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Paper 11: ENG-HC-5016 British Literature: The 20th Century
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Readings
• 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, 578–80, 559–63.
• 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.2319–25.
• Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel from Dickens to
Lawrence (London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.
• Alan Sinfield, ‘Literature and Cultural Production’, in Literature, Politics, and
Culture in Postwar Britain (Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1989) pp. 23–38.
• Seamus Heaney, ‘The Redress of Poetry’, in The Redress of Poetry (London: Faber,
1995) pp. 1–16.
• 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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Paper 12: ENG-HC-5026 Women’s Writing
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Readings
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6.
• Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in The Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde
and Shiela Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–18.
• Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Recasting
Women: Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989) pp.
1–25.
• Susie Tharu & K. Lalitha, Introduction to Women Writing in India: 600 BC
to the Present, Vol.I: 600 BC to the Early 20th Century, Eds. Tharu and
Lalitha, (New Delhi: Oxford, 1997 (rpt)) pp.1-37.
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Paper 1: ENG-HE-5016 Popular Literature
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Readings
• Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices
and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix.
• 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. 29–38.
• Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English Literary
History, vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.
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Paper 2: ENG-HE-5026 Modern Indian Writing in English Translation
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Readings
• Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi, Indian
Literature, no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992).
• 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.
• Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as Discovery
(Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45.
• G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (New
Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2009) pp. 1–5.
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Paper 3: ENG-HE-5036 Literature of the Indian Diaspora
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Reading
• “Introduction: The diasporic imaginary” in Mishra, V. (2008). Literature of the
Indian Diaspora. London: Routledge
• “Cultural Configurations of Diaspora,” in Kalra, V. Kaur, R. and Hutynuk, J.
(2005). Diaspora & hybridity. London: Sage Publications.
• “The New Empire within Britain,” in Rushdie, S. (1991). Imaginary
Homelands. London: Granta Books.
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Paper 4: ENG-HE-5046 Nineteenth Century European Realism
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Readings
• Leo Tolstoy, ‘Man as a creature of history in War and Peace’, ed. Richard
Ellmann et. al., The Modern Tradition, (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 246–54.
• Honore de Balzac, ‘Society as Historical Organism’, from Preface to The
HumanComedy, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Ellmann et. al (Oxford: OUP, 1965)
pp. 265–67.
• Gustav Flaubert, ‘Heroic honesty’, Letter on Madame Bovary, in The
ModernTradition, ed. Richard Ellmann et. al. (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp.
242–3.
• George Lukacs, ‘Balzac and Stendhal’, in Studies in European Realism
(London, Merlin Press, 1972) pp. 65–85.
• Viktor Shklovsky, ‘Art as Technique’
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Paper 5: ENG-HE-5056 Literary Criticism and Literary Theory
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Readings
• Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
• Peter Barry, Beginning Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).
• C.S. Lewis, Introduction in An Experiment in Criticism, Cambridge University
Press 1992
• M.H. Abrams,The Mirror and the Lamp, Oxford University Press,!971
• Rene Wellek, Stephen G. Nicholas,Concepts of Criticism, Connecticut, Yale
University 1963
• Taylor and Francis Eds.,An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and
Theory, Routledge, 1996
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Paper 6: ENG-HE-5066 Science Fiction and Detective Literature
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Readings
• J. Edmund Wilson, ‘Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?’,The New Yorker,
20 June 1945.
• George Orwell, Raffles and Miss Blandish, available at:
<www.george-orwell.org/Raffles_and_Miss_Blandish/0.html>
• W.H. Auden, The Guilty Vicarage, available at:
<harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty-vicarage/>
• 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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ENG-SE-5014
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Suggested Reading:
-Wallwork, Adrian: User Guides, Manuals, and Technical Writing: A Guide to Professional
English. New York: Springer, 2014.
-Peters, Pam: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. CUP, 2004.
-Swan, Michael and David Baker: Grammar Scan: Diagnostic Tests for Practical English
Usage. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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ENG-RE-5016
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Suggested Readings
-English and Soft Skills. S.P. Dhanavel, Orient BlackSwan 2013
-Basics Of Communication In English: Francis Sounderaj, MacMillan India Ltd.2011
-English for Business Communication: Simon Sweeney , Cambridge University Press 1997
-An Introduction to Professional English and Soft Skills: Das , Cambridge University Press,
2009
-The Rise of the Creative Class: And how it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and
Everyday life: Florida, R., Basic Books, 2002
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ENG-RG-5016
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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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