Post Colonial Studies (Part 1) - St Joseph's College, Bangalore - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

IInd MA English - Semester III - Post Colonial Studies (Part 1) - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

UNIT I : Historical Background

Eric Hobswan : The Age of the Empire - Chapter 3

UNITE II: Colonial Discourse

1. The Picture : Vespucci Discovering America
2. The 16th Century Atlas
3. Columbus Voyage : The British Capitalism
4. It was a Wonderful Silence : Extract from George Lemming"s Natives of my Person
5. Chinweizu : The Colonizer's Logic
6. Macaulay's Minute on Education
7. Marx's essay on British Rule in India
8. Hegel : Extract from Imperilism and Discourse

UNIT III: Counter Discourses

01. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj
02. Braithwaite : National Language
03. Fanon : National Culture
04. Fanon : The Fact of Blackness
05. Marquez's Nobel Lecture
06. Ngugi : The Language of African Litereture
07. Achebe : Conrad's racism
08. Malcolm X : The Ballot or the Bullet
09. Ramabai Ranade's Essay
10. Raja Rao : Foreword to Kanthapura

UNIT IV: Concept

Abrogation Anti Colonialism Apartheid Appropriation Black Studies Centre and Margin/Periphery Colonial Discourse Comprador Countrapuntal Reading Counter Discourse Creole/Creolisation Universality/Universalism Cultural Diversity/Cultural Difference Decolonization Diaspora Dislocation Ethnicity Euro-Centrism

Globalization Hybridity Emperialism Manicheanism Metropolis/Metropolitan Middle Passage Mimicry Nation/Nationalism Nativism Negritude Neo Colonialism Orality Orientalism/Other/other Post colonial Reading Rastafarianism Settler Colony Subaltern Third Word

Russian Literature (Part 1) - St Joseph's College, Bangalore - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

IInd MA English - Semester III - Russian Literature (Part 1) - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

1. Aleksandr Pushkin: a) The Bronze horseman - Text | Guide | More
                  b) The Captain's Daughter - Text | Guide
                  c) The Snowstorm - Text
2. Nikolai Gogol :       Five St.Petersberg Stories (2nd Test)
                      (i)The Nose        (ii)Diary of a Madman
                      (iii)The Overcoat  (iv)The Blizzard
3. Leo Tolstoy :         Anna Karenina - Guide (2nd Test)
4. Fyodor Dostoevsky :   Crime and Punishment - Wiki | Google book
5. Anton Chekhov :       The Cherry Orchard - Wiki | Text

Further Reading:

1. Peter the Great : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_I_of_Russia
2. Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature
3. The Blizzard: Aleksandr Pushkin
4. The Blizzard in Russia: The New York Times - Feb 25, 1901

American Literature (Part 1) - St Joseph's College, Bangalore - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

IInd MA English - Semester III - American Literature (Part 1) - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

POETRY:

1. Edgar Allan Poe : (2nd Test)
(i) The Bell - Wiki | Text
(ii) The Raven - Wiki | Text
2. Emily Dickinson :
(i) I taste a Liquor never brewed - Guide
(ii) Some keep the Sabbath - Guide I | Guide II
3. Robert Frost : Mending wall - Text & Guide | Analysis
4. Wallace Stevens : (2nd Test)
(i) The emperor of ice cream - Text | Wiki | Guide
(ii) Modern Poetry - Text | Wiki
5. William Carlos Williams : (2nd Test)
(i) The forgotten City
(ii) Tract - Text | Wiki
6. Hart Crane : To the Brooklyn Bridge - Text
7. Allen Ginsberg : A Supermarket in California - Wiki
8. Edna St Vincent Millay : I shall go back - Guide
9. Langston Hughes : Montage of a Dream Deferred
10. Paul Laurence Dunbar : We wear the mask - Wiki | Guide

DRAMA:

1. Lorraine Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun - Wiki
2. Edward Albee : Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Wiki | Guide (2nd Test)
3. John Guare : Six Degrees of Separation - Play | Film (2nd Test)
4. David Mamet : Oleanna - Guide

Critical Theory (Part 1) - St Joseph's College, Bangalore - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

IInd MA English - Semester III - Critical Theory (Part 1) - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

1. Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare - Text | Guide
2. TS Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent - Text | Guide
3. Matthew Arnold : The Study of Poetry - Text | Guide
4. FR Leavis : Reality and Sincerity (2nd Test)
5. Cleanth Brooks : The Language of Paradox - Guide 1 | Guide 2 (2nd Test)
6. Northrop Frye : Myth, Fiction and Displacement (2nd Test)
7. Herbert Read : The Nature of Criticism
8. IA Richards : Imagination

Further Reading:
1. Theories of Expression (Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats)
2. Critical Theory
3. Literary criticism
4. New Criticism (2nd Test)
5. Liberal Humanism 1 - Liberal Humanism 2 (2nd Test)