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Ecocriticism

  Hello Friends,                 This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by Prof.Dr.Dilip Baradsir on Sitanshu Yashaschandra's poem and Ecocriticism by Devang Nanavati.                           Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature.           Ecocriticism is an intentionally broad approach that is known by a number of other designations, including "Green studies", "ecopoetics", and "environmental literary criticism", and is often informed by other fields such as ecology, sustainable design, biopolitcs, environmental history, environmentalism, and social ecology, among others.             Cheryll Glotfelty's working definition in 'The Ecocriticism Reader' is that "Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between

The Plague by Albert Camus

          Thank you video for accepting life in all          modes, celebrating life in harmony with            nature.              This blog is my response to Prof. Dr.Dilip Barad Sir, Head of  Department, MKBU, a task assigned to us (MA sem-1) to write to write about how the COVID-19 pandemic is going to affect all walks of our lives, and to throw some light on literature and its role in the time of pandemic and after it. Albert Camus Novel The Plague         "Camus's novel, first published in 1947, has become a global sensation. It is, it seems, the novel for now."  Samuel Earle          Sometimes we turn to novels to make sense of our world, and sometimes to escape it. Yet in hard times, we often ask them to do both at once: to make sense of our world, all the better to escape it.         The Mediterranean city of Oran was the setting for a famous fictional outbreak of bubonic plague in Algeria under French colonial rule. We find parallels between Albert Camus' n

Francis Bacon

FRANCIS BACON                 Francis Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York house near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal) by his second wife, Anne Cooke Bacon, the daughter of the noted Renaissance humanist Antony Cooke. He was also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential the scientific revolution. His notable work is 'Novum Organum'. He belongs to the era of Renaissance philosophy and 17th century philosophy. His main interest were in Natural philosophy and Philosophical logic. Francis Bacon              Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature.               Francis Bacon was a patron of librar