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Film Studies: Fiction into Film
1. Adaptation
Introducing students to current theories and practices in the field of of film adaption focusing on novels and films that represent the nature and implication on the practice.
a) Novel : E M Froster's A passage to India
b) Novella : Sarat chandra's Paraneeta
2. Adaptation as interpretation
Novel: Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita.
Film: Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.
3. Adaptation as departure.
Novel: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
Film: Anthony Minghella's The English patient.
4. Adaptation as point of view.
Novel: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.
Film: Meera Nair's The Namesake.
5.Archetypal genre theme:Paranoia
Novel: Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby
Film: Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.
6. Adaptation as parable.
Novel: Isaak Denisen's Babette's Feast.
Film: Gabriel Axel`s Babette's Feast.
7. Adaptating genre fiction:The detective story/The Film Noir.
Book: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
Film: John Huston's The Maltese Falcon.
8. Adapting the graphic novel.
Book: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Film: Satrapi's persepolis.
Readings:
Double Exposure: Fiction into film, Joyce Gould Blum, Seagull books
What is film adaption? Phillip lopate, Essay from bookforum.
From script to screen .
Writing a Film Review/Essay
Reading a sample of various kinds of flim reviews and essays by the best practicing critics oday. Looking at the structure of a good review and essay
Writing/producing a film review and essay:
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English Literature Upto 1900 (Part 1) - St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009
English Literature Upto 1900 (Part 1)
UNIT I:
1. Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Excepts Knight, Friar Prioress, Wife of Bath, Parson Clerk, Miller, Manciple)
2. Thomas Wyatt: "Whos list to hunt"
3. Philip Sydney: Sonnet 45, "Stella oft sees the very face of woe"
4. Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 75. "One day I wrote her Name Upon the strand"
5. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 144, "Two Loves I have of comfort and Despair"
6. Amelia Lanyer : Eve's Apology to Women From "Salve Deus REx Judeoerum"
7. Elizabeth 1 : Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
8. William Shakespear: Othello
UNIT II:
1. Robert Herrick : "Delight in Disorder"
2. George Herbert : "The Collar"
3. John Donne : Canonization
4. Andrew Marvell : "The Garden", "To His Coy Mistress"
5. Aphra Behn : Oroonoko
UNIT III:
1. Samuel Johnson : Letter to Lord Chesterfield
2. John Dryden : MacFlecknoe
3. Jonathan Swift : A Modest Proposal
UNIT I:
1. Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Excepts Knight, Friar Prioress, Wife of Bath, Parson Clerk, Miller, Manciple)
2. Thomas Wyatt: "Whos list to hunt"
3. Philip Sydney: Sonnet 45, "Stella oft sees the very face of woe"
4. Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 75. "One day I wrote her Name Upon the strand"
5. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 144, "Two Loves I have of comfort and Despair"
6. Amelia Lanyer : Eve's Apology to Women From "Salve Deus REx Judeoerum"
7. Elizabeth 1 : Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
8. William Shakespear: Othello
UNIT II:
1. Robert Herrick : "Delight in Disorder"
2. George Herbert : "The Collar"
3. John Donne : Canonization
4. Andrew Marvell : "The Garden", "To His Coy Mistress"
5. Aphra Behn : Oroonoko
UNIT III:
1. Samuel Johnson : Letter to Lord Chesterfield
2. John Dryden : MacFlecknoe
3. Jonathan Swift : A Modest Proposal
St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009: Gender Studies
Unit I: Introduction
1. Definition and significance of Gender Studies
2. Key Concepts: Patriarchy. Sex and Gender. Subjectivity, Power, Sexuality
3. Kate Millet : Theory of Sexual Politics
4. Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Nranjana : Problems for a Contemporary Theory Gender
Unite II: Women, Writing and Representation
1. Sashi Deshpande : "The Stone Woman"
2. Ismat Chugtai : "The Veil"
3. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee : Devdas
4. Urmila Pawar : Chauthi Bhint
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman : The Yellow Wallpaper
Unite III: Gender Roles
1. Lauretta Ngcobo : African Motherhood: Fact and Fiction
2. Marianne Hirsch : Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood
3. Uma Chakravarty and Preeti Gill (eds): Selections from Shadows Lives Writing on Widowhood(Cases and Personal Narratives)
4. Lata Mani : Female Subject and the Colonial Gaze
5. Natraj Huliyar : Magic Nymph
6. Film Text : Rudali
1. Definition and significance of Gender Studies
2. Key Concepts: Patriarchy. Sex and Gender. Subjectivity, Power, Sexuality
3. Kate Millet : Theory of Sexual Politics
4. Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Nranjana : Problems for a Contemporary Theory Gender
Unite II: Women, Writing and Representation
1. Sashi Deshpande : "The Stone Woman"
2. Ismat Chugtai : "The Veil"
3. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee : Devdas
4. Urmila Pawar : Chauthi Bhint
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman : The Yellow Wallpaper
Unite III: Gender Roles
1. Lauretta Ngcobo : African Motherhood: Fact and Fiction
2. Marianne Hirsch : Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood
3. Uma Chakravarty and Preeti Gill (eds): Selections from Shadows Lives Writing on Widowhood(Cases and Personal Narratives)
4. Lata Mani : Female Subject and the Colonial Gaze
5. Natraj Huliyar : Magic Nymph
6. Film Text : Rudali
St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009
English Literature - 1900 and After
Unit I
Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
EM Foster : Howard's End
Kate Chopin : The Awakening
Unit II
Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse
Martin Amis : London Fields
Zadie Smith : On Beauty
Unit III
W B Yeats : Easter 1916, Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
TS Eliot : The Wasteland
Philip Larkin : The Whitsun Weddings
Unit IV
John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
Blog Note: Click on each link to read the summary.
Unit I
Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
EM Foster : Howard's End
Kate Chopin : The Awakening
Unit II
Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse
Martin Amis : London Fields
Zadie Smith : On Beauty
Unit III
W B Yeats : Easter 1916, Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
TS Eliot : The Wasteland
Philip Larkin : The Whitsun Weddings
Unit IV
John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
Blog Note: Click on each link to read the summary.