Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
  2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
9.00
Unit I: 
Nissim Ezekiel
Night of the Scorpion
The Visitor (from The Exact Name)
Philosophy
9.00
Unit II: 
R. Parthasarathy                     from Trial
 
A. K. Ramanujan                     Love Poem for a Wife 1 (from Relations)
                                                    Obituary
8.00
Unit III: 
Eunice de Souza                     Autobiographical (from Fix)
                                                    Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)
 
Mamta Kalia                              After Eight Years of Marriage
9.00
Unit IV: 
Jayanta Mahapatra                  Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)
                                                    Lost (from MS)
 
Gieve Patel                               On Killing A Tree (from Poems)
                                                    Servants
10.00
Unit V: 
Girish Karnad

Hayavadana

Source Books: 
  1. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (ed. R. Parthasarathy)
  2. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (ed. E. de Souza)
  3. The Three Plays by Girish Karnad (OUP)
Academic Year: 
2018-2019