World Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 513
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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
Sophocles
Oedipus, The King
12.00
Euripides’
The Bacchae
10.00
Kalidasa 
Meghdootam
12.00
Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts
12.00
Gustav Flaubert
Madame Bovary  (Penguin)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Sophocles : An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1980)
  2. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New Delhi: Viva, 2010. 
  3. Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)
  4. James C. Hogan : A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles (Carbondale University Press, 1980)
  5. Malcolm Heath. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 1987. 
  6. Kale, M.R. The Meghduta of Kalidasa. New Delhi: Motilal Banrasidas, 2002.
  7. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Ed. James McFarlane. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
 
Academic Year: 
2016-2017