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Life Narratives
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ENG0500104
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Life Narratives
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ENG0500104
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Fiction: Modern and After
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ENG0500204
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Fiction: Modern and After
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ENG0500204
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Literary Criticism
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ENG0500304
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Literary Criticism
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ENG0500304
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British Drama: Victorian to Postmodern
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Life Narratives
Course Code: ENG0500104
Course Content
Unit 1
2 credits
- Emily Dickinson. Letters: to Mrs. A.P. Strong January 29 1850 / to William A. Dickinson, November 17 1851
- Ismat Chughtai. A Life in Words: Memoirs
Unit 2
2 credits
- Samuel Johnson, “Life of Dryden” from The Lives of the Poets
- Zora Neale Hurston. Barracoon; The Story of the Last Slave
- Jhumpa Lahiri. The Clothing of Books
Recommended Reading
- Laura Marcus. Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2018
- Lloyd E. Ambrosius. ed. Writing Biography: Historians & Their Craft, University of Nebraska Press, 2004
- Leon Edel. Literary Biography, University of Toronto Press, 1957
- Paul Murray Kendall, The Art of Biography, Allen & Unwin, 1965
Life Narratives
Course Code: ENG0500104
Course Content
Unit 1
2 credits
- Emily Dickinson. Letters: to Mrs. A.P. Strong January 29 1850 / to William A. Dickinson, November 17 1851
- Ismat Chughtai. A Life in Words: Memoirs
Unit 2
2 credits
- Samuel Johnson, “Life of Dryden” from The Lives of the Poets
- Zora Neale Hurston. Barracoon; The Story of the Last Slave
- Jhumpa Lahiri. The Clothing of Books
Recommended Reading
- Laura Marcus. Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2018
- Lloyd E. Ambrosius. ed. Writing Biography: Historians & Their Craft, University of Nebraska Press, 2004
- Leon Edel. Literary Biography, University of Toronto Press, 1957
- Paul Murray Kendall, The Art of Biography, Allen & Unwin, 1965
Fiction: Modern and After
Course Code: ENG0500204
Course Content
Unit 1: Contexts, Ideas and Concepts
1 Credit
Contexts of fiction (selected events and conditions of the 20th and 21st centuries and a corresponding overview of fiction of each of the following)
- War and Conflict (the World Wars, decolonization, 9/11)
- Society, Economy, Politics
- Gender, Class and Race
- Environmental Crises
Unit 2: Fiction
3 Credits
- D.H. Lawrence: “The Rocking Horse Winner”
- Joyce Carol Oates: “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
- John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Graham Swift: “England” from England and Other Stories
Recommended Reading
- Chris Baldick: The Modern Movement, 1910-1940, Oxford University Press, 2004
- Bruce King: The Internationalization of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004
- Peter Boxall: The Value of the Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2015
- Jesse Matz: The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction, Wiley, 2004
- Debjani Ganguly: This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form, Duke University Press, 2016
Fiction: Modern and After
Course Code: ENG0500204
Course Content
Unit 1: Contexts, Ideas and Concepts
1 Credit
Contexts of fiction (selected events and conditions of the 20th and 21st centuries and a corresponding overview of fiction of each of the following)
- War and Conflict (the World Wars, decolonization, 9/11)
- Society, Economy, Politics
- Gender, Class and Race
- Environmental Crises
Unit 2: Fiction
3 Credits
- D.H. Lawrence: “The Rocking Horse Winner”
- Joyce Carol Oates: “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
- John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Graham Swift: “England” from England and Other Stories
Recommended Reading
- Chris Baldick: The Modern Movement, 1910-1940, Oxford University Press, 2004
- Bruce King: The Internationalization of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004
- Peter Boxall: The Value of the Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2015
- Jesse Matz: The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction, Wiley, 2004
- Debjani Ganguly: This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form, Duke University Press, 2016
Literary Criticism
Course Code: ENG0500304
Course Content
UNIT-1: (Concepts & Ideas)
2 Credits
- Plato - Mimesis
- Longinus – The Sublime
- Philip Sidney – Defence of Poetry
- Stephen Gosson – Views against Poetry
- Samuel Johnson – Views of Shakespeare and the “Three Unities”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Imagination and Fancy
- John Keats – Negative Capability
- F.R. Leavis – Enactment
- W.K. Wimsatt & Monroe C. Beardsley – Affective Fallacy, Intentional Fallacy
UNIT 2: Seminal Texts
2 Credits
- Aristotle: Poetics
- William Wordsworth: Preface to The Lyrical Ballads (1802)
- Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
- T. S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
- Cleanth Brooks: The Heresy of Paraphrase
Recommended Reading
- Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005
- Wimsatt W.K and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History, New Delhi: Oxford, 2004
- Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. NY: OUP, 1971
- Eaves, M., and M. Fischer, eds. Romantic and Contemporary Criticism. Cornell University Press, 1986
Literary Criticism
Course Code: ENG0500304
Course Content
UNIT-1: (Concepts & Ideas)
2 Credits
- Plato - Mimesis
- Longinus – The Sublime
- Philip Sidney – Defence of Poetry
- Stephen Gosson – Views against Poetry
- Samuel Johnson – Views of Shakespeare and the “Three Unities”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Imagination and Fancy
- John Keats – Negative Capability
- F.R. Leavis – Enactment
- W.K. Wimsatt & Monroe C. Beardsley – Affective Fallacy, Intentional Fallacy
UNIT 2: Seminal Texts
2 Credits
- Aristotle: Poetics
- William Wordsworth: Preface to The Lyrical Ballads (1802)
- Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
- T. S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
- Cleanth Brooks: The Heresy of Paraphrase
Recommended Reading
- Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005
- Wimsatt W.K and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History, New Delhi: Oxford, 2004
- Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. NY: OUP, 1971
- Eaves, M., and M. Fischer, eds. Romantic and Contemporary Criticism. Cornell University Press, 1986