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B.A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
Applicants to the English Honours course at St. Stephen’s are advised to carefully consider the
rigorous demands of the programme as a whole. The English course offered under LOCF is
several notches higher than the English that is read at the school level. The performance expected
of a student who opts for English Literature is correspondingly higher. The descriptions of
individual courses offered available on the College website will give applicants an idea of what to
expect over three years. At the same time, the information there also aims at providing a sense of
the exciting intellectual experience that awaits an applicant who is accepted into the Department.
English Studies today is trans-disciplinary in the texts, authors and genres it comprises and in the
analytical or theoretical approaches it employs. You will read Shakespeare, Romantic poetry,
Victorian poetry, and significant works in the genre of the novel, besides exploring the Hellenic
and Indic classics in translation. You will have the opportunity to read Nobel award winning
postcolonial authors from Africa, Asia, North and Latin America, and Modern Europe. At the
same time, you will get to explore different schools of theory and develop a sensitive alertness to
a wide range of contextual frames—political, sociological and philosophical. You will also share
in the discovery, in translation, of what has, over time, become somewhat ‘foreign’ to many of
us: Indian literature in regional languages. To be able to do so, the incoming first year student is
expected to have read widely, and be intellectually curious in a way that transcends the rather
limited ambit of syllabi and examinations. Prospective students are also required to have
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