Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय (इग्नू)
The Post Graduate Diploma in the Novel looks at the genre of the novel and takes into consideration three major literary traditions of the novel. The course focuses on the writings of the greatest British novelists and their finest works, on various aspects of the novel as a genre, and discusses each novel against its social and cultural contexts. The programme also exposes learners to the major novelists in American Literature through a study of their representative novels and traces the development of the Australian novel, its colonial history up to the present times. And lastly we look at an integral part of the curricula at colleges and universities across the globe - literary theory and criticism, beginning from classical times, including romantic criticism, new criticism, feminist theories, deconstruction and contemporary theories.
