St Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Ahmedabad

MA English Syllabus (June 2023 onwards)

Program Specific Outcomes:

A student completing this program will be able to:
PSO1: Students will produce research skills that will contribute to the Academia and
Knowledge economy of the nation, and synthesize the critical works from different areas
in literary studies.
PSO2: Students will cultivate an attitude of applying critical thinking towards self,
society, and world.
PSO3: Students will demonstrate knowledge related to techniques of critically reading
literary texts in English and translation while also analysing the same based on their
theoretical and practical context.
PSO4: The Program aims to generate the vital skills necessary for a globalised
community i.e., Communication Skills across Media, Critical Analysis, Creative Writing,
Academic Writing, Synthesizing Information as well as an Ecological Sensitivity for a
Sustainable World.
PSO5. The students will develop ICT skills as well as linguistic skills such as
Internationally Intelligible Pronunciation, Intonation with Phonetic Transcription,
Conversational Skills, PSO6: Writing across Genres and Presenting in Public.

Semester-I

Paper: History of English Literature 1500-1660

Course Code: PEN-1801

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. Students will revise the various definitions, characteristics
and history of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration
times in English literature.
What to
know

2. Students will classify the major genres of tragedy and

literary epic in English and review their evolution from
classical times.
3. Students will analyse representative critical and fictional
texts of tragedy and literary epic.
 How to
know
4. Students will critically read and apply the theoretical
conventions of writing tragedy and literary epic to fictional
texts.
5. Students will critically read selected texts of English tragedy
and literary epic within their socio-political, moral and
What will critical context.
be able to
do?

6. Students will integrate their understanding of English

tragedy and epic to develop their own view towards the
manifestation of social, individual and psychological
struggles.

Unit-1: Theory of Shakespearean Tragedy - AC Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy

‘Lectures I and II’ and Lectures on King Lear

Unit-2: Shakespeare: King Lear

Unit-3: The Classical Epic Tradition - CM Bowra:From Virgil to Milton‘The Classical

Epic Tradition’

Unit-4: Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I

Unit-5: Acquaintances (detailed)

1. Spenser: The Faerie Queene b) Marlowe: Dr. Faustus

2. Sidney: Arcadia

3. Ben Jonson: Volpone

4. Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy.

Semester-I

Paper: Research Methodology

Course Code: PEN-1802

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. Identify the elements involved in academic research, its
types, and importance in graduate studies.

What to
know

2. Distinguish academic writing from general writing and the

conventions of MLA 9 reference style from other styles.
3. Illustrate the structure of the five-paragraph essay,
explaining the importance of Introduction, Body paragraphs,
and Conclusion in academic essays.
How to
know
4. Develop an outline with a CARS model introduction and a
list of primary and secondary sources.
5. Revise outlines.
What will
be able to
do?

6. Plan and write academic essays for journals.

Unit 1: Nature and types of research, Types of research articles and Ethics of research
Unit 2: Academic Writing v/s General Writing, Mechanics of Academic Writing and
Bibliography
Unit 3: Introduction to Academic Writing by Alex Osmond

Unit 4: Entries concerning research documentation:

Creating parenthetical documentation and the relation between parenthetical

reference, Quotations with related bibliographical entry, evaluating print sources,
Summarizing, paraphrasing etc. Visual Resources.
Semester-I

Paper: History of English Literature 1660-1798

Course Code: PEN-1803

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To help students gain a deeper insight into the literary
aspects of drama.

What to
know

2. To acquaint students with the dramatic and theatrical

conventions of Restoration comedy.

1. To introduce students to the uniqueness of the literary and

stylistic features of 17th century restoration comedy and
restoration tragedy.
How to
know
2. To develop an understanding of 18th-century British drama
within its cultural and historical context.

1. To identify the canonical 17th century and 18th century

British literary works.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Development of drama: Restoration Comedy and Tragedy, Sentimental Comedy,

Revival of Comedy (Sheridan and Goldsmith).

Pramod Nayar: A History of English Literature (Chapter 6)

Recommended reading: Allardyce Nicoll: British Drama “Chapter IV”

Unit-2: John Dryden: All for Love.

Unit -3: Congreve: The Way of the World.

Unit-4: Sheridan: The Rivals.

Unit-5: Acquaintances (detailed)

1. Pope: The Rape of the Lock

2. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

3. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

4. Richardson: Pamela

5. Goldsmith: “The Deserted Village”

Semester-I

Paper: Women's Writing

Course Code: PEN-1804

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To interpret literary works by women at an advanced
postgraduate level.

What to
know

2. To acquaint the students with the multifaceted literature by

women of the world.

1. To understand different forms of literature: poetry, fiction,

short fiction and critical writings by women.

How to
know
To identify, describe, and analyze major themes and issues
regarding the role of gender in literature.
 1. To understand women’s literary history, women’s studies
and feminist criticism.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha’s Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to Present
“Introduction

Unit-2: Muddupalani: “Rādhikā-sāntvanam”

Unit-3: Nawal El Saadawi: Woman at Point Zero

Unit-4: Barbara Smith: Toward a Black Feminist Criticism and Toni Morrison: The
Bluest Eye.

Unit-5: Acquaintances
(detailed)

1. Virginia Woolf: “A Room of One’s

Own”
2. Meena Kandasamy: “This Poem will Provoke You”
3. Kundanika Kapadia: Seven Steps in the Sky
4. Ismat Chugtai: “The Quilt”
5. “Ecriture Feminine”

Semester-I

Paper: Literature from the Margins

Course Code: PEN-1805B

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To acquaint students with marginalization, both in terms of
identity and location.

What to
know

2. To discuss issues of nationality, gender, sexuality, and race

 through the perspective of the marginalized.

3. To sensitize students with marginalization and subjugation

of women.

How to
know
4. To analyze the “binary relationship” of the subaltern and
ruling classes, and thus identify the interplay of dominance
and subordination in colonial systems.

5. To provide a conceptual and theoretical understanding of

issues of exclusion, marginalization and inequalities.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Mamang Dai: The Black Hill

Unit-2: Dangle: Poisoned Bread

Selected texts: Baburao Bagul’s “Mother” and Kumud Pawde, “The Story of My
Sanskrit”

Unit-3: Gayatri Spivak: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

Unit-4: Ganesh Devy: Painted Words

Selected texts: Mahashweta Devi’s “Makar Savar” and “Kunkana Ramayan”

Unit-5: Acquaintances:
Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands/La Frontera

Trinh Minh-ha: ‘No Master Territories’

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jenette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Ntozake Shange: For colored girls who have considered suicide.

Semester-I

Paper: Seminar Paper

Course Code: PEN-1806

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

Research paper outline

Semester-II

Paper: History of English Literature: 1798-1900

Course Code: PEN-2801

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To demonstrate familiarity with the major themes and
characteristics of the Romantic and Victorian age.

What to
know

2. To familiarize students with the different writing styles of

Romantic and Victorian age.

3. To develop critical and analytical ability in reading (late)

eighteenth and nineteenth century poetry

How to
know
4. To critically analyse the history of English novel.

5. To evaluate major poetical works of Keats, Shelley and

Blake.
What will
be able to
do?
Unit-1: P.B. Shelley: Defense of Poesy

Unit-2: Selected poems by Keats, Shelley and Blake

1. Ode on a Grecian Urn

2. Eve of St. Agnes
3. Ode to Psyche
4. Love’s Philosophy
5. Adonais
6. To Autumn
7. Tyger, Tyger
8. The Chimney Sweeper
9. London
10. Jerusalem

Unit-3: Walter Allen: The English Novel

Unit-4: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Unit-5: Acquaintances (detailed)

1. Jane Austen: Emma

2. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

3. Byron: Don Juan

4. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia

5. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Semester-II

Paper: History of English Literature: 1900-present

Course Code: PEN-2802

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To analyze the variety of styles and themes exemplifying
poetry written in the 20th century.
 What to
know

2. To understand the historical and cultural contexts that have

influenced the evolution of “modern” poetic form.
3. To evaluate the decay and decadence of morality and
human values in the modern age.

How to
know
4. To read and interpret representative writings of the 20th
century.
5. To familiarise students with crucial events like the two
world wars, the holocaust, decolonisation, migration,
What will
economic crisis (the Great Depression), and so forth,
be able to
reflected through literature.
do?

Unit-1: Socio-Political and Intellectual Background - Pelican Guide Volume VII:

‘Introduction’

Unit-2: Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Unit-3: Gwyneth Lewis: Selections

Unit-4: Philip Larkin: High Windows.

Unit-5: Acquaintances (detailed)

1. D H Lawrence The Rainbow

2. Harold Pinter: Homecoming

3. Ted Hughes: The Hawk in the Rain

4. Russell: Education and Social Order

5. Rainer Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus

Semester-II

Paper: American Literature

Course Code: PEN-2803

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of American
literature.

What
to
know

2. To help students identify and discuss the roles which gender, race, age,
class, ethnicity, and geography have played in creating American
literature.
3. To acquaint students with the prominent American literary movements.

How
to
know
4. To help students demonstrate knowledge of the development of
characteristic forms or styles of expression during different American
historical periods.
5. To introduce students to prominent American literary poetical works and
novel.
What
will be
able to
do?

Unit-1: American Renaissance.

Unit-2: Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter.

Unit-3: Harlem Renaissance, Beat Movement

 1) “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
2) “The Weary Blues”

Unit-4: American Poetry

1) “Power” by Audre Lorde
2) “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou
3) “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4) “Letter to an Archaeologist” by Joseph Brodsky
5) “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath
6) “Because I could not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson.
7) “Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe
8) “What Kind of Times Are These” by Adrienne Rich

Unit-5: Acquaintances (detailed)

1. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2. Emerson: “Brahma”

3. Alice Walker: The Color Purple

4. Lorraine Hansbury: A Raisin in the Sun

5. Sylvia Plath: Ariel

Semester-II

Paper: Indian Literature in English

Course Code: PEN-2804

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To critically analyse the relationship between myth and
fiction.

What to
know

2. To evaluate culture, identity, history, constructions of

nation, and gender politics.
3. To demonstrate, through discussion and writing, an
understanding of significant cultural and societal issues
presented in Indian English literature.
 How to
know
4. To understand literary concepts and the underlying
aesthetics of Indian Writing in English.
5. To emphasize the importance of major Indian novelists in
English.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Frye: “Myth, Fiction, Displacement”

Unit-2: Ghashiram Kotwal by Vijay Tendulkar

Unit-3: Indian Novelists in English M K Naik

Unit-4: Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. Raja Rao: Kanthapura

2. Anita Desai: Cry, the Peacock

3. Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence

4. Sowendra Hansda: The Adivasi will not Dance

5. Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

Semester-II
Paper: Narrative

Course Code: PEN-2805B

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To define major narrative features and elements of narrative
 theory.
What to
know

2. To create ability to apply the theoretical tools provided by

the course to a variety of narrative texts.

3. To understand various genre conventions as well as major

characteristics of realist, modernist, and postmodernist
narrative styles.
How to
know
4. To facilitate creative thinking about narratives.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1 and Unit-2 : Narrative theory

1. Paul Cobley: Narrative (New Critical Idiom)

2. Mieke Bal: Narratology (Sections)

Unit-3: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights.

Unit-4: Alice Walker: By the Light of My Father’s Smile.

Unit-5: Acquaintances:
Italo Calvino: If on a Winter’s Night…
Propp: Morphology of the Folk Tale

Vladimir Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Todorov: Structural Analysis of Narrative
Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Semester-II

Paper: Seminar

Course Code: PEN-2806

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

Research Paper

Semester III

Paper: World Drama

Course Code: PEN-3801

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To evaluate different drama genres and understand their
intricacies and complexities.

What to
know

2. To encourage students to perform scenes from the dramas,

enhancing public speaking, collaboration, and interpretation
skills.
3. To understand dramas written across diverse historical and
geographic locations, that deal with social and political
issues.
How to
know
4. To analyze dramas through various perspectives and initiate
a discourse.
5. To identify the elements of drama, such as form, symbol,
theme, dialogue, stage directions and character.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Martin Esslin: “Theatre of the Absurd”

Unit-2: Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Unit-3: Bigsby: Modern American Drama (Introduction and section on Miller) and
Arthur Miller: All My Sons.

Unit-4: Ngugi wa Thiongo’o I will Marry when I want

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author

2. Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage

3. Sudraka: The Little Clay Cart

4. Behn: The Rover

5. Genet: The Balcony

Semester III

Paper: World Classics in Translation

Course Code: PEN-3802

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To analyse literary texts in English translation in terms of
their main stylistic and thematic features.

What to
know

2. To help students understand the various nuances of

translation.
3. To introduce students to canonical English translated literary
works.

How to
know
4. To evaluate the historical, social and cultural backgrounds of
the translated texts.
5. To provide students a taste of diverse literary practices
emanating from different regions of the world.
What will
be able to
 do?

Unit-1: Susan Bassnett: Translation (Chapter 1 and 2)

Unit-2: Camus: The Plague.

Unit-3: Rita Kothari: Translating India

Unit-4: Kalidasa: Shakuntala

Unit-5: Acquaintances
1. Bhasa: Swapnavasavadattam

2. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

3. Albert Camus: The Outsider

4. Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment

5. Tolstoy: War and Peace

Semester III

Paper: Literary Criticism

Course Code: PEN-3803

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. Identify the various characteristics that distinguish literary
theory from literary criticism of the western and eastern
critical traditions.
What to
know

2. Describe the various stages in the development of Literary

Criticism and theory by understanding their development of
concepts
3. Read and discuss prominent works and excerpts of Bharata
muni, Stanley Fish, Jacqueline Rose, Chandra Talpade
Mohanty and Terry Eagleton.
 How to
know
4. Distinguish selected literary terms and examine their
evolution in the history of English literature.
5. Apply the principles of literary criticism and theory to
selected literary texts and critique them from a specific
What will critical perspective.
be able to
do?

6. Assess the strengths and limitations of critics of differing

times and traditions and examine their relevance to
contemporary literary studies.

Unit-1: Natyashastra Chapters 1 and 6 and Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory “Introduction”

Unit-2: Jacqueline Rose: Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction

Unit-3: Chandra Talpade Mohanty: “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and
Colonial Discourses”

Unit-4: William Howarth: “Some Principles in Ecocriticism” in The Ecocriticism Reader:

Landmarks in Literary Ecology, eds. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Bloom, pp. 69-91

Unit-5: Acquaintances (terms)

1. Post-Structuralism

2. Psychoanalysis

3. The Chicago School

4. The Geneva School

5. Post-Modernism

Semester III

Paper: Postcolonial Literature

Course Code: PEN-3804

No. of Credits: 04
Learning Hours: 60 hrs
1. To analyze how race, gender, language, diaspora, culture,
history, nation and identity are presented and problematised
in the literary texts.
What to
know

2. To understand the relationship between Great Britain and

the colonized nations.
3. To evaluate key postcolonial authors and texts in their
historical and cultural contexts.

How to
know
4. To explain key terms associated with postcolonial literature.
5. To facilitate a discourse on postcolonial parameters.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Postcoloniality

The Postcolonial Studies Reader: ‘Post-Colonial Literatures’, Appiah, Fanon

Unit-2: Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Unit-3: Cesaire: “Discourse on Colonialism”

Unit-4: Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. Orientalism
2. Hegemony
3. Hybridity
4. Intersectionality
5. Homonationalism
Semester III

Paper: South-Asian Diasporic Writing

Course Code: PEN-3805B

No. of Credits: 04 Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To understanding the relationship between diaspora,
location, history and geography with South Asian literature.

What to
know

2. To interpret South Asian literary texts in the light of social,

historical, political, and cultural contexts.
3. To validate dislocation, relocation, acculturation and
marginalization observed in South Asian literature.

How to
know
4. To analyze the problems that diasporic identities face as
reflected in the South Asian works.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Bhabha: The Location of Culture (Selections)

Unit-2: Ghosh: “Diaspora in Indian Culture”

Unit-3: Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

Unit-4: Adiga: The White Tiger

Unit-5: Acquaintances:

1. Rohinton Mistry: Tales from Firozsha Baag

2. Hanif Kureishi: “My Son the Fanatic”

3. Lahiri: The Namesake

4. Vikram Seth: Golden Gate

5. Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Semester III

Seminar Paper

Course Code: PEN-3806

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

Students can opt for either research paper or creative writing or translation
Semester IV

Paper: Special Author: T. S. Eliot

Course Code: PEN-4801

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. Identify the socio-historical circumstances that made T S
Eliot a leading figure of modern age.

What to
know

2. Distinguish the salient features of poetic drama and

modernist poetry.
3. Analyse Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral and compare its
form and content with the characteristics of poetic drama.

How to
know
4. Appraise Eliot’s poem The Waste Land as a representative
poem of the modernist ethos and literary distinctness.
5. Formulate the factors responsible for the revival of poetic
drama in the 20th century.
What will
be able to
do?
 6. Evaluate the literary contribution of T S Eliot in the modern
age and justify his legacy as a trend-setter in literary history.

Unit-1: Poetic Drama.

Unit-2: Murder in the Cathedral.

Unit-3: “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

Unit-4: “The Waste Land”

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. Synge: Riders to the Sea

2. Pound: “The Cantos”
3. Yeats: “Sailing to Byzantium”
4. Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
5. J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan

Semester IV

Paper: Gender and Literature

Course Code: PEN-4802

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To analyze the relationship of gender and literary expression
and experience.

What to
know

2. To encourage students to critically respond to the texts.

3. To examine the concepts of gender and sexuality through the
texts.
 How to
know
4. To reflect historical, social, cultural and political influences
on gender and sexuality.
5. To introduce students to prominent literary works that
highlight gender and sex.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Gillman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Unit-2: Spivak: “Three Women’s Text and a Critique of Imperialism”

Unit-3: The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story. by A. Revathi

Unit-4: Butler: “Introduction” to Gender Trouble

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry

2. Virginia Woolf: “The New Dress”

3. Caryl Churchill: Top Girls

4. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai (editors): Same-Sex Love in India

5. Toni Morrison: Sula

Semester IV

Paper: Contemporary Theory

Course Code: PEN-4803

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. Identify the various characteristics that distinguish literary
theory of the American, French and Russian critical
 What to traditions.
know

2. Describe the various stages in the development of Literary

theory by understanding their development of concepts
3. Read and discuss prominent works and excerpts of Bharata
muni, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Elaine Showalter
and Mikhail Bakhtin.
How to
know
4. Distinguish selected literary terms and examine their
evolution in the history of English literature.
5. Apply the principles of literary criticism and theory to
selected literary texts and critique them from a specific
What will critical perspective.
be able to
do?

6. Assess the strengths and limitations of critics of differing

times and traditions and examine their relevance to
contemporary literary studies.

Unit-1: Foucault: “‘What is an Author?” and Bakhtin: “Discourse in the Novel”

Unit-2: Derrida: “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”

Unit-3: Showalter: “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”

Unit-4: Lennard J Davis, “Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the
Invention of the Disabled Body in the 19th Century” in The Disability Studies Reader, ed.
Lennard J Davis, pp. 3-16.

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. New Criticism
2. Marxism
3. Annihilation of Caste
4. Minority Discourses
5. Eco-Feminism
Semester IV

Paper: Literature and Other Art Forms

Course Code: PEN-4804

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To examine the relationship between literature and various
other art forms viz. sculpture, painting, cinema, theatre and
dance.
What to
know

2. To understand the merits of adaptation and the factors that

undermine it.
3. To assess the script of My Beautiful Laundrette and its film
rendition.

How to
know
4. To technically evaluate the poem “The Blessed Damozel”.
5. To acquaint students with numerous arts from different
nations, hitherto unknown to them.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1: Scott James: The Making of Literature Chapter 17 “Poetry and Painting”

Unit-2: Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo (editors): Literature and Film: A Guide to
the Theory and Practice of Adaptation and Brick Lane (novel and film both)

Unit-3: Rossetti: “The Blessed Damosel” (Painting and Poem)

Unit-4: Krushnalal Mohanlal Zaveri: Milestones in Gujarati Literature (Garba, Ballad)

Unit-5: Acquaintances:
1. Shakespeare in Indian Cinema
2. What is Common to the Arts?
3. Literature and Painting
4. Literature and Cinema
5. Literature and Theatre

Semester IV
Paper: Partition Literature

Course Code: PEN-4805B

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

1. To examine the effects of the partition of British India in

1947 through social, historical, religious and economic
perspectives.
What to
know

2. To assess the role of partition in the shaping of India and

Pakistan.
3. To estimate the consequences of violence, trauma and
displacement due to partition.

How to
know
4. To interpret texts and relate it to their socio-political
contexts.
5. To acquaint students with works of partition literature in
various languages.
What will
be able to
do?

Unit-1 & Unit-2 : Historical, Political, Cultural contexts

Urvashi Butalia: The Other Side of Silence and Ritu Menon: Borders and Boundaries.

Unit-3: Sadaat Husain Manto: “Open It”, “Thanda Ghosht”, “Toba Tek Singh”.
Unit-4: Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice-Candy Man.

Unit-5: Acquaintances

1. Amitav Ghosh: Shadow Lines

2. Kushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan

3. Manohar Malgonkar: A Bend in the Ganges

4. Amrita Pritam: “Ode to Waris Shah”

5. Gulzar: Raavi Paar

Semester IV

Paper: Seminar

Course Code: PEN-4806

No. of Credits: 04

Learning Hours: 60 hrs

Students can opt for either research paper or creative writing or translation