Course

Unit 1

Introduction to Literature – Nature & Elements of Literature, literature as an expression of personal & historic aspects. Narrative structure & technique. Introduction to Indian Literature: Pre-independence, postindependence, themes, writers, and problems.  

Unit 2

Linguistic Devices: Theme, Diction, syntax & syntactical deviations, Rhetorical devices, figures of speech 

Unit 3

Poetry:  

• The Frog and the Nightingaleby Vikram Seth  
• An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu  
• Death of the Wolf by Toru Dutt  

Unit 4

Short stories: 

Detail-  

A Dog’s Life by Mulk Raj Anand 

Interpreter of Maladies by Jumpha Lahiri 

Unit 5

 Non-Detail Reading: 

Three Persons by Vijay Sheshadri  

The Wolf’s Postcript To ‘Little Red Riding Hood‘ by Agha Shahid Ali  

The Naive Friendsby Premchand  

The Woman on Platform 8 by Ruskin Bond  

Text Books / References

Core Reading :  

• Iyengar, Srinivasa – The Indian Contribution to English Literature. Karnatak?ishing House, Bombay, 1945? 
• Iyengar, Srinivasa – Indian Writing in English : 1800-1980 – Sterling Publishing House, 2019?? 

References 

• Seth, Vikram, Beastly Tales, Penguin India, 2013 
• Naidu, Sarojini, The Golden Threshold1905 
• Dutt, Toru –A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields1876 
• Anand, Raj Mulk, Selected Short Stories Penguin India, 2006 
• Tagore, Rabindranath, Mashi and Other Stories, True Sign Publishing House, 2021 
• Lahiri, Jumpha – Interpreter of Maladies Harpercollins Publishers India, 2005  
• Sheshadri, Vijay – POETRY Magazine, December 2010 
• Ali, Shahid Agha,The Wolf’s Postcript To ‘Little Red Riding Hood‘ Academy of American Poets, poets.org 
• Premchand – , Mindfuel’s 4 In 1 Story By Munshi Premchand – Power Of A Curse, The Naive Friends, A Complex Problem & A Lesson In The Holy LifeMindfuel Publishers, 2020 
• Bond, Ruskin – The Woman on Platform 8, The Illustrated Weekly of India  

Objectives:  

• To expose students to various genres of English literature  
• To expose the students to Indian English Writing of different timelines. 
• To develop a sensibility to read and understand literary works. 
• To introduce a few linguistic devices to enable them to appreciate literary forms stylistically