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 …
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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 …
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga
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 …
Of Friendship – Francis Bacon
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 …
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 …
Aristotle’s Poetics (Part II)
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 …
An Overview of Wolfgang Iser’s The Reading Process
Wolfgang Iser’s The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach Reading is a process that envisages an act of comprehension. Whenever we read meaning in a text, we read meaning into a text and out of the text. Therefore, while reading meaning we have to consider two things – the actual text & the actions involved in …
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Periphery to the Center: A Reading on Amitav Ghosh
Nation has been considered as an ‘imagined political community’ by Benedict Anderson. It is considered ‘imagined’ as it is limited and assumed as a community to which the people ‘regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation’ are forced to believe nation to be a deep, horizontal comradeship to kill themselves willingly for these imagined and …
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