ENGLISH HONOURS BOOKS / SYLLABUS FOR ALL SEMESTER [ Delhi university, Ignou ]

         ENGLISH HONOURS SYLLABUS 

                                            1 SEMESTER TO 6 SEMESTER 

                DELHI UNIVERSITY AND IGNOU [ FOR REGULAR AND SOL STUDENTS ].

SEMESTER I CORE COURSE 
    CORE 1 Indian Classical Literature
     CORE 2 European Classical Literature 

                

                              PAPER 1 INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE 

                                                Semester 1 

Unit 1 

Vyasa, selections from The Mahabharata, from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, trans. K. M. Ganguli (Delhi: MunshiramManoharlal Publishers, 2012).

 a) ‘The Dicing’ and ‘Sequel to Dicing’, Book 2, Sabha Parva Section XLVI-LXXII

 b) ‘The Temptation of Karna’, Book 5, Udyog Parva, Section CXL-CXLVI.

 c) ‘Dhritrashtra and Gandhari’s Wrath’, Book 11, Section XI-XV. 

Unit 2

 Kalidasa, Abhijnanasakuntalam, trans. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: 

The Loom of Time, (Penguin Classics, 1989, reprint 2000)

 Unit 3 

Sudraka, 

The Mrichchhakatika of Sudraka, trans. M. R. Kale (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas Publishers, 1924, reprint 2013). 

Unit 4

 IlangoAtikal, The Cilappatikaram,

 Cantos 1, 2, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30, trans. R. Parthasarathy (Columbia University Press, 1993; Penguin Books India, 2004). 

Unit 5 

• Selections from Natyasastra,

 (i) Chapter 6, ‘The Sentiments’; 

(ii) Chapter 20, ‘Ten Kinds of Play’; 

(iii) Chapter 35, ‘Characteristics of the Jester’, trans. Manomohan Ghosh (Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1951) pp.105-17; 355-74; 548-50.

 • IravatiKarve, ‘Draupadi’, in Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Hyderabad: Disha, 1991) pp. 79–105.

 • R. Venkatachalapathy, ‘Introduction’, in Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam Poetry (Delhi: Penguin Classics, 2013) pp. XIII-XLI, 25, 45, 70, 186.

 

• Edwin Gerow et al, ‘Indian Poetics’ in The Literatures of India: An Introduction, ed. Edward. C. Dimock et al, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Pp 115-143 

  PAPER 2 
 EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Semester 1

Unit 1

 

Homer, The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985). 

Unit 2

 Sophocles, ‘OedipusRex’, trans. Robert Fagles, in The Three Theban Plays, revised reprint (Penguin Classics, 1984). 

Unit 3

 a) Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus, trans. E. R. Walting (Penguin Classics, 1965).

 b) Ovid Selections from Metamorphoses ‘Bacchus’, (Book III), ‘Tieresias’ (Book III) ‘Philomela’ (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975). 

Unit 4

 a) ‘The Book of Job’, The Holy Bible, The New International Version (Zondervan, 2011). 

b) Selection from ‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’, Chapter 5,Verses 1-48

 Unit 5

 • Plato, 

(ii) ‘Theory of Art’; both in Republic, Book 10 (Penguin Classics, 2007) pp. 240- 48; 335-53.

 

• Aristotle, 

Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath, (London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, and 26

. • Sappho,

 (i) ‘On the Throne of Many Hues, Immortal Aphrodite’; (ii) ‘Some Say an Army of Horsemen’, from Lyrics 1, trans. Diane J. Rayor and Andre Lardinois, in A New Translation of Complete Works, (2014).

 • Horace ‘Ars Poetica’, trans. H. Rushton Fairclough (Harvard University Press, 1929). Pp 451-73 

                                         SEMESTER II

                                                                    

                                         CORE PAPERS

 

 Paper 3 ; Indian Writing in English 3
 Paper 4: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries 

                                            PAPER 3 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Unit 1 

Novel

 Amitav Ghosh, 

The Shadow Lines (1988/1997, New Delhi: Oxford University Press)

 Unit 2

 Novel

 Anita Desai, In Custody (1984/2012, New Delhi: Random House India) 

Unit 3

 Poems

 a) Kamala Das, ‘My Grandmother’s House’

 b) Nissim Ezekiel, ‘Enterprise

 c) Robin Ngangom, ‘A Poem for My Mother’ 

d) Meena Kandasamy, ‘Touch’ Drama Mahesh Dattani, Tara 

Unit 4

 Short Stories

 a) R. K. Narayan, ‘A Horse and Two Goats’

 b) Salman Rushdie, ‘The Free Radio’

 c) Rohinton Mistry, ‘Swimming Lessons’

 d) Shashi Deshpande, ‘The Intrusion’

 Unit 5

 Readings

 • Raja Rao, ‘Foreword’, to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.

 • B.R. Ambedkar, “Annihilation of Caste” in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979) pp. 36-80

 • Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The Perishable Empire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.

 • Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 2nd ed., 2005) pp. 1–10.

                 

                                                                                PAPER 4

                                     BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14TH TO 17TH CENTURIES

Unit 1 

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘General Prologue’ (in Middle English), from The Canterbury Tales, The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000). 

Unit 2 

a) Thomas Wyatt, 

(i) ‘Whoso List to Hunt’; (ii) ‘They Flee from Me’

 b) Edmund Spenser,

 (i) Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior’; (ii) Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name’, both from ‘Amoretti’

 c) Isabella Whitney,

 (i) ‘I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover’ 

d) John Donne,

(i) The Sunne Rising’ ;(ii) ‘A Valediction: ‘Forbidding Mourning’ 

Unit 3 Christopher Marlowe                     Doctor Faustus 

Unit 4 William Shakespeare                      Twelfth Night

 Unit 5

 • Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), in The Portable Renaissance Reader, eds James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.

 • Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1511), trans. Hoyt Hopewell Hudson (Princeton University Press: 2015) pp. 139-155. 

• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513), Chaps 15, 16, 18, and 25, ed. and trans. Robert M. Adams (New York: Norton, 1992)

. • John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, from Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536), in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11. 

• Michel de Montaigne, ‘Of a Monstrous Child’ (1580), from Essays. 

                          SEMESTER III CORE PAPERS

1. American Literature
 2. Popular Literature
 3. British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

                                                                        PAPER 5 

                                                    AMERICAN LITERATURE 

Unit 1 

    Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

 Unit 2 

    Toni Morrison, Beloved

 Unit 3

 Poetry 

    Walt Whitman, ‘O Captain! My Captain’, in Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose, ed. Shira Wolosky (The Toby Press, 2003) pp. 360-61).

     Allen Ginsberg, ‘A Supermarket in California’, in Selected Poems 1947-1995 (Penguin Books, 2001) p. 59.

     Langston Hughes,

 (i) ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’; (ii) ‘The South’; (iii) ‘Aunt Sue’s Stories’, in The Weary Blues (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) pp. 33; 36; 39.

     Joy Harjo, 

(i) ‘Perhaps the World Ends Here’; (ii) ‘I Give You Back’, in The Woman That I Am: The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color, ed. D. Soyini Madison (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1994) pp. 37-40

. Unit 4

 Short Stories 

    Edgar Allen Poe ‘ The Purloined Letter’ William Faulkner ‘Dry September’ Flannery O’ Connor, ‘Everything that Rises Must Converge’, in Everything that Rises Must Converge (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1965)

     Leslie Marmon Silko, ‘The Man to Send Rain Clouds’, in Nothing but the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature, ed. John L. Purdy and James Ruppert (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001) pp. 358-61. 

Unit 5 

Readings:

  ‘Declaration of Independence’ July 4, 1776, in For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration (OUP, 2012) pp. 312); and ‘Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Speech’, in Gettysburg Speech and Other Writings (Barnes &Noble, 2013). 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’ in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York: The Modern library,1964)

  Martin Luther King Jr, ‘I have a dream’, in African American Literature, ed. Kieth Gilyard, Anissa Wardi (New York: Penguin, 2014) pp. 1007-11) 

 Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.

  Adrienne Rich, ‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision’, College English, Vol. 34, No. 1, Women, Writing and Teaching, pp. 18-30. 

PAPER 6 POPULAR LITERATURE Semester 3

Unit 1

 Literature for Children 

a) Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, ed. Hugh Haughton (Penguin Classics: London, 1998).

 b) Sukumar Ray, 

(i) ‘The Sons of Ramgaroo’;

 (ii) ‘Stew Much’; both in A Few Poems by Sukumar Ray, trans. Satyajit Ray (Open Education Project OKFN, India) pp. 4, 12.https://in.okfn.org/files/2013/07/A-Few-Poems-by-Sukumar-Ray.pdf

 Unit 2 

Detective Fiction 

Agatha Christie, The Murder of Of Roger Ackroyd (Harper Collins :New York, 2017) 

Unit 3

 Science Fiction 

a) Isaac Asimov, ‘Nightfall’, in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Short Stories. Vol I. (New York: Broadway Books, 1990) pp. 334-62.

 b) Ursula le Guin, ‘The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas’, in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose (London: Orion Books, 2015) pp. 254-62.

 

c) Philip K. Dick, ‘Minority Report’, in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick. Vol.4: The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories (Citadel Books: New York, 1987) pp. 62-90.

 d) Ray Bradbury, ‘A Sound of Thunder’, in A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories. (New York: William Morrow, 2005). 

e) JayantNarlikar, ‘Ice Age Cometh’ in It Happened Tomorrow ed Bal Phondke, National Book Trust: New Delhi, 1993. Pgs 1-20 

Unit 4 

Graphic Fiction 

DurgabaiVyam and Subhash Vyam, Bhimayana:Experiences of Untouchability. Navayana : New Delhi, 2011)/ B.R.Ambedkar, Waiting for a Visa (For the Visually Challenged students) 

Unit 5

 Readings

 

 Christopher Pawling, ‘Popular Fiction: Ideology or Utopia?’, in Popular Fiction and Social Change, ed. Christopher Pawling (London: Macmillan, 1984)

.  Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, ELH 45 (1978), pp. 542-62. 

 Darko Suvin, ‘On Teaching SF Critically’, in Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (London: Macmillan), pp. 86-96.

  Tzvetan Todorov. ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’, trans. Richard Howard, in The Poetics of Prose (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977).

PAPER 7 BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES Semester 3

Unit 1.

 William Shakespeare Macbeth 

Unit 2

. a. Paradise Lost (1667) Book 1, in John Milton: Paradise Lost, Longman Annotated English Poets, 1998.

 b. AemiliaLanyer, ‘Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women’, section from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611), in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edition, ed. Greenblatt et al., Vol. 1, pp. 1317-19. 

Unit 3. 

Aphra Behn, 

The Rover (1677), in Aphra Behn: The Rover and other Plays, ed. Jane Spencer (Oxford: OUP, 2008).

 Unit 4

 Alexander Pope 

The Rape of the Lock 

Unit 5.

  Francis Bacon,

 (i) ‘Of Truth’; (ii) ‘Of Deformity’; both in Essays (1597). 

 René Descartes, excerpts from ‘Discourse on Method’ (1637) Part 4, in Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, trans. Donald A. Cress, (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998) pp. 18-19. 

 Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan (1651): title page, Introduction, Chaps 1 and 13 from Part I, ‘Of Man’, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge University Press, 1996). 

 Gerrard Winstanley, from ‘A New Year's Gift Sent to the Parliament and Army’ (1650), in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, 8th edition, ed. Greenblatt et al., pp. 1752-57. 

 Margaret Cavendish, excerpts from ‘The Blazing World’ (1666), in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, 8th edition, ed. Greenblatt et al., pp. 1780-85. 

SEMESTER 4 

BRITISH LITERATURE; 18TH CENTURY 

BRITISH LITERATURE 19TH CENTURY

PAPER 8 BRITISH LITERATURE: 18TH CENTURY Semester 4

Unit 1 

William Congreve The Way of the World 

Unit 2

 Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels, Books 3-4 

Unit 3

 a. Samuel Johnson ‘London’

 b. Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

Unit 4 

Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews 

Unit 5

  John Locke, ‘Of Ideas in general, and their Original’, Paragraphs 1-8, from An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1689), Chap 1 Book II, ed. John Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) pp. 104-108. 

 Addison and Steele, (i) Addison, Essay No. 10, Monday, March 12, 1711; (ii) Addison, Essay No. 69, on the stock-exchange, Saturday, May 19, 1711, both from The Spectator (1711-12); Eliza Haywood, Selections from The Female Spectator (1744-46), ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks, pp.7-23.

 

 Daniel Defoe, ‘The Complete English Tradesman’ (Letter XXII), ‘The Great Law of Subordination Considered’ (Letter IV), and ‘The Complete English Gentleman’, in Literatureand Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Stephen Copley (London: Croom Helm, 1984).

  William Hay, from Deformity: An Essay (1754) (London: R and J. Dodsley, 1756) pp. 1-11, 44-51. 

 Olaudah Equiano, ‘The Middle Passage’, excerpt from Chapter Two in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), ed. Robert J. Allison (Boston, 1995), pp. 54–8.

PAPER 9 BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE SEMESTER 4

Unit 1

 a) William Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Experience, (i) ‘Introduction’ (to Songs of Innocence); (ii) ‘Lamb’;

 (iii) ‘Tiger’; 

(iv) ‘Chimney Sweeper’ (Songs of Innocence);

 (v) ‘Chimney Sweeper’ (Songs of Experience); 

(vi) ‘The Little Black Boy’; 

(vii) ‘London’. b) Charlotte Smith, (i) ‘To Melancholy’; (ii) ‘Nightingale’ 

Unit 2

 

a) William Wordsworth, (i) ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’; (ii) ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’.

 b) Samuel Coleridge, (i) ‘Kubla Khan’; (ii) ‘Dejection: An Ode’

 Unit 3

 a) Lord George Gordon Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–405); canto IV, verses 178–86 (lines 1594–674)

 b) Percy Bysshe Shelley (i) ‘Ozymandias; (ii) ‘Ode to the West Wind’ c) John Keats, (i) ‘Ode to a Nightingale’; (ii) ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’; (iii) ‘Ode to Autumn’ Unit 4 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. 

Unit 5

 Readings

  J. J. Rousseau, ‘Discourse on the Origin of Inequality’, Part One, in Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Basic Political Writings (Hackett Publishing Company, 1987) pp. 37-60. 

 Immanuel Kant, ‘Analytic of the Sublime’, inThe Critique of Judgment (Cambridge University Press, 2001) pp. 128-49.

  William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed. Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 594– 611. 

 William Gilpin, ‘On Picturesque Travel’, in Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty

PAPER 10 BRITISH LITERATURE: 19TH CENTURY SEMESTER 4 

Unit 1

 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 

Unit 2 

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

 Unit 3

 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.

 Unit 4

 Poetry

 

a) Alfred Tennyson, (i) ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (ii)‘Ulysses’ (iii) ‘The Defence of Lucknow’. 

b) Robert Browning, (i) ‘My Last Duchess’; (ii)‘Fra Lippo Lippi’.

 c) Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’.

 d) Mathew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’

 Unit 5 

Readings

  Thomas Carlyle, ‘Signs of the Times’. 

 Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’ 

 J. S. Mill, ‘Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual, from ‘On Liberty’.

  Karl Marx, (i) ‘Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life’; (ii) ‘The Social Nature of Consciousness’, both in A Reader in Marxist Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel (International Publishers, 1963) pp. 186–8, 190–1; 199–201. 

 Charles Darwin, excerpts from ‘On Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’, from Chapter 3; from Chapter 4, ed. Joseph Caroll (Broadview Press, 2003) pp. 132- 34; 144-162.

Sem V 

1. Women’s Writing

 2. British Literature: The Early 20th Century

PAPER 11: WOMEN’S WRITING SEMESTER 5

Unit 1 

Novel

 Alice Walker The Color Purple

 Unit 2

 Short Stories

 a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ 

b) Begum Rokeya ‘Sultana’s Dream’, Tara Publishing Ltd, India, 2005. Drama Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends.

 Unit 3

 Poetry

 a) Emily Dickinson, (i) ‘I cannot live with you’(ii) ‘I’m wife; I’ve finished that’

 b) Simin Behbahani, (i) ‘It’s Time to Mow the Flowers’. 

c) Sylvia Plath, (i) ‘Lady Lazarus’ (ii) Daddy d) Eunice De Souza, (i) ‘Advice to Women’, (ii) ‘Bequest’ 

Unit 4

 Autobiography

 a) Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988) chap.1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38. 

b) Pandita Ramabai ‘A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures’, in Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp. 295–324.

 c) Rassundari Debi Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Women’s Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 192–202

 Unit 5

 Readings 

● Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6. 

● Elaine Showalter, ‘Introduction’, in A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977).

 ● Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in The Second Sex.

 ● Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, ‘Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory’, in The Disability Studies Reader, ed. Lennard J. Davis, 2nd edition (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) pp. 257-73.

 ● Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, ‘Introduction’, in Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History

PAPER 12: BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY SEMESTER 5 

Unit 1

 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (London: Penguin, 2007) 

.

 Unit 2 

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (London: Penguin, 2000) 

Unit 3

 Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (New York: Grove Press, 2011).

 Unit 4

 a) W. B. Yeats, (i) ‘Sailing to Byzantium; (ii) ‘The Second Coming’ (iii) ‘Leda and the Swan’ (iv) ‘No Second Troy’

 b) T. S. Eliot, (i) ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’; (ii) ‘The Hollow Men’; both in T. S. Eliot: Selected Poems (London: Faber, 2015). 

c) Wilfred Owen, ‘Strange Meeting’, in Wilfred Owen: Collected Poems (N.Y.: New Directions, 2013). 

Unit 5

 Readings

 ● Sigmund Freud, ‘The Structure of the Unconscious, the Id, the Ego and the Superego’, in Background Prose Readings (Delhi: Worldview, 2001) pp. 97-104. 

● Albert Camus, (i) ‘Absurdity and Suicide’; (ii) ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’, trans. Justin O’Brien, in The Myth of Sisyphus (London: Vintage, 1991) pp. 13-17; 79-82.

 ● Virginia Woolf , “On Being Ill” in Virginia Woolf : Selected Essays ed. David Bradshaw (Oxford University Press 2008). 

● D.H. Lawrence, ‘Morality and the Novel’, in The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds Of Modern Literature, eds. Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr (Oxford University Press, 1965).

 ● Raymond Williams, ‘Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism’, in Raymond Williams. The Politics of Modernism (London: Verso, 1996) pp. 37-48. 

Sem VI

 1. Modern European Drama

 2. Postcolonial Literatures

PAPER 13: MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA SEMESTER 6

Unit 1

 Henrik Ibsen Ghosts 

Unit 2

 Bertolt Brecht The Good Woman of Szechuan

 Unit 3

 Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros 

Unit 4 

a) Dario Fo, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, trans. Lino Pertile (London: Methuen, 1987). 

b) Franca Rame, ‘Rape’, trans. Gilliana Hanna, ed. Emery (London: Bloomsbury, 1991) pp. 83-88. 

Unit 5

 Readings

  August Strindberg, ‘Preface to Miss Julie’, in Miss Julie, trans. Helen Cooper (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. xixxv. 

 Bertolt Brecht, (i) ‘The Street Scene’;(ii) ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction’; (iii) ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 121-28; 68-76; chart, p. 31.

 

 Eugene Ionesco, (i) ‘Still About Avant-Garde Theatre’ (ii) ‘Remarks on my Theatre and on the Remarks of Others’, in Notes And Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre, trans. Donald Watson (New York: Grove Press, 1964) pp. 53-58; 59-82; (iii) Selection from Present Past, Past Present, trans. Helen R. Lane (USA: De Capo Press, 1998) pp. 77-82.

  ‘Dario Fo’s Nobel Lecture’ (Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation, 1997).  Konstantin Stanislavski, ‘Faith and the Sense of Truth’, sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, Chapter 8, in An Actor Prepares (Penguin) pp. 121-5, 137-46. 

PAPER 14: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES SEMESTER 6

Unit 1

 Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Things Fall Apart.

 Unit 2

 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold 

Unit 3 

a) Ngugi waThiongo (Kenya), The Trial of DedanKemathi. 

b) Indra Sinha (India), Animal’s People (Tape 1, 2 and 3).

 Unit 4 

Short Stories 

a) Bessie Head (South Africa/Botswana), ‘The Collector of Treasures’. 

b) Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), ‘The Girl Who Can’.

 c) M. M. Vinodini (India), ‘The Parable of the Lost Daughter’, in The Exercise of Freedom, eds K. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu (Delhi: Navayana, 2013) pp 164-77. 

Poems 

a) Pablo Neruda 

(i)‘Tonight I can write the saddest Lines’(ii) ‘The Way Spain Was’ 

b) Derek Walcott 

‘Goats and Monkeys’‘Names’ 

c) Mamang Dai 

(i) ‘Small Towns and the River’(ii) ‘The Voice of the Mountain 

Unit 5

 Readings

  Franz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Black Skin, White Masks, tr. Charles Lam

  Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27. 

 Edward Said, ‘Introduction’, in Orientalism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978).

  Robert Young, ‘Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique’, in Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) pp. 1-11.

  Ngugi waThiongo, ‘The Language of African Literature’, Chapter 1, Sections 4-6, in Decolonising the Mind.