AD's English Literature

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers (UGC NET ENGLISH OBJECTIVES) Luther is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’.   Ruskin’s Modem Painters    began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner. The term ‘the Palliser Novels ’ is used to describe the political novels of Charles Dickens . Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’— Tennyson A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as Rhyme Royal . Sir Thomas Wyatt first used blank verse in English poetry. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was  not influenced by The Pre-Raphaelites The expression "ancestral voices prophesying war" occurs in : Kubla khan.

"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither." Mark Twain  (1835 - 1910)    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   The idea that Huck and Jim engage in dreadful activities on Jackson Island is a myth that has been perpetuated by some critics of  Mark Twain's   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn    . The myth is based on a few passages in the novel that seem to suggest that Huck and Jim get up to some mischief on the island, such as smoking cigars and drinking alcohol. However, these passages are relatively few and far between, and they do not provide any concrete evidence that Huck and Jim engage in any truly dreadful activities. In fact, the novel's overall message is one of hope and redemption. Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River is a journey of self-discovery, and they both learn a great deal about thems...

'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all.' F. Scott Fitzgerald  (1896 - 1940) U.S. writer. This Side of Paradise In late June 2012, the UGC adopted the new exam pattern but the UGC NET English Syllabus remains the same. Naturally so, for the all-important UGC NET English examination students face the burden of learning instead of the fun inherit in it.  The UGC NET authorities, apparently accepting the change in EXAM PATTERN, continue to recognize the validity of the vast wisdom (?). I plead UGC NET authorities to drop such huge burden of English Literature Learning. Presently, one of the crucial issues facing by the students is an improbable doubling of its exam phobia. The authorities recently expressed the aim of increasing passing candidates by a factor of objective method. With this potential growth of practical need why should the students carry such a huge load of syllabus? 

Caliban: "Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again."   Act 3, Scene 2 , The Tempest Caliban in The Tempest is a complex character. The idea perhaps first struck Shakespeare as he heard the queer tales of ship-wreck and sailors stranded in enchanted islands and confronted with fantasy beings, neither fish nor man. The fantastic yet wonderful conception of Caliban owes much to these current stories –Caliban in face is conceived as the symbol of gross earthly things and passion, the half-brute half-man. He is also contrasted with the ethereal spirit of air, Ariel. Wilson Knight considers Caliban an ugly creature g...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers Philip Pip is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations . The novel The Power and the Glory is set in Mexico .   Lord of the Flies is Golding’s first novel. “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”- Tennyson = Simile   W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem in Byzantium . Herbert Pocket is Pip’s friend in London.   Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory is a dentist . The Nun.s Priest.s Tale had its origin in : The French Roman de Renart. The First Folio of Shakespeare.s plays appeared in :  1623 .

It is time that the art of reading story , of which we have many beautiful examples from infant days, should be strictly distinguished from the burden of examinations . Like acting or the playing of music, it is an art of interpretation of self searching. It requires, at its best, an exacting and imaginative scholarship, for we must understand story text in its fullest and most living sense; it requires a power over the instrument of storytelling. We should also take hold of the author's perspectives over the expression of his characters’ voice or the pictures of his story body. Readers’ aim, too, is identical with the aims of the author’s arts of interpretation. Meanings or perceptions of the reading text may vary only if it is well read.  In that perspective, for understanding literary stories, a time line can help to organize the steps in the process. A Literary Time Line can help us writing down the story's events in the order they occur. It is especially helpful for ...

The preparation of Teaching Literature has only been made possible by the very kind help of students who have enabled the teachers to lecture some of many favourite passages from the worthy writings. In the case of teaching, teachers have complete freedom of choice and were generously granted. However, nobody ask a student what he or she likes. The teachers have to tender their gratitude to all the students of English classroom for their most courteous and welcome collaboration in the making of it. One of the newly appointed teachers     in somewhere in Utopia (?) declared he would not take classes until he knew few students personally, and had dined with each. It is told that he prophesied his class wouldn’t begin to earn repute until he had obtained at least a dozen of his friends on the listening staffs of prominent. It has been rumoured that a teacher’s success in teaching depends on the students’ personal recommendation. Teaching Literature is a now a days professio...