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| Employer: | Deen Dayal upadhyay College, University of Delhi | ||
| Occupation: | Students, B.A (hons) English, 3rd year | ||
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Contents
Syllabus
Paper 8 : Contemporary literature
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (Heinemann edition with notes)
- Nadine Gordimer: My Son's Story
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Penguin)
- Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist (edited by Javed Malick,Worldview Methuen Edition)
- Ngugi wa Thiongo: The Trial of Dedan Kemathi (edited by Sanjay Kumar)Worldview Heinemann Edition)
- Pablo Neruda: Poetry, Tonight I Can Write, The Way Spain Was, Arspoetica, Discoverers of Chile, Ode to a Tomato
- Derek Walcott: A Far Cry From Africa, Goats and Monkeys, Names, The Sea is History
- Margaret Atwood: Spelling, This a Photograph of Me, Procedures for Underground, The Animals in That Country, The land lady
Background Prose Readings:
- Franz Fanon,(on colour prejudice) from Blak Skin, White Maskes (Paladin editon,1970), pp.21-29
- Ngugi wa Thiongo, from "The Language of Arican Literature,' In Decolonising the Mind, chapter 1, sections 4-6
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize acceptance speech, In Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New Reading ,eds. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Carwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
- V.S. Naipaul, 'East Indian,' In The Overcrowded Barracoon (Penguin,1976),pp.32-41
Background Topics
Magic Realism; Literature and Revolution;Literature and Culture Identity; Writing for the New World Audience.
Paper 9: Modern European Drama
- Henrik Ibsen:Ghosts(Methuen Worldview)
- August Strindberg:Miss Julie (Methuen Worldview)
- Bertolt Brecht:The Good Woman of Szechuan (Methuen Worldview)
- Jean Genet:The Balcony (edited by B.Mangalam and Dilip K.Basu)
- ionesco:The Rhinocerous (edited by Dilip K. Basu and B.Mangalam)
Background prose readings:
- Bertolt Brecht 'The Street Scene' (pp.121-8), ' Theatre for Pleasure or 'Theatre for Instruction' (pp.68-76) and 'Dramatic Theatre vs. Epic Theatre' (chart)-(p.31) from Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic ed.John Willet (London: Metheun,1992)
- Antonin Artuad 'No More Masterpieces,' from The Theatre and its Double (London: Calder and Boyars.1970), pp.55-63
- George Steiner [On Modern Tragedy], from The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber), pp.303-24.
- Stanislavki An Actor Prepares (Penguin), chapter 8: 'Faith and the Sense of Truth,' sections 1,2,7,8,9 (pp.121-5,137-46)
- Jean Genet Reflection on Theatre (London:Faber).chapter 2: ' The Strange Word Urb...,' pp. 63-74
- Raymond Williams Tragedy and Revolltuion,' In Modern Tragedy, rev.edn.(London: Verso,1979),pp. 61-84.
