Learning literatureThrough CreativeMethods

Joshua Gnana Raj P

Literature is the mirror of life

Agree?

Life then in the ancient days were mostly realistic with no touch of artifice.

Thus this is such paper dealing with the creative methods of teaching literature with the lessened use of machines.

For the employment of such methods we need to get in touch within our own selves.

We must act, bring in real humanistic expressions which no other mediums can in a way express.

To start with this experiment some works from the BA and MA syllabus was taken into a limelight

The Barber’s Trade Union – Mulk Raj Anand (Short Story)

Ode on a Grecian Urn Group Discussion (How are we now, and

how was the world in the past?) for an introduction

Degradation of true love, music, and religion (Mid part)

Group Discussion (Had we accomplished finding the psyche of Keats)

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NovelsThe Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne can be

compared with an event that happens in Jesus Christ’s life with the question to the Puritan

society in the case of the novel in the past with the question “Why was Hester Prynne to

suffer a lot, and not others who were near and far who also committed the same sin?

Dramas

Why not compare William Shakespeare’s Othello with our Ramayana?

King Richard II with the real touch of history of England.

Why not go even more beyond compare the fall of the Kings of the past with the Politicians of

today? (Noting their Tragic Flaws ex. AAP initial rise and fall.)

Golden Texts

Geoffrey Chaucer’s – The Canterbury Tales

Edmund Spencer’s – Fairie Queene

Jonathan Swift’s – A Tale of a Tub

These are some of the golden texts were students can be made to have an expedition of the past in exploring with how the Olden English has evolved to become so modern these days.

It may also ignite the mind to look over the shores i.e. over the horizons of other European

languages.

Street Theatre Evam Indrajith – Badal Sircar

Bildungsroman

Salman Rushdie’s – Midnight’s Children Charlotte Brontë’s – Jane Eyre

Thank You

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