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Deconstruction-Derrida

Deconstruction, as applied in the criticism of literature, designates a theory and practice of reading which questions and claims to "subvert" or "undermine" the assumption that the system of language provides grounds that are adequate to establish the boundaries, the coherence or unity, and the determinate meanings of a literary text. Typically, a deconstructive reading sets out to show that conflicting forces within the text itself serve to dissipate the seeming definiteness of its structure and meanings into an indefinite array of incompatible and undecidable possibilities. Example "Shutter island" In this movie hero play two characters so similarly afflicted But we all know that it's just myth. In which nothing is what it seems

Structuralism thinking activity

Structuralism Think and Write:  Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blo Obsessive love  is a condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person toward whom one feels a strong attraction, with an inability to accept failure or rejection Examples Darr Anjaam In Anjaam and Darr both are based on same theme "Obsession for Love'. In both film role played by Shahrukh Khan

Northrope Frye thinking activity

Northrope Frye 1.Ans. Archetype is a term of narrative design, symbol, character, dream, collective images, myths, ritual and universal thing are in literature. 'Archetype of criticism' means denotes recurrent narrative design and it may that to art into images and pattern of one another character and theme type of in literature. The Archetypal critic tries to find this pattern, symbol and myth in present literary work. 2Ans. Frye's attempt to prove physics to nature and criticism to literature by giving an analogy. Basically here Frye tried to compare both as according to any physics students they mainly studies or rather learning physics instead of nature. So it can be easy that physics has structured meaning or ideas to study of nature. While on the other side of comparison. We can say that criticism has same philosophy or rather strategy as it has the particular way of study literature. One can learn criticism of literature but can't learn lite

I.A.RIchards Figurative Language

I.A.Richards I.A. Richards , in full  Ivor Armstrong Richards , (born Feb. 26, 1893, Sandbach,  Cheshire , Eng.—died Sept. 7, 1979,  Cambridge , Cambridgeshire), English critic, poet, and teacher who was highly influential in developing a new way of reading  poetry  that led to the  New Criticism  and that also influenced some forms of reader-response  criticism Suraj Hua Maddham Sonu Nigam ,  Alka Yagnik , ... Suraj Hua Maddham, Chaand Jalne Laga Aasmaan Yeh Haai Kyoon Pighalne Laga... Suraj Hua Maddham, Chaand Jalne Laga Aasmaan Yeh Haai Kyoon Pighalne Laga... Main Thehra Raha, Zameen Chalne Lagi Dhadka Yeh Dil, Saans Thamne Lagi Oh, Kya Yeh Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar Hai Sajna, Kya Yeh Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar Hai Ho Oh Oh, Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh, Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Suraj Hua Maddham, Chaand Jalne Laga Aasmaan Yeh Haai Kyoon Pighalne Laga Main Thehri Rahi, Zameen Chalne Lagi Dhadka Yeh Dil, Saans Thamne Lagi Haan, Kya Yeh Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar Hai Sajna, Kya Yeh Me

T.S.Eliot:Tradition and Individual Talent

About T.S.Eliot T.S. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1)                   How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of tradition? Do you agree with it? >Yes, I am agree with the concept of tradition given by Eliot in his essay in wh

Rivers and Tides

"Rivers and Tides" Andy Goldsworthy Anyone who has built a sand castle by the edge of the sea and paused to observe the rising tide creep in and wash it away, can sink into the contemplative world of the Scottish artist profiled in Thomas Riedelsheimer's film ''Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time.'' This bearded, soft-spoken 46-year-old dreamer, who shares an old stone house with his wife and four children in a rural village, Penpont, works mostly outdoors, creating mutable sculptures that he calls earthworks. These organic sculptures interact with nature in a way that magically illuminates the cycles of creation, destruction and renewal. Although some of his work, like a winding stone wall that he built at the Storm King Arts Center in Mountainville, N.Y., has longevity, most of it involves ice, water, leaves, grass, mud and stones and is not built to last: its evanescence is an essential aspect of its beauty. But thanks to p

Mathew Arnold-Study of Poetry

1. Write about the one idea of Mathew Arnold which you find interesting and relevant in our time.  Ans.  'A study of poetry ' is a critical essay by Mathew Arnold. He gives definition of poetry that " Poetry is the criticism of life " .   It is true that poet is critic of life and this definition is a very relevant in our time . He also  discussed the idea of disinterested or detachment.  .He says that the critic must be absolutely impartial without any prejudice or bias against or in favor of any particular author. Disinterested on the part of the critic implies freedom from all the prejudice,  personal and historical .  2. Write about one idea of Mathew Arnold which you find out of date and irrelevant in our time.  Ans.  Mathew Arnold 's idea about " Touch - Stone  Method "  is out of date and irrelevant in our time because Arnold's touchstone method is a comparative method of criticism.  This method is comparison and analysis as two primary