UGC NET Syllabus for Comparative Literature 2020

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UGC NET — Syllabus Comparative Literature

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Subject : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Code No.: (72)

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History of Comparative Literature

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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
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Literary Modes, Genres and Themes
1. The “literary” as a convention
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Interdisciplinarity and Intermediality
1. Literature and Other Arts: Texts Across Mediums

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2. Literary Studies and Other Disciplines

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Literary Dialogues
1. Intertextuality, Parody and Pastiche
2. Re-writing in Diachronic and Synchronic Frames
3. Adaptation, Appropriation and Assimilation

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