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IGNOU MEG-15 Code Details
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University
IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
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Title
Comparative Literature: Theory and practice
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Language(s)
English
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Code
MEG-15
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Subject
English
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Degree(s)
MA
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Course
Optional Courses
IGNOU MEG-15 English Topics Covered
Block 1 - Introduction
- Unit 1 - What is Comparative Literature
- Unit 2 - The Practice of Comparative Literature
- Unit 3 - Theory of Comparative Literature
- Unit 4 - Modernism: The West and the East
Block 2 - Comparative Indian Literature-1
- Unit 1 - Literature and Culture
- Unit 2 - Oral and Written Literature
- Unit 3 - Indian Literature: Historiography and Periodization
- Unit 4 - Readings and Interpretation
Block 3 - Comparative Indian Literature-2
- Unit 1 - Literature in Indian Languages and the Idea of Modernity
- Unit 2 - The Centre and Periphery
- Unit 3 - Choma’s Drum
- Unit 4 - Godaan
Block 4 - Comparative World Literature-1
- Unit 1 - Ways of Looking at Reality
- Unit 2 - Life Writings
- Unit 3 - Words to Win: Rashsundari Debi’s Amar Jiban
- Unit 4 - Sally Morgan My Place
Block 5 - Comparative World Literature-2
- Unit 1 - Magical Realism
- Unit 2 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; Nikolai Gogol, The Nose
- Unit 3 - Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Block 6 - Literature and Culture: Exchanges and Negotiations-1
- Unit 1 - Telling and Retelling
- Unit 2 - Retellings of Mahabharata
- Unit 3 - Dharamvir Bharati’s verse Play Andha Yug
Block 7 - Literature and Culture: Exchanges and Negotiations-2
- Unit 1 - Shifting Perspectives
- Unit 2 - Pratibha Ray’s Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
- Unit 3 - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
IGNOU MEG-15 (July 2024 - January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Write a note on cultural diversity in the contemporary world. How do cultural studies contribute to our understanding of culture?
2. Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Discuss it as a Poet colonial text.
3. Why do some critics describe autobiography as fiction? Explain.
4. Do you find features of magical realism in folk tales? Discuss.
5. How is ‘The Palm – Wine Drinkard compared with Ben Qkri’s The Famished Road
IGNOU MEG-15 (July 2023 - January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. How does a film that has been adapted from a story/novel affect our understanding of the text through the shift of perspective? Illustrate.
2. What do you understand by the term ‘oral literature’? Illustrate.
3. Explain with examples how Andhayug is relevant to our times.
4. What is magical realism? What are its defining characteristics? Illustrate.
5. What do you understand by ‘shifting perspectives? How does it influence our interpretation of a cultural work?
6. Do you think that studies in comparative literature can help to bring about world harmony? How?
7. How is the area of cultural studies related to comparative literature.
8. What do you understand by the terms ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’? Illustrate.
9. Can translation be regarded as re telling? Explain with examples.
10. How does inter-literariness affect out interpretation of texts?
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