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Charlie Chaplin & Modern Times

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir, M K Bhavnagar University, this includes study of frames from the film of Charlie Chaplin in the film Modern Times, so read and enjoy, Happy Learning! Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, The Tramp, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his films. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick c...

Indian Poetics

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir in Indian Poetics, so read and enjoy, Happy Learning!   Rasa is a fusion of word and meaning, that bathes the minds of readers, with savor of bliss. It is the truth of poetry, shining without cessation. Clear to the heart, it is yet beyond the words. —Hrsikesa In Indian aesthetics, a rasa (Sanskrit: रस) literally means "juice, essence or taste". It connotes a concept in Indian arts about the aesthetic flavour of any visual, literary or musical work that evokes an emotion or feeling in the reader or audience but cannot be described. It refers to the emotional flavors/essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a 'sensitive spectator' or sahṛdaya,  literally one who "has heart", and can connect to the work with emotion, without dryness. Rasas are created by bhavas:the state of mind. The rasa theory has a dedicated section (Chapter 6) in the Sanskrit te...

Twentieth Century Literature

Hello Friends,  This blog is my reponse to the task assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir on the twentieth century literature, so let's read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! ☆ Detective Fiction Detective fiction is a genre of writing where a detective works to solve a crime. The audience is challenged to solve the crime by the clues provided before the detective reveals the answer at the end of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, a crime is introduced. Oftentimes, it seems like the perfect crime. ☆ KEY PEOPLE Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Conan Doyle Jorge Luis Borges Alexander McCall Smith Sue Grafton G.K. Chesterton Jo Nesbø Sara Paretsky Philip Pullman Alain Robbe-Grillet The traditional elements of the detective story are: (1) the seemingly perfect crime; (2) the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points; (3) the bungling of dim-witted police; (4) the greater powers of observation and superior mind of the detective; and (5) the startling and unexpecte...