Comparative Literature
Course Name:
SM 916 Comparative Literature
Programme:
Ph.D
Credits (L-T-P):
(3-1-0) 4
Content:
Definition and Scope of Comparative Literature, Development of the Discipline, Methodology; History and Literary History, Elements of Literary History, Problems of Periodisation; Theory of Genres: Oral, Written, Ancient, Medieval and Modern; Comparative Indian Literature: Traditions, Movements, Themes and Genres; Literary Theory: Sanskrit, Tamil/Kannada Poetics, Western Literary Theories; Cross-Cultural Literary Relations: Influence, Analogy and Reception; Translation Studies: History of Translation - Indian and Non-Indian Theories of Translation, Linguistic and Cultural Problems of Translation; Literature and Other Arts; Literature and Cultural Studies
References:
Sisir Kumar Das and Amiya Dev. Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice, Allied
Publishers, 1989
Sheldon Pollock. Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, University of California
Press, 2003 Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. OUP, 1992.
Krishna, Daya, India's Intellectual Traditions: Attempts at Conceptual Reconstructions.
ICPR &MotilalBanarsidass, 1987.
TejaswiniNiranjana, P. Sudhir and V. Dhareshwar, Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India
Seagull, 1993.
M. Rader, (ed.) A Modern Book of Esthetics, Harcourt,
1979 Alan Singer, et al. (eds.) Literary Aesthetics.
Blackwell, 1999
V.S. Seturaman, (ed.) Indian Aesthetics: an introduction. Macmillan, 1992.
Byran S. Turner, (ed) Theories of Modernity and Post-modernity. Sage, 1990.
Patricia Waugh (ed) Postmodernism: A Reader. Edward Arnold, 1992.
Peter V. Zima, The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory. The Athlone Press, 1999
Department:
School of Management