FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME
(Courses effective from Academic Year 2013-14)

SYLLABUS OF COURSES TO BE OFFERED

Discipline Courses I, Discipline Courses II & Applied Courses

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper Titles

1. European Classical Literature 2. Indian Writing in English 3. British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries 4. Popular Literature 5. British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries 6. American Literature 7. British Literature: 18th Century 8. British Romantic Literature 9. British Literature: 19th Century 10. Womens Writing 11. Indian Classical Literature 12. British Literature: The Early 20th Century 13. Modern European Drama 14. Postcolonial Literatures 15. Modern Indian Writing in English Translation 16. British Literature after the 1960s 17. Research 18. Nineteenth Century European Realism 19. Literary Theory 20. Research NOTE: The Suggested Topics and Background Readings are NOT meant for compulsory classroom teaching. They should be used by students for making class presentations and may be discussed by teachers during tutorials. Additional material may also be used by teachers and students for the purpose.

Every semester Teaching will be spread over 16 weeks including 2 weeks for review.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSESDISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 1: European Classical Literature 1. Homer 2. Sophocles 3. Plautus Penguin, 1965). 4. Ovid The Odyssey, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985). Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984). Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Selections from Metamorphoses Bacchus, (Book III), Pyramus and Thisbe (Book IV), Philomela (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1975). Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. Niall Rudd (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005).

Horace

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.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 2: Indian Writing in English 1. R.K. Narayan 2. Anita Desai 3. H.L.V. Derozio Kamala Das Nissim Ezekiel Robin S. Ngangom 4. Mulk Raj Anand Salman Rushdie Rohinton Mistry Aravind Adiga Swami and Friends In Custody Freedom to the Slave The Orphan Girl Introduction My Grandmothers House Enterprise The Night of the Scorpion The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom A Poem for Mother Two Lady Rams The Free Radio Swimming Lesson The Sultans Battery

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 Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. vvi. Salman Rushdie, Commonwealth Literature does not exist, in Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 6170. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Divided by a Common Language, in The Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187203. Bruce King, Introduction, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 110.

1. 2. 3. 4.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries The Wife of Baths Prologue Selections from Amoretti: Sonnet LXVII Like as a huntsman... Sonnet LVII Sweet warrior... Sonnet LXXV One day I wrote her name... The Sunne Rising Batter My Heart Valediction: forbidding mourning Doctor Faustus Othello Twelfth Night

Paper 3:

1. Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser

John Donne 2. Christopher Marlowe 3. William Shakespeare 4. William Shakespeare

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 Poet 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.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 4: Popular Literature 1. 2. 3. 4. Lewis Carroll Agatha Christie Shyam Selvadurai Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam Through the Looking Glass The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Funny Boy Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

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. 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.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries Paradise Lost: Book 1 The Duchess of Malfi The Rover The Rape of the Lock

Paper 5: 1. 2. 3. 4.

John Milton John Webster Aphra Behn Alexander Pope

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.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 6: American Literature 1. 2. 3. 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne Toni Morrison Edgar Allan Poe F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Anne Bradstreet Walt Whitman The House of the Seven Gables Beloved The Purloined Letter The Crack-up Dry September The Prologue Selections from Leaves of Grass: O Captain, My Captain Passage to India (lines 168) Crow Testament Evolution

Sherman Alexie

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics The American Dream Social Realism and the American Novel Folklore and the American Novel Black Womens Writing 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.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 7: British Literature: 18th Century 1. William Congreve 2. Jonathan Swift 3. Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray 4. Laurence Sterne The Way of the World Gullivers Travels (Books III and IV) London Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 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.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 8: 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) 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. 594 611. 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. 766 68, 7778. 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Preface to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991). 4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson (London: Everyman, 1993) chap. XIII, pp. 16166.
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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 9: British Literature: 19th Century

1. 2. 3. 4.

Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Charles Dickens Alfred Tennyson Robert Browning Christina Rossetti

Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre Hard Times The Lady of Shalott Ulysses The Defence of Lucknow My Last Duchess The Last Ride Together Fra Lippo Lippi The Goblin Market

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.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 10: Womens Writing 1. Emily Dickinson Sylvia Plath Eunice De Souza 2. Alice Walker 3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Katherine Mansfield Mahashweta Devi (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002) 4. Mary Wollstonecraft Ramabai Ranade I cannot live with you Im wife; Ive finished that Daddy Lady Lazarus Advice to Women Bequest The Color Purple The Yellow Wallpaper Bliss Draupadi, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988) chap. 1, pp. 1119; chap. 2, pp. 1938. A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures, in Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp. 295324. Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Womens Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 1912.

Rassundari Debi

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.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 11: Indian Classical Literature 1. Kalidasa 2. Vyasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New Delhi: Penguin, 1989). 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. Mrcchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1962). The Book of Banci, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, tr. R. Parthasarathy (Delhi: Penguin, 2004) book 3.

3. Sudraka 4. Ilango Adigal

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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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

Paper 12: 1. 2. 3. 4. Joseph Conrad D.H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf W.B. Yeats

DISCIPLINE COURSES I British Literature: The Early 20th Century Heart of Darkness Sons and Lovers Mrs Dalloway Leda and the Swan The Second Coming No Second Troy Sailing to Byzantium The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Sweeney among the Nightingales The Hollow Men

T.S. Eliot

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics Modernism and non-European Cultures The Womens Movement in the Early 20th Century Psychoanalysis and the Stream of Consciousness The Uses of Myth The Avant Garde Readings 1. Sigmund Freud, Theory of Dreams, Oedipus Complex, and The Structure of the Unconscious, 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.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 13: Modern European Drama 1. 2. 3. 4. Henrik Ibsen Bertolt Brecht Samuel Beckett Eugene Ionesco Ghosts The Good Woman of Szechuan Waiting for Godot 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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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 14: Postcolonial Literatures 1. 2. 3. 4. Chinua Achebe Gabriel Garcia Marquez Bessie Head Ama Ata Aidoo Grace Ogot Pablo Neruda Derek Walcott David Malouf Things Fall Apart Chronicle of a Death Foretold The Collector of Treasures The Girl who can The Green Leaves Tonight I can Write The Way Spain Was Ode to a Tomato A Far Cry from Africa Goats and Monkeys Names Revolving Days Wild Lemons The Martyrdom in Room no 14

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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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Modern Indian Writing in English Translation The Shroud, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2006). The Quilt, in Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai, tr. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009). A Season of No Return, in Earthy Tones, tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi: Fiction House, 2002). Rebati, in Oriya Stories, ed. Vidya Das, tr. Kishori Charan Das (Delhi: Srishti Publishers, 2000). 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). 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). 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). 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). Andha Yug, tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP, 2009). Untouchable Spring, tr. Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar (Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010)

Paper 15: 1. Premchand Ismat Chugtai Gurdial Singh

Fakir Mohan Senapati 2. Rabindra Nath Tagore

G.M. Muktibodh

Amrita Pritam

Thangjam Ibopishak Singh

3. Dharamveer Bharati 4. G. Kalyan Rao

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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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

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.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 16: British Literature after the 1960s 1. 2. 3. 4. John Fowles Jeanette Winterson Hanif Kureshi Phillip Larkin Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney Carol Anne Duffy The French Lieutenants Woman Sexing the Cherry My Beautiful Launderette Whitsun Weddings Church Going Hawk Roosting Crows Fall Digging Casualty 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).

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 17: Research Methodology Unit Unit Unit Unit I: Practical Criticism II: Conceptualizing and Drafting Research Proposals III: On Style Manuals IV: Notes, References, and Bibliography

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Nineteenth Century European Realism Fathers and Sons, tr. Peter Carson (London: Penguin, 2009). Crime and Punishment, tr. Jessie Coulson London: Norton, 1989). Old Goriot, tr. M.A. Crawford (London: Penguin, 2003). Madame Bovary, tr. Geoffrey Wall (London: Penguin, 2002).

Paper 18: 1. 2. 3. 4. Ivan Turgenev Fyodor Dostoyvesky Honore de Balzac Gustave Flaubert

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. 26567. 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.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 19: 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. 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).
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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES I Paper 20: Research Unit I: Using Oral and Archival Sources Unit II: Digital Humanities Unit III: Writing a Term Paper

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II

AIM: The aim of the courses in this syllabus is to acquaint students from other Discipline 1 courses with various types and contexts of literature that would meet, as far as possible, their trans-disciplinary expectations. Paper Titles 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Individual and Society Crime and Literature Literature and Film Cultural Diversity in India Reading World Literature Literature of the Partition

NOTE: Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings are NOT meant for compulsory classroom teaching. They should be used by students for their class presentations and can be discussed in tutorials by the teachers. Additional material may also be used by the teachers and students.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II Paper 1: Individual and Society Selections from Vinod Sood, et. al., eds., Individual and Society: Essays, Stories and Poems (Delhi: Pearson, 2005). Unit 1: Caste/Class 1. Jotirao Phule, Caste Laws 2. Premchand, Deliverance 3. Omprakash Valmiki, Joothan 4. Hira Bansode, Bosom Friend Unit 2: Gender 1. Virginia Woolf, Shakespeares Sister 2. Rabindranath Tagore, The Exercise Book 3. Marge Piercy, Breaking Out 4. Eunice De Souza, Marriages Are Made 5. Ambai, Yellow Fish Unit 3: Race 1. Roger Mais, Blackout 2. Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation 3. Langston Hughes, Harlem 4. Maya Angelou, Still I Rise Unit 4: Violence and War 1. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est 2. Henry Reed, Naming of Parts 3. Saadat Hasan Manto, The Dog of Tetwal 4. Amitav Ghosh, Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi Unit 5: Living in a Globalized World 1. Roland Barthes, Toys 2. Imtiaz Dharkar, At the Lahore Karhai 3. Edward Brathwaite, Colombe

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II Paper 2: Crime and Literature

1. 2. 3. 4.

Wilkie Collins Arthur Conan Doyle Raymond Chandler H.R.F. Keating

The Woman in White The Hound of the Baskervilles The Big Sleep 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 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.georgeorwell.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>

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II Paper 3: Literature and Film Unit 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. 170249. Unit 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). Unit 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). Unit 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. 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).
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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH 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).

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II Paper 4: Cultural Diversity in India Selections from Sukrita Paul Kumar, et. al., eds., Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions in India (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2005). Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: Overview Linguistic Plurality within Sufi and Bhakti Tradition Language Politics: Hindi and Urdu Tribal Verse Dalit Voices Writing in English Womanspeak: Examples from Kannada and Bangla Literary Cultures: Gujarati and Sindi

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics Multilingualism and Language Hierarchies Oral Traditions Dalit and Tribal Cultures Sufi and Bhakti Traditions Indian Writing in English Readings 1. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Variety and Unity of India and The Epics, History, Tradition and Myth, in The Discovery of India (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1961) pp. 613, 99106. 2. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Tradition and Creativity, ed. A.J. Thomas, Literature and Culture (Calcutta: Papyrus, 2002). 3. Shashi Deshpande, Where do we belong: Regional, National or International?, and Why Am I a Feminist, in Writing from the Margins and Other Essays (New Delhi: Viking, 2003) pp. 825. 4. Rustom Barucha, Thinking through Culture: A Perspective for the Millennium, and Gopal Guru, Dalits in Pursuit of Modernity, in India: Another Millennium, ed. Romila Thapar (New Delhi: Penguin, 2000) pp. 66 84, 12336. 5. 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. 6. Sheldon Pollock, ed., Literary Cultures in History (New Delhi: OUP, 2003) pp. 136.

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II Paper 5: Reading World Literature 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). 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: WileyBlackwell, 2009) pp. 164, 6585. 3. Franco Moretti, Conjectures on World Literature, New Left Review, vol.1 (2000), pp. 5468.
6. Theo Dhaen et. al., eds., Introduction, in World Literature: A Reader

(London: Routledge, 2012).

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH DISCIPLINE COURSES II Paper 6: Literature of the Partition 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. 45372. 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. 8 13. 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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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

APPLIED COURSES
Aims
The four Applied Courses are designed to equip students with professional skills to supplement the knowledge acquired through Discipline Courses I and II. These courses are expected to foster certain practical skills. The pedagogy will emphasize an active engagement with precise tasks and goals, within a workshop-like environment.

Paper Titles
1. 2. 3. 4. Academic Writing and Composition Media and Communication Skills Text and Performance English Language Teaching

NOTE: The Suggested Readings are NOT meant for compulsory classroom teaching. They should be used by students for making class presentations and may be discussed by teachers during tutorials. Additional material may also be used by teachers and students.

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APPLIED COURSES
Paper 1: Academic Writing and Composition
Topics
Unit 1: Introduction to the Writing Process Unit 2: Introduction to the Conventions of Academic Writing Unit 3: Writing in ones own words: Summarizing and Paraphrasing Unit 4: Critical Thinking: Syntheses, Analyses, and Evaluation Unit 5: Structuring an Argument: Introduction, Interjection, and Conclusion Unit 6: Citing Resources; Editing and Peer 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).

Assessment: 100 marks

Continuous Assessment Class interaction : 25 marks

Projects and Viva Voce: (Individual/Group projects on any two areas within the prescribed topics. Viva voce will be conducted by one external examiner and two faculty members. : 25 marks

End Semester Assessment

: 50 marks

This end semester assessment will be group-based and will be made by a board of examiners comprising one external examiner and two faculty members. Each
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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH group will be evaluated on the basis of the research paper that they have produced through the semester, with an opportunity for editing/revising the same a fortnight before the external assessment. The evaluation board shall evaluate the groups after examining their research papers and interviewing them. The following criteria for evaluation shall apply: Conceptual and linguistic competence writing on an academic subject Ability to organize material and develop an argument Critical skills Referencing, editing, bibliography, etc

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APPLIED COURSES
Paper 2: Media and Communication Skills1
Topics
Unit 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. Unit 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 Unit 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) b) c) d) Script writing for a TV news/panel discussion/radio programme/hosting radio programmes on community radio Writing news reports/book reviews/film reviews/TV program reviews/interviews Editing articles Writing an editorial on a topical subject

Unit 4: Introduction to Cyber Media and Social Media 1. Types of Social Media 2. The Impact of Social Media 3. Introduction to Cyber Media Topics for Student Presentations:
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a) Case studies of prominent Facebook/Twitter campaigns/writing a blog, etc. Unit 5: Media Ethics
1. Code of Conduct for Print and Electronic Media 2. Ethics of Sting Operations Topics for Student Presentations: Analysing case studies on media ethics Coverage in print and electronic media (national and international) of events such as terror attacks. c) Team projects in investigative journalism. Unit 6: Corporate Communications/Media Management Topics for Student Presentations:

a) b)

a) Organizing a press conference/writing press releases. Suggested Readings

1. Kewal J. Kumar, Mass Communication in India (New Delhi: Jaico, 3rd edn, 2007). 2. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Media Ethics: Truth, Fairness, and Objectivity (New Delhi: OUP, 2011). 3. K.M. Srivastava, News Reporting and Editing (New Delhi: Sterling, 2003, rpt. 2008). 4. Sangeeta Sharma and Raghuvir Singh, Advertisement: Planning and Implementation (New Delhi: Phi Learning Private Limited, 2006, rpt. 2010).

Assessment: 100 marks

Continuous Assessment Class Presentations : 25 marks

Projects and Viva Voce: (individual/group projects on any two areas within the prescribed topics. Viva voce will be conducted by two external and one faculty member. : 25 marks End Semester assessment : 50 marks

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APPLIED COURSES
Paper 3: Texts and Performance
Topics
Unit 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:

Unit 2: Theatrical Forms and Practices

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

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 Unit 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 Unit 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: interviewing performers and data collection. Unit 5: Reading Performance
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a) All aspects of production and performance; recording, archiving,

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH 1. Performance as art and culture: reading and analyzing performance as play-text and cultural text. Protocols of reviewing plays. 2. Examining events of daily life as performances, e.g. rituals, sport, spectacle. Topics for Student Presentations:

a) Reviews of live performances b) Performative aspects of events from daily life such as religious
ceremonies, conversations, news shows, etc. Unit 6: Writing Plays and Adaptations 1. Script writing, adapting prose and poetry for performance, e.g. lyrics, drama, mime, dance, etc. 2. Examining multiple performance possibilities for the same text. Topics for Student Presentations: a) b) c) d) Dramatic adaptations of prose and poetry Script writing Theatrical performances Critical discussion of adaptations

Suggested Readings
1. Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2002). 2. Marvin Carlson, Performance: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2004). 3. Nemichandra Jain, Indian Theatre: Tradition, Continuity and Change (Delhi: Vikas, 1992, rpt).

Assessment: 100 marks

Internal: Practical production skills tested by external examination: 25 marks Project: practical or research-based : 25 marks External: Written Test : 50 marks

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APPLIED COURSES
Paper 4: English Language Teaching
Unit 1: Knowing the Learner Unit 2: Structures of English Language Unit 3: Methods of teaching English Language and Literature Unit 4: Materials for Language Teaching Unit 5: Assessing Language Skills Unit 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).

Assessment: 100 marks

Continuous Assessment The students will be evaluated through: : 50 marks

Class participation Teacher, peer, and student feedback Lesson plans and learning aids, etc. Project presentation Practice teaching sessions

: 5 marks :10 marks :10 marks :10 marks :15 marks : 50 marks

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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH There will be one end semester practical examination to evaluate the acquired teaching skills acquired by the students. The evaluation board shall comprise two external examiners and one internal faculty member. Interview and Viva :25 marks Assessment of log/diary/lessons plans/learning aids/posters, etc. : 25 marks
NOTE: There will be no external written examination at the end of the semester.

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