Popular Literature
BEGC-106 touches upon the world of literature that was considered tacky or uncultured, etc. However, with times, academia has accepted Popular literature. Students in this course get to know the difference between highbrow and lowbrow literature. BEGC–106 covers topics such as popular literature, the notion of the canonical and the popular literature, exploring academic and critical approaches to popular literature. It covers works like Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass, Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy, Ursula K Le Guin: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability, and Ruskin Bond and Vishal Bharadwaj's The Blue Umbrella.
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IGNOU BEGC-106 Code Details
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University
IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
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Title
Popular Literature
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Language(s)
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Code
BEGC-106
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Subject
English
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Degree(s)
BA (Honours), BAEGH
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Course
Core Courses (CC)
IGNOU BEGC-106 English Topics Covered
Block 1 - Popular Literature: An Introduction
- Unit 1 - What is Popular Literature?
- Unit 2 - The Notion of the Canonical and the Popular
- Unit 3 - Exploring Academic and Critical Approaches to Popular Literature
- Unit 4 - Popular Literature Today
Block 2 - Genres of Popular Literature I: Children's Literature and Young Adult Fiction
- Unit 1 - Children’s Literature: An Introduction
- Unit 2 - Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass
- Unit 3 - Young Adult Fiction: An Introduction (Writings From Sri Lanka)
- Unit 4 - Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy
Block 3 - Genres of Popular Literature II: Detective and Science Fiction
- Unit 1 - Crime and Detective Fiction: A Introduction
- Unit 2 - Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Unit 3 - Science Fiction: An Introduction
- Unit 4 - Ursula K Le Guin: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Block 4 - Genres of Popular Literature III: Graphic and Visual Narratives
- Unit 1 - Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability
- Unit 2 - Graphic Narratives: Analysing Vyam’s Bhimayana
- Unit 3 - Literature & Cinema: An Introduction
- Unit 4 - Ruskin Bond and Vishal Bharadwaj’s The Blue Umbrella
IGNOU BEGC-106 (July 2024 - January 2025) Assignment Questions
Section A
Write short notes in about 100 words each:
1. (i) Culture
(ii) Hegemony
(iii) Literature and Media
(iv) Literary Canon(s)
Section B
Answer the following in about 300 words each:
1. Write a detailed essay on some of the important issues in Popular Literature.
2. Examine Funny Boy as an example of Young Adult Fiction.
3. Highlight the rules of detective fiction that were re-written in Christie’s Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
4. Analyse the role of the miserable child in “The Ones who walk away from Omelas”.
5. What is an adaptation? Discuss
IGNOU BEGC-106 (July 2023 - January 2024) Assignment Questions
Section A
Write short notes in about 100 words each:
1. (i) Kitsch
(ii) Ekstatis
(iii) Bildungsroman
(iv) Postmodernism
Section B
Answer the following in about 350 words each:
1. Discuss the chess motif as central to the understanding of Through the Looking Glass.
2. Comment on the relationship between Gender and Space in the context of Arije’s school in Funny Boy.
3. Comment on the narrative strategy in the Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
4. Discuss Science Fiction as a literary genre.
5. Does the language of cinema convey meaning discuss with reference to Vishal Bharadwaj’s The Blue Umbrella.
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