Paper IV: Retelling Mythology in the Selected Fictions of Chitra Banerjee, Amish Tripathi and Anand Neelakantan

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (D)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60/per sem
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

Myth and History

·         Mythology of Gods: Origin and Development of the Concept of Gods in Indian Religion (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306358714_Mythology _of_Gods_Origin_and_Development_of_the_Concept_of_Gods_in_Indian_Religion)

·         Devdutt Pattanaik’s Exploration on Myth.

      (https://www.ijrar.org/papers/IJRAR2001888.pdf)

Sharma, Rohit.“The Art of Rewriting Indian Epics”.Indian Literature.Vol. 60, No. 2 (292), March/April 2016

Unit II: 
Unit II

Reading Mythology: A Psychological Perspectiv

Reading Mythology: A Psychological Perspective

·The Psychological Significance of Hindu Myths by J P Balodhi (https://nimhans.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/6.-The-Psychological-Si...)
·Shamasundar, C. "Therapeutic Wisdom in Indian Mythology." American Journal of Psychotherapy 47, no. 3 (July 1993): 443–50. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.3.443)
 
Unit III: 
Unit III

Chitra Banerjee: The Forest of Enchantments (2019)

 

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Amish Tripathi : Ram : Scion of Ikshavaku (2015)  Sita:Warrior of Mithila (2017), War of Lanka(2022)

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Anand Neelkanthan

Asura: The Tale of Vanquished (2012)

 

Source Books: 

Suggested Reading:

Chauhan, Pramilla, and Monika Gupta. “Sita: A Voice of Resistance in the Novel The Forest of Enchantments”.

(http://www.rjelal.com/9.1.21/96-100%20PRAMILLA%20CHAUHAN.pdf.)

Dundes, Alan, ed. Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Hansen, William F. & Randall Hansen. Handbook of Classical Mythology. ABC Clio, 2002.

Hees, Peter.History and Theory. Vol. 33, No. 1, Feb., 1994.

Leeming, David. A Dictionary of Asian Mythology. Oxford Univeristy Press, 2001. Doty, G.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Myth and Meaning. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.

Leeming, David Adams. The World of Myth: An Anthology. Oxford University Press, 1991.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. A The Structural Study of Myth. Myth: A Symposium, ed. Thomas Sebeok. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974 (originally published 1955): 81-106.

Pattanaik ,Devdutt. Myth=Mithya:Decoding Hindu Mythology.Penguin.2014.

Sanyal, Srija.and Abhik Maiti .”A Discord Harmony-A Critical Evaluation of Queer Theory from an Indian Perspective”.ILC.Vol. no. 5.2018.50-78.

Sengupta, Debalina. “The Forest of Enchantments: A Retold Saga in Mythopoesis” Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI).Volume 12, Issue 8, July 2021: 2042-2055

William. “Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals”. University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Ramen, Fred. Indian Mythology. The Rosen Publishing Group,2000.

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023