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Celebration Committee Report

Committee Members, Khushbu Lakhupota Sneha Agravat Hello Friends, In this blog there is the report of the celebrations that have taken place in the year 2020 to 2022 in Department of English, MKBU. "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." – Henry Ford 1. International Yoga Day 2. ICT Day 3. Teacher’s Day 4. Farewell Function 5. Welcome Function 6. Independence Day 7. Republic Day 8. Virtual Literary Fest 2020 9. Hindi Day 10. Research & Dissertation writing workshop 4 Jan 2022 11. Translation Workshop 12. Research Methodology Workshop 7 Jan 2022 “People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state-it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, givi...

Marxist Criticism & Feminist Criticism

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir on Marxist and Feminist Criticism. So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! MARXIST CRITICISM What Marxist critics do 1. They make a division between the 'overt' (manifest or surface) and 'covert' (latent or hidden) content of a literary work (much as psychoanalytic critics do) and then relate the covert subject matter of the literary work to basic Marxist themes, such as class struggle, or the progression of society through various historical stages, such as, the transition from feudalism to industrial capitalism. Thus, the conflicts in King Lear might be read as being 'really' about the conflict of class interest between the rising class (the bourgeoisie) and the falling class (the feudal overlords). 2. Another method used by Marxist critics is to relate the context of a work to the social-class status of the author. In such cases an assumption is made (which a...

An Artist of the Floating World, Novel

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task given to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in thinking activity on the novel "An Artist of the Floating World". Happy Learning! R: Read U: Understand L: Learn E: Enjoy ☆ SIGNIFICANCE OF LANTERNS IN THE NOVEL • 'Lantern' 🏮appears 34 times in the novel. Even on the cover page, the image of the lanterns is displayed. Lanterns in the novel are associated with Ono’s teacher Mori-san , who includes a lantern in each of his paintings and dedicates himself to trying to capture the look of lantern light. For Mori-san, the flickering, easily extinguished quality of lantern light symbolizes the transience of beauty and the importance of giving careful attention to small moments and details in the physical world. Lanterns, then, symbolize an outlook on life which prizes small details and everyday moments above the ideological concerns of nationalists or commercial concerns of businesspeople. It i...

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