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World Literature-II [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 613
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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: 
Unit 1

Rabindranath Tagore 

The Post Office

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Leo Tolstoy  

Family Happiness

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

 

8.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Premchand 

Godan

13.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

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: 
Unit 5

Pearl S Buck  

The Good Earth

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Don Nordo, ed. Greek Drama, Greenhaven Press, 2000
  • Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)
  • Tolstoy’s Short Fiction: A Norton Critical Edition
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (CUP)
  • The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. London: Blackswan, 2011.
Academic Year: 
2014-2015 [2]

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