Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
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
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Nissim Ezekiel                                                       

Night of the Scorpion

The Visitor (from The Exact Name)

Philosophy

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

R. Parthasarathy

from Homecoming

 

A.K. Ramanujan

Of Mothers and other things

Obituary

 

8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Eunice de Souza    

Autobiographical (from Fix)

Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)

 

Mamta Kalia

Tribute to Papa

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Jayanta Mahapatra

Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)

Logic    

Gieve Patel                                                         

On Killing a Tree (from Poems)

Servants

 

 

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Girish Karnad

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: 
2019-2020