Social and Cultural situations in India during Derozio’s time. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born in Calcutta on 10 April 1809. His father was a Portuguese and his mother was an Indian. Derozio started education at Dharamtallah Academy of David Drummond (1787-1843) in 1815 at the age of six years. His mother diedin the same … Read more
Write a critical note on the ideology of Puritanism reflected in American literature. Wherever there are people there will be a literature. A literature is the record of human experience, and people have always been impelled to write down their impressions of life. They do so in diaries and letters, in pamphlets and books, and … Read more
Write a note on imagism in Ezra Pound’s poetry. Cite instances from his poems prescribed in your course. Imagism was born in England and America in the early twentieth century. A reactionary movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry, imagism emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images. Though Ezra Pound is noted as … Read more
Discuss the development of the revolutionary prose in America. By the time of the American Revolution (1775–83), American writers had ventured beyond the Puritan literary style and its religious themes and had developed styles of writing that grew from distinctly American experiences. (The Puritans were a group of Protestants who broke with the Church of … Read more
Write a critical note on the dramatic form in the 20th Century. Common themes in the new early 20th century drama were political, reflecting the unease or rebellion of the workers against the state, philosophical, delving into the who and why of human life and existence, and revolutionary, exploring the themes of colonization and loss of … Read more
Analyse Death of a Salesman as a realistic tragedy. Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, all of which make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman’s life. The play … Read more
Comment on Lacan’s main contribution to critical theory. Following his description of the Mirror Stage, Lacan made a profound leap. He postulated that the child’s false perception of self in the mirror is characteristic of one of the three so-called registers, or orders, in which human beings experience the world. He called this first register … Read more
What does I. A. Richards talk about in Practical Criticism. Practical criticism is, like the formal study of English literature itself, a relatively young discipline. It began in the 1920s with a series of experiments by the Cambridge critic I.A. Richards. He gave poems to students without any information about who wrote them or when … Read more
What do Wordsworth and Coleridge have to say on lyrical diction. Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the conditioning of his faculties and the depth and swiftness of his passions. Every man’s language … Read more
Discuss Aristotle’s view of literature as imitation. According to Aristotle, the pleasure derived from imitation is in knowing what an imitation aims to represent. Aristotle’s view of literature. For Aristotle, imitation is not a question of good or bad, as it is for Plato; imitation, and therefore the creation of art and poetry, is simply … Read more