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4
Modules
19
Topics
6-10
hours
Modules (4)
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classic and modern literature
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Module 1
Collective and Individual Memories
Resources availableIn this module, you will be introduced to the publication and the aspects of memory which are in an inherent part of many discussions in the context of Midnight’s Children and the political allegory that narrates the story of modern India. Next, you will learn the political nature of the act of writing, the narrative elements and strategies adopted. Finally, you will learn how difficult it can be to settle in a new society, the unspoken things and details of the diasporic experience.Collective and Individual Memories - Learning Outcomes
Start TopicUnreliable Narration
Start TopicFrom Errata to Midnight’s Children
Start TopicThe Third Continent
Start TopicDiasporic Tales
Start TopicCollective and Individual Memories - Lesson Summary
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Module 2
Poems and Magic Realism
Resources availableIn this module, you will be introduced to the character and the many narrative elements and techniques of Marquez's work which includes how an object of art also can be seen in different ways and how the right kind of person with the aesthetic sensibility can understand this. You will also learn the typical modernist poem and one of the most difficult of the 20th-century and an iconic representative literary piece of the modernist period.Poems and Magic Realism - Learning Outcomes
Start TopicLatin American Magic Realism
Start TopicThe Value of Art
Start TopicA Modernist Poem
Start TopicA Game of Chess
Start TopicPoems and Magic Realism - Lesson Summary
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Module 3
The Wall and The Applicant
Resources availableIn this module, you will be introduced to the classical literature references and the narratives within which the book The Wall continues to be situated in a canonical status and the dilemma of engaging with existentialism, life, death and the power of human will. You will also learn the ways in which the personal and the political intersect Sylvia Plath's ideas of feminism marriage, gender stereotypes and social pressures.The Wall and The Applicant - Learning Outcomes
Start TopicModern Times
Start TopicExistentialism
Start TopicThe Existential Question
Start TopicThe Applicant
Start TopicThe Wall and The Applicant - Lesson Summary
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course assessment: Modern Literary Classics
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Module 4
Course assessment
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