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Properties of Language

 Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh Assistant Professor Department of English Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam) Hello everyone! This Post includes a PDF File in the form of SLM on the Properties of language. This SLM was prepared by Aditi Ghosh during a Workshop on SLM organized by Dibrugarh University in the year 2020. The file includes the different properties of the Language studied especially in the context of the field of study of Linguistics. Click to Download

Female Silence in Philomela

  Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh Assistant Professor Department of English Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam) Hello everyone! This post includes a PPT on "Ovid's Philomela : Breaking Through Female Silence". This PPT entails a detailed account of the representation of female silence both physically and metaphorically surrounding the narrative of Philomela, the woman protagonist of Ovid's Philomela . Click here to Download

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: A Summary Guide

  Introduction:   Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most popular romantic novel. It was published in 1813, but it doesn't display typical romantic characteristics. Rather it follows the style and characteristics of the upcoming Victorian era. It portrays and comments on the social convention of the period. Austen as a novelist is familiar with the title of this novel also. It has a very interesting plot, and the portrayal of characters in it is, on the whole, very realistic and convincing. The novel has a compact structure which shows a high degree of craftsmanship. There are several passages of psychological analysis in the novel to lend depth to it, the novel is rich in comedy with irony as a most striking ingredient of it.    Austen began the book, originally titled the “First impression”, in 1796. Subsequently, the novel was revised and renamed. The theme of pride and Prejudice is very much the same as that of her other novels. The theme here also is lov...

Mrs. Dalloway: Modernism and Literary Realism

Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh Assistant Professor Department of English Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam) Hello everyone! This post includes a scanned file entitled "Portrayal of Modernism and Literary Realism in Mrs. Dalloway " by Tamima Rahman Barbhuyan. This document was prepared as a part of the Seminar Paper Presentation held internally in the year 2022 and submitted the same to Ms. Aditi Ghosh,  Assistant Professor,  Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam). Tamima Barbhuyan is now pursuing a Master's Degree from Jamila Milia Islamia University, New Delhi.  I hope this post is a source of inspiration to write and enlighten through knowledge.  Best wishes and Regards! Click to download

Dr. Faustus: A Renaissance Man of Conflict

  The Tragical History of the Life and Death of  Doctor Faustus , commonly referred to simply Doctor Faustus , is an Elizabethan Drama, based on German stories about the title character ‘Faust’. It was probably written in 1592 or 1593, shortly before Marlowe’s death. This drama entails and surrounds the protagonist’s tragic transformation after his major downfall as a tragic hero because he was blinded by the greediness of learning more to achieve the pleasures of wealth and power. The man of scholar has been incapable to have a scholarly vision towards his mischievous course of action. Conflict is an essential part of a tragedy or a drama as it heightens the effect of the surrounding plot of a drama. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus represents the conflict between the internal and external and as well the conflict between the Renaissance and the Reformation. Dr. Faustus is the consummation of morality and tragedy and hence, the play portrays the conflict which is pulled by the for...