Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Evaluate the development of Indian writing in English
  • Assess the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
  • Appraise the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices

 

Nissim Ezekiel                                                      

Night of the Scorpion

The Visitor (from The Exact Name)

Philosophy

R. Parthasarathy

from Homecoming

 

A.K. Ramanujan

Of Mothers and other things

Obituary

Eunice de Souza    

Autobiographical (from Fix)

Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)

 

MamtaKalia

Tribute to Papa

JayantaMahapatra

Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)

Logic    

 

Gieve Patel                                                         

On Killing a Tree (from Poems)

Servants

GirishKarnad

Hayavadana

Source Books: 

Source Books:

De Souza., Eunice. ed. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. OUP, 2001.

Karnad, Girish. The Three Plays. OUP, 1994.

Parthasarathy, R., ed. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. OUP, 1976.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Mishra, Binod& Sanjay Kumar. “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Woman Poet”: Indian Writings in English. Mittal Publications,1991 .

Prasad, Amar Nath and U.S.Rukhaiyar. Studies in Indian Poetry. Sarup & Sons, 2002

Sage, Corna, Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Emerald Group, 2000.

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021