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I. A. Richard -Figurative language

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  I. A.. Richard four type of misunderstanding.    1  Careless reading    2  Prosaic reading    3  Inappropriate metaphor    4  Difference in meaning Yeah… Arrey ladki beautiful, kar gayi chull (chull chull…) Arrey ladki beautiful, kar gayi chull (chull chull…) (Badshah) Yeah.. Dekh tera rang saawla hua baawla Ladki nahi hai tu hai garam maamla Bolti bandh meri, kahun kya bhala Kuchh bhi kahaa nahi jaaye Kya naache tu Dilli, hile hai London Matak matak jaise Raveena Tandon Kya naache tu Dilli, hile hai London Matak matak jaise Raveena Tandon Aag lagaane aayi hai ban-than Goli chal gayi dhaayn Nakhre vilayti Ego mein rehti Nakhre vilayti, ego mein rehti Tashan dikhati full Arrey ladki beautiful, kar gayi chull (chull chull…) Arrey ladki beautiful, kar gayi chull (chull chull…) Arey daayein, baayein Kaise kamar tu jhulaaye Physics samajh nahi aaye Arrey ladki beautiful, kar gayi...

Thinking Activity on Mathew Arnold

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1) Write about the one idea of Mathew Arnold which you find interesting and relevant in our time. Ans... The idea of 'Disinterestedness' and 'Detachment 'are interesting and relevant in today, Mathew Arnold (1822-1888),the Victorian ,poet and critic, was 'the first modern critic, (1) and could be called 'the critic's critic, being a champion not only of great poetry, but of literary criticism itself.            The first great principal of criticism enunciate by Arnold is that of disinterestdness or detachment. Disinterestedness on the part of the critic implies freedom form all prejudice, personal or historical. Arnold Definition of poetry....           " poetry is the criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. "           The second idea of general principles was the ' touchstone Method 'which introduced scientific obectivity of critical evaluati...

Online Discussion on Cultural Studies and Post Colonialism

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                 Moni Mohsin, author of the best selling social satire wrote against of the controversial questions raised and favor of literary writer. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won the Academy Award for her documentary, A Girl in the River. 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.Any nation should be proud to have such women in its midst. We should celebrate them, not try to hide them away like a shameful secret. Or indeed, question their patriotism .              Yes, I am agree with this point,Of course western interest can be narrow in its focus and agenda driven. But whose is not? Instead of frothing with self-righteous rage or manufacturing hysterical conspiracy theories t...

Online Discussion on Contemporary Debates and Mario Vargos Liosa.

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 Online discussion       Conntemporary Debates and Mario Vargos Liosa's views about Democracy has moved forward and human rights have been recognised basically thanks to liberal thinkers.....      Mario Vargas Llosa  is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation  seven influential authors: Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich von Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin and Jean-François Revel. His book” The Call of the Tribe” is also an intellectual autobiography that takes the reader from Vargas Lllosa’s Marxist and existentialist beginnings through to his endorsement of liberalism.       Libralism Liberalism is a group of political, social and economic theories that centers on the values of individual liberty, equality, economic free...

Thinking activity about Fiction, Lie, in the field of literature

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Q-  What do you think about truth, fact, fiction, lies etc when it comes to make opinion about literature?   Mark Twain was prescient when he said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” WHAT IS THE MEANING OF FICTION • Fiction means imagination. And that is the literary  work of imaginative things . •A work of fiction, making creative imagination that's not describing reality but it's work to describing some new and Unexpected things means imaginative some things. •In the fiction characters and events within a fictional work may even be set in their own context entirely separate from the known universe.    Some example of liars in fiction. 1) Prospero, in shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”         The magician Prospero spins lies all around him including his repeated promise to Ariel. Indeed the play begins with lies, when Prospero finally reveal...

Presentation on paper no.8 cultural studies

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Cultural study: Power and Media

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Thinking activity on cultural study about power and mass media Meaning of the word CULTURE :- The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. "20th century popular culture" The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. "Afro-Caribbean culture" The cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc. in an artificial medium containing nutrients. "the cells proliferate readily in culture" The cultivation of plants. POWER :- Power itself is an integral element of culture, therefore, culture and power are inextricably related to one another., difficult to separate it out. Power achieved through culture, retained through culture and maintained through culture and even transfer power to others through culture. For example - political power, spiritual power, knowledge power, money and wealth power, authority all are transferred through...

Derrida and Deconstruction

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  What do you understand by 'Deconstruction'? (Remember: if you think you understand Deconstruction, you don't. :)).   Jacques  Derrida *Simple define of Deconstruction     A Philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and especially applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play.   Deconstruction , form of philosophical and literary analysis, derived mainly from work begun in the 1960s by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, that questions the fundamental conceptual dis...

Thinking Activity On Structuralism And Literary Cricism

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  * Being a structuralist critic,how would you analyse literary text or t.v serial on film?you can select any image or t v serial or film or literary text or advertisement.apply structuralist method.       Ans:- Structuralist got the nation that everything could be analysed in the terms of deep structure from linguistic Ferdinand Saussure,geard generate.In any field the structure is same.In literary work also structure is various forms e .g. language,words etc. A potential problem of structuralist interpretation is that it can be highly reductive, as scholar Catherine Belsey puts it: "the structuralist danger of collapsing all difference.   An example of such a reading might be if a student concludes the authors of West  Side  story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operat...

Northrop Frye The Archetype criticism Thinking activity.

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1)What is Archetypal criticism?what does the Archetypal critic do? Ans:- Archetypal criticism is concerned with the cycle and reiterating patterns of Tradition,culture,patterns of action theme and images which are identity the varsity of works of literature as well as in myths,dreams and social rituals.so Archetypal it means represented things.The Archetypal critics find out the symbols and Archetypal images which recurrently happen in the literature.  2)What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of 'physics to Nature's 'criticism to literature'? Ans:- Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature but student of physics says that they are learning physics not nature.Frye says that science and tries to learn literature.But literature can not be study consistently.Its related between criticism and literature. 3)Share your views of criticism as an organised body of knowledge.mention relation of literature with history and philosop...

T.S.Eliot: Traditional And Individual Talent

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  1)How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of tradition?Do you agree with it?   Ans:- Yes,I agree with T.s Eliot's concept of tradition.He gives positive and modern meaning of the Tradition.He says the poet follow the Tradition.poet has to write with awareness of literary tradition of his nation.He believe in positive way rather than negative thing.  2)What do you understand by Historical se nse? Ans:- "The Historical sense involves a perception,not only of the past ness of the past,but it's presence" It means people must think about the present,it involves perception of the presence of the past not only it'd past ness.  3) What is a relationship between "Tradition" and "The individual talent" according to T.s Eliot   Ans:- According to T.s.Eliot 'Tradition' and 'The individual talent' both are connected to each other.He speaks about Shakespeare new Tradition was breaking all t...

Sharmeen Obaid - Chinoy 's Academy Award - Online discussion

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Thinking activity in this online discussion is to reflect on the points of agreement and diaagreement. How far can you dis|agree with the views expressed? Give your arguments in context of Cultural Studies and Postcolonialism to support your opinion. Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has won the academic award for her documentary, 'A Girl in the River.' Which portrays the negative but real image of Pakistan. In which we find how honor killing is happening in Pakistan and also it tells the poor condition of women. It has been much celebrated at home . Same as Arvind Adiga's work "The White Tiger" has been also celebrated widely . Why the white people have only right to give oscar award ? and why this award get so much high importance in all the awards ? So this is the effect of post colonial culture. The Oscar award is organise by White men. If the writer get Oscar awards he / her get more respect , famous in world. " Stop telling Sharmeens and Adigas t...