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The document outlines the curriculum for the M.A. English program for the 2025-26 academic session, specifically for Semester IV focusing on Culture and Literature. It includes major cultural terms, a selection of essays from notable authors, a list of significant fictional works, and films relevant to the study of culture. The content emphasizes various cultural theories and narratives through diverse literary and cinematic lenses.

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Culture and Literature

The document outlines the curriculum for the M.A. English program for the 2025-26 academic session, specifically for Semester IV focusing on Culture and Literature. It includes major cultural terms, a selection of essays from notable authors, a list of significant fictional works, and films relevant to the study of culture. The content emphasizes various cultural theories and narratives through diverse literary and cinematic lenses.

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M. A.

English (final)

Session 2025-26

Semester – IV

CULTURE AND LITERATURE

Unit I – Major terms


– Popular culture, Mass Culture, Media Culture, High and Low culture, Cultural Materialism,
Cultural Imperialism, Structure of feelings, Myth and Semiotics, Ideology, Hegemony,
Hybridity, Subaltern, Diaspora, Othering, Power-Knowledge system, Base and
Superstructure, Encoding- Decoding Model

Unit II - Essays

Raymond William - Culture is Ordinary

Stuart Hall - Cultural Identity and Diaspora

T. S. Eliot - The ‘Three' sense of Culture

Roland Barthes - Myth Today ( From Mythologies)

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar - Sanskriti ke Char Adhay

S. Abid Hussain - The National Culture of India

Unit III - Fiction

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things / The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow lines

Shashi Tharoor - The Great Indian Novel

Salman Rushdie - Shame


Short Stories

R. K. Narayan - An Astrologer's Day

Maheshweta Devi - Draupadi

Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies

Chinua Achebe - Dead Men's Path

Ama Ata Aidoo - The Girl who can

Unit IV Film

Pather Panchali (1955)

Article 15 (2019)

Bandit Queen (1994)

Swadesh (2004)

Julie (1975)

Sujata (1959)

Baato Baato Mein (1979)

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