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Structuralism and Literay Criticism -Gerard Genette

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¤   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.                                                      In literary theory, Structuralism is an approach to analysing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure .There are many Structuralist critics like Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard  Genette , Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss  etc. Structuralist critics found basic common structure in every work. As all the human beings  have a same structure from inside, similarly literature has basic structure and it is same everywhere whether it movies, TV s...

Northrop Frye- Thinking Activity

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What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?                                                                                                             The general dictionary meaning of the Archetypal criticism is an image or symbol or original modal that is used repeatedly by many arts and Literature to spread some kind of idea like in Durgapuja and Ganesh chaturthi all the rituals are same by which the idea of death that everybody has to face. It identifying the situation, patterns of action,character types. According to Carl Jung "collective unconscious" that is general resource we have. Archetypal critics observes the Images,symbols,place/location, music that how much related to the situ...

Movie review - Love ni Bhavai

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Director : Sandeep Patel Producer :Aarti Patel Music : Sachin - Jigar Cast : Malhar Takar as Sagar            Aarohi Patel as  RJ Antra            Pratik Gandhi as Aaditya                                             આ એક ગુજરાતી ફિલ્મ  છે. જે હાસ્ય તથા શૃંગાર પર આધારિત છે. આ ફિલ્મનું મુખ્ય પાત્ર રેડિયોજોકી અંતરા છે. જે પ્રેમ વિશે નબળી વિચારસરણી ધરાવે છે. વાર્તામાં વળાંક ત્યારે આવે છે જ્યારે અંતરા તેના કામમાંથી બ્રેક લઈને દિવ ફરવા જાય છે. જયા તેને મળે છે સાગર. સાગર એક એવો માણસ છે જે તેની હાજરી માત્રથી હાસ્ય ઉપજાવે છે.          એક તરફ આદિત્ય અંતરા ને ચાહવા લાગે છે અને બીજી તરફ સાગર અંતરાનો પીછો કરી તેની (સાગર ) અને તેની મિત્ર સ્વાતિ સાથેના સંબંધના અંતનો બદલો લેવા અંતરા પિછળ દિવ જાય છે. આ દરમિયાન અંતરા અને સાગર એકબીજાની નજીક આવી જાય છે અને મિત્રો બની જાય છે. અંતરા વેકેશન પૂર...

Thinking Activity on I. A.RICHARDS Figurative language .

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                        I.A. Richards "Practical Criticism "written in 1929.His Criticism gave new path to literary criticism.  He was staunch advocate of a   close textual and verbal study & analysis of a work of art.                                   Three objectives to write  The Practical Criticism: 1.          To introduce a new kind of documentation  to those who are interested in the contemporary state of culture whether as critics, philosophers, as teachers, as psychologists, or merely as curious persons. 2.         To provide new technique  for those who wish to discover for themselves what they think and feel about poetry (and cognate matters)and why they should like or dislike it. 3.    ...

Thinking Activity - Frankenstein

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What are some major differences between movie and the novel Frankenstein ?(Mention any three)               Many differences between movie and novel but three major differences are:   ■In the film after the creation of the monster, Victor is ill,tired and filled with horror.Clerval, his friend, takes care of him and Elizabeth is there too.               In the book on the contrary, the girl remains in Geneva with Victor's family. ■In the film ,Victor had only one younger brother ,William.              In the book ,Victor had another brother, Ernest. ■In the book the monster learned to love virtue and hate vice from the story of the De laceys and this part is secondary in the Film. Did this movie help you in understanding the plot of the novel?                Yes,This movie helps me in understanding the plot of  the no...

T.S. Eliot -Thinking Activity

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 1. How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?             Eliot has presented tradition in positive sense as it is not only inherited trend or any perticular method which should be followed, but he has given concept of merging past and present with the sense of history. Tradition is not only described in the sence of following but as an awareness of history to make future 2. What do you understand by Historical Sense? (Use these quotes to explain your understanding)            "The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"               This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.                     First quote:-T...