Using poetry and short stories to explore creative writing.

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.

Exploring critical reflection through other disciplinary areas. 

An Honours Elective Course to be taken by students who have opted for Literature Honours.

Discover the meaning of the term ​“contemporary” in terms of literary and cultural texts from India and how they respond to the time period they emerged in. 

Learn how drama evolved, and find out more about the complex relationship between the written word and its performance. 

Learn how fiction can shape and question our futures through the study of key writers in this genre. Craft your own narratives that speak to the issues of our time. 

Explore how literature is related to a historical culture and time period, using nineteenth century England as an example. 

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?

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

Learn to apply different methodological approaches to literary texts.

Explore the literary and cultural movements that took place roughly in the first five decades of the 20^th century and are widely recognized to have constituted ​“modernism”.

In focusing on questions of form and context, this course will start by examining the ritual origins of poetry, the circumstances that led to the development of more quotidian and secular modes, the relationship between poetry and narrative, and the development of non-narrative poetic genres.

Exploring the contexts of literary texts.

 Encounter traditional forms such as the ashtapadi, the ghazal, the doha and the qasida, alongside several examples of more modern poetry from various regional languages.

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

Revisit this popular and familiar period of English literature through the themes of our relationship with nature, our notion of the individual and our place in society

Looking at the eighteenth century in English writing, known as Romanticism. 

This course aims to enable handling of basic conversations in Kannada 

How do numbers and data represent our world?

The course aims to teach students how reading, writing, language and interpretation can extend beyond the analysis of literary texts to a range of texts and practices in everyday life.

Learn about the history and various examples of these commonly used categories to explain literature and the arts

Dive into the novel as a literary form, read some of its best expressions, and learn basic concepts that arise in novelistic analysis.

Find out how literature can go beyond the written word and image and sound can have meaning too.