- Trainer/in: Ritwick Bhattacharjee
Indian Classical Literature
1. 1. Vyasa. Selections from The Mahabharata, from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, trans. K. M. Ganguli (Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2012).
a) ‘The Dicing’ and ‘Sequel to Dicing’, Book 2, Sabha Parva Section XLVI-LXXII b) ‘The Temptation of Karna’, Book 5, Udyog Parva, Section CXL-CXLVI. c) ‘Krishna’s Peace Proposal’, Book 5, Udyog Parva, Section LXXXIX-CXXXI
2. Kalidasa. Abhijnanasakuntalam, trans. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time. Penguin Classics, 1989, reprint 2000.
3. Ilango Atikal. ‘The Book of Vanci’, Cilappatikaram. trans. R. Parthasarathy (Columbia University Press, 1993; Penguin Books India, 2004).
- Trainer/in: Thinkal Hansan
- Trainer/in: Armeen Kaur
- Trainer/in: Akhilesh Kumar
European Classical Literature:
1. Homer, The Odyssey
2. Aristotle, Poetics
Sophocles, Antigone
3. Aristophanes, Lysistrata
- Trainer/in: Saikat Ghosh
- Trainer/in: Thinkal Hansan
- Trainer/in: Madhvi Zutshi
Introduction to Literary Studies
Reading the Novel
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Gerald J Prince, Narratology: Form and Function of Narrative (New York, 1982), pp 7 – 16 and 103 – 105.
A N Kaul, ‘A New Province of Writing,’ The Domain of the Novel: Reflections on Some Historical Definitions (Routledge, 2021), 20-36.
Reading Poetry.
John Milton: ‘On His Blindness’
William Wordsworth: ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’
Emily Dickinson: ‘341 After Great Pain’
Rabindranath Tagore: ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, ‘Versification and Poetic Syntax’, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edition (New York and London: W W Norton & Company, 2005), pp 2021 – 65.
Reading Drama.
Mahesh Dattani: Tara
G J Watson, ‘The Nature of Drama’, Drama: An Introduction (London: Macmillan, 1983)
Habib Tanvir, It Must Flow: A Life in Theatre http://www.seagullindia.com/stq/pdf/STQ%20Issue%2010.pdf
Gary Day, ‘Introduction’ Class (New Critical Idiom: Routledge, 2001), pp 1 – 18.
- Trainer/in: Indulekha P Roy Burman
- Trainer/in: Armeen Kaur
- Trainer/in: Ashwin Rajeev