MA Literary Art at Ambedkar University Delhi Offline Course

The program has pioneered the pedagogy of creative writing in India with its unique insistence on inculcating in the student both the practice and the theory of literary writing. It imagines the writer as inhabiting a range of historical, social and existential horizons, each of which has their bearing on the nature and depth of individual literary output. Rather than simply equip students already fluent in English with a set of supplementary skills, it teaches them to acquaint themselves with the literary idioms of the many languages of the sub-continent and of Europe.

The program understands literary writing as the patterning of life afterthought and as such, it places the greatest emphasis on writing that is philosophically informed. To this end, the Program is keen on fostering generic innovation as students write in a way that traverses genres, media (dance, film, theatre, the visual arts) and historical and geographic boundaries. They must, at the same time, develop an ability to reflect essayistically on nature and evolution of their own trajectory over the course of the two years; and this reflective essay or the memoir will be evaluated alongside their literary output.