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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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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Aristotle (384-322 BC) was born in Stagira, an ancient Greek city in the central Macedonia. He studied Biology and worked as a teacher. He was the disciple of Plato and joined his academy and remained there for several years. He left the academy shortly after the death of Plato. In 342 BC, he became the …
‘History’, the English word is derived from the Greek word ‘istoria’ meaning inquiry, exploration, research which defines the origin and development of humankind and also depicts a record of the various and distinct events and movements in its time. As Thomas Carlyle defines history, it is a subject that traces the essence of the past …
People, though wonders at the beauty of nature and its creations, fail to realize that they are also part of the web of life in the earth. Moreover, they adopt an anthropocentric attitude towards nature which, in fact, results in exploitation of it. This kind of attitude towards nature has urged several critics and writers …
Man, though wonders at the beauty of nature and its creations, fail to realize that they are also part of the web of life in the earth. Moreover, they adopt an anthropocentric attitude towards nature which, in fact, results in exploitation of it. This kind of attitude towards nature has urged several critics and writers …
Minorities have gained prominence all over the world and more specifically in the contemporary critical discourse. This has resulted in the movement of minorities from the periphery towards the centre. In other words, minorities, whose voices were once suppressed, have begun to subvert the centre. The dichotomy between the centre and the margin can be …
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