SEMESTER-III Course-IX LITERATURE AND MODERNITY Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Written Examination: 75 Marks Internal Assessment: 25 Marks Pass Marks: 35% INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER UNIT-I shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 12+11=23 marks. UNIT-II shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 11+11=22 marks. UNIT-III shall cover the entire syllabus and shall be of 30 marks. This question shall comprise ten short-answer questions of about 100-120 words each - two on each prescribed text and the remaining two on history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. Each question shall carry 3 marks. UNIT-I George Orwell - “Politics and the English Language” Virginia Woolf - “Modern Fiction” UNIT-II Walter Benjamin - “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter J. Ong - “The Orality of Language” (From Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong) UNIT-III UNIT-III shall include Units I & II and the history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. It shall comprise short-answer questions. RECOMMENDED READING George Orwell Miller, James. “Is Bad Writing Necessary? George George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature”. Linguafeatures. Vol9, No.9. Dec/Jan. 2000. Rai, Alok. Orwell and the Politics of Despair: A Critical Study of the Writings of George Orwell. CUP Archive,1990. Rodden, John (Ed.) The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ---. George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation. Transaction Publishers, 2001. Scrivener, Michael and Louis Finkelman. “The Politics of Obscurity: The Plain Style and Its Detractors”. . Virginia Woolf Briggs, Julia. Reading Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. , Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge University Press, 2006. DiBattista, Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography. Princeton University Press, 2009. Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman. Virginia Woolf in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Walter Benjamin Benjamin, Andrew E. and Charles Rice. Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity. re.press, 2009. Eiland, Walter Benjamin. Harvard University Press, 2014. Osborne, Peter. Walter Benjamin: Modernity. Taylor & Francis, 2005. Preziosi, Donald. The Art of Art History : A Critical Anthology. Oxford University Press, Steiner, . Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought. University of Chicago Press, 2012. Walter J. Ong Farrell, Walter J. Ong: On How and Why Things Are the Way They Are. Thought Catalog, 2014. Street , Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education. Routledge, 2014. Weeks, Dennis L. Jane Susan Hoogestraat. Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts: Essays on the Thought of Walter Ong. Susquehanna University Press, 1998. Course-X TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND FICTION Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Written Examination: 75 Marks Internal Assessment: 25 Marks Pass Marks: 35% INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER UNIT-I shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 12+11=23 marks. UNIT-II shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 11+11=22 marks. UNIT-III shall cover the entire syllabus and shall be of 30 marks. This question shall comprise ten short-answer questions of about 100-120 words each - two on each prescribed text and the remaining two on history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. Each question shall carry 3 marks. UNIT-I T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land W.B. Yeats - 'No Second Troy' 'A Prayer for my Daughter' 'Sailing to ' 'Among School Children' 'Leda and the Swan' 'The Second Coming' UNIT-II Franz Kafka - The Trial Albert Camus - The Plague UNIT-III UNIT-III shall include Units I & II and the history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. It shall comprise short-answer questions.