Critical Insights

  SUBMITTED TO: Miss Aditi ghosh                             Submitted by: Hafiza Yasmin                                                   Table of contents • Introduction • Intellectual background of Spencer • Poetic practices of the time • Spencer’s life • Spencer’s works • Conclusion • Source                 Introduction: Edmund Spencer belonged to the later half of the sixteenth century. This period was the periodic of Elizabeth I’s reign. At the time, England was emerging as a strong nation. This process had begun with the uniting and integrating role of Henry VIII at the turn of the sixteenth century. Initial years of Elizabeth’s rule raised hopes of prosperity. However, soon as the years moved in the direction of a steadied economic path, E...

  ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT   TOPIC :-   BARGAINING SCENE   NAME :- CHANDINI SULTANA and  ROUSHANA PARBIN B.A 1ST SEMESTER   Submitted to: Miss Aditi  Ghosh   1.Fautus'  bargaining  scene  with Lucifer is the most familiar part of "Doctor Faustus".  Faustus Bargain has become a standard way of referring to some kind of " deal with the devil " .It means doctor foster sign a deal with Lucifer in bargaining scene.   2. But the importance of the bargain extent beyond this famous plot device. The idea of some kind of economic exchange or deal the tragedy.     3. Wagner gets a clown to agree to be his servant in return for learning some black magic.   4. This deal my be taken to suggest that bargain with often simply occasion for one individual to exploit another.   5. However there is another system of bargaining in the play, related to Christianity. The word "REDEMPTION" ...

What is Detective Fiction? Discuss in reference to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.  Detective Fiction is a popular subgenre of crime fiction which centres around investigating and solving a mystery to find the culprit. Features of the Detective Fiction include: ◉ Setting: The first thing we need is a mysterious setting, for example, a train, a theatre or a school. ◉ Crime/Target: Next, your students will need to think about the crime and the victim, and this is the heart of the story. ◉ Suspects: Every detective fiction story needs suspects (suspects are people who may have done the crime). To write their own story, children need to think of a couple of people who could have done it. Think about who might have been around the crime scene and, very importantly, why they might have committed the crime (this is called a motive). ◉ Clues: Clues are the objects that can help the detective track down the criminal. It should be something that could belong to one of the suspects.  ◉ Res...

  1. Born on the island of Martinique under French Colonial rule, Grants Omar Fanon(1925-1961) was one of the most important writers of black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. 2. In 1952, Fanon published his first major work "Black Skin, White Masks". 3. The purpose of this book was to explain the psychological conditions of colonialism, in other words, what kinds of mentality Black and White people had in colonial societies. 4. Canon's essay "The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized" is a work that provides critical insights into the psychological and social effects of colonialism on the colonized population. 5. Psychological Impact: Fanon examines the profound psychological impact of colonization on the colonized people. He argues that colonization leads to feelings of inferiority, self-doubt, and alienation among the colonized. 6. Dependency Complex: Fanon introduces the concept of the "Dependency Complex...

  In this blog, you will find the PPT of  I. A Richard's Essay. Click on the below link to download the file: Criticism of I.A Richards and Cleanth Brooks Uploaded by:  Aditi Ghosh, HOD, Department of English, MAWCST, Hojai Prepared by: Neha Devi Assistant Professor, Department of English, MAWCST, Hojai

In this blog, you will find a PPT presentation on New Criticism and Heresy of Paraphrase. Click on the link below to download the file:                             New Criticism Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh, HOD, Department of English, MAWCST, Hojai Prepared by: Miss Taniya Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, MAWCST, Hojai

  ABSTRACT :   The aim of this paper is to attempt a study on how Chinua Achebe, the prominent writer has explored the colonial, socio-economic exploitation in the Nigerian context. Chinua Achebe converges postcolonial perspectives with Marxist to class differentiating factor. In associating with colonial text, it demonstrates how dominant class ideology resulted in the false assumption between colonizers and colonized.   With the emergence of colonialism, the significance of social class and social discourse became predominant; therefore, colonial discourses were instilled into the social, and cultural construction, and literary text, particularly novels. In this regard, the investigation of the dominant discourses is pursued, and this helps to show how colonialism resulted in discourse inculcation. The resistant perspective against ruling ideology, as the Italian Marxist concept of false consciousness from the viewpoint of Antonio Gramsci’s to Louis Althusser. Thing...

  Abstract :   In this study Charles Dickens’s Hard Times is analyzed in terms if Marxist views. The author Charles Dickens, in this novel, discuss on the issues related to Marxist notions that are especially based on the class consciousness, the working class and revolution. Dickens depicts how the labourers are forced to work like machines under the capitalist society and how they are exploited by the capitalist. In Marxist theory Karl Marx urges the working class or the proletariat group to stand against the capitalists or the Bourgeois and ensure their dictatorship. In this way they can establish an exploit less and classless society. Marx calls this state as communism. A gap is seen between the two classes and such a division of society leads to a battle of classes. Dickens in his novel Hard Times shows this battle of classes through his characters. The novel presents the picture of a materialistic town namely Coke town which is surrounded by industries and its smokes...

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to explore one of the prominent writers Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot which shows the meaninglessness and illogicalness of people’s life, this play doesn't follow any structure. Jacques Derrida’s trend-breaking theory of deconstruction attacks the metaphysical presuppositions of western philosophy, ethnicity, culture, politics, and literature. It gives a new meaning of perspective to Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot which has always been a focal point of world literature criticism. But this paper scrutinized the different facets of the play from Derridean deconstructive theory. This play concerns two characters Vladimir and Estragon who are waiting anxiously and are going to visit Godot near a dwindled tree in the middle of nowhere. They are not acquainted with his real name, whether he promises to visit them or actually exists. They are still waiting for him. Nothingness and meaningless influence both of them to ...