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Topic: NovelsPrepared by: Drashti Mehta
PG Enrollment No:PG13101021Course M.A.
Email id: [email protected] to: Smt. S.B. Gardi, Department of
English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar University
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India)
Neo Classical Literature
• Gulliver's Travels- Johnathan Swift• Satirical exposure of a fictional illusion• Masterpiece of satire• Swift: ‘Man is not a rational animal though man is
certainly capable of becoming rational’• Scope of Satire in this illusionary novel• Satire full of Allegories• Moral Purpose• Comic and Corrosive Satire• Satire in the illusion based on reality• Pride as a satire
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
• Moral Tale
• Theme of Alienation and Isolation
• Colonialism
• Master slave relationship
• Imperialism
• Existentialism
• Language
• Theme of Journey
Tom Jones Fielding
• Social Realism
• Rural life
• City life of London
• Educational institutes
• Female characters
• Politics
• Religion
• Journey of a Hero
• Themes
Virtue
Hypocrisy
Journey
Romance
Love
Contemporary Social Scenario
Patriotism
Stereotypes
Art as a theme
Indian Writing in English
• Kanthapura- Raja Rao• Class structure in Kanthapura• Untouchability• Structure of the village• Superstitions among people• Exploitation due to class• Caste and creed• Class discrimination• Society and descrimination• Myth of Ramayan• Gandhiji• Moorthy
Romantic Literature
• Frankenstein- Marry Shelly• Science Fiction• “I am Fearless, therefore powerful”• Creator- Victor• Challenge to God/ Authority• Theme of Revenge• Science V/S Nature• Man V/S Science• Science as a mystery
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
• Two Sister’s story
• Mind V/S Heart
• Society V/S individual
• Theme of marriage
Victorian Literature
• Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
• Theme of Education
• Theme of inward journey
• Child Labor
• Exploitation
• Human V/S Human
Middlemarch-George Eliot
• Family Background
• Trade in Middlemarch
• Women and society
• Conflict in town
• Melancholy
The Old Man and The Sea- Earnest Hemingway
• Honor in Struggle
• Defeat and Death
• Pride-Greatness and determination
• Life from death crucification from death
• “What Man Proposes Man Disposes”
• “A Man can be destroyed but not be defeated”
The New Literature
• Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Centre
• Modernity
• Popular Novel
• Magic Realism
• Human- God
• Power V/S creativity
J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Role of imagination
• Man
• Magic
• Difficulty of loving the dead
• Importance of second chance
• Keeping faith with death theme of love
• Rumor-gossip
• Mastering death
• Avada Kedavra
• Resurrection stone
• Power
• Betrayal
• Journey
• The Locket Horcrux
• The Elder Wand
• Good V/S Evil Sacrifice
• Journey
• Identity- Ambiguity
• Power
Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger
• A realistic picture of New India• A Shocking commentary on
the darkness of shining India• Globalization• Individualism• Freedom Immoral Corruption• Social Class/Caste• Rooster Coop• Use of Binary Opposition for
Satire• Controversy over ‘Real India’• Narrative Pattern and the Use
of Rhetoric
• Morality• Pairs and Dualities• Family• Globalization• Social Mobility• Identity• Corruption in India• Lightness and Darkness• China’s Relationship to India• A Galaxy of Witty Remarks in
the Novel
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
• The false conflict between faith and Knowledge
• The Intelligence of Women• The Holy Grail as mystic vessel• Abundance and the New Age• Feminine sacredness• Quest• Language and meaning• Fact in Fiction• Suspense• Mystery
• Art• Sexism• Red Hair • Blood• Cell phones• Good intensions win over
greed• Search for tryth is timeless• Christianity V/S Paganism• Sacrifice
J.M. Coetzee -Waiting for the Barbarians
• Social Psychological theme
• Nationalism
• Colonialism
• Hysteria about Barbarians
• Allegorical interpretation
• Allegorical interpretation
Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart
• Nature V/S Human
• Father V/S son
• Tradition V/s Change
• Myth
• God
• Language as a sign of cultural change
• Varying interpretations of Masculanity
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