10933.

4. Postcolonial Studies
a. Mahatma Gandhi, Passive Resistance and Education, in Hind Swaraj and
Other Writings, ed. Anthony J Parel (Delhi: CUP, 1997) pp. 88106.
b. Edward Said, The Scope of Orientalism in Orientalism (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1978) pp. 29110.
c. Aijaz Ahmad, Indian Literature: Notes towards the Definition of a Category, in
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London: Verso, 1992) pp. 243285.

Suggested Background Prose Readings and Topics for Class Presentations

Topics

The East and the West

Questions of Alterity
Power, Language, and Representation
The State and Culture

Readings
1. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
2. Peter Barry, Beginning Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).

Paper 6: Literary Criticism

1. William Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1802)

S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria. Chapters IV, XIII and XIV
2. Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent 1919
The Function of Criticism 1920
3. I.A. Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism Chapters 1,2 and 34.
London 1924 and Practical Criticism. London, 1929
4. Cleanth Brooks: The Heresy of Paraphrase, and The Language of Paradox in
The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)
Maggie Humm: Practising Feminist Criticism: An Introduction. London 1995

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Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Summarising and Critiquing

Point of View
Reading and Interpreting
Media Criticism
Plot and Setting
Citing from Critics Interpretations

Suggested Readings

1. C.S. Lewis: Introduction in An Experiment in Criticism, Cambridge University Press

1992
2. M.H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp, Oxford University Press,!971
3. Rene Wellek, Stephen G. Nicholas: Concepts of Criticism, Connecticut, Yale
University 1963
4. Taylor and Francis Eds. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory,
Routledge, 1996

Paper 7: Science Fiction and Detective Literature

1. Wilkie Collins The Woman in White

2. Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
3. Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
4. H.R.F. Keating Inspector Ghote Goes by Train

Suggested Topics and Readings for Class Presentation

Topics

Crime across the Media

Constructions of Criminal Identity
Cultural Stereotypes in Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction and Cultural Nostalgia
Crime Fiction and Ethics
Crime and Censorship

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Readings

1. J. Edmund Wilson, Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, The New Yorker, 20
June 1945.
2. George Orwell, Raffles and Miss Blandish, available at: <www.george-
orwell.org/Raffles_and_Miss_Blandish/0.html>
3. W.H. Auden, The Guilty Vicarage, available at: <harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-
guilty-vicarage/>
4. Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944,
available at: <http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html

Paper 8: Literature and Cinema

1. James Monaco, The language of film: signs and syntax, in How To Read a Film:
The World of Movies, Media & Multimedia (New York: OUP, 2009) chap. 3, pp. 170
249.
2. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and its adaptations: Romeo & Juliet (1968;
dir. Franco Zeffirelli, Paramount); and Romeo + Juliet (1996; dir. Baz Luhrmann,
20th Century Fox).
3. Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man and its adaptation Earth (1998; dir. Deepa Mehta,
Cracking the Earth Films Incorp.); and Amrita Pritam, Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other
Stories, tr. Khushwant Singh (New Delhi: Tara Press, 2009) and its adaptation:
Pinjar (2003; dir. C.P. Dwivedi, Lucky Star Entertainment).
4. Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love, and its adaptation: From Russia with Love
(1963; dir. Terence Young, Eon Productions).

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

Theories of Adaptation
Transformation and Transposition
Hollywood and Bollywood
The Two Ways of Seeing
Adaptation as Interpretation

Readings

1. Linda Hutcheon, On the Art of Adaptation, Daedalus, vol. 133, (2004).

2. Thomas Leitch, Adaptation Studies at Crossroads, Adaptation, 2008, vol. 1, no. 1,
pp. 6377.
3. Poonam Trivedi, Filmi Shakespeare, Litfilm Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 2, 2007.

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4. Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott, Figures of Bond, in Popular Fiction:

Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading, ed. Tony Bennet (London and New
York: Routledge, 1990).

Other films that may be used for class presentations:

1. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, and Othello and their

adaptations: Angoor (dir. Gulzar, 1982), Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003),
Omkara (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006) respectively.
2. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations: BBC TV mini-series (1995),
Joe Wright (2005) and Gurinder Chadhas Bride and Prejudice (2004).
3. Rudaali (dir. Kalpana Lajmi, 1993) and Gangor or Behind the Bodice (dir. Italo
Spinelli, 2010).
4. Ruskin Bond, Junoon (dir. Shyam Benegal, 1979), The Blue Umbrella (dir. Vishal
Bhardwaj, 2005), and Saat Khoon Maaf (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2011).
5. E.M. Forster, Passage to India and its adaptation dir. David Lean (1984).

Note:

a) For every unit, 4 hours are for the written text and 8 hours for its cinematic
adaptation (Total: 12 hours)
b) To introduce students to the issues and practices of cinematic adaptations, teachers
may use the following critical material:

1. Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, eds., The Cambridge Companion to

Literature on Screen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
2. John M. Desmond and Peter Hawkes, Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005).
3. Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2006).
4. J.G. Boyum, Double Exposure (Calcutta: Seagull, 1989).
5. B. Mcfarlens, Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation (Clarendon
University Press, 1996).

Paper 9: World Literatures

1. V.S. Naipaul, Bend in the River (London: Picador, 1979).

2. Marie Clements, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, in Staging Coyotes Dream:
An Anthology of First Nations, ed. Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles (Toronto:
Playwrights Canada, 2003)
3. Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (New Delhi: Pigeon Books, 2008)
Julio Cortazar, Blow-Up, in Blow-Up and other Stories (New York: Pantheon, 1985).
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4. Judith Wright, Bora Ring, in Collected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 2002)
p. 8.
Gabriel Okara, The Mystic Drum, in An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry, ed.
C.D. Narasimhaiah (Delhi: Macmillan, 1990) pp. 1323.
Kishwar Naheed, The Grass is Really like me, in We the Sinful Women (New Delhi:
Rupa, 1994) p. 41.
Shu Ting, Assembly Line, in A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry From the
Democracy Movement, tr. Donald Finkel, additional translations by Carolyn Kizer
(New York: North Point Press, 1991).
Jean Arasanayagam, Two Dead Soldiers, in Fussilade (New Delhi: Indialog, 2003)
pp. 8990.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics

The Idea of World Literature

Memory, Displacement and Diaspora
Hybridity, Race and Culture
Adult Reception of Childrens Literature
Literary Translation and the Circulation of Literary Texts
Aesthetics and Politics in Poetry

Readings

1. Sarah Lawall, Preface and Introduction, in Reading World Literature: Theory,

History, Practice, ed. Sarah Lawall (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994)
pp. ixxviii, 164.
2. David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature? (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell,
2009) pp. 164, 6585.
3. Franco Moretti, Conjectures on World Literature, New Left Review, vol.1 (2000), pp.
5468.
4. Theo Dhaen et. al., eds., Introduction, in World Literature: A Reader (London:
Routledge, 2012).

Paper 10: Partition Literature

1. Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. Frances W. Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa, 1995).
2. Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines.
3. a) Dibyendu Palit, Alam's Own House, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, Bengal Partition Stories:
An Unclosed Chapter, ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008) pp. 453
72.

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b) Manik Bandhopadhya, The Final Solution, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: Partition
Stories from Two Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi: Srishti, 2003) pp.
2339.
c) Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M.
Asaduddin (New Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 21220.
d) Lalithambika Antharajanam, A Leaf in the Storm, tr. K. Narayana Chandran, in
Stories about the Partition of India ed. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: Manohar, 2012)
pp. 13745.
4. a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz, For Your Lanes, My Country, in In English: Faiz Ahmad Faiz,
A Renowned Urdu Poet, tr. and ed. Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris, 2008) p. 138.
b) Jibananda Das, I Shall Return to This Bengal, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, in Modern
Indian Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 813.
c) Gulzar, Toba Tek Singh, tr. Anisur Rahman, in Translating Partition, ed. Tarun
Saint et. al. (New Delhi: Katha, 2001) p. x.

Suggested Topics and Readings for Class Presentation

Topics

Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition

Communalism and Violence
Homelessness and Exile
Women in the Partition

Background Readings and Screenings

1. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Introduction, in Borders and Boundaries (New
Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
2. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
3. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Delhi:
Kali for Women, 2000).
4. Sigmund Freud, Mourning and Melancholia, in The Complete Psychological Works
of Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp. 304153.

Films

Garam Hawa (dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974).

Khamosh Paani: Silent Waters (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003).
Subarnarekha (dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)

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Paper 11: Research Methodology

1. Practical Criticism and Writing a Term paper

2. Conceptualizing and Drafting Research Proposals
3. On Style Manuals
4. Notes, References, and Bibliography

Paper 12: Travel Writing

1. Ibn Batuta: The Court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, Khuswant Singhs City
Improbable: Writings on Delhi, Penguin Publisher
Al Biruni: Chapter LXIII, LXIV, LXV, LXVI, in India by Al Biruni, edited by
Qeyamuddin Ahmad, National Book Trust of India
2. Mark Twain: The Innocent Abroad (Chapter VII , VIII and IX) (Wordsworth Classic
Edition)
Ernesto Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South
America (the Expert, Home land for victor, The city of viceroys), Harper
Perennial
3. William Dalrymple: City of Dijnn (Prologue, Chapters I and II) Penguin Books
Rahul Sankrityayan: From Volga to Ganga (Translation by Victor Kierman) (Section
I to Section II) Pilgrims Publishing
4. Nahid Gandhi: Alternative Realties: Love in the Lives of Muslim Women, Chapter
Love, War and Widow, Westland, 2013
Elisabeth Bumiller: May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: a Journey
among the Women of India, Chapters 2 and 3, pp.24-74 (New York: Penguin
Books, 1991)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics:

Travel Writing and Ethnography

Gender and Travel
Globalization and Travel
Travel and Religion
Orientalism and Travel

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Readings

1. Susan Bassnett, Travel Writing and Gender, in Cambridge Companion to Travel

Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Young (Cambridge: CUP,2002) pp, 225-241
2. Tabish Khair, An Interview with William Dalyrmple and Pankaj Mishra in
Postcolonial Travel Writings: Critical Explorations, ed. Justin D Edwards and Rune
Graulund (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 173-184
3. Casey Balton, Narrating Self and Other: A Historical View, in Travel Writing: The
Self and The Other (Routledge, 2012), pp.1-29
4. Sachidananda Mohanty, Introduction: Beyond the Imperial Eyes in Travel Writing
and Empire (New Delhi: Katha, 2004) pp. ix xx.

Paper 13: Autobiography

1. Jean-Jacques Rousseaus Confessions, Part One, Book One, pp. 5-43, Translated
by Angela Scholar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Benjamin Franklins Autobiography, pp.5-63, Edited by W. Macdonald (London: J.M.
Dent and Sons, 1960).
2. M. K. Gandhis Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I
Chapters II to IX, pp. 5-26 (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Trust, 1993).
Annie Besants Autobiography, Chapter VII, Atheism As I Knew and Taught It, pp.
141- 175 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917).
3. Binodini Dasis My Story and Life as an Actress, pp. 61-83 (New Delhi: Kali for
Women,1998).
A. Revathis Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story, Chapters One to Four,
pp. 1-37 (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2010.)
4. Richard Wrights Black Boy, Chapter 1, pp. 9-44 (United Kingdom: Picador, 1968).
Sharankumar Limbales The Outcaste, Translated by Santosh Bhoomkar, pp. 1-39
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for class Presentations

Topics:

Self and society

Role of memory in writing autobiography
Autobiography as resistance
Autobiography as rewriting history

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Readings:

1. James Olney, A Theory of Autobiography in Metaphors of Self: the meaning of

autobiography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972) pp. 3-50.
2. Laura Marcus, The Law of Genre in Auto/biographical Discourses (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1994) pp. 229-72.
3. Linda Anderson, Introduction in Autobiography (London: Routledge, 2001) pp.1-
17.
4. Mary G. Mason, The Other Voice: Autobiographies of women Writers in Life/Lines:
Theorizing Womens Autobiography, Edited by Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) pp. 19-44.

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III Generic Elective (Any Four)

Paper 1: Academic Writing and Composition

(Any four)

1. Introduction to the Writing Process

2. Introduction to the Conventions of Academic Writing
3. Writing in ones own words: Summarizing and Paraphrasing
4. Critical Thinking: Syntheses, Analyses, and Evaluation
5. Structuring an Argument: Introduction, Interjection, and Conclusion
6. Citing Resources; Editing, Book and Media Review

Suggested Readings

1. Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ben Heasley, Study writing: A Course in Writing Skills for
Academic Purposes (Cambridge: CUP, 2006).
2. Renu Gupta, A Course in Academic Writing (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010).
3. Ilona Leki, Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies (New York: CUP,
2nd edn, 1998).
4. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in
Academic Writing (New York: Norton, 2009).

Paper 2: Media and Communication Skills

1. Introduction to Mass Communication

1. Mass Communication and Globalization
2. Forms of Mass Communication

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. Case studies on current issues Indian journalism
b. Performing street plays
c. Writing pamphlets and posters, etc.

2. Advertisement
1. Types of advertisements
2. Advertising ethics
3. How to create advertisements/storyboards

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. Creating an advertisement/visualization
b. Enacting an advertisement in a group
c. Creating jingles and taglines
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3. Media Writing
1. Scriptwriting for TV and Radio
2. Writing News Reports and Editorials
3. Editing for Print and Online Media

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. Script writing for a TV news/panel discussion/radio programme/hosting radio
programmes on community radio
b. Writing news reports/book reviews/film reviews/TV program reviews/interviews
c. Editing articles
d. Writing an editorial on a topical subject

4. Introduction to Cyber Media and Social Media

1. Types of Social Media
2. The Impact of Social Media
3. Introduction to Cyber Media

Paper 3: Text and Performance

1. Introduction
1. Introduction to theories of Performance
2. Historical overview of Western and Indian theatre
3. Forms and Periods: Classical, Contemporary, Stylized, Naturalist

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. Perspectives on theatre and performance
b. Historical development of theatrical forms
c. Folk traditions

2. Theatrical Forms and Practices

1. Types of theatre, semiotics of performative spaces, e.g. proscenium in the round,
amphitheatre, open-air, etc.
2. Voice, speech: body movement, gestures and techniques (traditional and
contemporary), floor exercises: improvisation/characterization

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. On the different types of performative space in practice
b. Poetry reading, elocution, expressive gestures, and choreographed movement

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3. Theories of Drama
1. Theories and demonstrations of acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht
2. Bharata

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. Acting short solo/ group performances followed by discussion and analysis with
application of theoretical perspectives

4. Theatrical Production
1. Direction, production, stage props, costume, lighting, backstage support.
2. Recording/archiving performance/case study of production/performance/impact of
media on performance processes.

Topics for Student Presentations:

a. All aspects of production and performance; recording, archiving, interviewing
performers and data collection.

Paper 4: Language and Linguistics

1 Language: language and communication; language varieties: standard and

non- standard language; language change.
Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M Bhatt. 2008. World Englishes: The study of new
linguistic varieties.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2 Structuralism: De Saussure, Ferdinand. 1966. Course in general linguistics.
New York: McGraw HillIntroduction: Chapter 3
3 Phonology and Morphology: Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M. Harnish,
Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd ed.
Fromkin, V., and R. Rodman, An Introduction to Language, 2nd ed. (New Yourk:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974) Chapters 3, 6 and 7
4 Syntax and semantics: categories and constituents phrase structure; maxims of
conversation.
Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M Harnish, Llinguistics: An Introduction to
Language and Communication, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass,: MIT Press, 1984; Indian
edition, Prentice Hall, 1991) Chapter 5 and 6.

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Paper 5: Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment

1. Social Construction of Gender (Masculinity and Feminity)

Patriarchy
2. History of Women's Movements in India (Pre-independence, post independence)
Women, Nationalism, Partition
Women and Political Participation
3. Women and Law
Women and the Indian Constitution
Personal Laws(Customary practices on inheritance and Marriage)
(Supplemented by workshop on legal awareness)
4. Women and Environment
State interventions, Domestic violence, Female foeticide, sexual harassment
Female Voices: Sultanas Dream
Dalit Discourse: * Details awaited

Paper 6: Gender and Human Rights

Syllabi not received

Paper 7: Language, Literature and Culture

An anthology of writings on diversities in India

Editorial Board: Department of English, University of Delhi

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1V. Ability Enhancement Course

Compulsory

Paper 1: Environmental Study

Syllabi not received

Paper 2: English/MIL Communication

English Communication Credits: 2

Preamble:

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theory, fundamentals and
tools of communication and to develop in them vital communication skills which should
be integral to personal, social and professional interactions. One of the critical links
among human beings and an important thread that binds society together is the ability
to share thoughts, emotions and ideas through various means of communication: both
verbal and non-verbal. In the context of rapid globalization and increasing recognition of
social and cultural pluralities, the significance of clear and effective communication has
substantially enhanced.

The present course hopes to address some of these aspects through an interactive
mode of teaching-learning process and by focusing on various dimensions of
communication skills. Some of these are:

Language of communication, various speaking skills such as personal communication,

social interactions and communication in professional situations such as interviews,
group discussions and office environments, important reading skills as well as writing
skills such as report writing, note-taking etc.

While, to an extent, the art of communication is natural to all living beings, in todays
world of complexities, it has also acquired some elements of science. It is hoped that
after studying this course, students will find a difference in their personal and
professional interactions.

The recommended readings given at the end are only suggestive; the students and
teachers have the freedom to consult other materials on various units/topics given
below. Similarly, the questions in the examination will be aimed towards assessing the
skills learnt by the students rather than the textual content of the recommended books.

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1. Introduction: Theory of Communication, Types and modes of Communication

2. Language of Communication:
Verbal and Non-verbal
(Spoken and Written)
Personal, Social and Business
Barriers and Strategies
Intra-personal, Inter-personal and Group communication
3. Speaking Skills:
Monologue
Dialogue
Group Discussion
Effective Communication/ Mis- Communication
Interview
Public Speech
4. Reading and Understanding
Close Reading
Comprehension
Summary Paraphrasing
Analysis and Interpretation
Translation(from Indian language to English and vice-versa) Literary/Knowledge
Texts

5. Writing Skills
Documenting
Report Writing
Making notes
Letter writing

Recommended Readings:

1. Fluency in English - Part II, Oxford University Press, 2006.

2. Business English, Pearson, 2008.
3. Language, Literature and Creativity, Orient Blackswan, 2013.
4. Language through Literature (forthcoming) ed. Dr. Gauri Mishra, Dr Ranjana Kaul,
Dr Brati Biswas

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V. Ability Enhancement Elective Course (Any Two)

Paper 1: Film Studies

Syllabi not received

Paper 2: English Language Teaching (Any four)

1. Knowing the Learner

2. Structures of English Language
3. Methods of teaching English Language and Literature
4. Materials for Language Teaching
5. Assessing Language Skills
6. Using Technology in Language Teaching

Suggested Readings

1. Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory (Cambridge: CUP,
1996).
2. Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, and Marguerite Ann Snow, Teaching
English as a Second or Foreign Language (Delhi: Cengage Learning, 4th edn,
2014).
3. Adrian Doff, Teach English: A Training Course For Teachers (Teachers Workbook)
(Cambridge: CUP, 1988).
4. Business English (New Delhi: Pearson, 2008).
5. R.K. Bansal and J.B. Harrison, Spoken English: A Manual of Speech and Phonetics
(New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 4th edn, 2013).
6. Mohammad Aslam, Teaching of English (New Delhi: CUP, 2nd edn, 2009).

Paper 3: Soft Skills

Teamwork
Emotional Intelligence
Adaptability
Leadership
Problem solving

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Suggested Readings

1. English and Soft Skills. S.P. Dhanavel. Orient BlackSwan 2013

2. English for Students of Commerce: Precis, Composition, Essays, Poems eds.
Kaushik,et al.

Paper 4: Translation Studies (Any four)

1. Introducing Translation: a brief history and significance of translation in a multi

linguistic and multicultural society like India.
2. Exercises in different Types / modes of translation, such as:
a. Semantic / Literal translation
b. Free / sense/ literary translation
c. Functional / communicative translation
d. Technical / Official
e. Transcreation
f. Audio-visual translation
3. a. Introducing basic concepts and terms used in Translation Studies through relevant
tasks, for example:
Equivalence, Language variety, Dialect, Idiolect, Register, Style, Mode, Code
mixing / Switching.
b. Defining the process of translation (analysis, transference, restructuring) through
critical examination of standard translated literary/non-literary texts and critiquing
subtitles of English and Hindi films.

Practice: Translation in Mass Communication / Advertising, subtitling, dubbing,

1. Exercises to comprehend Equivalence in translation: Structures (equivalence
between the source language and target language at the lexical (word) and
syntactical (sentence) levels. This will be done through tasks of retranslation and
recreation, and making comparative study of cultures and languages.
Practice: Tasks of Translation in Business: Advertising
2. Discussions on issues of Translation and Genderby attempting translation for
media, films and advertisements from different languages.
3. Developing skills for Interpreting: understanding its dynamics and challenges.
Interpreting: Simultaneous and Consecutive (practical application)

Practice: Using tools of technology for translation: machine / mobile translation,

software for translating different kinds of texts with differing levels of complexity and for
transliteration

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Resources for Practice:

Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Thesauri
Glossaries
Software of translation

Suggested Readings

1. Baker, Mona, In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, Routledge, 2001.

(Useful exercises for practical translation and training)
2. ---------------------- (Ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London and
New York: Routledge, 2001. (Readable entries on concepts and terms) Sherry Simon,
Gender in translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission. New York:
Routledge, 1996.
3. Catford, I.C. A Linguistic Theory of Translation. London: OUP, 1965. Frishberg,
Nancy J. Interpreting: An Introduction. Registry of Interpreters, 1990.
4. Gargesh, Ravinder and Krishna Kumar Goswami. (Eds.). Translation and
Interpreting: Reader and Workbook. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.
5. House, Juliana. A Model for Translation Quality Assessment. Tubingen: Gunter Narr,
1977.
6. Lakshmi, H. Problems of Translation. Hyderabad: Booklings Corporation, 1993.
7. Newmark, Peter. A Textbook of Translation. London: Prentice Hall, 1988.
8. Nida, E.A. and C.R. Taber. The Theory and Practice of Translation. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1974.
9. Toury, Gideon. Translation Across Cultures. New Delhi : Bahri Publications Private
Limited, 1987.

Paper 5: Creative Writing

Unit 1. What is Creative Writing

Unit 2. The Art and Craft of Writing
Unit 3. Modes of creative Writing
Unit 4. Writing for the Media
Unit 5. Preparing for Publication

Recommended book: Creative writing: A Beginners Manual by Anjana Neira Dev

and Others, Published by Pearson, Delhi, 2009.

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Paper 6: Business Communication (Any four)

1. Introduction to the essentials of Business Communication: Theory and practice

2. Citing references, and using bibliographical and research tools
3. Writing a project report
4. Writing reports on field work/visits to industries, business concerns etc. /business
negotiations.
5. Summarizing annual report of companies
6. Writing minutes of meetings
7. E-correspondence
8. Spoken English for business communication
(Viva for internal assessment)
9. Making oral presentations
(Viva for internal assessment)

Suggested Readings:

1. Scot, O.; Contemporary Business Communication. Biztantra, New Delhi.

2. Lesikar, R.V. & Flatley, M.E.; Basic Business Communication Skills for
Empowering the Internet Generation, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd.
New Delhi.
3. Ludlow, R. & Panton, F.; The Essence of Effective Communications, Prentice Hall
Of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
4. R. C. Bhatia, Business Communication, Ane Books Pvt Ltd, New Delhi

Paper 7: Technical Writing

1. Communication: Language and communication, differences between speech and

writing, distinct features of speech, distinct features of writing.
2. Writing Skills; Selection of topic, thesis statement, developing the thesis
introductory, developmental, transitional and concluding paragraphs, linguistic
unity, coherence and cohesion, descriptive, narrative, expository and
argumentative writing.
3. Technical Writing: Scientific and technical subjects; formal and informal writings;
formal writings/reports, handbooks, manuals, letters, memorandum, notices,
agenda, minutes; common errors to be avoided.

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. M. Frank. Writing as thinking: A guided process approach, Englewood Cliffs,

Prentice Hall Reagents.

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2. L. Hamp-Lyons and B. Heasely: Study Writing; A course in written English. For

academic and professional purposes, Cambridge Univ. Press.
3. R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartik: A comprehensive grammar of the
English language, Longman, London.
4. Daniel G. Riordan & Steven A. Panley: Technical Report Writing Today -
Biztaantra.

Additional Reference Books

5. Daniel G. Riordan, Steven E. Pauley, Biztantra: Technical Report Writing Today,

8th Edition (2004).

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Structure of B.A./B.Com. Programme under CBCS

English

Semester 1

AECC: English Communication Skills/MIL/EVS

DSC 1A: The Individual and Society. Eds

Semester 2

AECC: English Communication Skills/MIL/EVS

DSC 1B: Selections (poems, short stories) from Modern Indian Literature

Semester 3

DSC 1C: British Literature

Novel

Play

AEEC -1: Creative Writing, Book and Media Reviews

Semester 4

DSC 1D: Literary Cross Currents

Selections from Living Literatures-An Anthology of Prose and Poetry

Eds.Vinay Sood, et al. Orient Longman

Novella

Play

AEEC-2: Translation Studies and Principles of Translation

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Semester 5

AEEC-3: Technical Writing

DSE-1A: Soft Skills

GE-1: Gender and Human Rights/Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment

Semester 6

AEEC- 4: Business Communication

DSE-1B: Academic Writing

GE -2: Cultural Diversity

Detailed Syllabus

DSC 1-A: The Individual and Society. Selections from Vinod Sood, et. al., eds.,The
Individual and Society: Essays, Stories and Poems (Delhi: Pearson, 2005).

1-B: Cultural Diversity. Eds. Sukrita Paul Kumar,Macmillan

1-C: Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

1-D: Selections from Modern Indian Literature ed. Dept. of English /Living
Literatures ed .Macmillan

Short Stories: Premchand, 'The Holy Panchayat'

R.K. Narayan, 'The M.C.C.'

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer , 'The Card-Sharper's Daughter'

Saadat Hasan Manto, 'Toba Tek Singh'

Ambai, 'Squirrel'

Ismat Chugtai, 'Lihaaf' /'The sacred Duty'

Play: Vijay Tendulkar---Silence, The Court is in Session

Novella: Rohinton Mistry---Such a Long Journey

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Compulsory: English/MIL Communication

English Communication Credits: 2

Preamble:

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theory, fundamentals and
tools of communication and to develop in them vital communication skills which should
be integral to personal, social and professional interactions. One of the critical links
among human beings and an important thread that binds society together is the ability
to share thoughts, emotions and ideas through various means of communication: both
verbal and non-verbal. In the context of rapid globalization and increasing recognition of
social and cultural pluralities, the significance of clear and effective communication has
substantially enhanced.

The present course hopes to address some of these aspects through an interactive
mode of teaching-learning processes and by focusing on various dimensions of
communication skills. Some of these are:

Language of communication, various speaking skills such as personal communication,

social interactions and communication in professional situations such as interviews,
group discussions and office environments, important reading skills as well as writing
skills such as report writing, note-taking etc.

While, to an extent, the art of communication is natural to all living beings, in todays
world of complexities, it has also acquired some elements of science. It is hoped that
after studying this course, students will find a difference in their personal and
professional interactions.

The recommended readings given at the end are only suggestive; the students and
teachers have the freedom to consult other materials on various units/topics given
below. Similarly, the questions in the examination will be aimed towards assessing the
skills learnt by the students rather than the textual content of the recommended books.

The Communicative Language Course in English is a three-tiered structure, addressing

different levels of language learning acquired in school. The three streams A, B and C
are offered to students who have studied English up to class XII, class X and class VIII
respectively.

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Advanced English: Stream A

(For those who have passed English in Class XII)

Course objectives
The course enhances the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening
It encourages recognition and awareness of different genres like the short story,
poetry, feature articles, etc.
Topical and social themes form an integral part of the course
The course teaches the students speaking and listening skills in class and tests these
skills for a constant monitoring of their proficiency
The course broadens the horizons of the text by project work which is flexible, and
enhances the creativity of the student.
The course uses activities centred on translation for students, and gives them a
composite view of multiculturalism.

Semester I

Writing skills
Diary entry
Paragraph writing
Summary/Notemaking
Formal and informal letter writing
CV/ Resume writing
Book/ Film reviews

Internal assessment
Speaking skills Listening/ comprehension
Project work
Attendance

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Suggested projects
Sports writing, Poetry about women/ men, Poetry in translation, Telling a story,
Fantasy writing, Chat shows, The menace of dowry, A success story

Recommended Readings
Fluency in English Part I, Macmillan, Delhi, 2005, Units 118
Business English, Pearson, Delhi, 2008, Units1-3
Language through Literature (forthcoming) ed Dr Gauri Mishra, Dr Ranjana Kaul, Dr
Brat Biswas, Primus Books, Delhi, 2015, Chapters 1-7
Martin Hewing, Advanced English Grammar, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi,
2010, Units 160

Semester II

Writing skills
Interview
Feature article
Notice
Questionnaire/ survey
Essay/speech writing
Report writing
Dialogue writing

Internal assessment
Speaking skills Listening/ comprehension
Project work
Attendance

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Suggested projects
Creative writing, Theatre Action Group (TAG)/ Other theatre groups, Billy Elliot,
Translating a poem, Arranged marriages, Interviewing a celebrity, Writing a
newspaper article on a current topic
Todays youth and youth icons, Leadership and politics, Examination system and
benefits of reform, The Mahabharata, Communalism, Gender discrimination, Social
activism

Recommended Readings
Fluency in English Part II, Oxford University Press, Delhi , 2006, Unit 115
Business English , Pearson, Delhi, 2008 Units 4-6
Language through Literature (forthcoming) ed Dr Gauri Mishra, Dr Ranjana Kaul, Dr
Brat Biswas, Primus Books, Delhi, 2015, Chapters 8-14
Martin Hewing, Advanced English Grammar, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi,
2010, Units 61120

Intermediate English: Stream B

(For those who have passed English in Class X)

Semester I
Course objectives
To develop the following skills:
Reading
The ability to understand and assimilate the main ideas and specific details in a 400
500 word text of moderate difficulty
The ability to read a text at normal speed with correct pronunciation, intonation and
pauses, and also with appropriate facial expression and gestures (especially in poetry
and drama)

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Writing
The ability to write a letter of request, complaint, apology, order, etc
The ability to write an application for a job with a covering letter
The ability to write an advertisement for selling/ buying an item
The ability to write a notice, poster, recipe, etc
The ability to write a paragraph on a given topic
The ability to write a short narrative or essay (up to 100 words)
Listening
The ability to comprehend the gist as well as details of a talk, lecture discussion, news
item, announcement, etc
The ability to take notes
Speaking
The ability to pronounce words correctly and to speak with proper intonation
The ability to introduce ones self and others, socialise, make requests, seek
permission and information, place an order, accept an invitation and give directions
Recommended Readings
English at the Workplace Part I, Macmillan, Delhi, 2008, Units 112
Language, Literature and Creativity, Orient Blackswan, 2013 Chapters 1-4
Raymond Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar, 2nd Ed, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge,2012, Units 160

Semester II

Recommended Readings
English at the Workplace, Part II, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2007, Units 112
Language, Literature and Creativity, Orient Blackswan, 2013, Chapters 5-8
Raymond Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar, 2nd Ed, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge,2012, Units 61120
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Basic English: Stream C

(For those who have passed English in Class VIII, and all other categories, except those
covered by A & B)

Course objectives
The prescribed text helps the students increase their proficiency in English by
enhancing their resources to deal with communicative needs of everyday life at
home, at work, and in social interaction. The material, methodology and language
tasks create contexts for interaction and language use, so that learners acquire and
sharpen their language skills as they process the text on their own.
The prescribed grammar book provides rules, explanations and examples in easy,
accessible language supported by pictorial representations (wherever possible) with
practice exercises on the facing page. This format allows for easy and repeated
reference, so that students are able to internalise the rules.
The course covers all four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
Semester I

Recommended Readings
Everyday English I, Pearson, Delhi, 2005, Units 120
Raymond Murphy, Essential English Grammar, 2nd Ed, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge,2007, Units 156

Semester II

Recommended Readings
Everyday English II (Foundation 2006), Units 121
Raymond Murphy, Essential English Grammar, 2nd Ed, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2007, Units 57114

Any other related Reading which has worked well in interactive pedagogy may be
recommended and circulated through U.G.C., CBCS Committee
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