World Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 613
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

Objectives :

•      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

 

10.00

Leo Tolstoy                                                                    

Family Happiness

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

13.00

Premchand                                                                     

Godan

 

11.00

Pablo Neruda                   

Animal Poems: A Dog Has Died, Cat’s Dream, Fleas Interest Me…

Love Poems: Clenched Soul, If You Forget Me, La Reina

 

13.00

Pearl S. Buck                                                                 

The Good Earth

 

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: 
2017-2018