Course10910618955 lectures
Literature and Life
Prof. S P Dhanavel · IIT Madras
Lectures
Week 1
- What is Literature?
- What is Life?
- The Relationship between Literature and Life
- Approaches to Literature and Life
Week 2
Week 3
- Abdul Kalam’s “When I Failed”
- Chetan Bhagat’s “My Stupid Suicide Plan”
- R K Narayan’s Toasted English”
- Amish’s “Why I Write”
Week 4
- George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”
- William Zinsser’s “Writing English as a Second Language”
- Joan Didion’s “Why I Write”
- Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth”
Week 5
- William Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence”
- H W Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”
- W H Davies’ “Leisure”
- Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”
Week 6
- Emily Dickinson’s “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”
- Kamala Das’s “Words”
- Louise Glück’s “The Mountain”
- Sujata Bhatt’s “Search for My Tongue"
Week 7
- Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq: An Introduction
- Characters and Characterization in Karnad’s Tughlaq
- Irony, Humor and Symbol in Tughlaq
- Tughlaq: Further Analysis
Week 8
- Anton Chekhov’s The Bear
- The Bear: An Analysis
- J M Synge’s Riders to the Sea
- Riders to the Sea: An Analysis
Week 9
- Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: An Introduction
- Characters and Characterization in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
- Themes and Techniques in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
- Literary Devices in The White Tiger
- Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: Further Analysis
Week 10
- Guy de Maupassant’s “The Dispenser of Holy Water”
- Katherine Mansfield’s “A Cup of Tea”
- Heinrich Boll’s “Action Will Be Taken”
- Joao Guimaraes Rosa’s “The Third Bank of the River”
Week 11
- G G Joshi’s “The Letter”
- Ruskin Bond’s “The Boy Who Broke the Bank”
- Anjana Appachana’s “Sharmaji”
- Isaac Asimov’s “True Love”
Week 12
Live Session
Syllabus and materials
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Madras
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. S P Dhanavel
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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