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World Literature-I
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Paper Code:
ENG 513
Credits:
4
Periods/week:
4
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
14.00
Sophocles
Oedipus, The King
12.00
Euripides’
The Bacchae
10.00
Kalidasa
Meghdootam
12.00
Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts
12.00
Gustav
Flaubert
Madame Bovary (Penguin)
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Sophocles : An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1980)
Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New Delhi: Viva, 2010.
Peter Walcot : Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context (Cardiff University of Wales Press, 1976)
James C. Hogan : A Commentary on the Play of Sophocles (Carbondale University Press, 1980)
Malcolm Heath. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 1987.
Kale, M.R. The Meghduta of Kalidasa. New Delhi: Motilal Banrasidas, 2002.
The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Ed. James McFarlane. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
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