Learning literature through Creative Methods

2. Literature is the
mirror of life
Agree?

3.  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)

4. 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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5. More happy love! more happy, happy love!
Novels
The 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?
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6. 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.)

7. 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.

8. Street Theatre
 Evam Indrajith – Badal Sircar
Bildungsroman

9.  Salman Rushdie’s – Midnight’s Children
 Charlotte Brontë’s – Jane Eyre