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1 Course Code CLIS 275 Indian Poetics/ Aesthetics Theory-I Semester No. of Credits Name of Faculty Member(s) Course Description: 150/200 words I/III (Wednesday and Friday a.m. to 1.00 p.m.) 5 Dr. Nilakantha Dash The Course aims at introducing the students to the concepts and theories of Sanskrit traditions of Poetics/Aesthetics Topics of Study: A. General concepts of Indian poetics such as rasa, alankara, guna, riti, dhvani, vakrokti, aucitya. 1. A brief historical survey 2. Bharata and his natyashastra. 3. The Alankara School:Bhamaha, udbhata, rudrata 4. The Guna-Riti School: Dandin and Vamana 5.TheRasa-Dhvani school:anandavardhana and abhinavagupta 6. Rajasekhara and his kavyamimamsa 7. The vakrokti school: Rajanaka kuntaka 8. The anumiti school: mahima bhatta 9. The aucitya school: Ksemendra B. Close Reading of texts: 10. A close reading of the VI and VII Chapters of Natyashastra of Bharata

2 Evaluation Scheme Two Assignments and One Written Test

3 Cities, Space and Culture Course Code CLIS 255 Semester 1 & 3 ( Wednesday 2--4, Friday 11-1) No. of Credits 5 Name of Faculty Member(s) Course Description: 150/200 words Evaluation Scheme Dr. Sherin B.S. The objective of the course is to introduce students to the theoretical concept of space, focusing on urban studies on literary and visual culture. Important themes of analysis include the historical origins of urbanization; the political and ideological functions of cities; the city as a creative milieu; the economic significance of cities, relations between cities and states, and the globalization of cities. This interdisciplinary course is also concerned with the city and the urban milieu with a focus on social and cultural questions and conflicts on identity. End Semester Term Paper, Two written assignments & Presentation

4 Comparative Literature: Theory and Method Course Code Semester CLIS 101 I/III Mon-Wed: 11-1:00pm No. of Credits Name of Faculty Member(s) Course Description: 150/200 words 05 Prof. Ipshita Chanda This course introduces the rationale for the practice of comparative literature, and outlines the elements of a comparative approach to the literary phenomenon. Comparative literature is a method of studying literature as art form and as textual practice, across language-cultures. To this end, the course aims through the reading of literary texts and interpretive practices, to establish that the comparative approach is situational and relational, posited upon the condition of plurality ie the co-presence of singular entities. It provides the conceptual space and means to understand and engage with difference and otherness as conditions that shape our existence in a shared world, through the dialogue of art. Evaluation Scheme 40% Internal Assessment 60% End-Semester Examination

5 DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND INDIA STUDIES SCHOOL OF LITERARY STUDIES TIME TABLE FOR THE SEMESTER (AUGUST NOVEMBER 2017) (MA I/II SEMESTER) Course Name & Module No CLIS101 CLIS105 Course Instructor Prof. Ipshita Chanda Prof. Amith Kumar P V and Prof. Kailash C Baral Title Timings Room No. Comparative Literature: Theory and Method Indian Literary Traditions: Genres and Forms Monday Wednesday [11-1: 00 pm] Monday-Wednesday [9-11 am] All classes will be held in the Classroom on the Second Floor, EMMRC Building CLIS110 Guest Faculty Introduction to Indian Poetics CLIS260 Dr. Nilakantha Introduction to Panini's Dash System of Grammar and Indian Logic-I Tuesday- Thursday [ 9-11 am] (Monday and Thursday 3.00 to 5.00 pm) CLIS275 Dr. Nilakantha Dash Indian Poetics/ Aesthetics Theory-I (Wednesday and Friday a.m. to 1.00 p.m.) CLIS255 Dr. Sherin BS Cities, Space and Culture (Wednesday 2.00 to 4.00 p.m. Friday p.m.)

6 Indian Literary Traditions: Genres and Forms Course Code CLIS 105 Semester Aug-Nov 2017 No. of Credits 05 Name of the Faculty Member[s] Prof. Amith Kumar P V and Prof. Kailash C. Baral Course Description The literary tapestry ter ed as I dian Literature has a history of four thousa d years, dating back to the Rgveda (2000 BC), the earliest accounted work. The literatures of the ancient periods initially flourished in Vedic Sanskrit and that later evolved into classical Sanskrit which prevailed in the subcontinent for nearly fifteen centuries. The literatures after Panini gave rise to a large variety of textual traditions ranging from purana, campu, nataka, itihasa, gadya etc. Kavya form of literature composed both in Sanskrit and Prakrit languages, set the tradition in a new direction in both form and content. The prose/narrative traditions - genre of tale and fable - especially from the Buddhist tradition of story-telling served an entirely different purpose. Meanwhile in the south, Tamil literary traditions rose to challenge what appeared to be the hegemony of sankritic traditions. The course aims to survey variegated forms of literature produced in the subcontinent from the beginning to the present times. The uniqueness of genres peculiar to India will be studied in its own terms connived with distinct socio-cultural and spatiotemporal aspects in which the respective forms have emerged and flourished. Evaluation Pattern Internal Assessment: 40% End- Semester Evaluation: 60%

7 Course title Introduction to Indian Poetics Course Code CLIS110 Semester Aug- Nov 2017 No. of Credits 05 Name of the Faculty Member Guest faculty [to be appointed] Course Description The course aims to introduce concepts and axioms of Indian Aesthetic/Poetic traditions with a focus on their application to literary texts. Concepts and notions which have been an integral part of Indian aesthetic theories such as Rasa, Dhvani, Vakrokti, Alankara, Auchitya, Natya et al will be taken up for discussion in the classroom. The central concern of the course is to equip the students with theoretical propositions of the ancient Indian traditions and to engage with them in the process of critical thinking vis-a-vis their contemporary relevance. The course aims to initiates discussions on Bharata, Abhinavagupta, Anandavardhana, Pandita Jagannatha, Rajasekhara, Bhattanayaka and Bhamaha. Evaluation Pattern Internal Assessment 40% End semester evaluation 60%

8 Course Code Semester No. of Credits Name of Faculty Member(s) Course Description: 150/200 words Introduction to Panini's System of Grammar and Indian Logic-I CLIS 260 I/III (Monday and Thursday 3.00 to 5.00 pm) 5 Dr. Nilakantha Dash This course aims at introducing the students to Panini's grammar called Astadhyayi which was written 2500 years ago and Indian system of logic as presented in the text Tarkasangraha of Annam Bhatta. Topics for Study A. Panini's Grammar 1. Indian Grammatical tradition- Panini 2. Pre- paninian grammatical tradition 3. Munitraya: Panini, Katyayana and Patanjali 4. Panini and his Astadhyayi 5. The pratyahara technique of Panini 6. The composition and structure of Astadhyayi 7. Types of rules: Definition rules (sajna sutras), Meta-rules, Applicational rules (paribhasa sttras) and Operational rules ( vidhi sutras) 8. Sandhi: ac sandhi, h-l sandhi, and Visarga Sandhi. Participants will be introduced to the basic concepts and method of language analysis as present in the tradition of Indian Logic. It is a wellknown fact that most of the treatises in Sanskrit Tradition pertaining to grammar, poetics and mimamsa have made use of the techniques of verbal understanding and methods of precise communication developed by nyaya-vaisesikas. Use of this language can be observed in the works of sasadhara, udayana and gangesa. A close reading of tarkasangraha, (a beginners text of Indian Logic) is to

9 be done in this course. B. Indian Logic: 1. Introduction: Origin and development of Indian Logic 2. Knowledge and Language 3. Categories 4. Substance and Quality 5. True cognition and False Cognition 6. Instruments of knowledge (pramana) 7. Theory of Perception (pratyaksa) 8. Sense-object Contact (normal and supernormal). Evaluation Scheme Two Assignments and one Written test