Reading Poetry and Drama

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

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will be able to:

  1.  Develop familiarity with the development of Indian writing in English
  2. Evaluate the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
  3. Appraise and appreciate 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. Illustrate an understanding of the nuances of Modern Poetry with reference to the works of given 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

Nissim Ezekiel                                                      

Night of the Scorpion

The Visitor (from The Exact Name)

Philosophy

 
 

 

9.00

R. Parthasarathy

from Homecoming

 

A.K. Ramanujan

Of Mothers and other things

Obituary

 
 

 

8.00

Eunice de Souza    

Autobiographical (from Fix)

Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)

 

Mamta Kalia

Tribute to Papa

 
 

 

9.00

Jayanta Mahapatra

Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)

Logic  

 

Gieve Patel                                                         

On Killing a Tree (from Poems)

Servants

10.00

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:

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.

 

E-Resources:

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

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023