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Category II

(Discipline Specific Courses for Undergraduate Programme of study with


ENGLISH(Major) as one of the Core Disciplines)

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE 13- (DSC-13) : Twentieth Century Poetry &
Drama
No. of hours- 60(Theory- 45 hrs.+Tutorials -15 hrs.)

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE

Course Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite


title & Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Code Practice (if any)
DSC 13: 4 3 1 0 Passed NIL
Twentieth Class XII
Century with
Poetry & English
Drama from List
A in CUET

Learning Objectives

The Learning Objectives of this course are as follows:

• To offer students an understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the


twentieth century as a space of thought, with specific reference to its poetry
and drama as significant tools of cultural analysis.
• To open up the way in which the poetry and drama of the period reconstitute
readership/ spectatorship as agents of cultural change.

Learning outcomes

The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:

• By studying this course, students will be able to inculcate a basic sense of the
anxieties and influences of the age immediately preceding our own.

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● Students will gain knowledge on how literature as a discipline continues to
critique and alter its times.

SYLLABUS OF DSC 13-

UNIT – I (15 hours)

1. T.S. Eliot: (i) ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (ii) ‘The Hollow Men’

2. W.B. Yeats: (i) ‘Leda and the Swan’ (ii) ‘The Second Coming’

UNIT – II (15 hours)

3. Edith Sitwell: ‘Still Falls the Rain’

4. Anne Michaels: ‘Memoriam’

5. Phillip Larkin: (i) ‘Whitsun Weddings’ (ii) ‘Church Going’

6. Ted Hughes: (i) ‘Hawk Roosting’ (ii) ‘Crow’s Fall’

UNIT – III (15 hours)

7. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot (1952)

Practical component (if any) - NIL

Essential/recommended readings- as listed in the units

Suggestive readings:

1. Sinfield, Alan. ‘Literature and Cultural Production’, in Literature, Politics, and


Culture in Postwar Britain. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1989. pp 23–38

2. Heaney, Seamus. ‘The Redress of Poetry’, The Redress of Poetry. London: Faber,
1995. pp 1–16

3. Waugh, Patricia. ‘Culture and Change: 1960-1990’, The Harvest of The Sixties:
English Literature and Its Background, 1960-1990. Oxford: OUP, 1997.

4. Williams, Raymond, ‘Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism’,


Raymond Williams: The Politics of Modernism. London: Verso, 1996. pp 37-48

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DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE 14- (DSC-14) : Twentieth Century Novel

No. of hours- 60(Theory- 45 hrs.+Tutorials -15 hrs.)

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE

Course Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite


title & Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Code Practice (if any)
DSC 14: 4 3 1 0 Passed NIL
Twentieth Class XII
Century with
Novel English
from List
A in CUET

Learning Objectives

The Learning Objectives of this course are as follows:

• To offer students an understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the


way in which the novel as an art form defines and alters the twentieth
century.

● To open up the way in which the twentieth century novel is the most telling
site of social critique and change.

Learning outcomes
The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:

• By studying this course, students will be able to inculcate a basic sense of the
instruments that the twentieth century novel uses to alter the period of its
origin.

● Students will gain an understanding of how the novel as an art form can pick
up the philosophical and political lines of inquiry of the period under survey.

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SYLLABUS OF DSC-14

UNIT – I (15 hours)

1. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1899)

UNIT – II (15 hours)

2. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers (1913)

UNIT – III (15 hours)

3. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

Practical component (if any) - NIL

Essential/recommended readings- as listed in the units

Suggestive readings:

1. Woolf, Virginia. ON BEING ILL. Germany, Musaicum Books, 2017.

2. Freud, Sigmund. ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of the
Unconscious’, The Modern Tradition. ed. Richard Ellman et. al. Oxford: OUP, 1965. pp
571, 578–80, 559–63

3. Williams, Raymond. ‘Introduction’, The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence.


London: Hogarth Press, 1984. pp 9–27

4. Lawrence, D.H. ‘Morality and the Novel’, The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of
Modern Literature. eds. Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr. Oxford University
Press, 1965.

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