Friday, November 30, 2012

SEMESTER - I

Paper 1: English Literature 4 (i)


Unit-1 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Unit-2 Charles Dickens Hard Times
Unit-3 Background Prose Readings and Topics

Readings:

(A)
       Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selections from A Reader in Marxist Philosophy ed. Sels and Martel  (New York. I 963). Pp. 186-8, I 90-1, 199-201.

(B)
     Charles Darwin, Selections from The Descent of Man (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 3rd edn., vol. 2) pp. 1647-52.

(C)
     John Stuart Mill, Selections from The Subjection of Women (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2) pp. 1647-52.

(D)
   Matthew Arnold, Selections from Culture and Anarchy (in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2) pp. 1403-12.

 Topics:
The Novel Form in Nineteenth-Century England; Faith and Doubt; The
Writer and Society; Fiction and its Readers



Paper 2: Twentieth Century Indian Writing (i)
Unit-2 

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’
Ismat Chughtai                              ‘
Lihaf’ (The Quilt)
Ambai                                              ‘
Squirrel'


 Unit-3 Background Prose Readings and Topics
Readings:
a. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism (Delhi : Rupa, 1992), Chapter 1 and 3.
b. Namvar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, Indian Literature, no. 151
(Sept/Oct. 1992).
c. U.R. Ananthamurthy, ‘Being a Writer in India’, from Tender Ironies, ed.
Dilip Chitre et. al., pp. 127-46.
d. Topics :
Nationalism; The Theme of the Partition; Language and Audience; in
Modern India; Tradition and Experiment in Modern Indian Theatre; The
Individual and Society in Modern Indian Literature.
Note: Texts prescribed in Unit 2 are available in an anthology prepared and published by
the Department of English, University of Delhi, Modern Indian Literature: Poems and
Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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