World Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 513
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To familiarize the students with some prominent world classics in translation.
  • To develop the ability to appreciate, analyse and interpret the classics in the light of contemporary societal systems and value structures.

 

14.00
Unit I: 

Sophocles                                                                       

Oedipus, The King

14.00
Unit II: 

Kalidasa                                                                      

Meghdootam

10.00
Unit III: 

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

An Honest Thief

The Peaant Marey

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

12.00
Unit IV: 

Gustav Flaubert                                                   

Madame Bovary

10.00
Unit V: 

Henrik Ibsen                                                                 

Ghosts

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Bloom, Harold. Ed. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: Modern Critical Interpretations. New Delhi: Viva, 2010.Print.
  • Heath, Malcolm. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 1987. Print.
  • Hogan, James C.A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois   University Press, 1991.Print.
  • Kale, M.R. The Meghduta of Kalidasa. New Delhi: Motilal Banrasidas, 2002.Print.
  • McFarlane, James.Ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.Print.
  • Walcot, Peter.Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context .Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976.Print.
  • Winnington-Ingram, R. P. Sophocles: An Interpretation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.Print.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020