MEG-14: Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation
Course Title:
Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation
Course Code:
MEG-14
Coordinator:
Course Type (Credit):
Others (8 Credits)
Course Introduction:
Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation introduces learners to significant Indian literary works translated into English. It highlights India’s diverse cultural, linguistic, and social realities through modern literary expressions.
The course studies the traditions of India's folk narratives, language, visual arts, and their cultural significance, focusing on the forms, functions, sources, and classifications of folk literature.
MEG-14: Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation
Course Title:
Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation
Course Code:
MEG-14
Coordinator:
Course Type (Credit):
Others (8 Credits)
Course Introduction:
Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation introduces learners to significant Indian literary works translated into English. It highlights India’s diverse cultural, linguistic, and social realities through modern literary expressions.
The course covers the development and forms of American drama including musicals, farce, naturalism/realism, twentieth-century poetic drama, absurd drama, expressionism, and avant-garde movements.
The course covers the development, themes, and key poets of American poetry from the colonial period through the modern period, including writers like Philip Freneau, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, and Langston Hughes.
The course explores postcolonial and contemporary literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and other regions formerly under colonial rule, focusing on how these literatures respond to and critique colonialism, identity, and cultural transformation.
The course covers major literary works and themes of 19th-century British literature, including novels like "A Tale of Two Cities" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge," as well as Victorian poetry by poets such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. It aims to develop critical appreciation and understanding of the period's literary and cultural contexts.
The course covers key aspects of mass communication, basic media skills, news and non-news writing, opinion writing, and the scope of media writing. The course aims to develop practical skills in media communication and reporting, including understanding various media forms, interviewing techniques, and writing different types of reports and news items.
