World Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 613
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Develop an understanding of the wide selection of world classics (later writings) in translation
  2. Examine the wide-ranging thematic stylistic qualities of the prescribed works
  3. Critique the classics for their representation of the essential human condition
  4. Critique the representative literary works within the wider framework of socio-political and historical realities, vis-à-vis the themes, issues and pre-occupations
  5. Understand the representations of cultural, historical, political and national constructs in literary texts that shape a writer’s identity

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

 

 

 

12.00

Leo Tolstoy                                                   

Family Happiness

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

 

 

12.00

Premchand                                                   

The Shroud

The Story of Two Oxen

The Salt Inspector

Idgah (in English translation)

 

 

 

13.00

Chinua Achebe                                             

Things Fall Apart

 

 

 

13.00

Pearl S. Buck                                                

The Good Earth

 

 

 

10.00

Pablo Neruda                    

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

 

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

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings :

Bloom, Harold. Leo Tolstoy: Modern Critical Views. Chelsea Publishers, 2003.

Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. CUP, 2009.

Iyaser, Solomon O. Understanding Things Fall Apart: Selected Essays and Criticism. Whitston, 1998.

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

Lal, P. “Premchand : An Appreciation.” IIC Quarterly. Vol. 7, No. 1, IIC Publications, 1980. 15-24.

Stavans, IIan.The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Farrar, 2005.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsAzcgKVI5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogJXiaBM8Q

 

 

Journals:

Journal of Poetry Society of India

Journal of Contemporary Thought COURSE TITLE: Project

 

 

 

Academic Year: