Hina Chauhan

Movie Review River and Tide        We have watched this documentary on 14th March. Which was about nature and also interesting movie. Andy Goldsworthy was working with time. This movie related to natural elements.    creates mountain shape with stone in the river and show what is reaction of nature carry or change. This experiment through we can say he respects process of life and death. He created lot of things sometimes he became success and sometimes he became failure to making arts but he never deficted.       Goldsworthy says that "Art for me is a form of nourishment".  He notices sculpture, "The very thing that brought it to life, will bring about its death." The documentary described about Scottish landscapes. He talks about the impact of sheep on the Scottish landscape, and made a chain of green leaves and placed them in the water. Beautiful stonewall, crosses a field, and goes und...

  Introduction:            There are Such a questions which arises while we study Cultural studies. What are cultural studies? Is Chetan Bhagat popular novelist? What is marketing? How marketing helps author for selling the book? How Chetan Bhagat selling his book? What is his style of marketing?       About Cultural studies:                                Culture studies are very difficult to understand because the word “culture”is so wide like umbrella term so cultural studies is hard to define. Cultural studies is omposed of elements of Marxism, post structuralism, structuralismand postmodernism,feminism, gender studies, anthropology, sociology race and ethnic studies, film theory, urban studies; public policy, popular culture studies and po...

Tradition and Individual Talent T.S.Eliot has published his essay,”Tradition and Individual Talent” IN 1919 IN THE EGOIST-The times literary supplement. and later in 1920 in The Sacred Wood; essay on poetry and criticism. This essay is also there in Eliot’s “selected Prose” and “selected essays”. His Contribution in the world of criticism but he is mostly famous for poetry .He is Comparable with Sir Philip Sidney and S.T.Coleridge as poet critic.                              Three Parts of Essay Concept of “Tradition”. Theory of Depersonalization. Conclusion. According to Eliot the work of Poet is the reflection of or maximum Influenced by his Past.implying blind Adherence to literary tradition of past. Tradition is not about Tradition it would mere amount of applying or Slavish imitation....

Introduction: If we study the novel Middlemarch Austen than we came to know that there are such  a questions which arises  while studying. What is in the novel ‘Middlemarch’? Is literature reflects some realities? What are the realities in the novel? How Dorothea is real character? Are there some characters like her in other works? Basic information about the novel Middlemarch is the novel written by George Eliot. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch.  It is written as a third person narrative. There are three or four plots like life of Dorothea, the career of Tertius Lydgate, the courtship of Mary Gerth by Fred Vincy and the disgrace of Bulstrode. But the main plot is regarding Dorothea Brooke that how her life going on in the novel? There are some major characters in the novel as under, Dorothea Tertius Lydgate Rosamond Vincy Edward Casaubon Arthur Brook, etc. Some significant themes of the novel are status of w...

John Keats and Four Odes. John Keats was born in 1795 and died in 1821. He was the last but most perfect of all Romantic Poets. Scott was known for merely telling stories, Wordsworth reforming poetry with moral law. And Shelley to admit impossible terms, Byron voicing own Egoism and political discourse. Keats has lived apart from men and from all of the political measures, like worshiping beauty as devote. Ode On a Grecian Urn              Ode on a GrecianUrn exprsses the poet’s love of romance, deep delight in nature and his interest in the Greek mythology. This poem includes thefamous line, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” In the poem, we find the reference to Flora, Dryad, and Bacchus that are all related to Greek mythology. Ths, it shows that Greek mythology had   deep hold on the mind of the poet. The language of the Ode is quite poetic. Ode on a Grecian Urn has concrete imagery, richness of coloring a...

 Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic   analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context   of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern   philosophy. Deconstruction is a method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language which emphasizes the internal workings of language and conceptual systems, the relational quality of meaning, and the assumptions implicit in forms of expression. Ex:

Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog.  In literary theory, Structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure .There are many Structuralist critics like Ferdinand Saussure, Gerard Genette, Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss etc. Structuralist critics found basic common structure in every work. As all the human beings  have a same structure from inside, similarly literature has basic structure and it is same everywhere whether it movies, TV serials or advertisement etc. Revenge: In any kind of revenge stories either in books or in movies there are different stories, scenario but the structure of that story would always remain same. Ex: ...

What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams, and even social rituals. Such recurrent items are held to be the result of elemental and universal forms or patterns in the human psyche, whose effective embodiment in a literary work evokes a profound response from the attentive reader, because he or she shares the psychic archetypes expressed by the author. Archetypal literary criticism's origins are rooted in two other academic disciplines, social anthropology and psychoanalysis; each contributed to literary criticism in separate ways, with the latter being a sub-branch of critical theory. Archetypal criticism was at its most popular in the 1940s and 1950s, largely due to the work of Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye. Though ar...

Ivor Armstrong Richard, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician whose work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory, which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self contained, self-referential aesthetic object. Richard's intellectual contributions to the establishments of the literary methodology of the New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism, by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism , practical criticism and The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Four kinds of meaning Sense is what is said, or the 'items' referred to by a writer. Feeling refers to emotions, emotional attitudes, will, desire, pleasure, displeasure and the rest. When we say somet...

      1. How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it ? Yes, I am agree with the Eliot's concept of tradition. Tradition does not means that the close adherence to the literary tradition of the past. The tradition means the past and the literary tradition means the work of writer and their writing style. The every writer contributes his talent in the tradition. It is the tradition with which we compare our present writer and find newness in present work. 2.  What do you understand by Historical Sense? (Use these quotes to explain your understanding) "The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence" This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.  The historical sense involves a perception,..... the historical sense compels a man ...