English Literature and Linguistics

Where does the meaning lie, in the Text, reader, writer or the structure? Explain in the light of Catherine Belsey's "Critical Practice". (2004 PU) OR Discuss Belsey's arguments in favour of structural criticism. (2004 PU) How can meaning be constructed by reproducing what is familiar? (2006 PU) Criticism is an effort "to see things as they are, without partiality, without obtrusion of personal liking of disliking." What is your opinion? (2013 PU) "The ultimate objective of Criticism is neither to accept nor to reject but to take issue & proceed." What is your opinion? (2010 PU) What relationship does Catherine Belsey establish between criticism and commonsense? Lecturer Mk Bhutta (2004 PU) Elucidate the relationship between criticism and commonsense in the light of Catherine Belsey's views. (2005 PU) Sum up the contribution of Roland Barthes and Jacque Lacan to the development of modern critical trends. (2012 PU) Discuss deconstructio

Twilight in Delhi Significance of the Title “Twilight in Delhi” The name or title of Ahmed Ali’s novel as “Twilight in Delhi” is very significant in itself. This is the most proper and appropriate name of the story he has told in the novel. “ Twilight”  is a word that signifies the short span of time that spreads itself between a dying day and emerging night just as “ dawn” is the opposite term that signifies the death of the night and the arrival of the day. “Twilight in Delhi” deals with the dying culture and civilization of Muslim India as such. If we take Mir Nihal as a symbol of that culture etc. which he really is, we can see the civilization crumbling with our own eyes. When we go through the novel, we find out that its main male character has passed his middle age and is almost knocking at the door of old age. We are talking of Mir Nihal who is nearing sixty in the beginning of the novel as he had witnessed the fateful day of the fall of Delhi, 14th September, 1857, as a ten

Things Fall Apart 💮 The Title of the Novel The title of Achebe's novel  ''Things Fall Apart''  owes to W.B. Yeats' '' visionary' 'poem,  ''The Second Coming''.  Yeats speaks of the break-down of the ' 'old' ' order and its displacement by a  ''new '' order that rouses mixed feelings of revulsion and fascination in him. ''Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things Fall Apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world''. Achebe’s novel is too about a forcible break-up of an older and settled order. Achebe is preoccupied with the break-down of the '' old' ' order under the relentless onslaught of the ' 'new' ' order. The very title 'Things Fall Apart' , highlights the process of disintegration of Ibo culture and society. Achebe looks back at his Ibo society specifically at the

☢ Intro duction: Eliot is one of the greatest literary critics of England. Both from the point of view of the bulk and quality of his critical writings. His critical articles have a far-reaching influence on literary criticism. His criticism was revolutionary which inverted the critical tradition of the whole English speaking world . John Hayward says:  “I cannot think of a critic who has been more widely read and discussed in his own life-time; and not only in English, but in almost every language, except Russian.” As a critic Eliot has his faults . At times he assumes a hanging-judge attitude and his statements savor of a verdict. Often his criticism is marred by personal and religious prejudices blocking an honest and impartial estimate. Moreover, he does not judge all by the same standards. Critics have also found fault with his style as too full of doubts, reservations and qualifications. Eliot’s criticism has revolutionized the great writers of the past three centuries. His