About the Course

• Brief Introduction: This course offers a very brief introduction to the texts in Western and Sanskrit traditions of Literary Criticism up to the Nineteenth century. Though because of logistic and practical limitations, the course includes texts from these  two traditions, it is expected that students will become aware of the existence of many alternative traditions.

• Course description including texts [Link]

• Academic Calendar of the University of Kalyani [Link]

Course Progress

In this section you will find the plan of the course progress for the current module. For organizational felicity and pedagogical efficacy, the course will be divided into four modules and all the texts will rotate through them thrice during the semester. This modules may be unofficially referred to in the following way:

• Module I: Context ; 

• Module II: Part I: Texts of the first group ; 

• Module II: Part II: Texts of the second group; 

• Module III: Issues 

Internal Assessment

This course will attempt to give students an opportunity for continuous assessment. Accordingly after the completion of each module of teaching, they will be required to write an analytical or reflective essay of approximately 750 words. For each of them, total time will be 1 Hour and maximum marks will be 20. 

• N.B. Students cannot take the assessment for a module if they were absent during its teaching.

Note regarding the in-class writing assignments:  

(1) Leave your bags outside the classroom as you enter the room. 

(2) Carry only your writing instruments and a printed copy of the text. Keep your mobiles switched off in the bag. 

(3) Maximum seating capacity of each bench is three students. Make sure it is so before the teacher enters the classroom. 

(4) Whatever be the external circumstances, the writing time will end at 11:30 AM and answer scripts will be collected immediately. 

Communication

* If you are uncertain about how to email your teacher, follow this Wikihow. 

* For any inquiry or clarification email me at dhrubas[at]klyuniv.ac.in. 

* Inappropriate emails will not be responded to. 

[Pronouns: he/his/him; although the course tries to be consciously gender-neutral]

*It is acceptable to use any AI-guided writing tools (like Chat GPT) to compose your email, as long as you can write a similar email. Use the technology without putting yourself blindly on autopilot. As in real life, the responsibility for your actions (read 'writing' in this context) cannot be delegated to 'someone' else.