World Literature-I

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

The students will:

CO114.  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.

CO115.  Critically appreciate the classics and gauge their contemporary relevance

CO116.  Perceive and value cultural diversity and reinterpret the place of the self as an identity culturally situated in the global context

CO117.  Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode across the globe

CO118. Recognize the literary value of translations and its nuances 

14.00
Unit I: 

Sophocles

Oedipus The King

 

14.00
Unit II: 

Kalidasa   

Meghdootam

 

10.00
Unit III: 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

An Honest Thief

The Peasant 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. Viva, 2010.

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

Hogan, James C.A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles. Southern IllinoisUP, 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: 
2023-2024