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Popular Literature (Theory)
The Course will enable the students to assess the literary characteristics of coming-of-age literature by investigating issues of caste, gender, identity, ethics, and education, and examine both canonical and popular literature, including graphic novels, to understand how popular culture informs literary works and shapes societal perspectives.
The students will:
CO67. Explore the literary characteristics of the literature of the coming of age
CO68. Examine canonical and popular literature
CO69. Investigate the issues of caste, gender and identity, and
the ideas of ethics and education in Children’s Literature
CO70. Conduct a close analysis of the prescribed graphic novels.
CO71. Develop the ability to comprehend how popular culture informs literature
CO72.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass
Monica Ali
The Bricklane
Shyam Selvadurai
Funny Boy
Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam
Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Raven
Suggested Reference Books:
Fiedler, Leslie. “Towards a Definition of Popular Literature”. Super Culture: American Popular Culture and Europe. ed. C.W.E. Bigsby. Bowling Green UP, 1975.
J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings. Doaba Publications, 2001.
Kanaganayakam, Chelva. “Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature”. ARIEL, 1998. Rpt. by Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and Victor.
Ramaswamy, Sumathi. “Introduction”. Beyond Appearances: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India. Sage, 2003.
Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English. Pencraft, 2020 edition.
Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. Routledge, 8th edition, 2021.
Chute, Hillary. Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Nayar, Pramod K. An Introduction to Cultural Studies. Viva Books, 2021.
Gill, Rosalind. Gender and the Media. Polity Press, 2016.
Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Public Culture, 1990.
Choudhury, Mita. Graphic Narratives and Cultural Identity in South Asia. Bloomsbury, 2022.
E-Resources including links:
https://interestingliterature.com/2020/11/lewis-carroll-through-looking-glass-summary-analysis/
Reference Journals:
Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education GALE
Journal of Popular Culture (Wiley)
South Asian Review
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Taylor & Francis)
Cultural Studies (Routledge)
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature