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Death of a Salesman as a tragedy. / Pathetic play / Discuss Death of a Salesman as anintense psychological study of human relationships against a modern setting / Americandream / Any question.

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Death of a Salesman is a tragedy play based on middle class salesman called Willy Loman. He lives in an old house middle of developed city with his wife Linda and two sons, Biff and Happy. In a tragedy, the story details the downfall of the protagonist. The character fails as a result of tragic … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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Theological writers of the Puritan period / Critically discuss the significance andcontribution of the historical writers of the Puritan Period / Comment briefly on theliterary contribution of the New England historians of the Puritan Period / AnyQuestion from the Puritan Writers.

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The Puritans were a religious collective who can be said to have invented their identity by means of theword. Arriving in large numbers to America during the first half of the 17th century, they constantlymodified and expanded that identity through a flood of sermons, histories, hagiographies, jeremiads and, to alesser extent, poems. Taken as a … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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Theme of female bonding / Presentation of women in Sula / Comment on thetreatment of the marginalised girl-child in Sula / Any Question

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Although Sula moves between many different characters‘ perspectives, it is almost entirely told from thepoint of view of women living in the Bottom. Often, the men in the novel can‘t be ―pinned down‖ for long:their jobs keep them away from home (Wiley Wright), or their desire for independence leads them toabandon their families (Jude Greene, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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Use of Greek myth in Mourning Becomes Electra / Analyze Mourning BecomesElectra as a tragedy of death and mourning / Examine the influence of Freud and otherpsychoanalysts on O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra / Any Question.

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American playwright Eugene O‘ Neill‘s ―Mourning Becomes Electra‖ is a continuation of the Greektradition. It is rare to find two principal complexes ―Electra‖ and ―Oedipus‖ in one work of art. Here wehave both as parallel themes. The tragic implications as will be observed are of the kind that generatesemotions of purgation and emotional relief. However, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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Gilbert and Gubar as feminist critics.

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It is unquestionably true that Madwoman in the Attic is an ambitious and substantial work of criticism andscholarship. It offers important feminist rereadings of many of the major texts by women writers in the 19thcentury. In it, Gilbert and Gubar demonstrate an impressive command not only of the primary texts but alsoof the biographies, letters, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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I.A. Richards as a new critic / On the basis of his Principles of Literary Criticism,would you consider I. A. Richards a pioneer in twentieth century literary criticism ?Discuss

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Richards was that Cambridge professor of criticism who turned literary criticism upside down in the 1930’s.He inspired the New Criticism and won the admiration of poets such as T.S. Eliot. Trained originally inpsychology, Richards penetrated into a new level of hard-headed thinking to literary criticism, pushingthrough the effusive waffling of critics past. Richards’ work dealt … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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Discuss the ideology of New Historicism with particular reference to LouisMontrose.

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New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted withinthe context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic. Based on the literary criticism ofStephen Greenblatt and influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, New Historicism acknowledgesnot only that a work of … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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What are the four major characteristics of Cultural Materialism ? Show how thesecombine to formulate what has been called ‘a politicised form of historiography’ / Showwith the help of a literary text of your choice how Cultural Materialism differs fromNew Historicism as a critical approach.

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Cultural materialism is one of the major anthropological perspectives for analysing human societies. Itincorporates ideas from Marxism, cultural evolution, and cultural ecology. Materialism contends that thephysical world impacts and sets constraints on human behaviour. The materialists believe that humanbehaviour is part of nature and therefore, it can be understood by using the methods of natural … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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Write a brief essay on the different ‘waves’ of FeministCriticism with examples of one major critic from each phase.

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Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define andestablish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminist criticism is concernedwith “the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic,political, social, and psychological oppression of women”. This school of theory looks … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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What in your understanding is ‘new’ about NewCriticism? Discuss with reference to the works of any two theorists.

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New Criticism is a movement in 20th-century literary criticism that arose in reaction to those traditional ―extrinsic‖ approaches that saw a text as making a moral or philosophical statement or as an outcome of social, economic, political, historical, or biographical phenomena. New Criticism holds that a text must be evaluated apart from its context; failure … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন

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