MEG7 Indian English Literature (IGNOU Help book for MEG-7 in English Medium)

MEG-7 Indian English Literature

CONTENTS COVERED

Block- 1 Non-Fictional Prose

Unit-1 Non-Fictional prose: A Survey

Unit-2 Swmi Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Ananda Coomaraswamy

Unit-3 Gandhi

Unit-4 Jawaharlal Nehru

Unit-5 Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Unit-6 Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh

Block- 2 Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable

Unit-1 A Short History of the Indian English Novel

Unit-2 Life and Work of Mulk Raj Anand

Unit-3 Untouchable: Title, Theme, Plot and Characterisation

Unit-4 The Picture of a Fragmented Nation

Unit-5 The Gandhian Influence

Unit-6 Style

Block- 3 Raja Rao : Kanthapura

Unit-1 Raja Rao: Career and Works

Unit-2 Kanthapura: Background

Unit-3 Kanthapura: Themes

Unit-4 Kanthapura: Structure and Technique

Unit-5 Kanthapura: Characters

Block- 4 Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

Unit-1 Anita Desai: Life, Works and the Language Issue

Unit-2 Clear Light of Day: Themes, Techniques, Time

Unit-3 Political Dimension, Major Characters

Unit-4 Music, Minor Characters

Unit-5 Anita Desai’s Contribution to Indian English Fiction

 Block- 5 Midnight’s Children

Unit-1 Background

Unit-2 The De-doxified English

Unit-3 Themes

Unit-4 Technique

Unit-5 Characterization

Unit-6 As a Literary Event

Block- 6 The Short Story

Unit-1 About the Short Story

Unit-2 R.K. Narayan

Unit-3 Arun Joshi and Manoj Das

Unit-4 Subhadra Sen Gupta and Raji Narasimhan

Unit-5 Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan

Unit-6 Ruskin Bond

Block- 7 Poetry

Unit-1 Background to Indian English Poetry

Unit-2 Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt

Unit-3 Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu

Unit-4 Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das

Unit-5 A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, and Jayanta Mahapatra

Unit-6 R. Parthasarathy and Keki N. Daruwalla

Block- 8 Mahesh Dattani: Tara

Unit-1 An Overview of Indian English Drama

Unit-2 A Preview of Dattani’s Dramatic World

Unit-3 Reading Tara

Unit-4 Appreciating Tara

QUESTION PAPERS

1. Solution Paper - June 2006

2. Solution Paper - Dec 2006

3. Solution Paper - June 2007

4. Solution Paper - Dec 2007

5. Solution Paper - June 2008

6. Solution Paper - Dec 2008

7. Solution Paper - June 2009

8. Solution Paper - Dec 2009

9. Question Paper - June 2010

10. Question Paper - Dec 2010

11. Question Paper - June 2011

12. Question Paper - Dec 2011

13. Question Paper - June 2012

14. Question Paper - Dec 2012

15. Question Paper - June 2013

16. Question Paper - Dec 2013

17. Question Paper - June 2014

18. Question Paper - Dec 2014

19. Question Paper - June 2015