ugc net Comparative Literature syllabus

Subject : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Code No.: (72)

Unit - I
Conceptual Framework of Comparative Literature

  • 1. The Emergence of Comparative Literature

  • 2. Difference/ Alterity and the Ethics of Plurality

  • 3. Limitations of the Idea of National Literature

  • 4. Theories of Interpretation

Unit - II
Literary Historiography

  • 1. Sources of Literary History: Oral, Manuscriptal, Scriptal and Virtual

  • 2. Approaches to Literary History: Integrationist and other models

  • 3. Problems of Periodization

Unit - III
History of Comparative Literature

  • 1. History of Comparative Literature : French, German, Russian and Tel Aviv Schools

  • 2. Comparative Literature in India: From Tagore to the Present

  • 3. World Literature: From Goethe to the Present

  • 4. “The State of the Discipline” Reports


Unit - IV
Translation in Comparative Context

  • 1. History and Politics of Translation

  • 2. Translation as Reception

  • 3. Problems and Promises of Translation in Multilingual Situations

  • 4. Untranslatability and Silence

Unit - V
Poetics and Literary Theory

  • 1. Indian Poetics: Sanskrit and Tamil

  • 2. Perso-Arabic Traditions

  • 3. Western Classical Literary Theory

Unit - VI
Indian Literature –I

  • 1. Classical – Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and other literary traditions

  • 2. Medieval –Formations of Language-Literature (bhasha) Traditions in India;Bhakti, Santand Sufi Literature

  • 3. Contact with West Asian, South-east Asian and South Asian literary traditions

Unit - VII
Indian Literature – II

  • 1. Modernity as a concept

  • 2. Colonial Modernity: Transactions with Western Forms and Literary Traditions

  • 3. Modernity as Discourse: Multiple Modernisms in the Context of Various Language-Literatures

  • 4. Discontents of Modernity: Literatures of Women, Adivasis, Dalits, Minorities and others

Unit - VIII
Literary Modes, Genres and Themes

  • 1. The “literary” as a convention

  • 2. Mode and Performativity: Tragedy, Epic and Novel

  • 3. Genres: Theories; Taxonomy : Generic Markers and Transformations

  • 4. Themes: Motifs, Myth, Archetypes

Unit - IX
Interdisciplinarity and Intermediality

  • 1. Literature and Other Arts: Texts Across Mediums

  • 2. Literary Studies and Other Disciplines

Unit - X
Literary Dialogues

  • 1. Intertextuality, Parody and Pastiche

  • 2. Re-writing in Diachronic and Synchronic Frames

  • 3. Adaptation, Appropriation and Assimilation