Indian Writers

SEMESTER – III

PAPER I:           INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
PAPER I:           INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Unit I:           Rise of the Indian Novel in English, Indian English Writing and the Problems of
                  Expression, Pre-Independence Poetry, Overhead Poetry, Casteism, Nationalism,
                  Regional Novel, Advaita, Myth in poetry.
Unit II:           Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
                  R. K. Narayan: Tiger for Malgudi
Unit III:         Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope
Unit IV:           Sri Aurobindo: “Thought the Paraclete,” “The Vision and the Boon”
                  (from VK Gokak (ed) Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry)
                  R.Parthasarathy (ed) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets in English (Selections)
                  Nissim Ezekiel: “Enterprise”, “Poet, Lover and Birdwatcher”
                  A. K. Ramanujan: ‘Small-scale Reflections on a Great House,” “River”
                  Kamala Das: “Introduction,” “Summer in Calcutta”
Unit V:           Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions

PAPER II           LITERARY CRITICISM
PAPER II           LITERARY CRITICISM

Unit I     :         Approaches     of   Literary   Criticism:   Moralistic,   Sociological,     Psychological,
                  Archetypal,   and   Formalistic,   Concept   of   Tradition,   Historical   Sense,   Theory   of
                  Impersonality, New Criticism, Concept of Sahitya
Unit II :           T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and Individual Talent”
                  I. A. Richards: “Four Kinds of Meaning”
Unit III:           Lionel Trilling: “Freud and Literature”
Unit IV:           Cleanth Brooks: “The Language of Paradox”;
                  Roland Barthes: “The Death of the Author”
Unit V:           S. Kuppuswamy Sastry: “The Highways of Literary Criticism in Sanskrit”
                  V. Raghavan, “Sahitya”
                  (from   Raghavan     &   Nagendra,     ed.   An   Introduction   to... [continues]

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