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)