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Hello Readers, Here I'm going to share one criticism's chapter - "From work to Text" by Rolland Barthes. ◆ About author : Rolland Gerard Barthes was born on 12th Nov. 1915 & died on 26th March, 1980. He was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguistic, critic and semiotician. To know more about him please ... Click here... ◆ Introduction :  Rolland Barthes's essay called 'From Work To Text' gives an in depth view and compare & contrast between work and text. He starts off by giving an introduction to explain that there is this new component that was once not so obvious. ● This essay based on this seven theories : 1. Method 2. Genre 3. Signs 4. Plurality 5. Filiation 6. Reading 7. Plesure 1. Method : Text is not a defined object. It would be useless to attempt a material separation of works and texts. One must take particular care not to say that works are classical while texts are avant garde. The work is concret...

Hello Reders, Here I'm going to share one poem named - I Love all Beauteous Things written by Robert Bridges. ◆ Introduction :- Robert Bridges was a British poet, and poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. As a poet Bridges stands rather apar5 from the current of modern English verse. To know more about this author Click here... ◆ Poem : I love All Beauteous Things "I love all Beauteous Things" by Bridges is a poem based on a very simple but extremely effective theme devided into 2 stanzas. It deels with human being and their mind-set with regard to the natural things around.    Here the poet says that all of us are so engrossed in our daily lives that we find no time to appreciate beauty gifted to us by God. ● In the very first stanza , the poet opens the poem with its title and says that he is always in search of beautiful things in the nature around & he strogly belives that god has gifted human beings with natural beauty around but because we are s...

◆ Introduction :- La Belle Dame Sans Mercy as a poem of sensibility. This poem written by John Keats. The poem is decided in to 12 stanzas with the rhyme scheme ABCB. Basically a French title which converted into English means "The beautiful lady without Mercy". ◆ Poem: ●Introduction:-  The speaker meets a knight by a lake in Autumn. The narrator of the poem initially comes across the knight who is evidently dying. On asking, the knight narrates his suffering by saying that he met a beautiful wild looking woman in the meadow. He spent a lot of time with and praised her with flower. She didn't speak much, but it was apparent that she loved him. He gave her his horse to ride and he walks besides him. He saw nothing but her because she leaned over on his face and sang a mysterious song.    She speak a language that he couldn't understand but he was confident then she said she loved him. He kissed her to sleep and slept himself. All pale in death. ● ...

Hello Readers , This activity is a part of my academic activity. Here I'm sharing my review about 3 days Session of the particular subject [English language Teaching - 2] . This session was planned by our professor Dilip Barad Sir  Department of English ,MKBU .  Prof. Atanu Bhattacharya  dealt with this subject who is Professor and Dean of Central University of Gujarat. He came on 25th, 26th and 27th January, 2020. ¶ The Various Concepts he talked about ELT is :- 1}  History of English language Teaching - 2 2}  ELT : Principles and Concepts 3}  Language Teaching : In Indian perspective 4}  Historical Perspective in English Teaching :      Western Perspective 5}  The audio - Lingual Method or Audio - Visual       Method 6}  Communicative Language Teaching : (CLT) 7}  Task- Based Teaching 8}  Computer Assisted Language Teaching 9}  Doing teaching Task in class 10} Rubric Evalu...

Hello Readers, Here I'm sharing another favourite text which I've learned in BA. 'Heart of Darkness' is the novella by Joseph Conrad. ◆ About Author :-  'Heart of Darkness' is a novella written by Joseph Conrad- who was a polish-British writer. To know more about author... Click here... ◆ Introduction :- "Heart of Darkness" - this novella is originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine' in a 3 parts serial story. This novella is variously published. This novella is about African black people who treated as slave by white people for work. This is a story of two main characters named Kurtz and Marlow. Kurtz is a godly figure for black people and Marlow came to Kurtz after hearing much about him & his nature. ◆ Heart of Darkness :-  "Heart of Darkness" explores the issues surrounding Imperialism in complicated way. As Marlow travels from the other station to the Central station and finally up the river to ...

Da vinci code by dan brown from VidhyaPandya

" To effective communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive  the world & use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."                                                                  - Anthony Robbins Communication is very important in every day life. It deeply connected with human existence or we can say that it's the most integral part of it. # If we imagine that what would happen without any communication or we are not allpall to talk for a long time? No one can think about the human existence without communication. It's very difficult to deal with someone without any communication. Communication links people together to achieve common goals. And good communication requires a good public relationship. Effective communication is required to han...

The most dynamic, exciting, and adventurous age of human existence is youth. This is the time when young people explore the world, set their foot into the realities and idiosyncrasies of life, learn the best and worst lessons of life , attain mturity thereby practicing pragmatism, and possess an undying zeal to achieve the best of everything possible. Youth  is the spring of life, the most favorable period to discover ambitio0ns and achieve them through relentless efforts. They are not just creators of the future but also a team bound strongly with strength and solidarity. A yputh festival is an excellent way of bringing together pasion and fervor translating them into innoivation, inventions and transformation. It is a method of consolidation among people of similar age, ambitions and desires. Our university Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University has also organized the youth festival on 25/09/2019 to 28/09/2019. This year the theme of Youth festival was “Rang M...

Girish Karnad, Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose movies and plays, written largely in Kannada, explore the present by way of the past. After graduating from Karnataka University in 1958, Karnad studied philosophy, politics, and economics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He wrote his first play, the critically acclaimed Yayati, while still at Oxford. Centred on the story of a mythological king, the play established Karnad’s use of the themes of history and mythology that would inform his work over the following decades. Karnad’s next play, Tughlaq, tells the story of the 14th- century sultan Muhammad ibn Tughlaq and remains among the best known of his work. After knowing the facts about Karnad as well as reding various newspaper articles on his recent demise, I can say that he was a ‘Crackpot’. A crackpot is an eccentric person especially the one who has a list of bizarre or unusual ideas. Though the word first seems to be addressed in a ...

1.Do you have any such person whom you recall in the crisis? Yes   of course I have a such person whom I recall in the crisis. They are my friends ,parents and my ideal person. They are inspired a lot direct and indirectly. They suggest me to a right path. How can I face difficult situation. So they all are make special space in my life. 2.What is the importance of that person? Why?       That kind of person are really important person for me. Because they told me life lessons and how I ménage any situation. They also say about what is good and bad in me.  Sometimes I feel low confidence that time I remember my best time of my past. And I get energy and I feel I can do it. Some books are also provide that need. Some good books guide very well in my life. So they all are important parsons. 3.What is the importance of dream of lions in the novel? I think lion is symbol of strength and confidence. Old man remembered his past because he feel low...

1. What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings? This above 2 different pictures "Longing"  which is by Casper David Friedrich. He has drawn two paintings & both paintings has same nature background. From these paintings Samuel Beckett got inspiration for his setting of the play " Waiting for Godot". As we can see that the two pictures are not widely different. But there are wide difference of thinking of both David Friedrich and Samuel Beckett because Friedrich belongs to romanticism, so his depiction of nature has different meaning and Beckett's depiction of nature has different meaning.    As per the David's depiction of nature:- it arose at a period when the idea of god was being translated into the idea of nature.    While Samuel Beckett's vision is very pessimistic. It shows the absurd insignificance of mankind. (We) The human beings always longing for someth...

“The Great Dictator” is 1940 American political satire comedy drama. Which is written, produced, scored and starring by Charlie Chaplin. Though Chaplin is known for silent films in the era of sound film this is his first true sound movie. Chaplin’s movie advanced a stirring controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Fascism, Anti-Semitism and Nazis. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber and Paulette Goddard played role oh Hannah, the neighbor or barber. (wikipedia) Movie start with the war where soldiers are firing on each other. The barber is also soldier there and fighting with enemies and in mist of the bomb fire he mistakenly cross the border and there enemy soldier caught him. Though he became able to run away but in this funny way Chaplin made satire on man made boundaries. There is no boundary on earth, all are emerges from the ego of human being. In this movie Chaplin picturized Hitler as H...

   "The Waste Land" is a poem by T S Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poem of 20th century. It is published in 1922, the 434 lines. ◆ Significance of the title " The Waste Land" :- The waste land refers to the spiritual and intellectual decay of the modern world. The land is barren and dry. Nothing grows from it and decay is the common theme. The full of barrreness or futility of modern world & also the downfall shown in this poem.   ● The poem devided into 5 sections:- 1. The Burial of the Dead 2. A Game of Chess 3. The Fire Sermon 4. Death by Water 5. What the Thunder Said        In this poem the major idea we can see that Sexual sins, perversion of sex have always led to degeneration & decay. 1) What are your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land'? Do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzche's views? or Has Eliot achieved universality of though...

Recently , the Department of English (MKBU) watched film "Kya kehna " in the context of the novel "Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. And the task which given us in this below link... Click here.. 1. What are the names of protagonists in both the works? ◆ In movie there are 3 main characters:- 1. Priya 2. Rahul 3. Ajay ◆ In the Novel also there are 3 main characters:- 1. Hester 2.  Roger Chillingworth 3. Arthur Dimmesdale 2. Write their story in brief.  ◆ Priya:- Priya Bakshi  is the bubbly, free-spirited daughter of Gulshan  and Rohini Bakshi. She is the central figure of this film. ◆ Rahul:- He is a wealthy playboy who attracted with Priya and afterwards Priya also attracted him and they both are having in a relationship. ◆ Ajay:- Ajay  love and support Priya. Ajay is secretly in love with Priya and wishes to marry her in the future, hopefully after she finishes her studies. 3. What is the role played by society in Heste...