Forum: English Literature
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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1st year Syllabi(Qau)
Syllabus: M.A. English Literature (Qauid-e-Azam University)
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M.A. English Part-I
Paper I (Classical Poetry) -----100
Paper II (Drama)...
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Forum: English Literature
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
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In a multiple questions paper there is always a...
In a multiple questions paper there is always a chance that you can pass. Even if one question goes wrong, the rest of the 4 can fetch marks. But what if you misinterpret an essay topic? Or if you do...
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Forum: English Literature
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Forum: English Literature
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, November 29, 2013
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Handouts for English literature
William Blake as a Lyric Poet
William Blake is a lyric poet. He was born in the neo- classical age, but the things that distinguish him from other poets of his age are the lyrical qualities of his...
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Forum: Urdu Poetry
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, November 25, 2012
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Notes Of English Literature
LAST ISLAND
Satire: Its styles, types and devices. (http://www.cssforum.com.pk/css-optional-subjects/group-i/english-literature/34302-satire-its-styles-types-devices.html)
Literary Terms and...
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, April 22, 2011
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, June 08, 2007
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ROTL: A Comic Epic
RAPE OF THE LOCK
AS A COMIC EPIC
An epic, according to Aristotle, is the tragedy of a conspicuous person, who is involved in adventurous eventsand meets a tragic fallon account of some...
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, June 08, 2007
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Oedipus Rex: Role of Chorus
Greek tragedy is said to develop itself from the group of dancers and singers who used to partake in the worship of various gods. According to Aristotle the Chorus should be like one of the...
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Forum: English Literature
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Truth sometimes means reality, while reality is usually not beautiful at all. Reality can be disappointing or cruel or ugly. By choosing beauty to believe in as the total truth, we can surpass the...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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Waiting For Godot – As An Absurd Play
Beckett is considered to be an important figure among the French Absurdists. “Waiting for Godot” is one of the masterpieces of Absurdist literature. Elements of Absurdity for making this play are so...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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“Waiting for Godot”: Realism
“Waiting for Godot” occupies a prominent place in the annals of English literature for highlighting the basic truths of human beings belonging to any age or religion. The play can be interpreted by...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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Waiting for Godot: Hope for Salvation
HOPE FOR SALVATION, AN EVASION / RELIGIOUS PLAY
One of the approaches to “Waiting for Godot” is to regard it as a religious play because there are ample references to God, Christ and hope of...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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Waiting For Godot “existentialism”
“Waiting for Godot” is an existentialist play because it has clear tints of existentialism in it. If we study the term existentialism we would come to know that it is a philosophical doctrine which...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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Structure Of “Waiting For Godot”
“Waiting for Godot” is not a play to which traditional ideas of plot, action, structure etc. do apply. To a certain extent, Beckett has deliberately discarded or parodied such conventions. There is...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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Waiting For Godot: A tragi-comedy
Tragic-comedy is a play which claims a plot apt for tragedy but which ends happily like a comedy. The action is serious in theme and subject matter and tone also sometimes but it seems to be a tragic...
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, June 24, 2005
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Aristotle's concept of catharsis
Aristotle writes that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear, and to affect the Katharsis of these emotions. Aristotle has used the term Katharsis only once, but no phrase...
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, June 24, 2005
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Aristotle's concept of ideal tragic hero: Hamartia
No passage in “The Poetics” with the exception of the Catharsis phrase has attracted so much critical attention as his ideal of the tragic hero.
The function of a tragedy is to arouse the emotions...
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, June 24, 2005
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Aristotle's theory of imitation
Aristotle did not invent the term “imitation”. Plato was the first to use the word in relation with poetry, but Aristotle breathed into it a new definite meaning. So poetic imitation is no longer...
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Forum: English Literature
Friday, June 24, 2005
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Aristotle's concept of tragedy
“The Poetics” is chiefly about Tragedy which is regarded as the highest poetic form. Abercrombie says:
“But the theory of Tragedy is worked out with such insight and comprehensions and it becomes...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, May 29, 2005
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Keats – Arts Versus Life
Keats, unlike other romantics, creates art for the sake of art. Life is an enigma and art makes life understandable.
Art is imaginative reconstruction of life. Both are complementary as in the...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, May 29, 2005
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Keats' Sensuousness
Keats is a mystic of the senses and not of thoughts as he sought to apprehend the ultimate truth of the universe through aesthetic sensations and not through philosophical thoughts.
Sensuousness...
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, May 29, 2005
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“Ode on Indolence” as a weaker ode (Keats)
“Ode on Indolence” is the weakest of all his poems because it lacks negative capability. There is no logical sequence in its stanzas. There is repetition of the ideas of Keats’ previous odes i.e....
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Forum: English Literature
Sunday, May 29, 2005
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Salient features of Keats' poetry
Romanticism primarily was a revolt against the artificial, pseudo-classical poetry in 18th Century. Wordsworth was the founder of this movement. Romantic poets can be divided into two groups – Old...
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