Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2021

Vbu Syllabus of semester 6 English Literature

                                                 Paper - XIII               Modern European drama Unit 1. European drama : -  Political,  social,  changes and the stage ; text and performance, realism and experimentation, tragedy and  heroism. Unit 2. Ghost by Henrik Ibsen (1881) Unit 3. The good woman of Setzuan by                                           Bertolt Brecht (1953) Unit 4. Rhinoceros by Ionesco (1959)                               Paper - XIV                   Postcolonial literature Unit 1. Topics to be study of Postcolonialism :             I.  Post colonial sensibility            II. Postcolonial literature in English in                          India           III. Postcolonial literature in English in                          South Africa            IV. Postcolonial literature in America. Unit 2. The White tiger by Aravind Adiga                               (2008) Unit 3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe                         (1958) Unit 4. Wide Sargosso Sea (19

Vbu Syllabus of semester 5 English Literature

          S yllabus of English Literature                           Semester 5                             Paper - XI Unit-I.  History of Feminism and feminist                            Literature in the west and India. Unit-II. Feminism:-               Black feminism,              Gynocriticism,               Ecofeminism,               Marxist and socialist feminism,              Radical feminism              cultural feminism,              Anarchy feminism. Unit-III. Fasting feasting :  By Anita Desai Unit-IV.   Sula by Toni Morrison                         PAPER-XII BritishWriting: Early 20th Century Unit-1. History of English Literature of                          Early  20th century 1900 to 1950 Unit-2. (a) Wild swans at coole by WB yeats              (b) Love Song of j Alfred Prufrock                           1915                      by T.S. Eliot  Unit 3. (a) Pygmalion 1912 by GB Shaw               (b) The heart of the matter 1948                      by Graham Greene Unit 4.

Biography Of William Butler Yeats

Biography of William Butler Yeats   William Butler Yeats was born at sandymount near Dublin Ireland on June 13 1865. His father John Butler it's was a man of strong opinion. he was educated for the church but while still an undergraduate lost faith in Christianity practiced as a barrister for some time and then become a painter. His mother came from the well-to-do family of the Polixfens who lived at sligo in the West at Ireland.   His father constantly move between doubling in London. He left his children in their maternal grandparents at sligo where its past much of his early boyhood. He was of and lovely and unhappy but he love passionately The hills, river, lakes at Sligo. The appears and reappears in his poetry. And from its nature background, when he was eight aur nine year old his father read out to him " the lays of ancient rime" Ivanhoe and lay of the last ministerial and the boy best to turn a magician. His interest in magic dates from their time. In 1875 at the

All Types Feminism

1.   Black Feminism Black feminism emerged as a challenge to the assumption made by these white feminist regarding there prerogative to speak for all women in general. Black feminism insist that sexy tave and resume are implicated in each other. The operation of women cannot be understand and addressed without reference to racism. Dennis trusted the white feminist a strong hold Ever feminism as theory and practice.Black feminism demand and an acknowledgement of the diversity in feminist concerns. While they confront the stereotypes imposed on them not only by white people but also by black man. According to the the Claudia joine a trinidad born activists. Hindi film radio and press the Marco woman is not pictured in in their real rule age bread winner mother and protector at the family bi feminism emerged out of the history of activism emerged in by Maria St ward 1803 to 1880 Harriet Tubman 1822 to 1913. In 1960 and 70's  the black feminism women emerged from the discounted with th

Figures Of Speech, Literary Terms

  1. Simile : -  Simile is a figure of Speech in which a comparison is made between two different objects which have at least one common point. eg : So, Like, As Use in sentence  i) Life is like a dream. ii) Her face is like a moon. 2. Metaphor : - A Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two different objects without using comparison words . Using word : i) Life is dream. ii) He is the star of the family. 3. Personification : - Personification is a figure of speech in which lifeless objects and abstract ideas are thought of as living beings. eg :  i) Love is blind. ii) The truth sets upon the lips of dying man. 4. Apostrophe : - Apostrophe is a direct address to the dead, to the absent and to the absent idea eg : Calling  O! , world o ! , Life o ! 5. Hyperbole : - Hyperbole is the figure of speech in which things or person are represented greater, better or worse than they actually are. eg : i) Their chief was mountain high. ii) She shed Oceans of tears.

The novel : Pygmalion

  Pygmalion   by Ge orge Bernard Shaw     Brief Explanation with reference to the content of the following :                             Act : - I  "Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech : that you native language is the langue of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible : and not sit there crooning like a billion pigeon". > These lines have been taken the drama Pygmalion written by G. B. Shaw. Professor Higgins who is in search of a suitable candidate for teaching the act of pronounciation looks act Eliza, waken her desire for rea..... and changed her. He thinks that the girl has potentiality to be a duchess. At first Eliza  appears to be happy with job of selling flower she says that she is right to sell flower. Professor Higgins to makes understand that she is a human being with a divine gift life force. She wants she can transformed herself into a Duchess. She knows how to speak current English. She can be proud of Shakesp

Biography of Amitav Ghosh

Biography : - Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 to a Bengali Hindu family, to Licutenant colonel shailendra Chandra Ghosh a retired officer of the pre Independence Indian army he was educated at the all Begs Donn school where he edited the Doon School weekly. His contemporaries at dawn included authors Vikram seth and Ram Guys. After doon, he received degree from Stephen's college Delhi University his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in Delhi.            Ghosh lived in New York with his wife, Deborah Boker, authour of the Laura Riding. He is an Indian author best known for his work in english fiction. They have two children, Lila and Nayan. He has been a fellow at the central for studies in social Science, Calcutta  and central for Development studies in Trivandram.            He was awarded the padma shree by the Indian Government in 2007. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow at the Royal Society of literature. In 2015 Ghosh was named a Ford foundation art

Life And Work Of Toni Morrison

Life And Work Of Toni Morrison :- Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writer also he is known for his works. Her father was a shipyard from Georgia. Her mother came from Alabama. Lauren was about 25 miles west of cleveland. It is a town whose History symbolised the best of middle America. Lauren was a small town field with Europe an immigrants and southern blacks who had come not sicking freedom, education and work in the steal miles.            There were no Black neighbourhood in Loren. Through the most  of chloe's childhood, the Woodford had a great family on one side. the fact that black weren't forced to live in separate neighbourhood. Morrison as usual went write to the heart of the matter :              I went to school with  white children they were my friends. there was no fear but when i was in the first grade nobody thought i was inter. I was only black in the class and the only childhood could read. Toni Morrison had and older sister and two younger brothers. She l