Department of Media Studies
Christ College, Bangalore
III PSEng, FEP, PSEng V Semester Course Plan 2006
Optional English
Names of the Teachers : Anil Pinto
Semester : V
Total No of hours : 24
Subject : Optional English
Paper : European and Non-European Writing: An Introduction and The Literatures of India: An Introduction
1. Modernism; postmodernism; What Postmodernism Means
Reference: The Scream Edward Munch (1893), Guernica Picasso (1937), Modern Times Chaplin, Metropolis Fritz Lang (1927), Waste Land, A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock TS Eliot; The Fontana Post-modern Reader, Walter Truett Anderson; Postmodernism for Beginners Jim Powell; Art for Beginners Dani Cavallaro
No of Hours: 13
Dates: June and July
2. Feminism
Reference: Fire: Meera Nair; Dweepa: Girish Kasaravalli; Father, Son and Holy War: Anand Patwardhan
No of Hours: five
Dates: August
3. Marxist Criticism
Reference: Marxist Literary Criticism: Terry Eagleton
No of Hours: Three
Dates: September: Week I, II
4. Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present
No of Hours: Two
Dates: September Week III
5. The Politics of Failure
No of Hours: one
