The opening lines of Francis Bacon’s essay is a statement of Aristotle, which means that man is naturally gregarious and that it is unnatural to avoid the society unless he performs meditation or has a contemplation of the divine. Bacon says that living in a crowd as in a great city may also loneliness and …
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Aristotle’s Poetics (Part III)
The artistic ornament in a diction implies the rhythm, harmony, and song. Rhythm and harmony in verse may be used to develop some parts and song to imply others. They are all designed to enrich the language of the play to make it more effective. There are a few aspects included in a tragedy and …
Political and Cross-cultural Milieu
Indian politics has its major roots on the invasion over it by many empires and imperial powers, the slavery under the British for more than two centuries in specific. The entry of East India Company was the root cause of the various political issues in India during the Mughal empire. And it resulted in the …
Narrative Techniques of Indian English Novels
Narrtive technique is one among the important aspects of literature. It deals with the facts and imagination as based on the narrator. A narrative is different to that of descriptions in a work’s quality or situations. It consists of a set of events as recounted by the author through the narrator in which the events …
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Themes and Motifs of Indian English Fiction
Most Indian English fictions written in the post-independence period are different from the earlier English writings that dealt mostly with social reform issues, in contrast to the present ones that deal with issues of relatively peripheral nature. The difference is clearly visible through the issues they take up based on the present discourses. The three …
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (1956 – ), a versatile writer is well known for constructing complicated writings, exuberant and rich language, complex narratives, enormous researches and vivid descriptions and an expertise in dealing with space and time. All his novels are rooted in strong historical backgrounds. The individuals of Ghosh are migrants by various perspectives based on the stands they …
Growth of the Indian Novels in English
Indian writing in English is a broad outcome of the English Education system that prevailed in India during British colonisation. It is widespread in recent years and has been recognised as a part of “Commonwealth Literature” which possesses the writings of British colonised countries. Until recently, this attitude has taken a turn and has also …
A Short Introduction to Literary Criticism
A critic is an ideal reader, methodically trained and provides judgement. A critic analyses, classifies,evaluates, examines, inquires, subjects the text closer, scrutinises, pronounces a verdict upon the text. He demands intellectual freedom. Literary criticism is an exercise of judgement on the works of literature. History of Criticism Hellenic Criticism Fourth and fifth century Athens became …
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The Second Coming – W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was a renowned Irish poet who tried to bring back the Irish Drama, the Celtic. He was ‘a man of letters’ and was one of the spiritualistic persons of the modern era. He wrote poems with reality in them. “The Second Coming” is one such poem and a spiritual one as well …
Morphology
Morphology is the study of the internal structure of the words. Morphemes are the minimal meaningful unit or a grammatical function. These morphemes come under the label morphology. There are two types of morphemes – free morpheme and bound morpheme. Free Morpheme: Free morphemes are the words which can stand by themselves. Example – take, …