Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

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2. Video Resources
3. Online Test - Check your understanding
4. Presentations
   
   
   
   

1. Reading resources

• eText - Original Novel

• Introduction: About the Author- Salman Rushdie and 'Midnight's Children'

• 'English' in Midnight's Children

• Themes in Midnight's Children

  • History and the Individual

  • Colonialism and neo-colonialism in India

  • Fragmentation, Migrancy and Memory

• Technique in Midnight's Children

• Characterization in Midnight's Children

• Midnight's Children as Literary Event

  • Postcolonial Novel

  • Postmodern Novel

  • Historical Fiction

• Hybridity and Postcoloniality: Formal, Social, and Historical Innovations in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (Research Chapter)

2. Video Resources

• Characters in Midnight's Children
• Narrative Technique in Midnight's Children
• Reading Symbols
• Mr Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi
• Postcolonial Reading - Nation & Hybridity in Midnight's Children

3. Check your understanding - appear in an online test

4. Presentations:

(i) Narrative Technique in 'Midnight's Children'

(ii) Postcolonialism in 'Midnight's Children'

(iii) Symbols in 'Midnight's Children'

(iv) Mr. Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi

Narrative Technique in Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Postcolonialism and Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Symbols in Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Mr. Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi - Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

 

Puritan and Restoration Age: English Literature

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Presentation on The Restoration Age

 

Hard Times: Charles Dickens

 Introduction

Hard Times, novel by Charles Dickens, published in serial form (as Hard Times: For These Times) in the periodical Household Words from April to August 1854 and in book form later the same year. The novel is a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England.

Louisa and Tom Gradgrind have been harshly raised by their father, an educator, to know nothing but the most factual, pragmatic information. Their lives are devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination, and the two have little or no empathy for others. Louisa marries Josiah Bounderby, a vulgar banker and mill owner. She eventually leaves her husband and returns to her father’s house. Tom, unscrupulous and vacuous, robs his brother-in-law’s bank. Only after these and other crises does their father realize that the manner in which he raised his children has ruined their lives. (Britannica) 

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Additional Resources:

Musical Performance of Hard Times in Hindi:

Understanding Hard Times: An Analytic Note by F.R Leavis /The Great Tradition

Article: Why Hard Times is a bad novel? - J. B. Priestley

Video recording of Online Classes on Hard Times

Video recording of the session on the discussion on 'Research Articles on Hard Times':

Puritan and Restoration Age: Online Test

 Online Test / Quiz on The Puritan and the Restoration Age

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Online Test: Renaissance Literature

Online Open Internet / Open Book Test on the Age of Renaissance

Read study material on this page to appear in this online test:

• Refer to this blog for old syllabus website
• Refer to Study Material (new website wef 2020)

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• Points to Ponder:
• Write comparative analysis of Chaucer, Spencer and Shakespeare as Poets
• If you have seen any film on Elizabethan time / Shakespearean era, write a blog on the review of the film. You can have a look at the list of films worth watching:
• Six Best Films
• Five Best Films
• Elizabethan Era in Films
• Twenty Best Shakespearean Adaptations [Which is the best film adaptation? Are Hindi adaptations included in this list?]
• Best Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare
• Can you differentiate general characteristics of Renaissance literature with that of Reformation or Restoration or Neo-classical or Romantic or Victorian or Modern literature?
• Write a blog on the review of any Hindi film adaptation of Shakespearean plays or Elizabethan era.