COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UGC NET SYLLABUS
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 – 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
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
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
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
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