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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Roorkee

Genre and neo-/classical formulation; Prescription of generic purity and hybridity of genres in practice.

Epic and Novel –relation of time and space with events; Scope and worldview of epic and novel; Epic hero and novel hero; Era of novelization.

Through selected artwork, following topics will be discussed – Polyglossia and the essence of history; The protagonist as the novel hero; Hilarity understood through horizon of expectations; From novel to history as a metafictional device; New readership and a new language mode Text: Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Novel and different aspects of existence (Seinsvergessenheit); Novelin/and the changing society Texts: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

arrative strategy - Story and plot; Reader and critic; Time, narrative, narrative voice/s; History and novel; Fantasy and dream; Life and Fiction; Fantasy and Prophecy; Parody and Intertextuality Texts: Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glas.

Protagonist’s journey as a lack of totality and telos; Failure of language and breakdown of communication; Circular pattern of narrative and futility of existence Text: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

Through selected novel/s, following topics will be discussed – Human psyche; Agency of the reader; Imagination, irrationality, reflection; Narrator and/as character; Time and temporality; Theme and poetic unity Texts: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.

Short story as a genre; Through selected short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Margaret Atwood, and Thomas King, following topics will be discussed – brevity, non-story, multiple truths, quest for identity, disruption of/from the familiar.

Narrativity, time and form; Plot, central problem and stylistic devices; Realistic and metaphorical approaches, character as a symbol; Historical trajectory.

Inception and development of Science Fiction; Science Fiction and Techno-Cultural Experience;Science Fiction film; Science fiction and feminism – the Cyborg Texts: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.

Magical realism and post-modern artwork; From Expressionism to Magical Realism; Mystic and magical; Syncriticism and the magical ideal; New objectivity; Derealization, defamiliarization and fabulation Texts: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.