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SREENARAYANAGURU OPEN UNIVERSITY
B.A. ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

GENERIC ELECTIVE (ENGLISH)
B21EG01GE

APPRECIATING LITERATURE

CREDITS: 2

OBJECTIVES:
● To kindle interest in reading literature.

● To help students to understand, learn from and enjoy literary texts, especially poetry.

● To enable the student to read and respond creatively, drawing on their own

imagination and experience.

● To appreciate reading as a social experience.

COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completing the course students will:

● Be able to appreciate poems aesthetically.

● Engage in close analysis and understand the literary devices that enhance the beauty

of the poem.

● Learn to consider literature as a communal experience.

● To inculcate a deeper admiration of the cultural diversity expressed in the poems.

● Be familiar with how literature reveals the human condition through its various

strategies.

COURSE DETAILS:

BLOCK 1: Introducing Literary Texts: 1

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