MYTH AND CREATED UNIVERSE deals with the convergences and divergences that are seen both in India and Australia. It also focuses on the common myths that prevail among people about snakes in both the cultures. When compared, there are both similarities and differences in Australian and Indian stories, myths and symbols that are based on …
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Australian Aboriginal Mythology and Terrestrial
The focus here is on the specialties and the different representations of the Rainbow Serpent by different tribes of Australian Aborigines. It also explains the stories that are told about the Rainbow Serpent among the infinite number of tribes that prevailed, and about the importance of the Rainbow Serpent in art and spirituality as well. …
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Indian Mythology and the Superhuman
India can be called as the land of snakes as there are highly venomous species like King Cobra. Further, there is a tradition regarding snakes to glorify them as Gods. This tradition began from the Naga race of ancient India. “Naga” is a Sanskrit word that refers to a deity or a class of entity …
Representing Belief in Indian And Aboriginal Cultures
Part 1 Culture and Myth Literature is the art of a written work and a well written work achieves a universal appeal. The word ‘literature’ when translated, literally means ‘acquaintance with letters’. It has its origin in the Latin word ‘littera’ which means ‘letter’. It has different meanings depending on the context in which it …
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Booker Prize Award Winners
1969P H NewbySomething to Answer For (novel)UK1970Bernice RubensThe Elected Member (novel)UK1970J G FarrellTroubles (novel)UK/Ireland1971V S NaipaulIn a Free State (short story)UK/ Trinidad and Tobago1972John BergerG (experimental novel)1973J G FarrellThe Siege of Krishnapur (novel) UKUK1974Nadine GordimerThe Conservationist (novel)South Africa1974Stanley MiddletonHoliday (novel) UKUK1975Ruth Prawar JhabvalaHeat and Dust (historical novel)UK/ Germany1976David StoreySaville (novel) UKUK1977Paul ScottStaying On (novel) UKUK1978Iris …
Of Friendship
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 …
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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