Is there something called perfection about anything? When the world around is constantly evolving and Language and Literature which are the mirror to this world are forever dynamic, perfection is a distant dream. Rather assuming such a state is itself a fallacy. A real student will rather apply to the task with sincerity and dedication.
Florentino Ariza’s declaration of love to Fermina Daza in Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She is the woman he has loved passionately for more than two score years. He would do anything to be with her. For her he has remained celibate. When her husband dies his passion is revived…
When we are asked to summarise a work of literature, what might be expected is to render a synopsis of the work in question, probably adding a detail here and there which might interest the listener. But to critically summarise a work of literature may be to don the robes of a critic. Obviously there…
I remember reading Oscar Wilde’s short stories The Happy Prince,The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant in my High school. Actually the first two of them were a part of the syllabus and the last one I found in another anthology. Those stories were the most beautiful pieces of Literature I have read….
Confessions of a Economic Hitman, The World is Flat, A brief history of Time, The Tao of Physics, Life on the Mississippi, Living to tell the tale, My experiments with truth, The last Moghul, Hampi The forgotten empire, Orientalism, Seven years in Tibet, The naked Nagas, Biography of Napoleon, Walden, Waste Land, The autobiography of…
Victorian Prose marks a high point in the English Literature canon. For the first time the novel takes precedence over other forms of writing. This is also the age of periodicals and magazines opening up a different way of reading and writing in the form of serialisation. The Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, WM…
Emotively is what you could be passionate about; what lights up your sensual feelings or your imaginative vein. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one novel I can think about very keenly. The power of emotion in this fascinating love story is dark and deep. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a classic emotion novel….
My thoughts about Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov resurface as I read Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. Human nature revels in his novels; revels in the candid display of monstrosity and hideousness, subterfuge and all embracing love. As a critic has remarked Dostoyevsky’s characters possess a dialogic imagination. They are very near to the…
When somebody has studied English Literature at the Graduation level, it could mean he or she has a certain interest in the study of English. We see many people talking about communication skills in English which will put you on the highway to success, but really; Is proficient communication possible without the study of the Literature of that language? A student of Literature is expected to have a reasonable awareness of the writers, genres , the literary trends, the different ages and the movements in the growth and development of English Literature. Some of the books which helped me acquire a better understanding of the
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn according to Ernest Hemingway “All modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” The novel is a rich source to understand the American way of life in the early days of modernisation. For lovers of Nature and rivers especially, there is no better novel as…