COURSE STRUCTURE AND SYLLABUS

2012-13

Central University of Punjab

Bathinda-151001

Vice Chancellor’s Message

Central University of Punjab, Bathinda was established under the Central Universities Act No. 25 (2009)

in the educationally backward Malwa region of Punjab with the purpose of providing world-class

educational facilities of higher learning to the aspiring students unable to have access to such

institutions in metropolitan cities. After consideration of various locations for the establishment of the

university, an abandoned spinning mill was selected for conversion into the transit campus of Central

University of Punjab. The campus is an excellent example of transformation of a barren piece of land

into a humming university campus in record time with all the facilities of an ideal institution of higher

learning. In October 2009, the university started functioning from this 37 acre premises. Now, this

campus provides most suitable, pollution free and eco-friendly atmosphere.

Based on open public debate and advice of several experts from prestigious institutions across

the country, the university decided to establish 68 Centers of Studies under 12 Schools covering almost

all important disciplines of study in Basic and Applied Sciences, Environment, Health and Life sciences,

Engineering, Management, Legal Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences, Languages, Literature and

Culture. Beginning with only four courses in four Centres in 2009-10, the University plans to start

twenty-five courses under eight Schools in 2012-13 session. Different Schools have been conceptualized

and created in specialized broader areas of knowledge under which diverse but interrelated centers

have been formed. The aim is to reach all the potential scholars and researchers across the country with

our new course structures featuring several new areas at different levels. The details of course structure

and their respective syllabi have been compiled for the ready reference of the students.

I thank all the experts, educationists and intellectuals who have participated in the process of

development of courses and programmes that are currently being offered in the university. I also thank

faculty members for their dynamic and enthusiastic participation in this exercise.

I am confident that the university will soon carve out a niche among the finest academic bodies

of the world and maintain its national character and global outreach through its instructional and

research programmes. As multi-facility and multi-faculty university incorporating state-of-the-art

infrastructural support systems for teaching and research, it will bring into public domain the global

technological trends for the benefit of every strata of society.

Prof. Jai Rup Singh

Vice Chancellor

Centre for Comparative Literature

M.Phil.-Ph.D. Integrated Programme in Comparative Literature

Semester-I Course Code

Course Title Credit Hours

Theory Practical Research Total

CPL.601 Research Methodology 5 - - 5

CPL.602 Computer Applications 4 - - 4

CPL.603 Theory of Comparative Literature–1 3 - - 3

CPL.604 Translation: Theory and Practice 3 - - 3

CPL.652 Computer Applications-Practical - 1 - 1

CPL.699 Seminar in Comparative Literature 1 - - 1

Total 16 1 - 17

Semester-II

CPL.605 Theory of Comparative Literature–2 4 - - 4

CPL.606* Area Studies 4 - - 4

CPL.607 Literary Theories – Indian and Western 4 - - 4

CPL.608* World Literary Classics 4 - - 4

CPL.699 Seminar in Comparative Literature 1 - - 1

Total 17 - - 17

Semester-III

CPL.600 Dissertation Research - - 16 16

Grand Total 33 1 16 50

*= Select studies from the list given in the syllabus

M.Phil.-Ph.D. Integrated Programme – Eight Semesters.

Semester-I

CPL.601: Research Methodology. Credit Hours: 5. Unit I

General principles of research: Meaning and importance of research, critical thinking, formulating hypothesis and development of research plan, review of literature, interpretation of results and discussion. Technical writing: Scientific writing that includes the way of writing research paper, poster preparation and presentation and dissertation. Library: Classification systems, eLibrary, reference management, web-based literature search engines. Research and Academic Integrity: Copyright issues, Conduct of ethical research, Belmont report and Plagiarism in research.

Unit II Knowledge: Epistemological and ontological foundations of knowledge; Deductive and Inductive forms of knowledge; Reality and False Consciousness; Empirical and subjective knowledge; the questions of truth, facts and fiction; Knowledge and power – Michael Foucault and Edward Said. Science of Knowing: Positivism; Age of Science; Determinism, Empiricism, Parsimony and Generality; Comte and the social phenomena; Durkheim and his social facts and definite realities; Ranke and the Berlin revolution; Smith, Mill, Marshall and the economic science; Logical positivism- from Newtonian determinism to relativism; Popper and the theory of falsification.

Unit III Discontents of Positivism: anti-positivism, Critical theory, Post-modernism and Post-behaviourism; What is History; the linguistic turn and twists in the notion of meaning and authenticity; Philosophy of Science- Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos; Hayden White and his Meta-history; Amartya Sen and his moral science of Economics. Structure and Agency: the questions of methodological holism and individualism; functionalism-structuralism-post-structuralism; Giddens and the theory of structuration; Rational agents/actors; Social constructivism and cultural relativism. Against the Knowledge, the Meta-narratives and the Method: Paradigms in conflict; methodological plurality; Margins, Fragments and resurrection of subjugated knowledge; Subaltern studies.

Unit IV Research methods in literature/literary research: archival, personal narratives, oral history, visual methodologies, discource analysis, ethnographic methods, textual analysis, creative writing, ICT

Research and writing: review of literature, methodology, interpretation of results and discussion, Mechanics of writing, format, language and style in research publications (MLA format) Literary research resources in the digital age: internet, online databases, citation management.

Suggested readings:

1. Ahuja, Ram. Research Methods. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2009. 2. Anderson, Jonathan and Millicent Poole. Assignment and Thesis Writing. New Delhi:

Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., 2011. 3. Audi, Robert. Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge,

London: Routledge, 2002. 4. Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd

ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 5. Chindhade, Shirish, and Ashok Thorat. An Introduction to Research: The Rudiments of

Literary Research. New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2009. 6. Correa, Delia Da Sousa and W.R. Owens, eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. Oxon:

Routledge, 2010. 7. Creswell, John W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Method

Approaches. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009. 8. Das, V.K. Research Methods in English. Jaipur: Prism Books, 2011. 9. Eliot, Simon and W.R. Owens, eds. A Handbook to Literary Research. 2nd ed. Oxon:

Routledge, 2010. 10. Ember, Carol R., and Melvin Ember. Cross-Cultural Research Methods. 2nd ed. Lanham:

Altamira, 2009. 11. Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977,

Ed. Colin Gordon. London: Vintage, 1980. 12. Goddard, Wayne, and Stuart Melville. Research Methodology – An Introduction. 2nd ed.

Lansdowne: JUTA, 2006. 13. Griffin, Gabriele, ed. Research Methods for English Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP,

2005. 14. Guha, Ranajit, ed. A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2000. 15. Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide. 5th ed. New York: MLA, 2008. 16. Kothari, C.R. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. 2nd ed. New Delhi: New

Age International (P) Ltd. Publishers, 2004. 17. Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1996. 18. Majumdar, P.K. Research Methods in Social Sciences. New Delhi: Viva Books Pvt. Ltd.,

2005. 19. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009. 20. Pickering, Michael. Research Methods for Cultural Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP,

2008. 21. Quadri, Syed Mohammad Haseebuddin. The Craft of Language and Literary Research.

New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2010. 22. Seale, Clive, ed. Social Research Methods: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2008.

23. Verma, R.K., and Gopal Verma. Research Methodology. New Delhi: Commonwealth Publishers, 2010.

24. Young, Tory. Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.

CPL.602: Computer Applications. Credit Hours: 4. Unit I

Fundamentals of computers: Parts of computers, Hardware, BIOS, Operating systems, Binary system, Logic gates and Boolean Algebra. Application software: Spreadsheet applications, Word-processing applications, Presentation applications, Internet browsers, Reference Management, and Image processing applications.

Unit II Computer Language: Basic DOS commands, AutoHotKey scripting language, HTML and basic structure of a webpage, Designing websites. World Wide Web: Origin and concepts, Latency and bandwidth, Searching the internet, Advanced web-search using Boolean logic, Cloud computing.

Unit III Translation Software: Introduction and practical use of various kinds of transliteration/ translation software. Publishing: Formatting of research papers/dissertation, DTP and Web publishing, Regional Languages and Computers

Unit IV Internet and Literary Research: Searching for research papers, reference material, citation management, language analysis tools.

Suggested readings:

1. Duncan, Ray. Advanced MS DOS Programming. New Delhi: BPB Publications, 1988. 2. Gookin, Dan. MS Word 2007 for Dummies. NJ: Wiley Publishing, 2007. 3. Harvey, G. MS Excel 2007 for Dummies. New Delhi: Wiley India, 2007. 4. Johnson, Steve. Windows 7 on demand. Indiana: Pearson Education, 2009. 5. Maidasani, Dinesh. Learning Computer Fundamentals, MS Office and Internet and Web

Technology. New Delhi: Firewall Media, 2009. 6. Musciano, Chuck and Bill Kennedy. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. 6th ed.

Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media, 2007. 7. Pilgrim, Mark. HTML5: Up and Running. Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media, 2010. 8. Silberschatz, Abraham and Greg Gagne. Operating System Concepts. New Delhi: Wiley

India, 2009. 9. Thurrott P and Rivera R. Windows 7 Secrets. Indianapolis: Wiley, 2009.

CPL.603: Theory of Comparative literature 1. Credit Hours: 3. Unit I

Comparative Literature: Problems of definition,History and major schools of Comparative Literature. Unit II

Theories, methods and concepts of comparative literary study, Interdisciplinarity of Literature. Unit III

Genealogy, historiography, thematology. Suggested readings:

1. Apter, Emily S. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP. 2006.

2. Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. 3. Damrosch, David, Natalie Melas and M. Buthelezi. The Princeton Sourcebook in

Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009.

4. Damrosch, David. What is world literature? New Jersey: Princeton UP. 2003. 5. Dasgupta, Subha Chakraborty, ed. Genology. Jadavpur: Jadavpur University. 2004. 6. Gupta, Suman. Globalization and Literature. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. 7. Koelb, Clayton and Susan Noakes. The Comparative Perspective on Literature:

Approaches to Theory and Practice. New York: Cornell UP, 1998. 8. Levin, Harry. Grounds for Comparison. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972. 9. Louwerse Max and Willie Van Peer. Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies. Amsterdam:

John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2003. 10. Majumdar, Swapan. Comparative Literature: Indian Dimensions. Calcutta: Payrus, 1987. 11. Pettersson, Anders. Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Notions of Literature

across times and cultures. Vol. 1. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2006. CPL.604: Translation: Theory and Practice. Credit Hours: 3. Unit I

Translation: Concept, Definition and types of Translation. Literary translation and Cultural translation Interpretation, Transcription, Transcreation, and Machine Translation

Unit II Translation studies and Comparative Literature Literary Translation: Source Language, Target language, Equivalence and Ambiguity in Translation, Information Texts translation, Business translation, Science translation, Advertisement translation

Unit III Problems of Translation: Location of the Source and Target Texts, Location of the Translator, Translation of a Translated Text

Role of Translator: Visibility and Invisibility National Translation Mission

Suggested readings:

1. Anderman, Gunilla M. and Margaret Rogers. Translation Today: Trends and Perspectives. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters, 2003.

2. Bassnett, Susan and André Lefevere, eds. Constructing Cultures. Essays on Literary Translation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1998.

3. Bassnett, Susan and André Lefevere, eds. Translation, History and Culture. London and New York: Pinter, 1990.

4. Bassnett, Susan and Harish Trivedi, eds. Post-colonial Translation: Theory and practice. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

5. Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 6. Gentzler, Edwin. Contemporary Translation Theories. 1993. New Delhi: Viva, 2010. 7. Hansen, Gyde, Kirsten Malmkjær and Daniel Gile. Claims, Changes and Challenges in

Translation Studies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2004. 8. Hatim, Basil and Jeremy Munday. Translation: An Advanced Resource Book. Oxon:

Routledge, 2004. 9. Hermans, Theo, ed. The Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary Translation.

London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985. 10. Kothari, Rita. Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English. New Delhi: Foundation

Books, 2003. 11. Landers, Clifford E. Literary Translation: A Practical Guide. New Delhi: Viva, 2010. 12. Lefevere, André. Translating Poetry: Seven Strategies and a Blueprint. Assen and

Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1975. 13. Leuven-Zwart, Kitty M. van and Ton Naaijkens. Translation Studies: The State of the Art.

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991. 14. Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. Oxon:

Routledge, 2008. 15. Newmark, Peter. About Translation. Bristol: Channel View Publications Ltd/Multilingual

Matters, 1991. 16. Newmark, Peter. Paragraphs on Translation. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters, 1989. 17. Riccard, Alessandrai. Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline.

Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 18. Samuelsson- Brown, Geoffrey. A Practical Guide for Translators. Clevendon: Multilingual

Matters, 2004. 19. Schäffner, Christina, ed. The Role of Discourse Analysis for Translation and in Translator

Training. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2002. 20. Schulte, Rainer and John Biguenet, eds. Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays

from Dryden to Derrida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 21. Toury, Gideon. Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond. Amsterdam and

Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1995. 22. Venuti, Lawrence, ed. Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology. London

and New York: Routledge, 1992.

23. Venuti, Lawrence, ed. The Translation Studies Reader. 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge, 2004. 24. Venuti, Lawrence. The Scandals of Translation: Towards an ethics of difference. London

and New York: Routledge, 1998. 25. Venuti, Lawrence. The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation. London and New

York: Routledge, 1995.

26. Walder, Dennis. Post-Colonial Literatures in English. History, Language, Theory. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.

CPL.652: Computer Applications-Practical. Credit Hour: 1. 1. Training on basic usage of Microsoft Word, Miscosoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and

Internet Explorer 2. Optimizing web search: Google advanced search, Boolean operators, Literature search using

Google Scholar, HighWire 3. Bibliography management and research paper formatting using reference software

EndNote 4. Creating a functional website using HTML 5. Basic programming using DOS batch files and AutoHotKey Note: 1. More practicals may be added/modified from time to time depending on available

faculties/facilities. 2. 1 Class - 4 periods - Per week

CPL.699: Seminar in Comparative Literature. Credit Hour: 1.

Semester II

CPL.605: Theory of Comparative literature-2. Credit Hours: 4. Unit I

Contemporary issues in comparative literature: Globalization, multiethnic, multiracial and multicultural societies. Postcolonial condition, national histories and cultural/linguistic hegemonies

Unit II Marginalities: histories, identities and politics

Unit III Canon: National Literature, World Literature, Regional/Vernacular literatures

Suggested readings:

1. Apter, Emily S. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

2. Barricelli, Jean Pierre, and Joseph Gibaldi, eds. Interrelations of literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1982.

3. Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. 4. Chaudhary, Angraj. Comparative Aesthetics: East and West. New Delhi: South Asia

Books, 1991. 5. Damrosch, David, Natalie Melas and M. Buthelezi. The Princeton Sourcebook in

Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009.

6. Dasgupta, Subha Chakraborty, ed. Genology. Jadavpur: Jadavpur University, 2004. 7. Guillen, Claudio. The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Harvard: Harvard UP, 1993. 8. Koelb, Clayton and Susan Noakes. The Comparative Perspective on Literature:

Approaches to Theory and Practice. New York: Cornell UP, 1988. 9. Levin, Harry. Refractions: Essays in Comparative Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1972. 10. Mallinson, Vernon and Keith Watson and Raymond Wilson. Contemporary Issues in

Comparative Education: a Festschrift in honour of Professor Emeritus Vernon Mallinson. Kent: Croom Helm Ltd., 1985.

11. Morize, Andre. Problems and Methods of Literary History. New Tork: Biblo and Tannen Publishers, 1996.

12. Zepetnek, Steven Totosy de. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.

CPL.606: Area Studies. Credit Hours: 4. Unit I

Study of general history and major trends of one literature each from (A) & (B) below: (The particular language/literatures/Texts to be decided by the course coordinator keeping in mind the interests and academic background of the students.)

(A) Indian Literature (i) Punjabi Literature (ii) Hindi Literature (iii) Indian English Literature (iv) Urdu Literature (v) Sanskrit Literature (vi) Asamese/Bengali/Gujrati/Kannad/Malayalam/Marathi/Oriya/Tamil/Telugu

Literature (B) World Literature

(i) Greek Literature (ii) Italian Literature (iii) French Literature (iv) German Literature (v) English Literature (vi) Russian Literature (vii) African Literature

Unit II Detailed study of two literary texts, one each from (A) and (B) below: (A) Indian Literature

(i) Kalidasa: Meghduta. (ii) Munshi Prem Chand: Godan. (iii) Jayamohan : Vishnupuranam (iv) Raja Rao: Kanthapura (v) Gurdial Singh: The Survivors (vi) Rajinder Singh Bedi: I Take this Woman (vii) U R Anadmurthi: Samskara

(B) World Literature (i) Homer: Odyssey (ii) Dante: The Divine Comedy (iii) Standhal: The Red And The Black (iv) Goethe : Faust (v) Shakespeare: Hamlet (vi) Maxim Gorky: Mother (vii) Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (viii) Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (ix) Ibsen: Doll’s House

Suggested readings:

1. B. Trawick, Buckner. World Literature. 2 vols. Barnes and Noble, 1953. 2. Bell, Arthur H., Vincent F. Hooper and Bernard D.N. Grebanier. World Literature: 1800 to

the Present. New York: Barron's, 1994. 3. Brown, Sterling Allen. The Reader's Companion to World Literature. 2nd ed. New York:

Signet Classic, 2002. 4. Christy, Arthur. World Literature: An Anthology of Human Experience. Knoxville:

American Book Company, 1947. 5. Cook, David. African Literature: A Critical View. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1977. 6. Gikandi, Simon. Encyclopedia of African Literature. London and New York: Routledge,

2003. 7. Horton, Rod William and Vincent Foster Hopper. Backgrounds of European Literature:

The Political, Social, and Intellectual Development behind the Great Books of Western Civilization. Iowa: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954.

8. Indian Literature. Vol. 10. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1967. 9. Indian Literature. Vol. 48. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2004. 10. Killam, Douglas and Alicia L. Kerfoot. Student Encyclopedia of African Literature.

Connecticut and London: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. 11. Kole, Robert and Edmond L. Epstein, eds. The Language of African Literature. New

Jersey: Africa World Press, 1998. 12. Miller, Barbara Stoler, ed. Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective.

New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

13. Neuville, H. Richmond. European Literature. Vol. 1. Bedfordshire: Monarch Press, 1966. 14. Renou, Louis and P. Evans. Indian Literature. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms

International, 1979. 15. Rosenberg, Donna. World Literature: An Anthology of Great Short stories, Poetry and

Drama. 2nd ed. New Delhi: McGraw Hill, 2003. 16. Saccidanandan. Indian Literature: Positions and Propositions. Delhi: Pencraft

International, 1999. 17. Sorensen, Lennart. African Literature: An Anthology of African Texts. Stockholm: Liber

Hermods, 1984. 18. Thorlby, Anthony. The Penguin Companion to European Literature. New York: McGraw-

Hill, 1971. 19. Wendell, Barrett. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante. New

York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920. 20. Winternitz, Moriz and Subhadra Jha. History of Indian Literature. Delhi: Motilal

Banarsidass, 1985.

CPL.607: Literary Theories – Indian and Western. Credit Hours: 4. Semester II.

(Specific texts for detailed study to be decided by the course coordinator) Unit I

Schools of Indian Poetics: An Introduction Sanskrit Poetics:

i. Rasa School ii. Alamkara School iii. Dhvani School iv. Riti School v. Vakrokati School

vi. Auchitya School vii. Tamil poetics

Main Contributors : Bharthrihari, Bharata Muni, Dandi, Anandvardhan, Manmata, Vamna, Kuntaka, Kashmendra, Vishawnath.

Unit II

Modern Western Approaches: An Introduction I. New Historicism

II. Formalism, Structuralism, Semiotics, Post-Structuralism III. Psycho-analysis IV. Discourse Analysis V. Marxist Criticism

VI. Feminist Criticism

Main Contributors : Roman Jakobson, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Greenblatt, Terry Eagleton

Suggested readings:

1. Bennett, Tony. Formalism and Marxism. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2003. 2. Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2004. 3. Bhattacharya, Sivaprasad. Studies in Indian Poetics. Kolkata: Firma KLM, 1981. 4. Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 2nd ed.

Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2003. 5. Brown, Cheryl L and Karen Olson. Feminist Criticism: Essays on Theory, Poetry, and

Prose. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1978. 6. De, S.K. Sanskrit Poetics as a Study of Aesthetic. Berkeley: University of California Press,

1963. 7. Deshpande, G T. Indian Poetics, Trans. Jayant Paranjpe. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan,

2009. 8. Dobie, Ann B., Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Heinle &

Heinle, 2002. 9. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota

Press, 2008. 10. Gayley, Charles Mills. An Introduction to the Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism.

1899. Boston: Grierson Press, 2008. 11. Guillen, Claudio. Comparative Poetics. New York: Garland Publications, 1985. 12. Haney, William S. Literary Theory and Sanskrit Poetics: Language, Consciousness, and

Meaning. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, January 1993. 13. Hegde, Suryanarayana. The Concept of Vakrokti in Sanskrit Poetics. New Delhi:

Readworthy Publications, 2009. 14. Higgins, John. Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism Critics of

the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. 15. Jha, V.N. and Sudhakar Pandey, eds. Glimpses of Ancient Indian Poetics (from Bharata to

Jagannatha). New Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1992. 16. Laclau, Ernesto. Ideology and Politics in Marxist Theory. 2nd ed. London: Verso, 1977. 17. Larraín, Jorge. Concept of Ideology. London: Hutchison Education, 1979. 18. Mollinger, Robert N. Psychoanalysis and Literature: An Introduction. Chicago: Nelson-

Hall, 1981. 19. Nagendra. A Dictionary of Sanskrit Poetics. New Delhi: B.R. Publication Corporation,

1987. 20. Norris, Christopher. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge,

2002. 21. Rajan, P K. Indian Poetics and Modern Texts. New Delhi: S. Chand Group. 1998. 22. Ray, Mohit K. A Comparative Study of the Indian Poetics and the Western Poetics. New

Delhi: Sarup and Sons, 2008. 23. Sharma, Brahmanand, Gangadhar Bhatts and Chandra Kishore Goswami. Splendour of

Sanskrit Poetics. Jaipur: Publications Scheme, 1996. 24. Sreekantaiya, T. Nanjundaiya. Indian Poetics. Trans. N. Balasubrahmanya. New Delhi:

Sahitya Akademi, 2001. 25. Stumpf, Samuel Enoch. Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy. 2nd ed. London:

McGraw-Hill, 1975.

26. Tamacu, Anni Mirutalakumari. Studies in Tamil Prosody and Poetics. International Institute of Tamil Studies, 1999.

27. Tiwary, R.S. A Critical Approach to Classical Indian Poetics. Varanasi: Chaukhamba Oriental Research Studies, 1984.

28. Warhol, Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl, eds. Feminisms: an Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1997.

29. Young, Robert. Untying the Text: A Post Structuralist Reader. Oxon: Routledge, 1981.

CPL.608: World Literary Classics. Total 4: Selecting 2 options each from unit: Credit Hours: 4.

Unit I Unit II

Indian Literature World Literature (i) Vedic Hymns: Rig Veda-Indra (i) Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (ii) Srimad Bhagvad Gita (ii) Guy De Maupassant: Short Stories (iii) Agni Purana: Chapter on Poetics (iii) Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection (iv) Sheikh Saadi: Gulistan (iv) Chekhov: Short Stories (v) Guru Nanak: Japuji (v) Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (vi) Ghalib: Diwan-e-Ghalib (vi) Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (vii) Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali (vii) Albert Camus: Plague (viii) Waris Shah: Heer (viii) Pablo Naruda: Residence on Earth (ix) Sangam Poetry: Selections (ix) Ngugi wa Thiong`o: A Grain of Wheat Suggested readings:

1. Abrams, Meyer Howard and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 9th ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2008.

2. Ahmad, Khwaja Jamil. Hundred Great Muslims. 3rd ed. Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1984. 3. Doniger, Wendy. The Rig Veda: An Anthology: One Hundred and Eight Hymns Selected,

Translated and Annotated. London: Penguin, 1981. 4. Flaubert, Gustave, Dora Knowlton and Thompson Ranous. Madame Bovary: A study of

provincial life. New York: Brentano's, 1919. 5. Naruda, Pablo. Residence on Earth and other poems. Trans. Angel Flores. New York:

New directions, 1946. 6. Gangadharan, Natesa. The Agni Purana. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. 7. Ghose, Aurobindo. Kalidasa. 2nd ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1950. 8. Gifford, Henry. Leo Tolstoy: A Critical Anthology. London: Penguin, 1971. 9. Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. New York: Cambridge UP, 2000. 10. Gill, Danielle and Harjit Singh Gill. Japu Ji: The Cosmic Hymn of Guru Nanak. New Delhi:

Bahri Publications, 1994. 11. Gill, Harjit Singh. An Introduction to the Structural Study of Japu Ji in Perspectives on

Guru Nanak, Ed. Harbans Singh. Patiala: Punjabi University, 1975.

12. Graver, Lawrence. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

13. Harris, Mary Belle. Kalidasa: Poet of Nature. Boston: The Meador Press, 1936. 14. Jackson, Robert Louis. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Crime and Punishment: A

Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1973. 15. Jinarajadasa, C. The Bhagavad Gita. Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2005. 16. Johnson, Ronald L. Anton Chekhov: A Study of the short fiction. Boston: Twayne

Publishers, 1993. 17. Kanda, K. C. Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal: From the 17th to the 20th Century. New

Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1992. 18. Kott, Jan and Jacques Désautels. Classics and World Literature. Winnipeg: University of

Manitoba Press, 1968. 19. Localizado, Autor Nao. Classics in World Literature. New York: Pearson Prentice Hall,

1989. 20. Man, Paul De. Madame Bovary: Backgrounds and Sources. London: WW Norton, 1981. 21. Maupassant, Guy De. Best Short Stories. London: Wordsworth Editions, 2000. 22. Merton, Thomas. Albert Camus' the Plague: Introduction and Commentary. Nashville:

Seabury Press, 1968. 23. Roy, K.K. Waris Shah, 1730-1790: A Critical Appreciation of the poet and his only Heer.

New Delhi: Intertrade Publications, 1971. 24. Saadi, Musle-Huddeen Sheikh. The Gulistan or Rose Garden. Trans. Francis Giladwin.

Cambridge: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 25. Tagore, Rabindranath and William Butler Yeats. Gitanjali (Song offerings): A Collection

of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali. 1912, London: International Pocket Library, 2008.

26. Thody, Philip Malcolm Waller. Albert Camus: A Study of his work. 2nd ed. New York: H. Hamilton, 1957.

27. Trawick, Buckner B. World Literature: Greek, Roman, Oriental and Medieval classics. Vol. 1, London: Barnes & Noble, 1960.

28. Zaehner, Robert Charles. The Bhagavad-Gita. London: Oxford UP, 1973. CPL.699: Seminar in Comparative Literature. Credit Hour: 1.

Semester-III

CPL.600: Dissertation Research. Credits: 16.