Critical Insights

  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 ...

    Abstract : This seminar paper delves into the complex relationship between power and truth, as depicted in Michel Foucault's theory of reflection and George Orwell’s novel 1984 . Foucault's theory posits that power is not just repressive, but also productive, creating new forms of knowledge and shaping the way people think and act. Through discourse and knowledge, power operates in society, influencing individuals and institutions. On the other hand, Orwell's 1984 paints a dystopian picture of a society where power is exercised through the manipulation of truth. The ruling party controls all aspects of information and history, creating a society where truth is whatever the party declares it to be. In both cases, the effects of power on truth are examined, along with their consequences for individuals and society. The paper analyses how Foucault's theory and Orwell's novel illustrate the impact of power on truth and how they provide insights into the way po...