Literature, Language, and the Classroom: Essays for Promodini Varma

ISBN-13: 9780367479640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 164 str.

Sonali Jain; Anubhav Pradhan

Opis

This book presents reflections on researching and teaching English literatures and languages in India. It concerns itself broadly with literary modernism and English language teaching and classroom pedagogy, some of the core concerns of the literary fraternity today.

Spis treści

Introduction: Towards a Framing of Parts. 1. Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats: Contemporaries, Strangers, Partners 2. Ibsen’s Ghost in Forster’s The Longest Journey 3. Redefining British Masculinity in Captains Courageous 4. Reading Poetry Through Translation: A Note on a Hindi Translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 5. Teaching in Translation, Teaching Gender and Sexuality 6. Radical Unlearnedness with Proletarian Schooling: Dilemmas of discipline and teaching in D.H. Lawrence’s Education of the People and Fantasia of the Unconscious 7. Holding Environments: An Enquiry into Institutional Minds 8. The Challenges of Skilling the English Language Learner for the Global Market 9. Evidence-based decision making in our teaching: why is it important and how do we do it? 10. Developments in teaching College English at University of Delhi 11. Theatre, Feminism, and Society: Notes from a Practitioner 12. Nostalgic possibilities: Planning and heritage in Shahjahanabad