Here And There

Assignment- The Victorian Literature Topic- Theme in “Middlemarch” Name- Sumra Jitendra V. SEM – 2 Roll No - 17 Batch- 2011-12 Submitted to, Dr.Dilip Barad Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar Themes in Middlemarch Content Middlemarch is a highly unusual novel. Although it is primarily a Victorian novel, it has many characteristics typical to modern novels. Critical reaction to Eliot's masterpiece work was mixed. A common accusation leveled against it was its morbid, depressing tone. Many critics did not like Eliot's habit of scattering obscure literary and scientific allusions throughout the book. In their opinion a woman writer should not be so intellectual. Eliot hated the "silly, women novelists." In the Victorian era, women writers were generally confined to writing the stereotypical fantasies of the conventional romance fiction. Not only did Eliot dislike the constraints imposed on women's writing, she disliked the stories they were expected...

            Assignment- The Romantic Literature Topic- Themes, Motifs, and Symbols in Frankenstein Name- Sumra Jitendra V. SEM – 2 Roll No - 17 Batch- 2011-12   Submitted to, Dr.Dilip Barad Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar Themes Motifs and symbols in Frankenstein Themes [1] Dangerous Knowledge The pursuits of knowledge is at the heart of Frankenstein, as Victor attempts to surge beyond accepted human limits and access the secret of life. Likewise, Robert Walton attempts to surpass previous human explorations by endeavoring to reach the North Pole. This ruthless pursuit of knowledge, of the light (see “Light and Fire”), proves dangerous, as Victor’s act of creation eventually results in the destruction of everyone dear to him, and Walton finds himself perilously trapped between sheets of ice. [2] Sublime Nature The sublime natural world, embraced by Romanticism (late eighteenth century to mid-nineteenth cent...

Literary Criticism Name- Sumra Jitendra V. SEM – 2 Roll No - 17 Batch- 2011-12   Submitted to, Dr.Dilip Barad Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar Three literary terms [A] Alamkara [B]Dhavni  [C]Auchitya [1] Alamkara: Alamkara is a figure of speech. Alamkara earliest and most sustained school; it studies literary language and assumes that the focus of literariness is the figures of speech. In the mode of figurative expression, in the grammatical accuracy and pleasantness of sound. This does not mean that meaning is ignored. In fact structural   taxonomies of different figures of speech are models of how meaning is cognized and how it is to be extracted from the text. Bhamaha talks of the pleasure of multiplicity of meaning inherent in certain ‘Alamakara’ such as ‘Arthantaranyasa’, ‘Vibhavma’, and ‘Samasokti’. Bhamaha is the first ‘Alamkara’ poetician. Bhamaha describes 35 figures of speech in ‘kavyamkara’. Others who continued the tradition are Dandin, Udbhata,...

Assignment- Indian Writing in English Topic- Themes in “The Shadow Line” Name- Sumra Jitendra V. SEM – 2 Batch- 2011-12   Submitted to, Dr.Dilip Barad Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar Themes of “The Shadow lines” In the Shadow lines, she interrogates the aestheticism of colonial and nationalist historiography by, on the one hand, emphasize the fictions that people create their lines, and on the other recording the vivid and verifiable that do not necessarily correspondent with the documented version of history. As the narrator say, ‘Stories are all there are to in, it was just a question which one you chose.” As   and whom like Amitav Ghosh’s the shadow line, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic verses and Anita Desai’s In custody show , the Indian novel in English is exploration of the historical transformations of community life, instead of   drawing Jameson “portraits’ of sensitive individuals, under the   community, the individual under   the sway of large...

Assignment- Cultural Studies Topic- Five Types of Cultural Studies Name- Sumra Jitendra V. SEM - 2  Roll No - 17 Batch- 2011-12 Submitted to, Dr.Dilip Barad Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar Five Types of Cultural Studies [1]British Cultural materialism Matthew Arnold sought to redline the “givens” of British culture. To appreciate the importance of this revision of “culture” we must situate it within the controlling myth of social and political reality of the British Empire upon which the sun never set, an ideology left over from the previous century. In modern Britain two trajectories for “Culture” developed one led back to the past and the feudal hierarchies that ordered community in the past; here, culture acted in its sacred function as preserver of the past. Cultural materialism began in earnest in the 1950s with the work of F.R. Leavis sought to use the educational system to distribute literary knowledge and appreciation more widely ; Lea vices p...