AD's English Literature

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1.   Derrida............. Deconstruction: With the publication of Writing and Difference , French philosopher Jacques Derrida pioneers the method of literary criticism known as deconstruction. Under deconstruction, texts are subjected to new methods of analysis that reveal hidden layers of meaning. The analysis examines the intent of the author, as well as how the concepts, language, and images of the text have been previously used. 2.   Psychological Criticism: Writers’ as well as creative process’s analysis. (Origin Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan)   Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)     3.     Archetypal / Myth Criticism: Frye’s most important work, Anatomy of Criticism (1957), introduced archetypal criticism, identifying and discussing basic archetypal patterns as found in myths, literary genres, and the reader’s imagination.( origin C. G. Jung & ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s story Kabuliwala , set in the early twentieth century Kolkata, is about a little girl Mini and a Kabuliwala exploring the bonds of friendship, affection and parting   transcending the borders of race, religion and language . Read More Short Stories The prime characters are two: Kabuliwala and Mini. Kabuliwala’s name was  Rahamat  a middle-aged Pathan trader, a dry fruit seller from Afghanistan, who comes to Kolkata, leaving his family and in particular his favorite daughter, and Mini was a chatty girl and liked to talk all day long. Mini’s father’s conversation with Mini was often feisty. One day Kabuliwala is passing through the street hawking his merchandise, and then Mini loudly calls the Kabuliwala. Kabuliwala heard Mini’s call and turned around with smile and approached their house. But Mini dashes inside because she fears that if someone looks through the bag of this Afghan man. Read More Short Stories Then her father calls her a...

The Canadian Humourist and   Humanist  Stephen Leacock ’s sense of humors to create amusement has no doubt abundantly erected in a fanciful story about the recent trends towards specialization particularly in the field of medical treatment in his essay cum short fiction   Further Progress in Specialization . At the time 1929, Stephen Leacock wrote Further Progress in Specialization , science had become the subject of much public debate. During this period, the natural sciences were becoming part of the everyday curriculum of schools. Read More Essay  Journalists responded to the general interest in science—and the particular interest in medicine and its possible wonders—with a multitude of speculations. Stephen Leacock chose a topic for his essay that was calculated to catch the public's imagination. In addition, his care in presenting accurate details, both in setting and about the everyday lives of his characters, gives the narrative a powerf...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1. Yeats’ Leda and the Swan is drawn upon a Greek myth. Leda and the Swan is a Greek myth in which Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda 2. The source of E.M Forster’s title Where Angels Fear to Tread is Pope. ( Pope’s An Essay On Criticism – ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’) 3. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre cannot hold” occur in Yeats' Second Coming. 4. The ‘Movement’ is a literary phenomenon in the forties. Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)       4. The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own” appears in :   Kanthapura

L oneliness and the search for meaning in the world are the main themes of Rabindranath Tagore ’s Postmaster , although other themes are subsumed in these two notions. Postmaster’s love and compassion for the young girl and the young girl’s musing by herself late into the night every night suggests loneliness. Postmaster understands implicitly what it may be like to be that lonely, to live that loner’s life. Read More Short Stories Ratan, who has no life, no home, and no job, lacks Postmaster’s perspective on life; she sees only her own immediate desire to stay at home, with no thought towards what may be haunting the young heart she matures night after night. Rabindranath Tagore Now coming to the story we find, in the small village of Ulapur, an Englishman who owns an indigo factory near it manages to get a post office established. The village was very small. His office and living room were in a dark thatched shed near a slimy pond surrounded on all sides by a dense...