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.
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The students will: CO31.Explore the literary characteristics of the literature of the coming of age CO32. Examine canonical and popular literature CO33. Investigate the issues of caste, gender and identity, and the ideas of ethics and education in children’s literature CO34.Conduct a close analysis of the prescribed graphic novels. CO35. Develop the ability to comprehend how popular culture informs literature. |
CO36.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass
Monica Ali
Brick Lane
Shyam Selvadurai
FunnyBoy
Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam
Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability
EdgarAllanPoe
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Black Cat
SuggestedReferenceBooks:
Fiedler, Leslie. “Towards a Definition of Popular Literature”. Super Culture: American Popular Culture andEurope.ed.C.W.E.Bigsby.BowlingGreenUP,1975.
J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings. Doaba Publications, 2001.
Kanaganayakam,Chelva.“DancingintheRarefiedAir:ReadingContemporarySriLankanLiterature”. ARIEL, 1998. Rpt. by Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, and Victor.
Ramaswamy,Sumathi.“Introduction”.BeyondAppearances:VisualPracticesandIdeologiesin ModernIndia.Sage,2003.
E-Resources including links: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Through-the-Looking-Glass [2]https://www.litcharts.com/lit/funny-boy/summary [3]
ReferenceJournal:
Passage
Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/popular-literature
[2] http://www.britannica.com/topic/Through-the-Looking-Glass
[3] http://www.litcharts.com/lit/funny-boy/summary
[4] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2025-2026