Title of the thesis: “Literary Theory in World Literature(s): A Case for Bioethics”
Name of the student: Rajnandini Shaw
Name of the Faculty whom the student has consulted
Name of the Centre: Centre for English Studies
Introduction (in about 300 words)
Scope and Objective
Broad areas under which the research problem falls (about 200 words)
Literary Theory
World Literature
Bioethics
Criticism
Theory
Research question or hypothesis
How is Literary Theory in World Literature(s) related to Bioethics?
Objectives of the Study (about 500 words)
Survey of the existing research literature in the area
Primary research material proposed to be used for this study (applicable to original empirical research only)
Methodological Approach
Reading: close and distant
Tentative Chapterization, with a minimum of three chapters excluding Introduction and Conclusion. (The candidate should include a small write up for each chapter as well as for Introduction and Conclusion, along with the Chapter titles)
Introduction
The Classical: Bhasa's Urubhangam or The Shattered Thigh;
The Pre-Modern
The Modern
The Post-Modern
Conclusion
Select Bibliography (to include primary sources and Secondary sources in alphabetical order, an English translation of the primary sources may be provided alongside the original in the respective language)
Primary sources
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Suicides" by Guy de Maupassant
"The Death of Socrates" by Jacques-Louis David
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
All About H. Hatterr by G V Desani
Book of the Dead
Candide by Voltaire
Chernobyl (2019)
Contagion(2011)
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Dr Zivago (film) and Dr Strangelove
Dr Zivago by Boris Basternak: English and Bengali translation
Hemlock Society by Srjit Mukherji
Her (2013)
Hippocratic Oath
Iliad and Odyssey, attributed to Homer
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez: English translation and film
Lucy (2014)
Lusiads by Luís de Camões
Lust for Life by Irving Stone. Great Britain: arrow books. 2001.
Miles Gloriosus by Plautus
Nibelungenlied
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles
Phaedo by Plato
Phèdre by Jean Racine
Roman de la Rose
Romantic Encounters of a Sex Worker by Nalini Jameela. Translated by Nalini Jameela. Om Books International. 2018.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Plague by Albert Camus
The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Secondary sources
Ashby, M.A., Rich, L.E. Government of the People, by the People, for the People: Bioethics, Literature, and Method. Bioethical Inquiry 11, 109–112 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-014-9535-2
Wolinsky, Howard. “Bioethics for the world.” EMBO reports vol. 7,4 (2006): 354-8. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400670