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The Truth in Storytelling
The relationship between Beauty and Truth in Stories I love to tell stories. I want my stories to be beautiful tales about men and women that have moved out of the ordinary. What…
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Rushdie, History, and Joking Seriously
Rushdie and Bombay If Salman Rushdie had not lived in Bombay in his early years, Midnight’s Children would probably be different. Bombay is a city that throws you into a local and a…
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Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction is becoming vitally significant in these times. That is so because it does not merely tell the story well but takes you into another’s experience of life; their joy and suffering.…
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The Imprisonment of Virtual Reality
In the imprisonment of virtual reality are clear signs That should scare humanity. There are huge chasms Which show pettiness, sticking to the past with horizontal gravity. How are the post-colonized different from…
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Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a major part of Post-structuralism. It comes as a logical questioning of certain claims of Structuralism. Deconstruction (French: déconstruction) is a form of philosophical and literary analysis derived principally from Jacques…
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The Childhood of Aftab/Anjum/Anjuman
MA Sem. 4 Gender Studies The Childhood of Aftab/Anju/Anjuman Literature reflects society better than anything else and therefore contains the best discourse on society as it actually is. The marginalized and weaker sections…
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The Intellect and the Novel
Novels tend to be governed either more by the intellect or the imagination. Each of these two choices decide the nature of a novel.
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Point of View
Point of View Every Story has a Moral A story that we tell is told from a certain point of view which means a certain viewing point, a particular attitude or way of…
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Types of Criticism
* Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present) * Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present) * Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism(1930s-present) * Marxist Criticism (1930s-present) * Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present) * Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present) * Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)…
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