IGNOU MA English Syllabus

University Name

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Course Name

Master of Arts in English (MEG)

Course Duration 

2 years (4 semesters) 

Approvals and Accreditations

UGC-DEB, AICTE, NAAC with A++ Grade

Age Criterion

No Age Limit

Medium 

English

Tuition Fee

INR 15,400 (excluding forms, exam fees, etc.)

MEG 1

British Poetry 

8

MEG 2

British Drama

8

MEG 3

British Novels 

8

MEG 4

Aspects of Language 

8

Blocks

Units

Block 1: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet Chaucer

1: From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems (1370–80)

2: A Prelude to the Study of Poetry (Rhetoric & Prosody), Iambic, Trochaic, Anapest, Dactylic, Amphibrachic, Strong stress metres, quantitative metres, syllabic metres, rhythm, rhyme schemes, etc

3: The Age of Chaucer

4: Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey: Roman de la Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales

5: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

6: A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale I

7: A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale II

Block 2: Renaissance Poets: Undertaking a Study of Spenser 

8: The Renaissance Age

9: Edmund Spenser

10: Spenser’s Poetry: The Amoretti Sonnets, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 67, Sonnet 77

11: Spenser’s Poetry – II: The Epithalamion, The Prothalamion

Block 3: The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert & Marvell

12: British Poetry in the 17th Century (pre-Restoration): Historical Background, Cultural Background, The Astronomical Revolution, Spenserians (– Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, Wither, William Browne), the Cavalier Poets (– Robbert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace), the Metaphysical Poets (– Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne), the Early Augustans (– Edmund Waller, Sir William Davenant, Sir John Denham, Abraham Cowley)

13: John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of four Love Poems; The Flea, Twicknam Garden, The Good Morrow, The Extasie

14: John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith: The Canonisation, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Nocturnal Upon S Lucy's Day, Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God, Hymn To God The Father

15: George Herbert: A Study of His Poems: Affliction, The Collar, Easter Wings, Love (3), The Pulley, Redemption, The Windows, Aaron

16: Andrew Marvell: A Study of His Poems: To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, A Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland

Block 4: Renaissance Poets: Studying Milton

17: The Late Renaissance

18: Milton: The Life

19: A Survey of Milton’s Lesser Poems & Prose: On the Death of An Infant, At A Vacation Exercise

20: On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity & Lycidas

21: L’Allegro, Il Penseroso & the Sonnets 19 & 23

Block 5: The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden & Pope 

22: The Age of Dryden

23: John Dryden

24: Mac Flecknoe, (Alexander’s Feast Or The Power of Music An Ode In Honour of St Cecilia’s Day)

25: Pope: A Background to An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

26: Pope: The Study of An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

Block 6: The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge

27: Introduction to Romantic Poetry: Early Romantic Poets (– James Thomson, Mark Akenside, Joseph Warton, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats)

28: William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper, The Divine Image, The Sick Rose, London, The Tyger

29: Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Book I: A Critical Analysis

30: Coleridge: Kubla Khan & Dejection: An Ode

Block 7: The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats

31: The Volcanic Voice of Hope: P. B. Shelley

32: A Study of The Triumph of Life

33: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment – I

34: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, II

35: The Romantic Age: A Review

Block 8: The Victorian Poets: Robert Browning, D. G. & Christina Georgiana Rossetti, Oscar Wilde

36: The Victorian Age: Selected Studies

37: Robert Browning: Life & Aspirations: Sordello in Mantua

38: Robert Browning: Two Early Poems: Porphyria’s Lover, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St Praxed’s Church

39: Two Poems from Men and Women: Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi

40: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Christina Georgina Rossetti: My Sister’s Sleep, The Blessed Damozel; Goblin Market

41: Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Block 9: The Modernist Poets

42: Modern British Poetry: An Introduction

43: W. B. Yeats: Background, System, and Poetic Career until 1910: Adam’s Curse, No Second Troy

44: The Later Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916, Sailing to Byzantium, Lapis Lazuli

45: T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (I)

46: T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (II)

47: T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (III)

Block 10: The Modernist & Post Modernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, A Symposium & Essays and Evaluations

48: Dylan Thomas: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Poem in October, Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire, Of Child in London

49: Philip Larkin: I Remember, I Remember, Toads, Toads Revisited, Mr Bleaney, Church Going, The Whitsun Weddings, At Grass

50: Sylvia Plath & Confessional Poetry: The Colossus, Daddy, Lazy Lazarus, Purdah, Ariel, Pursuit, The Applicant, Fever 103°

51: So! Now! What is Poetry? Once Again: A Symposium

52: Essays & Evaluations

Blocks

Units 

Block 1: Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

1: Christopher Marlowe And The Elizabethan Drama

2: The Tragic Drama of Doctor Faustus

3: Irony And The Tragic Dilemma In Doctor Faustus

4: The Renaissance And Reformation In Doctor Faustus

5: Dramatic Poetry In Doctor Faustus

6: The Performance Of Doctor Faustus

Block 2: Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1: Background: Performance

2: Romantic Comedy and the Language of the Play

3: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - I

4: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - II

5: The Mechanicals

Block 3: Shakespeare: Hamlet

1: Background

2: Interpretations

3: Language of Literature

4: Hamlet: Other Dimensions

5: “The World As Stage”: Wider Perspective

6: Current Critical Approaches to Hamlet

Block 4: Ben Jonson: The Alchemist

1: The Dramatic Career of Ben Jonson

2: Jonsonian Comedy and The Alchemist

3: The Structure of The Alchemist

4: The Alchemist in the Theatre

5: Characterisation and Language

Block 5: John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

1: Background to the Playboy

2: Critical Annotations to the Playboy

3: Close Analysis of the Playboy

4: The Playboy: A Discussion

5: The Playboy: A Discussion (contd.)

Block 6: George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

1: Background of English Drama from the Restoration Period to Bernard Shaw

2: Pygmalion: Themes and Issues

3: Dramatic Structure and Mingling of Genres

4: Language and Style

Block 7: T S Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

1: T.S. Eliot’s Essays And Other Works Related to the Play

2: Background, Production and Performance History

3: Critical Approaches to Play-I

4: Critical Approaches to Play-II

5: General Comments and other Reading

Block 8: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

1: Background to the Play

2: The Characters

3: Language and Speech in Look Back in Anger

4: Critical Approaches in Look Back in Anger

5: Anger and After: The Play’s Subsequent Importance

Block 9: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

1: Waiting for Godot: An Avant-Garde Play

2: Godot: A Critical Analysis- I

3: Themes and Issues-I

4: Themes and Issues-II

Block 1: Henry Fieldings: The History of Tom Jones A Foundling (1749)

Block 2: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Block 3: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Block 4: Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860-1861, 1861, 1862)

Block 5: George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)

Block 6: Josef Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1898-1899)

Block 7: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man (1916)

Block 8: Edward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India (1912-14)

Block 1: What is Language?

Block 2: A History of the English Language

Block 3: Phonetics & Phonology I

Block 4: Phonetics & Phonology II

Block 5: English Syntax

Block 6: Language In Use - I

Block 7: Language In Use - II

Block 8: The Spread of English

Block 9: Stylistics

Compulsory Course

MEG 5 

Literary Criticism and Theory 

8

Optional Courses (students to choose any three)

MEG 6

American Literature

8

MEG 7 

Indian English Literature

8

MEG 8 

New Literature in English 

8

MEG 9

Australian Literature

8

MEG 10

English Studies in India

8

MEG 11

American Novel 

8

MEG 12

A Survey Course in 20th Century Canadian Literature 

8

MEG 13

Writing from the Margins

8

MEG 14

Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation

8

MEG 15 

Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice

8

MEG 16

Indian Folk Literature

8

Block 1: An Introduction

Block 2: Classical Criticism

Block 3: Romantic Criticism

Block 4: New Criticism

Block 5: Marxist View of Literature

Block 6: Feminist Theories

Block 7: Deconstruction

Block 8: Contemporary Literary Theory

Block 1: Contexts of American Literature: The Puritans & the Enlightenment

Block 2: American Fiction-I

Block 3: American Fiction-II

Block 4: American Prose

Block 5: American Poetry-I

Block 6: American Poetry-II

Block 7: American Short Story

Block 8: American Drama

Block 9: Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

Block 1: Non-Fictional Prose

Block 2: Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable

Block 3: Raja Rao: Kanthapura

Block 4: Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

Block 5: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children

Block 6: The Short Story

Block 7: Poetry

Block 8: Mahesh Dattani: Tara

Blocks 

Units 

Block 1: Introduction

1: Naming the Discipline

2: African Literature: Culture and Post – Nationalist Politics in Kenya and Nigeria

3: Caribbean Literature: The Aesthetics of Diaspora

4: South Asian Literature

5: Australian Literature: Interrogating National Myths

6: Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape

Block 2: A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

1: Africa – The Dark Continent and Kenya – The Land of Gikuyu and Mumbi

2: Literature and Politics

3: Modern Novel in Africa

4: A Grain of Wheat – Summary

5: A Grain of Wheat – An Evaluation

Block 3: A Dance of the Forests: Wole Soyinka

1: An Introduction to Nigeria and to the Yoruba World

2: Wole Soyinka's Life and Works

3: A Dance of the Forests: Summary

4: Critical Commentary on A Dance of the Forests

5: Wole Soyinka's Major Dramatic Works

Block 4: Ice- Candy- Man: Bapsi Sidhwa

1: The Author: Background, Works, and Significance of the Title

2: The Narrative Voice in Ice Candy Man

3: Feminist Inscriptions in Ice Candy Man

4: Parsi Identity in Ice Candy Man

5: Ice Candy Man as a Novel of the Partition

6: Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man: A Postcolonial Perspective

Block 5: A House for Mr Biswas: V S Naipaul

1: Naipaul and his critics

2: Mr Biswas and the Tulsis

3: Mr Biswas and his Dream House

4: Why did Mr Biswas want a House?

5: Putting A House for Mr Biswas in Perspective

Block 6: Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott & Edward Brathwaite

1: Introduction to Caribbean Poetry

2: Derek Walcott – I

3: Derek Walcott – II

4: (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite – I

5: (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite – II

6: The Theoretical Paradigms for Caribbean Literature

Block 7: The Solid Mandala: Patrick White

1: The Novelist and the Novel

2: Openings and Preoccupations

3: Denizens of the Australian Emptiness

4: Messages in Motifs

5: Techniques

6: Perspectives

Block 8: The Stone Angel: Margaret Laurence

1: The Novelist and Her Main Thematic Concerns

2: Hagar and the Theme of Self-Alienation

3: The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening

4: Major Aspects of the Novel

Blocks

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Block 1: An Introduction to Australian Literature

1: Australian Literature

2: Australia – Land and History

3: Australia – People and Culture

4: Literary Beginnings – Oral Literature

5: Early Literature

6: Themes and Trends

Block 2: Nineteenth-Century Australian Poetry

1: 19th Century Australian Poetry: An Introduction

2: W C Wentworth: Australasia, Wild Colonial Boy

3: Charles Harpur: The Bush Fire, A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest

4: Henry Kendall: Bell - Birds, After Many Years

5: A L Gordon & A B Paterson: The Sick Stockrider, The Man From Snowy River

6: Ada Cambridge: An Answer

Block 3: Introduction to Short Fiction

1: Introduction to short fiction/ story

2: Marcus Clarke: The Seizure of Cyprus

3: Barbara Baynton: The Chosen Vessel

4: Henry Lawson: The Drover's Wife; The Union Buries Its Dead

5: Arthur Hoey Davis: Cranky Jack

6: Christina Stead: The Old School

Block 4: Modern Australian Poetry (1901 -1970)

1: Introduction: An Overview

2: Beginnings: Christopher Brennan - Each Day I See the Long Ships Coming Into Port; John Shaw Neilson - The Orange Tree

3: The Notion of Australia: Kenneth Slessor - South Country; R D Fitzgerald - This Night's Orbit

4: Keepers of the Flame: Judith Wright: Legend, Bullocky; David Campbell - The Australian Dream

5: Coming of Age: James McAuley - Terra Australis; A D Hope - Australia, Moschus Moschiferus

6: The Marginalised Voice: Rosemary Dobson - Cock Crow, Odgeroo Noonuccal - We Are Going; Rex Ingamells - History, Moorawathimeering; 'Ern Malley' - Durer: Innsbruck, 1495; Ania Walwicz - Australia (prose); John Farrell - From Australia; Douglas Stewart - Terra Australis; Bernard O' Dowd - Australia; The Southern Call

Block 5: Voss: Patrick White

1: Rise and Development of the Australian Novel

2: As We First Read Voss

3: Romantic Elements in Voss

4: Multiple Themes in Voss

5: Modern Readings: Some Important Areas

Block 6: Contemporary Australian Poetry (1970 Onwards)

1: Contemporary Australia

2: Bruce Dawe & Les Murray: At Shagger's Funeral; The Quality of Sprawl, Blood

3: Chris Wallace - Crabbe & Gwen Harwood: Melbourne; In The Park

4: Ee Tiang & Kevin Gilbert: Coming To; Mister Man

5: Mudrooroo Narogin & Gig Ryan: Harijan; If I Had A Gun

Block 7: Remembering Babylon: David Malouf

1: Contemporary Australian Fiction: An Overview

2: The Author, His Creativity and Remembering Babylon

3: Structure, Characters and Metaphors

4: Narrative Strategies and Communication

5: Themes

Block 8: The Removalists. David Williamson

1: An Overview of Australian Drama

2: David Williamson's Dramatic World

3: Reading The Removalists

4: Themes and Techniques

Blocks

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Block 1: Institutionalisation of English Studies in India

1: Entry of English: A Historical Overview

2: Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan

3: A View of Post-Independence Debates

4: Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium

Block 2: Beginnings of Indian English Writing

1: The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings

2: Henry Louis Vivian Deroizo and the Early Voice of Identity

3: Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity

4: Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life

Block 3: Beginnings of the Indian English Novel

1: The Contexts of Bankim

2: Themes in Rajmohan's Wife-I

3: Themes in Rajmohan's Wife-II

4: Marriage and Transgression in Bankim's Other Novels

Block 4: Different Englishes

1: Evolution of English

2: Nativisation of English in Post-Independent India (Functions of English)

3: Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology

4: Intelligibility of Indian English Globally

5: Debate Over Native and Non-Native Englishes

6: Space of English in the Indian Multilingual Setting

Block 5: Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature

1: Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature

2: The March of TELI in India

3: Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context

4: English Teaching in India

5: The Lie of the Land: English in India

6: Publishing in India and English Studies

Block 6: Questioning the 'Canon'

1: Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon

2: The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon

3: Possibilities of New Agreements

4: Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, and Culture

5: The Crisis in English Studies

6: Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base

Block 7: Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing

1: Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism

2: Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand, and Raja Rao

3: Feminism: Indian English Writers

4: The Dalit Canon

Block 8: Decolonising the Mind

1: Orientalism and After

2: Literature and Nationalism

3: Decolonising the Mind

4: Civilizational Conflicts in Literature

5: Resisting Colonisation and Re-colonisation

Blocks 

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Block 1: James F Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans

1: The Beginnings

2: The Man, The Milieu, And the Moment

3: The Last of the Mohicans: An Analysis

4: Perspectives on the Novel-I

5: Perspectives on the Novel-II

Block 2: Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie

1: The Literary Context

2: Theodore Dreiser: The Man and the Writer

3: Sister Carrie: A Critical Summary

4: Sister Carrie: A Critical Study of the Major Themes

5: Language and Art in Sister Carrie

Block 3: F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

1: The Man, The Milieu, And the Moment

2: The Plot and the Self-Improving Hero

3: The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory

4: The Great Gatsby: The Narrative Technique

5: Critics and Criticism: An Overview

Block 4: William Faulkner: Light in August

1: American Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s

2: The Novel in the South

3: Light in August: Structure and Narrative Strategies

4: Characterisation and Critical Approaches

Block 5: Henry Miller: Black Spring

1: Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature

2: The Great Tradition

3: The Outsider

4: The Indelible Impact

5: Henry Miller's: Black Spring

6: Critical Approaches

Block 6: J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye

1: The Author and the Plot

2: The Main Themes and Characters

3: The Language in The Catcher in the Rye

4: Critical Interpretations

Block 7: John Barth: Floating Opera

1: The Postwar American Novel

2: The Experimental Novel

3: The Floating Opera: An Analysis of the Text

4: Philosophical Formulations and the Farce of Reasons

5: From Modernity to Post-Modernity

Block 8: Scott Momaday: A House Made of Dawn

1: Native American Literature

2: Native American Fiction

3: The Making of Momaday

4: A House Made of Dawn: An Analysis

5: Critical perspectives

Block 9: Alice Walker: The Color Purple

1: The Woman, the Moment, and the Milieu-I

2: The Woman, the Moment, and the Milieu-II

3: The Color Purple and its structure

4: Analysis of Celie's Letters-I

5: Analysis of Celie's Letters-II

6: Themes Emerging from Celie's Letters

Blocks 

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Block 1: Contexts of Canadian Writing

1: Canada: Land And People

2: Literary Beginnings

3: English Canadian Theatre and Drama

4: Canadian Discourse on Nature and Technology

Block 2: Recent Canadian Poetry

5: The Growth of Canadian Poetry

6: Recent Commonwealth Poetry and Canada's place in it

7: Two major Novelists as Poets: Margaret Atwood - A Sibyl and Michael Ondaatje - Letters and Other Worlds

8: Five Other Important Poets

Block 3: Surfacing: Margaret Atwood

9: Development of the Canadian Novel

10: Margaret Atwood: Life and Works

11: Surfacing: Theme, Structure, Technique and Characterization

12: Surfacing: Language

Block 4: The Tin Flute: Gabrielle Roy

13: French Canadian Writing (Quebec)

14: Gabrielle Roy: Life and Works

15: The Tin Flute: Structure and Theme

16: The Tin Flute: Characterization and Technique

Block 5: The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje

17: Canadian-South Asian Diasporic Writing

18: Ondaatje: Life and Works

19: The English Patient: Theme, Structure and Characterization

20: The English Patient: Technique

Block 6: Canadian Short Story

21: Short Fiction in General and the Canadian Short Story

22: 'A Mother in India': Sara Jenette Duncan

23: 'Sunday Afternoon': Alice Munro; 'Where Is The Voice Coming From': Rudy Wiebe

24: 'Swimming Lessons': Rohinton Mistry; 'The Door I Shut Behind Me': Uma Parameswaran

Block 7: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe: Drama: George Ryga

25: Canadian Drama: The General Dramatic Scene

26: Introduction to the Writer and the Structure of the Play

27: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe: Theme and Characterization

28: Dramatic Technique in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and the Brechtian Angle

Block 8: Development of Canadian Criticism

29: The recent developments of Canadian Criticism

30: Northrop Frye

31: Linda Hutcheon

32:Smaro Kamboureli 

Blocks

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Block 1: Theory, Culture and History of Dalits

1: Historical Background

2: Dalit Canon

3: Dalit Discourse

4: Dalit Identity and Culture

5: Dalit Viewpoints and Voices–I

6: Dalit Viewpoints and Voices–II

Block 2: Fiction and Autobiographical Writings

1: Balbir Madhopuri: Changia Rukh: Against the Night–I

2: Balbir Madhopuri: Changia Rukh: Against the Night–II

3: Bama: Sangati–I

4: Bama: Sangati–II

Block 3: Poetry

1: Sunny Kavikkad: Two Poems "Naked Truths", "With Love"

2: Kalekuri Prasad: "For a Fistful of Self Respect" Adigopula Venkataratnam: "Jasmine Creeper under a Banayan Tree"

3: Basudev Sunani: "Coaching Centre"

4: Hira Bansode: "Yashodhara" L.S. Rokade: "To Be or Not to be Born"

Block 4: Drama and Short Fiction

1: Contextualising Dalit Writing

2: Datta Bhagat: Routes and Escape Routes

3: Short Stories: "The Poisoned Bread" and "The Storeyed House"

4: Short Stories: "The Flame" and "Fear"

Block 5: Theory, Culture and the History of Tribals

1: Historical Background

2: Tribal World View

3: Tribal Discourse

4: Nature and Celebration in Tribal Life

5: Tribal Thought: Some Voices-I

6: Tribal Thought: Some Voices-II

Block 6: Oral Narratives

1: Santal Folk Tales

2: Legend of the Lepchas (Folk Tales)

3: Folk Tales of Mizoram and Meghalaya

4: Folk Songs of the Oraons

Block 7: Fiction and Autobiography

1: Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C. K. Janu

2: Kocharethi: The Araya Woman - Background to the Text and Context

3: Kocharethi: The Araya Woman - A Study of the Novel

Block 8: Poetry, Drama and Short Fiction

1: Marchal Hembrom: "I Must Pick Up the Bow" Nirmala Putul: "If You Were In My Place"

2: Poem: "Song of Netarhaat: Victory Trumpet is Sounding"

3: Contextualising Tribal Literature

4: Budhan: An Analysis

5: Writers of Short Fiction: Temsula AO and Lummer Dai 

Blocks 

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Block 1: Background Studies

1: The Concept of Indian Literature

2: The Concept of Indian Literature: Modern Period

3: Comparative Studies in Indian Literature

4: English Translation of Indian Literature

Block 2: Samskara: U R Anantha Murthy

1: The Writer and His Literary Context

2: Samskara: The Narrative

3: Samskara: Form and Themes

4: Samskara: Characters, Titles, Literary Criticism and Contemporary Relevance

Block 3: Tamas: Bhisham Sahni

1: The Writer and the Partition

2: Getting to Know the Text

3: Making Sense of the Narrative

4: Characters and Characterisation 

5: An Overview

Block 4: Short Story–I

1: Mahasweta Devi: Salt [Noon: Bangla]

2: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer: Birthday [Janmadinam: Malayalam]

3: Nirmal Verma: Birds [Parinde]

4: Ismat Chughtai: Tiny’s Granny [Nanhi Ki Naani: Urdu]

5: Gopinath Mohanty: Tadpa [Tadpa: Oriya]

Block 5: Short Story–II

1: The Empty Chest

2: Very Lonely, She

3: Headmaster, Prawn, Chanchur

4: The Compromise

Block 6: Poetry

1: K S Nonkynrih: Requiem (Khasi); Chandra Kanta Murasingh: The Stone Speaks in the Forest (Kokborok); Yumlembem Ibocha Singh: The Last Dream

2: Haribhajan Singh: Tree and the Sage [Rukh Te Rishi / Punjabi]; Raghuvir Sahay: The Stare [Taktaki / Hindi]

3: Dina Nath Nadim: The Moon [Zoon / Kashmiri]; Padma Sachdev: The Moment of Courage [Dogri]

4: Kondepudo Nirmala: Mother Serious [Telugu]; Vimala: Kitchen [Telugu]; K Ayyappa Paniker: I Met Walt Whitman Yesterday: An Interview [Njaan Innale Walt Whitmaane Kandu – Oru Interview / Malayalam]

5: Ramakanta Rath: Sri Radha [Oriya]; Shakti Chattopadhyay: Just One Try [Akbar Tumi / Bangla]

6: Sitanshu Yashaschandra: Orpheus [Gujarati]; Namdeo Dhasal: A Notebook of Poems and Autobiography [Kavetechi Vahi; Atmacharithra / Marathi]

Block 7: TUGHLAQ: Girish Karnad

1: Introducing Contemporary Indian Theatre

2: Introducing the Author and the Play

3: Tughlaq: Structure, Themes and Motifs

4: Characters and Critical Comments on the Play

Block 8: Non-Fictional Prose

1: Amrita Rai: Premchand: His Life and Times [Kalam Ka Sipahi: Biography / Hindi]

2: Bama / Faustina Mary Fatima Rani: Karukku [Karukku: Autobiography / Tamil]

3: Saadat Hasan Manto: On Ismat [Ismat Chugtai: Pen Sketch, Urdu]

4: Umaprasad Mukhopadhyaya: Manimahesh [Manimahesh: Travel Writing / Bengali]

Block 1: Introduction

Block 2: Comparative Indian Literature-1

Block 3: Comparative Indian Literature-2

Block 4: Comparative World Literature-1

Block 5: Comparative World Literature-2

Block 6: Literature and Culture: Exchanges and Negotiations-1

Block 7: Literature and Culture: Exchanges and Negotiations-2

Block 1: Folk Literature and Language: Research and Pedagogy

Block 2: Identity and Hybridity: Kshetra and Desha

Block 3: Folk Literature: Sources, Characteristics, Classifications and Functions

Block 4: Folktales of India: Motifs, Modes and Mores

Block 5: Folk Poetry

Block 6: Folk in Contemporary Indian Fiction

Block 7: Folk Theatre