World Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 513
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

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

 

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: 
2017-2018