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## Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method ... # Structuralism :- It is a approach to analysing the narrative Material by examining the underlying invariant structure. This is in fact exactly what structuralism is about structuralist theorist are interested in identifying and analysing the structure that underlie all the cultural phenomenon.       Structuralist got the notion that everything could be analysed in the terms of deep structure from linguistic Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard Genette. They found the basic structure in every work. It is like human structure of body that all human being have same inside structure of body. So this can also apply into the literature that it has also their basic common structure which can found every literary forms. 1) Languge , Langue , Parole 2) Sign , Signifier , Signified 3

#Thinking activity: Do you agree with Mathew Arnold's views on detachment, disinterestedness, fallacies like historical and personal, touchstone method and his definition of Poetry? # Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)was one of the greatest Victorian critic. He was a poet turned as critic.. He was highly moralistic person of his time. Arnold gives a definition of poetry. He said, Poetry is a "Criticism of Life"... This definition also relevant to present time. So I agree with Arnold's principles of detachment and disinterestedness. Arnold has expressed his great thoughts and ideas in explicit,vivid and consummate manner..

NORTHROP FRYE.. January 16, 2018 ***Thinking Activity on the Archetypes of literature by Northrop Frye.. Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature.....  1) What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? =} Archetypal criticism​ is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images and character types in literary work... Archetypal criticism's origin are rooted in two other physhoanalysis,each contributed to literary criticism...  James G. Frazer whose the golden bough identified elemental patterns of myth and ritual. Another critic Carl G. Jung who applied the term "Archetypal" to what he called "primordial images"..He also maintained the "collective unconscious"of the human race and are expressed in myths, religion, dreams and private fantasies as well as in work of literature... 2) What is Frye trying prove by giving an ana

Thinking activity on I.A.Richard's Figurative Language December 30, 2017 I.A. Richards: Figurative Language...         ##Ivor Armstrong Richards – pioneer in the domain of New Criticism.      ## His path breaking works:- 1.       The Meaning of Meaning – 1923 2.       The Principles of Literary Criticism – 1924 3.      The Practical Criticism – 1929. a.      Four Kinds of Meaning b.      Two Uses of Language c.       On Simile, Metaphor and Symbol. *In the essay Figurative language Richards gives his justification on three Poems. Here I'm given the analysis of song: 1                   1) हो ओ … तेरी अखियों का वार जैसे शेर का शिकार तेरा हुस्न धुयंदार जैसे जलता सिगार तेरी अखियों का वार जैसे शेर का शिकार तेरा हुस्न धुयंदार जैसे जलता सिगार तेरे प्यार का नशा कभी आर कभी पार....             Totally worthless song... The lyrics have absolutely no deep meaning. All it has a just few meaning less words..       I mean love is something pure,

Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads November 20, 2017  William Wordsworth was born on 7 April, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.The theory he produced, and the poetics he invented to embody it, caused a revolution in English literature. Developed throughout his life, Wordsworth’s understanding of the human mind seems simple enough today, what with the advent of psychoanalysis and the general Freudian acceptance of the importance of childhood in the adult psyche. But in Wordsworth’s time, in what Seamus Heaney has called “Dr. Johnson’s supremely adult eighteenth century,”  where Wordsworth could be closer to his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge began work on a book called Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798 and reissued with Wordsworth’s monumental preface in 1802. The publication of Lyrical Ballads represents a landmark moment for English poetry; it was unlike anything that had come before, and paved the w

November 06, 2017 ** Thinking Activity:- Dryden's Essay: of Dramatic Poesy..... * Aristotle's Definition:- "Tragedy  is an art of imitation of an action that is serious,complete and of a certain magnitude;in the language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament,the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play in the form of action; not in narrative; through pity and terror effecting the proper purgation-- Catharsis of these and similar emotions." * Dryden's Definition:- "A play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature; representing its passion and humours and the change of fortune to which it is subjected for the delight and instruction of mankind.." 1) Do you any difference between Aristotle's definition of Tragedy and Dryden's definition of Play?  _ There is a huge differences between Aristotle's definition of tragedy and Dryden's definition of play. Dryden used words like, 'Image'

To evaluate my assignment    Click Here  Assignment of Renaissance in India : Sri Aurobindo November 02, 2017 Name:- Ekta Jayswal Respected Sir, To evaluate my assignment click here Class:- M.A. Sem: 1 Roll No:- 13 Topic:- Renaissance In India : Sri Aurobindo Paper No:- 4 [ Indian Writing In English ] Enrolment No:- PG 2069108420180027 Year:- 2017/19 Email ID:-ektajayswal12@gmail.com Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad              S.B.Gardi English Department .                             M.K.B.U. *Renaissance in india: Sri Aurobindo* # Introduction:- Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. He stood first in King’s College, Cambridge in England. He also passed the final examination of the Indian Civil Service.When he was professor in Baroda College, he joined revolutionary society....  Sri Aurobindo was Indian Hindu nationalist, philosopher, scholar, poet, evolutionary, yogi and guru. After a short political career in whi

To evaluate my assignment Click Here Assignment of Wordsworth As A Critic November 02, 2017 Name:- Ekta Jayswal Class:- M.A. Sem: 1 Roll No:- 13 Topic:- Wordsworth As A Critic Paper No:- 3 [Literary Theory & Criticism] Enrolment No:- PG 2069108420180027 Year:- 2017/19 Email ID:-ektajayswal12@gmail.com Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad              S.B.Gardi English Department .                             M.K.B.U.                     **Wordsworth As A Critic** # INTRODUCTION:- o William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. His father was John Wordsworth, Sir James Lowther's attorney. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of nature. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. The domestic problems separated Wordsworth from his beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy, who was a very important person in his life.  o

To evaluate my assignment, Click Here Assignment of Neo classical Literature.. November 02, 2017 Name:- Ekta Jayswal Respected Sir, Class:- M.A. Sem: 1 Roll No:- 13 Topic:- Sheridan As a Dramatist.. Paper No:- 2 [The Neo - Classical Literature] Enrolment No:- PG 2069108420180027 Year:- 2017/19 Email ID:-ektajayswal12@gmail.com Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad              S.B.Gardi English Department .                             M.K.B.U. *Sheridan As a Dramatist* # Introduction:- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in full Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan; Irish-born playwright, impresario,  orator, and Whig politician. He was born on 30 October 1751 at Dorset Street, Dublin, was grandson of Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738), and son of Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788).He received the rudiments of learning from his father, and from the age of seven till eight and a half attended a school in Dublin kept by Samuel Whyte. Then he rejoined his parents, who had migrated t

To evaluate my assignment, Click here Assignment of Metaphysical Poetry November 02, 2017 Name:- Ekta Jayswal Respected Sir, Class:- M.A. Sem: 1 Roll No:- 13 Topic:- Metaphysical Poetry Paper No:- 1 [The Renaissance Literature] Enrolment No:- PG 2069108420180027 Year:- 2017/19 Email ID:-ektajayswal12@gmail.com Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad              S.B.Gardi English Department .                             M.K.B.U. **WHAT IS A METAPHYSICAL? ☆Metaphysical word made of two words, #Meta --       Beyond #Physical -- Our Surrounding #It means the poetry that is having a particular that is beyond  this article word.. **ORIGIN OF THE NAME:- ¤ ‘Metaphysical poets’ the name given to a diverse group of 17th‐century English poets whose work is notable for its ingenious use of intellectual and theological concepts in surprising conceits, strange paradoxes and far‐fetched imagery. ¤ The word metaphysics is formed from the Greek meta ta phusika, a ti

*Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria: ch-14..* September 29, 2017 *Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria: ch-14..*    1)The Poetry and Prose both contains the same elements but,the major difference is the OBJECT.. Prose has a simple and regular way of writing style. It has certain artificial arrangement of words,metre,rhymes,ornamental words etc. But the aim of Poetry is to give the first please that delight and knowledge. So, we find clear difference in both literary forms. prose. 2) Difference between Poem and Poetry Literary works are created for the purpose of providing people with information,entertainment and inspiration. They have been around for as long as the ancient times. A Poem can either be rhyming or n- rhyming. It uses symbols and has lines and stanzas that have sentences, fragmentes of sentences or both. It uses Metaphor and alliteration, especially in poems for children. Poetry is defined as a literary form of act,evoked in

September 04, 2017 My views on Kenneth Branagh's movie, 'Hamlet':  · 1       How faithful is the movie to the original play? 1》Yes, the movie is faithful to the original play,because Branagh utilizes the entire script virtually word for word. but,their are some notable changes: Which is not clearly in the original text is a sex scene between Hamlet and Ophelia. which is used as a flashback at various points.  #Or In movie Hamlet was following his father's orders even though in the play he was not. #Hamlet's father died in a tragic death,Shakespeare never clearly states the atmosphere and setting of where Claudius poisened his brother but,Branagh choose a clever way to show it. · 2        After watching the movie, have your perception about play, characters or situations changed? 2》In the movie, The setting is much more modern than original.  In the movie version Gertude appears to truly care for her son and sees the horror of her choic

Post- Truth August 21, 2017  what is post-truth? In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries chose post-truth as its word of the year, defining it as shorthand for “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.  Oxford Dictionaries announced its word of the year for 2016 and earlier it's not part of the vernacular or as recognizable as the runners-up like "alt-right," "adulting," "woke," and "Brexiteer," then we recognize how it played a major role in the election of Donald Trump. Post-truth is a reworking of the much discredited Marxist notion of ‘false consciousness’ that was based on the notion that there is one living truth centred on the wisdom of those who are sufficiently enlightened.   It assumes that there is only one objective truth and that the debate between the half-full and half-empty can be settled conclusively and objectively.  

Courage August 21, 2017  Who dares to follow the wings of the heart To open the Cage of fear and set this Bird free! Only than you`ll really see If it`s singing was for thee ... Will this dog follow you when the leash is not there Is it going to come back where you reason it, or fly to where your dreams are planted?!  To call and pray for you       From there,  so much Flowers       on this Way!

Digdarshak - One Act Play August 20, 2017 Digdarshak (Hindi Drama) One Act Play Written by Priyam Jani Directed by Rishit Jhaveri  A few days ago we watched a hindi play Digdarshak @ our Department of English;it was organised by a film screening committee members. I have no idea about theater but what i feel or observed is it is.. It is a story about a Director and Actor. Director is so much involved in his theater life. He gaves too much attention to his students rather then family. Director sacrifice his personal life for his art or theater,so the main theme  of this play is THEATER V/S FAMILY..because he sacrifice for the theatre. Only two man perform many roles on the stage or cover full stage. Director used flashback techniques to throw a light upon the concept. Its really painful that sometimes we are not able to balanced everything... Thank you..

Yugpurush- Mahatma na Mahatma August 20, 2017 YUGPURUSH MAHATMA NA MAHATMA  The play is directed by acclaimed director Rajesh Joshi, and scripted by well-known playwright Uttam Gada. The music direction is by Sachin - Jigar. Duration: 120 minutes with intermission. The play is presently running in the Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Tamil versions, and will soon be released in English and other regional languages.  A play is about Mahatma Gandhi & shrimad Rajchandraji.. The Father of the Indian Nation, Mahatma Gandhi is synonymous with ahinsa and satyagraha. Mahatma's inspiration was Shrimad Rajchandraji.. The Yugpurush is a heart-touching portrayal of this special bond between Shrimadji and Gandhiji that catapulted him from 'Mohandas' to 'Mahatma'.This theatrical presentation is a tribute to two great souls and an opportunity for all to be inspired.  Yugpurush highlights the values of expanding one's capacity to lov

August 19, 2017 Dr. Faustus Written by Christopher Marlowe Directed by Matthew Dunster This was the 1st production of Doctor Faustus at the Globe. Sir Dilip Barad has given an online task to perform after screening of the play.. Tasks: 1) The play directed by Matthew Dunster for Globe theatre ends with this scene (see the image of Lucifer). What does it signify?  last Scene: Lucifer with wide wings * It deals with the last hour of faustus's life when he is caught alone in his study waiting for the devils to come and take his soul to hell. Sach a loneliness may be a cross reference used by Marlowe to underlines that man is alone infront of DEATH. Faustus having nothing but his absolute knowledge gained through his sinful deal with the devil,is desperately alone..In the end Evil wins and it shows his victory. 2) Is God present in the play? If yes, where and how? If No, why? *Yes,God has presented in the play from the 1st scene to last scene. Faustus's

Paheredar Piya Ki.... August 18, 2017  Really hate T.V. serials! No creativity at all! All the serials have the same old cheesy stories and are watered down exponentially! When is Indian television going to launch something innovative and brilliant¿¿ Indian television industry should feel ashamed for showing such ridiculous concepts and exposing children to such crap...this is pathetic..instead of showing progressive thinking these shows promote how backward indian society is! For us, this one definitely comes as another blow to the Indian Television, which has no great reputation, anyway.

Tree Plantation - A Beautiful Day August 18, 2017 5 Aug 2017 Tree plantation @ Department of english;by respected Dilip sir and the students.  Its my misfortune i was absent that day...but my dear friends planted a small beautiful plant ..                 Tree plantation means planting tree in large number. Trees are very important to us in many ways. We cannot think of our existence without trees. Trees cover a great deal of our food deficiency by providing fruits and vitamins. Or the main thing is an oxygen..     A beautiful memories.. Thank You..😊

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe August 18, 2017 Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.  The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Robinson Crusoe Publication date 25 April 1719 (298 years ago)Followed byThe Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.   1》Write about colonial discourse in Robinson crusoe.. * In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, colonialism is clearly apparent. To put the literary work into its proper context, it should be noted that the story was published in 1719, and England was enjoying the prosperity of the American colonies. Colonialism is also seen in how Crusoe treats Friday once they leave the island. Crusoe's answer to prayer, one who he looked to like a son, he "civilizes" so that he can become a part of the great land of England, but not as a brother or fr