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…
Rohinton Mistry, a prominent Indian writer, has emerged as a significant literary figure in the sphere of English Literature. He established himself quite rapidly as an exciting new voice on the literary scene. An immigrant writer’s total experience is stored in his memory and only the writer’s own conscious choices and unconscious energies might regulate his artistic expression, so did in the case of Mistry. As a diasporic writer Mistry exposed varied ways in his narrative that explored…
cultural heritage helped to shape his values as he began his Primary School education on our little red dot. Growing up, he was read narratives and nursery rhymes by his aunt. This cultivated his early interest in literature. He continued on to major in both History and English Literature at University Level. Professor Thumboo obtained his doctorate in African Poetry from NUS (National University Singapore). Still a prolific writer, his most recent works were released in “Hey Black Devil…
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…
In a 2015 interview, Kazuo Ishiguro described a concept known as the “double cross metaphor,” used when an author implies a metaphor while truly intending the obvious topic to be the real importance of the novel. That is to say, the metaphor is a means of deception with the purpose of getting the reader to focus on the novel, therefore subconsciously intaking the intended deeper meaning (**cite). Though he did not overtly state that this is a strategy he employs, one can argue that his work is…
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…