This video draws our attention
towards four psychological functions of great literature that how books
affects/change our life. We have common belief that libraries/books are very
important but what exactly is good for? So, here major four benefits are given
1) literature is time saver as it takes us years or decades back through our
imagination and we travel many places without going there through our imagery.
2) It makes us nicer, by listing this, question arise in our mind that Are we
bad before the contact of literature? But not in that sense, literature makes
us more sympathize by giving feelings of deep importance. 3) It fills the place
of other person; we often hear that Books are our best friends. It is our
friend which never left us in loneliness. and 4) it prepares us for failure,
because we have fear of failure, as in ON@CC by Chetan Bhagat, God gave four aspects which are important in
life when call comes, forth one is that people are feared from failure never accept
it as a second chance do better. To win in life, failure is important part of
it. If you cannot learn to fall down, you never learn to fly high. (Popova)
2)
‘How
English Literature shaped me?’ by Arvind Adiga
In this blog, Adiga shared his experience that how English
literature shaped his whole life. He shared his childhood memories and talking
about the Indian conservative town of 1980s. During this time how he devoured
literature through circulating libraries that would lend out at a nominal rate.
He also talks about the importance of English language and famous writers of
that time. He got suggestions for good writers and books from the owner of that
library. His grandfather’s house was full of books, all in English. He said,
‘we were the language’s, before language was ours.’ He found all glamour in English
that shaped him a lot. (Adiga)
2)
Is
B.A English in India just a time pass? By Ketan Krishna
This write up has
written in a very literary way as it begin with the statement that ‘It’s
universally acknowledged that a person studying English literature as a formal
course, isn’t really studying’ which is similar the beginning lines of ‘Pride
and Prejudice’ by Austen. It is about the value and importance of students of
B.A English in Indian society much for boys who study in this, how they look by
society like jobless, no wife, no future, its waste of time. It also talks
about the role of universities which differs from the school life that allows
students to think individually. What happen after studying literature,
existential questions arises and students learn to doubt every system and stay
in the state of uncertainty. (Krishna)
3)
Surviving
B.A English
This writing is by the
group of the students of literature from Delhi University. Here, they are
talking about how mountains of critical works/materials can be designed by
literature students as assignment and presentations to share with global people
their ideas and insights of different literary texts. (Surviving
BA(hon) English )
4) IIT
dropout finds B.A English syllabus equally uninteresting by Pagal Patrakar
This write up is
about a boy who dropout from engineering to pursue his career by studying
literature because his interest is in writing poems, so he take admission in
literature but he found that girls are so hot but no one is interested in
reading or studying literature. Students are not discussed about any books or
essays. He complains that every student criticized his poems not praising but
literature is more about criticism. He found that there is no beauty to study
literature that is the situation in allover India. (Patrakar)
5)
Life
at Delhi University, 5 things every students of english goes through in college
by Sudhisa Mishra
The experiences of
student has reflected through the whole article where 5 things are there that
experienced by every english student in the college hat are stereotypes were
false, we have stereotype image of literature that it all about reading
literature but through it we can connects our self totally with the books which
make us happy, sad or satisfied. We study literature era wise from Elizabeth to
modern age. Literature students have new festivals like book fairs of their own
happy day is festival for them. It introduces them to real truth, beauty of
sadness, happiness, death, miseries etc. Literature students can explore views
about cities, cultures, life of people, untraveled paths where poetries leads
us. We can enjoy different places without going there that is the joy of being
English literature students. (Misra)
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Popova, Maria. "Brainpickings." What Books Do
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