English Literature

Source: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/b/Bowen_E/life.htm#crit For Original Visits above Link Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Life [Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen;] b. 7 June 1899, 15 Herbert Place, Dublin; only child of dg. Henry Cole Bowen of Bowen�s Court (Farahy, nr. Kildorrery [Cill Dairbhre], N. Co. Cork) and Florence [n�e Florence Isabella Pomeroy Colley] of Mount Temple

3. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS - NOVEL 1. BARCHESTER TOWERS BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE 1. Major Thematic Concerns in 'Barcherster Towers' 2. The Setting in 'Barchester Towers' 3. Trollope's Art of Characterization 4. Trollope's Humour and Style 5. 'Barcherster Towers' As a Picture of Common Life 6. Trollope As a Male Jane Austen 7. Character Sketch of Mr. Slope 8. Character Sketch of Signora Neroni Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar 2. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN 9. Significance of the Title "Pride and Prejudice" 10. Plot of "Pride and Prejudice" 11. Theme of Love and Marriage in "Pride and Prejudice" 12. Character of Elizabeth Bennet 13. Male Characters in "Pride and Prejudice" 14. Irony in "Pride and Prejudice" 15. Jane Austen As a Moralist 16. Jane Austen's Limited Range Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar 3. ADAM BEDE BY GEORGE ELIOT 17. Major Thematic Concerns in 'Adam Bede' 18. Psycholo

5. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS - AMERICAN LITERATURE 1. ADRIENNE RICH AND SYLVIA PLATH 1. Major Themes in Adrienne Rich's Poetry 2. Critical Appreciation of 'Diving into the Wreck' 3. Critical Appreciation of 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' 4. Critical Appreciation of 'Final Notation' 5. Major Themes in Sylvia Plath's Poetry 6. Critical Appreciation of 'Morning Song' 7. Critical Appreciation of 'Poppies in October' 8. Critical Appreciation of 'The Bee Meeting' Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar 2. RICHARD WILBUR AND JOHN ASHBERY  9. Richard Wilbur As a Modern Poet 10. Critical Appreciation of 'Still, Citizen Sparrow' 11. Critical Appreciation of 'After the Last Bulletin' 12. Critical Appreciation of 'Marginalia' 13. John Ashbery As a Modern Poet 14. Major Themes in John Ashbury's Poetry 15. Critical Appreciation of 'Melodic Train' 16. Critical Appreciation of 'The Painter' Notes Prepared By: P

4. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS - PROSE 1. SELECTED ESSAYS BY BACON 1. Bacon's Prose Style 2. Bacon As a Moralist 3. Bacon As a Philosopher 4. Bacon's Worldly Wisdom 5. Renaissance Elements in Bacon 6. Critical Appreciation of 'Of Parents and Children' 7. Critical Appreciation of 'Of Great Place' 8. Critical Appreciation of 'Of Studies' Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar 2. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BY SWIFT 9. Swift's Prose Style 10. Swift As a Satirist 11. Swift As a Misanthrope 12. Popularity of 'Gulliver's Travels' 13. Irony in 'Gulliver's Travels' 14. Elements of Utopia in 'Gulliver's Travels' 15. First and Last Voyage of 'Gulliver's Travels' 16. Character Sketch of Gulliver Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar 3. UNPOPULAR ESSAYS BY RUSSELL 17. Russell's Prose Style 18. Russell As an Essayist 19. Russell As a Philosopher 20. Connection Between Philosophy and Politics 21. The Future of Mankind 22.

Source: http://herald.dawn.com/tag/progressive-writers-associationVisit the above source for the Original The politics of exclusionBy Sarmad Sehbai | May 14, 2012 Tossing the empty bottle he shouts, �Oh world! Your beauty is your ugliness.� The world stares back at him Their bloodshot eyes rattle with the question �Who nabs the pillar of time By the noose of his drunken breath?

Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/prog-o21 For original follow the above link Leon Trotsky-The Transitional Program - 1938 This is the founding document of the Fourth International, published in September of 1938. It was previously drafted by Trotsky and discussed widely by sections of the Trotskyist movement. Assessing the historical lessons of the betrayal of the working

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS - DRAMA 1. OEDIPUS REX BY SOPHOCLES 1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth! I knew this well, But did not act on it! Else I should not have come. (b) At a feast, a drunken man maundering his cups Cries out that I am not my father's son! I contained myself that night, though I felt anger And a sinking heart. The next day I visited My father and mother, and questioned them. They stormed, Calling it all the slanderous rant of a fool; And this relieved me. (c) O holy majesty of heavenly powers! May I never see that day! Never! Rather let me vanish from the race of men Than know the abomination destined me! 2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) Why should anyone in this world be afraid, Since Fate rules us and nothing can be foreseen? A man should live only for the present day. (b) To have been the man they call his mother's hu

1. OEDIPUS REX BY SOPHOCLES 1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth! I knew this well, But did not act on it! Else I should not have come. (b) At a feast, a drunken man maundering his cups Cries out that I am not my father's son! I contained myself that night, though I felt anger And a sinking heart. The next day I visited My father and mother, and questioned them. They stormed, Calling it all the slanderous rant of a fool; And this relieved me. (c) O holy majesty of heavenly powers! May I never see that day! Never! Rather let me vanish from the race of men Than know the abomination destined me! 2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) Why should anyone in this world be afraid, Since Fate rules us and nothing can be foreseen? A man should live only for the present day. (b) To have been the man they call his mother's husband! Oh accurst! O child o

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST BY OSCAR WILDE 1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.  (b) I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  (c) Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd. However, you have got to catch the four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey back to town.  2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) True. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing. Mr. Worthing, wha

THE WINTER'S TALE BY SHAKESPEARE 1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.  (a) No, in good earnest. How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! (b) Should a villain say so, The most replenish'd villain in the world, He were as much more villain: you, my lord, Do but mistake. (c) There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. 2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice Prove violence; in which three great ones suffer, Yourself, your queen, your son. (b) If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her; For every inch of woman in the world, Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be. (c) Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What his

2. DR. FAUSTUS BY MARLOWE 9. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death. (b) How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise will? (c) Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles. 10. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, Wherein is fix'd the love of Beelzebub: To him I'll build an altar and a church, And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. (b) Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. (c) Accursed Faustus, wretch, what hast thou done? I do repent, and yet I do despair. Hell striv

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OTHELLO BY SHAKESPEARE 1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) To be suspected, framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by the' nose As asses are. (b) Now, by heaven, My blood begins my safer guides to rule, And passion, have my best judgment collied, Assays to lead the way. (c) I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. 2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse Full of crusadoes. And but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creature are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking. (b) Work on, My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught, And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach. -- What, ho! My lord! My lord, I say! Othello! (c) Oh, devi

Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/lucknow-plays-host-to-commemorate-1936-progressive-writers-association-conference/1/348412.html For Original Visit above Link Lucknow plays host to commemorate 1936 Progressive Writers Association conference Fifty years ago, Lucknow was the venue for the first conference of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA). Last month, Lucknow again

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS - CLASSICAL POETRY 1. THE PROLOGUE BY CHAUCER 1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy; Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seinte Loy; And she was cleped Madame Eglentyne. (b) And theron heng a brooch al with grene, On which ther was first write a crowned A, And after Amor Vincit Omnia. (c) Therfore he was a prikasour aright: Grehoundes he hadde as swift as fowel in flight; Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare. (d) Ful wel biloved and famulier was he With frankeleyns over al in his contree, And eek with worthy wommen of the toun; 2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context. (a) Seint Julian he was in his contree. His breed, his ale, was alweys after oon; A bettre envyned man was nowher noon. (b) He knew the cause of everich maladye, Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, And where they engendred, and of what homour. (c) In al t

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/salman-rushdie-his-life-his-work-and-his-religion-419902.html For Original Visit Above Link Salman Rushdie: His life, his work and his religion And so it begins again: the low rumble of Islamist death-threats against a novelist, simply because he dares to revel in free speech and free thought in a free society. "We're all living