Women’s Writing – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 424 – B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Simone de Beauvoir

Introduction and Section I from The Second Sex

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Marianne Moore

What are Years?

Nevetheless

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

George Eliot   

Silas Marner

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Mahasweta Devi

Mother of 1084 (in translation)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Atwood, Margaret. Survival: a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Canada: House of Anansi, 1972. Print.

Frickey, Pierrette. Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys. Boulder: Lynne Rienne Publisher, 1990. Print.

Mill, John Stuart. Subjection of Women. New York: Cosimo, 2000.Print.

Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism. New York: Basic Books, 2000.Print.

Munro, Alice. Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998. Print.

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018