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Category I
BA (Hons.) English
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE -13 (DSC-13) : Twentieth Century Poetry &
Drama
No. of hours- 60(Theory- 45 hrs.+Tutorials -15 hrs.)
CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
Course Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite
title & Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Code Practice (if any)
DSC 13: 4 3 1 0 Passed NIL
Twentieth Class XII
Century with
Poetry & English
Drama from List
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Learning Objectives
The Learning Objectives of this course are as follows:
• To offer students an understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the
twentieth century as a space of thought, with specific reference to its poetry
and drama as significant tools of cultural analysis.
• To open up the way in which the poetry and drama of the period reconstitute
readership/ spectatorship as agents of cultural change.
Learning outcomes
The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:
• By studying this course, students will be able to inculcate a basic sense of the
anxieties and influences of the age immediately preceding our own.
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● Students will gain knowledge on how literature as a discipline continues to
critique and alter its times.
SYLLABUS OF DSC 13-
UNIT – I (15 hours)
1. T.S. Eliot: (i) ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (ii) ‘The Hollow Men’
2. W.B. Yeats: (i) ‘Leda and the Swan’ (ii) ‘The Second Coming’
UNIT – II (15 hours)
3. Edith Sitwell: ‘Still Falls the Rain’
4. Anne Michaels: ‘Memoriam’
5. Phillip Larkin: (i) ‘Whitsun Weddings’ (ii) ‘Church Going’
6. Ted Hughes: (i) ‘Hawk Roosting’ (ii) ‘Crow’s Fall’
UNIT – III (15 hours)
7. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot (1952)
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings- as listed in the units
Suggestive readings:
1. Sinfield, Alan. ‘Literature and Cultural Production’, in Literature, Politics, and
Culture in Postwar Britain. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1989. pp 23–38
2. Heaney, Seamus. ‘The Redress of Poetry’, The Redress of Poetry. London: Faber,
1995. pp 1–16
3. Waugh, Patricia. ‘Culture and Change: 1960-1990’, The Harvest of The Sixties:
English Literature and Its Background, 1960-1990. Oxford: OUP, 1997.
4. Williams, Raymond, ‘Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism’,
Raymond Williams: The Politics of Modernism. London: Verso, 1996. pp 37-48
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DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE 14- (DSC-14) : Twentieth Century Novel
No. of hours- 60(Theory- 45 hrs.+Tutorials -15 hrs.)
CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
Course Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite
title & Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Code Practice (if any)
DSC 14: 4 3 1 0 Passed NIL
Twentieth Class XII
Century with
Novel English
Learning Objectives
The Learning Objectives of this course are as follows:
• To offer students an understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the
way in which the novel as an art form defines and alters the twentieth
century.
● To open up the way in which the twentieth century novel is the most telling
site of social critique and change.
Learning outcomes
The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:
• By studying this course, students will be able to inculcate a basic sense of the
instruments that the twentieth century novel uses to alter the period of its
origin.
● Students will gain an understanding of how the novel as an art form can pick
up the philosophical and political lines of inquiry of the period under survey.
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SYLLABUS OF DSC-14
UNIT – I (15 hours)
1. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1899)
UNIT – II (15 hours)
2. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers (1913)
UNIT – III (15 hours)
3. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings- as listed in the units
Suggestive readings:
1. Woolf, Virginia. ON BEING ILL. Germany, Musaicum Books, 2017.
2. Freud, Sigmund. ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of the
Unconscious’, The Modern Tradition. ed. Richard Ellman et. al. Oxford: OUP, 1965. pp
571, 578–80, 559–63
3. Williams, Raymond. ‘Introduction’, The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence.
London: Hogarth Press, 1984. pp 9–27
4. Lawrence, D.H. ‘Morality and the Novel’, The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of
Modern Literature. eds. Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr. Oxford University
Press, 1965.
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DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE 15- (DSC-15) : Dalit Writings
No. of hours- 60(Theory- 45 hrs.+Tutorials -15 hrs.)
CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
Course Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite
title & Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Code Practice (if any)
DSC 15: 4 3 1 0 Passed NIL
Dalit Class XII
Writings with
English
Learning Objectives
The Learning Objectives of this course are as follows:
● To offer students a foundational understanding of the way in which Dalit
literature both chronicles a continuing history of oppression and functions as
an invaluable instrument of cultural assertion.
● To open up a sense of the way in which intersectional marginalities find their
voices in Dalit literature and seek social and human justice.
Learning outcomes
The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:
• By studying this course, students will be able to grasp the importance of Dalit
literature as historical witness and as cultural catalyst.
● Students’ imagination will be stimulated through an understanding of how the
aesthetic of suffering may be used to bring about social and cultural redressal.
SYLLABUS OF DSC-15
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UNIT – I (15 hours)
1. Valmiki, Om Prakash. Joothan: A Dalit's Life. trans. Arun Prabha Mukerjee,
Kolkatta: Samya, 2003.
UNIT – II (15 hours)
2. Sivakami, P. The Grip of Change, and author’s notes. trans. P. Sivakami, New Delhi:
Orient Longman, 2016.
UNIT – III (15 hours)
3. Limbale, Sharankumar. ‘White Paper’, Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern
Marathi Dalit Literature. ed. Arjun Dangle, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992.
4. Parmar, Jayant. ‘The last will of a Dalit poet’, Listen to the Flames: Texts and
Readings from the Margins. eds. Tapan Basu, Indranil Acharya, A. Mangai, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2017.
5. Navaria, Ajay. ‘New Custom’, The Exercise of Freedom: An Introduction to Dalit
Studies. trans. Laura Brueck, eds. K. Sathyanarayana, Susie Tharu, New Delhi:
Navayana Publishing, 2013.
6. Kumar, Sanjay. ‘Black Ink’, Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the
Margins. , trans. Raj Kumar, eds. Tapan Basu, Indranil Acharya, A. Mangai, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2017.
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings- as listed in the units
Suggestive readings:
1. Limbale, Sharankumar. ‘Dalit Literature and Aesthetics’, Towards an Aesthetic of
Dalit Literature: History, Controversies & Considerations. Orient Longman, 2004. pp
103-21
2. Gauthaman, Raj. 'Dalit Culture', No Alphabet in Sight. eds., K Satyanarayana and
Susie Tharu, Penguin Books, 2011. pp 151-157
3. Rani, Challapalli Swaroopa: 'Caste Domination Male Domination' in Steel Nibs are
Sprouting. eds. K Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu, Harper Collins, 2013. pp 704-709
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4. Dirks, Nicholas B. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001.
5. Srinivas, M. N. Caste in Modern India and Other Essays. London, Asia Publishing
House. 1970.
6. Bagul, Baburao. 'Dalit Literature is but Human Literature', Poisoned Bread:
Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature. ed. Arjun Dangle, Hyderabad:
Orient Longman, 1992. pp 271-289
7. Ahmad, Imtiaz. ‘Can there be a Category called Dalit Muslims?’ Dalit Assertion in
Society, Literature and History. ed. Imtiaz Ahmad and Shashi Bhushan Upadhya, New
Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010. pp 243-258
Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination
Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.
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