Month: April 2022

Hard Times Notes

Introduction: The Purpose of Hard Times Charles Dickens is known as a writer of social criticism, and “Hard Times” particularly demonstrates his critical view of Victorian England. As opposed to particular attacks as evident in his earlier novels, “Hard Times” is a diagnosis of Victorian society as a whole. In the novel the failings of …

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Partition Pains: Representations of Maternal Trauma in Partition Discourse

“The Final Solution” is a story by Manik Bandopadhyay, who is an Indian Bengali, writing about the destruction of values and the politics of power and sexuality in the spiralling refugee problem in Calcutta, which was a direct aftermath of the 1947 Partition. Many of the Hindu families who left their homes in East Pakistan …

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Deconstruction: Part 2

Now question arises, is writing Both Useless and dangerous…? This does not square easily with the social history of the rise of writing in the west. Sometimes, speech is offered a curious privilege, for example, law courts rely on writing, but they privilege vocal testimony, when the person is asked to say “I promise to …

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Deconstruction ;Part 1

Deconstruction is one of the several doctrines in contemporary philosophy often loosely held under the umbrella terms post-structuralism and postmodernism. Jacques Derrida coined the term in the 1960s, and proved more forthcoming with negative, rather than a pined-for positive, analyses of the school. Derrida says, deconstruction is a word whose fortunes have disagreeably surprised me. …

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