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Reading Poetry and Drama
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- Investigate the evolution of Indian writing, including translated works and those in English
- Assess the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
- Evaluate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary
Course Outcomes
The students:
- Investigate the evolution of Indian writing, including translated works and those in English
- Develop familiarity with the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
- Appraise and appreciate of the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
Kabir
It is Needless to Ask……
When He Himself
The Moon Shines…
Aurobindo Ghosh
Bande Mataram
Liberation
The Fear of Life and Death
Toru Dutt
Our Casuarina Tree
The Lotus
Sarojini Naidu
Indian Weavers
Song of Radha, The Milkmaid
Kamala Das
An Introduction
My Grandmother’s House
Spoiling the Name
ImtiazDharker
A Woman’s Place
Purdah I
Prayer
Grace
Rabindranath Tagore
Chandalika
Source Books:
Gokak, V.K. The Golden Treasury of Indo- Anglian Poetry; 1828- 1965.SahityaAkademi, 2006.
Jain, Jasbir., ed. Strings of Gold ( Part-III). Macmillan, 1994.
Lal, Ananda, and Rabindranath Tagore. Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore. Rupa Publishers,1986.
Narasimhaiah, C. D. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry.Macmillan India, 1990.
Suggested Readings:
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna., ed. A Concise History of Indian Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Mishra, Binod& Sanjay Kumar. “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Poet”: Indian Writing in English.Mittal Publications, 1991.
Ray, Mohit K. The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. New Atlantic & Distributors, 2007.