Sunday is gloomy; the hours are slumberless. Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless. Little white flowers will never awaken you; not where the dark coach of sorrow has taken you. Darling, I hope that my dream hasn’t haunted you. My heart is telling you how much I wanted you. “Gloomy Sunday” –Bjork Toni …
Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, is a towering figure in the contemporary American and African-American letters and has drawn a lot of attention from the mainstream critics at home and abroad. Her fifth novel, Beloved, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, is considered by many to be her best …
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Heroic depiction of Satan About the Author John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middle-class family.He was the son of another John Milton, a scrivener (a combination of lawyer and money lender),who was not only financially very successful but also a talented musician and composer. He sent his son to St. …
Base and Superstructure Identify The base/superstructure model is a theoretical framework that charts the different parts of society proposed by Marx and Engels. It is a model that regards the base as the economic foundation of society. The cultural, political and social forms of life are, then, superstructures which are created out of the base and …
Showalter divides feminist criticism into two distinct types: feminist critique and gynocriticism. She defines feminist critique as this sort of literary criticism which is concerned with women as readers and consumers of male literature. The main aim of this criticism is to depict how women were presented in male-produced literature. From here, we can safely say that …
Ans:- Feminism is the theory that people who identify as female should be treated in the same manner as their male counterparts. This has a variety of implications, including power-relationships, employment, beauty standards, use of language, and others. Let’s explore what these few examples mean: Power-Relationships: Historically in many cultures, women have been subjugated by men, meaning …
