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Online Discussion on Sharmeen's documentary, A Girl in the River.   Sharmeen obaid Chinoy 's Got Oscar award for her documentary " A Girl in the River " has been much celebrated at home. It is about honor killing in Pakistan.  Sharmeen’s films are about truly heroic Pakistani women — women who have suffered appalling cruelty and oppression but who have refused to be silenced. In telling their stories to the world, they have fought back and exposed injustice. It is shows the true situation of women that how they suffering so by showing this reality it brings awareness in society. It is not the situation of women in Pakistan but overall in  the world. We don't know many places where women are suffering. people not easily accept this reality.   We may feel that this kind of writer wants to be famous in people by publishing this kind of work. Because to get more publicity they already knows which kind of work gives more publicity . In  the country lik...

Introduction Originated by the philosopher  Jacques Derrida ,   deconstruction  is an approach to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. Derrida's approach consisted of conducting readings of texts with an ear to what runs counter to the intended meaning or structural unity of a particular text. The purpose of deconstruction is to show that the usage of language in a given text, and language as a whole, are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible. Throughout his readings, Derrida hoped to show deconstruction at work. About the Jaques Derrida Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. What do you understand by 'Deconstruction'? Deconstruction is really a bit diffi...

Gerald Genette: structuralism and literary criticism Structuralism and Literary Criticism' - Gerard Genette. Structuralism is a way to examines a literary text to arrive at their  meaning , rather than the  actual meanings of the text themselves. It is a study of structure wherever they occur. In the essay Genette  analyses content, logics, grammars and semiotics. About the critic Gérard Genette was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage. "Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog."  In literary theory, Structuralism is an appro...

Northrop Frye,  Herman Northrop Frye,  Canadian educator and critic who wrote much on "Canadian Literature" and culture and became best known as one of the most important literary theorists of the 20th century. 1.What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the Archetypal critic do? In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams, and even social rituals. Such recurrent items are held to be the result of elemental and universal forms or patterns in the human psyche, whose effective embodiment in a literary work evokes a profound response from the attentive reader, because he or she shares the psychic archetypes expressed by the author. 2.  What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'? In this Frye compare the both Physics...

Introduction Ivor Armstrong Richards is on of the greatest critics of the modern age. He was born in 1983. He took education at Cambridge. In fact, T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards are considered to be the pioneers in the field of New Criticism. They differ a lot in the views. Critics like John crowe Ronsom, Kenneth Bruke, cleanth Brooks, R.P.Blackmur, Robert Penn Warren William Empson were indebted to I.A. Richards.  I.A. Richards is a pioneer figure as far as New Criticism is considered.  His work are. 1 The Meaning of Meaning- 1923 2 The Practical of Criticism – 1929 3 The Principles of Literary criticism-1924 Four misunderstanding of language : (i) Misunderstanding of the sense of poetry: Careless, intuitive reading (rhyme or irregular syntax). (ii) Over-liter reading – prosaic reading. (iii) Defective scholarship. (ix) Difference in meaning of words in poetry and prose. He gave new path to literary criticism. In his met...

"Tradition and the Individual Talent" is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published in The Egoist and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, "The Sacred Wood". The essay is also available in Eliot's "Selected Prose" and "Selected Essays".   About T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM, was born on 26 September 1888  and he died  on 4 January 1965, "one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. The task given by Dr. dilip barad sir, 1. How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it ? =) Yes sir, I am agree with the Eliot's concept of tradition. Tradition does not means that the close adherence to the literary tradition of the past. The tradition means the past and the literary tradition means the work of writer and their writing st...

River and tides is a 2001 documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy. It is about  Transitory nature of art and  life. Goldsworthy create intricated and temporary sculpture from natural materials such as rocks , leaves flowers, snow , ice , clay. He connects Creativity of art with deep philosophical meaning of life and nature. River means growth it has deep connotations like River of growth goes through trees ,  growth of animal , River of sheep - flow and movement.  Goldsworthy says that "Art for me is a form of nourishment".  He notices sculpture, "The very thing that brought it to life, will bring about its death." The documentary described about Scottish landscapes. He talks about the impact of sheep on the Scottish landscape, and made a chain of green leaves and placed them in the water. Beautiful stonewall, crosses a field, and goes under a river, and emerges to wind through...

Name: Makwana Monika Paper No: 8 The Cultural studies Roll no:- 21 Topic: Gayatri Spivak’s concept of Subaltern Theory Enrollment No: 206910842020190027 Email I’D: makwanamonika76@gmail.com Submitted to: SMT. S.B. Gardi Department of English Introduction Gayatri spivak is best known for her essay “ Can the subaltern speak ”. It is best example of subaltern Theory. While, she is best known as a postcolonial theorist, she describes herself as a ‘Para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher’ and her early career would have included applied deconstruction.   Considered one of the most influential postcolonial intellectual, she is best known for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s De la Grammatology and she also translated such a work of Mahasweta Devi as Imagery Maps and Breast stories into English with separate critical appreciation on the text and Devi’s life writing in general. Her reputation was first made for her translation of De...