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This document provides an overview of a PhD thesis that examines three novels by Indian author Amitav Ghosh from a deconstructionist perspective. The thesis includes chapters that [1] introduce Ghosh and deconstructionism, [2] define deconstructionist principles, [3] analyze Ghosh's narrative style, [4] discuss the themes of migration and identity in The Circle of Reason, [5] link The Shadow Lines to ideas of national and cultural identity, and [6] examine the themes of diaspora and cultural displacement in The Glass Palace. The concluding chapter summarizes the analysis of how Ghosh's writings adhere to deconstructionist concepts of multiple meanings and binaries.
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Unit 9, ENGLISH IV CODE NO 6471
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Shadow lines
The document provides an in-depth summary and analysis of Amitav Ghosh's novel "The Shadow Lines". It discusses the novel's themes of identity, nationalism, and the artificial nature of borders. The summary explores how the novel uses memory and fiction to reconstruct historical events through the narrator. Key events discussed include the Partition of India, riots in 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta, and the creation of Bangladesh. The document also analyzes the novel's structure, use of an omniscient narrator, and how it blurs distinctions between past, present and location.
contemporary Literature .pptx
This presentation is about contemptatory Literature in which i have presented A study of subaltern in Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Northrop frey
Northrop Frye was a highly influential Canadian literary critic known for his theories of archetypal criticism. He argued that literature depicts recurring myths and narrative patterns reflective of universal human experiences. Frye broke from Jung's theories of archetypes residing in the collective unconscious, and instead focused on how archetypes function within literature itself. He proposed that all literature fits within four genres - comedy, romance, tragedy, satire - corresponding to the four seasons and depicting recurring plots of birth, struggle, death and rebirth. Frye's 1957 book Anatomy of Criticism established archetypal criticism as a major approach and influenced generations of critics.
Darwinism and Literature
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection shook the literary world and influenced both literary creation and criticism. His idea that humans are part of biological evolution was incorporated into many naturalistic works by writers like Émile Zola. Literary Darwinism later emerged as a school of literary criticism founded by Joseph Carroll that uses evolutionary psychology concepts to interpret works through an evolutionary lens, exploring universal patterns of human behaviors related to reproduction, resource acquisition, and competition. While still developing, literary Darwinism has expanded literary analysis beyond other theories by focusing on evolved human nature represented in literature.
Post-Structuralism Literary Theory..pptx
This document provides an overview of post-structuralism and some of its key proponents and concepts. Post-structuralism emerged in France in the 1960s-1970s and challenged the idea of stable meanings and identities. It emphasizes the uncertainty of knowledge, particularly in language, and that truth is constantly changing based on cultural and social contexts. Major figures associated with post-structuralism discussed include Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Roland Barthes. Key concepts explored include deconstruction, différance, discourse analysis, and the instability of language and meaning.
Comparing Views.pdf
1. Rudolf Bernet and Ansuman Khataniar explore the relationship between philosophy and literature and argue that the two disciplines intersect in significant ways. While they have traditionally been viewed as separate, both note they share a common goal of seeking truth and meaning.
2. The authors suggest that philosophy can provide frameworks for analyzing literature, while literature can offer insights into the human experience in tangible ways that are difficult for philosophy alone. Literature can also challenge and enrich philosophical thought.
3. Bernet and Khataniar analyze how specific literary works like The Stranger and To Kill a Mockingbird concretize philosophical concepts. They both emphasize that the meaning derived from texts depends on the reader and context. Overall
Literary Criticism Notes.ppt
Literary criticism involves analyzing, interpreting, evaluating, and discussing literature. It examines elements like genre, structure, and value. Literary criticism aims to understand what literature is, what purpose it serves, and what value it possesses. It provides frameworks for interpreting works through considering aspects like historical context, social influences, and symbolic meanings embedded in the text. Different schools of criticism offer various lenses for revealing important aspects of literary works.
Approaches to modern literary theory
This document discusses approaches to modern literary theories. It begins by providing context on the relationship between literature and literary criticism. It then summarizes A.N. Jeffares' view that understanding literature requires knowledge of both texts and their contexts. The document goes on to categorize modern literary theories into intrinsic theories that emphasize a work's essence and extrinsic theories that examine a work's relationship to the external world. Specific modern theories discussed include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic criticism, and Marxism. The document aims to identify and explain these major modern literary theories and their approaches to analyzing texts.
Rereading Indian Literature: The White Tiger and Narcopolis
This document provides a summary of a presentation on rereading Indian writing in English. It discusses works like The White Tiger and Narcopolis and their themes of corruption, caste, and trauma. It also covers several scholars who analyze concepts like the nation, narration, and cultural criticism. Nation is described as having an ambivalent nature. Memory novels are discussed as having a narrative structure opposite to historical narratives in how they portray trauma. Key characters and themes in The White Tiger and Narcopolis are also summarized.
A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of The Moon and Sixpence: A Narr...
A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of The Moon and Sixpence: A Narr...English Literature and Language Review ELLR
Narrative strategies and discourse features correlate strongly with the characterization, thematic significance as well as rhetorical effect in narrative fictions. This paper will conduct a comparative study of Fu Weici’s and Li Jihong’s Chinese version of The Moon and Sixpence with particular reference to five examples from two narratological aspects, namely unreliable narration and narrative tense. Attention will be focused on to what extent and how relevant stylistic markers of these narrative features have been recreated in the target text. It is suggested that translators should always be sensitive enough to detect any stylistic markers of unique narrative features, identify their association with characterization, thematic and artistic value and reproduce them in the target text so as to ensure an optimal transference of their embedded rhetorical effect.Similar to Tamishra's ph d presentation (20)
Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited
Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga: Literary Appreciation
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga: Literary Appreciation
Recharting the Narrative of Subalternity in Amitav Ghosh’ Sea of Poppies
Recharting the Narrative of Subalternity in Amitav Ghosh’ Sea of Poppies
Rereading Indian Literature: The White Tiger and Narcopolis
Rereading Indian Literature: The White Tiger and Narcopolis
A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of The Moon and Sixpence: A Narr...
A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of The Moon and Sixpence: A Narr...
Tamishra's ph d presentation
- 1. A Deconstructionist Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace A PhD Viva Presentation Tamishra swain Research Scholar Dept of English and Modern European Languages , Banasthali University Rajasthan – 304022
- 43. Bibliography