Subsections
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- Major themes and trends in World Literature
- Imaginative works drawn from the first and second half of twentieth century: Some
representative literary pieces include W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen”
(1940), Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony (1914),” Jorge L. Borges’ “The Library of
Babel” (1941), Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), George Orwell
1984 (1949), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Three Women's Texts and a Critique of
Imperialism” (1985), Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore (2005), Mohsin Hamid’s
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008).
- Critical Perspectives ranging from psychological, historical, ecological, modernist,
postmodernist, feminist, diaspora, minority studies and science fiction studies
- B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths et.al, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge(2002).
- J. Barth, The Literature of Exhaustion and the Literature of Replenishment, Lord John Press (1982).
- P. Barry,Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Manchester University Press (1995).
- D. Daiches, A Study of Literature: For Readers and Critics, W. W. Norton & Company (1964).
- C. Glotfelty & H. Fromm, Ecocriticism Reader, University Of Georgia Press, (1996).
- G. Wilfred et al., A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Oxford University Press (1992).
- A. Fowler, Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes,Harvard University Press (1982).
- D. Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre, Yale University Press (1979).
- M. Walters, Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press (2005).
- V. Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, Harcourt Brace & Co. (1989).
