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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

Museum of Fine Arts by W. H. Auden

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

Punishment by Seamus Heaney

God’s Grandeur by G. M. Hopkins

Felix Randal by G.M. Hopkins

Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

Nigger’s Leap, New England by Judith Wright

Ruins Of A Great House by Derek Walcott

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

The Dumb Waiter by harold pinter

Power Dynamics

Silence and pause

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Concept of time

The Window

Waterland by Graham Swift

Significance of the Fens

Mary Metcalf

Dick Crick

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Madness

Christophine

Nature and landscape

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Intertextuality

No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

Clara