Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered by some to be the most significant urban novel in German literature. Franz Biberkopf, the protagonist of this novel by Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), is an ex-convict who gains his freedom after serving a four-year sentence in… Read More ›
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Analysis of Franz Kafka’s The Castle
The Castle is the last novel written by Czech author Franz Kafka (1883–1924). Kafka began to write the book in 1922 in a village and not, as it is tempting to imagine, in the shadow of Prague’s legendary castle. A… Read More ›
Analysis of Arnold Zweig’s The Crowning of a King
The Crowning of a King is the concluding novel in a sixwork magnum opus, The Great War of the White Man, by German author Arnold Zweig (1887–1968). Zweig called the series of novels about World War I “a literary document… Read More ›
Analysis of Arnold Zweig’s The Axe of Wandsbek
The German author Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) started work in 1938 on one of his major novels, The Axe of Wandsbek, a psychological analysis of individual behavior in everyday life under the Third Reich. It depicts the evil in the structures… Read More ›
Analysis of Arnold Zweig’s The Case of Sergeant Grischa
German author Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) wrote his most famous novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as an account of World War I. Upon its publication in Germany in 1927, the novel’s readers acclaimed the story as the most moving account… Read More ›
Analysis of Franz Kafka’s Amerika
The Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924) wrote Amerika between 1911 and 1914, but the novel was not published until 1927, several years after the author’s death. Kafka never crossed the Atlantic to America, and much of his knowledge of the… Read More ›
Andhra Pradesh SET English Answer Key
Question Paper AP SET 2020 Paper 2 English (PDF) Provisional Answer Key 1. (B) Embrace death 2. (A) In his grave 3. (A) Paradox 4. (C) Passion 5. (B) Despair 6. (A) A Fine Balance 7. (B) Oral drills 8…. Read More ›
Drama Theory
Aristotle‘s Poetics, the first major text of Western drama theory, defined the terms of much subsequent discussion. Unlike such classical Eastern theoretical works on drama as the Sanskrit Natyasastra or Zeami Motokiyo’s writings on Noh, it makes only minor passing… Read More ›
University of Calicut Introduction to Cultural Studies Paper Scholarly Materials
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory is, by and large, concerned with the critique of modernity, modernization, and the modern state. The first generation of critical theorists – Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm – came together in the early… Read More ›
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Cons and pros: prison education through the eyes of the prison educated Reaz Ahmed, Michael Johnson, Craig Caudill, Nicholas Diedrich, David Mains & Adam Key To cite this article: Reaz Ahmed, Michael Johnson, Craig Caudill, Nicholas Diedrich, David Mains &… Read More ›
Kerala University M.Phil English Entrance Answer Key with Detailed Solution
Entrance Examination for Admission to the M.Phil Courses, 2019 English Language and Literature Time: 3 Hours … Read More ›
Walter Benjamin and Cultural Theory
The German literary theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was associated with what is known as the Frankfurt School of German critical theory (although he was never a member of its institutional body, the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research). His work is… Read More ›
Kannur University M.Phil English Entrance Questions and Answers
University of Kannur M.Phil Entrance Examination, August 2019 Department of Studies in English, Thalassery Campus Exam Date: 02 August 2019. Time: 2 Hours … Read More ›
Key Theories of Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), best known for a text called The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction where the world of mass produced artworks, in particular those of photography and film, are explored. Benjamin is also regarded as an… Read More ›
Victorian Literary Criticism
Victorian literary theory, sometimes dismissed as a hinterland, is a remarkably diverse and productive field. Of the four lines of theorizing identified by the philosopher of art Francis Sparshott in Theory of the Arts (1982)— the classical, expressive, oracular, and… Read More ›
The Philosophy of Henri Bergson
Schopenhauer’s thought impinges considerably not only on the thought of Nietzsche but also on Bergson’s philosophy and his theories of art and humor. Notwithstanding his self-dissociation from Schopenhauer,1 Bergson’s philosophy stands in direct line of descent. In fact, his student… Read More ›
Analysis of S. J. Perelman’s Stories
Parody, satire, and verbal wit characterize S. J. Perelman’s (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) works. Most of them are very short and tend to begin as conversational essays that develop into narrative or mock dramatic episodes and sometimes… Read More ›
Analysis of Larry McMurtry’s Novels
Larry McMurtry’s (1936 -) best fiction has used the Southwest as its location and the characters typical of that area for its subjects. In the early years of his career, he dealt with life in the dying towns and decaying… Read More ›
Jean Baudrillard and Film Theory
Unlike a number of his contemporaries, Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) does not provide a single, systematic theory of cinema. Instead, his comments are scattered across a range of works, taking the variant forms of brief asides, longer analyses and remarks made… Read More ›
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