Level: BA English Major
Paper: VI Year: Fourth
Course Title: Drama and Novel
Course Code: ENGL 426
Course Description
This course offers critical insights into different themes, ideas, issues and concepts in drama and novel. Students make an in-depth study of selected texts. Not only do the students explore and reflect upon the texts and the topics, they also analyze how the themes and issues intersect in and among the different texts. This way, students come to realize the commonalities in the approach to drama and novel as well as appreciate the distinctive features associated with the two genres.
Unit I: Coming of Age 30 hrs.
Unit II: Myth and Philosophy 30 hrs.
4. Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
5. Hayavadana (Girish Kanard)
6. Fire in the Monastery (Abhi Subedi)
7. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Unit III: Ambition and Power 30 hrs.
8. Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
9. One for the Road (Harold Pinter)
10. The Noise of Time (Julian Barnes)
Unit IV: Fate and Free Will 30 hrs.
11. Shakuntala (Kalidasa)
12. Life is a Dream (Pedro Caldron de la Barca)
13. Anthem (Ayn Rand)
Unit V: Class, Race and Identity 30 hrs.
14. The School for Scandal (Richard Sheridan)
15. A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry Lorraine)
16. Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
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1. MLA Handbook 8th Edition: DOWNLOAD
2. MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature: DOWNLOAD
3. They Say, I Say: DOWNLOAD
