Thinking Activity On Structuralism and Literary Criticism

Thinking Activity On Structuralism and Literary Criticism....

Gerard Genette  ( born 1930) is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement. his best known in English through the section,"Narrative discourse : an essay on method". 

• in literary theory, structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. for example, a literary critic applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of west side story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

Q-1)   Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? you can select any image or TV serial or Film or literary text or advertisement. apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog.  

ANS:- in literary theory structuralism is an approach to Analysing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. structuralist critic find same structure in many literary work in same way we found many same structure in movies, serial and Advertisment. we find in some literary work there where same structure repeat several time.   

Click in this link here analyse one advertisement in "Arial"

                          https://youtu.be/wJukf4ifuKs

          it is not just advertisement of "Ariel" but in this advertisement we find very brif idea about equality of man and women.so i think structure of this advertisement is good.

              In this advertisement we can see feminism structure of our society. man and woman both are going out side to work for money but very few theme are share burden of housework. 'gender inequalities rooted' in not only our social structure but also in our mentality. i'm just saying that if man go out side for making money then wife do cooking, cleaning,laundry everything, both are making money than why they are not share all there responsibility?

Q-2)   Significance of 'FIRE' and 'ICE' in the both poems : 1) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost and 2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser.

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1) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost:

2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser:

              so in this both of poem their are common thing told which is fir and ice and we can see this thing as many ways like fire is a symbol of passion and ice is a symbol of careless. also fire and ice is symbol of the seasons of summer and winter. Also one is a symbol of anger and another is symbol of calmness.

            There is another thing is both are dangerous. both have strength burn the thing and make anything lifeless. so they can't go together as this thing shows in this poems that in presence of fire ice cant't dissolves and in the presence of ice make fire more heatable.

                            

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The Archetypes of Literature....Northrop Frye

The Archetypes of Literature...Northrop Frye

                     Northrop Frye born in 1912 and death 1991. Canadian literary critic, best known as a major proponent of archetypal criticism.

                                      

                      in this branch of literary criticism, literature and other art forms are seen as manifestations of universal myths and archetypes (largely unconscious image patterns that cross cultural boundaries).

                     Frye's most important work, anatomy of criticism (1957), introduced archetypal criticism, identifying and discussing basic archetypal patterns as found in myths, literary genres, and the reader's imagination.

1). What is Archetypal criticism? What does the Archetypal critic do?

ANS:- In literary criticism the term "archetype" denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of actions, character-type,themes & images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams and even social rituals. such recurrent items are held to be the result of elemental & universal forms or patterns in the human psyche, whose effective embodiment in a literary work evokes a profound response from the attentive reader, because he or she shares the psychic archetypes expressed by the author.

2). What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of "physics to nature" & "criticism to literature"?

ANS:- Here Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of 'physics to nature' and 'criticism to literature' is that physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not that he is learning nature. art, like nature, is the subject of a systematic study, and has to be distinguished from the study itself, which is criticism.

3). Share your views of criticism as an organised body of knowledge. mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

ANS:- Criticism is as an organised body of knowledge. so it is progressive way of literature. but literature never organised it should free from it for the progress of literature. it definitely deeply connected with the history and philosophy both are important pillars of literature. the history connected with the myths and philosophy connected with morality and ethics. history stands for events and philosophy is stands for idea.

4). Briefly explain indicative method with illustrations of Shakespeare 's Hamlet 's grave digger 's scene.  

 ANS:-  inductive method means going move further "particular to general" in hamlet's grave Diging 's scene we can deals with inductive method like, hamlet looks at the Yorick 's skull, then fights with laertes due to Ophelia 's death and Hamlet 's confesses his love for Ophelia.  

5). Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music, painting, rhythm and pattern. give examples of the outcome of deductive method.

ANS:- now about deductive method means from general to particular.

• Time - past , present or future
• space

A)  music in time and painting in space

B)  music has rhythm and painting has pattern

C)  rhythm comes from nature like winter, summer etc..

D)  pattern comes from symbols

Example :- red rose is symbol of love and sun rising is symbol of hope in each and every world of literature.

                 and for that deductive method it means based on logical or reasonable deduction. the music, painting , rhythm and pattern there are all art may be conceived both temporally and speatially. the rhythm of music and the pattern of painting ; but later, to show off our sophistication, we may be conceived both temporally and spatially. the score of musical composition may be studied all at once ;a picture may be seen as the track of an intricate dance of the eye. literature seems to be intermediate between music and painting; its words form rhythms which approach a musical sequence of sound at one of its boundaries and form patterns which approach the hieroglyphic or pictorial image at the other.

6) Refer to the Indian seasonal grid (below). if you can, please read small Gujarati or Hindi or English poem from the archetypal approach and apply Indian Seasonal grid in the interpretation.

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                    Moreover i would like to share one Gujarati poem. this poem interpretation bout Indian season of monsoon. in this poem, poet used archetype character like as, peacock, cloud, sky...etc. he also talked about waiting for season monsoon.

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Interaction with french professors

Interaction With French Professors

                  On 22nd January 2019, Fortunately student of English department get chance to meet and interact with prof. Saeed palivandi and prof. Fontanini who come from the university of lorraine, france .

               

     

                       In a very brief interaction with student of our department, they talked about on gender disparity in higher education, mergers of smaller universities as part if making of world class universities, revolutionary nature of french people, yellow vest protest, worrisome unequal distribution of wealth , unemployment and lack of jobs for humanities graduates etc..

                      some, of the students asked questions, it was also interesting were an they said that there is less percentage of female in education compare to male same as India. about society they said that there is big difference between rich and poor. poor is becoming poor and rich is becoming rich.

So, it was an interesting session Thank you to Dilip sir for giving us to this opportunities.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Pre-Task of Frankenstein...

                  Frankenstein is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley  in 1797–1851 that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.


Q-1)  When did you have a dream?

ANS:-  I have a dream when i am age of 20

Q-2)  What did you see in your dreams?

ANS:-  When i sleep and then i have seen in my dream many horrible,strange faces , i have seen only faces not full body of them. After seeing that kind of weird faces i feel so scared and suddenly i awake at night. and one more horror dream i saw that i feel insecure with fire. i saw that i was surrounded by fire.i can't come out from that.

Q-3)  Based on your dream if you are asked to create something, what type of creation would be there?

ANS:-  If i asked to create on my dream ugly faces, cruel voice.

Q-4)  The creation will be ugly or beautiful?

ANS:-  my creation will be ugly and too much horrible like.

Q-5) if ugly, why ? if you beautiful, why?

ANS:-  My creation will be ugly because i have seen dream of ghost. and ghost are always looking ugly not beautiful.

Q-6) What are you interpretation for the word 'monster'?

ANS:-  As my view, for me "monster" was like his facial appearance was not good, he was huge and terrible voice.

Q-7) Have you ever visited such kind of places which has some connections with horror and terror ?

ANS:- no,i have not visited in horror and terror place.

For Example in horror and terror place image:

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