LITERATURE FOR PLEASURE
English Literature comprises the world of poets, novelists and critics. The other day while pondering over some websites I came across the phrase of Teaching Philosophy. My mind immediately started travelling through the question why do I love teaching literature? I started flipping through the pages of my memory and I realized literature is actually giving wings to imagination.Yes, I do have to teach novels and books according to the prescribed syllabus. But the real enjoyment of learning literature is going beyond the syllabus. The horizon of reading and gaining is immense to make you so versatile that you read Shakespeare in the morning and Salman Rushdie to end your day. The dictionary meaning of the word imagination is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. When I think about why I like reading English literature it is like travelling the world which is untraveled and exploring the unexplored vista. Fernan...