“True literature is an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.”2 In the contemporary world, literature has gained much more significance due to its artistic advance, lasting quality, and value to society. Most of the writers transforming the real life events, “the problems and malaises of modern life, replete with the phenomenon of migration, displacement, dispossession, alienation, fragmentation, stress, depression, and neurosis”3 into a literary piece of writing to
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali 35 Throughout history, the concept of freedom has been sought after by many nations and peoples on many accounts. From Socrates speaking out against the beliefs of his fellow men to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN, freedom has been one of the driving forces for ideas and thoughts. The concept of freedom was also prominent during and after the Age of Exploration in the 15th – 17th century, with India being discovered in 1498 and colonized, under British
lasting impressions of different literary works in a broader spectrum. The benefits to be gained from cross-cultural or cross-national works involve deeper understanding of other cultures and enriching the process of research. In this analysis, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), an American essayist, orator, and poet, the exponent of Transcendentalist movement – represents the west, while Chinnaswami Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921), an Indian Tamil Poet laureate, writer and journalist, a social reformer
poses certain ambiguities. Especially, the migrant writers claiming, to be Indians or included in the Indian English literature, have settled somewhere else, away from their homeland or prefer to be divorced from their ancestral being, and yet their works have deeper links with their roots. Indian writers grouped under ‘expatriate’, and ‘diasporic’ writers reflect certain exclusive trends that are altogether different from the major stay-at-home writers. In this context, the connotation of these words
Nonconformity is one of the most themes embodied in the literature of the beat movement where writers and poets wanted to be free and celebrate life without restrictions and social boundaries, according to Collins Dictionary they are defined as follows: “members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc., and espousal of anarchism, communal
Indian writers have started to depict both the diversity of women and the diversity within each woman, rather than limiting the lives of women to one ideal. Modern literature emerges with a whole range of attitudes towards the imposition of tradition, some offering an analysis of the family structure and the caste system as the key elements of patriarchal social organization. Some works also reinterpret mythology by using new symbols and subverting the canonic versions pertaining to gender issues
tragedy. It is worth mentioning that the characters in A Streetcar Named Desire are created by a male writer, and is mainly concerned with the predicament of the individual versus society. The feminism reflects on Blanche shows Tennessee Williams’ humanistic solicitude on women in 20th century, which stimulates the introspection of female circumstances in industrial civilized society. On the basis of analysis above, this research proposes the complex nature of the problem of women being underrepresented
Literature reflects life, This was true in the sense that a poet or writer, in composing a literary work, was very often inspired and influenced by some of his her own experiences and social surroundings. Literature begins in the creative possibilities of human language and in the desire of human beings to use their language creatively serious. Literature was a form of human expression but not everything expressed in words. Even when organized and written down counted as literature those writings
contributed many valuable writers and precious works which hold a very important position in the literary scenario of india. Indian Writing in English has emerged as a new platform to express the indian culture. Also it turned out to be a new affirmation voice to indian writers. Writers in Indian English Writings pen for a variety of themes to express Indian customs, traditions, myths, social values and even Indian history through the depiction of life in India. These writers have beaten the difficulty
the maelstrom of Renaissance – indeed, it is not an exaggeration to say that writers such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas More and Christopher Marlowe are the real products of the Renaissance. The works of this period were marked by aspects such as the revival of classicism, humanism and patriotism. The Renaissance was a single major event which had a significant impact on the literary style of works in England. Even though the spirit of the movement has reached