DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU

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1 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLSH CENTRAL UNERSTY OF JAMMU Type of Course: Foundation Course Course Code: MECL 105 Course Title: Cultural Background to Literature Course Objective: This Foundation Course is meant to acquaint the students with the important movements in the history of Literature. Teachers n-charge: Unit : Mr. Raj Thakur Unit : Ms. Neena Gupta ij and Ms. Harpreet Kour Unit : Mr. Raj Gaurav erma Unit : Dr. Kiran Kalra Unit : Dr. Farooq Teaching/ Lecture Plan UNT Middle Ages: Raj Thakur Title of the Topic to be : Medieval Literature. ntroduction to Anglo-Saxon England and Old literature and language. Trajectory or The Cambridge Medieval Literature. Ed. Larry Scanlon

2 literary mapping from Anglo Saxon to Medieval Generic variants: Epic, Arthurian Literature; Chivalric Romance and Courtly Romance, Lyric, Ballad, Debate and Dream vision, Allegory, Goliardic tradition. Socio-political upheavals: Norman Conquest The Hundred Years of War, The Black Death, Peasant Uprising Religion and dissent (Crusades,Catholic Christianity and Lollardism), Medieval theatres: Mystery, Miracle, Morality plays. Textual discussions through generic variants A Background to the Study of Literature. B Prasad A New Critical History of Old Literature. Stanley Greenfield and Daniel Calder The Later Middle Ages, George Holmes Title of the

3 : Renaissance Literary Humanism: Foundation on an ndividual, Spirit of nquiry, The Great Chain of Being. The Cambridge Renaissance Humanism. J. Kraye Rise of Print and Modern thought. Protestant Reformation, Rise of ernacular. Reformation Thought: An ntroduction. Alister E McGrath. Dominant literary genres: The Essay, The Sonnet, Spenserian Stanza The Renaissance Literary Handbook. Ed. Susan Bruce, Rebecca Steinberger Elizabethan Drama overview, University wits. A History of the Elizabethan Theatre. Adam Woog. overview of the major works through generic variants: Divine Comedy The Cambridge Renaissance Literature and Culture. Michael Hattaway

4 The Book of Cortier Utopia Praise of Folly Don Quixote First Folio The Prince UNT Restoration Period-Harpreet Kaur Unit ntroduction to Restoration Period A New Social Milieu, Literary Trends of the Age Cultural Background of Restoration Period- Cultural Background of Restoration Period- Literature of the Restoration (Prose) History of Literature, B.S Dahiya. Doaba Publications The llustrious History of Literature, OUP

5 Literature of the Restoration (Fiction) Literature of the Restoration(Poetry) Literature of the Restoration (Drama) Summing Up Assignment Period- Neena Gupta ij Title of the Unit ntroduction to Period Cultural Background of Period Science and philosophy, Social Milieu, Literary Trends of the Age Literature of the Period; Rediscovery of the Classical texts A New History of Literature, B.S Dahiya. Doaba Publications The llustrious History of Literature, OUP Literature of the Period: Periodical essay Parody

6 Fables Literature of the Period: poetry ( the Heroic Couplet) Title of the Literature of the Period: Drama Essay Writing and Pamphleteering in Neo- Classical Period The rise of the novel Concluding Lecture: UNT Romantic Period-Raj Gaurav erma A Brief History of Literature Neoclassical Period and the Period of Transition Continental and Cultural Background: European War (1793) between France and England, French Revolution

7 (1798), (American, German and French nfluence). Political Background: The Reform Bill (1832), (Slavery) Emancipation Act (1833), Factory Act (1833), Education Act (1833), Poor Law Amendment Act (1834), Municipal Corporations Act (1834) mpact of revolutions on society and man; Poverty, Countryside and Common Man. Shift from stiff classicism (regimentation, regulation, authority) to romanticism (individuality, informality, freedom) Relating Romanticism with views of Longinus and Horace. Discussion on ideas of Kant, Rousseau, Schlegel, Schiller. Blake s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Publication of Lyrical Ballads Romantic deals: The five s (magination, ntuition, dealism, nspiration, ndividuality) Romantic Themes: Nature, Supernatural, Truth, Beauty, Love, Liberty and Mysticism Writers in Transition: Crabbe, Cowper, Burns and Gray The Cambridge Companion to The Renaissance A Short History of Literature. Routledge, Andrew Sanders. The History of Literature. Early Romantic Writers (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey) William J. Long. A History of Literature

8 Late Romantic Writers (Shelley, Keats and Byron) Romanticism and Prose Writings: Essays and Periodicals Advent of New Form of Novels Gothic Novels Historical Novels Novel of Manners Revision Test UNT ictorian Period-Dr. Kiran Kalra Suri X DAY Title of the per Topic ictorianism: Definition, Scope and Relevance Background of the ictorian Age ndustrialization, Condition of England, Domesticity, Fallen Woman, Angel in the House, Education and school system Cultural Background: Empire, colonization, racism, Evolutionary theories, Darwinism, science and technology, Psychiatry The Cambridge the ictorian Novel. Ed. Deirdre Davis. New York: Cambridge UP, Cultural Background: Printing Press, patriarchy, women s emancipation, popular, working class cultures, rise of bourgeois Title of the

9 X mportant Movements of the ictorian Age: The Oxford Movement, Utilitarianism, Aestheticism and Decadence Features of ictorian Nonfiction Features of ictorian fiction The Cambridge the ictorian Novel. Ed. Deirdre Davis. New York: Cambridge UP, Canonical literatures, noncanonical/popular literature Children s literature, Science fiction, adventure narratives, crime and detection X Title of the mportant features of ictorian Poetry Major Writers of the ictorian Period Major Works of the ictorian Period Seminar Presentation Seminar Presentation The Cambridge the ictorian Novel. Ed. Deirdre Davis. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005.

10 UNT Modernism and Postmodernism- Dr. M.A.A. Farooq X Title of the Topic to be Dialect, fleshback, Flaneur, Foreshadowing, Alienation Disillusionment, Lost Generation, Prohibition Era, Differend, Dystopia (dystopic), Ethnicity,future antérieur, Fashion, Historiographic Metafiction, ncommensurability ntertextuality, rony, Late Capitalism, Metafiction, Nostalgia, Pastiche, Parody, petits récits, phrase regimens, Postmodern Condition, Reality Principle, Rhizome, Schizophrenia, Suggestive X Title of the Secondary Orality, Self- Reflexivity, Simulacrum, Suggestive

11 (simulacra), Spatiality, Sublime, irtual Reality, World Wide Web, Poststructuralist postmodernism, Neoconservative postmodernism, nterior monologue, Stream of Consciousness Modernization, Historical vs. Neo-Avant- Garde, The Work vs. The Text, Spectacle, Text, Textuality/ closure/ Nonclosure, Derive, Detournement, X Title of the Kitsch, Simulacrum, Discursive, Curatorial, Transformation, Discussion Discussion Entropy, Obsolescence, Artisanal Revision Suggestive