Introduction to World Literature

Overview

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COURSE OUTLINE: This course is an introduction to a wide range of writings produced in different nations, languages and cultural contexts. While this course cannot claim to cover all literary traditions from all time periods, it does try to introduce the learners to representative texts that are available in English language. The objective of the course is to focus on learning how great writings can intervene and engage with global cultures while remaining rooted and situated in their specific, local contexts. These discussions need to be seen as ‘entry points’ that would enable the learners to explore world literature.

Syllabus

Stage'ing Protests.
Bartleby The Scrivener.
Diary Of a Madman.
DR Faustus.
The Applicant.
The Wasteland - I.
"Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon" - I by Marquez.
The Third and the final Continent - 2.
Oroonoko - I.
Toba Tek Singh.
"Tortures" by Wislawa Szymborska.
The Lusiads by Luis De Camoes.
Reading World Literature.
Dawn of the New Indian Novel in English.
Solid Objects.
Metamorphosis - I.
In A Grove.
Catcher in the Rye - II.
Everyday Use.
The Wall by Sartre - II.
The Wall by Sartre - I.
The Wasteland - II.
"Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon" - II.
From Errata to MC.
Errata in MC.
Longinus on the Subline - II.
Longinus on the Subline - I.
Poetics Of Aristotle - II.
Poetics Of Aristotle - I.
Doll's House.
Othello - 2.
Othello -1.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty The Politics of translation.
"Sonnet 130" by Shakespeare and "Love Sonnet XVI" by Neruda.
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner - Part II.
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner - Part I.
"The Garden of Forking Paths" by Borges - Part II.
"The Garden of Forking Paths" by Borges - Part I.
"Challenges and Possibilities for World Literature " by Kathleen Shields.
Beowulf : The Anglo - Saxon narratie poem.
Epic of Gilgamesh.
The Great Gatsby - II.
The Great Gatsby - I.
Metamorphosis - II.
Catcher in the Rye.
The Third and the final Continent.
Oroonoko - II.
Yellow Wallpaper.
Othello - 3.
"Song of Lawino" by Okot p' Bitek.