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M.A. texts - brief reviews

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On this page I have included brief reviews of texts which I have studied in my post graduation.

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1. John Keats - Selected Odes

Here I have explained his four odes which I have studies in my masters. Here I have presented the brief overview of selected odes

2. The Romantic age 1789-1837

Romantic period has started with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, both were the prominent poets of the age and they have proved that it was

“The second creative period of English literature”

3. Alfred Tennyson - A poet of The Victorian Age

If we observe the poetry of Tennyson we would find that he has all the qualities of romantics like, melody of Keats, fantasy of Coleridge, imagination of Scott and Shelly and simplicity of Wordsworth.

4. The theory of Deconstruction by Jacques Derrida

Deconstruction is a theory of post structuralism, which helps to find the concept of work of art within itself. ‘Deconstruction’ is a theory which focus upon readers and the hidden text within the text, and this text is from reader’s point of view. The term is given by Jacques Derrida from influence of Heidegger and Nietzsche.

5. Charles Dickens - A Novelist of The Victorian Age

Charles Dickens is the most popular novelist of the Victorian era, he has written most of his works as a series in magazines, and he also worked on the post of manager in editor’s office. He was very famous because of his narrative style, which always reflects the real facts of society.

6. Oliver Twist - A novel by Charles Dickens

I have studied “Oliver Twist” in the second semester of my post graduation; “The Old Curiosity shop” and "Oliver Twist", both the novels represents the reality of Victorian society and even the present condition of society, which is still the same.

7. The Victorian age 1850 -1900

The age was started with the arrival of Queen Victorian on the throne in 1837. The influence of the era has started from 1830 and stayed till 1900. These were the years of development.

8. Sense and sensibility - Jane Austen

“Sense and Sensibility” is a novel by Jane Austen. It is divided into three volumes. First part contains 22 chapter and other two parts have 14 chapters. Jane Austen here mocked the over sensibility and praised sense. Austen has presented the value of reason and disasters of passion.

9. Robinson Crusoe - Danial Defoe

The novel ‘Robinson Crusoe’ was published in 1719. It contains the sea voyages of Crusoe. He wanted to become a sailor and his father wanted him to become a lawyer or doctor. Crusoe has started his journey with disobedience and reached at the satisfaction.

10. Middlemarch - George Eliot

I have studied this text in MA part 1. Middlemarch is a novel by Mary Anne Evans. She was writing with a pen name of George Eliot. George Eliot was experst in presenting the psychological elements in character’s behaviour and its effect on their life.

11. Mourning Becomes Electra - Eugene O’Neill

Eugene O’Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate. He was among those first writers who introduced realism in American drama techniques. O’Neill’s characters used to struggle a lot and maintain hopes but ultimately slide into illusion and despair.

12. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

Jonathan swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist. He was also political pamphleteer of both Whigs and Tories parties. His famous works are ‘A Tale of a Tub’, ‘An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. In Gulliver’s Travels also he has presented deep political satire.

13. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Beckett was an Irish playwright and novelist. Beckett’s works offers tragicomic outlook of human existence with black comedy. One of his most popular works was “Waiting for Godot”. It was first published in French as “En attendant Godot” in 1948 and then in 1954 it was translated in English.

14. Kanthapura - Raja Rao

Raja Rao was one of the prominent writers in history of Indian writing in English. There were three major writers of that time, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao.

15. Paradise Lost - John Milton

‘Paradise lost’ is an epic poem written by john Milton. Paradise lost written in blank verse and first published in 1667. The poem is based on the episode ‘Genesis’ from the Bible. The Bible is the “God-centric” and Milton’s Paradise Lost is “Human-centric”. As it was a time of Renaissance, the world was changing its perspective.

16. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist. He was best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical ability. “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” often known simply as “Tom Jones”. It is a comic novel. The novel is a picaresque novel.

17. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was the prominent novelist of the Morden age. She has used the technique of stream of consciousness in her writings. In this technique she drives the reader into the mind of character. The reader can empathize with the feeling of characters.

18. The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter was a Nobel prize winning English playwright, screenplay writer, director and actor. He has directed and acted in radio, stage television and film productions. The Birthday Party is the second full length play by Pinter and also performed frequently. He was famous for “Comedy of Menace” in his plays. His use of pause and silence is very significant in this play.

19. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorn

Nathaniel Hawthorn was an American Novelist, dark romantic and short story writer. His works have moral allegories with puritan inspirations. The themes of his works contain evil and sin of humanity. It also gives moral message and deep psychological complexity.

20. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short story writer. He won Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. Many of his works are considered as the classics of American literature. He committed suicide in the summer of 1961. Old man and the sea is a short novel. This was the last major fiction work by Hemingway. It deals with the struggle of Santiago and a giant fish Marlin.

21. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe

The story is based on the revenge of an insult. The narrator Montresor tells the story of his brutal revenge with his friend Fortunato. He was his friend but when he started insulting Monstresor he vowed revenge. As he said in the beginning of the story,

22. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

This short story is about a mad servant who killed his master in passion of disliking him. The master was an old man and having only one eye, the other one was made up from plastic.

23. Ode to Psyche - John Keats

Ode to psyche is a poem which expresses the beauty of Psyche from the perspective of a worshiper of beauty Keats. First the poet has expressed the beauty of psyche and then he worships her because she was a neglected goddess. It is connected with the myth of psyche.

24. Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn represents poet’s love towards Greek Mythology. He has written this poem by taking inspiration from a Greek sculpture. He saw paintings on the sculpture and his imagination flourished. He imagined all the paintings as live human beings. Keats has presented the life in a motionless ‘Urn’ and wrote a beautiful poem of feelings.

25. Ode to Nightingale - John Keats

Ode to Nightingale is poem with eight stanzas. It is a kind of a process of a poet from reality to dream and dream to imagination and then again he comes into reality. Keats has not remembered whether the encounter of his with nightingale was dream or reality but he felt the beauty of music and fantasy.

26. Ode to autumn - John Keats

Ode to autumn is written by Keats when he felt the beauty of autumn. He saw the fields with golden plants and grains and farmers happiness. He put the elements of nature as the important part of the autumn. He personified creatures as farmers.

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