SAST6623 - Literary History and Aesthetics in South Asia

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Literary History and Aesthetics in South Asia
Term
2023C
Subject area
SAST
Section number only
401
Section ID
SAST6623401
Course number integer
6623
Level
graduate
Instructors
Deven Patel
Description
This seminar surveys the multiple components of literary culture in South Asia. Students will engage critically with selected studies of literary history and aeshetics from the past two millennia. In order to introduce students to specific literary cultures (classical, regional, contemporary) and to the scholarly practices that situate literature in broader contexts of culture and society, the course will focus both on the literary theories - especially from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - that position South Asia's literary cultures within broader disciplinary frameworks that use literary documents to inform social, historical and cultural research projects. The aim is to open up contexts whereby students can develop their own research projects using literary sources.
Course number only
6623
Cross listings
COML6623401
Use local description
No