The rise of the “little theater” movement was a reaction to the traditional practices of the American stage prior to 1910. Although the smallest towns had theater buildings and vaudeville houses in which well-worn plays and players kept up a… Read More ›
Symbolism, an aesthetic movement devoted primarily to discovering the true nature of poetry, originated in France in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé, the central figures in the theory and practice of symbolism in… Read More ›
After the publication of his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, however, the work of Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) received increasingly serious critical commentary. He emerged as a consistent commentator on American culture through the second half of the twentieth century. His short… Read More ›
Between 1919 and 1934 African-American artists flocked to New York City, specifically to Harlem. This era was to become one of the most prolific periods of African-American writing. What Alain Locke called in 1925 a “New Negro Movement” was later… Read More ›
Adams-Curse-by-W.B.-Yeats Alone-by-Edgar-Allan-Poe-poetry Death-Be-Not-Proud-by-John-Donne- Fear-No-More-by-William-Shakespeare. If-by-Rudyard-Kipling Kubla-Khan-by-Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge-poetry My-Last-Duchess-by-Robert-Browning- Next-Please-by-Philip-Larkin Ode-on-a-Grecian-Urn-by-John-Keats Ode-to-Autumn-by-John-Keats The-Emperor-of-Ice-Cream-by-Wallace-Stevens- The-Second-Coming-by-W-B-Yeats-poetry The-Unknown-Citizen-by-W.H.-Auden Tonight-I-Can-Write-The-Saddest-Lines-by-Pablo-Neruda Ulysses-by-Alfred-Lord-Tennyson-poetry A-Valediction-Forbidding-Mourning-John-Donne- Anne-Sexton Wanting-to-Die Batter-My-Heart-John-Donne Dover-Beach-by-Matthew-Arnold Dylan-Thomas-Poem-in-October Dylan-Thomas-reciting-his-villanelle-Do-Not-Go-Gentle-into-that-Good Easter-1916-Yeats Elizabeth-Barrett-Browning-How-Do-I-Love-Thee Elizabeth-Barrett-Browning-How-Do-I-Love-Thee- For-whom-the-bell-tolls-by-John-Donne. Hawk-Roosting-by-Ted-Hughes I-Wandered-Lonely-as-a-Cloud-Daffodils-William-Wordsworth John-Donne-No-Man-Is-An-Island John-Donnes-The-Good-Morrow La-Belle-Dam-sans-Merci-John-Keats Longing-by-Matthew-Arnold Night-of-the-Scorpion-poem-by-Nissim-Ezekiel Ode-to-a-Nightingale-John-Keats Ode-to-Intimations-of-Immortality Ozymandias P-B-Shelleys-Ode-to-the-West-Wind Percy-Shelley-To-a-Skylark Philip-Larkin-Church-Going-John-Betjeman Richard-Burton-reads-Fern-Hill-by-Dylan-Thomas… Read More ›
Answer Key CUCET English (PG) PART B 26. (C) Morality plays A type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him or her to choose a good life over… Read More ›
STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST (ENGLISH) PROVISIONAL ANSWER KEY EXAM CONDUCTED ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2019 Which character in Chaucer’s General Prologue was stout and brawny, with a wart on his nose? A) The Summoner B) The Monk C) The Miller D) The PardonerANSWER:… Read More ›
Seen in the context of Hauptmann’s work and of the contemporary literary situation, Die Weber was indeed a unique contribution. For its author it represented a first application of Naturalist theory and technique to documented, historical subject matter, and for… Read More ›
Lorca said once that the only hope for happiness lies in “living one’s instinctual life to the full.” Blood Wedding can be understood as a gloss on that belief. In it the poet succeeded in creating a medium that allowed… Read More ›
One of the things I wanted very much to do, in Cloud Nine . . . was to write a play about sexual politics that would not just be a woman’s thing. I felt there were quite a few women’s… Read More ›
“Why not,” I said to myself, “present this highly strange fact of an author who refuses to let some of his characters live though they have been born in his fantasy, and the fact that these characters, having by now… Read More ›
John Fowles’s (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) fiction has one theme: the quest of his protagonists for self-knowledge. Such a quest is not easy in the modern world because, as many other modern authors have shown, the contemporary… Read More ›
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s (born March 24, 1919) poetry may be looked on as a kind of travelog in which he has subjectively recorded choice experiences or montages from experience, often in a jazzlike or free-associative manner. For Ferlinghetti, “reality” itself becomes… Read More ›
The term objectivist was coined by Louis Zukofsky in 1930 for “‘Objectivists’ 1931,” a special issue of Poetry for which he served as guest editor. Of the many poets included in that issue and in its follow-up anthology, An “Objectivists”… Read More ›
The Fugitives, a group of poets from Nashville, Tennessee, led the vanguard for modernist verse in the South in the 1920s. In contrast to the Imagist movement centered in England, the Fugitives emphasized traditional poetic forms and techniques, and their… Read More ›
James Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) is best known as the author of humorous sketches, stories, and reminiscences dealing with urban bourgeois American life. To discuss Thurber as an artist in the short-story form is difficult, however,… Read More ›
Postcolonial (cultural) studies (PCS) constitutes a major intervention in the widespread revisionist project that has impacted academia since the 1960s—together with such other counterdiscourses that are gaining academic and disciplinary recognition as cultural studies, women’s studies, Chicano studies, African-American studies,… Read More ›
Realism was by no means a uniform or coherent movement; a tendency toward realism arose in many parts of Europe and in America, beginning in the 1840s. The major figures included Flaubert and Balzac in France, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy… Read More ›
Archetypal theory and criticism, although often used synonymously with Myth theory and crticism, has a distinct history and process. The term “archetype” can be traced to Plato (arche, “original”; typos, “form”), but the concept gained currency in twentieth-century literary theory… Read More ›
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 ›
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