Sons And Lovers Analysis

The understanding of critical approaches to literature helps a great deal while handling the novel. If we choose to take up D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, psychological approach throws light upon certain issues which otherwise would remain unexplored. Along with this engagement with literature, film viewing and discussion sessions are also handled. Either we move to a film after finishing a particular section of literature or engage extra hours on Saturdays for watching films ( six/seven sessions of one and a half hour each) and take up the discussion in the following regular hour. Sometimes, I extend one of the class hours and use it for film viewing. Care is taken to space them out well so that students too have some change to look
Typically, in a semester, six to seven films are studied. Each film is chosen with much care to make them have an understanding of the major film schools/ film movements, representative films from World Cinema. I begin with some representative films from each of the important film schools: Soviet Montage style, German Expressionism, Italian Neo Realism, French New Wave etc. Also they are exposed to a Swedish (Bergman), a Japanese/ an Iranian, and an Indian film. Since in India films are made in many regional languages, I have a difficult task in deciding which of the films to expose the students to. I have observed that my students have already had an overdose of populist cinema from Hollywood and hence I do not make them watch it in the class. However, if they wish to take it up for any one of their assignments, I give them the freedom. The attempt is to make the students gain the most in a limited period of a semester. \The list is not an exhaustive one. Since now the course design has evolved into something where I have the flexibility to include/ remove a particular text as long as I achieve the predetermined
This is one section which in spite of my attempts, the students have not warmed up to with the same alacrity. After my initial few semesters with the course, I have accepted the fact that majority of my students do not love studying poetry! Eliot is one poet whom I passionately brought into the class room in the initial few semesters, but after repeated suggestions from many of my students, I have dropped him for now. I am always on the look-out for students who show some inclination for some poetry