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SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY, KOLHAPUR, Syllabus for M. A. English Programme, (Choice Based Credit System with Internal Evaluation), To be implemented from June 2018, M.A. Part II, SEMESTER III, C7: Drama in English up to 19th century, Unit 1:, General Topic: Sanskrit Drama, Text: Vishakhadatta’s Mudrarakshasa (4/8c. BC), Unit 2:, General Topic: Greek Drama, Text: Euripides’s – Medea (431 BC), Unit 3:, General Topic: Elizabethan Drama, Text: Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1589/90), Unit 4:, General Topic: Realism in Drama, Text: Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (1891), Reference Books:, Leech, Clifford, Tragedy (Critical Idiom Series: Methuen), Kitto, H.D.F. Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study. London: University Paperbacks, 1950., Fyfe, Hamilton W., Aristotle’s Art of Poetry: A Greek View of Poetry and Drama, London, OUP, 1957, Varadpande, Manohar Laxman. History of Indian Theatre: Classical theatre. Volume 3 of, History of Indian Theatre, Abhinav Publications, 1987., Keith, A.B. The Sanskrit Drama its Origin, Development, Theory and Practice. London :, OUP, 1959., Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu. Kalidasa: Date, Life and Works (Bombay Popular, 1969), Eliot, T. S.. Essays on Elizabethan Drama. New York: Harvest Book. 1932., Schelling, Felix Emmanuel. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in, England from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Closing of the Theaters. Read, Books, 2008, Boulton, Marjorie: The Anatomy of Drama. Ludhiana: Kalyani Publishers, 1979., Raymond Williams. Drama: From Ibsen to Brecht. London: University Press, 1987., Esslin, Martin: An Anatomy of Drama. London: Temple Smith 1976, Kitto, H.D.F.: Form and Meaning in Drama. (London: Methuen).
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Styan, J. L.: Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism., Cambridge: CUP, 1982., Mane, Prabhanjan. Interpreting Drama. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2010., Raymond Williams. Drama: From Ibsen to Eliot. Chatto and Windus, 1952., Theory of Drama: - Rai R.N., Classical Publication, Delhi., The Modern Drama :- Maeterlinck Maurice, Oriental Publication, Delhi., British Drama: - Nicoll Allordyce, Dorba House, Delhi., Feminism and Literature: - Dass Veena. Prestige Books, New Delhi., Dramatic Theory & Practice: - Kashwaha M. S. Creative Books New Delhi., Indian English Drama: - Dodiya and Surendram .Sarup and Sons Publication, Delhi., Contemporary Indian Drama: - TalawarUrmil and Chakraborty Bandana, Rawat, Publication, New Delhi., Frederick S. Boas. ,Christopher Marlowe, A Biographical and Critical Study(Oxford:, Clarendon Press, 1953)., , C8: Critical Theory- I, Unit 1:, Psychoanalytical criticism, Marxist Criticism, Structuralist Criticism, Unit 2:, 1. Carl Jung – ‘Psychology and Literature’ (from 20th Century Literary Criticism –, Reader, Ed. By David Lodge), 2. Juliet Mitchell- ‘Femininity, narrative and psychoanalysis’ from Modern Criticism, and Theory A Reader Edited by David Lodge, Unit 3:, 1. Baliber and Macherey – ‘Literature as an Ideological Form’ (Essay 13 from Rice, and Waugh), 2. Terry Eagleton-On Canon Formation – from Literary Theory: An Introduction, (Essay 40 from Rice and Waugh’s Modern Literary Theory” A Reader, Fourth, Edition), Unit 4:, 1. Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folk-tale (from Literary Theory, An, Anthology, edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. - 2nd ed.), 2. Tzvetan Todorov ‘The typology of detective fiction’ from Modern Criticism and, Theory A Reader Edited by David Lodge, Reference Books:, Rice and Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. 4thEdition London: Hodder, Arnold. 2001., Lodge, David. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. 2nd Edition. Harlow, England:, Longman Publication. 2000., Lodge, David. Ed. 20th Century Literary Criticism – Reader, Routledge; 2016., Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP. 1997., Newton, K. M. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Macmillan Education. 1997
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Leitch, Vincent B. and Cain, William E., Eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory And, Criticism. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2001., Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 1st Edition. Oxford, University Press; 2011., Bennett, Andrew and Royle, Nicholas. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and, Theory. 5th Edition. Routledge. 2016, Eagleton Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction 3rd Edition. University Of Minnesota, Press, 2008., Barry, Peter.Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theories, 2nd, ed., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004., Cuddon, J. A.,Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Wiley, 2013, M.S. Nagarajan, English Literary Criticism & Theory: An Introductory History,, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006., Selden, Widdowson and Brooker. Eds, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary, Theory, New Delhi: Pearson, 2006., , M.A. Part –II, SEMESTER -IV, C9: Drama in English: Modern & Postmodern, Unit 1:, General Topic: Rejection of Realism in Drama, Text: Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Unit 2:, General Topic: The Epic Theatre, Text: Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948), Unit 3:, General Topic: The Theatre of the Absurd, Text: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1961-2), Unit 4:, General Topic: Modern Indian Drama, Text: Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out (1986), Reference Books:, Raymond Williams. Drama: From Ibsen to Brecht. London: University Press, 1987., Bassanese, F. A. ,Understanding Luigi Pirandello. Univ of South Carolina Press, 1997., Pirandello Luigi, Bentley Eric. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Signet Classics,1998., Harold Bloom. Luigi Pirandello (Bloom’s major dramatists). Philadelphia. Chelsea House, Publishers. 2003., Antonin Artaud. The Theater and its Double. London: Colder and Boyers, 1970., Travis Bogard and W.T. Oliver.ed. Modern Drama. London: OUP, 1965.
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Styan, J. L. The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy. Cambridge:, CUP, 1962, Brustein, Robert.,The Theatre of Revolt. New York: NYU, 1991., Styan J. L.,Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: CUP, 1982., Styan J. L. Elements of Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1960., M. Bennett, Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and, Pinter. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011, Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, Matthew Roudané, Edward Albee: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge introductions to, literature. Cambridge University Press, 2017, Govind P. Deshpande,Modern Indian drama: An Anthology Sahitya Akademi, 2000, Sudhakar Pandey, Freya Barua. New Directions in Indian Drama: With Special Reference to, the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad, Prestige, 1994, M. K. Naik, Shankar Mokashi-Punekar, Perspectives on Indian drama in English, Oxford, University Press, 1977, Bradbury and McFarlane eds. Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890- 1930, (Penguin), Peter Childs.Modernism (Routledge: The New Critical Idiom Series), Patricia Waugh ed. Postmodernism: A Reader (Edward Arnold), Barret H. Clark. A Study of Modern Drama. New York: NYUP, 1925., Mane, Prabhanjan. Interpreting Drama. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2010., Gassner John, Masters of the Drama, New York, Dover Publication 1954., Lumley Frederich, New Trends in 20th Century Drama, Barrie and, London, Jenkins, 1972., , C10: Critical Theory- II, Unit 1:, Poststructuralist Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Postcolonialism, Unit 2:, 1. Derrida – ‘Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’, (From David Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader.), 2. Foucault – ‘What is an Author?’ (From David Lodge’s Modern Criticism and, Theory: A Reader.), Unit 3:, 1. Gilbert and Gubar – From ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ (essay 15 from Rice and, Waugh’s. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader), 2. Umberto Eco: Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage (From David, Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader.), Unit 4:, 1. Anandvardhana: ‘Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning’. (From G. N., Devy’sIndian Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan) P. 31 to 40., 2. Homi Bhabha: ‘Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse’, (Essay 15 from Rice and Waugh’s Modern Literary Theory: A Reader)
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Reference Books:, Rice and Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. 4thEdition London: Hodder, Arnold. 2001., Lodge, David. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. 2nd Edition. Harlow, England:, Longman Publication. 2000., Devy, G. N. Indian Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Orient, Blackswan Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London:, Routledge. 1994., Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years Ed. Annette R. Federico, University of Missouri Columbia.2009., Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP. 1997., Newton, K. M. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Macmillan Education. 1997, Leitch, Vincent B. and Cain, William E., Eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory And, Criticism. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2001., Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 1st Edition. Oxford, University Press; 2011., Bennett, Andrew and Royle, Nicholas. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and, Theory. 5th Edition. Routledge. 2016, Eagleton Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction 3rd Edition. University Of Minnesota, Press, 2008., Barry, Peter.Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theories, 2nd, ed., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004., Cuddon, J. A.,Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Wiley, 2013, M.S. Nagarajan, English Literary Criticism & Theory: An Introductory History,, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006., Selden, Widdowson and Brooker. Eds, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary, Theory, New Delhi: Pearson, 2006., Jaaware, Aniket. Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and Poststructuralism,OrientBlackswan, 2001., , Group 1: British Literature, , G1 E 3 – Victorian and Early Modern Period, Unit 1. Victorian Novel, Emily Brönte – Wuthering Heights, Unit 2. 19th Century British Drama, John Galsworthy– Justice, Unit 3. Victorian and Early Modern Short Story, Selected Short Stories, Rudyard Kipling: ‘They’, Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer
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Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher, Thomas Hardy: The Three Strangers, H. G. Wells: The Country of The Blind, Wilkie Collins: Who Killed Zebedee?, Unit 4. Victorian and Early Modern Poetry (Selected Poems), Lord Alfred Tennyson:‘Ulysses’,‘Charge of Light Brigade’, Robert Browning: ‘My Last Duchess’,, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ‘The Blessed Damozel’,, G.M. Hopkins: ‘Pied Beauty’,, W.B. Yeats: ‘Sailing to Byzantium’,, War Poets: Rupert Brook-‘The Soldier’,, Siegfried Sassoon ‘Christ and the Soldier’,, Wilfred Owen-‘Dulce et Decorum est’., Reference Books:, Blamiers, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge, 2003., Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature Vol.1-4., Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English., London: Routledge, 2001., Adams, James Eli. A History of Victorian Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009., David, Deirdre, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge:, CUP, 2001., Glen, Heather, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Bröntes. Cambridge: CUP, 2002., Powell, Kerry, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre., Cambridge: CUP, 2004., G1E 4 – Modern and Postmodern British Literature, Unit 1. (Modern and) Postmodern Irish Drama, Brian Friel– Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), Unit 2. British Feminism, Fay Weldon – Fat Woman’s Joke, Unit 3. Postwar British Fiction, William Golding– Rites of Passage (1980), Unit 4. Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Selected Poems), Philip Larkin:‘ Church Going’, ‘Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph, Album’, W. H. Auden: ‘Museé des Beaux Arts’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’, Ted Hughes: ‘Hawk Roosting’, ‘Horses’, Seamus Heaney: ‘A Drink of Water’,‘Follower’, Dylan Thomas: ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ ‘And Death Shall, Have No Dominion’, Reference Books:, Blamiers, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge, 2003., Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature Vol.1-4.
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Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English., London: Routledge, 2001., Levenson, Michael, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: CUP,, 2005., Connor, Steven, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism. Cambridge: CUP,, 2004., Caserio, Robert L., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English, Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 2009., Corcoran, Neil, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English, Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007., Richards, Shaun, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century Irish, Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 2000, , Sem-IV, G1E 5 – Special Author: Kingsley Amis, (For PG Centres and Distance Mode Students only), General Topics: 1. Post War British Fiction, 2. Angry Young Man Movement, 3. Campus Novel, 4. History and Society in Amis’ novels, Unit 1: Lucky Jim (1954), Unit 2: That Uncertain Feeling (1955), Unit 3: I Like It Here (1958), Unit 4: I Want It Now (1968), Reference Books:, Burgess, Anthony. A Students Guide to Contemporary Fiction: A Novel Now, London,, Faber & Faber (1971), Neill, Diana S. A Short History of the English Novel, London, Jerroid’s Publishers. (1971), Green, Martin. The English Novel in the 20 th Century, London Routldge& Kegan Paul (19620, Karl, Frederick R. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary English Novel, London, Themer, and Hudson, (1962), McEvan, Neil. The Survival of the Novel: British Fiction in the Latter 20 th Century,, London McMillan (1981), Patil, M. R. Fictional World of Kingsley Amis, Latur, Indotech Publications (2012)., G1E6 – British Women Writers, (For PG Centres and Distance Mode Students only), Unit 1: Twentieth Century Women’s Drama, Sarah Kane: Blasted (1995), Unit 2: Twentieth Century Women’s Fiction, P. D. James: Cover Her Face (1962), Unit 3: Feminine Awareness of twentieth century
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Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own (1929), Unit 4: Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry, The following poets are selected from The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th Edition), edited by Margaret Ferguson et al., a. Charlotte Mew: i) ‘The Farmer's Bride’, ii) ‘In Nunhead Cemetery’, b. Stevie Smith: i) ‘No Categories!’ ii) ‘Mr. Over’,, iii) ‘The Death Sentence’, c. Elizabeth Jennings :i) ‘My Grandmother’, ii) ‘One Flesh’, d. Carol Ann Duffy: i) ‘Warming Her Pearls’, ii) ‘Prayer’,, iii) ‘Anne Hathaway’, iv) ‘Little Red-Cap’, e. Lavinia Greenlaw: i) ‘Skin Full’, ii) ‘What's Going On’,, iii) ‘A World Where News Travelled Slowly’, Reference Books :, Daiches, David: The Novel and the Modern World. London: University of Chicago, 1960., Fraser, G. S. The Modern Writer and His World. London:DereVerchoyle, 1953., Untermeyer, Louis. Ed. Modern British Poetry. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1920., Dowson, Jane and Alice Entwistle. A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry., Cambridge: CUP, 2006., Levenson, Michael, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2005., Connor, Steven, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism. Cambridge: CUP,, 2004., Caserio, Robert L., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English, Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 2009., Corcoran, Neil, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Poetry., Cambridge: CUP, 2007., Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: CUP, 2006., West, Paul. The Modern Novel, London Hatchinson Ltd. (1963) Armstrong, Jolene. Cruel, Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015., ***, Question Paper Pattern for M.A. Part I & II, (Common for all courses unless specified as below), Total marks – 80, Note:, 1. All Questions are compulsory., 2. Figures to the right indicate full marks, Q. 1. Answer in one word/phrase/sentence (Ten items to be set):, Q. 2. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each, (Two questions will be set on General Topics and One on a text), Q. 3. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each., (All the questions will be set on prescribed texts – not covered in Q. 2), Q. 4. Write short notes on (any two – out of three: in about 200 words each), ***, , 10, 30, 30, 10