Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 
Objectives
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
Unit I: 
Unit I
Nissim Ezekiel                                                Night of the Scorpion
                                                                       The Visitor (from The Exact Name)
                                                                       Philosophy
 
9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
R. Parthasarathy                                           from Trial
 
A. K. Ramanujan                                            Love Poem for a Wife 1 (from Relations)
                                                                      Obituary
 
8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
Eunice de Souza                                            Autobiographical (from Fix)
                                                                       Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)
 
Mamta Kalia After Eight Years of Marriage
 
9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Jayanta Mahapatra                                       Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)
                                                                      Lost (from MS)
 
Gieve Patel                                                   On Killing A Tree (from Poems)
                                                                      Servants
 
Unit V: 
Unit V
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: 
“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: 
2014-2015