9. Mod Lit
Paper 9 The Modernist Literature
Unit 1: Reading Material on The Waste Land
Unit 1: Reading Material on The Waste Land
- The Waste Land with Explanation
- The Waste Land as Modern Epic Poem
- Unity of the poem - The Waste Land
- Themes - The Waste Land
- The Complexity of the poem
- The Mythical Technique in The Waste Land
- Comment on Five Parts of the poem - 'The Waste Land'
- Presentations:
- Additional Reading:
- Check your understanding of the poem - online test / quiz
- Questions for University Exam
Unit 2: Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Unit 2: Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
- Original etext - Marked Copy
- Study Notes on To The Lighthouse:
- Symbolism in To The Lighthouse
- Narrative Technique - Stream of Consciousness in To The Lighthouse
- Research Articles:
- Click here for detailed discussion on To The Lighthouse
- To check your understanding of the novel, take this online test
- Questions for Examination- To The Lighthouse
Unit 3: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Unit 3: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
- Original Play Act 1
- Original Play Act 2
- Existentialism
- Sisyphus - the Absurd Hero
- Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Circular Nature of the Play
- Political Reading of the Play
- Deconstructive Reading of the Play
- Psychoanalytical Reading of the Play
- Postmodernist Reading of the Play
- Three Plays - Oedipus, Hamlet and Waiting for Godot
- Hindu Philosophy and Waiting for Godot
- Lucky's Speech: Explanation
- Dirty Jokes in the play
- Question Bank - Waiting for Godot
- Worksheet - Film Screening
- Check your progress - Online Test
- Watch these video resources to understand Existentialism
Unit 4: The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter
Unit 4: The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter
- Original Play
- Biography of Harold Pinter
- The Birthday Party as Theatre of Absurd
- Introduction - Setting, Characters, Pinteresque etc
- Various Themes and Interpretations of the Play
- Comedy of Menace
- Language in 'The Birthday Party'
- Feminist Reading of the Play
- Research Articles:
- Pinter's Birthday Party: The Film and the Play - Harriet and Irving Deer
- Art, Truth and Politics - Excerpt from Nobel 2005 Speech by Harold Pinter - for complete Speech click here
- The Peopled Wound: The Works of Harold Pinter - Martin Esslin
- Reflections on Pinter's 'The Birthday Party - Simon O. Lesser
- A poem on the play - 'A View of the Party'
- Worksheet on the Screening of the Film - The Birthday Party
- Check your progress - online test
Unit 5: The Background Reading: Modernist Literature
Unit 5: The Background Reading: Modernist Literature
- 'The Setting' of the Modern Times and Literature
- The Literary Modernism / Modernist Literature
- Literary Movements - Modernism and other movements
- Modernism
- Modernism - Peter Barry
- Understanding Modernism and PostModernism
- Video Resources:
- Take this online test to know your understanding of the Modernist Literature
- Very Short Modern Poems