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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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 (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 …
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 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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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 …
A.M.Klein The lamenting tone is dramatic with an abrupt beginning to captivate the attention of the readers. It means a sense of loss. Men were of different kinds like warriors and chieftains, wherein brave means warriors which has two semantic differences “where and brave”. It tells us that they are no more brave. The early …
The opening lines of Francis Bacon’s essay from his The Essays 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 …
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 …
Catharsis (meaning purification). Aristotle implicitly suggests that tragedy helps to keep pity and fear in their due proportions by allowing to find the spiritual purgation of these elements. Catharsis directs out pity and fear towards worthier objects. In a tragedy where the sufferings being witnessed are not our own. These emotions find a free and …
