ENGDSC-251 (AMERICAN LITERATURE)
The Gold Rush and American Dream..The American Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence
The framing of the Constitution, Lincoln and the Civil war
Harlem Renaissance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Brahma.
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Emily Dickinson: Because I could not Stop for Death
Langston Hughes: Mother to Son
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea.
Arthur Millar: All My Sons.
Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined letter.
2Alice Walker: "Everyday Use".
ENGDSC-252 (WOMEN’S WRITING)
Kamala Das: "The Old Playhouse".
Margaret Atwood: "This is a Photograph of Me".
Kishwar Naheed: "The Grass is really like me".
Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise".
Eunice D' Souza: "Advice for Women".
Ama Ata Aidoo: "The Girl Who Can".
Begum Rokeya: "Sultana's Dream".
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun.
Virginia Woolf: "Professions for Women".
Simone de Beauvoir: "Introduction" to The Second Sex.
ENGDSC 253: Indian Classical Literature.
Kalidasa. Abhijnana Shakauntalam. Tr. Arthur W. Ryder. Shakuntala.
Vyasa. Mahabharata ‘Rajdharma’ of Shanti Parva’ (Chapter 68 and 70)
Bhavabhuti: Malatimadhava. Tr. by H.H.Wilson, ‘The Stolen Marriage’
‘The Jataka’ Translation edited by Edward B. Cowel.
‘Demons in the Desert’
‘Finding a new spring
The Golden plate’
Ilango Adigal 'The Book of Banci', in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet,
Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh,Chap. 6: 'Sentiments',