CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (CBCS) SYLLABUS FOR. Master of Arts in English Academic Year

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1 CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (CBCS) SYLLABUS FOR Master of Arts in English Academic Year Department of English, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara :

2 Sr. No. Course No: Course Code No. Structure of The Course COURSE NAME Credit Page No: SEMESTER : 1 1. Core 01 ENG: 2101 English Poetry : I Core 02 ENG: 2102 Fiction : I Core 03 ENG: 2103 Modern Literary Theory and Criticism I Core 04 ENG: 2104 Indian Writing in English Core 05 ENG: 2105 Introduction to Comparative Literary Studies * IDE : 1 ENG: 2107 Literature and Gender Project Work : 1 ENG: 2106 Written Assignments and Presentation SEMESTER : 2 8. Core 06 ENG: 2201 English Poetry : II Core 07 ENG: 2202 Fiction : II Core 08 ENG: 2203 Varieties of Non-Fictional Prose Core 09 (A) ENG: 2204 American Literature 22 Core 09 (B) ENG: 2205 Canadian Literature Core 10 (A) ENG: 2206 European Literature 26 Core 10 (B) ENG: 2207 Latin American Literature Project Work : 2 ENG: 2208 Written Assignments and Presentation IDE : 2 ENG: 2209 Literature and Race SEMESTER : Core ENG: 23C Drama : I Core 12 ENG: 2312C12 English Studies in India : I Core 13 ENG: 2313C13 Modern Literary Theory and Criticism II Core 14 ENG: 2314C14 Special Author : Shakespeare Core 15 ENG: 2315C15 Introduction to Translation Studies Project Work : 3 ENG: 2306P03 Written Assignments and Presentation IDE : 3 ENG: 2307E03 Literature and Caste SEMESTER : Core 16 ENG: 2401C16 Drama : II Core 17 ENG: 2402C17 English Studies in India : II Core 18 ENG: 2403C18 English Language Teaching Core 19 (A) ENG: 2404C19 Indian Literature in Translation 54 Core 19 (B) ENG: 2405C19 Diaspora Writings of the Indian Subcontinent Core 20 (A) ENG: 2406C20 Practical Criticism 58 Core 20 (B) ENG: 2407C20 Introduction to Practical Translation Project Work : 4 ENG: 2308P04 Written Assignments and Presentation IDE : 4 * IDE :IV Literature and Film TOTAL CREDITS 84 *Interdisciplinary Elective Courses namely IDE : I, IDE : II, IDE : III, and IDE : VI are offered by the Department of English to the PG students of other departments, however, PG the students of Department of English are required to elect IDE offered by the other departments.)

3 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts, Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Academic Year Year I Core Paper : 01 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2101 Hours 45 ENGLISH POETRY : I COURSE OUTLINE This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: get a sense of the major forms and genres of poetry through a study of a range of diverse texts. Discuss the experimentations done upon the conventional genres/forms of poetry in their study of the texts. Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Epic Critical Essay/Short Question/ Unit 2 Villanelle Sestina Haiku COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Critical Essay/Short Question Unit 3 Prose Poetry Critical Essay/Short Question Unit 4 Non-detailed study Critical Essay/Short Question/Short Notes Text/Author/Topics Paradise Lost-Book I: John Milton, Macmillan s Annotated Classics. Chennai: Macmillan, (select lines ) ding_room/pl/book_1/ i) One Art : Elizabeth Bishop ii) Ethel s Sestina Patricia Smith iii) In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound i) Hysteria : T.S Eliot ii) A Long Dress, A Red Hat and a Blue Coat : Gertrude Stein iii) The Bombardment : Amy Lowell pes/a/prose-poems.htm i) Poetic Origins and Final Phases : Harold Bloom in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism. David Lodge, Nigel Wood (eds.) London: Longman, ii) Poetry for Poetry s Sake : A C Bradley in The English Critical Teaching hours 12 1

4 Tradition Vol 2. S. Ramaswami and V.S Sethuraman (eds), Chennai: Macmillan, iii) Poetry Without Verse : Tzvetan Todorov and Catherine Porter The American Poetry Review, Vol. 34, No. 6 (November/December 2005). SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren (eds).understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students, New York: Henry Holt, Caplan, David. Questions of possibility: contemporary poetry and poetic form. US: Oxford University Press, Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms. London and NewYork: Penguin, Delville, Michel. The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre. Gamsville: Univ. Press of Florida, Eliot, T.S. The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, Fenton, James. An Introduction to English Poetry. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Gonzalez, Ray. "No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets." Tupelo Press, Lennard, John. The Poetry Handbook. New Delhi: OUP, Murphy, Margueritte. A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashberry. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Padel, Ruth.52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the Year. London: Vintage, Patridges, C.A.(ed.) Milton s Epic Poetry: Essays on Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Ricks, Christopher. The Force of Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, T S Eliot: Milton I, Milton II in On Poetry and Poets. Faber and Faber, Whitlow, Carolyn Beard and Marilyn Krys (eds.) Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty- First Century Dartmouth: Dartmouth College Press ******** 2

5 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Academic Year Year I Core Paper : 02 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2102 Hours 45 FICTION : 1 COURSE OUTLINE: This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: Acquaint themselves with full-length novels, selected from across nations representing a range of sub-genres in fiction. Study the different periods of historical significance and their impact on the fiction of that age. Equip themselves with the relevant social, political and cultural history of the period, which they can bring to their reading and analysis of the texts. COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Text/Author/Topics Unit 1 Picaresque Novel Critical Essay/ question / Reference to Context Unit 2 Gothic Novel Critical Essay/ question / Reference to Context Unit 3 Unit 4 Epistolary Novel Text/s for Nondetailed Study Critical Essay/ question / Reference to Context Critical Essay/ question / Short Notes Lazarillo de Tormes: Anonymous b/437/pg437.txt The Castle of Utranto: Horace Walpole, Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Color Purple: Alice Walker, Orlando: Houghton Miffin Harcourt, i. Morphology of the Folktale Vladimir Propp, The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale, London, Blackwell Publishing, ii. The Art of Fiction :Henry James. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction ed. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy, London: Duke University Press, Teaching hours 12 3

6 iii. Spatial Form in Modern Literature Joseph Frank. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy. (eds.) London: Duke University Press, SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Kermode, Frank and John Hollander, Modern British Literature London: Oxford University Press, Watt, Ian. The Rise of Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson & Fielding. University of California Press, Foster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Penguin Books, Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of the Novel. Routledge & Kegan Paul Booth, Wayne. Distance and Point-of-view: An Essay in Classification. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction ed. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy, London: Duke University Press, Lodge, David ed. 20 th Century Literary Criticism. London : Orient Longman, Honeywell, J. Arthur. Plot in the Modern Novel. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction ed. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy, London: Duke University Press, Freedman, William. The Literary Motif: A Definition and Evaluation. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction ed. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy, London: Duke University Press, Showalter, Elaine. Towards a Feminist Poetics. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction ed. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy, London: Duke University Press, *************** 4

7 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 03 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2103 Hours 45 MODERN LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM : I COURSE OUTLINE: This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be: familiar with significant issues and debates in the 20 th century western literary theory and criticism equipped with necessary critical terminology and theoretical framework for pursuing research in literary studies able to relate critical and theoretical ideas to their reading and analysis of literature in general COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Structuralism Critical Essay/ Question Unit 2 Marxism Critical Essay/ Question (i) Text/Author/Topics Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative Roland Barthes in Image, Music Text /04/roland-barthes-anintroduction-to-the-structuralistanalysis-of-narrative.pdf (ii) Structural Analysis of Narrative Tzvetan Todorov in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Leitch, Vincent B (ed.), New York: W.W.Norton, 2001 (i) The Historical Novel Georg Lukacs, Literary Theory: An Anthology, Julie Rivkin & Michael Ryan (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, Indian Rpt (ii) Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Louis Althusser, (Rivkin & Ryan) (iii) Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies Stuart Hall (Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism) Teachin g hours 12 5

8 Unit 3 Psychoanalyt ic Criticism Critical Essay/ Question (i) Creative Writers and Day Dreaming : Sigmund Freud ativewriters.pdf (ii) The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience Jacques Lacan (Rivkin & Ryan) (ii) Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature : Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari (Rivkin & Ryan) Unit 4 Non- detailed study Critical Essaytype Questions / Short Question (i) Kinds of Criticism Kenneth Burke (ii) Archetypes of Literature Northrop Frye (iii) The Intentional Fallacy Wimsatt and Beardsley (All from Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism) SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED BOOKS: 1. Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Culler, Jonathan. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Ptress, Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism. Berkeley: University of California Press, Hawkes, Terence. Structuralism and Semiotics. Berkeley: University of California Press,

9 6. Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: W. W. Norton, Lane, Richard J. Fifty Key Literary Theorists. New York and London:Routledge, Lukacs, Georg. History and Class Consciousness Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, Macherey, Pierre. A Theory of Literary Production. Trans. G. Wall. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Propp, Vladimir. The Morphology of the Folktale Trans. Laurence Scott. Austin: University of Texas Press, Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics Trans. Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill, Wright, Elizabeth. Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice. New York: Methuen, Žižek, Slavoj. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, ************ 7

10 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 04 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2104 Hours 45 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH COURSE OUTLINE This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty-five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: This course seeks to: familiarize students to the range and diversity of contemporary writing in English in India comprehend the socio-political-cultural forces that shaped Indian writing in English enable students to rethink the tradition of Indianness and Indian identity highlight the innovations (linguistic/thematic) in creative writing in English in India COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Novel Critical Essay/ Question/ Short notes Unit 2 Drama Critical Essay/ Question/ Short Note/ Reference to Context Unit 3 Poetry Critical Essay/Short Questions/ Reference to Context Text/Author/Topics God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, London: Random House, 2008 Manjula Padmanabhan s Harvest, Delhi: Aurora Metro Publications, Purdah-1 : Imtiaz Dharkar 2. Ganga : Nissim Ezekeil 3. The Bus : Arun Kolatkar 4. Father Returning Home : Dilip Chitre 5. Feeding the Poor at Christmas : Eunice De Souza 6. Sea Breeze : Adil Jussawala 7. Golden Gate 7.8 & 7.9 : Vikram Seth 8. Poona Train : A.K. Ramanujan 9. Boat Ride Along Ganga : Keki Daruwala 10. Hunger : Jayant Mahapatra Teaching hours 12 8

11 Unit 4 Non-detailed study Critical Essaytype Questions/Short Questions/Short Notes Introductions from the following books: 1. The Perishable Empire. Meenakshi Mukherjee. New Delhi: OUP Oxford Modern Indian Poetry in English. Bruce King. New Delhi: OUP An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. A. K. Mehrotra. Ranikhet: Permanent Black SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Bharucha, N.E. and Vrinda Nabar, Eds. Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English. New Delhi: Vision Books, Bhatnagar, M.K., Ed. Commonwealth English Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, Bhatnagar, Vinita, Dhondiyal. Readings in Indian English Literature: Nation, Culture and Identity. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, Bloom, Harold. Salman Rushdie. Chelsea House Publishers: Philadelphia, Chindhade, Shirish. Five Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujam, Arun Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, Parthasarathy. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, King, Bruce: Modern Indian Poetry in English. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. New Delhi: Permanent Black, Ravi Dayal Publisher, Nanavati, U.M. and Prafulla C. Kar, Eds. Rethinking Indian English Literature. Delhi: Pencraft International, Rushdie, Salman: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism: London: Granta, ***** 9

12 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Academic Year Year I Core Paper : 05 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2105 Hours 45 INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES COURSE OUTLINE This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES At the end of this course, students will be able to: show their acquaintance with comparative literary studies as a discipline and it s significant concepts, methods and terminology show their acquaintance with important contemporary debates and deliberations regarding comparative literary studies will be able to understand the significance of reading Indian literatures from a comparative perspective COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Unit 2 Introduction to Comparative Literary Studies Concepts, Methods and Schools of Comparative Literature Critical Essaytype Questions and / or Short Questions Critical Essaytype Questions and / or Short Questions Text/Author/Topics 1. What is Comparative Literature Today? Susan Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, Exquisite Cadavers Stitched from Fresh Nightmares: Of Memes, Hives and Selfish Genes Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization, the John Hopkins University Press, Grounds of comparison: The Crisis in Comparative Indian Literature, EV Ramakrishnan, Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions, Translations. Hyderabad. Orient Blackswan, 20, Interliterariness as a Concept in Comparative Literature. Marian Galik, eb/vol2/iss4/6 Versions of Incommensurability, Natalie Melas, World Literature Teaching hours 12 10

13 Today, Vol. 69, No. 2, Comparative Literature: States of the Art (Spring, 1995), pp Published by: University of Oklahoma Comparative Literature and Translation Andre Lefevere, Comparative Literature, Vol. 47, No. 1, On Translation (winter, 1995), pp. 10 Published by: Duke University Press on behalf of the University of Oregon Unit 3 Comparative Literature and the Indian Context Critical Essaytype Questions and / or Short Questions From Purana to Nutana Meenakshi Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, OUP, 1985 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's Tale Lalita Pandit in Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. 1995, Unit 4 Non-detailed Study Short notes / or Questions The Impossible Subject: Caste and the Gendered Body, Susie Tharu, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31, No. 22 (Jun. 1, 1996), pp Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline, Todd Presner, in Behdad and Thomas eds. A Companion to Comparative Literature Wiley Blackwell, Blackwell Publishing, 20, The French School of Comparative Literature Subha Dasgupta, in Amiya Dev and SK Das ed. Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice. Indian Institute of Advance Study: Simla in association with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1989 Comparative Indian Literature in India: Editorial of Critical Practice AK Singh

14 SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED READING 1. Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, Print. 2. Behdad and Thomas eds. A Companion to Comparative Literature, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 20, Print. 3. Bernheimer, Charles. Ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore and London. John Hopkins University Press Print. 4. Dev, A and Das, S.K. Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice. Indian Institute of Advance Study: Simla in association with Allied Publishers, New Delhi Print. 5. Durisin, Dionyz. Theory of Literary Comparatistics. Bratislava: Veda Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Print. 6. Hogan, Patrick Holm and Lalita Pandit. Ed. Literary India : comparative studies in aesthetics, colonialism, and culture. New York. State University of New York Press, Print. 7. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, OUP, Print. 8. Pollock, Sheldon. Ed. Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Berkley and Los Angeles, California. University of California Press, Ramakrishnan, EV. Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions, Translations. Hyderabad. Orient Blackswan, 20. Print. 10. Saussy Haun ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization, the John Hopkins University Press, Print. ******* 12

15 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Academic Year Year I INTERDISCIPLINARY ELECTIVE 1 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2107 Hours 45 LITERATURE AND GENDER COURSE OUTLINE: This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: provide an understanding of women s writing in conjunction with feminist thought. examine the entry of women s writing into the literary canon as an effect of the changing contours of the women s movement in general and feminist thought in particular integrate women s writing with feminist perspectives offer a cross-cultural perception on women s writing and feminist theory with a focus on writings both Indian and Western. COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Unit 2 Feminism and the Literary Canon Women Writing in the Third World Critical Essay/Short/ Question Critical Essay/Short Question Text/Author/Topics (i) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Madwoman in the Attic. Literary Theory: An Anthology, Julie Rivkin & Michael Ryan (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, Indian Rpt (ii) Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000 (i) Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Eds. Chandra Mohanty et al Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991 (ii) Krupabai Satthianadhan. Saguna: The First Autobiographical Novel Written in English by an Indian Woman. Ed. Chandani Lokuge. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1998 Teaching hours 12 13

16 Unit 3 Unit 4 Women Writing and the Subcontinent Non-detailed study Critical Essay/Short Question Critical Essay/Short Notes/ Short/ (i) Introduction Jasodara Bagchi.Indian Women: Myth and Legend. Jasodara Bagchi. Ed. Hyderabad: Sangam, 1995 (ii) Selections from Nine Indian Women Poets An Anthology. Eunice de Souza(ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 (i) Virginia Woolf. A Room of One s Own. Harmondsworth: Penguin, (ii) Elaine Showalter. Towards a Feminist Poetics. The New Feminist Criticism: Essay on Women, Literature, and Theory, ed. Elaine Showalter. New York: Pantheon, pp (iii) Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, Introduction in Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, (eds.) New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989 SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-study RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Belsey, Catherine and Jane Moore, eds. The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism. London: Macmillan, Chaudhuri, Maitrayee, ed. Feminism in India. Delhi: Kali, Women Unlimited and the Book Review Literary Trust, Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women s Rights and Feminism in India, Delhi: Kali, Menon, Nivedita. Gender and Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford UP, Mitchell, Juliet. Woman s Estate. New York: Pantheon, Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. London & New York: Methuen Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid- Victorian England. Chicago: Chicago UP, Rajan, Rajeshwari Sunder. Real and Imagined Women. London: Routledge, Showalter, Elaine, ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory. New York: Pantheon, Yegenoglu, Meyda. Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, *************** 14

17 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Project Work : 01 Credit 03 Semester I Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2106 Written Assignments and Presentation Hours 45 15

18 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 06 Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2201 Hours 45 ENGLISH POETRY - II COURSE OUTLINE This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: get a sense of the genres of poetry through a study of a range of diverse texts. draw upon the experimentations done upon the conventional genres/forms of poetry in their study of the texts. COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Sonnet, Elegy, Ode Dramatic monologue Limerick and lyric Nondetailed study Critical Essay/Short Question/ Reference to Context Critical Essay/Short Question/ Reference to Context Critical Essay/Short Question/ Reference to Context Critical Essay/Short Question/ Short Notes Text/Author/Topics i) Thou Art Indeed Just : G.M.Hopkins ii) In Memory of W. B. Yeats : W. H. Auden iii) Ode to my Socks : Pablo Neruda i) Porphyria s Lover :Robert Browning inthe Winged Word. David Green (ed.)mumbai and New Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd., ii) Dover Beach : Mathew Arnold in Fifteen Poets. Delhi: OUP, iii) Mrs. Midas Carol Ann Duffy in The World's Wife. Mumbai and New Delhi: Pan Macmillan IndiaLtd., i) The Naming of Cats. :T S Eliot from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ii) The Lucy Poems (any two) William Wordsworth in Fifteen Poets. Delhi: OUP, i) The Language of Paradox in 20 th Century Literary Criticism. David Lodge (ed.)london: Longman, Teaching hours 12 16

19 ii) The Three Voices of Poetry : T.S. Eliot in Norton Anthology of English Literature. M.H. Abrams (ed.) London: W.W.Norton and Co., iii) Poetry and the Forgotten Future : Adrienne Rich in A Human Eye.London: W.W Norton & Company, SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. New Delhi: Thomson Wadsworth, Brogan, T.V.F. The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren (eds).understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students, New York: Henry Holt, Byron, Glennis. Dramatic Monologue (The New Critical Idiom). New York: Routledge, Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms. London and NewYork: Penguin, Eliot, T.S. The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, Fenton, James. An Introduction to English Poetry. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Fry, Paul.H. The Poet s Calling in the English Ode. New Haven: Yale University Press, Fuller, John. The Sonnet (Critical Idiom Series).New York: Routledge, Lennard, John. the Poetry Handbook.New Delhi: OUP, Padel, Ruth.52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the Year. London: Vintage, Ricks, Christopher. The Force of Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, ***** 17

20 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Academic Year Year I Core Paper : 07 Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2202 Hours 45 FICTION : 1I COURSE OUTLINE: This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: acquaint themselves full-length novels, selected from across nations representing a range of sub-genres in fiction study the different periods of historical significance and their impact on the fiction of that age equip themselves with the relevant social, political and cultural history of the period, which they can bring to their reading and analysis of the texts COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Text/Author/Topics Teaching hours Unit 1 Realism Critical Essay/Short Question Middlemarch: George Eliot, Oxford: Oxford World s Classics, Unit 2 Modernism Critical Essay/Short A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Question James Joyce, New York. Signet Unit 3 Unit 4 Post Modernism Non-detailed Study Critical Essay/Short Question Critical Essay/Short Question/Short Notes Classics,1991 Catch-22: Joseph Heller, New York: Simon & Schuster, i) The Reality Effect Roland Barthes. The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, Ed. Dorothy J. Hale, London: Blackwell Publishing, ii) The Concept of Character in Fiction William H. Gass Essentials of the Theory of Fiction Eds. M. Hoffman & P. Murphy, London: Duke University Press,1995. iii) A Brief History of Postmodernist Plot Catherine Burgass. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction Eds. M. Hoffman & P. Murphy, London: Duke University Press,

21 SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-studies RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of the Novel. Routledge & Kegan Paul, Foster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Penguin Books, Barth, John. The Literature of Replenishment in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction ed. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy, London: Duke University Press, Freedman, William. The Literary Motif: A Definition and Evaluation in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy (eds.) London: Duke University Press, Hoffman, M. & P.Murphy. (eds.). Essentials of the Theory of Fiction London: Duke University Press, Honeywell, J. Arthur. Plot in the Modern Novel. in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. M. Hoffman & P.Murphy (eds.) London: Duke University Press, Kermode, Frank and John Hollander. Modern British Literature. London: Oxford University Press, Lodge, David (ed.) 20th Century Literary Criticism. London: Orient Longman, Showalter, Elaine. Towards a Feminist Poetics in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction M. Hoffman & P.Murphy (eds.) London: Duke University Press, Watt, Ian. The Rise of Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson & Fielding. California: University of California Press, ****** 19

22 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 08 Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2203 Hours 45 VARIETIES OF NON-FICTIONAL PROSE COURSE OUTLINE This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: The students will be able to: enlarge the scope and reach of teaching prose in English equip themselves with a range of sub-genres in non-fictional prose in English get a sense of minor literary genres representing a range of countries, periods and types COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Memoir Critical Essay/Short Question Unit 2 Travel Writing Critical Essay/Short Question Unit 3 Autobiography Critical Essay/Short Question Unit 4 Non detailed study Critical Essay/Short Question/ Short Notes Text/Author/Topics I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai, London: Hachette UK, 2014 Dancing in Cambodia, at Large in Burma. Amitav Ghosh. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publishers, My Story: Kamala Das, Delhi: Harper Collins India, 2009 [1972] i. Autobiography: Quest for Identity : Peter Abbs, Pelican Guide to English Literature. Volume 8, The Present. Boris Ford (ed) ii. Criticism in the Contact Zone Mary Louise Pratt, in Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London and New York: Routledge, Teaching hours 12 20

23 iii. Towards Definitions of the Literary Genre :A.Marino Theories of Literary Genre. J. Helperin (ed) SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-study RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Anderson, Linda. Autobiography. London: Routledge, Ashley, David. Monsters, Monsters, Everywhere. Michigan Quaterly Review Bates, Stewart, E. Inside out: An Introduction to Autobiography, Sheridan House, Benstock, Shari. Ed. The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women s Autobiographical Writings. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, De Man, Paul. Autobiography as De-facement, The Rhetoric of Romanticism. New York: Colombia University Press, Evans, Julian. Platform New Statesman Vol No ( 21 April) Lopate, Phillip. Curiouser and Curiouser: The Practice of Nonfiction Today. The Iowa Review, Vol McCulloh, Mark Richard. Understanding Sebald. New York: University of South Carolina P, Morrison, Blake. Suffolk Through Death-tinted Specs. New Statesman No (5 June) Sontag, Susan. A Mind in Mourning. Times Literary Supplement. No.5056.( 25 Feb) ****** 21

24 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 09 (A) Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2204 Hours 45 AMERICAN LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE: This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVE: At the end of this course, students will be able to: have an overview of American Literature with the help of some representative writings. get familiarized with the major forms short fiction, poetry and novel defining distinctive characteristics of movements they represent or the modes of consciousness they articulate. appreciate the historical circumstances in which the varieties of American literatures were produced and also understand the regional and racial complexities of that literature COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Short Fiction Critical Essay/ Short question Unit 2 Poetry Critical Essay/ Short question Unit 3 Novel Critical Essay/ Short question 22 Text/Author/Topics Edgar Allan Poe The Black Cat The Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Pit and the Pendulum Selected poetry from the Harlem Renaissance at a) Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing of America, Dream Deferred b) Anne Spencer, Lady, Lady White Things c) Countee Cullen: A Brown Girl Dead, Heritage d) Claude McKay: America, Birds of Prey The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2010 Teaching hours 12

25 Unit 4 Non-detailed Study Critical Essay/ Short question/ Short Notes i). The American Scholar : R. W Emerson The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism. Vincent B. Leitch (ed.).new York: W.W Norton, 2001 ii). Souls of Black Folk WEB Du Bois Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism. Vincent B. Leitch, (ed.) New York: W.W Norton, iii). The Shaping of a Canon: U.S.Fiction. Richard Ohman Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism. Vincent B. Leitch (ed.) New York: W.W Norton, SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-study RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Baym, Nina. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W.W Norton & Company, Baym, Nina. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W Norton & Company, Bradley,Sculley The American Tradition in Literature.New York: Random House, Chatterjee,Subarno. American Literature: Pasts, Presents & Future Possibilities in. English Studies: Indian Perspectives. Makarand Paranjpe ( ed.) New Delhi: Mantra Books, Gates, Henry Louis. (ed.). The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.New York: W.W Norton & Company, Krasner, David.(ed.)Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama. New Jersey: Blackwell Publishing, Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, Pizer,Donald.Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Spiller, Robert. Literary History of the United States. New York: MacMillan Publications, Wilmeth, Don B. and Don B. Wilmeth.The Cambridge History of American Theatre: Volume 2: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ****** 23

26 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 09 (B) Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2205 Hours 45 CANADIAN LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE: This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: have an overview of Canadian Literature as it includes the forms fiction, poetry and drama and major authors have an overview of the diverse multicultural writings of Canada, viz., English, French, Immigrant and Native. familiarize themselves with Canadian cultural and literary history as well as the important cultural and literary issues and concepts. COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Text/Author/Topics Teaching hours Unit 1 Fiction Critical Essay/ Question As For Me and My House Sinclair Ross McClelland & Stewart, Unit 2 Poetry Critical Essay/ Question Selections from The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English Margaret Atwood (ed) Toronto: Oxford University Press,1982 The Pleasant Life in Newfoundland by Robert Heyman Tantramar Revisited by Charles G.D. Roberts If Ice by W.W.E Ross The Canadian Authors Meet by F. R. Scott The Prairie Graveyard by Anne Marriott Remains of India Villages by Al Purdy The Stone Hammer Poem by Robert Kroetsch Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood 24

27 Unit 3 Drama Critical Essay/ Question Unit 4 Nondetailed Study Critical Essay/ Question/ Short Notes Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Tomson Highway Calgary : Fifth House,1989 i) Surviving the Paraphrase Frank Davey Surviving the Paraphrase: Eleven Essays on Canadian Literature. Winnipeg: Turnstone, ii) One Generation from Extinction Daniel David Moses An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. Daniel David Moses & Terry Goldie (eds). Toronto: Oxford University Press, iii) The Prairie : A State of Mind : Henry Kreisel Context of Canadian Criticism Eli Mandel (ed) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-study RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Davey, Frank. Surviving the Paraphrase: Eleven Essays on Canadian Literature. Winnipeg: Turnstone, Frye,Northrope. The Bush Garden : Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Concord : Anansi, Hutcheon, Linda and Richmond Marian.(eds.).Other Solitudes : Canadian Multi- Cultural Fictions. Toronto: Oxford University Press, Kudchedkar,Shirin.(ed) Postmodernism and Feminism Canadian Context. New Delhi: Pencraft International, Mandel, Eli. (ed.) Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, New, W.H. (ed.) Native Writers and Canadian Writing. Vancouver B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, Johnson Denis Lines and Circles : The Rez Plays of Tomson Highway. Ed. W. H. New. Native Writers and Canadian Writing. Vancouver B. C. : UBC Press, Lutz, Hartmut Contemporary Challenges : Conversations with Canadian Native Authors. Saskatoon : Fifth House Publishers, Shirley Neuman and Robert Wilson. Labyrinths of Voice: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch...Edmonton : NeWest Press, Vevaina, Coomi & Barbara Godard. (eds). Intersexions: Issues Of Race And Gender In Canadian Women's Writing New Delhi: Creative Books, ***** 25

28 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 10 (A) Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2206 Hours 45 EUROPEAN LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE : This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty-five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: show their familiarity with major works of European Literature acquaint themselves with movements in European Literature. display basic literary competence by showing their ability to analyze texts in translation and the influences of the culture and period on the work. COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Drama Critical Essay/ Question Unit 2 Fiction Critical Essay/ Question Unit 3 Poetry Critical Essay/ Question Unit 4 Non detailed Study Critical Essay/ Question/ Short Notes Text/Author/Topics The Ghost Sonata: August Strindberg. Trans. Egil Tornqvist. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert. Trans. Gerard Hopkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981 Poems of Anna Akhmatova: From Anna Akhmatova Poems: poemhunter.com, 2004 i. Lot s Wife ii. In Memory of M.B From Anna Akhmatova: The World That Causes Death s Defeat: Nancy K. Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, i. Requiem ii. Poem Without a Hero iii. The Way of All the Earth i. The Storyteller : Walter Benjamin. The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory. Dorothy J. Hale. Ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, ii. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism : George Lukacs. Teaching hours 12 26

29 Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. M.J. Hoffman & P.D. Murphy, Eds. London. Duke University Press, iii. Reading as Construction : Tsvetan Todorov. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. M.J. Hoffman & P.D. Murphy, Eds. London. Duke University Press, SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources and screening of different productions Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-study RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Auerbach, Erich. Scenes from the Drama of European Literature. NY: Meridian, Birkett, Jennifer & James Kearns, A Guide to French literature: from Early Modern to Postmodern London: Macmillan, Brenan, Gerald. Literature of the Spanish People: from Roman Times to the Present Day.Cambridge: CUP, Gaskell, Philip. Landmarks in European Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Hainsworth, Peter and David Robey, (eds.) Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford: OUP, Kane, Michael Modern Men: Mapping Masculinity in English and German Literature, London: Cassell, Nivre, Elisabeth Wåghäll Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature. NY: Camden House, Travers, Martin ed. European Literature form Romanticism to the Post Modern: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice. London: Continuum, Whitfield, John Humphreys & John Robert Woodhouse. A Short History of Italian Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, Wilkins, John. Food in European Literature. Exeter: Intellect, ********* 27

30 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Arts Department of English Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat. Contact Details : head-eng@msubaroda.ac.in Academic Year Master of Arts (MA) in English Master Programme Year I Core Paper : 10 (B) Credit 03 Semester II Course/Paper Code : ENG: 2207 Hours 45 LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE This is a three-credit course for one semester consisting of a total of forty five hours of teaching learning inclusive of direct classroom teaching, library work, tutorial etc. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, students will be able to: be familiar with the literary and cultural history of Latin America think critically about Latin American society and the way it is represented develop the ability to read Latin American literature through its cultural expressions COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS Unit Description Evaluation Pattern Unit 1 Novel Critical Essay/ Short Questions Unit 2 Poetry Critical Essay/ Short Questions Unit 3 Short Story Critical Essay/ Short Questions Unit 4 Non-detailed Study Critical Essay/ Short Questions/ Short Notes Text/Author/Topics Love in the Time of Cholera, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Penguin India, 2007 Selections from Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda Octavio Paz, Selected Poems ed. Eliot Weinberger, New York: New Direction, 1984 Ilan Stavans ed. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 The Vintage Book of Latin American Short Stories, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Ortega (ed.). Vintage, i. Latin American Poetry Stephen M. Hart, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren (ed). Oxford: Blackwell, ii. The Boom of Spanish- American Fiction and the 1960s Teaching hours 12 28

31 iii. Revolution Gerald Martin, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren. (ed). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, (958-75) Culture Wars: Ways of Reading Latin American Fiction Philip Swanson, Latin American Fiction: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, SUGGESTED ACTIVITES: Discussions Library research and reference Projects and presentations Assignments Tutorials TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lecture method combined with discussion. Use of Audio visual aids and internet resources Supervising projects, presentations and items for self-study RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Castro-Klarer, Sara, ed. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, Print. 2. Echevarria, Robert Gonzalez and Enrique Pupo-Walker. ed. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. 3. Foster, David William, ed. Handbook of Latin American Literature. 2 nd ed. NewYork and London: Garland, Print. 4. Franco, Jean. An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. 5. Hart, Stephen.M. A Companion to Latin American Literature. Woodbridge: Tamesis, Print. 6. King, John,ed. Modern Latin American Literature: A Survey. London: Faber and Faber, Print. 7. Kristal, Efran. The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. 8. Ocasio, Rafael. Literature of Latin America. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, Print. 9. Swanson, Philip. Latin American Fiction: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, Print. 10. McGuirck, Bernard and Richard Cardwell eds. Gabriel Garcia Marqeuz: New Readings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. ****** 29