Nta Ugc Net Comparative Literature
Nta Ugc Net Comparative Literature
Nta Ugc Net Comparative Literature
NET BUREAU
NET SYLLABUS
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
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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
literary traditions
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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
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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
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