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Paper Code :: Eng-020104
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Unit-1 : Forms and Genres in Poetry
Unit-2 : Forms and Genres in Fiction
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Unit-3 : Forms and Genres in Drama
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Unit-4 : Basic Terms & Themes
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Paper 3: ENG-HC-2016 Indian Writing in English
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Readings
• Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.
• Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.
• Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10.
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Paper 4: ENG-HC-2026 British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries
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Background Prose Readings
• 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. 476–9.
• 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. 704–11.
• 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. 324–8, 330–5.
• Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1970) pp. 13–18.
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Paper 3: ENG-HG-2016 Modern Indian Literature
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Suggested Reading:
-Sarkar, Sumit. Modern Times: India: 1880s-1950s: Environment, Economy, Culture.
Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2014.
-Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and literary History.
Orient Blackswan, 2012.
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Paper 4: ENG-HG-2026 Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment
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Recommended Reading:
• Urvashi Butalia,The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
• Kumkum Sanagari, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History
• Judith Walsh, Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice
• Tanika and Sumit Sarkar, Women and Social Reform in Modern India- Vol 1 & Vol
• Nivedita Menon, Gender and Politics in India: Themes in Politics
• Vandana Shiva& Maria Mies, Ecofeminism
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ENG-CC-2016
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ENG-RC-2016
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Suggested Reading:
-Sarkar, Sumit. Modern Times: India: 1880s-1950s: Environment, Economy, Culture.
Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2014.
-Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and literary History.
Orient Blackswan, 2012.
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