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HU5276: Understanding Society and Culture Through Literature Syllabus for MECH 4th Sem 2019 Regulation Anna University (Humanities Elective-II)

Understanding Society and Culture Through Literature detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (MECH) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MECH students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Mechanical Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MECH 4th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Humanities Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to MECH Humanities Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of understanding society and culture through literature is as follows.

Understanding Society and Culture through Literature

Course Objective:

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Unit I

Introduction Why study literature? Tracing the origin – pictures. Tokens as precursors of writing. Movement from three dimensions to two dimensions- Pictography. From visual to oral -Logography. Reading out literature to young children- Edmund J Farrell.

Unit II

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Unit III

Identifying Meaning Searching and locating meaning through literature. Looking for order in a chaotic world. The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus) and Adi Shankar”s “Jagat Mithya”- the world as an illusion. The Indian version as “meaninglesss meaning”.

Unit IV

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Unit V

Returning To Pictures Literature of the present- Emphasis on the visual world. Twitterature. SMS. Whatsapp language. Consumer culture. Change in fixed gender notions. Interactive sessions. Introspection. Reading list

  1. Bond, Ruskin: “Night train at Deoli”
  2. Ezekiel, Nissim: ” The Night of the Scorpion”
  3. Afrika,Tatamkhulu: “Nothing”s Changed”
  4. Barthes, Roland: Mythologies
  5. Shankaracharya: Viveka Chudamani
  6. Camus, Albert- The Myth of Sisyphus
  7. Calvino, Italo: If on a winter”s night a traveler
  8. Farrell, Edmund J: “Listen, my children, and you shall read”

Course Outcome:

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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Mechanical Engineering 4th Sem, visit MECH 4th Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.

For all Mechanical Engineering results, visit Anna University MECH all semester results direct link.

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