Indian English literature

C.S. Lewis is a well-known British writer and ordinary layman from the 20th Century. Being a soldier from World War I, a broadcaster and a apologist are but a few of the titles deemed to him. Lewis was a former atheist but converted to Christianity after failing to disprove the Christian faith and it’s doctrines. He wrote to the goal that others would read his works and be able to make cognitive parallels between the objects in his books and the doctrines of Christianity. He combines both fable…

What is/are the themes revealed in the literary piece? The three stories have its own uniqueness and style in telling and showing a lesson that a man/woman could get. As I read through the story, THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS catches my attention, and somehow the story is where I can relate with. THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS theme may differ from other individuals, based on how they understand and process the story. For me there are three themes that I could conclude in the story, as listed: JOURNEY- Bunyan…

His praise of butlers can easily be analyzed as a thinly-veiled cover for his nationalistic pride due to the frequent correlation between the two. According to Stevens, the English countryside is so beautiful because of its “restraint” (29), much like his belief that restraint is what makes a great butler. He states, “It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. In…

This page comes with microtonal theme music: ostentatious, except sevenfold; a song that doesn't offer anything new, instead lazily rolling around in its own filth. Not unlike you — only without that sense of entitlement. I adore Autumn, bitter coffee and being as insufferable as humanly possible. I could well be Emma Bovary herself in all of my contempt and boredom, in all of my meretricious pursuits and ambivalence. I'm a frequent purveyor of what may or may not be satirical hubris, chutzpah…

There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave in their situation. Modernists, on the other hand, stuck to…

When our thoughts and actions are controlled by someone or something else, we don’t have the power to think for ourselves or use that power to do anything worth of meaning. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, this way of manipulation is the way of life. The things to gain knowledge and thoughtfulness is in books. They are burned by firemen who are controlled by the government and the students have useless facts and information and the answers given to them so they don’t have the energy…

Robert Herrick and Andrew Marvell are two famous poets who have several things in common regarding their way of writing; Andrew Marvell is an English poet, a clergyman and a parliamentarian, he was concerned with politics for a very long time, also, Marvell was called a nature poet and he was one of the best metaphysical poets. Even though Marvell wrote less than some other famous poets like Donne and Jonson, his range was greater, “as he claimed, both the private worlds of love and religion and…

of distinctly shaped speech and thought bubbles. David Carrier, in his book The Aesthetics of Comics, says that the sequence of images in a comic strip or graphic novel constitutes a narrative which brings this medium closer to that of mainstream literature. The author asserts that, to analyze the narrative, the reader’s awareness about the ‘speech balloons’ is important. In Bhimayana, we find two types of speech balloons: a bird-shaped one which is used in case of the benign man, or the victim…

Ezra Pound gathered the scattered experimenters of imagism in a group and published Des Imagistes in America in 1914. It was quickly followed by three annual Imagist Anthologies- Some Imagist Poets in 1915, 1916 and 1917 respectively. The Imagists announced some “six principles for themselves to practice- (1) to use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly exact, not merely the decorative word; (2) to create new rhythms- as the expressions of new moods…

In the literary analysis over "Araby", "The Structure of 'Araby'", author Jerome Mandel uses a multitude of outside sources to support his main idea: "Araby", similar to others in this genre, are structured to be like a medieval romance through the usage of a certain pattern. This pattern consists of enfance, an introduction of the damsel who clouds the main character's vision, commitment to the quest, obstacles that need to be conquered to succeed, and completion of the quest, in that order.…