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Books I have read, stories I have imagined, poems I have written, and reflections on the many questions that make life worth exploring.
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Books, Reading and Literary Reflections
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How should I read a novel as a student of an English literature?
Read more →: How should I read a novel as a student of an English literature?There is no great difference in reading a novel whether you read it as a general reader or as a student of Literature as long as you are reading it and enjoying the experience. But once you read it consciously, in the sense of reading from a literary point of view, then the reading part…
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On reading – Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Read more →: On reading – Chronicle of a Death ForetoldSantiago Nasar is murdered or rather butchered in public by Pablo and Pedro Vicario. This is to answer for violating the honor of their sister Angelico Vicario, who is wedded by the town’s glamour boy Baynardo Roman. On the very night of the wedding day, Baynardo Roman discovers that Angelico Vicario is not a virgin…
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What are the social roots of literature?
Read more →: What are the social roots of literature?Can stories spring up from somewhere? Literature is a reflection of life and living. Before it took the form of books, Literature was there among the people in their stories, songs, ballads, myths and folktales. In fact it is said that the richest and perennial source of imagination for poets and authors alike has been…
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INTENTION
Read more →: INTENTIONThis is an assignment I wrote for my PGDES classes in EFLU. Some of the points appear to be still relevant. It is interesting to note how the various schools of literary criticism have dealt with the problem of intention. Impressionistic Criticism or Romantic criticism, a practice which appreciated the author’s fidelity to his experience,…
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How has reading classical literature improved your life?
Read more →: How has reading classical literature improved your life?If one accepts the premise that life is a search for meaning and the quest to understand our existence then reading Literature is one form of fulfilling that quest. The improvement part of it has to be looked at as a process than a product. Anyway improvement does not happen by itself and depends on…
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Which is the greatest work of Fyodor Dostoevsky?
Read more →: Which is the greatest work of Fyodor Dostoevsky?The only artist who ranks along side William Shakespeare in the galaxy of literary greats is none other than Fyodor Dosteyevsky. It is not difficult to answer this question because it is Brothers Karamazov. Constructed around a family of four brothers, all sons of Fyodor Karamazov: Alexei, the sensualist and emotional giant, Ivan, the rationalist…
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Love in the Time of Cholera: Florentino and Fermina
Read more →: Love in the Time of Cholera: Florentino and FerminaFlorentino 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…
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How many types of dramas are there in English literature?
Read more →: How many types of dramas are there in English literature?There can be no exact classification because the genres seem to merge or converge at times. Taking Shakespeare as a starting point one could say we have Tragedy; Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear: Comedy; Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s dream, As you like it and others, Tragi-comedy, The Tempest, History; Richard the second, Roman…
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What does “critically summarising” mean in terms of literature?
Read more →: What does “critically summarising” mean in terms of literature?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…
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What are some of the most beautiful pieces of literature you have ever read?
Read more →: What are some of the most beautiful pieces of literature you have ever read?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.…
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What are the best nonfiction books you have ever read?
Read more →: What are the best nonfiction books you have ever 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…
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What are the salient features of Victorian prose?
Read more →: What are the salient features of Victorian prose?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…
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చివరకు మిగిలేది
Read more →: చివరకు మిగిలేదిబుచ్చిబాబు ‘చివరకు మిగిలేది’లో దయానిధి వ్యక్తిత్వం, ప్రేమ, అన్వేషణ, వైరుధ్యం, శూన్యం మరియు సత్యాన్వేషణ గురించి నా ఆత్మీయ సాహిత్య పరిశీలన.
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నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2
Read more →: నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2More books, more conversations, and the many ways they stay with us.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Read more →: The Count of Monte CristoAfter finally reading the unabridged novel, I reflect on Dumas’s immense canvas of adventure, suffering, revenge and the sheer exhilaration of storytelling.
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మనసు లోని మాట
Read more →: మనసు లోని మాటదూరం, ఊరు, బాల్యం, స్నేహం, ఇంటి జ్ఞాపకాలు — మనసులో మిగిలే తియ్యని బాధను పలికించే జ్ఞాపకాల కవిత.
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Revisiting
Read more →: RevisitingA look back, not to return, but to understand — and to move forward more gently.