Master of Arts in English

SEMESTER IV

HARD CORE

IV. A. 1 Cultural studies

SECTION -A

 What is culture?
Raymond Williams “The analysis of culture”
Pierre Bourdieu “Symbolic power”
 Class and culture
Raymond Williams “Base/superstructure in Marxist theory today”
Pierre Bourdieu “Distinction”
Dick Debdige “Substructure: the meaning of style”
 Gender, women and cultural production
Celia Lury “The rights and wrongs of culture”
Janice Radaway “Reading the romance”
Betty Friedan “Sexual sell”
 Contemporary culture
Walter Benjamin “The Work of art in the age of mechanical
reproduction”
Stuart Hall “Encoding/decoding”
Herman Bausinger “Media Technology and daily life”
Dipanker Gupta “Space, non-space and site: Root metaphor and lex”

IV. A. 2 Literary Theory Part II

A. Bakhtin
B. Cultural Materialism, The New Historicism

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 C. Cultural Studies
D. Gay and Lesbian Theories
E. Neo- Marxist Theory
F. Post- Colonial theories
G. Post- Modernism Theories

IV. B. SOFTCORE

IV. B. 1. South Asian Women`s Writing

SECTION -A
Introduction and Background
SECTION- B
Texts
Sunithi Namjoshi “Feminist Fables”
Bapsi Sidhwa “Ice Candy Man”
Taslima Nasreen “Lajja/ French Lover”

IV. B. 2 Modernity
SECTION- A
I. Definitions, history, development and features.
II. Modernity and ideology
III. Modernity in the Indian context.
IV. Post- modernism

SECTION- B

The fallowing selections from texts/authors:

Raymond Williams: “When of Modernity?”

Dipanker Gupta: “Mistaken Modernity”

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R. Shashidhar: “Modernity in Kannada Poetry”

P. Chatterjee: “Talking about Modernity in two languages”

Ashis Nandy: “The Intimate Enemy: Loss and recovery of self

Colonialism”

Anthony Giddens: “The Consequences of modernity”

J. Habermas: “Modernity Vs Postmodernity”

Luhmann N. “Observations on Modernity”

C. Tylor: “Sources of the self: the making of the modern

identity”

J. P. S Oberoi “The European Modernity: science, truth and

method”

Halls, Held, and T. McGrew: “Modernity and its futures”