IGNOU MEG 7 Syllabus : Indian English Literature

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Block 1 - Non-Fictional Prose

  • Unit 1 – Non-Fictional Prose: A Survey
  • Unit 2 – Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Unit 3 – Gandhi
  • Unit 4 – Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Unit 5 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri
  • Unit 5 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri
  • Unit 6 – Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh

Block 2 - Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable

  • Unit 1 – A Short History of the Indian English Novel
  • Unit 2 – Life and Work of Mulk Raj Anand
  • Unit 3 – Untouchable: Title, Theme, Plot and Characterisation
  • Unit 4 – The Picture of a Fragmented Nation in Anand’s Untouchable
  • Unit 5 – The Gandhian Influence
  • Unit 6 – Style

Block 3 - Raja Rao: Kanthapura

  • Unit 1 – Raja Rao: Career and Works
  • Unit 2 – Kanthapura: Background
  • Unit 3 – Kanthapura: Themes
  • Unit 4 – Kanthapura: Structure and Technique
  • Unit 5 – Kanthapura: Characters

Block 4 - Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

  • Unit 1 – Anita Desai: Life, Works and the Language Issue
  • Unit 2 – Clear Light of Day: Themes, Techniques, Time
  • Unit 3 – Political Dimension, Major Characters
  • Unit 4 – Music, Minor Characters
  • Unit 5 – Anita Desai’s Contribution to Indian English Fiction

Block 5 - Midnight’s Children

  • Unit 1 – Background
  • Unit 2 – Midnight’s Children: The De-Doxified English
  • Unit 3 – Themes in Midnight’s Children
  • Unit 4 – Techniques in Midnight Children
  • Unit 5 – Characterization in Midnight’s Children
  • Unit 6 – Midnight’s Children as a Literary Event

Block 6 - The Short Story

  • Unit 1 – About the Short Story
  • Unit 2 – R.K.Narayan
  • Unit 3 – Arun Joshi and Manoj Das
  • Unit 4 – Subhadra Sen Gupta and Raji Narasimhan
  • Unit 5 – Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan
  • Unit 6 – Ruskin Bond

Block 7 - Poetry

  • Unit 1 – Background to Indian English Poetry
  • Unit 2 – Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt
  • Unit 3 – Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu
  • Unit 4 – Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das
  • Unit 5 – A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, and Jayanta Mahapatra
  • Unit 6 – R.Parthasarathy and Keki N. Daruwalla

Block 8 - Mahesh Dattani: Tara

  • Unit 1 – An Overview of Indian English Drama
  • Unit 2 – A Preview of Dattani’s Dramatic World
  • Unit 3 – Reading Tara
  • Unit 4 – Appreciating Tara