SEMESTER-III Course-IX LITERATURE AND MODERNITY Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Written Examination: 75 Marks Internal Assessment: 25 Marks Pass Marks: 35% INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER UNIT-I shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 12+11=23 marks. UNIT-II shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 11+11=22 marks. UNIT-III shall cover the entire syllabus and shall be of 30 marks. This question shall comprise ten short-answer questions of about 100-120 words each - two on each prescribed text and the remaining two on history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. Each question shall carry 3 marks. UNIT-I George Orwell - and the English “Politics Language” Virginia Woolf - “Modern Fiction” UNIT-II Walter Benjamin - of Art in the Age of Mechanical “The Work Reproduction” Walter J. Ong - Orality of (From Orality and “The Language” by Walter J. Ong) Literacy UNIT-III UNIT-III shall include Units I & II and the history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. It shall comprise short-answer questions. RECOMMENDED READING George Orwell Writing Necessary? George George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Miller, James. “Is Bad Politics of Vol9, No.9. Dec/Jan. 2000. Literature”. Linguafeatures. Rai, Alok. Orwell and the Politics of Despair: A Critical Study of the Writings of George CUP Archive,1990. Orwell. Rodden, John (Ed.) Cambridge University The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. Press, 2007. ---. Transaction Publishers, 2001. George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation. Scrivener, Michael and Louis Finkelman. Politics of Obscurity: The Plain Style and Its “The . Detractors”. Virginia Woolf Briggs, Julia. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Reading Virginia Woolf. , Jane. Cambridge University Press, 2006. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf. DiBattista, Princeton Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography. University Press, 2009. Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman. Cambridge University Press, Virginia Woolf in Context. 2012.
SEMESTER-III Course-IX LITERATURE AND MODERNITY Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Written Examination: 75 Marks Internal Assessment: 25 Marks Pass Marks: 35% INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER UNIT-I shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 12+11=23 marks. UNIT-II shall have two questions with internal alternative from the prescribed texts. These questions shall carry 11+11=22 marks. UNIT-III shall cover the entire syllabus and shall be of 30 marks. This question shall comprise ten short-answer questions of about 100-120 words each - two on each prescribed text and the remaining two on history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. Each question shall carry 3 marks. UNIT-I George Orwell - “Politics and the English Language” Virginia Woolf - “Modern Fiction” UNIT-II Walter Benjamin - “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter J. Ong - “The Orality of Language” (From Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong) UNIT-III UNIT-III shall include Units I & II and the history/movement(s)/genre(s)/concepts pertaining to the course. It shall comprise short-answer questions. RECOMMENDED READING George Orwell Miller, James. “Is Bad Writing Necessary? George George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature”. Linguafeatures. Vol9, No.9. Dec/Jan. 2000. Rai, Alok. Orwell and the Politics of Despair: A Critical Study of the Writings of George Orwell. CUP Archive,1990. Rodden, John (Ed.) The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ---. George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation. Transaction Publishers, 2001. Scrivener, Michael and Louis Finkelman. “The Politics of Obscurity: The Plain Style and Its Detractors”. . Virginia Woolf Briggs, Julia. Reading Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. , Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge University Press, 2006. DiBattista, Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography. Princeton University Press, 2009. Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman. Virginia Woolf in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2012.