World Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 513
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with some prominent world classics in translation

 
To develop the ability to appreciate, analyse and interpret the classics in the light of contemporary
societal systems and value structures
14.00
Unit I: 
Sophocles

 Oedipus, The King

12.00
Unit II: 
Euripides’

 The Bacchae

 

10.00
Unit III: 
Kalidasa

 Meghdootam

12.00
Unit IV: 
Henrik Ibsen

 Ghosts

10.00
Unit V: 
Gustav Flaubert

Madame Bovary (Penguin)

Source Books: 

Bloom, Harold. Ed. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: Modern Critical Interpretations. New Delhi: Viva, 2010.Print.

Heath, Malcolm. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 1987. Print.

Hogan, James C.A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois   University Press, 1991.Print.

Kale, M.R. The Meghduta of Kalidasa. New Delhi: Motilal Banrasidas, 2002.Print.

McFarlane, James.Ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.Print.

Walcot, Peter.Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context .Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976.Print.

      Winnington-Ingram, R. P. Sophocles: An Interpretation. New York: Cambridge      University Press, 1980.Print.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019