1
Drama
- Drama from its beginnings to contemporary forms
- studied through literary
- cultural and historical contexts.
10 units
Complete unit breakdown
2
Poetry
- Poetry from early traditions to contemporary writing
- including major movements
- forms
- contexts and critical approaches.
3
Fiction and Short Story
- The novel
- novella and short story across periods and regions
- including their formal development and cultural contexts.
4
Non-Fictional Prose
- Essays
- autobiography
- biography
- travel writing
- memoir and other prose forms across historical periods.
5
Language
- Basic concepts and theories of language
- linguistics and pedagogy
- methods of language teaching and English in use.
6
English in India
- The history
- evolution
- functions and future of English in India
- including Indian English and its social contexts.
7
Cultural Studies
- Culture
- ideology
- representation
- media
- identity
- popular culture
- gender
- race
- caste
- nation and globalization.
8
Literary Criticism
- Classical to modern traditions of literary criticism
- major critics
- concepts and approaches to interpretation.
9
Literary Theory after World War II
- Structuralism
- poststructuralism
- Marxism
- psychoanalysis
- feminism
- postcolonialism
- new historicism
- ecocriticism and related theories.
10
Research Methods and Materials in English
- Research questions
- methods
- bibliography
- archives
- textual scholarship
- academic writing
- documentation
- citation and research ethics.