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Feminism and Feminist Theory                  Deconstruction Symbolism and Imagery in The Portrait of Lady Character Sketch of Eliza Doolittle Oedipus Complex in Sons and Lovers History of English Language Ronald Barthes an intellectual figure was thoroughly steeped in controversies throughout his life. One of such is found in his declaration on the place of author in 1968 in a literary text The Death of the Author . For many reasons the essay remains one of the most sensational in the history of literary theorizing. Expectedly, his contribution of a wide range of field- from psychoanalysis to linguistics to structuralism to deconstruction and Marxism exerts a great deal of influence on the position he takes in the essay. Generally the term ‘author’ means, someone who writes a book . But Ronald Barthes essay, The Death of the Author however demonstrates that,             An autho...

Plato                  Aristotle Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and educated at Eton and Oxford. During his lifetime Shelley’s opinions obscured his powers as a poet. Even to Scott, who with all his Tory prejudices was liberal enough in views on literature, he was simply, that atheist Shelley. After his death his reputation rose rapidly and by the middle of nineteenth century his position was assured. His work, A Defence of Poetry was published in 1840. The book is a strong exposition of the romantic point of view. It was a reply to the attack made by his contemporary Peacock. P.B.Shelley, a great romantic poet and critic defends poetry by claiming that the poet creates human values and imagines the form that shape the social and cultural order. Unlike Peacock, for Shelley each poetic mind recreates its own private universe and poets. He says himself,           ...

Shelley              Aristotle Plato is the first major figure in the history of western philosophy. He is an idealist, moralist and a rationalist. He locates reality in what he calls ideas (gods) or forms rather than world of appearance that we locate with our senses. Plato believes in the idea that is form which itself is formless but it is fixed. Idea is archetype and always remains the same. Reality can’t be found in the world of appearance but in the ideal world. According to Plato, the world that we perceive around us is the world of imitation or shadows of ideas or ideal world. When a post imitates the world his creation obviously is twice removed from reality. Poets do not use their own rationality; they are inspired by the divine inspiration, so they are only forced to use their emotion. Furthermore, Plato stressed that the poets possess the madness and are not in control of them when they write. They cannot be good teachers. Poet’s creati...

Shelley English as a Global Language New Criticism A ristotle (384-322BC) the student of famous educationist and theoretician Plato differed from his master as he was more inclined in describing and classifying things as they were. However, he followed Plato in defining poetry as ‘ mimesis’ but in a different way. He regarded mimesis as a natural healthy impulse. The proposal for tragedy according to Aristotle was unity of action, place and time which became famous later as the three unities. Another contribution he did in the field was the notion of Catharsis . Talking about pleasure in his book Poetics Aristotle says,              They are of three types. First, when it comes from pity and fear through imitation. Secondly, pleasure is said to be derived from completeness and wholeness of action in a plot. In the third, pleasure is said to be a result of music and spectacular effects. However, every kind of pleasure is ...