NPTEL : Understanding Creativity and Creative Writing (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Neelima Talwar


Lecture 1 - Overview

Lecture 2 - In Conversation with Richard Schechner

Lecture 3 - Multilingual Plurality: Our Environment - Part I

Lecture 4 - Multilingual Plurality: Our Environment - Part II

Lecture 5 - Interplay of Languages and Forms of Writing - Part I

Lecture 6 - Interplay of Languages and Forms of Writing - Part II

Lecture 7 - Creativity and Cultures

Lecture 8 - Notion of Play and The Three Domain Activities

Lecture 9 - Theory of Enjoyment: Critical Assessment

Lecture 10 - Divergences and Convergences - Part I

Lecture 11 - Divergences and Convergences - Part II

Lecture 12 - Creative and Cultural Spaces for Students

Lecture 13 - Being and Doing: Writing as Performance

Lecture 14 - Writers and Writing: The Dialogic Process

Lecture 15 - Creativity, Writing, Creative Writing: Recent Viewpoints

Lecture 16 - Issues Related to the Teaching of Creative Writing

Lecture 17 - Writers on Writing: Albert Camus

Lecture 18 - Critical Reading of Great Writers: Albert Camus

Lecture 19 - Critical Reading of Important Writers: Margaret Atwood

Lecture 20 - Reading and Writing

Lecture 21 - Indian Writing: Writers/Narrators

Lecture 22 - Contemporary Indian Writers: The Search for Creativity - Part I

Lecture 23 - Contemporary Indian Writers: The Search for Creativity - Part II

Lecture 24 - Mosaic Patterns: Module 2

Lecture 25 - Introduction to Drama

Lecture 26 - Performance and Script Writing: Mime

Lecture 27 - Western Classical Theory

Lecture 28 - Student Response - I

Lecture 29 - Indian Drama: Classical Theory and Practice

Lecture 30 - Interacting Continuum: Classical, Folk and Modern Drama

Lecture 31 - From The Perspective of Playwriting: Monologue

Lecture 32 - From The Playwright's Perspective - Part I

Lecture 33 - From The Playwright's Perspective - Part II

Lecture 34 - From The Perspective of Playwriting: Anton Chekhov

Lecture 35 - Drama in the Classroom: Experience and Writing

Lecture 36 - Student Response - II

Lecture 37 - Performative Reading of the Cherry Orchard

Lecture 38 - Short Story as a Genre

Lecture 39 - Short Stories by Indian Women Writers

Lecture 40 - Modern Western Short Story

Lecture 41 - Varieties of Writing Processes