Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

1.To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
2.To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
 

9.00

Nissim Ezekiel                                                
Night of the Scorpion
The Visitor (from The Exact Name)
Philosophy
 

9.00

R. Parthasarathy                                           
from Trial

A. K. Ramanujan                                            
Love Poem for a Wife 1 (from Relations)
Obituary

8.00

Eunice de Souza                                            
Autobiographical (from Fix)
Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)

Mamta Kalia    
After Eight Years of Marriage
 

9.00

Jayanta Mahapatra                                       
Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)
Lost (from MS)
Gieve Patel                                                   
On Killing A Tree (from Poems)                                                         
Servants

10.00

Girish Karnad                                                 
Hayavadana

Source Books: 

1.Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (ed. R. Parthasarathy)
2.Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (ed. E. de Souza)
3.The Three Plays by Girish Karnad (OUP)
 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Woman Poet”: Indian Writings in English by Binod Mishra & Sanjay Kumar
  2. The Emerging I Among Women Poets”: Studies in Indian Poetry by Amar Nath Prasad & U.S.Rukhaiyar
  3. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writings in English by Sage, Corna, German Greer& Elaine Showalter
  4. Feminism and Postfeminism: The Context of Modern Indian Women Poets Writing (Sarup& Sons)
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017