Formal and Informal Learning We develop our knowledge through formal and informal learning. Formal learning takes place in structured settings like schools and universities, with teachers guiding a set curriculum. This establishes a strong...
On the Sublime Introduction The treatise, ‘Peri Hypsos’ or On the Sublime written probably around 1st Century AD, is often considered the second most important document of classical literary criticism and theory, only after...
All My Sons All My Sons is a gripping post-World War II play by Arthur Miller, that explores the repercussions of a successful businessman’s moral compromise when he knowingly sells defective airplane parts, leading...
Elements and Features of Shakespearean Comedy Introduction The plays of William Shakespeare may be grouped into three broad categories—comedies, histories, and tragedies. It is important to note that the term comedy did not mean...
Saint Joan Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw is a cool play about Joan of Arc, a French girl who thought she was hearing voices from saints telling her to help France during the...
Introduction Before learning how to translate a text from Middle to Modern English, let’s have an introduction of Middle English. Middle English was spoken and written in England roughly between the 12th and 15th...
Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) Introduction According to M.H. Abrams, Elizabethan Age in the history of Britain refers to “the period of the reign of Elizabeth I” from 1558 to 1603. However, the term “Elizabethan,” is often...
Symbolist Movement In a significant work by Arthur Symons, titled “The Symbolist Movement in Literature” (1899), he characterized the movement as a reaction against realism and naturalism and as an attempt to “spiritualize literature.”...
Le Morte d’Arthur Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is a medieval prose work that chronicles the legendary tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The work revolves around the...
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...
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