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. 

Exploring the texts that make up the city of Bangalore. 

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

Texts ranging from the years before and after Independence to the India of the 21^st century.

Students learn about the origins and categories of drama through ancient and contemporary texts and the conditions of production and reception of dramatic texts and performance.

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

Exploring the contexts of literary texts.

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

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

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.