IGNOU MEG-07
- Indian English Literature,
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MEG-07 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - Non-Fictional Prose

• Unit 1 - Non-Fictional Prose: A Survey
• Unit 2 - Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Ananda Coomaraswamy
• Unit 3 - Gandhi
• Unit 4 - Jawaharlal Nehru
• Unit 5 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Unit 6 - Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh

Block 2 - Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable

• Unit 1 - A Short History of the Indian English Novel
• Unit 2 - Life and Work of Mulk Raj Anand
• Unit 3 - Untouchable: Title, Theme, Plot and Characterisation
• Unit 4 - The Picture of a Fragmented Nation in Anand's Untouchable
• Unit 5 - The Gandhian Influence
• Unit 6 - Style

Block 3 - Raja Rao: Kanthapura

• Unit 1 - Raja Rao: Career and Works
• Unit 2 - Kanthapura: Background
• Unit 3 - Kanthapura: Themes
• Unit 4 - Kanthapura: Structure and Technique
• Unit 5 - Kanthapura: Characters

Block 4 - Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

• Unit 1 - Anita Desai: Life, Works and the Language Issue
• Unit 2 - Clear Light of Day: Themes, Techniques, Time
• Unit 3 - Political Dimension, Major Characters
• Unit 4 - Music, Minor Characters
• Unit 5 - Anita Desai’s Contribution to Indian English Fiction

Block 5 - Midnight’s Children

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - Midnight's Children: The De-Doxified English
• Unit 3 - Themes in Midnight's Children
• Unit 4 - Techniques in Midnight Children
• Unit 5 - Characterization in Midnight's Children
• Unit 6 - Midnight's Children as a Literary Event

Block 6 - The Short Story

• Unit 1 - About the Short Story
• Unit 2 - R.K.Narayan
• Unit 3 - Arun Joshi and Manoj Das
• Unit 4 - Subhadra Sen Gupta and Raji Narasimhan
• Unit 5 - Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan
• Unit 6 - Ruskin Bond

Block 7 - Poetry

• Unit 1 - Background to Indian English Poetry
• Unit 2 - Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt
• Unit 3 - Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu
• Unit 4 - Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das
• Unit 5 - A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, and Jayanta Mahapatra
• Unit 6 - R.Parthasarathy and Keki N. Daruwalla

Block 8 - Mahesh Dattani: Tara

• Unit 1 - An Overview of Indian English Drama
• Unit 2 - A Preview of Dattani’s Dramatic World
• Unit 3 - Reading Tara
• Unit 4 - Appreciating Tara

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-07 English (Total-34, Solved-20, Unsolved-14)

• June (2006-2023)
• December (2007-2022)

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