23/11/2023
Enroll to our NPTEL course "Narrative Mode and Fiction."
The course familiarizes students with the generic features of epic, novel and short story. It explores the development and historical trajectories of novel and short story, and their similarities and differences. It studies the inception and evolution of science fiction as a genre and the major features of magical realism. The course consults important critical thoughts and reads a range of literary works to understand the different genres. Literary texts covered
include some of the seminal works that are taught at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels – Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary,
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children; short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Margaret Atwood, and Thomas King. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the art, craft and literary techniques of different forms of fiction.
To join the course, click on the link below.
Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
