Indian Literature in English-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 512
Credits: 
040
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Trace the evolution of Indian writing, including translated works and those in English
  • Assess the socio-cultural and political milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers and their themes, issues and pre-occupations
  • Evaluate the various literary genres in terms of constructs as ‘nation’, ’identity’ and’history’ 

Michael Madhusudon Dutt                                  

Satan

The Queen of Delhi’s Dream

 

Rabindranath Tagore                                             

The Sickbed-21

Recovery-14                                                                             

Heaven of Freedom

Freedom

Toru Dutt

Our Casuarina Tree

The Lotus

 

Sarojini Naidu

Song of Radha- The Quest

The Soul’s Prayer

 

Kamala Das

The Dance of the Eunuchs

My Grandmother’s House

Mulk Raj Anand                                                          

The Lost Child

Two Lady Rams

Lajwanti

The Silver Bangles

R.K.Narayan

The Guide

Shashi Deshpande

That Long Silence

Source Books: 

Source Books:

de Souza. Eunice Ed. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. OUP, 1997.

Gokak, V. K.Ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry. SahityaAkademi, 1978.

Parthasarathy, R.ed. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. OUP, 1976.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

de Souza, Eunice. Talking Poems: Conversation with Poets. OUP, 1999.

Iyengar, K.R.S. Indian Writing in English. Sterling, 1984.

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction. Arnold Heinemann, 1971.

Naik, M.K. Dimensions of Indian English Literature. Sterling, 1965.

 

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