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GenericElective(AnyfourforHonsstudentsandanytwoforB.A/B.Com programme)
Listofpapers
1.AcademicWritingandComposition -
2.MediaandCommunicationSkills -
3.TextandPerformance:IndianPerformanceTheoriesandPractices(Revised) -
4.LanguageandLinguistics -
5.ReadingsonIndianDiversitiesandLiteraryMovements
6.ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowerment(Revised) -
7.Language,LiteratureandCulture(Revised) -
8.Graphicnarratives -
9.Cinematicadaptationsofliterarytexts
10.IndianEnglishliterature
11.Popularfiction
12.CultureandTheory
13.MarginalitiesinIndianLiterature
14.TheIndividualandSociety
15.Textandperformance:WesternPerformanceTheoriesandPractices
16.Literatureandthecontemporaryworld
Papers1-7arepaperscurrentlybeingoffered.Someofthem havebeenrevised.
Papers8-16arenewlydevisedpapers.
Paper1:AcademicWritingandComposition
Coursestatement:
Thiscourse isdesigned to help undergraduate studentsdevelop the research,composition,
argumentandwritingskillsthatwillenablethem toimprovetheirwrittenabilitiesforhigherstudies
andacademicendeavours.
1.IntroductiontotheWritingProcess
2.IntroductiontotheConventionsofAcademicWriting
3.Writinginone’sownwords:SummarizingandParaphrasing
4.CriticalThinking:Syntheses,Analyses,andEvaluation
5.StructuringanArgument:Introduction,Interjection,andConclusion
6.CitingResources;Editing,BookandMediaReview
SuggestedReadings
1.LizHamp-LyonsandBenHeasley,Studywriting:A CourseinWritingSkillsforAcademicPurposes(Cambridge:CUP,2006).
2.RenuGupta,ACourseinAcademicWriting(NewDelhi:OrientBlackSwan,2010).
3.IlonaLeki,AcademicWriting:ExploringProcessesandStrategies(NewYork:CUP,2ndedn,1998).
4.GeraldGraffandCathyBirkenstein,TheySay/ISay:TheMovesThatMatterinAcademicWriting(NewYork:Norton,2009).
5.AnjanaNeiraDev,AcademicWritingandComposition,NewDelhi:Pinnacle,2015.
Paper2:MediaandCommunicationSkills
Courseobjectives:
Thisisanintroductorycourseintheroleofmediatoday–Indiaandglobally.Itwillequipstudents
withthebasictheoriesonvariousaspectsofmedia,andimparttraininginbasicwritingskills
requiredintheprofession.
1.IntroductiontoMassCommunication
a)MassCommunicationandGlobalization
b)FormsofMassCommunication
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.CasestudiesoncurrentissuesIndianjournalism
b.Performingstreetplays
c.Writingpamphletsandposters,etc.
2.Advertisement
a)Typesofadvertisements
b)Advertisingethics
c)Howtocreateadvertisements/storyboards
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Creatinganadvertisement/visualization
b.Enactinganadvertisementinagroup
c.Creatingjinglesandtaglines
3.MediaWriting
a)ScriptwritingforTVandRadio
b)WritingNewsReportsandEditorials
c)EditingforPrintandOnlineMedia
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.ScriptwritingforaTVnews/paneldiscussion/radioprogramme/hostingradioprogrammeson
communityradio
b.Writingnewsreports/bookreviews/film reviews/TVprogram reviews/interviews
c.Editingarticles
d.Writinganeditorialonatopicalsubject
4.IntroductiontoCyberMediaandSocialMedia
a)TypesofSocialMedia
b)TheImpactofSocialMedia
c)IntroductiontoCyberMedia
Suggestedreadings:
MediaandMassCommunication:
1.MVKamath:ProfessionalJournalism.NewDelhi:VikasPublishingHouse,1980.
2.DenisMacquail:MassCommunication.NewDelhi:Om Books,2000.
3.AmbrishSaxena:FundamentalsofReportingandEditing.NewDelhi:KanishkaPublishers,2007.
4.MKJoseph:OutlineofEditing.NewDelhi:AnmolPublications,2002.
5.TJSGeorge:Editing–AHandbookforJournalists(IIMC)
6.HaroldEvans:EssentialEnglishforJournalists,EditorsandWriters.UK:Random House,2000.
7.RajivBatra,John G Myers,David A Aaker:Advertising Management(New Delhi,Pearson
Education,2007.
8.Em Griffin.Communication–AFirstLookatCommunicationTheory.EditionVIII,McGrawHill,
2011.
9.UmaNarula.HandbookofCommunicationModels,Perspectives,Strategies.NewDelhi:Atlantic
Publishers,2006.
10.JanServaes,ed.CommunicationforDevelopmentandSocialChange.2003.NewDelhi:Sage
India,2007.
11.LarryBarker.Communication.EditionVIII.Boston:McGrawHill,2002;rpt.2009.
12.BrentD.RubenandLeaP.Stewart.CommunicationandHumanBehaviour.EditionVPearson,
2005.
TelevisionJournalism:
AndrewBoyd.BroadcastJournalism:TechniquesofRadioandTelevisionNews.2000.Burlington:
FocalPress;6edition,2009.
RobertThompson,CindyMalone.TheBroadcastJournalism Handbook:ATelevisionNewsSurvivalGuide.Maryland:Rowman&LittlefieldPublishers,2004.
MarkW.Hall.BroadcastJournalism:AnIntroductiontoNewsWriting.HastingsHouse,1978.
StephenCushion.TelevisionJournalism.SagePublications,2012.
TonyFeldman.AnIntroductiontoDigitalMedia.Taylor&Francis,2004.
BrianCarroll.WritingforDigitalMedia.Taylor&Francis,2010.
Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys, eds. Digital Media: Transformations in HumanCommunications.NewYork:PeterLangPublishing,2006.
MeganA.Winget,William Aspray.DigitalMedia:TechnologicalandSocialChallengesoftheInteractiveWorld.Lanham:ScarecrowPress,2011.
Paper3:TextandPerformance:IndianPerformanceTheoriesandPractices
CourseObjectives:ThiscourseonTextandPerformancecombinesIndiantheoriesofdramaturgyalongwithapracticalunderstandingofthestage.Theserangefrom theclassicaltheoriesofRasatothemoremodernonesthatemergedinthetwentiethcentury.Itwillacquaintthestudentswiththeriseofmoderntheatreinthepreandpost-independenceperiodinIndiawhilealsofamiliarisingthem withfolktheatricaltraditions.
Unit1.Introduction
IntroductiontotheoriesofPerformanceinIndia:ClassicaltoContemporary;Colonialto
Resistant;EndorsementofexistingstructurestoRadicalisingourworld
HistoricaloverviewofIndiantheatrefrom theancienttothemodern
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Perspectivesontheatreandperformance
b.Historicaldevelopmentoftheatricalforms
c.Folktraditions
d.IPTA
e.Post-independenceradicalIndiantheatre
2.PopularTheatricalFormsandPractices
Nautanki,Jatra,Tamasha,BhramyamaanTheatre,StreetTheatre,CampusTheatre
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Onthedifferenttypesofperformativespaceinpractice
b.Poetryreading,elocution,expressivegestures,andchoreographedmovement
3.TheoriesofDrama
Bharata
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Actingshortsolo/groupperformancesfollowedbydiscussionandanalysiswithapplication
oftheoreticalperspectives
b.Rasatheory
4.TheatricalProduction
Direction,production,stageprops,costume,lighting,backstagesupport.
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Allaspectsofproductionandperformance;recording,archiving,interviewingperformers
anddatacollection.
CourseOutcomes
Aperformanceofminimum thirtyminutesusinganyoneform ofdramastudiedinthis
course
InterviewatleastonetheatrepractitionerwhohasworkedwithIndiantheatricalforms
CourseCo-ordinators
SanjayKumar(HansrajCollege)
PayalNagpal(JankiDeviMemorialCollege)
Paper4:LanguageandLinguistics
Courseobjectives:Tointroduceandfamiliarizestudentswiththebasicconceptsoflanguageand
linguistictheories.
1.Language:languageandcommunication;languagevarieties:standardandnon-standard
language;languagechange.
Mesthrie,RajendandRakeshM Bhatt.2008.WorldEnglishes:Thestudyofnew linguisticvarieties.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.
2.Structuralism:De Saussure,Ferdinand.1966.Course in generallinguistics.New York:
McGrawHillIntroduction:Chapter3
3.PhonologyandMorphology:Akmajian,A.,R.A.DemersandR,M.Harnish,Linguistics:AnIntroductiontoLanguageandCommunication,2nded.
Fromkin,V.,andR.Rodman,AnIntroductiontoLanguage,2nded.(NewYork:Holt,Rinehart
andWinston,1974)Chapters3,6and7
4.Syntax and semantics: categories and constituents phrase structure;maxims of
conversation.
Akmajian,A.,R.A.DemersandR,M Harnish,Linguistics:AnIntroductiontoLanguageand
Communication,2nded.(Cambridge,Mass,:MITPress,1984;Indianedition,PrenticeHall,
1991)Chapter5and6.
Paper5:ReadingsonIndianDiversitiesandLiteraryMovements
Courseobjectives:Thiscourseseekstoequipstudentswithanoverview ofthedevelopmentof
literaturesinIndiaanditswidelinguisticdiversity.Studentswillstudyauthorsandmovements
from differentregionsandtimeperiods.
SukritaPaulKumar,et.al.,eds.,CulturalDiversity,LinguisticPluralityandLiteraryTraditionsinIndia.
NewDelhi:Macmillan,2005.EditorialBoard:DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofDelhi
Unit1iscompulsory.Any6ofremaining7unitstobecoveredintheclassroom.
Unit1:Overview
Unit2:LinguisticPluralitywithinSufiandBhaktiTradition
Unit3:LanguagePolitics:HindiandUrdu
Unit4:TribalVerse
Unit5:DalitVoices
Unit6:WritinginEnglish
Unit7:Womanspeak:Examplesfrom KannadaandBangla
Unit8:LiteraryCultures:GujaratiandSindhi
Paper6:ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowerment
Coursestatement:Thiscoursewillhelpstudentstoengagewithcontemporaryrepresentationsof
women,femininities,gender-parityandpower.Thecourseaimstohelpstudentsfrom non-English
Literaturebackgroundsdeveloparobustunderstandingofhowdiscoursesofgenderunderlieand
shapeourverylives,experiences,emotionsandchoices.Thecoursewillexposestudentstoa
broadrangeofliteraryandtextualmaterialsfrom varioushistoricalperiodsandcontextssothat
theyareabletoexaminethesocially-constructednatureofgendering.Throughanalysingliterary
texts,humanitiesandsocialsciencesscholarship,studentswilldevelopanuancedunderstanding
ofhowtoperceive,read,understand,interpretandinterveneethicallyindebatesonthesubject.
Courseobjectives:
Thecoursewillhelpstudents:
1.Read,understandandexaminecloselynarrativesthatseektorepresentwomen,femininities
andbyextension,genderingitself.
2.Understandhow gendernormsintersectwithothernormssuchasthoseofcaste,race,
religiousandcommunitytocreatefurtherspecificformsofprivilegeandoppression.
3.Identifyhowgenderedpracticesinfluenceandshapeknowledgeproductionandcirculation
ofsuchknowledges,includinglegal,sociologicalandscientificdiscourses.
4.Participateinchallenginggenderedpracticesthatreinforcediscrimination.
5.Createaportfolioofanalyticalwork(interpretationsandreadingsofliteraryandsocial-
sciences texts)and analyses offictionaland non-fictionalnarratives thatstudents
encounterintheirlivedworlds.
UnitOne:Concepts
SexandGender;socialconstructionofgender;socialisationintogender
Femininitiesandmasculinities;normativegenderprivilege;heteronormativity
Patriarchy:historyoftheterm;effortstoundoit;feminism
Readings
RassundariDevi.From AmarJiban.WomenWritinginIndia:600B.C.totheearlytwentiethcentury.
Eds.SusieTharuandK.Lalitha.Delhi:OUP,1997.Pp190—202.
RokeyaShekhawatHossain.“Sultana’sDream”.WomenWritinginIndia:600B.C.totheearlytwentiethcentury.Eds.SusieTharuandK.Lalitha.Delhi:OUP,1997.Pp340-351.
BabyKamble.“OurWretchedLives.”WomenWritinginIndia:Thetwentiethcentury.Eds.Susie
TharuandK.Lalitha.Delhi:OUP,1997.Pp307-11.
VGeetha.Patriarchy.TheorizingGenderSeries.Kolkata:Stree,2007.Pp3—61.
UnitTwo:Intersections
Womenandcaste,religion,class,sexualities,race,disability
Womenandenvironment,technology,development
Womenandaccesstoresources:employment,health,nutrition,education
Women and reproductive work:singleness,marriage,motherhood (symbolical,biological,
surrogacyandART),parenting;abortionandotherrightsoverownbody
Readings:
MahawetaDevi.“Bayen.”FivePlays.Trans.SamikBandyopadhyaya.Calcutta:Seagull,2009.
MaryJohn.“Feminism,PovertyandtheEmergentSocialOrder”inHandbookofGender,ed.Raka
Ray,Delhi:OxfordUniversityPress,2012
LeelaKasturi.“ReportoftheSub-Committee,Women’sRoleinPlannedEconomy,NationalPlanning
Committee(1947)inMaitrayeeChaudhuried.Feminism inIndia.Delhi:Zed,2005.pp.136-155.
VandanaShiva.StayingAlive:Women,EcologyandDevelopment.Chapters2&4.Delhi:Kalifor
Women,1989.
M.M Vinodini.“The Parable ofthe LostDaughter”in The Exercise ofFreedom,Eds.K.
SatyanarayanaandSusieTharu.Delhi:Navayana,2013.Pp.164-77.
UnitThree:Histories
Thewomen’squestionpre-Independence:Sati-reform;widow remarriage;debatesaroundageof
consent
WomenintheIndependenceMovement;Partition
Post-Independencecampaignsagainstsexualharassmentand rape;dowryviolence;debates
aroundUniform CivilCode
Publicsphereparticipationofwomen:inpolitics;intheworkplace;intheeconomy;creating
educationalinclusion
Readings:
RadhaKumar.AHistoryofDoing:AnIllustratedAccountofMovementsforWomen'sRightsandFeminism inIndia.1800—1990.Chapters2,3,7,8,11.Delhi,Zubaan,1993.
Kumkum Sangari.“Politics ofDiversity:Religious Communities and Multiple Patriarchies”.
EconomicandPoliticalWeekly30.52(1995).
TanikaSarkar.“RhetoricagainstAgeofConsent-ResistingColonialReasonandDeathofaChild-
Wife”.EconomicandPoliticalWeekly28.36(1993April).
UrvashiButalia.Chapter2,“Blood”.TheOtherSideofSilence:Voicesfrom thePartitionofIndia.Delhi:PenguinBooks,1998.
UrmilaPawarandMeenakshi.Moon,Wealsomadehistory:WomenintheAmbedkariteMovement.Chs1,5,6.Delhi:Zubaan:2008.
UnitFour:Women,theLaw,theState
Constitutionalremedies and rights againstgender-based violence:history ofconstitutional
protectionsforwomen(HinduCodeBill,righttoproperty;personallaws);stateinterventionsand
feministengagementwiththelaw;IPCsectionsrelevanttorape;protectionof“modesty”ofwomen;
obscenity;theconceptof“woman”intheseframeworks
Readings:
JanakiNair.(“The Foundations ofModern LegalStructures in India”)and Flavia Agnes,
(“Conjugality,Property,MoralityandMaintenance”)inHandbookofGender,Ed.RakaRay.Delhi:
OUP,2012.
Workshop:Studentstoexaminethebaretextof4laws(assetoutintheGazetteofIndia)followed
bydiscussionandanalysis:lawsagainstdowry(TheDowryProhibitionAct,1961);againstsex
determination(Pre-Conception& Pre-NatalDiagnosticsAct,1994);againstdomesticviolence
(ProtectionofWomenfrom DomesticViolenceAct,2005);againstsexualharassmentatthe
workplace(TheSexualHarassmentofWomenatWorkplacePrevention,Prohibition,andRedressal
Act2013)
RevisionCommittee
Dr.AneetaRajendran(GargiCollege)
Dr.BratiBiswas(DyalSinghEveningCollege)
Ms.MuditaMohile(GargiCollege)
Paper7:Language,LiteratureandCulture
Courseobjectives:Thiscourseisdesignedtointroducethestudentswiththebasicconceptsof
language,itscharacteristics,itsstructure,and how itfunctions.Thecoursefurtheraimsto
familiarise the students how language is influenced by the socio-political-economic-cultural
realitiesofthesociety.Italsowantstoacquaintthestudentsabouttherelationbetweenlanguage
andliterature.
1 . Language
A LanguageandCommunication
a. WhatisLanguage?
b. TheDefinitionofLanguage
c. TheCharacteristicsofHumanlanguage
d. WhyLanguageMatters?
B. HowLanguageFunctions?
a. Speaker–Listener–Message
b. Phonology,Morphology,SyntaxandSemantics
(onlytermsanddefinitionswillbeasked)
- Phonemes,PhoneticTranscriptionandphonology
- Morphemes,FreeandBoundMorphemes
- Simple,complex,compoundwords
- Inflectional/derivationalmorphology
- Theprocessofwordformation
- BasicNotionsofSyntacticConstituentsandPhraseStructure
- ClausesandSentences
C LanguageandSociety
a.LanguageandClass,LanguageandGender,LanguageandEthnicity,Languageand
Identity
b.LanguageVariation
i. Dialect,Idiolect,Slang,Pidgin,Creole,Jargon
ii. StandardandNon-StandardLanguage
iii. Bilingualism,Multilingulism,Code-mixing,Code-switching
Bibliography
1. Fowler,Roger(ed). EssayonStyleandLanguage.London:RoutledgeandKeganPaul
Ltd.,1966.
2. Fowler,Roger. TheLinguisticsofLiterature.London:RoutledgeandKeganPaulLtd.,
1971.
3. Widdowson,H.G. StylisticsandtheTeachingofLiterature. London:Longman,1979.
4. Bailey,R.W.,andJ.L.Robinson,eds. Varietiesofpresent-dayEnglish. New York:
Macmillan,1973.
5. Fishman, J. A. Sociolinguistics: A Brief Introduction. Mass: Newbury
House Rowley,1971.
6. Gupta, R. S. and K. S. Agarwal. Studies in Indian Sociolinguistics. New
Delhi: CreativeBooks,1996.
7. Hudson,R.A. Sociolinguistics.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1980.
8. Leech,GeoffreyandMichaelShort.StyleinFiction.London:Longman,1981.
II.IndianLiterature
ThissectionofthecoursewillinvolveastudyofsignificantthemesandformsofIndianliterature
throughtheageswiththehelpofprescribedtexts.
i. DifferentPhasesofIndianliteratures:Ancient,MedievalandModern
PrescribedText:
Chapter1:VedaVyasa:The Mahabharata:TheEkalavyaEpisode
Chapter2:Sudraka: Mrichchhakatika:TheMakingofaBreach
Chapter3:IlankoAtikal: Cilappatikaram:TheBookofMathurai
Chapter4:Mirabai:IKnowOnlyKrsna
Chapter5:AmirAbulHasanKhusrau:Separation
Chapter6:AsadullahKhan‘Ghalib’:DesiresComebytheThousands
Chapter7:FaizAhmadFaiz:DoNotAsk
Chapter8:SubramaniaBharati:ThePallaSong
Chapter9:RabindranathTagore:TheCabuliwallah
Chapter10:ShrilalShukla:RaagDarbari
Chapter11:IsmatChugtai:Touch-Me-Not
Chapter12:AmritaPritam:ToWarisShah
Chapter13:MastiVenkateshaIyengar:Venkatashami’sLoveAffair
Chapter14:IndiraGoswami:TheJourney
Chapter15:OmprakashValmiki:Joothan
Chapter16.ShrikantMahapatra:FolkSongs
FurtherReading:
SisirKumarDas,ed. AHistoryofIndianLiterature.NewDelhi:SahityaAkademi,1995.
III.CultureandSocietyinContemporaryIndia
(i)TheIdeaofCulture
(ii)CultureandtheMedia
(i) ‘Notes on the Historyofthe Studyofthe Indian Societyand Culture’
in StructureandChangeinIndianSociety ed.MiltonSingerandBernardSCohn(Chicago:
AldinePress,1968)
(ii) ‘Towards a Definition ofCulture’in India and World Culture.(New Delhi:
SahityaAcademy,1986
(iii) ‘CultureandIdeology’in Culture,IdeologyandHegemony:IntellectualandSocialConsciousnessinColonialIndia (Practice.LondonandNewYork:Longman1995
(iv) CommunicationsandCulture. ed.M.R.Dua.Delhi:GalgotiaPublishingCo.
1997.
(v) Journalism:ChangingSociety,EmergingTrends. Delhi,Authorspeak.2003
Coordinator:Dr.VandanaAgarwal–PGDAVcollege
Paper8:Graphicnarratives
Coursestatement:
Thegraphicnarrativeinlongform istodayaprominentandpopularmodeinvisualcultures,its
accessibilitymakingitoftenthefirstentrypointtotheworldofliteratureformanyyoungpeople.
Asaform,ithasbeenomnivorousinprovidingrepresentationtobothdominant,hegemonicvalues
aswellassubversiveones.Thebestexamplesoftheform workthroughtheinterconnectionofart
andtext,theintersectionofdrawing,colouredandblankspaces,proportionandpithydialogue.
Thiscourseaimstointroducethegraphicnarrativetostudentsofnon-literarystudiesbackgrounds,
toprovideatoolkitforthem toacquirevisualliteracyandthustoequipthem tobetterunderstand
popularpubliccultures.
CourseObjectives:
Thiscourseaimsto:
1.Examinehowmajorgraphicnarrativecommentoncontemporaryculture,historyandmythology.
2.Providevisualliteracytoolsthroughexaminingvisualartsasextending,translatingandproviding
anewtextualvocabularytonarrative,includingfictionalandnon-fictionalnarrative.
3.Provideexposuretomajorgenreswithinthefieldsuchasthatofthemass-circulation"comic"
book;thefictionalizedautobiography/memoir;biographicaltexts,andthatoffiction.
4.Providetoolsfortheexplorationofform andgenrethataresensitivetonuancesofrace,gender,
caste,ethnicity,ableism andsexuality.
5.Enablestudentsfrom backgroundsinsubjectsotherthanEnglishliterarystudiestobroaden
theirskill-setsintextualinterpretation,readingandwritingabouttexts.
Syllabus
1.GeorgeRemi.TheAdventuresofTintin:RedRackham'sTreasure.UK:Egmont,2013(1943);and
Goscinny,ReneandUderzo,Albert.AsterixandCleopatra.Delhi:Hachette,2015(1963).
2.MarjaneSatrapi.Persepolis.London:Vintage,2008(2003).
3AmrutaPatil,Kari.Delhi:HarperCollins,2008.
4.SrividyaNatarajanandAparajitaNinan.AGardenerintheWasteland.Delhi:Navayana,2016.
Committee:
AneetaRajendran,GargiCollege(Coordinator);
GorvikaRao,MirandaHouse;
ShraddhaAdityavirSingh,ZakirHusainCollege;
Sanam Khanna,KamlaNehruCollege;
MukulChaturvedi,ZakirHusainCollege;
RinaRamdev,SriVenkateswaraCollege;
AmritaSingh,KamlaNehruCollege;
ShwetaSachdevaJha,MirandaHouse.
Paper9:CinematicAdaptationsofLiteraryTexts
Coursestatement:
Thispaperwillequipstudentsfrom non-Englishstudiesbackgroundstoexplorethelanguageof
cinemathroughtheirstudyofacanonicalliterarytext.Thestudyofglobalfilm adaptationsof
Shakespeare's Othello will focalize this paper's examination of theories of adaptation,
transformationandtransposition.
CourseObjectives:
1.Students willengagewiththerelationshipbetweentextandfilm,andexaminethecontextsof
film productioninglobalfilm industries,includingHollywoodandBollywood.
2.AsanelectiveEnglishstudiespaper,thecorefocusistextualstudyand interpretativework
whereinthestudentgainsskillsinstudyingShakespeareasmuchasthelanguageoffilm via
appreciationofitsspecificfeaturesasamedium.
3.Focusonreceptionandcriticalworkandhistorythroughthecomparativeframeworktoexamine
thedifferentcontextsofproductionoftheplayandthefilms.
Syllabus
1:TheLanguageofCinema
JamesMonaco,‘Thelanguageoffilm:signsandsyntax’,inHow ToReadaFilm:TheWorldof
Movies,Media&Multimedia(NewYork:OUP,2009)chap.3,pp.170–249.
Stam,Robert(2000)"BeyondFidelity:TheDialoguesofAdaptation"inJamesNaremore(Ed.)Film
Adaptation,pp.54-76.NewBrunswick,NJ:RutgersUniversityPress.
2:Othello(Text:William Shakespeare)
3:Othello(Movie1965,dir.StuartBurge)
4:Othello(Movie1995,dir.OliverParker)
5:Omkara(Movie2006,dir.VishalBhardwaj)
Suggestedfilms:
Pinjar(2003,dir.ChandraPrakashDwivedi)-Hindi
GhareBaire(1984,dir.SatyajitRay)-Bangla
Kaliyattam (1997,dir.Jayaraaj)-Malayalam
Suggestedreadings:
a) "Adaptation,OrTheCinemaasDigest"byAndreBazininFilm andLiterature:AnIntroduction
andReader.Ed.TimothyCorrigan.Pp.57-64.
b)Hutcheon,Linda."OntheArtofAdaptation",DaedalusVol.133(2004)
CourseCommittee
1.MithuraajDhusiya,HansrajCollege(Coordinator)
2.KrishnanUnni.P,DeshbandhuCollege
3.NamitaPaul,KamlaNehruCollege
4.ShwetaSachdevaJha,MirandaHouse
5.SachinN.,DyalSinghCollege
6.DhananjayKapse,KirorimalCollege
7.GorvikaRao,MirandaHouse
8.AneetaRajendran,GargiCollege
9.PayalAgarwal,HansrajCollege
10.JennyRowena,MirandaHouse
11.NidhiBhandari,KamlaNehruCollege
12.SakshiDogra,HansrajCollege
13. Kavita,KamlaNehruCollege
14.BratiBiswas,DyalSinghEvening
Paper10:IndianEnglishLiteratures
CourseStatement
Overthepasttwocenturies,especiallyafterthe1980s,IndianWritinginEnglishhasemergedasa
majorcontributiontoIndianaswellasgloballiteraryproduction.Acloseanalysisofsomeofthe
majorworksofIndianWritinginEnglishiscrucialinanyexplorationofmodernIndiansubjectivities,
historiesandpolitics.
CourseObjectives
ThepaperintendstointroducestudentstoIndianEnglishLiteratureanditsoeuvrethroughthe
selectedliterarytextsacrossgenres.
Itfurtheraimstoenablethestudentstoplacethesetextswithinthediscourseofpostcoloniality
andunderstandIndianliteraryproductionsinEnglishinrelationtothehegemonicprocessesof
colonialism,neo-colonialism,nationalism,andglobalisation.
Thepaperalsohopestoallowthestudentstosituatethiscorpuswithinitsvarioushistoricaland
ideologicalcontextsandapproachthestudyofIndianWritinginEnglishfrom theperspectivesof
multipleIndiansubjectivities.
1. R.K.NarayanSwamiandFriends
2. FirdausKanga.TryingtoGrow
3. MaheshDattani.Tara
4. ShashiDeshpande.“TheIntrusion”
SalmanRushdie.“TheCourter”
RohintonMistry.“SwimmingLessons”
Vikram Chandra.“Dharma”
5. KamalaDas.“AnIntroduction”,“MyGrandmother’sHouse”
Nissim Ezekiel.“NightofScorpion”,“GoodbyePartyforMissPushpaT.S.”
ArunKolatkar.“TheBus”“ALowTemple”
Vikram Seth.“TheCrocodileandtheMonkey”
MamangDai“TheSorrowofWomen”
MembersofCommittee(InAlphabeticalOrderfollowingCoordinator)
1. Dr.SomeshwarSati,KirorimalCollege(Coordinator)
2. Mr.DhananjayKapse,KirorimalCollege
3. Ms.KarunaRajeev,LadyShriRam CollegeforWomen
4. Dr.RohithP.,DeenDayalUpadhyayaCollege
5. Mr.VirajKafle,DyalSinghCollege(Morning)
Paper11:PopularFiction
CourseStatement
Thepaperencouragesstudentstoengagewithissuessurroundingthecategorytermed“popularliterature”.Questionsabouttherolesofreadership,bestsellersandtheroleofmassmarketpublicationwillbeexplored.Variousgenres,suchaswritingforchildrenandyoungadults,detectivefiction,andmodernmythology,whichareconsideredpopular,areincludedhere.Thepaperaimsatpromotinganunderstandingofpopularliteratureasasociallyrelevantandpleasurableform ofwritingwhichengageswithcontemporaryissues.
CourseObjectives
· Throughthispaper,studentswillbebroughttoquestionthecategoriesof“high”and“low”literature,andissuesconcerning‘popularculture’.
· Studentswillexplorethesocialandculturalrelevanceofpopulartextsandbestsellers,asproductsoftheirtimeandage,whichmirrortheaspirationsandanxietiesofthesocietyandclassoftheirreadership.
1.RuskinBond TheBlueUmbrella
2.Amish TheImmortalsofMeluha
3.AlexanderMcCallSmith: TheNo1LadiesDetectiveAgency
4.JohnGreen- PaperTowns
Membersofthecommittee:
Sanam Khanna(Coordinator)(KNC)
ShraddhaAdityavirSingh(ZHDC)
ShwetaSachdevaJha(MH)
Amrita(KNC)
Paper12:CultureandTheory
CourseObjectives:Thiscoursepresentskeytheoriesseminaltothedevelopmentofcultureinthetwentiethcentury.Itcombinesatheoreticalbasewithitspracticalapplicationtoliterature.Thiswillhelpthestudentsunderstandtheconstructionofcultureinsocietyanditsapplicationtothesimplestaspectsoflife.Theliterarytextshavebeen selected carefullyto comprehend theconnectionsbetweenculture,literatureandlife.
1. AntonioGramsci:‘TheFormationoftheIntellectuals’and‘Hegemony(CivilSociety)and
SeparationofPowers’,inSelectionsfrom thePrisonNotebooks,ed.andtr.QuentinHoareand
GeoffreyNovellSmith(London:LawrenceandWishart,1971)pp.5,245–6.
ShortStory:AntonChekhov“TheBride,”SelectedWorks.Moscow:ProgressP,1973.
2.RolandBarthes:Culture(London:Vintage,2009).“NovelsandChildren”,“Toys”,“Plastic”
Short Story:Thomas Mann “Gladius Dei,” in Little Herr Friedmann and Other stories.
Harmondsworth:Penguin,1961.
3.EdwardSaid:‘TheScopeofOrientalism’inOrientalism (Harmondsworth:Penguin,1977)pp.31-
73
ShortStory:LuXun“MyOldHome,”SelectedWorksVol.1Bejing:ForeignLanguagesPress,1980.
4.SimonedeBeauvoir:TheSecondSex(London:Vintage,1997).Introductionpp.13-29.
ShortStory:JeanPaulSartre“Intimacy,”TheWalltrans.AlexanderLloyd,Wisconsin:HalLeonard
Corp,1995.
5.MichelFoucault:“WhatisanAuthor?”ModernCriticism andTheory:AReader,ed.DavidLodge
withNigelWood(NewDelhi:Pearson,2007)pp.192-205.
ShortStory:KatherineMansfield“TheVoyage”inChristopherDolley,Ed. ThePenguinBookofShortStories.Harmondsworth:Penguin,Rpt.1970.
SuggestedReadings
LouisAlthusser.“IdeologyandIdeologicalStateApparatuses,”inLeninandPhilosophyandOther
Essays(NewDelhi:AakarBooks,2006)pp.85–126.
RolandBarthes.“DeathoftheAuthor,”ModernCriticism andTheory:AReader,ed.DavidLodge
withNigelWood(NewDelhi:Pearson,2007)pp.164-168.
KateMillett.SexualPolitics(London:RupertHart-Davis,1971).̀“InstancesofSex”pp.3-22and
TheoryofSexualPoliticspp.23-58
MichelFoucault.“TruthandPower,”PowerandKnowledge,tr.AlessandroFontanaandPasquale
Pasquino(NewYork:Pantheon,1977)pp.109–33.
Namesofmembers:
PayalNagpal
RudrashishChakraborty
Paper13:MarginalisationsinIndianWriting
CourseStatement:
Sincethetwentiethcenturyliterarytextsfrom variedcontextsinIndiahaveopenedupnew
discursivespacesfrom withinwhichtheideaofthenormativeisproblematised.Positionsof
marginalitywhethergeographical,caste,gender,disabilityandtribaloffertheneedtointerrogate
theideaofthenormativeaswellasconstitutionsofthecanon.Thoughthisengagementhasbeen
partofliteraryacademicanalysis,ithasjustbegunmakingitsforayintothesyllabusofEnglish
DepartmentsofIndianUniversities.Thispaperhopestointroducetheundergraduatestudentsto
perspectiveswithinIndianWritingthatacquaintthem withbothexperiencesofmarginalisation
alongsideexaminingmodesofliterarystylisticsthatofferavariationfrom conventionalpractice.
CourseObjectives:
Tomaketheundergraduatestudentsapproachliteraturethroughthelensofvariedidentity
positionsandevolveinthem afreshcriticalperspectiveforreadingliteraryrepresentations.
Toenablethem toexplorevariousformsofliteraryrepresentationsofmarginalisationas
wellaswritingfrom outsidewhatisthegenerallyfamiliarterrainofIndianWritinginschools.
Tomakethem awareofthedifferentwaysinwhichliterarynarrativesareshaped.
Especiallysincesomeofthetextsdrawontraditionsoftheoral,mythic,folkandtheform of
life-narrativeasstylistics.
Tomakethem understandhowliteratureisusedalsotonegotiateandinterrogatethis
hegemonyandevolveanalternativeconceptionofcorporealandsubjectivedifference.
1. Caste
B.R.Ambedkar.AnnihilationofCaste:TheAnnotatedCriticalEditionChap.4(233-236),6(241-
244),and14(259-263).NewDelhi:NavayanaPublications,2015.Print.
Bama.“Ch.1”.Sangati(Trans.LakshmiHolmstrom).NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,2005.
3-14.Print
AjayNavaria.“YesSir”(Trans.LauraBrueck).UnclaimedTerrain.NewDelhi:Navayana,2013.45
-64Print.
ArunaGogulamanda,“ADalitwomanintheLandofGoddesses”inFirstPoston13August
2017.
2. Disability
Rabindranath Tagore.“Subha”(Trans.Mohammad A.Quayum)Rabindranath Tagore:TheRuinedNestandOtherStories.KualaLumpur:Silverfish,2014.43-50.Print.
MaliniChib.“WhyDoYouWanttoDoBA”.OneLittleFinger.NewDelhi:Sage,2011.49-82.Print
RaghuvirSahay."The HandicappedCaughtinaCamera"(Trans.Harish Trivedi) ChicagoReview.
38:1/2.1992. 146-7.
GirishKarnad.BrokenImages.CollectedPlays:VolumeII.NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,
2005.261-284.Print.
3. Tribe
WaharuSonawane.“LiteratureandAdivasiCulture.”LokayanaBulletinSpecialIssueonTribal
identity.10:5/6.(March-June1994):11-20.
JanilKumarBrahma.“Orge.”ModernBodoShortStories.Trans.JoykantaSarma.Delhi:Sahitya
Akademi,2003.1-9.
D.K.Sangma.“SongonInaugurationofahouse”(Trans.CarolineMarak.)GaroliteratureDelhi:
SahityaAkademi,2002.72-73.
RandhirKhare.“RajaPantha.”TheSingingBow:PoemsoftheBhil.Delhi:HarperCollins,2001.1
-2.
4. Gender
LivingSmileVidya."Acceptme!"in IAm Vidya:ATransgender'sJourney. NewDelhi:Rupa,2013.
69-79.
RashidJahan.“Woh”(Trans.M.T.Kahn)inSusieTharuandK.Lalita,eds.WomenWritinginIndia600BCtothePresent,Vol.2(NewYork:TheFeministPress,1993)pp.119-22.Print
IsmatChugtai.“Lihaf”(Trans.M Assadudin)ManushiVol.110pp.36-40.Print
HoshangMerchant.“PoemsforVivan”inRuthVanitaandSaleem Kidwai,eds.SameSexLoveinIndia:Readingsfrom LiteratureandHistory.NewYork:Palgrave,2001.349-351.Print.
5. North-East
MamangDai.“MythsofCreation”Arunachal:AHiddenLand.NewDelhi:Penguin.37-50.Print.
CherrieLChhangte.“WhatdoesanIndianLooklike”TilottomaMisra,ed.TheOxfordAnthologyofWritingsfrom North-East India:PoetryandEssays.NewDelhi:OxfordUP, 2011.49.Print.
K.S.Nongkynrih.“Ren”.K.S.Nongkynrih&R.S.Ngangom (Eds.),AnthologyofContemporaryPoetryfrom theNortheast.Shillong,India:NEHUPublications,2003.158-159.Print.
IndiraGoswami."TheOffspring" (Trans.IndiraGoswami)UrvashiButalia,Ed. InnerLine:TheZubaanBookof StoriesbyIndianWomen.NewDelhi:Zubaan,2006.104-120.Print.
MembersofCommittee(InAlphabeticalOrderfollowingCoordinator)
6. Dr.SomeshwarSati,KirorimalCollege(Coordinator)
7. Dr.B.Mangalam,AryabhattaCollege
8. Ms.KarunaRajeev,LadyShriRam CollegeforWomen
9. Dr.MukulChaturvedi,ZakirHusainCollege(Morning)
10. Dr.RohithP.,DeenDayalUpadhyayaCollege
11. Mr.SachinN.,DyalSinghCollege(Morning)
12. Mr.VirajKafle,DyalSinghCollege(Morning)
Paper14:TheIndividualandSociety
Courseobjective:Thisanthologyintroducesstudentstothevariousissuesthatfacesocietytoday
–Caste,class,race,gender,violenceandglobalization.Itservesasaneffectiveentrypointtoan
understandingoftheseareasthatstudentswillencounterintheirhigherstudiesanddailylivesand
aimstoprovidethem withaholisticunderstandingoftheseissuesandtheircomplexities.
Unit1:CasteandClass:Chapters1,2,3,4,5,6
Unit2:Gender:Chapters8,9,10,12,13,15
Unit3:Race:Chapters16,17,18,19
Unit4:ViolenceandWar:Chapters22,23,25,26
Unit5:LivingInaglobalizedWorld:Chapters29,31,32,34
Paper15:WesternPerformanceTheoriesandPractices
CourseObjectives:ThiscoursecombinesmodernWesterntheatricalconceptsalongwiththepraxisofperformance.Itwillfamiliarisethestudentswith theseminalWestern theoriesofperformanceinthetwentiethcenturyandtheirvisualisationonstage.Thecoursewillfocusonahistoricalunderstandingofthedifferenttypesoftheatricalspacesalongwiththeirbearingonperformance.Apracticebasedcourse,itwillfocusontechniquessuchasvoicemodulationandbodymovement.Adesignatedunittowardsproductionwillhelpstudentsunderstandthedifferentaspectsinvolvedintheatricalproduction.
1.Introduction
IntroductiontoWesterntheoriesofPerformance:ClassicaltoContemporary;Endorsement
ofexistingstructurestoRadicalisingourworld
HistoricaloverviewofWesterntheatre
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Perspectivesontheatreandperformance
b.Historicaldevelopmentoftheatricalforms
c.Populartraditions
2.TheatricalFormsandPractices
Performativespaces:e.g.proscenium,‘intheround’,amphitheatre,open-airandthruststage.
Theirimpactonmeaningsofperformance.
Performancecomponents:Voicemodulationandbodymovement
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Onthedifferenttypesofperformativespaceinpractice
b.Poetryreading,elocution,expressivegestures,andchoreographedmovement
3.TheoriesofDrama
Theoriesanddemonstrationsofacting:Stanislavsky,Brecht,Boal
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Actingshortsolo/groupperformancesfollowedbydiscussionandanalysiswithapplicationof
theoreticalperspectives
4.TheatricalProduction
Direction,production,stageprops,costume,lighting,backstagesupport.
Recording/archivingperformance/casestudyofproduction/performance/impactofmedia
onperformanceprocesses.
TopicsforStudentPresentations:
a.Allaspectsofproductionandperformance;recording,archiving,interviewingperformersand
datacollection.
CourseOutcomes
Aperformanceofminimum thirtyminutesusinganyoneform ofdramastudiedinthis
course
InterviewatleastonetheatrepractitionerwhohasworkedwithWesterntheatricalforms
CourseCoordinators
SanjayKumar(HansrajCollege)
PayalNagpal(JankiDeviMemorialCollege)
Paper16:LiteratureandtheContemporaryWorld
Courseobjectives:
Thiscourseseekstointroducestudentstovariousgenresofcontemporaryliteraturethrough
worksthatarefamiliarandhaveestablishedthemselvesinthepopularparlance.Thesetextswill
bestudiedfrom variousprisms–class,caste,gender,raceetc.andwillequipstudentswithan
understandingofthelinkagesbetweenliterature,historyandsocietyinourtimes.
1. IsabelAllende.TheHouseoftheSpirits.Everyman’sLibrary,2005.
2. KhaledHossaini,TheKiteRunner.Bloomsbury,2013.
3. WoleSoyinkaADanceoftheForests.ThreeCrowns,1963.
4. Shortstories:
JulioCortaza.“TheSkyWideOpen”.TheOxfordBookofLatinAmerica,ed.By.Roberto
GonzalezEchevarria,OUP,1997
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie.“TheAmericanEmbassy”.TheThingAroundYourNeck.Harper
Collins,2009.
TenzinTsundue,‘Kora’from Kora:StoriesandPoems.NewDelhi:2002
Poems:
Nazim Hikmet.“NinthAnniversary”.PoemsofNazim Hikmet,translatedby,RandyBlasing
andMutluKonuk.PerseaBooks,NewYork,2002.
MayaAngelou.“OnthePulseofMorning”.TheCompleteCollectedpoemsofMayaAngelou
/Edition1.Random HousePublishingGroup,1994.
YasmineGooneratne.“BigMatch,1983.”ed.JohnThieme.TheArnoldAnthologyofPost-
ColonialLiteraturesinEnglish.USA:OxfordUniversityPress,2000.
Namesofmembers:
MuditaMohile
BratiBiswas