Calicut University BA/B.Sc/B.Com Common Course English First Semester- LITMOSPHERE: THE WORLD OF LITERATURE prescribed texts

MODULE 1: Literature- Initiation 

1.To Posterity (poem)- Louis MacNeice

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2.The Rocking Horse Winner (Short Story) -D H Lawrence 

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3.”Memoirs of A Mad Man (Prose excerpts from Autobiography)-Gustave

MODULE 2: Creative Thinking and Writing 

1. The Thought Fox (poem)-Ted Hughes 

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2. Poetry (poem)-Marianne Moore 

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3. Excerpt from An Autobiography(Prose)-Agatha Christie 

4. Half a Day (Short story)-Naguib Mahfouz 

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MODULE 3: Critical Thinking 

1. To a Reason (Poem)- Arthur Rimbaud 

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2. The Adventures of the Retired Colourman-Short Story-Conan Doyle

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3. Trifles (One-Act Play)-Susan Glaspe

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MODULE 4: Perspectives 

1.Body Without the “d” (Poem)-Justice Ameer 

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2. Sleeping Fool (Poem)-Suniti Namjoshi 

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3.The Cockroach (Short Story)-Luis Fernando Verissimo; translated by Anna Vilner

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4.About Dalit Literature” (Prose)-Sharankumar Limbale 

5. Purl (Short Film)-Kristen Lester