SEMESTER-II

Paper: ENG 801C

CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

UNIT I: History and Contexts

1.Gauri Vishwanathan: “Literary Study and British Rule in India” (from Masks of Conquest)
2.Aijaz Ahmad : Introduction to In Theory AFB
3.Edward Said: Introduction to Orientalism MBB

UNIT II: Poetry

1. Jayanta Mahapatra :Dawn At Puri ”; “Hunger”; “The
Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore” DN
2. Keki Daruwala : “Hawk”; “Wolf”; “Chinar” KBB
3. Kamala Das: “My Grandmother’s House”; “A Hot Noon in Malabar” AN
4. Nissim Ezekiel: “Night of the Scorpion” DN

UNIT III: Fiction

1. Anita Desai : Clear Light of the Day AB
2. Amitav Ghosh : The Hungry Tide ABH

Paper: ENG 802C

POETRY – II: VICTORIAN TO THE PRESENT

UNIT I: Victorian Poetry

1.Robert Browning: My Last Duchess SP
2. Alferd Lord Tennyson : In Memoriam (Preface Canto-133) GS
3.Matthew Arnold : The Scholar Gypsy DN
4.Walter de la Mare : Silver ABH

UNIT II: Poetry till the Second World War

1 .G. M. Hopkins : The Windhover

2. W. B. Yeats “Sailing to Byzantium”; “The Second Coming”
3. T. S. Eliot: (1888-1965), “Little Gidding” SP
4. Ezra Pund : In a station of a Metro DJ
5. W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” PJ
6. Dylan Thomas (1914-53): “Do not go gentle into that good night.

UNIT III: Poetry after the Second World War

1. Ted Hughes (1930-98): “Hawk in the Rain”; “The Thought Fox”; AD

2. Seamus Heaney (1939-): “The Tollund Man”,The Skunk AN
Paper: ENG 803C
WOMEN’S WRITING
UNIT I: Fiction
1. Jane Austen (1775-1817): Persuasion SP
2. Kate Chopin (1850-1904): The Awakening MBB
3. Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974): “Cooking Lesson” (short story) KBB
4. Mahashweta Devi (1926-): “Draupadi” (short story) ABH

UNIT II:
Essays and Poetry
1. Mary Wolstonecraft : Introduction of The Vindication of the Rights of Women KBB
2. Simone de Beauvoir : “ Introduction “ – The Second Sex MBB
3. Poetry: Adrienne Rich “ Diving into the Wreck / From a Survivor / Power DJ

Letters/Travel Writing:
1. Toru Dutt (1856-1877): Letters to Mary Martin: 19th December,1873; 15th
December,1874; 13th December, 1874; 24th April, 1876; 3rd May, 1876; 7th August, 1876
11 AFB

(from Toru Dutt, Collected Prose and Poetry .Ed., with an Introduction by Chandani
Lokuge.New Delhi: OUP, 2006)

UNIT III: History, Language, Genre

1. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): from A Room of One’s Own (Chapters 4 and 5) IK
2. Helene Cixous (1937-): “Laugh of the Medusa” GK
3. Alice Walker (1944 -): From an Interview (In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens) KBB
Paper: ENG 804C
MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE
UNIT I: Major Aesthetic Developments
(Realism; Social Realism; Symbolism; Naturalism;) AFB

(Aestheticism; Futurism; Vorticism; Imagism;

Acmeism; Expressionism; Dadaism; Surrealism.) AD

UNIT II: Modern European Poetry

1. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): “To the Reader”; “The Albatross” GK

2. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): “Archaic Torso of Apollo”; SS
3. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966): “Requiem” SS
4. Federico García Lorca (1899-1936): “Sleepwalking Ballad” GK
5. Paul Celan (1920- 70): “Death Fugue” PJ

UNIT III: European Fiction

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881): Notes from the Underground AN
2. Franz Kafka (1833-1924): “Metamorphoses”
3. Thomas Mann (1875-1955): Death in Venice
4. Albert Camus (1913-1960): The Outsider

Paper: ENG 806E

SALMAN RUSHDIE
UNIT I: Novels
1. Shame KBB
2. Shalimar the Clown
3. Haroun and the Sea of Stories PJ
4. Midnight’s Children

UNIT II: Essays and Other Writings

1. Imaginary Homelands (title essay of the book) AN
2. Step Across this Line (The Tanner lectures on Human Values) KBB
3. The Jaguar Smile (travelogue)