B.A. (IV Semester)
ENGLISH
(Indian Literature in Translation)

SYLLABUS

Unit I

1. Introducing Translation: A Brief History and Significance of Translation in a Multilinguistic and Multicultural Society like India.
2. Literal translation Versus Free translation

Unit II

Using Tools of Technology for Translation: Computer / Mobile Translation, Software of Translating Different Kinds of Texts with Differing Levels of Complexity and for Transliteration.

Unit III - Fiction

Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, tr. Surendranath Tagore
OR
Amrita Pritam, Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories, tr. Khushwant Singh (New Delhi: Tara Press, 2009) :

Unit IV - Poetry

Jayshankar Prasad, Aansu (The Garden of Loneliness), tr. Charles S.J. White (Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas, 2006)
OR
Kabir: The English Writtings of Rabindra nath Tagore (1994, Vol. 1 Ed. Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi, Verses 1, 2, 8, 12, 53, 69)

Unit V - Short Fiction

1. Bhisham Sahni - Amritsar Aa Gaya
2. Mahasweta Devi - The Hunt

Unit VI - Drama

1. Mohan Rakesh - Adhe Adhure (Halfway House)
2. Vijay Tendulkar - Kanyadan

Unit VII: Translation Practice

1. One Passage for Translation (Hindi to English)
2. One Stanza for Translation (Hindi to English)

Unit VIII: Translation Practice

1. One Passage for Translation (English to Hindi)
2. One Stanza for Translation (English to Hindi)

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