Unflagging ’India’s Missing Freedom’ The essay “Flagging India’s Missing Freedom” by Dipankar Gupta is a very well-written essay. The title of the essay is very captivating and still remains quite appropriate. The author tries to drive home the point that India‚ as a nation is insecure The essay is very persuasive and does a good job in imprinting the point of the author onto the reader’s head. The author clearly states that punishing individuals for caricature of the flag is a negative trait
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WRITING AN ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEW Writing a book review may be an unfamiliar exercise‚ it is not as complex a task as writing an essay requiring a lot of library research. It is‚ however‚ not the same as a book review in The Age‚ which is written for the general reader. Your book review is written for a reader (your lecturer or tutor) who is knowledgeable in the discipline and is interested not just in the coverage and content of the book being reviewed‚ but also in your critical assessment of
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and books. However what is the point in these hidden objects if the story isn’t even understood itself and it hasn’t been viewed in a different literary lense? The movie “The Lorax” could easily be used with any of the four lenses of literary criticism. The story is most likely going to be viewed by Marxist critics because the dictators and leaders in the movie and how they impact the story much more significantly than the others. The story has three main dictators‚ the first one being the Once-ler
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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taken from the book <The unvexed isles> - it’s a collection of the stories of American and English writers. The author of this story is Robert Penn Warren - an American poet‚ novelist‚ and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. The story is rather heavy-going‚ but thought-provoking. The plot is rather static and is of no great importance here‚ the tone of the narration is quite melancholic. The author also gives us the chronological system of narration. The actions
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Chapter Three Take Home Test (see directions for submitting the assignment after the test questions...) What are the five objectives that a literature program should have? (p. 70) 5 points A literature program should provide entertainment for children‚ help children identify with their literary heritage‚ help students further understand elements of literature‚ help students understand themselves‚ and help students develop an understanding to reflect on what they have read. What is the sixth objective
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Literature and Environment: An Ecocritical Approach to Haifaa Al-Sanoussi’s Departure of the Sea (Abdulhamid Alansary‚ Dept.‚ of English Language and Literature‚ Faculty of Arts‚ Sohag University) ABSTRACT This research paper tries to explain the desire to return to pure nature through the analysis of a work of art ecocritically‚ namely Haifaa Al-Sanoussi’s Departure of the Sea. It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature‚ which had been previously harmonized‚ has changed
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Have you ever encountered that a distinct and spectral whisper keeps revolving around you? Actually‚ this plot was presented in a movie called “Field of Dreams” which was filmed in 1989. In the movie‚ such an odd thing happened to a young man‚ Ray. What is more ridiculous is that Ray decided to follow the instructions given by the phantom voice‚ even though he was on the edge of bankruptcy‚ whereas most of us are afraid of pursuing or following our yearning hearts‚ eventually‚ there is no chance
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The purpose of this essay is to analyze the poem of Robert Frost‚ “After Apple Picking” with race and post colonial literary criticism. The subject of racism has been a lively topic for critical debate since approximately the 1950s‚ with critics examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination based on race‚ religion‚ or gender in literary works‚ both past and present‚ as well as in the attitudes of the writers themselves. In some cases racism is a prominent‚ or even the chief theme‚ while
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the essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"‚ the author‚ J. R. R. Tolkien explains how Beowulf is portrayed as a historical document‚ rather than that of a work of art as he argues. The main argument of his paper is that Beowulf is “poor in criticism” as this would affect the way the reader would interpret the text. Tolkien argues that many of the interpretations are incorrect as they make us analyze the text historically versus analyzing is from an artistic point of view. Tolkien’s essay ultimately
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