RANI CHENNAMMA UNIVERSITY BELAGAVI

SYLLABUS FOR M.A IN ENGLISH

I and II Semesters

2012-13 onwards

I - Semester Paper –1.1 : British Literature - 1 ( The Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries ) Objectives ·

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To critically engage with representative mainstream English literature from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, through selected texts and background readings To discuss a variety of texts in relation to their historical contexts. To help the students to develop independent critical thinking in their analysis of literary texts and to interrogate superimposed schema and period descriptions which ignore or gloss over the many complex relations between authors and their cultures.

UNIT - I · Medieval World -

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The Renaissance -

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Medieval Estates and Orders (Section Introduction in the Norton Anthology) Douglas Gray, ‘Medieval Literature and the Medieval World’ Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

George Parfitt, ‘The Renaissance’ ‘The Magician, the Heretic, and the Playwright: Faustus, Marlowe, and the English Stage’ (Section Introduction and Selections in the Norton Anthology) Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation -

Foxe's account of Lady Jane Grey's execution (NAEL 8, 1.674-75), Robert Southwell's religious lyric, "The Burning Babe" (NAEL 8, 1.640-41).

UNIT - II · Civil Wars of Ideas : Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture : royal absolutism vs. parliamentary or popular sovereignty, monarchy vs. republicanism, Puritanism vs. Anglicanism, church ritual and ornament vs. iconoclasm, toleration vs. religious uniformity, etc. and the trial and execution of Charles I.

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Shift towards “new” poetic genres like classical elegy and satire, epigram, verse epistle, meditative religious lyric, the country-house poem and “Metaphysical” poetry. - John Donne – The Sun Rising, Song (Goe, and catche a falling star’) - Ben Jonson – Song to Celia (Drink to me only with thine eyes’) - George Herbert – The Pulley - Andrew Marvell – To his Coy Mistress

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“Paradise Lost in Context” (Overview in the Norton Anthology) -

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John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book – I (Annotation by Nissim Ezekiel et al), Hydrabad : Orient Blackswan, 2011

The Restoration -

John Dryden, ‘Portrait of Achitophel’

UNIT - III · A day in 18th Century

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Slavery and Slave Trade -

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Jonathan Swift : ‘A Description of the Morning’ Afternoon (From The Female Tatler, No. 9) Evening : Pleasure Gardens (from Norton Anthology) A Night Ramble (from James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson)

John Newton, from Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade William Snelgrave, from A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave Trade William Cowper, ‘The Negro's Complaint’ (from Norton Anthology)

Travel, Trade, Expansion of Empire -

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, from The Turkish Embassy Letters from The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery (from Norton Anthology)

UNIT - IV · Emergence of the Novel -

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, (Ed. Pramod Nayar), Hydrabad : Orient Blackswan, 2010

Suggested Reading 1. The Norton Anthology of English Literature 2. David Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature (4 Vols) 3. Arnold Kettle, The English Novel (2 Vols) 4. Ian Jack, The Augustan Satire 5. Pramod Nayar (Ed), English Poetry 1660-1780 : An Anthology (Orient Blackswan, 2011) 6. Pramod Nayar, A Short History of English Literature, Bangalore : Foundation Books, 2009 7. Boris Ford (Ed), Pelican Guide to English Literature (8 Vols) 8. Herbert Grierson, Metaphysical Poets 9. C. N. Ramachandran,(Ed), Five Centuries of Poetry, Delhi : Macmillan, 1991

1.2 Introduction to Linguistics Objectives : · · ·

To introduce the students to the basic concepts in Linguistics To instill basic understanding of the different levels of analysis in Linguistics To introduce the learners to the assumptions and basic concepts of structural linguistics and transformational grammar

Unit - I Language : Its Characteristics and Properties o Language as a symbolic system o Animal communication and human language o The nature of language Unit - 2 The Study of Language o What and Why of Linguistics o Branches of Linguistics o History of Linguistics , o Applications of Linguistics Unit - 3 Language variations o Diachronic variations o Synchronic variations : Dialect, Register, Idiolect and the notion of acceptability o Language and Gender Unit - 3 Structural Linguistics o The Structural Critique of Traditional Grammars o Structural Linguistics o Discovery Procedure Unit - 4 The Transformational Framework o Competence and Performance o Generative Grammar o Language Universals Suggested Readings: · · · · · · · ·

John Lyons, Language and Linguistics (Chapters 1,2,6 and 9) Crystal, David: What is Linguistics? (Chapters 1-3) Dinneen, F.P. : An Introduction to General Linguistics (Chapter 1 ) Gleason, H.A. : An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics (Chapter 1, 4 and 24) Robins, R. H.: General Linguistics : An Introductory Survey ( Chapter 1 and 2) Alien H. B. (Ed) : Readings in Applied Linguistics (Chapters by S. R. Levin, C.C. Fries and C. V. Hartung) Krisnaswamy, N.: Linguistics for Language Teachers Verma, S. K. and Krisnaswamy, N.: Modern Linguistics – An Introduction

1.3 Gender Studies Objectives · · · · ·

To highlight the different aspects of the gender question To read texts that explore the experiences of those marked or marginalized by gender or sexuality, or that acknowledges the socially constructed character of gender. To understand the psychodynamics of female creativity To understand the significance of women’s narratives, their comments on issues ranging from patriarchy to community and spirituality To celebrate the transformative impact of Gender Studies on humanities

Unit – I · Key Concepts : Gender, Sexuality, Sexual difference, The Other, Body, Desire,

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Patriarchy, Gender Stereotypes, Language and Representation, Gynocriticism, Androgyny, Gender and language, Feminisms, Social Practices : Sati, Dowry, Rape, Widowhood, Female foeticide, Prostitution History : An overview of women’s struggles and development of feminist theories

Unit – II · Mary Wollstoncraft, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792) · Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction, Second Sex (1949) · Kate Millet, ‘Theory of Sexual Politics’, Sexual Politics (1969) · Helene Cixous, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ (1991) · V. Geeta, ‘God Made you Different, Nature Made us Different’ · Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana, ‘Problems for a Contemporary Thoery of Gender’(1994), Social Scientist 22 (3-4): 93-117 Unit – III · Jamaica Kincaid, ‘Girl’ · Ismat Chugtai, ‘The Quilt’ · Mahasveta Devi, ‘Draupadi’ · Baburao Bagul, ‘Mother’ · Gita Hariharan, ‘The Remains of the Feast’ · Vaidehi : ‘Akku’ · Ambai, ‘A Kitchen in the Corner of the House’ · Shashi Deshpande : ‘Stone Women’ Unit – IV · Suniti Namjoshi, Feminist Fables (Selections) · Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall Paper · Girish Kasarvalli, Ghatashraddha (Film text) · Mamata Kalia, ‘Tribute to Papa’ · Eunice de Souza, ‘Catholic Mother’ · Imtiaz Dharker, ‘Purdah I’ · Taslima Nasrin, ‘At the Back of Progress’ · Motilal Saqi, ‘Nothingness’

Suggested Reading · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·

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Pilcher and Whelehan, Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies, London : Sage, 2004 Peter Brooker, A Glossary of Cultural Theory, London : Arnold Dani Cavallaro, Critical and Cultural Theory : Thematic Variations, London : The Athlone Press M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms Fiona Tolan, ‘Feminisms’, Literary Theory and Criticism, Patricia Waugh (Ed), New Delhi : OUP, 2006 Cranny-Francis , et. al., Gender Studies : Terms and Debates, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 K. K. Ruthven, Feminist Literary Studies : An Introduction Toril Moi, Sexual/Texual Politics : Feminist Literary Theory Linda Nicholson (ed), The Second Wave : A Reader in Feminist Theory, New York : Routledge, 1997 Gilbert and Gubar, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 1985 Susie Tharu and K. Lalita (Eds), Women Writing in India, Delhi : OUP, 1991 Laxmi Holmstrom (Ed), The Inner Courtyard, New Delhi : Roopa and Co., 1991 Brinda Bose (Ed), Translating Desire : The Politics of Gender and Culture in India, New Delhi : Katha, 2002, Nine Indian Women Poets Susie Tharu, ‘The Impossible Subject : Caste and Desire in the Scene of the Family’, Body, City : Contemporary Culture in India, Indira Chandrasekhar and Peter Seel (Eds) Delhi : Tulika Books, 2003 Pandit Ramabai, ‘Widowhood’, Exploration of Ideas, Hyderabad : Orient Blackswan, 2009 Dr. Rukmabai, Purdah – The Need for its Abolition’, Exploration of Ideas, Hyderabad : Orient Blackswan, 2009

1.4 Indian English Literature Objectives ·

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To enable the students to develop overall perspective and understanding of Indian English Literature To help them to engage themselves with several problems and issues and the major debates in the area.

Unit I : Ideological Background · ·

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The 19th Century British idea of India and the ideology of colonialism : colonizer/colonized relations The Indian response to the ideology of colonialism - Assimilation and imitation - Sense of nationalism - Forms of resistance against colonial control Emergent forms of postcolonial identity after the departure of the colonizers The discourse of cultural decolonization

Major Issues and Debates · · ·

National and Cultural Identity : ‘Indianness’ of IEL Tradition and Modernity In-Between positions : Diasporas in the postmodern metropolis

Unit II : Prose · Tagore : ‘Nationalism in India’ · Aurobindo : ‘The Renaissance in India’ · Mahatma Gandhi : Hind Swaraj (Excerpts : What is Swaraj?, Civilization, The · ·

condition of England, The Condition of India, Why India was lost?) M. N. Roy : ‘‘Preconditions of Indian Renaissance’ B. R. Ambedkar : ‘Gandhism – The Doom of the Untouchables’

Unit III : Poetry 1. Syed Amanuddin : ‘Don’t Call Me Indo-Anglian’, Kamala Das : ‘An Introduction’, Sujata Bhat “ ‘Search for my Tongue’ 2. Toru Dutt : ‘Our Casuarina Tree’, A. K. Ramanujan : ‘Smallscale Reflections on a Great House’, Kamala Das : ‘My Grandmother’s House’, Vikram Seth : ‘Homeless’

Unit IV : Fiction The Short Story · Cornelia Sorabji : ‘Greater Love’ · Mulk Raj Anand : ‘Barber’s Trade Union’ · R. K. Narayan : ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ · Jumpa Lahri : ‘When Mr. Peerzada Came to Dine’ · Rohinton Mistry : ‘The Swimming Lessons’ Novel · ·

Arun Joshi : The Apprentice Nayantara Sahgal : Rich Like Us

Suggested Reading Histories of IEL

Naik, M. K. : A History of Indian English Literature Naik, M. K. and Shyamala Narayan : Indian English Literature 1980 - 2000 Iyengar, K. R. S. : Indian Writing in English Melhotra, A. K. : An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English Walsh, William : Indian Literature in English Unit : I C.D. Narasimhaiah : “Towards an Understanding of the Species called `Indian Writing in English'” M.K. Naik : “ The Literary Landscape : The Nature and Scope of Indian English Fiction” and “Retrospect and Prospect” in A History of Indian English Literature Meenakshi Mukherji : ‘Anxiety of Indianness’ G.N. Devey : In Another Tongue : Essay on Indian English Literature , Chapters I,II,III Ajaz Ahmad : ‘Disciplinary English : Third Worldism and Literature’ Kirpal, Viney (Ed) : The New Indian Novel in English : A Study of the 1980s Kirpal, Viney (Ed) : The Postmodern Indian English Novel

Unit : II Dallmayr, F and G. N. Devy : Between Tradition and Modernity Naik, M. K. : Perspectives on Indian Prose in English

Unit : III King, Bruce : Modern Indian Poetry in English Prasad G. J. V. : Continuities in Indian English Poetry

Unit : IV Venugopal, C. V. : Indian English Short Story : A Survey Naik, M. K. : The Indian English Short Story : A Representative Anthology Paranjape, Makarand : ‘Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel’ Crane, Ralph J.(Ed) : Nayantara Sahgal’s India : Passion, Politics and History

1.5 American Literature Objectives ·

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To discuss issues of race, class and gender in the context of American literary landscape To trace the development of the major ideas and attitudes expressed in American literature. To analyze, interpret, and evaluate representative texts, movements and authors in the American tradition.

Unit 1 : Background o o o o o o o o

Foundations of American Literature, Religious and sectarian strife, the transAtlantic migration, the Frontier, Westward Movement Puritanism, Transcendentalism Harlem Renaissance and literary representations of race Notions of American Culture : ‘The Melting Pot’, ‘The Salad Bowl’ The American Dream Post modernity in American culture African-American aesthetics American-Jewish writing

Unit 2 : Novel · ·

Mark Twain : The Huckleberry Finn Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye

Unit 3 : The Short Story · · · · · ·

Poe : ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Nathaniel Hawthorne : ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ Stephen Crane : ‘The Open Boat’ William Faulkner : ‘A Rose for Emily’ S. Scott Fitzgerald : ‘The Sensible Thing’ J. D. Salinger : ‘Down at the Dinghy’

Unit 4 : Drama and Poetry · ·

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Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman Walt Whitman : ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider’, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd’ Emily Dickinson : “Papa Above” “I Can Wade Grief” “Prayer is the Little Implement” Robert Frost : “Mending Wall”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Sylvia Plath : ‘The Applicants’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, ‘Event’

Suggested Reading Baym, Nina, ed. Norton Anthology of American Literature. NY: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007 Ray Harvey Pearce : The Continuity of American Poetry Daniel Boorstin: The Americans, The Colonial Experience Vol. - I. The Americans – The National Experience Vol. - II The Image Vol. - III Lammager : The American Mind N. Foerstr : Humanism and America Max Lerner : American as a Civilization Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol – 9 RWB Lewis : The American Adam

1.6 Basic Core Introduction to the ‘Study’ of Language and Literature: Language Skills, Research Skills and Literary Historiography Objectives ·

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To give practical advice on the most important techniques and processes involved in the ‘study’ of literature To take the student through reading a text, preparing for courses, making presentations, finding and using secondary material and writing research proposals and papers To introduce issues in literary historiography

Unit : I Reading Skills - Reading skills - skimming, scanning, intensive reading - Mechanics of Reading - Reading poetry, fiction and drama - Reference Skills Suggested Reading : · · · ·

Richard Gill, Mastering English Literature, London : Macmillan, 1985 Jeremy Hawthorn, Studying the Novel, New Delhi : Universal Book Stall Brendan J, Carroll, English for Colleges, Chennai : MacMillan, 1971 Z. N. Patil, et al, English for Practical Purposes, Chennai : MacMillan, 2000 (Pp. 1 – 52)

Unit : II Academic Writing The Process of Writing : Gathering Material : Sources / Text genres Evaluating Sources Taking Notes / concept mapping Organizing Information and Outlining Describing, Narrating, Developing an argument Suggested Reading : · · ·

Randolph Quirk, The Use of English, Hyderabad : Orient Longman, 1996 George Orwell : ‘Politics and the English Language’ Renu Gupta : A Course in Academic Writing

Unit : III Planning, Writing and Presenting a Research Paper · Identifying and formulating the research problem · Establishing the context for research : Review of literature · Structuring the Research Proposal · Documentation : Citation, References, End-notes and Bibliography Suggested Reading : o o

Joseph Gibaldi & Walter S. Achtert, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, New York : MLA of America, 2007 Simon Eliot and W. R. Owens, A Handbook of Literary Research, New York : Routledge, 1998

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John Unsworth, ‘New Methods for Humanities Research’ Gabriel Griffin, ‘Research Methods for English Studies’

Unit : IV Literature and Literary Historiography · Literature : History of the concept · Issues in Literary Historiography : Tradition, Canon and Periodization · Approaches to Literary Historiography Suggested Reading : · · · · · · · · · ·

Rene Wellek : ‘Literary History’ Following entries from Raymond Williams’ Key Words : Literature, Tradition, Canon, Taste, Representative Following entries from M. H. Abram’s Glossary of Literary Terms : Canon of Literature, Periods of English Literature, Terry Eagleton : From ‘Literary Theory : An Introduction’ Robert Rehder : ‘Periodization and the Theory of Literary History’ Lillian S. Robinson : ‘Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon’ Bakhtin and Medvedev : ‘The Formalist Theory of the Historical Development of Literature’ Edmund Wilson : ‘The Historical Interpretation of Literature’ Lee Patterson : ‘Literary History’ Hayden White : Introduction to Metahistory

II - Semester 2.1 British Literature - 2 ( The Nineteenth Century ) Objectives ·

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To critically engage with representative mainstream English literature in the nineteenth century, through selected texts and background readings To discuss a variety of texts in relation to their historical contexts and backgrounds To investigates the rich connection in the Victorian period between visual art and literature To help the students to develop independent critical thinking in their analysis of literary texts and to interrogate superimposed schema and period descriptions which ignore or gloss over the many complex relations between authors and their cultures.

UNIT – I · Romantic Landscape - ‘Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and Romantic Landscape – Overview’ (Section overview in the Norton Anthology) - William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’ · Romantic Orientalism - Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" · The Satanic and Byronic Hero and the Gothic - Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Ed. Sunita Mishra), Hydrabad : Orient Blackswan, 2010 UNIT – II Victorian Issues : evolution, industrialism, "The Woman Question" - Charles Dickens, Hard Times - Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Dinah Maria Mulock, ‘ A Woman's Thoughts About Women’ (NAEL 8, 2.1596–97) UNIT – III Victorian Issues : Great Britain's identity as an imperial power - Conrad, The Heart of Darkness - Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Overland Mail’ - Josephine Butler, from "Our Indian Fellow Subjects" (NAEL) UNIT - IV The Painterly Image in Victorian Poetry - Carlyle, ‘ The Hero as Poet’ - Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’ Suggested Reading 1. The Norton Anthology of English Literature 2. David Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature (4 Vols) 3. Arnold Kettle, The English Novel (2 Vols) 4. Pramod Nayar, Short History of English Literature 5. Boris Ford (Ed), Pelican Guide to English Literature (8 Vols) 6. Vijayshree, C, Victorian Poetry – An Anthology (Orient Blackswan)

2.2 The Phonetics of English Objectives · To help the students to develop the ability to identify and produce English speech sounds as well as its basic rhythm, stress and intonation patterns in context. · To examine the issue of intelligibility of Indian English

UNIT : I 1. The Organs of Speech 2. The Description and Classification of Sounds 3. Phonology UNIT : II 4. Phonological Description of English 5. Consonant Clusters 6. The Syllable UNIT : III 7. Word Accent 8. Accent and Rhythm in Connected Speech 9. Intonation UNIT : IV 10. The Intelligibility of Indian English Workbook : BALASUBRAMANIAN, English Phonetics for Indian Students – A Workbook Suggested Reading : PETER ROACH : English Phonetics and Phonology : A practical course Third edition, Cambridge University Press DANIEL JONES : The English Pronouncing Dictionary , Cambridge University HORNBY A.S. Oxford Advanced Leaner's Dictionary of Current English : OUP NIHALANI PAROO, TONGUE R.K., HOSALI PRIYA., Indian and British English : OUP BANSAL R.K., HARRISON J.B., Spoken English for Indian Students, Orient Longman STANDARD ALLEN. W, Living English Speech : Orient Longman BALASUBRAMANIAN - A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students, Chennai: Macmillan

2.3 Literary Theory and Criticism – 1 Objectives · ·

Introducing students to seminal texts by literary theorists and philosophers that have shaped the study of literature to instruct students in analysing theoretical texts

Unit – I Classical Theory · · ·

Plato (The Republic, Chapter 10) Aristotle (The Poetics) Longinus (On the Sublime)

Unit – II English Criticism · · ·

Sir Philip Sidney, ‘An Apology for Poetry’ John Dryden, ‘An Essay on Dramatic Poetry’ Samuel Johnson, ‘Preface to Shakespeare’

Unit – III English Criticism · · ·

William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ S. T. Coleridge, (from Biographia Literaria – Chs 14, 17 and 18) P. B. Shelley, ‘A defence of Poetry’

Unit – IV Indian Poetics Concepts · Rasa · Dhvani · Vakrokti · Alankara · Auchitya Interpretations · R. A. Malagi, ‘The Seminal Path- Classical Literary Theory and Criticism’, Classical Literary Theory, Dani and Madge (Ed), Delhi : Pencraft International, 2001 · K. Krishnamurthy, ‘Sanskrit Poetics – An Overview’, Indian Literary Criticism, G. N. Devy (Ed), Hydrabad : Orient Longman, 2002 · G. S. Shivarudrappa, ‘Literary Criticism in Indian Poetics’ · Kapil Kapoor, ’Eleven Objections to Sanskrit Literary Theory : A Rejoinder’, ifihhome.tripod.com/articles/kkp002.html · A. K. Ramanujan, ‘On Ancient Tamil Poetics’, Indian Literary Criticism, G. N. Devy (Ed), Hydrabad : Orient Longman, 2002

Suggested Reading · ·

NEHU Anthology of Select Literary Criticism, Hydrabad : Orient Blackswan, 2011 Jose Angel Garcia Landa, ‘A Hypertextual History of Literary Theory and Criticism’, www.unizar.es/departmentos/filologia.../00.Hypercritica.html

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Dani and Madge (Ed), Classical Literary Theory, Delhi : Pencraft International, 2001

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Enright and Chikera (Ed), English Critical Texts, Delhi : OUP, 1982 Ramaswamy and Seturam, The English Critical Tradition (Vol. I and II), Scott-James, R. A., The Making of Literature, www.archive.org Devy, G. N. (Ed), Indian Literary Criticism, Hydrabad : Orient Longman, 2002 Krishna Rayan, The Lamp and the Jar, New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 2002 T. N. Sreekantaiyya, (Trn. N. Balasubramanya, Indian Poetics, New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 2001 M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms

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2.4 Comparative Literature : Theory and Practice Objectives

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To introduce the students to the theories and methods of comparative literature To help the learners to move beyond the frontiers of Europe and grasp alternative concepts of comparative literature To teach them

UNIT : I Issues in Comparative Literature · Rene Wellek : ‘The Name and Nature of Comparative Literature’ and ‘Comparative Literature Today’, Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism, New Haven: Yale University Press 1971, Pp 1-54 ·

Indra Nath Choudhuri : ‘Comparative Literature : Its Theory and Methodology’, Comparative Indian Literature : Some Perspectives, New Delhi : Sterling Publishers, 1992, 1-10

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Sisir Kumar Das : ‘Why Comparative Indian Literature?’ and ‘Muses in Isolation’, Comparative Literature : Theory and Practice, (Ed) Dev and Das, Shimla : IIAS, 1989, Pp 3 -18 and 94 – 103

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Susan Bassnett ‘Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century’,http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_critical_studies/v003/3.1bassn ett.html

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Susan Bassnett : ‘Beyond the Frontiers of Europe : Alternative Concepts in Comparative Literature’, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction, USA: Blackwell, 1993

UNIT : II

Methodology of Comparative Literature

1. Thematic Studies Comparative Study of Romanticism in English and Kannada : Wordsworth and Ku. Vem. Pu.

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Village Girl, To Butterfly, Wordsworth, Come Let’s Gaze on Falguna Sun, The Green, The Cloud, Blissful this Heart of the World, Glorious Dawn of Bhadrapada, The Roadside Village (from D. Javare Gouda (Ed), Selected Poems of Kuvempu, Mysore Printing and Publishing House)

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Solitary Reaper, Reverie of Poor Susan, The World is too much With Us, Tintern Abbey, Upon the Westminster Bridge, To the Cuckoo, My Heart Leaps Up, Rainbow, To a Butterfly (from Complete Works of Wordsworth)

2. Influence Studies ·

Camus : Outsider and Ananta Murthy : Samskara

3. Genre ·

Novel : Indian and Western

Makarand Paranjape, ‘The Ideology of Form : Notes on the Third World Novel’, Social Scientist, 18, 8-9, Aug.-Sept. 1990, 71-84; revised version in Journal of Commonwealth Literature 26.1 (1991): 19-32 UNIT : III

Comparative Indian Literature : · A. K. Ramanujan : ‘Where Mirrors are Windows : Towards an Anthology of Reflections’, The Collected Essays of Ramanujan, New Delhi : OUP, 1999, 6- 33 · Dalit Writing in Kannada and Marathi : Deavanoor Mahadev’s ‘Odalala’ and Bandhumadhav’s ‘The Poisoned Bread’

UNIT : IV Comparative Poetics

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Catharsis and Rasa Formalism and Vakrokti Apoha and Deconstruction

Suggested Reading : 1. Newton, P. Stalknecht and Horst Frenz, (eds.): Comparative Literature: Method Perspective (University of Southern Illinois Press, 1961), Second enlarged and modified edition, 1971. 2. Ulrich Weisstein: Comparative Literature and Literature Theory: Survey and Introduction (Indiana University Press, 1973). 3. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren: Theory of Literature (New York : Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., 1942). 4. Prawer S. S.: Comparative Literary Studies: An Introduction, (London: Duckworth, 1973). 5. Henry Gifford : Comparative Literature, (Lond : Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1969). 6. Harry, Levin : Ground for Comparison, (Cambridge, Massachusesetts, 1972). 7. Rene Wellek : Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism, (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1970). 8. George Watson : The Study of Literature (Orient Longmans, 1969). 9. Amiya Dev and Sisirkumar Das (Ed.): Comparative Literature ; Theory and Practice, Applied Publishers, New Delhi. 10. Chandra Mohan (Ed.) : Aspects of Comparative Literature : Current Approaches, India Publisher & Distributors, New Delhi. 11. George K. A.: Comparative Indian Literature.

2.5 Translation Studies : Theory and Practice Objectives ·

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To familiarize the students with theoretical issues in translation studies and with the diverse aspects of the academic discipline To help them develop sound analytical skills in the study of semantic relationships between ST and TT To train the students in the art of translation

Unit – I Translation and literature 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Translation in the Developing, Multilingual Countries Place of translation in literary studies Translation as a colonial enterprise Translation as decolonizing tool Gender and Translation 6. Evaluation of a translated Text

Unit – II Translation Theories : Varied Perspectives ·

Linguistic Theories of Translation - Eugene Nida - Roman Jakobson - J. C. Catford

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Literary Theories of Translation : - George Steiner : After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation - A. K. Ramanujan : On Translating a Tamil Poem - Walter Benjamin : The Task of the Translator - Susan Bassnett : Specific problems of Literary Translation

Unit – III Beyond the Frontiers of Europe ·

Post-colonial Theories of Translation : - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak : “The Politics of Translation” - Tejaswini Niranjana : ‘Translation as Disruption’, Translation, Text and Theory : The Paradigm of India, Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Ed), New Delhi : Sage, 2002, 55-76

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Indian Theories of Translation : - Ganesh Gevy : ‘Translation Theory : An Indian Perspective’

Unit – III Translation and Evaluation - Analysis and Evaluation of Unseen Paired Texts - Translation of a given text from English into an Indian language (Kannada / Hindi) - Translation of a given text from an Indian language (Kannada / Hindi) into English

Suggested Reading · · · · · · · · · · ·

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Biguenet, John and Rainer Schulte, editors Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida. 260 p. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 1992 Bassnet McGuire Susan : Translation Studies, Methuen, London and N. Y. 1980. Catford J. C. : A Linguistic Theory of Translation, London OUP, 1965. Holmes, James (ed.) : The Nature of Translation : Essays on the Theory and practice of Literary Translation, The Hague Mouton, 1970. Jacobson, Roman (ed.) : 'On Linguistic Aspects of Translation', in R. Brower (ed.) On Translation, Cambridge Mass Harvard UP, 1959. Kelly L. G. True Interpreter : A History of Translation Theory and Practice in the West, Oxford, Blackwell, 1979. Nida, Eugene Anwar Dil, (ed.), Language Structure and Translation, Stanford University Press, 1975. Steneir George : After Babel : Aspects of Language and Translation, OUP, London,1975. Sujeet Mukherjee : Translation as Discovery.

R. Raghunath Rao, Translation between Related and Nonrelated Languages, New Delhi : Bharatiya Anuvad Parishat, 1990 (70 pages) Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India, Kamala Ganesh and Usha Thakkar, New Delhi : Sage, 2005 A. K. Ramanujan, ‘On Translating a Tamil Poem’

2.6 English for Communication (Open Elective) Objectives · To help the students to improve communicative competence, i.e. the ability to communicate in English according to the situation and the purpose. · To provide an exciting new approach to learning English by providing stimulating and motivating material and a wide range of activities Unit I Phonetics of English · ·

Sounds and sound patterns Word stress and basic intonation patterns

Suggested Reading :

Bansal and Harrison, Spoken English for Indian Students, Orient Longman Balasubramanian, English Phonetics for Indian Students, Chennai: Macmillan

Unit II Remedial English Grammar · · ·

Time and Tense Agreement Basic sentence types

Suggested Reading :

David Green, Contemporary English Grammar Structures, Chennai : MacMillan, 1971 K. Krishnamurthy, Modern English, Chennai : MacMillan, 1975

Unit III Writing skills · · · ·

Paragraph Structure : Unity and coherence, clarity and freshness Notices, Agendas, Minutes Letters and Fax messages Reports

Suggested Reading :

Z. N. Patil,et al, English for Practical Purposes, New Delhi : MacMillan, 2000, Pp. 1 – 52

Unit IV Conversational Skills ·

Introducing, Greeting, Requesting, Inviting, Taking leave, Suggesting, Agreeing, Disagreeing, Complaining, Apologizing

Suggested Reading :

Z. N. Patil,et al, English for Practical Purposes, New Delhi : MacMillan, 2000, Pp. 53 – 90 ·

Situations : At the College, On the campus, Outside the class, At the post office, At the bank

Suggested Reading :

K. Krishnaswamy and T. Sriraman, Creative English for Communication, Chennai : MacMillan, 2009, Pp 3 – 82