English Literature 1900 and After (Part II) - St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009:

1 MA English - Semester II - English Literature 1900 and After (Part II) - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

Unit I Post-War Writing

Beckett : Waiting For Godot
Han Bennet : The History Boys

Unite II : Post-War Poetry

Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting
Seamus Heaney : Digging; Churning Day
Sylvia Plath : Daddy; Lady Lazarus
Thomas Gunn : Considering The Snail

Unit III : New Writings in English

John Fowles : The French Lieutenant's Woman
Pico Lyer : Abandon
A S Byatt : Possession
Monica Ali : Brick Lane

Further Reading :

• Margaret Thatcher: www.wikipedia.org
• Margaret Thatcher Foundation: www.margaretthatcher.org

Gender Studies (Part I) - St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

1 MA English - Semester II - Gender Studies (Part I) - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

Unit I: Patriarchy in the Context of Family, Caste, Community and Nation

1. Juliet Mitchel : Women's Estate (Chapter 5)
2. Ambedkar : The Hindu Code Bill
3. Kumkum Roy : Where Women are Worshipped There the Gods Rejoice
4. Tanika Sarkar : "Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology: The Voice of Sadhvi Rithambara" in Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva (2nd Test)
5. Father, Son and The Holy War : A film text by Anand Patwardhan (2nd Test)
Study Links: 1. www.patwardhan.com 2. www.hinduonnet.com 3. icarusfilms.com
6. Ranamama and Subhadra Butalia in Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence (2nd Test)

Unit II: Sexuality

1. Fire (Film Text)
2. Ruth vanita and Saleem Kidwai(Ed.) Same Sex Love in India. Reading from Literature and History (PP 31-35, 294-97) (2nd Test)

Unit III: Gender, Civil Society And The State

Section A: The Women's Movement in India

Radha Kumar : The History of Doing (Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9)

Section B: Gender Violence

1. Bandid Queen (Film Text)
2. Centrality of Sexual Violence (Chapter 3) in A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat
3. The Supreme Court Judgement on Sexual Harassment (1992)
4. Dowry: Some Growing Reflections "In Speaking Three, Women Speak" (3-12), (Vimochana)
5. Jaya Prabha : Chupulu (2nd Test)
6. Anupama Niranjana : The Incident and After (2nd Test)

Writing Seminar - St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

1 MA English - Semester II - Writing Seminar - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

Unit I: Pre-writing:

1. Discussions on Pre-writing, Activitings such as Brainstorming, Clustering, Organizing and Formulation of ideas thoughts/responses.

2. Developing ideas, identifying themes, examining already well-formed writing

3. Editing and Revising writing (One's Own and others)

Unit II

1. Focus on differing forms of writing leading upto understanding the task of writing

a) Personal Essay
b) The Reflective Essay
c) The Academic Essay

2. Developing a critical response and critical review from the above

a) Rhetorical Device
b) Grammaticality
c) Methods of arguments
d) Knowledge of Approaches

Unit III

Focus on the Final Academic Journal Aricle

1. Critique vs. Criticism
2. Identifying a Thesis Statement
3. Exploring an argument
4. Evidencing an argument
5. Conventions of documentation

Recommended Readings

1. Thomas Watson : Writing A Thesis
2. Sealy John : The Oxford Guide to Good Writing (1998)
3. Other writing related material will be provided by those facilitating the course.

Contemporary Indian Writing - St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

1 MA English - Semester II - Contemporary Indian Writing - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

Unit I

Introduction:

1. Meenakshi Mukerjee : Interrogating Post Colonialism
2.Arun Mukherjee : Post Colonialism: Some Uneasy Conjectures(From Interrogating Post-Colonialism : Theory, Text and Context) (2nd Test)
3. Harish Trivedi : Panchadattu (Colonial Transactions)
4. Susie Tharu and K Lalitha : Women Writing The Nation (Extract from Introduction: Woman Writing in India Vol II)

Unit II: Poetry

1. Jayanatha Mahapatra : Hunger (2nd Test)
Link: www.educationmirror.com
2. Nissim Eziekiel : Farewell Party for Miss Pushpa T
3. R Parthasarthy : From Exile
4. Kamala Das : An Introduction
5. Eunice D'souze : Feeding The Poor
6. AK Ramanujam : Love Poem For A Wife (2nd Test)
7. Rukmini Bhaya Nair : Kali
8. Mamata Kulkarni : Sheer Good Luck
9. Imtaiz Dharker : Post-Cards From God (Two Poems)

Unit III: Fiction

1. Raja Rao : Kanthapura
2. Amitav Ghosh : Shadow Lines (2nd Test)
Links: 1. www.essortment.com 2. sotosay.wordpress.com 3. http://en.wikipedia.org
3. Amitav Kumar : Bombay, London, New York
4. Salman Rushdie : Shalimar, The Clown (2nd Test)
Links: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org 2.

English Literature Upto 1900 (Part II) - St.Joseph's College, Bangalore - 1 MA English - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

1 MA English - Semester II - English Literature Upto 1900 (Part II) - Syllabus 2008 - 2009

Unit I

Thomas Gray : Elegy written in the Country Churchyard | Guide
William Blake : The Little Black Boy | Guide
William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Dejection: An Ode
George Gordon Byron : When We Two Parted
Shelley : Ode to The West Wind
Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

Unit II

Mathew Arnold : Dover Beach
Robert Browning : Andrea de Sarto
Tennyson : The Lady Of Shallot
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : How Do I Love Thee
Christina Rossetti : Goblin Market
Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Windhover; Pied Beauty

Unit III

Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre