Syllabus of IGNOU MA English

I Year Courses
MEG-01 British Poetry
MEG-02 British Drama
MEG-03 British Novel
MEG-04 Aspects of Language
II Year Courses
MEG-05 Literary Criticism and Theory
MEG-06 American Literature
MEG-07 Indian English Literature
MEG-08 New Litertatures in English
MEG-09 Australian Literature
MEG-11 American Novel
MEG-12 A Survey Course in 20th Century Canadian Literature
MEG-1 British Poetry
Chapter-1
Chapter-2
Chapter-3
Chapter-4
Chapter-5
Chapter-6
Chapter-7
Chapter-8

Orientation For the Study of Poetry & The Medieval Poet Chaucer
The Metaphysical Poets
The Neoclassical Poets
The Romantic Poets
The Second Generation Romantic Poets
The Victorian Poets
The Modernist Poets
Some Modernist and Postmodernist Poets

MEG-2 British Drama

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1 Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe And The Elizabethan Drama
The Tragic Drama of Doctor Faustus
Irony And The Tragic Dilemma In Doctor Faustus
Tahe Renaissance And Reformation In Doctor Faustus
Dramatic Poetry In Doctor Faustus
The Performance Of Doctor Faustus
2 William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Background : Performance
Romantic Comedy and the Language of the Play
A Midsummer Nights Dream: I
A Midsummer Nights Dream: II
The Mechanical
3 William Shakespeare: Hamlet
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Interpretations
Language of Literature
Hamlet: Other Dimensions
The World As Stage : Wider Perspective
Current Critical Approaches to Hamlet
4 Ben Jonson: The Alchemist
The Dramatic Career of Ben Jonson
Jonsonian Comedy and The Alchemist
The Structure of The Alchemist
The Alchemist in the Theatre
Characterization and Language
5 J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
Background to The Playboy
Critical Annotations to The Playboy
Close Analysis of The Playboy
The Playboy: A Discussion
The Playboy: A Discussion (contd.)
6 Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Background of English Drama from the Restoration Period to Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion: Themes And Issues
Dramatic Structure and Mingling of Genres
Language and Style
7 T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
T.S.Eliots Essays And Other Works Related To The Play
Background, Production and Performance History
Critical Approaches To The Play - Part-I
Critical Approaches To The Play - Part-I
General Comments And Other Readings
8 John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Background to the Play
The Characters
Language and Speech in Look Back in Anger
Critical Approaches to Look Back in Anger
Anger and After: The Plays Subsequent Importance
9 Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Waiting For Godot: An Avant Garde Play
Godot: A Critical Analysis-I
Critical Analysis-II
Themes And Issues-I
Themes And Issues-II

MEG-3 British Novel

Novel- 1 Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Unit-1 Some Aspects of Fiction
Unit-2 As We First Read Tom Jones

Unit-3 Characters as Characterisations

Unit-4 Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns
Unit-5 Feminist Concerns in Fielding
Unit-6 Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones
Unit-7 Narration in Fiction and Third World Preferences
Novel- 2 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Unit-1 The Novel in its Context
Unit-2 Main Themes in pride and Prejudice-1
Unit-3 Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-2
Unit-4 Characters in the Novel
Unit-5 The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice
Unit-6 Critical Perspectives
Novel- 3 Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
Unit-1 Background to Wuthering Height
Unit-2 The Problem of Narrative
Unit-3 Gift of God: Heathcliff
Unit-4 You Look Like a Lady Now: Significance of Catherine
Unit-5 Wuthering Heights: One Hundred and Fifty Years
Novel- 4 Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Unit-1 Background
Unit-2 Great Expectations and Self-Improvement
Unit-3 Improvement Or Disintegration?
Unit-4 Great Expectations And The Fairytale
Unit-5 Crime And Respectability
Novel- 5 George Eliot : Middlemarch
Unit-1 Approaching The Novel
Unit-2 Themes, Characters, Techniques
Unit-3 Philosophical Underpinnings
Unit-4 George Eliots Perspectives
Unit-5 The Finale
Novel- 6 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Unit-1 His Story and History
Unit-2 Literary Analysis-I
Unit-3 Literary Analysis-II
Unit-4 Race, Empire, Gender in Heart of Darkness
Unit-5 The Lengthening Shadow
Novel- 7 James Joyce: A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man
Unit-1 Contexts
Unit-2 Genre, Overall Structure and Point of View
Unit-3 Stephens Growth and Personality
Unit-4 Technique
Unit-5 Critical Perspectives: A Brief Selective Overview
Novel- 8 Edward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India
Unit-1 Passage to India
Unit-2 Representations of India (A): Approaches to the Novel
Unit-3 History and A Passage to India

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Unit-5 Representations of India (B): Religions in the Novel
Unit-6 Passages from India
Novel- 9 Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodies
Unit-1 The English Novel: Modernism and After
Unit-2 Muriel Spark: Her life, her Works, and the Text
Unit-3 Analysing the Text-1
Unit-4 Analysing the Text-2
Unit-5 The English Novel: 1960s and After
MEG-4 Aspects of Language
Chapter- 1 What is Language?
Unit-1 The Nature of Language
Unit-2 Looking at Data-1
Unit-3 Looking at Data-2
Unit-4 Language and Thought
Chapter- 2 History of English Language
Unit-1 An Introduction
Unit-2 Changes in Sounds and Spelling
Unit-3 Changes in Vocabulary
Unit-4 Changes in Grammar
Chapter- 3 English Phonetics and Phonology
Unit-1 The Speech Mechanism
Unit-2 The Description and Classification of Consonants and Vowels
Unit-3 Phonetic Transcription and Phonology
Unit-4 The Consonants of English
Unit-5 The Vowels of English (R.P.)
Unit-6 Word Accent, Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech
Unit-7 Intonation
Chapter- 4 English Morphology
Unit-1 The Study of Words
Unit-2 Word-formation in English-1
Unit-3 Word-formation in English-2
Unit-4 Word-formation in English-3
Chapter- 5 English Syntax
Unit-1 Basic Notions of Syntactic Constituents and Phrase Structure
Unit-2 Types of Clauses and Sentences
Unit-3 Grammatical Functions, Cases, and Thematic Roles
Unit-4 Thy Syntax of Inflectional Elements: Tense & Agreement
Unit-5 Pronouns, Reflexives, and Other Bound Elements
Unit-6 Syntax of Scope: Adverbs, Quantifiers, and Negation
Chapter- 6 Language in Use-1
Unit-1 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Unit-2 Speech Community and Multilingualism
Unit-3 Bilingualism
Unit-4 Language Standardization

Chapter- 7 Language in Use-2

Unit-1 Multilingual Use of Codes
Unit-2 Language Planning
Unit-3 Conversational Analysis
Unit-4 Learner Factors in Second Languages Acquisition-1
Unit-5 Learner Factors in Second Languages Acquisition-2
Chapter- 8 The Spread of English
Unit-1 Variation And Varieties
Unit-2 Consolidation and Standardization of English
Unit-3 The Spread and Rise of Englishes
Unit-4 Indian English
MEG-5 Literary Criticism & Theory
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1 An Introduction
Literature, Criticism And Theory
Overview of Western Critical Thought
Twentieth Century Developments
The Function Of Criticism
Indian Aesthetics
Resistance To Theory/How To Read A Reader
2 Classical Criticism
Features of Classical Criticism
Plato on Imitation and Art
Aristotles Theory of Imitation
Aristotles Theory of Tragedy-Part I
Aristotles Theory of Tragedy-Part I
Criticism as Dialogue
3 Romantic Criticism
Romanticism
Wordsworth : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge : Biographia Literaria
P.B. Shelley : A Defence of Poetry
4 New Criticism
I.A. Richards
T.S. Eliot
F.R. Leavis
John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
W.K. Wimsatt
Conclusion
5 Marxist View Of Literature
Marxism and Literature
Society and History: Marxist View
Representing and Critiquing Society: Superstructures
Commitment in Literature
Autonomy in Literature

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Literature and Ideology

6 Feminist Theories
Features of Feminist Criticism
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf: A Room of Ones Own
Simone De Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Elaine Showalter: Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
Feminist Concerns in India Today
7 Deconstruction
Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
Beginning Deconstruction
Implications
Deconstructing Poetry
Deconstructing Drama
Re-assessing Deconstruction

MEG-6 American Literature

Block- 1 Contexts Of American Literature

Unit-1 The Puritan Context
Unit-2 The Consolidation and Dispersal of the Puritan Utopia
Unit-3 The Puritans as Literary Artists
Unit-4 Some Other Contexts of American Literature
Unit-5 From the Colonial to the Federal: The Contexts of the American
Enlightenment
Block- 2 American Fiction-I
Unit-6 Background
Unit-7 Reading The Text
Unit-8 Characterization
Unit-9 Narrative Technique And Structure
Unit-10 Critical Perspective
Block- 3 American Fiction-II
Unit-11 Background to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unit-12 Huckleberry Finn and its Narrative
Unit-13 Themes and Characterization in Huckleberry Finn
Unit-14 Language in Huckleberry Finn
Unit-15 Humour and Other Issues in Huckleberry Finn
Block- 4 American Prose
Unit-16 Revolutionary Prose in America
Unit-17 American Prose in the Period of National Consolidation
Unit-18 The Other Side of American Romanticism
Unit-19 American Prose Around the Civil War
Unit-20 American Prose in the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1890
Block- 5 American Poetry-1
Unit-21 Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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Unit-23 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Unit-24 Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Unit-25 Adrienne Rich (1929-)
Block- 6 American Poetry-2
Unit-26 His Story and History
Unit-27 Literary Analysis-I
Unit-28 Literary Analysis-II
Unit-29 Race, Empire, Gender in Heart of Darkness
Unit-30 The Lengthening Shadow
Block- 7 American Short Story
Unit-31 The American Short Story
Unit-32 Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Unit-33 William Faulkner: The Bear
Unit-34 Comparisons And Contrasts
Unit-35 The Bear A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Block- 8 American Drama
Unit-36 American Drama : An Introduction
Unit-37 The Question of Identity in the Hairy Ape
Unit-38 Death of a Salesman as Tragedy
Unit-39 The Novel Use of Structure in Death of a Salesman
Unit-40 A Comparison Between Eugene ONeill and Arthur Miller
Block- 9 The bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Unit-41 The Bluest Eye: Background
Unit-42 A Brief View of African American Literature
Unit-43 The Bluest Eye and its Narrative
Unit-44 The Dangerous Idea of Physical Beauty in The Bluest Eye
Unit-45 Sex and Love in The Bluest Eye
Unit-46 Conclusion
MEG-7 Indian English Literature
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1 Non-Fictional Prose
Non-Fictional prose: A Survey
Swmi Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Ananda Coomaraswamy
Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh
2 Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable
A Short History of the Indian English Novel
Life and Work of Mulk Raj Anand
Untouchable: Title, Theme, Plot and Characterisation
The Picture of a Fragmented Nation
The Gandhian Influence
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3 Raja Rao : Kanthapura

Raja Rao: Career and Works
Kanthapura: Background
Kanthapura: Themes
Kanthapura: Structure and Technique
Kanthapura: Characters
4 Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai: Life, Works and the Language Issue
Clear Light of Day: Themes, Techniques, Time
Political Dimension, Major Characters
Music, Minor Characters
Anita Desais Contribution to Indian English Fiction
5 Midnights Children
Background
The De-doxified English
Themes
Technique
Characterization
As a Literary Event
6 The Short Story
About the Short Story
R.K. Narayan
Arun Joshi and Manoj Das
Subhadra Sen Gupta and Raji Narasimhan
Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan
Ruskin Bond
7 Poetry
Background to Indian English Poetry
Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt
Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu
Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das
A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, and Jayanta Mahapatra
R. Parthasarathy and Keki N. Daruwalla
8 Mahesh Dattani: Tara
An Overview of Indian English Drama
A Preview of Dattanis Dramatic World
Reading Tara
Appreciating Tara

MEG-8 New Literature in English

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1 Introduction
Naming the Discipline
African Literature: Culture and Post-Nationalist Politics in Kenya and Nigeria
Caribbean Literature: The Aesthetic of Diaspora
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Australian Literature: Interrogating National Myths

Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape
2 A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Africa-The Dark Continent and KenyaThe Land of Gikuyu and Mumbi
Literature and Politics
Modern Novel in Africa
Ngugi wa Thiongo Life, Literature and Ideology
A Grain of Wheat Summary
A Grain of Wheat An Evaluation
3 A Dance of Forests: Wole Soyinka
An Introduction to Nigeria and to the Yoruba World
Wole Soyinkas Life and Works
A Dance of the Forests: Summary
Critical Commentary on A Dance of the Forests
4 Dapsi Sidhwa: Ice-Candy-Man
The Author: Background, Works, and Significance of the Title
The Narrative Voice in Ice-Candy-Man
Feminist Inscriptions in Ice-Candy-Man
Parsi Identity in Ice-Candy-Man
Ice-Candy-Man as a Novel of Partition
5 A house for Mr. Biswas: V.S. Naipaul
Naipaul and his Critics
Mr. Biswas and the Tulsis
Mr. Biswas and his Dream House
Why did Mr. Biswas want a House?
6 Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite
Introduction to Caribbean poetry
Derek Walcott-I
Derek Walcott-I
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-I
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-II
Theoretical Paradigms for Carribbean Literature
7 The Solid Mandala: Patrick White
The Novelist and The Novel
Openings and Preoccupations
Denizens of the Australian Emptiness
Message in Motifs
Techniques
8 The Novelist and Her Main Thematic Concerns
The Novelist and Her Man Thematic Concerns
Hager and The Theme of Self Alienation
The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening
Major Aspects of the Novel

MEG-10 English Studies in India

Chapter-1 Institutionalization of English Studies in India

Unit-1 Entry of English: A Historical Overview
Unit-2 Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
Unit-3 A View of Post Independence Debates
Unit-4 Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium
Chapter-2 Beginnings of Indian English Writing
Unit-1 The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
Unit-2 Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
Unit-3 Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
Unit-4 Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life
Chapter-3 Beginnings of The Indian English Novel
Unit-1 The Contexts of Bankim
Unit-2 Themes in Rajmohans Wife-I
Unit-3 Themes in Rajmohans Wife-II
Unit-4 Marriage and Transgression in Bankims Other Novels
Chapter-4 Different Englishes
Unit-1 Evolution of English
Unit-2 Nativisation of English in Post Independent India (Functions of English)
Unit-3 Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
Unit-4 Intelligibility of Indian English Globally
Chapter-5 Problems of Teaching And Learning English Literature
Unit-1 Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Unit-2 The March of TELI in India
Unit-3 Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context
Unit-4 English Teaching in India
Unit-5 The Lie of the Land: English in India
Unit-6 Publishing in India and English Studies
Chapter-6 Questioning the Canon
Unit-1 Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
Unit-2 The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon
Unit-3 Possibilities of New Agreements
Unit-4 Exploding English: Criticism, Theory and Culture
Unit-5 The Crisis in English Studies
Unit-6 Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base
Chapter-7 Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing
Unit-1 Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
Unit-2 Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
Unit-3 Feminism: Indian English Writers
Unit-4 The Dalit Canon
Chapter-8 Decolonising The Mind
Unit-1 Orientalism And After
Unit-2 Literature and Nationalism
Unit-3 Decolonising the Mind
Unit-4 Civilisational Conflicts in Literature
Unit-5 Resisting Colonisation and Re-Colonisation

MEG-11 American Novel

Block- 1 James F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Unit-1 The Beginnings
Unit-2 The Man, The Milieu, And The MomentUnit-3 The Last of the Mohicans: An
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Unit-4 Perspectives on the Novel-I
Unit-5 Perspectives on the Novel-II
Block- 2 Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
Unit-1 The Literary Context
Unit-2 Theodore Dreiser: The Man and The Writer
Unit-3 Sister Carrie: A Critical Summary
Unit-4 Sister Carrie: A Critical Study of the Major Themes
Block- 3 Scott Fitezgerald: The Great Gatsby
Unit-1 The Man, The Milieu, And The Moment
Unit-2 The Plot and The Self-Improving Hero
Unit-3 The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory
Unit-4 The Great Gatsby: The Narrative Technique
Unit-5 Critics and Criticism: An Overview
Block- 4 William Faulkner: Light In August
Unit-1 American Fiction in 1920s and 1930s
Unit-2 The Novel In The South
Unit-3 Light In August: Structure and Narrative Strategies
Unit-4 Characterisation and Critical Approaches
Block- 5 Henry Miller: Black Spring
Unit-1 Sexual Revolution In Modern American Literature
Unit-2 The Great Tradition
Unit-3 The Outsider
Unit-4 The Indelible Impact
Unit-5 Henry Millers Works: Black Spring
Unit-6 Critical Approaches
Block- 6 J.D. Salinger: The Catcher In The Rye
Unit-1 The Author and the Plot
Unit-2 The Main themes and Characters
Unit-3 The Language In The Catcher In The Rye
Unit-4 Critical Interpretations
Block- 7 John Barth: Floating Opera
Unit-1 The Postwar American Novel
Unit-2 The Experimental Novel
Unit-3 The Floating Opera: An Analysis of Text
Unit-4 Philosophic Formulations And The Farce of Reason
Unit-5 From Modernity to Post Modernity
Block- 8 Scott Mamaday: a House Made of Dawn
Unit-1 Native American Literature
Unit-2 Native American Fiction
Unit-3 The Making of Momaday

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House made of dawn: An Analysis

Critical Perspectives
9 Alice Walker: The color Purple
The Women, The Moment and the Milieu-I
The Women, The Moment and the Milieu-II
The Color Purple and Its Structure
Analysis of Celies Letters-I
Analysis of Celies Letters-II
Themes emerging from Celies Letters

MEG-14 Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation

Ch1 Background Studies
Unit-1 The Concept of Indian Literature
Unit-2 The Concept of Indian Literature:Modern Period
Unit-3 Comparative Studies in Indian Literature
Unit-4 English Translation of Indian Literature
Ch2 Samskara:U.R. Anantha Murthy
Unit-1 The Writer and his Literary Context
Unit-2 Samskara:The Narrative
Unit-3 Samskara:Form and Themes
Unit-4 Samskara:Characters, Title, Literary Criticism and Contemporary Relevance
Ch3 Tamas:Bhisham Sahni
Unit-1 The Writer and the Partition
Unit-2 Getting to know the Text
Unit-3 Making Sense of the Narrative
Unit-4 Characters and Characterization
Unit-5 An Overview
Ch4 Short Story-I
Unit-1 Mahasweta Devi:Salt [Noon:Bengali] Translation:Sarmishta Dutta Gupta
Unit-2 Vaikom Muhammad Basheer:Birthday [Janmadinam:Malayalam]
Translation:The Author
Unit-3 Nirmal Verma:Birds [Parinde:Hindi] Translation:Jai Ratan
Unit-4 Ismat Chughtai:Tinys Granny [Nanhi Ki Naani:Urdu] Translation:Ralph
Russell
Unit-5 Gopinath Mohanty:Tadpa [Tadpa:Oriya] Translation:Sitakant Mahapatra
Ch5 Short Story-II
Unit-1 Indira Goswami (Mamoni Raisom Goswami) The Empty Chest [Udang
Bakacha:Assamese] Translation:Prodipta Birgohain
Unit-2 Motilal Jyotwani:Very Lonely, She [Akeli Akeli Hoo-A:Sindhi] Translation r.
Nandlal Jotwani
Unit-3 Afsar Ahmed:Headmaster, Prawn, Chanachur [Arthaheen Katha Balar
Nirbharta:Bengali] Translation:Chandana Dutta
Unit-4 Vijaydan Detha:The Compromise [Rajeenavo:Rajasthani] Translation:Shyam
Mathur
Ch6 Poetry
Unit-1 K.S. Nongkynrih:Requiem [Khasi] Translation:The Poet Chandra Kanta
Murasingh:The Stone Speaks in the Forest [Kokborok] Translation:R.S. Rajkumar

Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh:The Last Dream [Manipuri] Translation:Udayan Ghosh

Unit-2 Haribhajan Singh:Tree and the sage [Rukh Te Rishi:Punjabi] Translation:J.S.
Rahi and Rita Chaudhry Raghuvir Sahay:The Stare [Taktaki:Hindi] Translation:The
Poet
Unit-3 Dina Nath Nadim:The Moon [Zoon:Kashmiri] Translation:J.L. Kaul Padma
Sachdev:The Moment of Courage [Dogri] Translation:Iqbal Masud
Unit-4 Kondepudi Nirmala:Mother Serious [Telugu] Translation:K. Damodar Rao
Vimala:Kitchen [Telugu] Translation:V.V.B. Rama Rao K. Ayyappa Paniker:I Met Walt
Whitman Yesterday:An Interview [Njaan Innale Walt Whitmaane Kandu-Oru
Interview, Malayalam] Translation:A.J. Thomas
Unit-5 Ramakanta Rath:Sri Radha [Oriya] Translation:The Poet Shakti
Chattopadhyay:Just Once Try [Akbar Tumi:Bengali] Translation:Sibnarayan Ray
Unit-6 Sitanshu Yashashchandra:Orpheus [Gujarati] Translation:The Poet Namdeo
Dhasal:A Notebook of Poems and Autobiography [Kavitechi Vahi
Atmacharithra:Marathi] Translation:Santosh Bhoomkar
Ch7 Tughlaq:Grish Karand
Unit-1 Introducing Contemporary Indian Theatre
Unit-2 Introducing the Author and the Play
Unit-3 Tughlaq:Structure, Themes and Motifs
Unit-4 Characters and Critical Comments on the Play
Ch8 Non-Fictional Prose
Unit-1 Amrit Rai:Premchand:His Life and Times [Kalam Ka Sipahi:Biography, Hindi]
Translation:Harish Trivedi
Unit-2 Bama (Faustina Mary Fatima Rani):Karukku [Karukku:Autobiography,
Tamil]Translation:Laxmi Holmstrom
Unit-3 Saadat Hasan Manto:On Ismat [Ismat Chughtai:Pen-Sketch, Urdu]
Translation:Shobhana Bhattacharji
Unit-4 Umaprasad Mukhopadhyaya:Manimahesh [Manimahesh:Travel Writing,
Bengali] Translation: Sanjukta Das Gupta
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