Sunday, October 24, 2010

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.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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.

Monday, October 18, 2010

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!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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?

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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'.