Introduction to World Literature

Week 1  :  Introduction

Week 2  :  Classics:Beowulf, Don Quixote, Arabian Nights

Week 3  :  Indian literature:Kalidasa, Tagore, Rushdie, Kamala Das
Week 4  :  Literature in translation:Akutagawa’s In a Grove Borges’ Garden of Forking Paths Manto’s Toba Tek Singh
Week 5  :  Short stories and excerpts from novels: Marquez, Borges, Calvino, Flaubert, Tolstoy
Week 6  :  Poetry Dover Beach, Wasteland, Song of Lawino
Week 7  :  Drama Ibsen’s Doll’s House Shakespeare’s Othello
Week 8  :  African-American literature,Toni Morrison,Achebe’s Things Fall Apart,Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Week 9  :  English and American literature:,Arnold’s Dover Beach,Eliot’s Wasteland,Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
Week 10  :  Women writers:lGilman’s Yellow Wallpaper,Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
Week 11  :  Prose (non-fiction) and critical theory:,Aristotle’s Poetics,Barthes’ Death of the author,Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own ,  Kolodny’s Dancing through the minefield, Kolodny’s Dancing through the minefield , Kolodny’s Dancing through the minefield
Week 12  :  Contemporary writers and new genres