Fifth Semester
Reading Drama
4. CORE TEXT
Dr K Sujatha Ed. On the Stage: One-Act Plays. Orient BlackSwan.
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Indian Writing in
English
Reading Drama
Module 1
Macbeth - William
Shakespeare (72
hours)
Module
2 - One Act Plays (36
hours)
1. “The Swan Song” – Anton
Chekhov
2. “How
he Lied to her Husband” –
George Bernard Shaw
3. “Before
Breakfast”
– Eugene O’Neil
4. “A
Sunny Morning”
– Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero
5. “Matsyagandhi” – M. Sajitha
6. “The
Trick” - Erisa Kironde
Dr K Sujatha Ed. On the Stage: One-Act Plays. Orient BlackSwan.
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Module
I – Language and Linguistics (36 hours)
a) What is
Language? - Arbitrariness – Interchangeability – Cultural transmission –
Dialect – Sociolect – Idiolect - Register – Pidgin – Creole
b) What is
Linguistics? - Traditional grammar and linguistics - Synchronic and
diachronic
linguistics – Evolution of the study of linguistics – Major linguists -
Basic concepts
in linguistics - Langue – Parole – Language as a system of
signs –
Signifier and signified - Competence - Performance
c) Branches of
linguistics: Phonology - Morphology: Morphemes and allomorphs – Lexical/Content
Words - Functional/Structural Words - Simple, complex, compound Words - Word
Formation - Inflexion - Affixation - Parts of Speech - Word Order - Phrase -
Clause - Syntax: PS Grammar – Transformational Generative Grammar - Basic
concepts in Semantics - Applied linguistics
Module II – Phonetics
(54 hours )
a) Air stream
Mechanism - Organs of speech - Function of vocal cords – Soft palate action –
Active and passive articulators
c) R P and G I E
– Uniformity and Intelligibility – Mother tongue influence - Cardinal vowels –
Vowels in R P - Diphthongs – Triphthongs - Consonants – Phonemes – Allophones
d)
Suprasegmentals - Syllable - Stress and Rhythm – Weak forms and Strong forms –
Sentence stress - Tone groups - Basic intonation - Juncture - Elision –
Assimilation
4. Reading List
for module i
Krishnaswamy and Sivaraman: An Introduction to Liguistics
S. K. Verma and N. Krishnaswamy. Modern Linguistics : An Introduction. New Delhi: OUP, 1989.
H.A.Gleason. Linguistics and English Grammar.
New York:
Holt, Rinehart &. Winston, Inc., 1965.
H.A.Gleason. Linguistics and English Grammar.
New York:
Holt, Rinehart &. Winston, Inc., 1965.
For module
ii
Daniel Jones. The Pronunciation of English. New Delhi: Blackie and
Sons,1976.
A.C Gimson. An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. London: Methuen,
1980.
J. D. O’Conner. Better English Pronunciation. New
Delhi:
CUP, 2008.
T. Balasubramaniam. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1981.
T. Balasubramaniam. English Phonetics for Indian Students : A Workbook. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1992.
module I
(18 hours)
a)
Figures of Speech: Metaphor, Synecdoche,
Irony
b)
Movements: Neo- classicism – Humanism - Magic
realism – Symbolism - Russian Formalism - Absurd School – Modernism –
Structuralism - Post structuralism - Post modernism - Deconstruction - Psychoanalytic criticism.
c)
Concepts: Intentional Fallacy - Affective
Fallacy - Negative Capability – Myth – Archetype – Semiotics – Reader-response
criticism.
CORE READING
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of LiteraryTerms. VII Edn. New Delhi:Thomson Heinle, 1999.
module II classical criticism (18 hours)
Plato – Theory of
Imitation (Mimesis)
Aristotle –
Romanticism and Classicism
core text
M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory. Hyderabad: Orient
Blackswan, 2008. Chapter I Classical Criticism
module III indian aesthetics (18 hours)
Major Streams of
Indian Aesthetics - Theory of Rasa - Rasa and
Catharsis
core reading
V. S. Sethuraman. Ed. Indian Aesthetics. Ch. 3 “Highways
of Literary Criticism in Sanskrit” by Kuppuswami Sastri. Ch. 13
“Rasa as Aesthetic Experience” by Mohan Thampi.
module IV
(18 hours)
Romantic and Victorian
Criticism - Twentieth Century criticism
core reading
M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory.
Hyderabad:
Orient Blackswan, 2008; Chapter IV and V.
module V
(18 hours)
appreciation of literature
(practical criticism)
In this module, critical analysis of short
poems and prose passages are to be done by students. The
students may be asked to analyse pieces in terms of theme,
diction, tone, figures of speech, imagery, etc. Theoretical
approaches may be avoided.
General (Background) Reading
- Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
- Peck John et al. Literary Terms and Criticism, New Delhi: Macmillan,1998.
- Prasad, B. An Introduction to English Criticism. New Delhi: Macmillan. 1965.
- Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory . Manchester and NY: Manchester Uty. Press, 1995.
- Bertens , Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2001.
MODULE ONE: Prose
(36 hours)
- Extract from Edward Said’s Out of Place
- Taisha Abraham ed.
Introducing Post Colonial Theories
Chapter I – “The Colonizer and the Colonized” (Macmillan)
MODULE TWO: Poetry (18 hours)
1.
Wole Soyinka : ‘Procession I-Hanging Day’
2.
Keki N Daruwalla : ‘Pestilence in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta’
3.
Mahmoud Darwish : ‘Identity Card’
4.
Derek Walcott : ‘A Far Cry from Africa’
5.
Claude McKay : ‘The Enslaved’
6.
Jean Arasanayagam : ‘Family
Photographs’
MODULE THREE: Fiction
(18 hours)
Chinua Achebe
: Things Fall Apart
MODULE FOUR: Drama (18 hours)
Mahasweta Devi : Mother of 1084
4. CORE TEXT
Dr P J George Ed. Emergent
Voices: Selections from Postcolonial Literatures. Macmillan.
Semester Six
WOMEN’S LITERATURE
MODULE ONE: ESSAYS
(18 hours)
1. Virginia Woolf : “Shakespeare and his Sister”
(Excerpt
from A Room of One’s Own)
2. Alice Walker
: “In Search of our Mothers’
Gardens”
(From In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens)
3. Jasbir Jain : Indian Feminisms: The Nature of
Questioning and the Search for Space in
Indian Women’s Writing. (From
Writing
Women Across Cultures)
MODULE TWO: POETRY
(18 hours)
1. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning : “A Musical Instrument”
2.
Marianne Moore : “Poetry”
3.
Adrienne Rich : “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
4.
Sylvia Plath :
“Lady Lazarus”
5.
Margaret Atwood : “Spelling”
6.
Kishwar Naheed : “I am not That Woman”
7. Suniti NamJoshi : “The Grass Blade”
8. Nikki Giovanni : “Woman”
MODULE THREE: NOVEL (18 Hours)
Frances Collins : The Slayer Slain. Ed. Sobhana Kurien and
Susan Varghese (CMS
College publication)
MODULE FOUR Short
Fiction
(18 Hours)
1. Katherine
Mansfield : “The Fly”
2. Shashi Deshpande
: “A Wall is Safer”
3. Sara Joseph : “Inside
Every Woman Writer”
4. Amy Tan : “Rules of
the Game”
MODULE FIVE: DRAMA (18 hours)
1.
Sheila Walsh
: “Molly and James”
2. Mamta G Sagar : “The Swing of Desire”
4. CORE TEXTS
1. Dr Sobhana Kurien, Ed. Breaking the Silence: An Anthology
of Women’s Literature. ANE Books.
2. Collins,
Frances. The
Slayer Slain. Ed. Sobhana Kurien and Susan Varghese
(CMS College publication)
5. READING LIST
a)
General Reading
i.
Kate Millett. Sexual
Politics. New York:
Equinox-Avon, 1971.
ii.
Maggie Humm Ed. Feminisms:
A Reader. New York:
Wheat Sheaf, 1992.
iii.
Elaine Showalter. A
Literature of their Own.
b)
Further Reading
i.
Virginia Woolf. A
Room of One’s Own. London:
Hogarth, 1929.
ii.
Patricia Mayor Spacks. The Female Imagination. New
York: Avon, 1976.
iii.
Jasbir Jain Ed. Women
in Patriarchy: Cross Cultural Readings.
New Delhi:
Rawat Publications, 2005
iv.
Susie Tharu & K Lalitha. Women Writing in India
Vol I & II. New Delhi:
OUP, 1991.
v.
Gayle Green & Copelia Kahn. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism. New York: Routeledge.
vi.
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar. The Mad Woman in the Attic: The Woman Writer. Yale University
Press, 1978.
vii.
Simone de Beauvoir. The
Second Sex. UK:
Hammond Worth,
1972.
viii.
Angela Davis. Women,
Race and Class. New York:
Random House, 1981.
ix.
Alice Walker. In
Search of our Mothes’ Gardens. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
x.
Leos S. Roudiex Ed. Desire
in Language. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1975.
xi.
Lisbeth Goodman Ed. Literature
and Gender. New York:
Routeledge, 1996.
xii.
Adrienne Rich. Of
Woman Born. New York:
Norton.
xiii.
Mahasweta Devi. Breast
Stories. Calcutta:
Seagull, 1998.
Module
I – Prose 18
hrs
1. M.
K. Gandhi : “The Need for
Religion”
2. C. V. Raman :
“Water, the Elixir of Life”
3. Nirad C. Chaudhuri : “Money and the
Englishmen”
4. Arundhati Roy : “The End of Imagination”
Module
II - Poetry
18 hrs
1.
Sarojini Naidu : The Soul’s Prayer
2.
Rabindranath Tagore :
Silent Steps
3 Nissim Ezekiel : The Railway Clerk
4 A. K. Ramanujan : The Striders
5 Arun Koltkar : An Old Woman
6. Jayanta Mahapatra : An October Morning
7. Kamala Das
: Nani
8.Meena
Alexander : Her Garden
Module
III - Short
stories 18 HRS
1.
Mahasweta Devi : Arjun
2.
Anita Desai : Circus Cat,
Alley Cat
3.
Rabindranath Tagore : The Home Coming
4. Abhuri Chaya Devi : The Woodrose
Module
IV - Drama 18 hrs
Badal
Sirkar :
Evam Indrajith
MODULE V
– FICTION
18 HRS
Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable
4.
Core Reading
1.
Wilfred Abraham Ed. Our
Country, our Literature: An Anthology of Indian Writing in English. CUP.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
MODULE 1 – Theoretical Perspectives 36 Hours
Various theories and the central
concerns of comparative literature should be explained to the students.
Thematology, historiography, Genre Studies, Influence Studies, Movement or
Intersemiotic Studies, Translation Studies and Aesthetic theoretical comparison
and various other components of comparative literature are to be discussed. A
historical analysis of the contributions of the French school of comparative
literature and comparativists like Wellek, Halliday, Susan Bassnet and Leo
Lowenthal need to be discussed. Alongside, a comparison of notions of
comparative literature in the east and the west should be part of the course.
Concepts of textuality, intertextuality, genology, stoff, theme, culture,
nation, translation and orature are the key terms in the area.
Readings
Susan Bassnet : “Introduction” Comparative Literature
Bijoy Kumar Das : “Retrospect and Prospect”
Bhalchandra Nemade : “A Thematic Framework for Influence Study in
the Indo-Anglian
Context.”
R K Dhawan : “The Case for Comparative Literature”
(Included in Between the Lines. Ed. Dr. K. M. Krishnan
MODULE II: Study of Specific Texts 54
hours
In this module a comparative
reading of texts that merit analysis will be facilitated. The stress here will
be on thematic, stylistic, cultural, linguistic and generic aspects that govern
the texts. The study will be based on the following reading material. Care has
been taken to choose texts from different cultural and historical contexts.
Readings
1.Thomas Mann : Transposed Heads
2.Girish Karnad : Hayavadana
3.Tennesse Williams : The Glass Menagerie
4.Shyamaprasad : Akale
5.Rabindranath Tagore : Gitanjali Verses 1-4 of
Tagore’s own translation
6.Edwin Arnold : Light of Asia
Section 1 and 2
7.Kishwar Naheed : Listen to
Me”
8.Noemia De Souza : If You Want to Know Me
9.Vengayi Kunjiraman Nayanar : Dwaraka Trans C S
Venkiteswaran
10. Sundara
Ramaswamy : On Alen
Soil
(Items 5, 6, 7,
8, 9 and 10 included in Between the Lines.
Ed. Dr. K. M. Krishnan, Current Books Trichur)
Reading List
Core Text:
Dr. K. M.
Krishnan Ed.Between the Lines: A Text
Book of Comparative Literature
1.Core Reading
Thomas Mann :
Transposed Heads
Girish Karnad :
Hayavadana
Tennesse Williams : The Glass Menagerie
Shyamaprasad :
Akale
2.Background Reading
Susan Bassnet :
Comparative Literature
Bijoya K Das ed. : Comparative Literature
Amiya
K Dev.& Sisir Kumar
Das
Ed. :
Comparative Literature: Theory and
Practice
AMERICAN LITERATURE
MODULE ONE:
ESSAYS
(18 hours)
1.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : “Art”
2.
Henry David Thoreau : “The Battle of the Ants”
3.
Robert E Spiller : “The First Frontier”
4. James Baldwin : “If Black English isn’t Language,
then
Tell me, What is?”
5. Jerzy Kosinski
: “TV as a Babysitter”
MODULE TWO:
POETRY
(18 hours)
1. Walt Whitman
: “Oh Captain, My Captain”
2. Emily Dickinson :
“A Bird Came Down the Walk”
3. E A Robinson
: “Miniver Cheevy”
4. Robert Frost
: “Reluctance”
5. E E Cummings : “My Sweet Old Etcetera”
6. Theodore Roethke :
“The Waking”
7. John Berryman
: “The Ball Poem”
MODULE THREE:
FICTION
(36 hours)
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne : “The Wives of the Dead”
2. Edgar Allan Poe : “The Fall of the House of Usher”
3. Mark Twain : “The
Five Boons of Life”
4. Ambrose
Bierce : “A Horseman in the Sky”
5. Kate Chopin : “The Story of an Hour”
6. O Henry :
“Mammon and the Archer”
7. Ernest Hemingway : "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
8. Ray Bradbury : “October 2026: Million Year
Picni
MODULE FOUR:
DRAMA (18 hours)
1. Tennessee Williams : The Case of the Crushed Petunias
2.
Lucille Fletcher : Sorry,
Wrong Number
3.
Richard A Via : Never on
Wednesday
4. CORE TEXT
Dr Leesa Sadasivan Ed. Blooming
Lilacs: An Anthology of American Literature. Current Books.
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