The Shri Ram School English Literature Project 2013-2014 Class X You are required to do two separate assignments: A. On‚ ‘As You Like It’ B. On‚ either poetry or short stories You have to choose one question/theme from each genre Both assignments have to be completed in a total of 1500 words. You are free to divide the words between both assignments as you choose. Please remember that this project will be assessed for the ICSE Board examination and will constitute a part of the marks awarded for
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Batch: 2012-2015 Course Code: 50121212 Course Name: Projects I Roll #808 Assignment #A 126 Ancient Literature The Epic of Gilgamesh Introduction The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ an epic poem from Mesopotamia‚ is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five independent Sumerian poems about ’Bilgamesh’ (Sumerian for Gilgamesh)‚ king of Uruk. Four of these were used as source
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Features of Indian English Indian English refers to dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India and also by Indian Diaspora elsewhere In the world. Due to British colonialism for over two hundred years’ as were used more to British English than to American‚ Australian or Canadian English. And due to the presence of vernacular languages in our country‚ English was chosen to be the co-official language of the union of India. Our obvious choice is one of the varieties of British English; which
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___________________________________________________________________ 6 whole. The fact that Indian literatures are a product of a multilingual‚ multicultural and socio-historical mélange cannot be overlooked. Today Indian literature reached at the apex of creation with the contribution of regional and national writers. This researcher would like to focus on the root and brief literary history of Indian writing in English and the genre – novel in Indo-Anglian literature up to the time of Mulk Raj Anand for better understanding
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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Britain. +/- 800 BC - 55 BC Celts (5th century BC) 2. Roman Britain. 55 BC – 400 AD 3. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon Period 500 – 1066 Soon after the romans left‚ Britain was attacked by Germanic tribes‚ mainly Angles and Saxons. Anglo-Saxon settlements (410 AD – 800 AD) The Vikings (The Danes) (800 AD – 978 AD) Downfall of Saxon England (978 AD – 1066 AD) 4. The Middle English Period 1066 – 1500 5. The Renaissance 1500 – 1600 The Early Tudor Period (1485 – 1550) The Flowering
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M.PHIL DISSERTATION TOPIC: COMPLEXITIES OF MODERN INDIAN CULTURE FROM A FEMININE PERSPECTIVE A STUDY FROM THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI: FASTING‚ FEASTING THE ARTIST OF DISAPPEARANCE Introduction to Indian Literature: Indian Writings in English “Under English rule in India”‚ writes Mr. Arthur Mayhew‚ “the impact of two civilizations may have produced unrest. But it has also sustained and stimulated life.” It is an extraordinary story of endurance‚ assimilation and integral transformation
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of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People who are in Indian in blood and color but English in taste‚ in opinions ‚in morals and
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What is Literature? Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work‚ and is not confined to published sources (although‚ under some circumstances‚ unpublished sources can also be exempt). The word literature literally means "things made from letters" and the pars pro toto term "letters" is sometimes used to signify "literature‚" as in the figures of speech "arts and letters" and "man of letters." The four major classifications of literature are poetry‚ prose‚ fiction
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Feminist Reading Indian English literature has grown from a sapling to a strong rooted tree in full bloom. From being a curious native expression‚ Indian English has become a new form of Indian culture and voice in which India speaks while Indian authors‚ poets‚ novelists‚ essayists; dramatists have been making significant contribution to the world literature since the pre- independence era. To stretch this argument it is pertinent to mention that Indian Literature in English is getting over-whelming
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