World Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 513
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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: 
Unit 1

Sophocles  

Oedipus, The King

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Euripides’    

The Bacchae

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Kalidasa  

Meghdootam

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Henrik Ibsen  

Ghosts

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Gustav Flaubert 

Madame Bovary (Penguin)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Sophocles : An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1980)
  • Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New Delhi: Viva, 2010.
  • Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)
  • James C. Hogan : A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles (Carbondale University Press, 1980)
  • Malcolm Heath. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 1987.
  • Kale, M.R. The Meghduta of Kalidasa. New Delhi: Motilal Banrasidas, 2002.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Ed. James McFarlane. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Academic Year: 
2014-2015