WBCS Comparative Literature
Optional Paper
Index
| S/L | Chapters | Chapter Details |
| Paper 1 | ||
| 1 | Theories of Literature : Dates terms and Concepts. | |
| 2 | Literature of the Ancient World; (i) Indian, (ii) Western | |
| 3 | Bangla Sahitya : 1 (Baishnab Padabali theke Bankimchandra) | |
| 4 | Bangla Sahitya : 2 (Rabindranath o Uttorkaal) | |
| 5 | Bengali Literature in Translation | |
| 6 | Indian Literature other than Bengali in Translation | |
| Paper 2 | ||
| Western Literature | ||
| 1 | (a) 800 – 1400 A.D. (including Song of Ronald, Tristan and representative writings of Troubadour Minnesang, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Chaucer). | |
| 2 | (b) 1400 – 1616 A.D. (including representative writings of Villon, Ronsard, Spencer, Machiavelli, Rableis, Montaigne and Shakespeare). | |
| 3 | (c) 1616 – 1749 A.D. (including representative writings of Moliere, Racine, Swift, Voltaire and Defoe). | |
| 4 | (d) 1749 – 1832 A.D. (including representative writings of Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Scott, Rene, Lamartine, Vigny, Hugo and Musset). | |
| 5 | (e) 1832 – 1910 A.D. (including representative writings of Whitman, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Laforgue, lbsen, Balzac, Tolstoy, Maupassant and Chekhov). | |
| 6 | (f) 1910 to the Present times (including representative writings of Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Eluard, Neruda, Hervert, Kafka, Marquez and lonesco). | |
The standard of Comparative Literature Optional subjects will be approximately that of an Honours Degree Examination as prescribed by the recognized Indian Universities
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