New IGNOU MEG-15 Help Book Comparative Literature: Theory and practice in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Introduction
What is Comparative Literature
The Practice of Comparative Literature
Theory of Comparative Literature
Modernism: The West and the East

Block 2 – Comparative Indian Literature-1
Literature and Culture
Oral and Written Literature
Indian Literature: Historiography and Periodization
Readings and Interpretation

Block 3 – Comparative Indian Literature-2
Literature in Indian Languages and the Idea of Modernity
The Centre and Periphery
Choma’s Drum
Godaan

Block 4 – Comparative World Literature-1
Ways of Looking at Reality
Life Writings
Words to Win: Rashsundari Debi’s Amar Jiban
Sally Morgan My Place

Block 5 – Comparative World Literature-2
Magical Realism
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; Nikolai Gogol, The Nose
Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Block 6 – Literature and Culture: Exchanges and Negotiations-1
Telling and Retelling
Retellings of Mahabharata
Dharamvir Bharati’s verse Play Andha Yug

Block 7 – Literature and Culture: Exchanges and Negotiations-2
Shifting Perspectives
Pratibha Ray’s Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions