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1st semester

Abhijnana Sakuntalam by Kalidasa

Character sketch of Shakuntala
Role of Shakuntala
Theme of Love and Romance
Character sketch of Dushyanta
Critical analysis of Abhijnanasakuntalam

Antigone by Sophocles

Analysis of Women characters in Antigone
Character sketch of Antigone
Compare and contrast the characters of Antigone and Ismene
Character of Eurydice

Mrichchakatika by Sudraka

Mrichchakatika as a Prakarana
Justify the title of Mrichchhakatika
Character sketch of Charudatta

Parijata Harana by Sankardeva

Role of Krishna in Parijata Harana
Critical Ananlysis of Parijata Harana
Parijata Harana as a literary medium of spreading Vaishnavite religion
Influence of medieval Indian drama on Sankardeva
Significance of the Parijata flower in the play

2nd semester

Poems Summary & Analysis

My Grandmother's House by Kamala Das
Shakespear's Sonnet 30
Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel

The English Teacher by RK Narayan

Character of Krishna
Theme of Love
Theme of Enlightenment

The Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey chaucher

Moral of the story
Humour and Satire
Chanticleer character

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Character analysis of Dr. Faustus
Role of Mephistopheles
Significance of Good Angel and Evil Angel
Hell in Dr Faustus

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Role of Lady Macbeth
Theme of Ambition
Contrast between Macbeth and Macduff
Role of gender

3rd semester

Poems analysis

Crow Testament by Sherman Alexie
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll

Importance of chess game in Through the Looking Glass

The Rover by Aphra Behn

Character analysis of Willmore
Portrayal of women in The Rover

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Theme of slavery
Themes in Beloved

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

The rape of the Lock as mock epic
Plot summary
The game of Ombre
Character sketch of Belinda

Bhimayana : Experiences of Untouchability

Casteism and water crisis

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

Funny Boy as a Bildungsroman novel
Significance of the title

4th semester

Poems analysis

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
Ozymandias by PB Shelley
Kubla Khan by Samuel T Coleridge

The Way of the world by William Congreve

Wit & Humor

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Use of Irony
Significance of the title

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein as a Gothic Novel
Victor Frankenstein character sketch
Frankenstein as a Bildungsroman

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Humor in Tristram Shandy
Digression in Tristram Shandy
Walter Shandy character

5th semester

Poems Analysis

I cannot live with you by Emily Dickinson
‘I’m “wife” — I’ve finished that’ by Emily Dickinson
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
'Advice to Women' by Eunice de Souza
Bequest by Eunice de Souza
Leda and the Swan by WB Yeats
No Second Troy by WB Yeats
Sweeney among the Nightingales by T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
Light, oh where is the light? by Rabindranath Tagore
Sailing to Byzantium by TS Eliot
When my play was with thee by Rabindranath Tagore
The Land of the Half-Humans by Thangjam Ibopishak Singh
Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour of Wind by Thangjam Ibopishak Singh

Plot Summary

The Color Purple
Mrs Dalloway
A Vindication to the Rights of Women

Andha Yug by Dharamvir Bharati

‘Andha Yug’ as an allegory of Indo-Pak Partition and World War
Ashwatthama character analysis

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Significance of 'purple' color
Symbols

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Ivory
Congo River significance
Theme of Darkness

6th semester

Modern European Drama

Modern Drama and types

Poems analysis

Wild Lemons by David Malouf
Revolving Days by David Malouf

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo character analysis
Role of Missionaries
Role of Honor and Reputation
Okonkwo's fear of weakness
Symbolism
Theme of Identity

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Significance of the title
Symbolism

Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Significance of the title
Honor and shame
Magical realism
Santiago character sketch
Bayardo San Roman character

The Good Woman of Setzuan by Betolt Brecht

Setzuan town
Capitalism
Water symbol
Epic Theatre

Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco

Fascism
Rhinoceros as Absurd drama
Daisy
Masters

Poems analysis

European & others

Sweetest Love Returne again by Mary Wroth
In this Strange Labyrinth by Mary Wroth
The Windows by George Herbert
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship by Katherine Philips
Man by George Herbert

Indian poetry

Wolf by Keki Daruwalla
Biograph by Arun Kolatkar

Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton

Chess scene

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in Bleak House

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Narrative Technique
Settings and stages of life
Symbolism