World Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 513
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Familiarize themselves with a selection of world classics (earlier writings) in translation and observe the unique characteristics of writings belonging to varied culture, society and time.
  2. Critically appreciate the classics and gauge their contemporary relevance
  3. Perceive and value cultural diversity and reinterpret the place of the self as an identity culturally situated in the global context
  4. Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode across the globe
  5. Recognize the literary value of translations and its nuances

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

 

14.00

Sophocles

Oedipus The King

 

 

 

14.00

Kalidasa  

Meghdootam

 

 

 

10.00

Fyodor Dostoevsky

An Honest Thief

The Peasant Marey

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

 

 

 

12.00

Gustav Flaubert       

Madame Bovary

 

 

 

10.00

Henrik Ibsen                                                 

Ghosts

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Bloom, Harold. Ed. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: Modern Critical Interpretations. Viva, 2010.

Heath, Malcolm. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. Duckworth, 1987.

Hogan, James C.A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles. Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Kale, M.R. The Meghduta of Kalidasa. MotilalBanarsidas, 2002, Print.

McFarlane, James.Ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen.CUP, 1994.

Walcot, Peter.Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context. University of Wales Press, 1976.

Winnington-Ingram, R. P. Sophocles: An Interpretation. CUP, 1980.

 

e-resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6SzxgnVh0&t=41s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmSdxZpseY

 

Journals

International Journal of Literary Studies

Poetcrit

Academic Year: