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Paper 13: ENG-HC-6016 Modern European Drama
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Readings
• 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. 121–5, 137–46.
• Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Street Scene’, ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction’,
and ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre: The Development ofan
Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 68–76, 121–8.
• George Steiner, ‘On Modern Tragedy’, in The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber,
1995) pp. 303–24.
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Paper 14: ENG-HC-6026 Postcolonial Literatures
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Readings
• Franz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Black Skin, White Masks, tr.
Charles Lam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27.
• Ngugi waThiong’o, ‘The Language of African Literature’, in Decolonising the
Mind (London: James Curry, 1986) chap. 1, sections 4–6.
• 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).
• 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. 51–65.
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Paper 7: ENG-HE-6016 Literature and Cinema
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Readings
• Linda Hutcheon, ‘On the Art of Adaptation’, Daedalus, vol. 133, (2004).
• Thomas Leitch, ‘Adaptation Studies at Crossroads’, Adaptation, 2008, vol. 1, no. 1,
pp. 63–77.
• Poonam Trivedi, ‘Filmi Shakespeare’, Litfilm Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 2, 2007.
• Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott, ‘Figures of Bond’, in Popular Fiction:
Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading, ed. Tony Bennet (London and NewYork:
Routledge, 1990).
• Gulzar – Angoor (1982) [Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of
Errors]
Vishal Bhardwaj – Maqbool (2003), Omkara ( 2006) [Adaptation of
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Othello respectively]
• BBC TV mini-series (1995), Joe Wright (2005) and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and
Prejudice (2004) [Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations]
• Italo Spinelli – Gangoror ‘Behind the Bodice’ (2010).
• Shyam Benegal – Junoon (1979)
Vishal Bhardwaj – The Blue Umbrella (2005), and Saat Khoon Maaf (2011)
[Adaptation of Ruskin Bond’s short stories]
• David Lean – Passage to India (1984) [Adaptation of E.M. Forster’s Passage to India]
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Paper 8: ENG-HE-6026 World Literatures
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Readings
• Sarah Lawall, ‘Preface’ and ‘Introduction’, in Reading World Literature: Theory,
History, Practice, ed. Sarah Lawall (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994)
pp. ix–xviii, 1–64.
• David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature? (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
pp. 1–64, 65–85.
• Franco Moretti, ‘Conjectures on World Literature’, New Left Review, vol.1 (2000), pp.
54–68.
• Theo D’haenet. al., eds., ‘Introduction’, in World Literature: A Reader (London:
Routledge, 2012).
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Paper 9: ENG-HE-6036 Partition Literature
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Background Readings and Screenings
• Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and Boundaries
(New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
• Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
• Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
(Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000).
• Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete Psychological
Worksof Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp.
3041–53
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Paper 10: ENG-HE-6046 Travel Writing
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Readings
• Susan Bassnett, ‘Travel Writing and Gender’, in Cambridge Companion to
Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Young (Cambridge: CUP,2002) pp,
225-241
• Tabish Khair, ‘An Interview with William Dalyrmple and Pankaj Mishra’ in
Postcolonial Travel Writings: Critical Explorations, ed. Justin D Edwards and
Rune Graulund (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 173-184
• Casey Balton, ‘Narrating Self and Other: A Historical View’, in Travel Writing:
The Self and The Other (Routledge, 2012), pp.1-29
• Sachidananda Mohanty, ‘Introduction: Beyond the Imperial Eyes’ in Travel
Writing and Empire (New Delhi: Katha, 2004) pp. ix –xx.
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Paper 11: ENG-HE-6056 Life Writing
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Readings:
• James Olney, ‘A Theory of Autobiography’ in Metaphors of Self: the meaning of
Autobiography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972) pp. 3-50.
• Laura Marcus, ‘The Law of Genre’ in Auto/biographical Discourses
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994) pp. 229-72.
• Linda Anderson, ‘Introduction’ in Autobiography (London: Routledge, 2001)
pp.1-17.
• Mary G. Mason, ‘The Other Voice: Autobiographies of women Writers’ in
Life/Lines:Theorizing Women’s Autobiography, Edited by Bella Brodzki and
Celeste Schenck (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) pp. 19-44.
• Carolyn G. Heilbrun, ‘Introduction’ in Writing a Woman’s Life (New York:
Ballantine Books, 1988) pp. 11-31.
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Paper 12: ENG-HE-6066 Writings from North East India
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Readings:
• Geeti Sen. ed. Where the Sun Rises When Shadows Fall: The North East, OUP, 2006
• HomenBorgohain. The Collected Works of Homen Borgohain. Amaryllis, 2017
• Homen Borgohain and Hiren Dutta. Eds. Hundred Years of Assamese Poetry,
Publication Board, Assam, 1998
• Mitra Phukan ed. Assamese: Handpicked Fictions, Katha, 2003
• Robin Singh Ngangom, and K S Nongkynrih. eds. Dancing Earth: An Anthology of
Poetry from Northeast India, 2009
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Suggested Reading:
Bailey, S.(2011).Academic Writing-A Handbook for International Students (3rd edition).
New York: Routledge
Hartley,J.(2008). Academic Writing and Publishing- a practical Handbook. New York:
Open University Press.
Swales,J.M&Peak,C.B(2001) Academic Writing for Graduate Students-Essential Tasks and
Skills. Michigan:The University of Michigan Press.
