CC-8: European Classical Literature
Credits 06 C8T:
European Classical Literature
Course Contents:
- Homer: The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985)( Book I ).
- Sophocles: Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
- Plautus: Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).
- Ovid Selections from Metamorphoses ‘Bacchus’, (Book III), ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (Book IV), tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
- The Epic
- Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama
- The Athenian City State
- Catharsis and Mimesis
- Satire
- Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome
Suggested Readings:
- Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath, (London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, and 26.
- Plato, The Republic, Book X, tr. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin, 2007).
- Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires, Epistles and ArsPoetica (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) pp. 451–73.
CC-9: Modern European Drama Credits 06
C9T: Modern European Drama
Course Contents:
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
- Politics, Social Change and the Stage
- Text and Performance
- European Drama: Realism and Beyond
- Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama
- The Theatre of the Absurd
Suggested Readings:
- Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, chap. 8, ‘Faith and the Sense of Truth’, tr. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, pp. 121–5, 137–46.
- Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Street Scene’, ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction’, and ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 68–76, 121–8.
- George Steiner, ‘On Modern Tragedy’, in The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber, 1995) pp. 303–24.
CC-10: Popular Literature
Credits 06
C10T: Popular Literature
Course Contents:
- Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass
- Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy
- Sukumar Ray: AbolTabol (Translated by Sukanta Chowdhuri)/Autobiographical Notes on Ambedkar (For the Visually Challenged students)
Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics
- Coming of Age
- The Canonical and the Popular
- Caste, Gender and Identity
- Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature
- Sense and Nonsense
- The Graphic Novel
Suggested Readings:
- Chelva Kanaganayakam, ‘Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature’ (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and Victor J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Delhi: Doaba Publications, 2001) pp. 51–6
- Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices andIdeologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix.
- Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super Culture:American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975) pp. 29–38. Ø Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English Literary History, vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.