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2: ASSIGNMENT TOPICS 2012 No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Dr ABRAHAM JOSEPH Title Joyce as a novelist Lawrence as a novelist Orwell as a novelist Forster as a novelist The psychological novel with reference to Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf The stream of consciousness technique Woolf as an essayist Easter 1916 as a political poem The role of Mythology in The Wasteland The theme of The Wasteland. The structure of The Wasteland. In memory of W.B. Yeats as an elegy. The poetry of Stephen Spender Wilfred Owen as a war poet Eliots views on tradition and individual talent GEORGE MATHEW Shaw as a playwright Synge as a playwright The philosophy of Shaw The Irish Literary Renaissance The playwrights of the Irish Dramatic Revival The didacticism of Shaw The revival of poetic drama Short notes on: The social drama or the drama of ideas; Abbey theatre; Poetic drama; the Irish dramatic revival; 20th C English drama. Student JIJANI ANEESHIA RENEESH JOMON SONU DEEPU REENU NEELU VARSHA JINCY SHINDU SHYJI VIDYA ANCY GEETHU

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EL2.2.2: SEMINAR TOPICS 2012 No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Dr ABRAHAM JOSEPH Title Easter 1916 as a political poem Yeats complex attitude towards the Patriotic Martyrs The Wasteland as a myth The theme of The Wasteland The structure of The Wasteland In Memory of W.B Yeats as an elegy Virginia Woolfs views on the modern essay Animal Farm as a satire on totalitarianism Sons and Lovers as an exploration of the human mind The East-West interface in A Passage to India Portrait of the Artist as a novel about growing up. The presentness of the past in Tradition and Individual Talent. The symbolic significance of characters and events in The Animal Farm Stephen Spender as a poet The philosophy of D H Lawrence GEORGE MATHEW The sea as protagonist in Riders to the Sea Riders to the Sea as Greek tragedy The Irishness of Riders to the Sea The relationship between language and social class in Pygmalion A Feminist reading of Pygmalion Social criticism in Pygmalion Irony and humour in Pygmalion A comparison and contrast of the themes of Pygmalion and Educating Rita Student ANEESHIA GEETHU VARSHA JOMON RENEESH UNNI VINEETHA NEELU SHERNA ADARSH ANCY JIJANI JINCY REENU SHYJI

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