Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 501
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will be able to:

  1. Investigate the evolution of Indian writing, including translated works and those in English 
  2.  Develop familiarity with the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
  3. Appraise and appreciate of the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of the contemporary forms of Indian drama with reference to a specific playwright
  5. Develop an awareness of Indian Culture via English Language and will be acquainted with significant works of Indian poets

 

Approach in teaching:

Pre-reading discussion on age and author, Shared Reading, Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading, Role play

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Practical in form of projects

 

Assignments, Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Observation Individual and group projects

 

 

9.00

Kabir

It is Needless to Ask……

When He Himself

The Moon Shines…

 

Aurobindo Ghosh

Bande Mataram          

Liberation

The Fear of Life and Death

 

9.00

Toru Dutt

Our Casuarina Tree

The Lotus

 

Sarojini Naidu  

Indian Weavers       

Song of Radha, The Milkmaid    

 

 

 

9.00

Kamala Das  

An Introduction

 My Grandmother’s House

Spoiling the Name

 

8.00

Imtiaz Dharker

A Woman’s Place

Purdah I

Prayer

Grace   

10.00

Rabindranath Tagore

Chandalika

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

Gokak, V.K. The Golden Treasury of Indo- Anglian Poetry; 1828- 1965.Sahitya Akademi, 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.

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAMk6akP5I

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39pXfoin6x8

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