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Viva Voice Sir Mukesh (Original)

This document provides an overview of three subjects taught by Sir Mukesh: Classical poetry, American literature, and Post Colonial Literature. It includes discussion of important texts, authors, and themes within each subject area. Classical poetry covers works like Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, and Faerie Queene. American literature discusses early colonial works and authors before examining texts like Leaves of Grass, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sound and the Fury. Post colonial literature defines the term and explores themes through analyses of Things Fall Apart and Wide Sargasso Sea among other topics.

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Viva Voice Sir Mukesh (Original)

This document provides an overview of three subjects taught by Sir Mukesh: Classical poetry, American literature, and Post Colonial Literature. It includes discussion of important texts, authors, and themes within each subject area. Classical poetry covers works like Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, and Faerie Queene. American literature discusses early colonial works and authors before examining texts like Leaves of Grass, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sound and the Fury. Post colonial literature defines the term and explores themes through analyses of Things Fall Apart and Wide Sargasso Sea among other topics.

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Includes purpose of teaching literature & what is literature, 3 subjects taught by Sir mukesh Classical
poetry, American literature, and Post Colonial Literature.
1.Teaching of English Literature

= Importance of English Language

 Explain Prose!
What are the Aims of Teaching Prose?
 Define Poetry.
Poetry has 3 aspects
1. Emotional
2. Imaginative
3. Rhythmic
 Aims of Teaching Poetry
 Advantages of Teaching Poetry
 Aims of teaching English
 What do you know about approaches to teaching Literature

2.Classical Poetry

 Define Literature
 Functions of Literature
 Characteristics of Literature
1. Artistic quality
2. Universality
3. Elements of Permanence
4. Element of real pleasure
 Define classical poetry:
 Difference between classical poetry and romantic poetry
 The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is written by
 A few Lines about Chaucer as the father of English poetry
 State any three significant features of Chaucer’s prologue.
Ans:
1. It is a document of the 14th Century England
2. It reflects the society of that age
3. It is a literary landmark that is still alive and one of the most celebrated works.
 What do you know about Thomas Beckett?
 Canterbury?
 Define Prologue
 Define Epilogue
 What is Epic
 How many Pilgrims are there in the prologue?
 Name some of them
Sir mukesh chits provided for Viva voice
Includes purpose of teaching literature & what is literature, 3 subjects taught by Sir mukesh Classical
poetry, American literature, and Post Colonial Literature.
 Speak a few lines about
1. The knight
2. The squire
3. The wife of bath
4. The Prioress
 What are those human estates (major social classes) that are part of the prologue
Ans:
1. They are those who fight
2. Those who pray
3. Those who are woman
 Who or which book inspired Chaucer to write the Canterbury tales
Ans: from Boccaccio’s Decameron
2.2 Paradise lost
 What do you mean by Paradise Lost?
 What are the themes of Paradise Lost?
Disobidience, Eternal providence, Justification of ways of God to man
 Principal Characters
Adam, Eve, Satan, God Himself
 What is a Blank Verse.
 What(Why) do you dot the style of John Milton
2.3 The Extasie
 Define Ecstasie
 What is the prominent theme of Esctasy?
Ans:
1. Love as a fusion of two souls.
2. Physical and spiritual love are equally important
 What is metaphysical poetry?
 Speak a few lines about John Donne as a poet of Love and Sex.
2.4 Blake
 Explain the title ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’.
 Speak a few lines about the poem ‘the Sick Rose’
2.5 The Faerie Queene
 What is the Faerie Queene about?
 Who is known as the poet of poets.
Ans: Spencer is known as the poet of poets.

3.Origin of American Literature

 What type of Literature produced during Colonial Period in America


 What type of Literature was orally transmitted?
Sir mukesh chits provided for Viva voice
Includes purpose of teaching literature & what is literature, 3 subjects taught by Sir mukesh Classical
poetry, American literature, and Post Colonial Literature.
 What were early American Literature Genres?
Myths, Chants, Humorous anecdotes, riddles and proverbs.
 What do you know about Christopher Columbus (The Italian Explorer)
 When and where did the First English Settlement take place in America.
 What do you know about Africans in America during Colonial period?
 Define Colonisation
 Causes of Colonisation
Over population, economic distress, social unrest, religious persecution.
 Well known writers of Colonial period:
 Captain John Smith, William Bradstreet, Anne Bradstreet , Edmund Taylor
3.2 Whitman
 What do you know about Walt Whitman
 ‘Leaves of Grass’ is dominated by which themes?
 What is Amativeness
What is Adhesiveness
 Whitman as a representative poet of America
 Mysticism of Whitman
 What do you know about ‘O Captain, My Captain’ by Whitman
 Three Major themes in Whitman:
Democracy, Beauty of Individual, The Human Body
3.3 Farewell to arms
 Explain the title of A Farwell to Arms.
 What is in the Background of the novel?
 What is the ‘Separate Peace’ in the novel?
 Explain how Lieutenant Henry is trapped biologically and socially.
 Definition of a Hero.
 What is a Code Hero?
 What is a Hemingway Hero?
 What do you know about Catherine and Henry?
 What do you know about Dr. Rinaldi & the Priest.
 Define Symbolism:
 What are the Symbols in the novel, A farewell to Arms?
- Mountains: serve as symbol of peace & quiet, of love, dignity, happiness, health, home
- Plains: Plains serve as a symbol of indignity, disease, suffering, nervousness, war, death,
not home
- Ruins: as ill omen. Fear, hardship, suffering, misfortune,
- Catherine: symbolizes domesticity, conjugal happiness, faithfulness. sacrifice
- Henrysymbolises loyalty, love, compassion, attachment, commitment
- The priest: symbolizes divine love, religiosity, secular love
- Dr. Rinaldi: symbolizes just opposite feelings, man without god, Casanova nature
3.4 The Sound and the Fury
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 It is known as & Experimental Novel:
Please explain Innovative & experimental:
 The early name of the story was Twilight- Later developed as a novel. The sound and the fury.
Please explain the title.
 From where the title of the novel has been borrowed.
 What is the theme in the Novel?
 Major Characters
 Do you Caddy is the sole responsible for decline of the family?
 What do you say about the parental role played by both Husband and Wife.
 Define Utopia
 Define Dystopia
 Faulkner’s views of women
 Symbolism in the novel:
1. Water
2. Quentin’s watch
3. Christian symbols
4. Corruption of Aristocratic values.
 What are the major characters in the novel.
3.5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 A few words about Emerson as a poet
 A few words about Emerson as an Essayist
 Definition of Transcendentalism
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4.Post colonial literature

 What is postcolonial literature


Ans: literature that deals with the people who lived once under colonialism, is called Post-
colonial literature.
4.2 Things fall Apart
 What does Things Fall Apart deal with?
Ans: It deals with the theme of colonialism and its demerits.
 4.3 Wide Sargasso Sea
 Themes in Wide Sargasso Sea?
 What is post colonial literature?
 Ans: It is the literature and the Art produced in the countries such as India, Africa, Sri-Lanka,
Nigeria and Australia after their independence, called Post colonial Literature.
4.4 Theorists
 Who are the major post colonial authors that shaped the post colonial theory?
Ans:They are: Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhaba, and Gayatri Chakrvarty Spivak.
 What are the central ideas in post colonial literature:
Sir mukesh chits provided for Viva voice
Includes purpose of teaching literature & what is literature, 3 subjects taught by Sir mukesh Classical
poetry, American literature, and Post Colonial Literature.
 Ans: Post colonial literature has many common themes like Cultural dominance, Racism, quest
for identity and inequality.
 4.5 Define these terms
1.Colonialism, 2. Post-colonialism, 3.Imperialism, 4. Ambivalence, 5. Diaspora, 6. Culture,
7.Creolization, 8.Syncretism, 9. Ethnicity, 10.feminism, 11.Adivasi, 12.Common Wealth
Literature, 13.Dalit, 14.Orientalism, 15. Secularism, 16.Hegemony, 17.Decolonisation,
18.Humanism, 19.Universalism, 20.neocolonialism, 21.Worlding, 22.New World,
23Anthropology.

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