SEMESTER I
MINOR PAPER I
INTRODUCING LITERATURE AND LITERARY GENRES
Course Level Learning Outcomes:
1. Understanding of issues like literature, literariness, literary values and basic literary concepts
2. Have a basic understanding of development of English literature in terms of various
movements
3. Engage with the genres and forms of English literature and develop fundamental skills
required for close reading and critical thinking of the texts and concepts
4. Appreciate and analyse select literary poems and plays in the larger socio-cultural contexts of
the time
5. Develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation of selected poems in order to understand
the theme, language, tone and style, and elements of prosody
Course content
Unit -I:
Basic notions on ―why read literature‖, ―The meaning of literature, literariness, literary values,
function of literature, pleasure of reading, introduction to major literary concepts, genres
Unit -II: Epic
Unit III: Drama: Tragedy and Comedy
Unit IV: Novel and Short Story as modern genres
Suggested Readings:
W.H. Hudson, An Introduction to the Study of English Literature, Maple Press, 2003
Introduction to English Literature, ed. P. Varghese, Alfa Publications, 2011.
A Dictionary of Literary Terms, Martin Gray, Blackwell, 1998.
Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem, John Wiley & Sons, 2011
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