1.

Introduction to Modern Drama:

R. Williams, Drama from Ibsen to Brecht ( 'Conclusion')
H. Ibsen, Ghosts
2. G. B. Shaw, 'False Ideals Exposed', 'New Theology', St. Joan
3. T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
4. Introduction to Modern Poetry:
E. Wilson: 'Axel and Rimbaud'; F. R. Leavis, 'Poetry and the Modern World'
S. Heaney, 'Joy or Night' (an essay on Yeats and Larkin)
5. W. B. Yeats, 'The Magi', 'Easter 1916', 'Sailing to Byzantium', 'Ego Dominus Tuus',
'Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop', 'Lapis Lazuli', 'The Second Coming', 'The Man and the
Echo'
6. T. S. Eliot, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'The Metaphysical Poets', 'Ulysses, Order
and Myth';
'La Figlia' 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', 'Marina', 'Journey of the Magi'
The Waste Land
7. W. H. Auden, 'Spain', 'The Unknown Citizen', 'The Shield of Achilles', 'Musee des Beaux
Arts', 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats', 'Lullaby'
8. Introduction to Modern Novel – Historical and Literary Background:
G. Lukacs, "The Ideology of Modernism"
R. Stevenson, 'Background and Context' (from Modernist Fiction)
9. Introduction to Modern Novel – Psychological Preoccupations
Freud : 'Creative writers and day-dreaming'; The Interpretation of Dreams (excerpt)
Jung: 'Psychology and literature'; L. Trilling, "Freud: Within and Beyond Culture"
10. J. Conrad, 'Preface' to the Nigger of the Narcissus; Heart of Darkness
11. D. H. Lawrence, 'The Spirit of Place'; 'The Death of Pan'; St Mawr
12. J. Joyce, 'The Dead', A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
13. J. Joyce, Ulysses (chapter: ‘Nausicaa’); M. Nussbaum, 'The Transfiguration of Everyday
Life: Joyce'
14. V. Woolf: 'Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown'; Mrs. Dalloway