work of art. Undoubtedly the novel in the modern age is the only literary medium through which a writer can discuss numerous contemporary problems – political, economic, religious and social. The novel, thus, is a form of art on account of two important reasons. First, the novel exhibits or represents life. Secondly a novelist gives shape to his vision of life with the purpose of giving pleasure to the reader. The ‘novel’ as a literary phenomenon is new to India. Epics, Lyrics, dramas, short stories and fables have their respectable ancestries, going back by several centuries, but it is only during a period of little more than a century. But the novel has occurred and taken root in India. The origin of novel goes back to the development of …show more content…
Writing in English was not started at one day. It developed over a episode of time. So many woman writers composed small plays, short stories and songs before the rise of the novels. More women’s are started to write during mid – nineteenth century. Women novelists give their own experiences and other female incidence their writings. It affected the language pattern and cultural of Indian literature. In the complete context of the woman writers in the Indian writing brought a stylized pattern of their own. In the past, Indian societies gave important for male experiences and their writings. But now it was changed. In 18th century women writers were declines because the male only can give strong themes. But in 19th century more women are participated in India’s every movement and them against the British rule. The influences of the Indian English literature begin by the world feminist …show more content…
Some of the Anita Desai writings show the complex between man and woman relationship. The woman novelists give awareness for the today’s women. Like the women author Sarojini Naidu Indian English writing was started. Indian women writers write about Cultural, traditional, realism, Diaspora etc. Sarojini Naidu attracts the readers by her great poem writings. The list of popular Indian woman writers now a days are much such as Bharati Mukherjee, Dina Mehta, Nergis Delal, Arundhati Roy Jhumpalahiri and many more. The novels of these people are known for their contemporary approach. Shobha De or Namita Gokhale another novels are really out spoken. The works of women novelists were actually undervalued. The readers read the novels of the Indian woman writing with certain thoughts and expectations. Most of the Indian male and female both writers comprise by the readers. They look for some Indian – ness in the writing. The capable of conveying message in Indian way about feminism, this was given only by Indian women
Thesis: The English were a prideful group, entangled in ethnocentrism, that caused a condescending and harsh treatment of the Native Americans, while the Native Americans were actually a dynamic and superior society, which led to the resentment and strife between the groups. P1: English view of Native Americans in VA Even though the English were subordinates of the Powhatan, they disrespected him and his chiefdom due to their preconceived beliefs that they were inferior. “Although the Country people are very barbarous, yet have they amongst them such government...that would be counted very civil… [by having] a Monarchical government” (Smith 22). John Smith acknowledges the “very civil” government of the Natives but still disrespected them by calling them “very barbarous,” which
The authors use of literary devices give readers the ability to learn, comprehend, and relate the events and characters in the novel to real life situations and
This essay will explain those literary elements, how they allow
In addition, Newgaard declares that “novel is a form a fiction writing that uses narrative viewpoints and dialogue to tell an extended story” (4). Narrating all of the characters in the novel, Capote was able to create an exposition, a rising action, a climax, a falling action, and a resolution. Because of this distinctive quality of the novel, Capote’s innovative writing style led to the development of New Journalism, a writing style most newspapers and magazines use
Literature is a medium that enables people to effectively express their opinions and perspectives. Being the vast genre that it is, fiction presents writers with the opportunity to utilize literary devices in their pieces. These devices help in communicating the message of the author’s work. Several fictional texts use common literary devices such as metaphors, similes, symbols, and imagery. These devices allow for writers to personally involve readers with the author’s message.
“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life”. (Barbara Kingsolver) Fiction is an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation as defined by Dictionary.com. There are many literary devices that writers incorporate into their works. The main reason literary devices are used is to connect with the reader.
It may skew her thinking and at times be subjective. The intended audience is someone who is studying literature and interested in how women are portrayed in novels in the 19th century. The organization of the article allows anyone to be capable of reading it.
Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur. Abstract: Identity crisis or search of identity has received an impetus in the Post-Colonial literature. Man is known as a social animal which needs some home, love of parents and friends and relatives. But when he is unhoused, he loses the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crisis. In the field of Indian English Literature, feminist or woman centered approach is the major development that deals with the experience and situation of women from the feminist consciousness.
The author Jane Austen is considered a 19th century feminist, her story characters remain feminine in nature; however maintain a strong independent role model in some of her written works. The character in “Pride and Prejudice,” Elizabeth Bennet; with her modern ideas and intellect reminds us how this young lady
Giovanni Boccaccio sets The Decameron in a time period when women are regarded as holding lower social position than men in a community. In the Biblical text, the roles of women are almost always severely restricted. Women are not allowed to hold power or have a significant position in a society, but to maintain in the positions of wives and mothers, who only care about family. In The Decameron, Boccaccio reveals that women could hold an upper hand role in the relationship of male and female. Boccaccio exceeds the role of women, contrary to church teaching by depicting women as patient, more lustful, and more intelligent figures than men.
Every literary work has its own purpose of existence and no literary is the same. There is always literary work for someone to be interested in. the authors use different techniques in order to attract the readers, such as rhythm, rhyme, characters, settings, characters, theme, and conflict and other techniques. One of the elements that literature allow the readers to use is the imagination in order to visualize what the author message is in his story or poem. Some stories, poems or drama are based from the writer’s personal experience, such as the conflict with they have with society because of their race, gender or ethnicity.
From the outset, literature and all forms of art have been used to express their author’s feelings, opinions, ideas, and believes. Accordingly, many authors have resorted to their writing to express their feminist ideas, but first we must define what feminism is. According to the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, feminism is “the belief that women should be allowed the same rights, power, and opportunities as men and be treated in the same way, or the set of activities intended to achieve this state”. As early as the fifteenth century is possible to find feminist writings. Centuries later, and although she never referred to herself as one, the famous English writer Virginia Woolf became one of the greatest feminist writers of the twentieth
A narrative critic’s close reading assumes literary integrity and reads the text holistically. The text is processed consecutively and the parts are related to the whole. The methodology of narrative criticism can be summarized in four steps. First, the form of the text is analysed and categorized according to formal and conventional literary aspects and genres.
Do you know that Shakespeare is not the only gifted writer in his family? This mysterious member exists in the English writer Virginia Woolf’s imagination. In her famous essay “Shakespeare’s Sister,” Woolf uses the hypothetical anecdote of Judith Shakespeare as her main evidence to argue against a dinner guest, who believes that women are incapable of writing great literature. During the time when Judith is created, women are considered to be naturally inferior to men and are expected to be passive and domestic. Regarding her potential audience, educated men, as “conservative,” Woolf attempts to persuade them that social discouragement is the real cause of the lack of great female writers without irritating them by proposing “radical” arguments.
In this literary approach of literature, writer is keeping in mind the basic reality while narrating a piece of art. It is a piece of art.