New criticism approaches - FOUZIA LAKHMOR - G3 - S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚
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Preserving Childhood Innocence Books are banned due to explicit content proposed to certain audiences. This is done to protect the readers‚ mostly pertaining to children. A wise man name Salman Rushdie once said “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend‚ it ceases to exist.” This explains any piece of literature will always offend someone and writers should not live in the fear to inflict someone’s penniless tender feelings which is prominent in the The Catcher and the
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English Literature Eng 102 Term Paper II Topic: Post-Colonial Indian English Drama India has the longest and the richest tradition in drama. During the age of the Vedic Aryans‚ drama was performed in a simple way. Different episodes from the Ramayana‚ the Mahabharata‚ and the Bhagavad-Gita were enacted out in front of people. When Britishers came in India‚ the
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which causing death of morality as Rushdie says. First of all‚ main reason why people are joining these reality programmes is just the anxiety of being rich and famous which are the most two important notions in western society in these days (Rushdie‚ 2010‚ p.63). Contestants are doing bizarre and disturbing just for obtaining wealth and fame‚ like a guy fried his hand at American Survivor (Rushdie‚ 2010‚ p.63). This leads us Rushdie’s thesis “good to be bad” (Rushdie‚ 2010‚ p.64) from which it is comprehensible
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Interview with Anita Desai Magda Costa interviewed Anita Desai in Barcelona‚ 30 Jan 2001. Desai was in Spain to launch the Spanish and Catalan translations of Fasting‚ Feasting. -How was it to grow up in a family like yours‚ with a German mother and a Bengali father‚ in India? -When you are a child you take for granted what your family is; you don’t question it. The fact is that my mother adapted so completely to the Indian way of life that nobody thought of her as a foreigner anymore. It’s true
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(a) Volpone (b) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) A Doll’s House (d) Endgame 3. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched? (a) Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist (b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame (c) Saul Bellow - Herzog (d) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace 4. The Plough and the ‘Stars’ was written by - (a) G.B. Shaw (b) Sean O’Casey (c) Lady Gregory (d) J.M. Synge 5. Willy Loman is a character in- (a) Waiting for Godot (b) A Doll’s House (c) The Cherry Orchard (d) The Death
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By Indian English Writing‚ we mean that body of literature which is written by Indians in English. It could be in the form of poetry‚ prose‚ fiction or drama. English is not our mother tongue and we are not native speakers of English‚ yet when in the early decades of the nineteenth century‚ English was introduced as the medium of instruction in our educational system‚ Indians were able to read Western literature that was available in English. They found the language
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Notably‚ Salman Rushdie who in the chapter is cited as calling Machiavelli a “democrat” and “messenger.” Although Klosterman writes “that’s a different argument for a different book‚” (he is more concerned with the immutability of the negative connotation of “Machiavellian”
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Till 1983‚ October 31st was marked as the birth anniversary of India’s first home minister and one of the tallest leaders of National Independence movement‚ Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Known and feared for his shrewdness‚ presence of mind and clever deployment of tactics to force his enemies into submission in the political arena‚ Patel is also considered the best Prime Minister India never had. While his stormy relationship with India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru may had earned him some detractors
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"one of the world’s foremost scholars on religious affairs‚" comments on everything from the Christian Crusades‚ the formation of the state of Israel in 1948‚ the taking of hostages by Ayatollah Khomeini and his issuance of a fatwah on author Salman Rushdie‚ and Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam to the Taliban in her book Islam: A Short History. It is important to note that the book was published prior to the destruction that occurred in the United States on September 11‚ 2001. Armstrong’s observations
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