Literature

Courses

• An Introduction to Literature

  Core

  This is a gateway course that conveys the excitement of doing close reading and literary analysis. It also looks at different genres and the interaction between the student and literary text, and the inevitability of multiple meanings and perspectives.

  Diviya, Muhammed Afzal P, Srinivas SV, Rukma Prince

• Practices of Literature

  Core

  What is it that we do in a study of literature?

  Neeraja Sundaram

• Literature of the Modern: 20^th Century

  Core

  The idea of the 'modern' through a study of a wide-range of influential texts written in the first five decades of the 20th century

  Srinivas SV

• Literature and the Popular

  Core

  Why does Pride and Prejudice inspire chick lit like Bridget Jones Diary or what makes Shakespeare important enough across continents and centuries to produce a film like Haider in India?