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Reading Poetry and Drama [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 601
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies.
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets.

 

9.00

Nissim Ezekiel                                                      

Night of the Scorpion

The Visitor (from The Exact Name)

Philosophy

 

9.00

R. Parthasarathy                                                     

from Trial

 

A.K. Ramanujan                                                   

Love Poem for a Wife 1 (from Relations)

Obituary

 

8.00

Eunice de Souza                                                  

Autobiographical (from Fix)

Bequest (from Ways of Belonging)

 

Mamta Kalia                                                       

After Eight Years of Marriage

 

9.00

Jayanta Mahapatra                                              

Indian Summer (From A Rain of Rites)

Lost (from MS)

 

Gieve Patel                                                         

On Killing A Tree (from Poems)

Servants

 

10.00

Girish Karnad                                                     

Hayavadana

 

Source Books: 

Karnad, Girish. The Three Plays. OUP. Print.

E. de Souza., ed. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. Print.

Parthasarathy, R., ed. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Mishra, Binod& Sanjay Kumar. “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Woman Poet”: Indian Writings in English. New Delhi: Mittal Publications,1991 . Print.

Prasad, Amar Nath and U.S.Rukhaiyar. The Emerging I Among Women Poets”: Studies in Indian Poetry. Print.

Sage, Corna, German Greer and Elaine Showalter. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writings in English. Print.

 

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