Discuss the characteristics of the Restoration age The spirit of the restoration period was different from the Elizabethan period.by the year 1660 Elizabethan romanticism had but spent it-self of the great figure of the earlier era only one survived‚ John Milton was of the part.At the restoration he retired and worked his great poem reveals no sign of the time in which his later years were spent In restoration period the break with the past is almost absolute.Subject and style look on a new spirit
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Examples include figures like Ford’s Vasquez and Middleton and Rowley’s De Flores. In ’The Duchess of Malfi’‚ this is the character of Bosola. A malcontent can be identified by a number of traits. He is a discontented person; a rebel; disaffected‚ satirical and melancholic; bereaved or dispossessed and detached from an often corrupt society by his grievances; he has knowledge and intelligence without status. As one the key characters in ’The Duchess of Malfi’‚ Bosola can easily be studied to see if
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enslavemente by nomadic Indians. Echeverría inaugurated the theme of the pampas as an archetypal landscape – a place of barbarism; but also the crucible of national identity for Argentina. He also wrote El matadero (‘The Slaughterhouse’‚ 1838)‚ a short satirical prose piece in which a slaughterhouse becomes a powerful symbol of Rosas’s oppression of liberals in Buenos Aires. In 1839‚ Echeverría helped to found the Asociación de Mayo‚ a group of young anti-Rosas activists‚ many of whom were to become important
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a desired reaction in the reader Foil A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast Epistolary A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters Epitaph A piece of writing in praise of a deceased person Parody A satirical
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its flicker is seen even at the beginning of literature‚ Satire has become an effective weapon only in the later stages of civilisation‚ with the over-abundance of injuries. In his preface to “Absalom and Achitophel” John Dryden‚ the well-known satirical poet of 18th Century sets forth the true end of satire as “amendment of vices by correction”. To Alexander Pope‚ another great satirist‚ it is a sacred weapon in truth’s defence; and it heals with morals what it hurts with wit. We may safely assume
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Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates
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8. ‘In my youth’s summer I did sing of One/ The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind’ (Lord Byron). Examine representations of morbidity and/or alienation in at least TWO texts written or published in this period. In this essay I intend to use‚ where appropriate‚ three definitions of alienation taken from the OED: social alienation- ‘the action of estranging‚ or a state of estrangement or affection’ functional alienation- ‘Diversion of anything to a different purpose ’ and mental alienation-
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Boccaccio ’s work reflects both his middleclass mercantile background and the chivalric ideals of the Neapolitan court‚ where he spent his youth. He strove to raise Italian style to an art form nurtured in both medieval rhetoric and classical Latin prose; he had immense admiration for his great Italian contemporaries Dante and Petrarch‚ as well as for the classical authors. In this sense Boccaccio ’s vernacular humanism contrasts with Petrarch ’s classical humanism. Boccaccio ’s father‚ Boccaccio di
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THE personal history of Aphra Behn‚ the first Englishwoman to earn her livelihood by authorship‚ is unusually interesting but very difficult to unravel and relate. In dealing with her biography writers at different periods have rushed headlong to extremes‚ and we now find that the pendulum has swung to its fullest stretch. On the one hand‚ we have prefixed to a collection of the Histories and Novels‚ published in 1696‚ ’The Life of Mrs. Behn written by one of the Fair Sex’‚ a frequently reprinted
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Augustan Satire and Dryden 1688-1744 are often referred to as the English Augustan Age. The term ‘Augustan’ is derived from the reign of the roman emperor Augustus wherein the prestige given to literature was noteworthy and therefore the term is often applied to the other epochs in world history when literary culture was high. The English Augustan Age was marked by perfection of letters and learning. The 18th century led to the emergence of classical ideals of taste‚ polish‚ common sense and reason
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