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Who is the Indo-Australian writer
who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize?

The protagonist of Aravind Adiga’s Man

Booker Prize winning novel The White
Tiger is
When does Balram acquire the title
‘White Tiger’?

Which Muslim poet does Balram

Halwai quote when he says about the
slaves thus, “They remain slaves
because they can’t see what is
beautiful in this world”?
Which novel according to its author, “attempt[s] to catch the
voice of the men you meet as you travel through India — the
voice of the colossal underclass”?

Which work by Monica Ali follows the life of Nazneen, a

Bangladeshi woman, who gets married to an older man,
Chanu?

The midwife in Brick Lane, who claims to be one hundred

and twenty years old, is ............................ .

What does Chanu call the tattoo lady who lives in the
opposite flat?
Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen and Untold
Story are novels by .................. .

Manju Kapur’s novel that won the

Commonwealth Prize in 1999 is ..............

Who is the New Woman in Difficult

Daughters (1998)?
Who reconstructs Virmati’s history in retrospect?

The Banwari family with the traditional business of selling

sarees, collapses in their fortune with the arrival of jeans and
salwar kameez in Manju Kapur’s ..................... .

Which of Kiran Desai’s work is set in the Indian village of

Shahkot (Punjab) and follows the life of Sampath Chawla who
settles down in a guava orchard as a false clairvoyant in order
to escape the complexities of adult life .............. .

Who is the real-life character upon whom the character of

Sampath Chawla in the novel Hullabaloo in the Guava
Orchard is based?
The Booker Prize winning novel By Kiran
Desai, The Inheritance of Loss, centres
around the characters .............. and
................. .

What is the name of the dog of Sai?

What is the historical backdrop of the novel

The Inheritance of Loss ?
Who is the retired judge in the novel The
Inheritance of Loss ?
The first South Asian to win Pulitzer
Prize in Fiction is .................. .

The first South Asian to win the

Pulitzer Prize in Poetry is
............................ .
Which is the debut short story collection of
Jhumpa Lahiri?

Which novel of Jhumpa Lahiri spans over 30

years of the life of the Ganguli family?

Who names their son after the Russian author

Nikolai Gogol?

Which work by Nikolai Gogol does Ashoke

read in the novel The Namesake ?
Who acknowledged Amit Chaudari’s study of D.
H. Lawrence’s poetry in D. H. Lawrence and
‘Difference’ as ‘truly groundbreaking’?

Jayojit Chatterjee in the novel A New World is a

professor of .......................... .

The women in romanticism according to Meena

Alexander are ................................... .

Nampally Road and Manhattan Music are novels

by ................. .
Meena Alexander’s autobiography is
.................... .

The names of the twins in Arundhati

Roy’s The God of Small Things are
............... .
Introduction: Jacobean English literature during the reign of
Age James I - 1603-1625 came to be
known as the Jacobean literature

- The term derived from

JACOBUS the Latin word for
James
Introduction: Jacobean There was much rejoicing when James I
Age ascended the throne after the
uncertainties of succession that riddled
Queen Elizabeth’s last years

In contrast to the optimism and promise

of the Elizabethan era Jacobean
literature is coloured by darker,
doubting tones
Introduction: Jacobean Elizabethan literature was experimental
Age expansive and sometimes ingenuous in
fairly close touch with medieval
traditions yet energized by the inspiring
spirit of the Renaissance. Jacobean
literature on the other hand is critical,
sombre and somewhat cynical, the court
became the centre of culture
Leading figure: Ben Jonson

- Theory of humours: 4 humours,

blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
and therefore 4 types of humours
were created

- Forms of literature: sonnet gradually

declined and went out of fashion in
the Jacobean period
Introduction: Jacobean Comedy of humours:
● A dramatic genre associated with Ben Jonson
Age
and the term humor is derived from the Latin
word which means liquid
● Originally a medical term, humours were the
fluids which were believed to regular the body
and by extension the human temperament
● This theory can be traced to the ancient times
about 4 distinct bodily fluids: blood, phlegm,
black bile and yellow bile
● An imbalance of these fluids or humours causes
a personality disturbance
● Jonson’s EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR
popularized the comedy of humours
Introduction: Jacobean - Revenge plays popularized by
Age Webster

- King James Bible- huge

translation project- 1604-1611,
standard Bible of the church of
England , led by James I himself
with 47 scholars
 Donne’s poetics: Radical break from
Introduction: Jacobean
petrarchan tradition , “ Donne has
Age
purged English poetry of pedantic
weeds” according to Carew, Donne
replaced SERVILE IMITATION with
FRESH INVENTION

Distorts traditional rhythmic and

stanza patterns
Introduction: Jacobean Duchess of Malfi:
Age
To marry out of class was a social wrong
for the Elizabethans and Jacobeans
 Antonio Delio Daniel De Cardinal
Bologna Bosola
- A courtier - Having an
- Duchess’s who tries to - Former affair with
steward woo Julia servant of Julia
- Husband the
- Just - Friend of Cardinal
returned Antonio
from - Sent by
France Ferdinand
- Secret to spy on
marriage the Duchess
 Ferdinand Julia Castruchio

- Duke of Calabria - Castruchio’s - An old lord

- Given to violent wife and elderly man with
outbursts Cardinal’s young, unfaithful
- Incestuous desire mistress wife- Julia
for his sister

Based on Carlos the

Marquis of Gerace
Introduction: Jacobean Status of women
Age
Duchess: Will you hear me? I’ll never marry
Cardinal: so most widows say, but commonly
that motion lasts no longer than the turning of
an hourglass, the funeral sermon and it end
both together

Ferdinand: now hear me you live in rank

pasture, here in the court there is a kind of
honey dew that’s deadly twill poison your
fame look….. For they whose faces do belie
their hearts are witches ere they arrive at 20
years/ aye and give the devil suck
Introduction: Jacobean Jacobean Prose
Age The Jacobean period was the first that was
really rich in prose literature with writers like
Francis Bacon, John Donne and Lancelot
Andrewes

The monumental achievements in prose

writings of this period include the great King
James Version of the Bible which first appeared
in 1611

Learning and theology were the major concerns

of prose writers
 17th Century Prose Writers
James I Sir Francis Robert Thomas Izaak Sir Thomas
Bacon Burton Hobbes Walton Thomas Fuller
Browne
Introduction:
● Keats wrote LINES ON THE
Jacobean Age
MERMAID TAVERN: Ben Jonson
presided over a literary circle which
met at the Mermaid Tavern, Keats
wrote LINES ON THE MERMAID
TAVERN beginning with ‘Souls of
poets dead and gone.’
● Epitaph of Ben Jonson O Rare Ben
Jonson
Introduction: Middle Group of Comedies
Jacobean Age
VOLPONE OR THE FOX (1605)
● Performed by the King's Men
● Volpone, a rich Venetian without children,
feigns that he is dying; in order to draw gifts
from his would be heirs. Mosca, his parasite
and confederate, persuades each of these in
turn that he is to be the heir, and thus extracts
costly presents from them. One of them,
Corvino, even attempts to sacrifice his wife to
Volpone in hope of the inheritance.
Introduction: ● Finally Volpone overreaches himself. To enjoy the discomfiture
of the vultures who are awaiting his death, he makes over his
Jacobean Age
property by will to Mosca and pretends to be dead. Mosca takes
advantage of the situation to blackmail Volpone, but rather than
be thus defeated Volpone chooses to reveal all to the authorities.
They direct that Volpone shall be cast in irons until he is as
infirm as he pretended to be, Mosca whipped and confined to
the galleys, Corvino made to parade in ass's ears, and his wife
be returned to her family with a trebled dowry. A secondary plot
involves Sir Politic Would-be, an English traveller who has
absurd schemes for improving trade and curing diseases, and his
Lady, a loquacious, hectoring pedant. Sir Politic is chastened
when Peregrine, a wiser English traveller, pretends to have him
arrested for treason. The names of the principal
characters,Volpone (the fox), Mosca (the fly), Voltore (the
vulture), Corbaccio (the crow), Corvino (the raven), indicate
their roles and natures.
Introduction: Jacobean Drama:
Jacobean Age
The enterprise and the excitement that
were infused into every aspect of
Elizabethan life changed dramatically
under the Stuart rule beginning with King
James I

The high hope and the arduour generated

by the accession of a male monarch
gradually tapered out, giving rise to a
sense of disillusionment as the new king
could not live up to the expectations of his
people