World Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 613
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.
 
13.00
Rabindranath Tagore
The Post Office
13.00
Leo Tolstoy
Family Happiness 
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
8.00
Premchand
Godan
13.00
Pablo Neruda                                             
Animal Poems:  A Dog Has  Died, Cat’s Dream,Fleas Interest Me So Much/
Love Poems:     Clenched Soul, If You Forget Me,La Reina
13.00
Pearl S Buck 
The Good Earth
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Don Nordo, ed. Greek Drama, Greenhaven Press, 2000
  2. Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)
  3. Tolstoy’s Short Fiction: A Norton Critical Edition
  4. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (CUP)
  5. The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. London: Blackswan, 2011.  
 
Academic Year: 
2016-2017