Course

Languages

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 Nightingale by 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 Friends by Premchand

The Woman on Platform 8 by Ruskin Bond

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 

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

Evaluation Pattern :

References

• Seth, Vikram, Beastly Tales, Penguin India, 2013
• Naidu, Sarojini, The Golden Threshold 1905
• Dutt, Toru – A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields 1876
• 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 Life Mindfuel Publishers, 2020
• Bond, Ruskin – The Woman on Platform 8, The Illustrated Weekly of India