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SEMESTER – II

Course Title (Discipline Specific Core): Indian Classical Literature
Course Code: A/ENG/201/MJC-2
Credit: 04 Contact Hours/week: 04
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours

Course Objectives:

• To cultivate in students an interest in and awareness of certain texts and excerpts that mark the beginnings or important moments of subconhnental literary tradihons, and have gained resonant azerlives across space and tense in the region, and beyond.

• To expose them to the breadth and emergent possibilihes of English Studies in contemporary India, especially the translational dimension.

• To introduce them to the comparahve aspect of English Studies in India, so that they develop a trans-temporal perspective comparing canonical literary texts composed in the Western and Indian schools of thought, art, ethics and aesthehcs, when they would be introduced to literatures written in English, including British literature, in the next semesters

• To cultivate in students an awareness of the economic, socio-polihcal and cultural contexts of the age that produced Indian classical literature and its theories of aesthehcs, ethics and epistemology

• To historically situate the diverse classical Indian literatures composed in Sanskrit, Tamil, Prakrit, Pali with focus on major texts composed in principle genres, especially the epic tradition

Course Outcomes:

• On successful completion of the course, students will obtain comprehensive knowledge and coherent understanding of Indian aesthehc, ethical and literary-crihcal tradihons, and will be equipped with tools of crosscultural aesthehcs. It would help them analyze, interpret and appreciate various texts, including literatures  composed in English, from a comparative translational perspective.

• Students of English literature in Indian classrooms would gain a first-hand acquaintance of classical Indic textslike Kalidasa’s Abhijnanasakuntalam, the Mahabharata and the Indian Epic Tradition in translahon. This would moor them in an awareness of the plural classical aesthehc and critical prisms of the subconhnent while engaging with global literatures in English/ English translation, thereby enabling them to unlearn the processes of epistemic colonization.

• Students would be trained in close literary-critical readings of the texts in order to appreciate the inclusive attributes of Indian classical literature

• This introductory course in the English (Hons.) syllabus would enable students to trace the evolution of diverse literary cultures in India in their historical contexts and explore issues of genre, themes and crihcal debates, thereby grounding the students in the ethics of translahon, comparison and an India-perfumed glocal (global/local) prism. It could kindle research interest in Indian classical literature from a comparahve perspective among students of English literatures in Indian classrooms.

Course Content:

  • 1. Kalidasa: Abhijnanasakuntalam
  • 2. Vyasa: “The Dicing”; “The Temptahon of Karna”
  • 3. Indian Epic Tradition [The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Kalidasa’s Kumarsambhava];
  • Epic Tradition in Bengal (Sri Aurobindo, Madhusudan Duq);
  • Short Epic Tradition (Khanda-Kavya such as Kirtana, Oja Pali, Pandavani, Kuqu etc)]
  • Alamkara and Rasa

Marks Division:

The course will have an Internal Assessment Test of 10 marks.
Question Pattern for End Semester Examination: Total 40 marks

  • 1 long question worth 10 marks out of 2 queshons to be aqempted from each of the Units 1 and 2: 2x10=20
  • 2 short questions/short notes worth 5 marks each out of 4 questions to be attempted from Unit 3: 2x5=10
  • 5 short questions worth 2 marks each out of 10 questions to be attempted from Units 1 and 2 : 5x2=10

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