UGC NET (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)

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Unit - I Conceptual Framework of Comparative Literature:-

The Emergence of Comparative Literature, Difference/ Alterity and the Ethics of Plurality, Limitations of the Idea of National Literature, Theories of Interpretation

Unit - II Literary Historiography:-

Sources of Literary History: Oral, Manuscriptal, Scriptal and Virtual, Approaches to Literary History: Integrationist and other models, Problems of Periodization

Unit - IV Translation in Comparative Context:-

History and Politics of Translation, Translation as Reception, Problems and Promises of Translation in Multilingual Situations, Untranslatability and Silence

Unit - V Poetics and Literary Theory:-

Indian Poetics: Sanskrit and Tamil, Perso-Arabic Traditions, Western Classical Literary Theory

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Unit - III History of Comparative Literature:-

History of Comparative Literature : French, German, Russian and Tel Aviv Schools, Comparative Literature in India: From Tagore to the Present, World Literature: From Goethe to the Present, “The State of the Discipline” Reports

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Unit - I Conceptual Framework of Comparative Literature:-

The Emergence of Comparative Literature, Difference/ Alterity and the Ethics of Plurality, Limitations of the Idea of National Literature, Theories of Interpretation

Unit - II Literary Historiography:-

Sources of Literary History: Oral, Manuscriptal, Scriptal and Virtual, Approaches to Literary History: Integrationist and other models, Problems of Periodization

Unit - IV Translation in Comparative Context:-

History and Politics of Translation, Translation as Reception, Problems and Promises of Translation in Multilingual Situations, Untranslatability and Silence

Unit - V Poetics and Literary Theory:-

Indian Poetics: Sanskrit and Tamil, Perso-Arabic Traditions, Western Classical Literary Theory

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Unit - VI Indian Literature –I:-

Classical – Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and other literary traditions, Medieval –Formations of Language-Literature (bhasha) Traditions in India;Bhakti, Santand Sufi Literature, Contact with West Asian, South-east Asian and South Asian literary traditions

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Unit - VII Indian Literature – II:-

Modernity as a concept, Colonial Modernity: Transactions with Western Forms and Literary Traditions, Modernity as Discourse: Multiple Modernisms in the Context of Various Language-Literatures, Discontents of Modernity: Literatures of Women, Adivasis, Dalits, Minorities and others

Unit - VIII Literary Modes, Genres and Themes:-

The “literary” as a convention, Mode and Performativity: Tragedy, Epic and Novel, Genres: Theories; Taxonomy : Generic Markers and Transformations, Themes: Motifs, Myth, Archetypes

Unit - IX Interdisciplinarity and Intermediality:-

Literature and Other Arts: Texts Across Mediums, Literary Studies and Other Disciplines

Unit - X Literary Dialogues:-

Intertextuality, Parody and Pastiche, Re-writing in Diachronic and Synchronic Frames, Adaptation, Appropriation and Assimilation