Dramatic Mode II Lesson Plan January-May 2014

LESSON PLAN

Semester: PG I, Second Semester, 2014

Course: CL/PG/2.2 Dramatic Mode II

Teachers: Kunal Chattopadhyay, Samantak Das, Ranita Chakraborty Dasgupta

Course Coordinator:  Kunal Chattopadhyay

Texts

Theory: Aristotle, Poetics (selections), Lessing, Hamburg Dramaturgy (selections), Brecht, Messingkauf Dialogues (selections)

Tragedy: Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Shakespeare, King Lear; Schiller, Don Carlos

Comedy: Aristophanes, The Frogs; Plautus, Pseudolus; Moliere, The Would Be Gentleman

Teaching plan

1. Kunal Chattopadhyay:                    Poetics – 16 lectures

                                                            Oedipus the King – 8 lectures

                                                            The Frogs – 8 lectures

2. Samantak Das:                                Introduction to Theory – 4 lectures

                                                            Hamburg Dramaturgy – 6 lectures

                                                            Messingkauf Dialogues – 6 lectures

                                                            King Lear – 8 lectures

                                                            Don Carlos – 8 lectures

3. Ranita Chakraborty Dasgupta:       Pseudolus – 8 lectures

                                                            The Would Be Gentleman – 8 lectures

3 internals

4 March 2014  -- Kunal Chattopadhyay

24--28 March 2014 – Ranita Chakraborty Dasgupta

10--16 April 2014 – Samantak Das

Precise dates will be communicated by the teacher concerned within the next seven days

Supplementary: 25 April

                                                            

LESSON PLAN

Semester: PG II, Second Semester, 2014

Course: CL/PG/4.4 Event

Teachers: Kunal Chattopadhyay, Debashree Dattaray

Course Coordinator:  Kunal Chattopadhyay

State, Secularism, Toleration, Democracy

India: The Magadhan State

Texts: Asokan Edicts, Mudrarakshasha

The Sultanate and the Mughal State:

Texts: The Mahzar (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/ikram/part2_12.html#n10 ), selections from the Ain i Akbari (Blochmann 162-213 https://archive.org/stream/ainiakbari00jarrgoog#page/n223/mode/2up )

Tughlaq by Girish Karnad

The Colonial and Independent Indian states

Minute of Dissent: Amrit Kaur, Hansa Mehta, Minoo Masani; Secularism and Toleration – Partha Chatterjee; Towards Non Sexist Secular Family Laws in India – Vibhuti Patel;

Europe:

Ancient Greece

Texts: Aristotle – Athenaion Politeia, Aristophanes – Lysistrata

The English Revolution

Texts: Milton – Areopagitica

Gerrard Winstanley – The Law of Freedom

The French Revolution and 19^th century radical democracy:

Texts: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; selection from Robert Owen; The Civil War in France (Marx/IWMA)

Secularism and toleration and the divided legacy of the French Revolution: The debate over the veil

3 internals. Not more than one of which will be a home assignment

3-7 March 2014  --

24--28 March 2014 –

10--16 April 2014 –

Precise date will be communicated at least 7 days in advance

                                                            

CL/UG/6.2B Lesson Plan January-May 2014

LESSON PLAN

Semester: UGIII, Second Semester, 2014

Course: CL/UG/6.2B

Teachers: Kunal Chattopadhyay, Koel Mitra

Course Coordinator:  Kunal Chattopadhyay

Novels:

Rabindranath Thakur – Shesher Kabita (three translations in existence, students may read any one – Krishna Kripalani-- Farewell my Friend, Anandita Mukhopadhyay-- The Last Poem, or Radha Chakravarty-- Farewell Song – KC -- January

Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay – Pather Panchali – tr. T. W. Clark and Tarapada Mukherji – The Song of the Road --  KC -- February

Play – Badal Sarkar – Evam Indrajit – KC -- March

 Short stories: One short story may be changed – KC – April-early May

Rabindranath Thakur – The Ghat’s Story --Sukanta Chaudhuri Ed—Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore – p 31ff

House No. 1 – ibid – p 231ff

The Wife’s letter – ibid – p 205ff

Elder Sister – William Radice – Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath – p. 172 ff

Exercise-book – ibid – p 140ff

1880 Parashuram – The Meadows of Bhushandi

1898 Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay – Boatman Tarini

1908 Shibram Chakraborty – Harshavardhan doesn’t Go to War – tr. Arunava Sinha, /The Birth of a God

1908 Manik Bandyopadhyay – The Outback Passengers and The Artiste

1909 Ashapurna Devi -- Izzat

1918 Narayan Gangopadhyay – Bait

1926 Mahasweta Devi – Talaq, and Draupadi

Mani Mukhopadhyay – Democracy and Gopal Kahar

Essays  -- KM – 7 lectures                                                      

 1) Rabindranath: 'Literature' ('Sahitya'; pub: 1924), translated by Swapan Chakravarti

(Oxford, English writings of Rabindranath Tagore)

 2) Post Rabindranath: 'Modern Bengali Poetry', Buddhadev Bose, An Acre of       

 Green Grass, Papyrus, Kolkata, 1948.

3) 'On Poetry', Jibanananda Das, An Anthology of Bengali Writing, ed. Buddhadev Bose, Macmillan, Bombay, 1971.

Poetry   -- KM – 9 lectures                                                           
 

 Rabindranath (5):     1. The Golden Boat (Sonar Tori)

                                 2. Swaying (Jhulan)

                                 3. The Lord of Life (Jibandebata)

                                 4. In the Vast Field of Creation (Birat Srishtir Kshetre)

                                 5. The First Day’s Sun (Pratham Diner Surja)

Post Rabindranath (15):

Jibanananda Das:        1) A Day Eight Years Ago

                         2) A Certain Sense

                         3) Night

Sudhindranath Datta: 4) Jajati

Amiya Chakravarty:   5) Petition to the Boss

Buddhadev Bose:   6) Sonnets for 3 a.m.

                    7) To Memory

Bishnu Dey:           8) Fear No more the Darkness

Subhas Mukhopadhyay:      9) However Far I Go

                                 10) Prelude to Election

Sukanta Bhattacharya:   11) O Great life

Shakti Chattopadhyay:  12) Like the Law of Life

                           13) Straining My Ears for Love

Binoy Majumder: 14) 8th March 1960 (from Phire Eso Chaka)

Shankho Ghose:      15) The Storm of Desire (আকাঙ্ক্ষার ঝড়) 

For PGII 2014 -- Course 4.4

Lesson Plan for Event (PG II 4.4 ) My section 2014

Ancient Greece

Texts: Aristotle – Athenaion Politeia, Aristophanes – Lysistrata

The English Revolution

Texts: Milton – Areopagitica  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/

Gerrard Winstanley – The Law of Freedom http://www.bilderberg.org/land/lawofree.htm

The French Revolution and 19^th century radical democracy:

Texts: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen ( http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp ); selection from Robert Owen ( http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/history-art/robert-owen-and-new-lanark/content-section-6.5) the Third Essay -- see the pdf text here; The Civil War in France (Marx/IWMA) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm

Secularism and toleration and the divided legacy of the French Revolution: The debate over the veil