This course aims to offer a study of English Literature for students opting for MA English Literature in Online Mode. The first purpose of this course is to give an outline to the development of the literature during the age of 1350-1660. The course aims to put light on the national life, and give appreciative interpretation of the work of the most important authors of this era. The course combines satisfactory accomplishment of selection of authors sufficiently, limited for clearness and with adequate accuracy and fullness of details, biographical and other.
How to Study and Judge Literature
The course aims to give the students an insight and approach to the study of literature it fulfil two aspects of literary study:
(1) the first aspect is intended to provide the student with some general knowledge of the conditions out of which English literature has come into being, as a whole and during its successive periods that is of the external facts of one sort or another without which it cannot be understood. This means chiefly (1) tracing in a general way, from period to period, the social life of the nation, and
(2) Getting some acquaintance with the lives of the more important authors. The principal thing, however
(II) The second aspect is the direct study of the literature itself. This study in turn should aim first at an understanding of the literature as an expression of the authors' views of life and their personalities and especially as a portrayal and interpretation of the life of their periods
and of all life as they have seen it, it should aim further at an appreciation of each literary work as a product of Fine Art, appealing with peculiar power both to our minds and to our emotions, not least to the sense of Beauty and the whole higher nature.
- Teacher: Dr. Anita Kaushal
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