AIM OF THE COURSE:
- To introduce students to literary texts and their unique conventions and contours –the linguistic, the social, the cultural and the political.
- The course is more of a search for the ‘why” and “how” rather than the “what” of literature.
- Creative texts are analysed organically in participatory classrooms with teachers and students dialoguing with the texts.
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
a. To introduce students to the language of literature, i.e., the meaning-making devices, verb phrases, collocations, linkers, sense groups and their functions in the literary text
b. To train the students to identify the linguistic structures of poetic texts: symbols, metaphors, and other tropes and equip them in poetic conventions
c. To recognize diverse points of view within a single text and to understand the rationale of polyphony
d. To prepare students in reading literary/cultural texts closely, beyond the literal.
e. To enable students to recognize the dominant voice/s within the text and its agendas
f. To encourage questioning the text in order to perceive marginalized voices - the voices of the child, Dalit, transgender and female
g. To comprehend how the subaltern perspectives question and counter the privileged voices in the mainstream texts
