Saturday, February 3, 2018

Topic Research: A portfolio of Western Literature meets Eastern Indian Mythology with Patrick ALSO IN IT

So after reading through the project choices of Storybook or Portfolio, I am still not sure where I am leaning to go! However, for the past three weeks of school, I have really enjoyed reading books in my Fate and the Individual Part II class which is based off of a syllabus by W.H. Auden when he taught a course that involved over 6,000 pages of reading in a semester. I love both parts of the class at OU. Anyways, currently my ideas are leaning toward continuing to reflect on the Indian stories and doing a Portfolio...unless I find something else that I think is funnier.

Here's what I got so far:

The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan
The Mahabharata by R.K. Narayan
And a collage tales either from the Jatakas and other tales read online in the extra credits: thejatakas

The overarching theme will be W.H. Auden's ghost guiding Patrick through his thoughts about the  Indian Epics and Tales by retelling the story where Patrick is inside the stories along with different heroes and villains accumulated in the books that Auden suggested in his original syllabus. The heroes and villains will probably include Faust from Goethe's Faust, Elizabeth Bennett from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and whatever else I decide on as the semester continues. The final project will also include quotes from poetry by W.H. Auden which I will attempt into being the overarching message of the story (more on this later) - kind of like how in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV show had a message at the beginning of each episode to guide the plot.
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                         here is the syllabus by Auden. picture taken from theparisreview

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