VICTORY!

Dear All,
Thanks immensely for your cooperation. Today the university email server is working and i have retrieved all the term papers.

Hope you all have a wonderful break.

best,
shilpaa

TERM PAPERS

Due to a strange turn of events* I am unable to access the term papers that were sent to me only by email to the following email i.d. 'shilpaa@efluniversity.ac.in'.

Can all those who only emailed me their papers forward them to the follwing email address 'mfmw602@gmail.com'? Kindly do this as soon as possible.

(* The university email server has crashed.)

The Attendance Problem

Please note that all those will less than 75% attendance as of Nov 13th will not be allowed to write the final term-paper. If you have had an illness/ sickness that warrants 10% attendance, that can be granted by the course instructor. If you still fall short of attendance please direct your queries to the person concerned in the Administration.

Pass on this information to others in the course. I am acting on the advisory issued by the University and the Dept. of Eng. Literature.

Thursday - 11 Nov. - last MFMW class

Please bring your old enthusiasm to class on Thursday.

Tuesday's (26 Oct.) presentations

There is a slight change. We will begin with Kipling's 'Mark of the Beast' (short story placed in Sai Xerox)by Siva and Hassan and then continue and finish the Jekyll and Hyde presentations.

Thursday's class in Room No. 3

The class on Thursday 21 Oct. will be held in Room No. 3 of the New Academic Block.
Pass on the information to classmates.

Presenters of the Hacking texts and Davis' Enforcing Normalcy

Mad Travelers
1) Monica and Smriti
2) Sheeba and Paaban
3) Naina and Deepti

Rewriting the Soul
1) Jagriti and Aswathy
2) Dona and Jomita

Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard Davis
Hoinekip and Chand Basha

No Class on 19 October 2010 (Tuesday)

In view of the student protest against fee hike, the MFMW class remains cancelled tomorrow.
Please be advised that we will discuss Middlemarch on Thursday (21st Oct.) and have all the Jekyll and Hyde as well as Father Damien discussions next week, on Tuesday (26th Oct) and Thursday (28th Oct.).
The rest of the schedule posted on this blog earlier will stand.

Please inform others who may not check the blog.
All the best with the strike!

SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF THE COURSE

October
19th - MIDDLEMARCH (Class Discussion)
21st - Dr. JEKYLL and Mr.HYDE (Student Presentations)
26th - Dr. JEKYLL and Mr.HYDE (Class Discussion)
28th - FATHER DAMIEN and Kipling's short story 'The Mark of the Beast (Student Presentations)

November
2nd - Hacking presentations (both Mad Travelers and Rewriting the Soul)
4th - Freud presentations and discussion
9th - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Student Presentations)
11th - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Discussion)
16th - Lennard Davis's Enforcing Normalcy (Student Presentations)
Summing up discussion

Digital Libraries and Archives

National Library of Scotland

(http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html)

archive.org

(http://www.archive.org/index.php)

Other paper ideas:
- Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (may lend new insights to the discussions on physiognomy we've been having)

- Other writings/ texts by the authors we've examined in the course

- Philosophers of the time?

- Colonial writers and travelers writing about caste, race and tribes in different parts of the world?

Classes this week

Classes this week will be held in Room No. 3 on the first floor.
On Tuesday we will discuss Margrit Shildrick's 'Embodying the Monster' (select chapters in Sai Xerox) and on Thursday we will have the student presentations on Darwin's 'Origin of Species'.

A few thoughts about the End-of-term Paper OR Think outside the literature box!

- Don't feel restricted by traditional notions of 'literature'. Look for pamphlets that were written in the Nineteenth Century; what were the uses of pamphlets - keep in mind that we will soon be reading Stevenson's 'Father Damien'; manuals? posters? advertisements? paintings?
- Vincent van Gogh anyone? - his paintings and his letters to his brother Theo (collected in a volume called 'Dear Theo') "The light that burns within me is dark." van Gogh
- Examine the Victorian poets and their work - Tennyson's obsession with the sea? Browning's dramatic monologues are full of 'abnormal' people.
- Theories of fear: think of the relationship between deformity and fear and its constant invocation within the literature of the period
- What about mad men? Find and examine literary stereotypes of 'madness' in male characters. Perhaps a paper on madness and masculinity?
- Portraits and stereotypes of the 'orient' and 'colonies' as abnormal. Look at this website www.archive.org and read archival material that documents travels to the colonies and the volumes produced about 'other' peoples.
- Does Karl Marx have a theory of the abnormal we have overlooked? Capitalism and the production of obsessive hoarders, perhaps?
- Controversial medical techniques and newspaper articles as well as pamphlets about them in Europe: blood-letting, vaccination, use of opium as medical treatment?
- Sir Francis Galton
- Tiny Tim?
- A survey of the different kinds of institutions in Dickens' novels - poor house, orphanage, hospital, asylum.
- Childhood and abnormality
- Europe's anti-semitism and the production of the 'religious abnormal' or the 'abnormally religious' - doctrinal religions (the norm?) and ritualistic practices (the deviation as well as the deviant?)

Read Darwin, Give Science a chance!

Please find the most literary of all scientists here and read sections (at least Intro,
Chap.1, Chap. 2) of the Origin of Species:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html

Thursday's class in ROOM NO. 2, First Floor, New Academic Block

Please make a note and pass on the information to others. We will meet in Room No. 2 for the next three classes, i.e., till the 8th.

Class in Room No.3 New Academic Block TOMORROW (28 Sep)

Please pass on this message to others.

Attention WUTHERING HEIGHTS presenters

Please prepare NON-POWERPOINT presentations.

Schedule for the coming weeks

September
28th - WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Student Presentations)
30th - WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Class discussion)

October
5th - Margrit Schildrick's EMBODYING THE MONSTER (Student Presentation + discussion)
7th - Charles Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Student Presentations)
12th - ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Class discussion)
14th - MIDDLEMARCH (Student presentations)
19th - MIDDLEMARCH (Class Discussion)
21st - Dr. JEKYLL and Mr.HYDE (Student Presentations)
26th - Dr. JEKYLL and Mr.HYDE (Class Discussion)
28th - FATHER DAMIEN (Student Presentations)

Instructions - Mid-term

Email your mid-term papers to shilpaa@efluniversity.ac.in
In case you have trouble sending it to that mailbox then do cc it to mfmw602@gmail.com

Hard copies - printouts as well as handwritten copies - can be submitted at Room No. 23, Ground Floor, Main Building at 9 am on Monday morning.

All of you need to enter your names and sign on the submission sheet that will be available on Lavanya's desk (Room No. 23) at some point on Monday.

All the best!

Mid-term Exam (17-20 Sep 2010)

*Note: Please affix your name, semester and roll number on every page of printed or hand-written sheet.

Answer any 2 questions:

1)      Discuss briefly Claude Frollo, Mr. Rochester and Victor Frankenstein as accidental masters to accidental slaves.

2)      Compare and contrast Sister Gudule (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and Bertha Mason (Jane Eyre).

3)      Discuss refuge and learning with reference to Jane’s time in Lowood (Jane Eyre) and the monster’s time in the hovel near the cottage (Frankenstein).

Class in Conference Room (14 Sep.)

The MFMW class on Tues 14 Sep (tomorrow) will be held in the Conference Room on the ground floor of the main building (administrative building). Please inform everyone.

List of presenters for George Eliot's Middlemarch and Ian Hacking's Mad Travellers

Middlemarch
1) Aditya and Mahima
2) Jyothsna Phanija
3) Paulomi and Devaki
4) Abhinaya Devi
5) Anwesha and Vasumana
6) Ali and Elahe

*NOTE:  Abhinaya and Phanija please see if you can work together on one team.

Mad Traveller's (selected portion in Sai Xerox)
1) Monica and Smriti
2) Naina and Deepti
3) Sheeba and Paaban

* NOTE: Please make sure that there is no overlap between the teams in the sections/ chapters you are presenting.

Presenters for Freud and Stevenson's Father Damien

Freud/Breuer 
1) Sudha and Srishti
2) Moulee and Rupsa
3) Imam Emamdadi and Najma

Father Damien
1) Debashree and Amropali
2) Tenzin and Sonam
3) Bishal Chetry and Shail Jha

Texts AVAILABLE for presentation

As of today these are the texts that need presenters. Those who have sent me emails already about any of these texts need not do so again. Please remember that the presentation is graded and is part of your internal assessment along with the mid-term.

Theory:
Rewriting the Soul by Ian Hacking (select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 2/3 teams
Embodying the Monster by Margrit Shildrick (select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 2 teams
Mad Travellers by Ian Hacking (select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 1 team
Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard Davis(select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 1 team

Fiction:
Middlemarch by George Eliot - need 2 teams

List of Presenters (Darwin; Picture of Dorian Gray)

Darwin's Origin of Species

- Achuth and Aby Abraham
- Vaishnavi and Upamanyu
- Shima Allahi and Deepshika
- Subbarayudu and Adel Ahmed Murshed

Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- Shwetha and Krithika
- Sammedea and Jomy
- Sherin and Neeraja
- Belinda and Nandini
- Deki and Deychen

(Dates to be announced later.)

for Tuesday's class (31 Aug)

Please read Hunchback of Notre Dame (also known as Notre Dame de Paris) for the class discussion.

Father Damien (R.L.Stevenson)

Here is the link to the website from where you can download Stevenson's pamphlet on Father Damien. This is required reading for the course and also available for presentation. We will read it right after Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.
http://www.archive.org/details/fatherdamien00stevuoft

Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde presenters

1) Atul and Sheikh Imran
2) Adithyan and Paulomi
3) Hatem Al Shamea/ Abdullah Khalil and Adel Ahmed (why 3?)
4) Anuja Saha and Ananya Ghosh
5) Sagar Rai and Leena Tamang

NOTE: Date to be announced. Likely to be latter half of Oct.

List of Presenters for the Bronte novels

Jane Eyre
1) Malyashree and Priyanka
2) Vanlalmumpuii and Christina
3) Modassar and Nagaraj
4) Swarnali and Sinorita
5) Nima and ______ (please email me the name again; writing not legible on piece of paper)

Wuthering Heights
1) Abey Jacob and Ann
2) Saheila and Maryann
3) Diksha Dhar and Shravasti
4) Sonam Cholei and Phub Lhamo
5) Ramzangzuali and Winda Chandra

NOTE: Please check with each other so you don't present the same journal article. Jane Eyre presenters must be ready to present on 9th Sep. Wuthering Heights presenters please be prepared to present on 16 Sep.

Link to E-Resources (EFL-U)

http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=214&Itemid=424

Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris

Class,
Please find the link below to Hugo's book. There are text files as well as zipped html files. Choose the text files for your convenience.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2610
On  Thursday we will discuss the first 6 books.

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