Mulk Raj Anand: Life and Works
Mulk Raj Anand: Life and Works Mulk Raj Anand is amongst the pioneer Indo-English novelists, alongwith R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. He is known for his commitment for meportraying the struggles and injustices faced...
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Wife of Bath’s Tale
Wife of Bath’s Tale Themes 1. Consent, Authority and Gender Dynamics Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale looks into different themes, especially the theme of consent. The story talks about power dynamics, gender roles,...
Surrealism
Surrealism Surrealism promised to free the mind, of rational control, by exposing the subconscious mind of man…. These philosophical forerunners of the Absurd movement preached a new psychology based on combining the dreaming state...
Theatre of the Absurd
Introduction The Theatre of the Absurd was a short-lived yet significant theatrical movement, centred in Paris in the 1950’s. The beginning of “absurdism” lie in Avant-garde (Avant-garde refer to such works of art that...
A Defence of Poetry
A Defence of Poetry A Defence of Poetry is the most famous work of prose by P.B. Shelley (1792-1822). It was written in 1821 as a reaction to his friend Thomas Love Peacock’s treatise...
Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to Shakespeare By Dr. Samuel Johnson Introduction Samuel Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare (1765) stands as a timeless piece of literary criticism where he transcends his political, personal, religious, and literary biases to objectively...
The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold
The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold as a Critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) is the greatest name among the Victorian critics who was a poet-turned critic. He started his literary career...