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Course Core course (each course 6 Credits) 2 Electives (each course 4 Credits) Total
No. Credits
1 a Literary Terms and Tools I i) Retellings of Epic Literature 20
such as: literariness, text, metaphor, image, [different re-tellings of Ramayana,
symbol, fiction, author, reader, theme, plot, Odyssey, Shahnamah, etc
kavya, rasa
Course Core course (each course 6 Credits) 3 Electives (each course 4 Credits) Total
No. Credits
3 Comparative Literature : Definition, Scope and v) Early Indian Novels: 24
Method Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay:
The course will cover: 1) Comparative Durgeshnandini; Fakir Mohan
Literature in the World; 2) Comparative Senapati:Chha Mana Atha Guntha
Literature in India selected essays; 3) Chandu Menon Indulekha;
Weltliteratur/World Literature and Visva Govardhanram Madhavaram
Sahitya Tripathi: Saraswatichandra
Or, any 19th century novel in an
Indian language
Semester III ( 2 Core Courses 6 credits each + 3 Electives 4 credits each = 24 credits)
Course Core course (each course 6 Credits) Electives (each course 4 Credits) Total
No. Credits
5 Comparative Literature : New Directions x) World Theatre: texts by Ibsen, 24
This course will cover in relation with Chekov, Shaw, Beckett, Walcott,
Comparative Literature: Comparative Cultural Soyinka, Buchi Emecheta
Studies; Translation Studies; Current
Approaches to Comparative Literature
xi) Reception of Shakespeare in
India/ Multimedial Shakespeare/
Shakespeare and world theatre
Course Core course (each course 6 Credits) 2 Electives (each course 4 Credits) Total
No. Credits
7 Comparative Literary Practice: Structural xvii) Theatre of Protest 24
Formal and Thematic Migrations and Mutations
emphasizing Influence and Reception of texts
in different societies and cultures.
Eg. Kathasaritsagara texts; Shahnama;
Macbeth, Hamlet etc.
xviii) Performing Gender
8 Frames of Comparison: xix) Narratives of the Nation
Modern Indian Drama: Tagore: Red Oleanders,
Tendulkar: Silence! Court is in Session, Karnad:
Nagamandala, Dina Mehta: Brides are not for
Burning; Mahesh Dattani: Tara/ Final Solutions
xx) Womens writing
xxi) Literature from the Margins
Course Core course (each course 6 Credits) Electives (each course 4 Credits) Total
No. Credits
11 Frames of Comparison: xxi) Literature and Film 24
Literature and Other Arts and Media
xxii) Creative Writing
12 Academic Writing: Report writing, Book review, xxiii) Media and Reception
Media Review, Copy editing
xxiv) Graphic Novels
xxv) Literature and Environment
xxvi) Project
xxvii) Indian language& literature6
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