Our Works Today and Yesterday (20 & 21 March)

 We did two major things yesterday. 

1. We discussed a hand-note based on the chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" by Peter Barry in his famous book "Beginning Theory".
2. We discussed a few Literary Terms such as -Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Personification, Extended Metaphor, Synecdoche, Symbol etc.

Today we started with a short Review of Words and Phrases sent by Nasrin Sultana (Anu). First we talked about Ozymandias while discussing Colossus. Then we moved to a discussion of the poem in detail and later briefly made a short reference to "Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock." It is to be well understood that this poem is an excellent example of Modernist writing and especially in discussion of Psychoanalysis, this Eliotian poem is a great resource. I hope to do this poem in MUCH more detail in one of our later classes. Today I also gave a short list of Major western plays and a novel set in Colonial India. These plays have online film versions, so watching will not be an issue. 

1. A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
2. Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams)
3. Top Girls (Cyril Churchill)
4. Three Plays by Stoppard - Arcadia (based on theories of Thermodynamics); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (based on theory of mathematical Probability); Indian Ink
5. Heat and Dust - this is a novel based on some incident in British Colonial India
6. The Importance of Being Earnest - this is a Major Play of late 19th Century that set the standard of elitist theatre.

Yesterday we largely spent our time in discussion of major Plays and major films that are necessary for a modern understanding of "elitist" culture.