------------------------------------------------- A. K. Ramanujan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the mathematician ‚ see Srinivasa Ramanujan Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (Kannada: ಅತ್ತಿಪೇಟೆ ಕೃಷ್ಣಸ್ವಾಮಿ ರಾಮಾನುಜನ್) (1929–1993) was a scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan wore many hats as a Indian poet‚ scholar and author‚ those of a philologist‚ folklorist‚ translator‚ poet and playwright. His academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil
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Adaptations are widespread and universal. Adaptation problems - content‚ structure‚ and intertextual politics. Hutcheon wishes to consider adaptations as lateral‚ not vertical. One does not experience adaptations successively starting from the original work‚ rather the works are a large collection to be navigated. One might see an adaptation before the original. Hutcheon also wishes to view adaptations as adaptations‚ not as independent works. Three ways of story engagement: telling‚ showing
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Writing just a few years after the end of the Great War‚ Fitzgerald takes as his theme the hedonism of a materialistic society in which spiritual values are dead. His eponymous hero throws parties on Sundays (to which ‘the world and its mistress’ flocked) because he hopes that Daisy‚ the object of his faith‚ hope and love‚ will come to him. In her absence‚ he stretches out his arms towards the green light at the end of her dock and‚ as Fitzgerald makes repeated references to it‚ that light
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states that postmodernism is a “problematic term used to describe many aspects of cultural production and experience” (p.89) but agrees with Jameson and Hutcheon that it borrows from earlier styles to create something new and plays with paradigms intertextuality (Langley‚ p.89). American Psycho repeatedly displays features of these definitions of postmodernism. It is clearly set in New York through narration and imagery – we see streets of New York and Patrick Bateman states that he lives in an exclusive
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How does T.S. Eliot convey the deteriorating state of humanity in his poems? In your response‚ include analysis of ‘The Hollow Men’ and ONE other Eliot poem you have studied. T.S. Eliot conveys the deteriorating state of humanity in the beginning of the twentieth century in the poems The Hollow Men and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Events‚ such as World War I‚ from the early twentieth century have influenced Eliot to express the superficiality and materialistic desire for wealth in modern
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philosophically‚ economically‚ politically‚ etc. The development of concepts birth their opposing sides (binary oppositions). Derrida then moves into the discussion of Levi-Strauss’ bricolage - the necessity of borrowing concepts from other texts (intertextuality of whatever concepts seem handy to give coherence‚ an intertextual collage) (obviously subject to change). This bricolage leads to the idea of myth‚ and while it is assumed that all myths have an engineer‚ [the concept/person] who creates concepts
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Throughout Winterson’s rendition of ‘the twelve dancing princesses’ – adapted from the renowned story by the Grimm Brothers –the plotline is explicitly centred around an array of fictional images. Implicitly though‚ the metafiction and accretion used can be unveiled as symbolism that correlates with a larger meaning; the images associated with men are uncomfortable and even evil in comparison to the comforting images (including the mermaid) that represent womanhood. Therefore‚ in the two specific
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“The journey is the reward”- how is this evident in your texts There is an Ancient Chinese Proverb that states‚ “The Journey is the reward”‚ meaning that no matter how long it takes you to reach your destination‚ it is not where you end up‚ but the journey that will have shaped you. As we journey in life‚ we are challenged by obstacles that we must overcome to be rewarded. In the play Away by Michael Gow‚ our preconceptions of characters are challenged and our opinions on journeys and how they
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 5TH GROUP : 1. FA D H I L A A S H A D I 2. H A N A P U T R I A N I 3. S I T I R A H M A YA N T 4. Z H E L D Y O C TA V I A WHAT IS IT?? • Metaphors tend to provoke thought and feeling to a greater extent than more literal descriptions do. Examples : “My mother’s face curdled” [Metaphor (kiasan)] Curdled : signalled distaste and trepidation. Curdled : The writers express and the readers should work out their meaning; they should be able to imagine. “My mother grimaced”
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New York Times describe it as a mixture of melancholy‚ sweetness‚ philosophy and humor. (2013). This book’s tittle was inspired by one of the acts of Shakespeare’s in the play Julius Caesar‚ which is one of the strongest examples of intertextuality in the book. This story is narrated by a young girl named Hazel Grace‚ who sufferes cancer. This whole story is about 2 young teenagers‚ Hazel and Gus and it is also directed to young teenagers and adults. The book is categorized as a young adult
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