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Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 2 Roll no : 03 Paper no : 8 Cultural study Topic : Michel Foucault - Power and knowledge Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of the English Michel Foucault - Power and Knowledge Paul-Michell Foucault ( 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), genrally known as Michell Foucault, was a Frens filosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Focultlt rejected these labels, preferig to present his thought as a critical history of modernity. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in comunication studies, sosiolgy, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, and critical theory. Activityt groups have also found his theorys compeling. Born in Poitier...

Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 2 Roll no : 03 Paper no : 7-Literary theory and criticism Topic : Tradition and individual talent - T. S. Eliot Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of the English T. S. Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) was an essaay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay is first published on The Egoist (1919) and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, "The Scared Wood" (1920).[1] The essay was also available in Eliot's "Selected Prose" and "Selected Essays". Wheel Eliot is most often known for her poetry, he also contributed to the field of literary criticism. In this dual role, he acted as poet-critic, comperable to Sir Philip seidney and Samuel tailor Coleridge. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" is one of the more well known works that Eliot produced in her critic capasity. It formulate...

Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 2 Roll no : 03 Paper no : 6 The victorian Literature Topic : Victorian Novel Characteristics Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of the English Victorian Novel Characteristics First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people, its plot was more interesting  than any other literary forms, the main protagonist of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventue told about , the writer and his readers shared the same opinions, values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class, the setting was mainly that of the same city where readers lived. In conclusion the novel was a kind of mirror reflected society and where a self-identification of the readers was possible. Of course the middle class readers were the most avid consumers, particularly women: they had t...

Name : Avni J Dave Roll no : 03 Semester : 2 Paper no : 5 - The Romantic Literature Topic : Frankenstein as a Gothic fiction Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of the English Frankenstein as a Gothic Fiction Mary Shelley's use of Gothic elements makes her 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein, one of the most enduring horror stories of all time. Shelley uses the Gothic convention of the looming secret but endows the secret with life. Victor's dark secret is the living, breathing, active monster he created. Tragic wanderers, ominous atmosphere, symbolism, and themes: these are elements in a Gothic novel. Through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written in the early 19th century, certainly contains many components of a Gothic novel, can that be correctly grouped under that genre? A definition of a Gothic novel; according to Tracy, is a description of a fallen world. We experince this fallen world though the aspects of a novel: plot, s...

Figurative Language - I. A. Richards                    I.A.Richards was an influential English literary critic and rhetorical. Richards is regularly considered one of the contemporary study of literature in English. Richards life and influence can be divided into period, which correspond roughly to his intellectual interest. Richards is often labeled as the father of the “new criticism”, largely because of the influence of his first two books of critical theory. I.A.Richards is at one with the new criticism in his stress on close textual and verbal stud of a poem.                      According to Richards there are three objective to write, ‘The Practical criticism’. ·     To introduce a new kind of documentation. ·     To provide new Technique. ·     To prepare the why for educational method.  In  his methodology, a ...

Rivers and Tides : Andy Goldsworthy               Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time is the most spiritually literate documentary. It won the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival. Documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer shows us Andy Goldsworthy as he creates art in natural settings using natural materials such as driftwood, ice, mud, leaves, and stones. Goldsworthy comments on his "earthworks" and occasionally responds to off screen questions that while he painstakingly builds his outdoors sculptures. With some exceptions, such as a winding stone wall that he built in Mountainville, Goldsworthy's creations are intentionally mutable works. We see how several of them fall apart, melt, or drift away due to exposure to the elements; we also see, for example, a complex structure of interconnected sticks collapse while Goldsworthy is still working on it. And ...

Online discussion on Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy in context of Cultural Studies and postcolonial       =) Sharmeen obaid chinoy :-                                               Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (born 12 November 1978) is a Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and activist. She is known for her work in films that highlight the inequality with women. She is the recipient of two Academy Awards, six Emmy Awards and a Lux Style Award. In 2012, the Government of Pakistan honoured her with the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second highest civilian honour of the country, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is the only female film director to have won two academy awards by the age of 37.             Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Academy Award for her documentary, A Girl in the River, has been much ...