Indian Writing in English – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 – A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

13.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali   (Songs 1-3, 8-10, 16, 27-30, 33, 36, 43, 46, 53, 62, 75-77, 82-85, 90-93, 100 and 103)

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Toru Dutt

Lakshman

Our Casuarina Tree

The Lotus

 

Sarojini Naidu

The Purdah Nashin

The Bird Sanctuary

A Rajput Love Song

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Rajmohan’s Wife

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Vijay Tendulkar

Silence !The Court is in Session

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

U.R. Ananthamurthy

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

Source Books: 

Gokak, Vinayak Krishna, ed. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry.1828- 1965. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2014. Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Baral, K.C, D. Venkat Rao, and Sura Prasad Rath. U.R. Anantha Murthy’s Samskara: A Critical Reader. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2005. Print.

De Souza, Eunice. Talking Poems: Conversation with Poets. New Delhi: OUP, 2001. Print.

Iyengar, K.R.S. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 2012. Print.

Mehrorta, Arvind Krishna, ed. A Concise History of Indian Literature in English Literature. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010. Print.

Naik, M.K. Dimensions of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1965. Print.

Tharu ,Susie, and K. Lalitha. Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1991. Print.

Academic Year: 
2017-2018