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  • About
    Seats
    Duration

    Eligibility

    B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for

    The Masters Programme in Comparative Literature is envisioned as an innovative Programme consistent with the vision of Ambedkar University Delhi. It aims to promote engaged and socially responsible scholarship, making students aware of the links between literature and broader questions of identity and difference, language and culture, local/national/global interfaces, culture and politics, authority and authorship, reading and interpretation, and translation as cultural mediation. The Programme is constituted around the principle of integration of various literatures, and interdisciplinary processes between varied practices and disciplines, including historical, theoretical and critical engagements. Thus, the Programme is directed towards finding interdisciplinary paradigms, greater amalgamation between various literatures, theory and practice on one hand, and between music, dance, theatre, cinema, literature, visual arts and so on, on the other. A major focus of the Programme is literature and its relation to the community; in other words, to critically engage with literature in terms of its contemporary relevance, interpretation, socio-political affect, social change and transgression. The Programme seeks to develop the profile of the student as a comparatist capable of thinking beyond boundaries in ways that are creative, innovative, interdisciplinary and socially relevant. Such a scholar is expected to think comparatively about national and cultural plurality, and participate in current debates shaping literary humanities: world literature, universalism, alternative modernities, meanings of the human.

  • Programme Structure
    Seats
    Duration

    Eligibility

    B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for

    The Programme is of two years duration with four semesters. A semester is 16 weeks long, and a course carries 4 credits. Students will be required to earn a minimum of 20 credits (3 cores + 2 electives) every semester in order to meet the 80-credit requirement of the Programme to pass. All core courses are mandatory, but a student can exercise the option of taking electives from outside the school. In line with the NEP 2020 vision for a two-year Masters programme, the second year of Masters in Comparative Literature is research oriented. A student will be required to write a dissertation of considerable length in the 4th semester to pass the Programme.

     

     

    Semester

    Core Courses

    Elective Courses

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    Number        of Courses

     

    Credits (L+T)

     

    Total Credits

     

    Number of Courses

     

    Credits (L+T)

     

    Total Credits

    1

    3

    4

    12

    2

    4

    8

    20

    2

    3

    4

    12

    2

    4

    8

    20

    3*

    Research       & research- related                  core courses

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    20

    4*

    Research Methodology &Dissertation

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    -

    -

    -

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    20

    Total Credits

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    80

     

    *Semesters 3 & 4 of year two of the Programme will be dedicated to research and research-related core courses as per the NEP 2020 guideline for a two-year Masters programme.

  • Programme Outcomes
    Seats
    Duration

    Eligibility

    B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for

  • FAQ
    Seats
    Duration

    Eligibility

    B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for

    Admission Procedure & Entrance Syllabus

    Entrance examination for MA in Comparative Literature will be a combination of written test and personal interview. The written test will be in MCQ format, meant to test the candidate’s familiarity with literary genres and concepts, important texts, thinkers and critics, and literary history. A candidate must secure the minimum marks in the MCQ test in order to be eligible for the personal interview.

  • Courses
    Seats
    Duration

    Eligibility

    B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for

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    No.

    Name of Course

    Course Code

    No. of Credits

    1

    What is World Literature?: Debates and Issues

    SOL2CL114

    4

    2

    Literary    Comparison:     Theories    and Practices

    SOL2CL113

    4

    3

    Lyrical Pasts: Poetry from Pre-modern South Asia

    SOL2CL108

    4

    4

    Literary Relations: Intertextuality

    SLS2CL106

    4

    5

    Narrative and Narratology

    SOL2CL107

    4

    6

    Issues       in        Thematology:        Minor Literature

    SOL3CL401

    4

    7

    Comparative         Literature       Research

    Seminar

     

    4

    8

    Hermeneutics: Key Theorists

    SOL3CL406

    4

    9

    Perspectives in Translation

    SOL3CL405

    4

    10

    Literatures of Contact

    SOL2CL101

    4

    11

    Theory of Genres: Life Writing

    SOL2CL115

    4

    12

    Translating South Asia: Problems in Translation, Linguistic and Cultural

    SOL3CL404

    4

    13

    Cartographies of Translation

    SOL2CL112

    4

    14

    Indigenous     Writing     from    Northeast India

    SOL2CL102

    4

    15

    Comparative Ghalib

    SOL2CL110

    4

    16

    Reading Myth and Fantasy

    SOL2CL105

    4

    17

    Disability Writings from the Global South

     

    4

    18

    Philology for our Times

    SOL2CL103

    4

    19

    Dissertation

     

     

  • Faculty
    Seats
    Duration

    Eligibility

    B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for