Courses
An Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and the Short Story
Using poetry and short stories to explore creative writing.
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An Introduction to Literature
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.
Approaches to Literature
Exploring critical reflection through other disciplinary areas.
Bangalore: Language, Media, Culture
Exploring the texts that make up the city of Bangalore.
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Contemporary Fiction
An Honours Elective Course to be taken by students who have opted for Literature Honours.
Contemporary India Through Literary and Cultural Texts
Texts ranging from the years before and after Independence to the India of the 21st century.
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Convergence Journalism
Drama as Text and Performance
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.
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Literature and the Popular
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?
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Literature of the Modern: 20th Century
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
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Poetry and the Short Story from Across the World
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.
Poetry and the Short Story From around The World
Exploring the contexts of literary texts.
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Practices of Literature
What is it that we do in a study of literature?
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Romantic Literature: Nature, Self and Society
Romantics: Nature, Self and Society
Looking at the eighteenth century in English writing, known as Romanticism.
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Spoken Kannada
This course aims to enable handling of basic conversations in Kannada
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Statistics and Society
How do numbers and data represent our world?
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The Body in Society
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.
Writing for the Public
Learning how to write professionally for public audiences.