Mehta Drashti

•Background • B.A.

• S.N.D.T Women’s University. Mumbai. Smt. N. C. Gandhi Mahila Arts and Commerce college, Bhavnagar

Literature

• Basic concepts in Literature studies in English• What is Literature?• Concepts of literariness and what is an Author?• Forms of Literature:

Poetry Types: i. Ode

ii. Balladiii. Elegy

iv. Sonnetv. Epic

Drama:I. Tragedy II. Comedy

III. Tragi-ComedyIV. Farce

V. MelodramaNovels:

Autobiographical Biographical RealisticFolk Forms:

OralTraditional

ex. Bhavai, Ramleela, YakshaganaSelections from critical essays on children’s literature

Critical approaches and language skills in Literature

• Introduction to nature and functions of literary criticism

I. A Brief introduction to the following critical approachesII. A very brief introduction to contemporary approaches like

structuralist and post structuralist approachesIII. HistoricalIV. BiographicalV. PsychologicalVI. FormalistVII. FeministVIII. MarxistIX. Post colonial

• Features of Organized Writing

• Cohesion, Coherence, Situations, styles of Writing, Structures of Writing

Late 20th Century LiteratureSocio-cultural and Literary Background• World War-2• End of Empires• Emergence of the New Left-

Richard HoggartRaymond WilliamsE.P. Thompson

• Rise of new Voices- John Arden, John Berger, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, John Osborne,

• Existentialism, Absurd, Surrealism• 1960 students’ movements- rise of new social, cultural and

ideological spaces, emergence of the post modern• New awareness of gender roles and rise of multiculturalism

Novel

1. Features of Novel:

Story, Plot, character, Point of View, Narrative Techniques and Styles

2. Types of Novels:

Epistolary, Picaresque, Gothic Romance, Novels of Manners, Psychological novel, Buildungsroman, Utopias and Distopias, Popular novel, Science Fiction, Modernist novel

19th Century Novel

Industrial Revolution and the rise of the novel

Social and Cultural Milieu of the period which includes French and American revolution

Rise of Democracy, imperialism an Colonialism

Introduction to the important writers, novelist and philosophers of the period

20th Century Novel

• Background of the novel from modernist to the post modernist, rise of socialism, Suffrage movement, last phase of colonialism, existentialism, imagism, Marxism, surrealism, impressionism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, early post modernism, intertextuality

• History, features and forms, biography, popular novels, retelling postcolonial varieties of the novel from across the world

The American Novel

• Distinctiveness of American Literature, American identity, Evolution of the Novel from, Multi-culturalism and immigrant literature

Drama as a Form

• Structure of Drama:

Plot, Characters, three unities, dialogue, conflict, protagonist, tragic flaw, dramatic devices like Atmosphere, Irony,Soliloquy

• Types of Drama:

a. Tragedy: Greek Tragedy, Revenge Tragedy, Domestic Tragedy, Heroic Tragedy, Tragi comedy, Restoration Drama, Naturalistic Drama, Absurd Drama, Theatre an Performance, Indian Drama of the 60’s

Poetic Forms from the Renaissance to the 20th century

• History, developments and structure of the forms

• Different forms of Poetry:

Pastoral,

Songs and Sonnets,

Narrative Ballads,

Epic,

Mock Epic and Satire

Romantic and Victorian Poetry

• Rise of the Victorian movement

• Features of Romantic poetry

• Introduction to Victorian poetry

• Characteristics of Victorian poetry

Early 20th Century literature

• Literary and Socio cultural background

• 1) Beginning of the modern movement and modernist literature

• Irish Movement and Irish contribution to literature

• War Poets and World war 1 and 2

• Experimental and innovative movements in the Arts, Painting, Music, Cinema, and Effect on Literature

Feminist Literature

• Study of the early Feminist Text• Suffragette Movement• Early Feminist thought:- Marry Wollstonecraft

Virginia WoolfSimone de BeauvoirGertrude stein etc.

Post 60’s Feminist Movement:-Kate MilletElaine Showalter

Women’s writing in India

• Issues and questions related to women in the post independence era

• Women in India -Nationalist Movement, Social reforms, Partition etc

• Complex issues of gender raised in Women’s writing

Indian Writing in English

1)Pre –Independence to the Nehruvian Era:

Literary, Historical and Social background, Social reforms, Women’s Questions, Nationalism, Nehruvian Era, Dalit Movement, MandalCommission( Caste Issue), Communal Tension, Post Ayodhya, Liberation and Globalisation

Short Stories :Katha Publication

• Yuvakatha

• Girls- Mrinal Pandey

• Bayen- Mahaswetadevi

• The Decision-T. Janki Rani

• The Sermons of Haji Gul Baba Bektashi-Qurrantutain Hyder

• I am Complete-Varsha Das

• A Day with Charulata- Anupama Niranjana

• The Hijra-Kamala Das