This course is intended to sharpen the reading and writing skills of the students through a number of reading exercises and composition work.
Objective:
To familiarize the students with the literature and culture of the 19th century – the romantic sensibility that reigned supreme during the century-to help him/her formulate a critical perspective of the writings of the period.
Course description
Precursors of romanticism –The Romantic movement – the significance of French Revolution of 1789 and 1798-Victorian period-continuance and decline of romantic sensibility - emergence of machines and industries-ascent of materialism-loss of faith –Pre-Raphaelite poetry –tradition of realism in novel writing.
This course aims at developing a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of different techniques of copy editing, the technical terminologies and apply those terms in the practice of copy editing.
This course aims at familiarising students with the classics from various lands. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the features that go into the making of a classic
Students should be able to understand what is postmodernism and should distinguish between different postmodern literary genres and recognise the
interconnection between different postmodern genres and texts.
They should demonstrate an understanding of the socio-political, cultural and technological
milieu of the postmodern texts
and the various literary techniques used in the postmodern texts.
This course is intended to hone the reading and writing skills of the students through a
series of exercises and composition work.
This course is designed to introduce to the learner the rudiments of academic writing,
editing and the bases of evaluating such writings. This course acquaints the learner with the
major patterns of essay development with sufficient items for practice.
This course aims at familiarising students with the
classics from various lands. Students should demonstrate an understanding of
the features that go into the making
of a classic.
This course aims at developing a comprehensive
understanding of the theoretical and
practical aspects of different
techniques of copy editing, the technical terminologies
and apply those terms in the practice
of copy editing.
The course is conceived as a practice-oriented guide to the development of harder language skills namely, reading and writing. The reading exercises are designed in such a way that it helps slow learners as well to acquire adequate skills to go to the higher levels where the students are expected not only to comprehend factual and implied information, but also to discern the mechanics with which authors infuse affective elements into writing. Writing tasks are also graded from simple compositions to attempting sophisticated literary pieces towards the end of the course. Instead of the conventional lecture method, the course is to be delivered as guided sessions involving composition writing and one-to-one mentoring sessions and hence the course material is prepared as a pair of books consisting of a textbook and a workbook.
In this section a detailed analysis of Victorian society is done. students are introduced to the diverse socio, political, cultural, and political events that shaped the Victorian era and sensibility.
Precursors of romanticism –The Romantic movement – significance of French Revolution of 1789 and 1798-Victorian period-continuance and decline of romantic sensibility-emergence of machines and industries-ascent of materialism-loss of faith –Pre-Raphaelite poetry –tradition of realism in novel writing.
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of printing and publishing technology
The course includes an introduction to the changed literary perspectives in the twentieth
century along with the social, economic and political background. Imperial expansion
which had reached a boiling point the onset of the World War I coupled with the attempts
at creating a new world order remained some of the key issues. The impact of the Soviet
experiment at the global level that needs to be read against the backdrop of the spread
and influence of Marxism on a global scale calls for a radical review of world politics. This
was followed by the rise of Fascism and Nazism followed curiously by the shadow of doubt
cast over communism. In the literary field reaction against Romanticism and Victorianism
led to experimentation in writing in all genres. Starting from the poetry of World War I the
movement traverses a wide range of concerns topics and forms of writing. The discussion
also includes movements like the avant-garde, the Pink Decade and so forth.
This course aims at acquainting learners with different forms of inspiring and motivating literature and thus developing in them a creative and insightful
perspective towards life.
Illuminations is an anthology of visionary writings across literary genres. The course seeks to provide a creative and insightful perspective towards life. This anthology illustrates how daring dreams and decisive praxis can conquer the debilitating ironies of existence.
The course is conceived as a practice-oriented guide to the development of harder
language skills namely, reading and writing. The reading exercises are designed in such a
way that it helps slow learners as well to acquire adequate skills to go to the higher levels
where the students are expected not only to comprehend factual and implied information,
but also to discern the mechanics with which authors infuse affective elements into
writing. Writing tasks are also graded from simple compositions to attempting
sophisticated literary pieces towards the end of the course. Instead of the conventional
lecture method, the course is to be delivered as guided sessions involving composition
writing and one-to-one mentoring sessions and hence the course material is prepared as a
pair of books consisting of a textbook and a workbook.