Indian Literature in English-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 512
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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’
13.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Michael Madhusudon Dutt                                  

Satan

The Queen of Delhi’s Dream

 

Rabindranath Tagore                                            

The Sickbed-21

Recovery-14                                                                             

Heaven of Freedom

Freedom

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

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

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Mulk Raj Anand                                                        

The Lost Child

Two Lady Rams

Lajwanti

The Silver Bangles

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

R.K.Narayan

The Guide

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Shashi Deshpande

That Long Silence

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: 

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.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022