Hello friends!I'm indeed happy to inform you that the significance of English in today's world is mind boggling and it's phenomenal growth has pervaded all spheres of life.To keep up with the rapid expansion and the veritable explosion of knowledge that abounds,English is mandatory as it is the mainstay of our livelihood.The English language is the boon left to us by the British and we must make the most of this gift to open up many doors of opportunity.
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If the confluence of Gods is at Mount Olympus,the effort has been made to present all critical and latest material related to English text,linguistics ,form of Indian writing,,American literature,European literature,Fiction in this blog on daily basis.
I sincerely wish the blog all success and pray that it reaches its goal.God bless you all!
First pat to myself .All the best.
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ReplyDeleteAll the effort has been made to provide the best of the material as far as possible and even open discussion on any topic which is difficult to comprehend can be done and all posts by the readers will be most welcome and all queries will be clarified to the possible extent.
Regards,
Neha Bhatla
M.A 2nd Year,
RIE,Sec-32,Chd.
Introducing English Linguistics.
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The study of Language
Glossary of terms often used.
1.Competence and Performance
2.Functional Grammar.
3.Generative Grammar.
4.Grammar and pragmatics.
5.Grammatically and acceptability.
6.Linguistics Creativity.
7.Linguistics rules and principles.
8.Modes of Linguistic communication.
9.Prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
10.Semiotics.
Context
This module provides an overview of how linguistics approach the study of language.It describes language as one of many different systems of communication,a system that is unique to human beings and different from,for instance,the systems of communication that animals employ.Language exists in 3 modes;speech,writing and signs.Although all languages except signs exist in spoken form,only some have written forms.To study language,linguists focus on two levels of description;pragmatics,the study of how context(both social and linguistic)affects language use,and grammar ,the description of how humans form linguistics structures,from the level of sound up to the sentence.
Good luck Neha...!!!!
ReplyDeleteRespected Mam,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot .I hope I'll be able to reach the expectations of the reader.
Regards,
hi !
ReplyDeletegus effort !
i will render my full support !
Thanks Mukta!.
ReplyDeleteHistory of English literature.
ReplyDeleteAges of English literature.
1.The period about Chaucer(1340-1400)
2.The Age of Shakespeare.(1558-1625)
3.Jacobean to Restoration Period.(1603-1700)
4.The Augustan age.(The 18th century literature).
5.The Romantic Period.(1798-1837)
6.The Victorian Period.(1837-1901)
7.The Modern Age.(1901-2000)
Key terms
1.Literary theory
2.Literary Criticism.
Theories of Criticism.(M.A.1st year).
ReplyDeleteLiterary theory is the process of understanding nature, functions and relations of text to the author,language and history.
Literary Criticism
It is the estimation of value of a particular work or body of work on such grounds as the personal cultural significance of themes and uses of language of the text,its aesthetic production.
Criticism is a kind of bridge between the author and the reader.It brings home to the reader the outer and the inner beauty and significance of a work of literature.It's concerned with defining,classifying,expounding and evaluating works of literature.According to Walter Pater,"Criticism is the art of interpreting art.It serves as an intermediary between the author and the reader by explaining the master pieces,disengages it,and sets it forth."
Mathew Arnold defines criticism as a "disinterested endeavour to learn and propogate the best that is known and thought in the world".The reader looks to the critic to give a verdict on the merits of the book,based on the basis of his knowledge of the subject and of the existing works upon it.He acts as an authority on the subject and judges.
The reader would miss half the inner meaning and beauty of a work of literature without the help of a good critic.In this context a question is often raised who is superior author or critic.Undoubtely the author is superior to the critic because no critic can exist or function without the creative artist.The author is the base on which the critic stands.Criticism derives its existence from literature, as literature does from life.
Stop for a while and think.
Who according to you is more imp- Author,Critic or Reader?
This is to inform this blog will cater to the needs of M.A 1st year and Linguistics only.Any general topic may also be covered in it.It will be a great help to students preparing for UGC.
ReplyDeleteTradition and Individual Talent.
ReplyDeleteby T.S.Eliot.
Study Chart'
1.T.S.Eliot'his life and works;
2.His Age'The Social and the Literary background to T.S.Eliot
3.His concept of tradition.
4.His concept of a critic.
5.T.S Eliot himself as a classical critic.
6.The relation between Eliot and his poetry.
7.His views on individual authors
8.His views on Impersonal theory of poetry.
9.T.S Eliots Dramatic Criticism
10.T.S Eliot and revival of poetic dramma.
11.The theory of objective correlative.
12.His concept of dissociation of sensibility and unification of Sensibility.
13.Tradition and Individual Talent 'as Unofficial Manifesto of T.S.Eliots Criticism.
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The Impersonal theory of poetry as propounded in Tradition and the Individual Talent.
14.His contribution to the history of English Criticism.
15.T.S. Eliot and Mathew Arnold a comparitive study.
1.T.S.Eliot-Life and Career(1888-1965)The Modern Age.
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Birth-26th September,1888,at St.Louis.Missouri,an industrial city in the centre of the U.S.A.
He has been regarded as one of the greatest of English poets,and he has influenced the course of modern poetry more than any poets of the 2oth century.
His father Henry Eliot took to the brick trade at St.Louis in which he was very successful.He married Charlotte Stearns who came directly from Boston when they got married.She was an enthusiastic social worker as well as writer of calibre.In her writings keen interest is seen in technical innovations which we find in the poetry of our poet.Eliot's ancestors his grandfather who had left New England for St.Louis,and established a Unitarian church there.He was a man of academic interests and in course of time became the founder of the Washington University at St.Louis and also left behind him a number of religious writings.
Thus its clear that T.S.Eliot has inherited a lot from his ancestors.If from his father he has inherited the buisness ability which led him to bank,and later on made him such a successful head of a publishing firm.
Mr.Eliot's complex,many-sided personality was the outcome of a number of inherited factors.
Preface to the lyrical Ballads.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the text just stop and think over following questions.
1.Describe in detail how Wordsworth's manifesto in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads of poverty as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings",is different in terms of style and content from the Classical style that came before t.
2.critically examine Wordsworth's claim that there neither is,nor can be,any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition".
3.What does Wordsworth say about the self and identity of the poet?
4.Comment on Wordsworth view on poetry as a
"spontaneous overflow of emotions".
Preface to lyrical Ballads
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1.Life and works of William Wordsworth
2.The social and the literary background to William Wordsworth.
3.The critical background of Wordsworth i.e Romantic versus Classic.
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The Neo-classical creed and romanticism
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The literary Criticism in the Age of Wordsworth.
4.Salient features of Preface to lyrical Ballads.
5.Significance,value and limitations of the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.
6.Critical Appreciation of the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.
7.The Preface:Manifesto of English Romantic Movement.
8.What was the motive behind writing this Preface?
9.Themes of poetry according to Wordsworth.
10.Wordsworth theory of poetic diction.
11.Wordsworth's view of meter in poetry.
Literary critics
1.J.C.Smith.
2.Rene Welleck.
3.H.W.Garrod.M.H.Abrahms.
Linguistics
ReplyDelete1.Linguistic competence potential ability of a speaker based on their knowledge of their language. Saussure refers to this as langue.
2.Linguistic performance is the actual spoken ability of a speaker. This includes phonetic, syntactic and other speech errors. Saussure refers to this as parole.
3.Functional Grammar (FG) and Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) are grammar models and theories motivated by functional theories of grammar. These theories explain how linguistic utterances are shaped, based on the goals and knowledge of natural language users. Functional Discourse Grammar has been developed as a successor to Functional Grammar, attempting to be more psychologically and pragmatically adequate than Functional Grammar
The top-level unit of analysis in Functional Discourse Grammar is the discourse move, not the sentence or the clause. This is a principle that sets Functional Discourse Grammar apart from many other linguistic theories, including its predecessor Functional Grammar.
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Module on psychology terms and philospohy
ReplyDeleteFreud's model of the psyche:
• Id - completely unconscious part of the psyche that serves as a storehouse of our desires, wishes, and fears. The id houses the libido, the source of psychosexual energy.
• Ego - mostly to partially (<--a point of debate) conscious part of the psyche that processes experiences and operates as a referee or mediator between the id and superego.
• Superego - often thought of as one's "conscience"; the superego operates "like an internal censor [encouraging] moral judgments in light of social pressures" (123, Bressler - see General Resources below).
Lacan's model of the psyche:
• Imaginary - a preverbal/verbal stage in which a child (around 6-18 months of age) begins to develop a sense of separateness from her mother as well as other people and objects; however, the child's sense of sense is still incomplete.
• Symbolic - the stage marking a child's entrance into language (the ability to understand and generate symbols); in contrast to the imaginary stage, largely focused on the mother, the symbolic stage shifts attention to the father who, in Lacanian theory, represents cultural norms, laws, language, and power (the symbol of power is the phallus--an arguably "gender-neutral" term).
• Real - an unattainable stage representing all that a person is not and does not have. Both Lacan and his critics argue whether the real order represents the period before the imaginary order when a child is completely fulfilled--without need or lack, or if the real order follows the symbolic order and represents our "perennial lack" (because we cannot return to the state of wholeness that existed before language).
Psycholgy theories and few terms
ReplyDeleteFreud's model of psychology.
• Id - completely unconscious part of the psyche that serves as a storehouse of our desires, wishes, and fears. The id houses the libido, the source of psychosexual energy.
• Ego - mostly to partially (<--a point of debate) conscious part of the psyche that processes experiences and operates as a referee or mediator between the id and superego.
• Superego - often thought of as one's "conscience"; the superego operates "like an internal censor [encouraging] moral judgments in light of social pressures" (123, Bressler - see General Resources below).
Lacan's model of the psyche:
• Imaginary - a preverbal/verbal stage in which a child (around 6-18 months of age) begins to develop a sense of separateness from her mother as well as other people and objects; however, the child's sense of sense is still incomplete.
• Symbolic - the stage marking a child's entrance into language (the ability to understand and generate symbols); in contrast to the imaginary stage, largely focused on the mother, the symbolic stage shifts attention to the father who, in Lacanian theory, represents cultural norms, laws, language, and power (the symbol of power is the phallus--an arguably "gender-neutral" term).
• Real - an unattainable stage representing all that a person is not and does not have. Both Lacan and his critics argue whether the real order represents the period before the imaginary order when a child is completely fulfilled--without need or lack, or if the real order follows the symbolic order and represents our "perennial lack" (because we cannot return to the state of wholeness that existed before language).
Greek mythology stories to be read for exemplifying the psychological theories;
ReplyDelete1.The myth of Oedipus
-Oedipus Rex.
2.Hamlet.
3.Sons and lovers a novel based on Oedipus Rex.
*Questions related to psychoanalysis theories for M.A. 1st year
1.Discuss Freud's contribution to the psychoanalysis approach to literature.
2.What are the postulates of the psycho-analytical approach'how has it helped in explaining literary texts.
3.Detail the various complex arguments in Freud's
psychoanalytical theories.
4.Is the psychological approach more relevant than any other approach to literature?Give reasons.
Notice;
ReplyDeleteAny student having any query or want any topic to be discussed ,any critical essay,or any poesy,or any play or novel,or character sketch is most welcome to do that.