Khushbu Lakhupota

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in the assignment of MA Sem2, so read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Introduction to Practical Criticism Practical criticism is, like the formal study of English literature itself, a relatively young discipline. It began in the 1920s with a series of experiments by the Cambridge critic I.A. Richards. He gave poems to students without any information about who wrote them or when they were written. In  Practical Criticism  of 1929 he reported on and analysed the results of his experiments. The objective of his work was to encourage students to concentrate on 'the words on the page', rather than relying on preconceived or received beliefs about a text. For Richards this form of close analysis of anonymous poems was ultimately intended to have psychological benefits for the students: by responding to all the currents of emotion and meaning in the poems and passages of ...

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in the MA Sem2 assignment. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! An Artist of the Floating World By  Kazuo Ishiguro An Interesting Introduction  • An Artist of the Floating World  (1986)   is a novel by  Nobel Prize -winning British author  Kazuo Ishiguro .  It is set in post- World War II  Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. • The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions, rendered politically suspect in the context of post-War Japan.  • The novel ends with the narrator expressing good will for the young white-collar workers on the streets at lunchbreak.  • The novel also deals with the role of pe...

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir for the MA Sem2 assignment. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Cover: Issac Oliver, The RAINBOW Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, Oil on canvas 1600 - 1602 ORLANDO - A BIOGRAPHY  BY VIRGINIA WOOLF ‘Different sex. Same person’: how Woolf’s Orlando became a trans triumph A hero who becomes a heroine, who loves women and men … Jeanette Winterson explores the affair and politics behind Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel Jeanette Winterson Virginia Woolf  and  Vita Sackville-West  were lovers. Does that mean they had sex? It probably does, because Vita liked sex and was a pursuer of women. She also enjoyed a long and successful marriage to Harold Nicolson. He too had his affairs. Virginia and Leonard Woolf were largely compatible and certainly affectionate. It seems unlikely from all that we know that she was interested in sex with Leonard, but sexless marriages were...