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TOBA TEK SINGH NOV 10, 2014 Evolving understanding of Partition Identity crisis: 1. Existential crisis 2. Loyalties - Indian or Pakistani - not just territorial or political but also highly personal, an individual choice 3. identity itself fluid and contextual about madness in and of Partition Madness because of the cost of separation Madness incomprehensible, but meant to be so: 1. no outsider can comprehend the reality of the Partition 2. the Partition SHOULD NOT make sense to us, because it is not our tragedy to understand 3. trauma narrative -------------- NOV 14, 2014 Components of a short story: plot (twist) (message) characters time point of view - but better to call it focalization setting  mood fact or fiction style of writing "When you learn how to read a text, it 'disables' you from merely summarizing it in the exam" Paratexts (outside elements) title preface prologue epilogue foreword introduction blurb in...

QUICK REVISION: Casabianca - Ayyappa Panicker Themes:  challenging established ideas because impractical questioning blind obedience rational thinking and logic filial piety is overrated self-glorification (by father) outdated ideals, morals, standards (esp. those of respect toward elders) necessity for scientific temper * through the poem, our perceptions about the father and the son evolve and become more tangible and less open to interpretation * twist in storyline, attitude * responsibility toward future generations to encourage wiser ideals * press in the poem - criticized for sensationalizing and being purveyors of gossip - emphasis on 'human element' (p.s. this is a euphemism) rather than cold hard facts Literary devices: satire irony subversion  intertextuality Ayyappa Panicker is challenging a celebrated poem which symbolizes filial piety and obedience He does this using inter-textuality - referring to one text while writing another (here, Feli...

SUSHMA MA'AM 10 NOV 2014 INTRODUCTION TO VICTORIAN ENGLAND Victorian: not necessarily of the age (1837 to 1901) but also about the sensibility Tangible aspects: 1. extreme prosperity 2. height of imperialism 3. industrial revolution and agricultural revolution and their effect on daily life (railways, separation of private and public space, concept of town vs city or vs workplace (in an agrarian lifestyle, the workplace and home is the same - not so in an urban setting), "balance" of the two) 4. architecture (revival of medieval, Gothic - dark, secretive, cloistered) 5. inventions!!! (Queen Victoria first to be photographed) The Great Exhibition is used as a metaphor for the age of inventions: all modern scientific inventions were put on display - camera, steam engine - but also a miniature iron-and-glass structure (apparently a building) which shocked the public who would not trust iron (as opposed to stone) as building material and who reje...