Recently we had guest lecture of Dr. Jay Mehta Sir. He talk about Edger Allen Poe’s short stories.
Here, I want to share my experience of learning short stories. Dr. Jay Maheta teach us Poe with use of various examples of poems, movies and dialogues. He try to catch the attention of everyone in class.
This four days, He has talked about Poe’s short stories like…
1) The Tell Tale Heart
2) The Black Cat
3) The Fall of the House of Usher
4) The Cask of Amontillado
5) The Purloined Letter
6) The Gold Bug
We can see Poe’s world of horror, fear, intrigue, unusualness, death, terror, mystery, puzzle, detective and most importantly the animal like face of human in his Short Stories..
Two types of short story Poe writes :
1.Tales of horror and terror.
2.Tales of ratiocination.
Element of Fear is in center of all the stories. Psychological analysis with Freud’s theories like over consciousness, OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, PS- Paranoid Schizophrenia, sadism and machoism, Neurosis, Psychosis, Freudian slip means…’It’s never slip of tongue it’s slip of mind, and many other things like weakness and grey area of human mind .
{1} Autobiographical elements in his writing
{2} Writer of Diction language
{3} Great creator of suspense
{4} Inner conflict in characterization
{5} Balance in head and heart
{6} He brings the poetic in short stories
{7} Death and darkness of human mind
{8} Tone of melancholy and sadness
{9} Singularity of effect
{10} A skillful artist
Last Session on Poems and Poets of Gujarati/Hindi Literature.
Normally his session start with reciting poetic lines and writing a quote on board.
first day he wrote on board that, "The theories we believe, we call them facts and the facts we disbelieve, we call them theories." And then he entered in talk about Father of detective stories ( Edger Allen Poe).
So This session was very helpful for us. I thankful to our HOD Dr. Dilip Barad Sir for inviting Guest lecturer like Dr. Jay Mehta sir.
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