Jindal School of Languages and Literature

 

 

 

1. The Wife of Bath’s Tale; Geoffrey Chaucer

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream; William Shakespeare 

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

3. Paradise Lost; Milton

 [ Print copy available in Library for Check-out ]  

 

4. “A Modest Proposal”; Jonathan Swift

 

5. “On the Origin of Species” (1859)

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

6. Oliver Twist; Charles Dickens (abridged version)

8. Norton anthology of World Masterpieces: Expanded Edition in One Volume; Maynard Mack

 

9. The Great Tradition; FR Leavis 

 

10. Against Interpretation; Susan Sontag 

 

For other reading material and additional information on the course please contact to libraryacquisitions@jgu.edu.in

 

 

 

1. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, “They Say/I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. W.W. Norton and Company, 2017. ISBN 9780393617436.

 

 

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1. Homer, The Iliad, trans. Peter Green (University of California Press 2015)

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

2. Virgil, Aeneid, trans. Frederick Ahl (Oxford University Press 2007)

 

3. Aristotle, Poetics, trans. Anthony Kenny (Oxford University Press 2013)

 

4. Sophocles, Oedipus the King, trans. David Kovacs (Oxford University Press 2020)

 

5. Sophocles, The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, trans. Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman (The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009)

 

6. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. David R. Slavitt (Harvard University Press 2008)

8. William Allan, Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2014)

 

9. Richard Rutherford, Classical Literature: A Concise History (Blackwell 2005)

 

10. P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox, eds., The Cambridge History of Classical Literature I: Greek Literature (Cambridge University Press 1985)

 

11. Ian C. Storey and Arlene Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell 2005)

 

12. E.J. Kenney, ed., The Cambridge History of Classical Literature II: Latin Literature (Cambridge University Press 1982)

 

13. Linda Woodhead, Christianity: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press 2014)

 

14. Kevin Madigan, Medieval Christianity: A New History (Yale University Press 2015)

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

15. Rebecca Lemon et al., eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Blackwell 2009)

 

16. David J. Rothenberg, The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Oxford University Press 2011)

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

 

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1. McGregor, W. 2015 (2009). Linguistics: An Introduction. Bloomsbury / Continuum.

 

2. Velupillai, V. 2012. An Introduction to Linguistic Typology. John Benjamins.

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

3. Matthews, P. 2003. Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. 

 

4. Fromkin, V., et al. 2018. (5th ed.) An Introduction to Language. Cengage Learning. 

 

 

For other reading material and additional information on the course please contact to libraryacquisitions@jgu.edu.in

 

 

 

1. William Morris, News from Nowhere and Other Writings, ed. Clive Wilmer ( Penguin Classics )  ISBN 0-140-43330-9

 

2. Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy, Princeton Univ. Press, 2018, ISBN 9780691154169.

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

 

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1. Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Sign of Four,” in The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Doubleday 1970)

 E-book available on Ebscohost platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

2. Agatha Christie, They Came to Baghdad

 

3. Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia, e-book (Harper Collins)

 

4. Enid Blyton, Five on a Treasure Island, e-book (Hodder & Stoughton)

 

5. Enid Blyton, The Secret Mountain (Award Publications 2009)

 

6. R.A. York, Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion (Palgrave Macmillan 2007)

 

 

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1. Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace” (1884) (short story).

 

2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) (short story)

 

3. Rabindranath Tagore, “Shasti” (1893) (short story)

 

4. O. Henry, “The Cop and the Anthem” (1904) and “The Last Leaf” (1905) (short story)

 

5. Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948) (short story)

 

6. Mahasweta Devi, “Giribala” (1982) (short story)

 

7. Octavia Buter, “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” (1987)  (short story)

 E-book available on Jstor platform. To access remotely please follow the Off-Campus Access Steps.

 

8. Alice Munro, “Fiction” (2009) (short story)

 

9. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Thing Around Your Neck” (2009) (short story)

 

10. Ken Liu, “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) (short story)

 

11. Zadie Smith, “The Lazy River” (2017) (short story)

 

 

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1. Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa.

 

2. A Promised Land by Khadija Mastur, translated from the Urdu by Daisy Rockwell 

 

3. Sunlight on a Boken Column by Atia Hossain 

 

4. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani 

 

5. A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, Daisy Rockwell (Tr.)

 

6. Azadi Ki Chhaon Mein by Begum Anis Kidwai 

 

7. “Aj Akkhan Waris Shah Nu” by Amrita Pritam 

 

8. The Other Side of Silence: Voices From the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

 

9. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided by Aanchal Malhotra

 

10. The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians by Anam Zakaria.

 

11. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan 

 

12. Partition Voices by Kavita Puri

 

13. The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

 

14. Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) DVD

 

 

For other reading material and additional information on the course please contact to libraryacquisitions@jgu.edu.in