Master of Arts in English Literature & Cultural Studies

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• Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: • form a comprehensive idea about culture and different forms of culture, and the relationship between society and power • learn about the major factors determining identity, ethnicity, race and gender relations • demonstrate understanding of concepts of ideology, power, hierarchy and other factors influencing culture • understand what cultural turns are taking place with the advent of postmodernism, visual culture, the internet, and artificial intelligence • engage in interdisciplinary analysis when they connect literary theories to cultural studies

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• Intro to Cultural Studies - Lecture
• What is Cultural Studies
• Ways of Seeing Part 1
• Ways of Seeing Part 2
• Ways of Seeing Part 3
• Ways of Seeing Part 4

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• Define literary postmodernism.
• Analyzing the language, structure and themes of postmodern texts
• Discuss and analyze the historical and cultural contexts of postmodern literature
• Understand and interpret the complex questions of racism, multiculturalism, gender, and the politics of the media
• Develop critical thinking abilities to formulate substantive arguments and explore those arguments with evidence.

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• Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. 1981. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
• Eagleton, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
• Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron and Andrew Levy (Eds.). Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
• Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. 1988. London and NY: Routledge, 2004.
• Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: DUP, 1991.
• Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. 1979. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Manchester: MUP, 1984.
• Nicol, Bran. The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction. Cambridge: CUP, 2009.
• Taylor, Victor E and Charles E Winquist. Encyclopedia of Postmodernism.2001. London: Routledge, 2003.
• Waugh, Patricia. Metafiction: the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction. London: Routledge, 1984.

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• Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: • perceive the importance of literatures outside the British canon • understand colonialism in its different manifestations and the postcolonial experience • make connections between the Latin American situation and our own situation as a former colony • recognize the narrative style and perspectives as distinct from Euro-centric and western perspectives • make connections between the texts of this course and the ideas of literary theories

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• Darío, Rubén. Selected Poems of Rubén Darío. Trans. Lysander Kemp. Texas: UTP, 1965. de Valdés, María Elena. The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Literature. Texas: UTP, 1998. Fitz, Earl E. Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector: The Différence of Desire. Texas: UTP, 2001. Gonzalez-Garth, Miguel and George D Schade. Rubén Darío Centennial Studies. Texas: UTP, 1970. Latin American Literary Review. Ortega, Julio. (Ed.) Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction. Texas: UTP, 1998. Rossman, Charles and Alan Warren Freidman (Eds.). Mario Vargas Llosa: A Collection of Critical Essays. Texas: UTP, 1978. Tapscott, Stephen (Ed.). Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Texas: UTP, 1996. Williams, Raymond Leslie. The Columbian Novel, 1844-1987. Texas: UTP, 1991. ---. The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel. Texas: UTP, 2003.

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• Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: • demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare • interpret Shakespeare from different theoretical and ideological perspectives • connect Shakespeare to their own cultural landscape • view Shakespeare from a global perspective

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• Textbook
• Drakakis, John. editor. Alternative Shakespeares. Methuen, 1985.
• Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Norton, 2004.
• Bloom, Harold, editor. Bloom`s Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare. Infobase Publishing, 2010.
• Kott, Jan. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary. Norton, 1974.etc

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• Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to: • distinguish between different literary theories and criticism • understand the application of different modern theories in literary analysis • Individually analyze literary texts using different theories • demonstrate an awareness of interconnectedness among the different schools of literary theory

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• Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester UP, 2002. 37 Booker, Keith M. A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism. Longman, 1996. Castle, Gregory. The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory. Blackwell, 2007 Eagleton, Terry, Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minnesota UP, 1996. Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory. Pearson, 2009. Raman Selden et al. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Kentucky UP,1993. Brooker, Peter, editor. Modernism/Postmodernism. Pearson, 1992. Butler, Christopher. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP, 2002. Docherty, Thomas, editor. Postmodernism: A Reader. Routledge, 1993 Natoli Joseph P., and Linda Hutcheon. A Postmodern Reader. State University of New York Press, 1993.

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• Students will develop a clear understanding of transnational studies, postcolonial studies, and critical race theory and will be able to interpret culture, cultural identity and diaspora. Learners are expected to have competence of explaining transnational exchanges and transgenerational movements through historical analysis. Development of students’ understanding of the political landscapes in the world of globalization from transnational, postcolonial and race study perspectives will be the ultimate outcome of the course.

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• CRITICAL WORKS Homi K. Bhabha Introduction to Location of Culture Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (selection) Stuart Hall “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” Salman Rushdie Imaginary Homelands (selection) Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak “Can the subaltern speak?” LITERARY WORKS Mulk Raj Anand The Untouchable Aime Césaire A Tempest Kobita Chakma Jole Uthini Kittu (Why mustn’t I flare up?) (selection) Premchand Godan J M Coetzee The Life and Times of Michael K. David Dabydeen Coolie Odyssey (selection) Selim Al Deen Chaka (The Wheel) Mahashweta Devi “The Breast-Giver” 51 Sa’adat Hossain Manto “Toba Tek Singh,” “The Dog of Tetwal”

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• Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: 3.1. Form a comprehensive idea about the theories and methodology of comparative literature, 3.2. Identify and analyze the complex relationships between texts across time, 3.3. Explore the connections of literature with history, philosophy, politics, and literary theory, 3.4. Know the cross cultural literary relations and understand cultural difference and diversity, & 3.5. Understand the methods and politics involved in any act of translation and/or adaptation

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• Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to: • Understand and appreciate the literary value of classic European plays and poetry. • Critically respond to non-English European poems and plays in English translation. • Learn to study the linguistic and socio-politico-cultural intricacies of rendering a text into another language through the parallel reading of various translations of texts. • Distinguish Non-English European literary trends from those of other regions. • Contextualize non-English European poetry and drama in their socio-political reality

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• Sparknotes
• Shmoop

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• Understand and appreciate the literary value of classic European fictions.
• Critically respond to non-English European prose in English translation.
• Learn to study the linguistic and socio-politico-cultural intricacies of rendering a text into another language through the parallel reading of various translations of texts.
• Distinguish Non-English European literary trends from those of other regions.
• Contextualize non-English European prose in their socio-political reality.

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• Baker, G. (2009). Realism’s empire: Empiricism and enchantment in the nineteenth-century novel. Ohio: Ohio State University Press.
• Boa, E. and Reid,J. H. (Eds.). (1972).Critical strategies: German fiction in the twentieth century. London: Hodder & Stoughton Educational.
• Calder, A. (1976). Russia discovered: Nineteenth-century fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov. London: Heinemann.
• Kaufmann, W. (1975). Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre. 1956. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Mander, J. (2007). Remapping the rise of the European novel. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.
• Moretti, F. (1998).Atlas of the European novel: 1800-1900. London and NY: Verso.
• O’Nan, M. (Ed.). (1982). Late nineteenth-century European novel. NY: State University of NY.

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