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.
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 | Total Credits | ||||
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Total Credits |
Number of Courses |
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Total Credits | ||
1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
3* | Research & research- related core courses | - | - | - | - | - | 20 |
4* | Research Methodology &Dissertation | - | - | - | - | - | 20 |
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*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.
B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for
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.
B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for
Sl. 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 |
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B Plus (B+) or an equivalent 55 percent in an undergraduate degree. Relaxation norms will apply for
