Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
9.00
Unit I: 

Nissim Ezekiel  

Night of the Scorpion

The Visitor (from The Exact Name)

Philosophy

9.00
Unit II: 

R. Parthasarathy 

from Trial

 

A. K. Ramanujan

Love Poem for a Wife 1 (from Relations)

Obituary

8.00
Unit III: 

Eunice de Souza 

Autobiographical (from Fix)

Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)

 

Mamta Kalia

After Eight Years of Marriage

9.00
Unit IV: 

Jayanta Mahapatra

Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)

Lost (from MS)

 

Gieve Patel 

On Killing A Tree (from Poems)

Servants

10.00
Unit V: 

Girish Karnad  

Hayavadana

Source Books: 
  • Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (ed. R. Parthasarathy)
  • Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (ed. E. de Souza)
  • The Three Plays by Girish Karnad (OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Woman Poet”: Indian Writings in English by Binod Mishra & Sanjay Kumar
  • The Emerging I Among Women Poets”: Studies in Indian Poetry by Amar Nath Prasad & U.S.Rukhaiyar
  • The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writings in English by Sage, Corna, German Greer& Elaine Showalter
  • Feminism and Postfeminism: The Context of Modern Indian Women Poets Writing (Sarup& Sons)
Academic Year: 
2017-2018