Help?
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
