World Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 613
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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.

 

13.00
UNIT I: 
Rabindranath Tagore

The Post Office

 

10.00
UNIT II: 
Leo Tolstoy

Family Happiness

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

13.00
UNIT III: 
Premchand

Godan

 

11.00
UNIT IV: 
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
UNIT V: 
Pearl S Buck

The Good Earth

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings :

 

Chakrabarti, Santosh. Studies in Tagore: Critical Essays. New Delhi: Atlantic,2004.Print.

Bloom, Harold. Leo Tolstoy: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea Publisher, 2003.Print.

Jason, Wilson. A Companion to Pablo Neruda: Evaluating Neruda’s Poetry.Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008.Print.

Quayum, Mohammad A, ed. The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. London: Blackswan, 2011.Print.

Stavans, IIan. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. New York: Farrar, 2005.Print.

Academic Year: 
2015-2016