Department of English

Department of English

The course on English engages with literatures and cultures in English or translated into English and interprets and formulates cultural theories. The subject is also a study of not only how language is used in literature but also of the (a) intimate connection between language and culture; (b) the displacement of language by hegemonic structures; (c) the significance of language in formulating, spreading and continuing ideas; (d) the imperial-colonial debates centred on language. In its concerns with literature, the subject engages with (a) processes of creativity and of appreciation i.e., poetics and aesthetics; (b) comparative literature across languages and cultures; (c) the act of literary representation and of methodologies, traditions and schools of interpretation; (d) the connection between visual representation, verbal image building and the nature of the mimetic act; and (e) with the politics of language.

Language is multi-functional and is used in multiple contexts – communication, diplomacy, power, art and ideas amongst many others. The human being is a language animal and both memory and time (in the sense of past, present and future) are dependent on it as a medium. It is used for rhetoric, political persuasion, assertion and media.

Department of English
Central University of Rajasthan - Ajmer
City Road, Kishangarh-305802,
Dist-Ajmer,
Rajasthan
INDIA

Other Departments at Central University of Rajasthan - Ajmer

• Department of Architecture
• Department of Biotechnology
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Computer Science & Engineering
• Department of Economics
• Department of English
• Department of Environmental science
• Department of Hindi
• Department of Management
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Media & Culture Studies
• Department of Physics
• Department of Statistics