The English language has evolved over the course of time to be able to be utilized in an incredibly versatile manner. Words have started wars, ended lasting conflicts, and connected the ends of the earth together. It is the versatility of words that mold sentences into emotions, and writers into champions of the human psyche. Henry Lloyd Mencken, famed critic and journalist, wrote numerous essays and opinion pieces covering a variety of topics. One of his essays, “The Libido for the Ugly”, confronts
meeting his maker, Karen, Harold Crick used to perform every task methodically with regularity and was a slave to conformist metaphors who operating not in the search for happiness but to defend against adversity. After learning about his inevitable death he acquires ‘free intellect’ and purses his own interests based on what he likes, thus going from a rational to an intuitive man. In doing so he celebrates free will and Nietzsche’s assertion of the intuitive man over the rational. Although the movie
Introduction Indian English literature associates to that body of work by writers from India, who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the various regional and indigenous languages of India. In Indian English writings Kashi Prasad is known to be the first Indian poet writing in English. Sochee Chunder Dutt was the first writer of fiction. In the beginning, thematic base was politics and can be seen in the Raja Ram Mohan Roy. And later he had dedicated
Nowadays, Celtic languages are not spoken by a large number of people and they are mostly limited to the British Isles and to Brittany, in north-western France. However, they once comprised a huge area of Europe, from Britain to Asia Minor in Roman and pre-Roman times. Celtic, which is a branch of the Indo-European language family, is subdivided into Continental Celtic and Insular Celtic. The four Continental languages of which there is evidence are Gaulish, Celtiberian, Galatian and Lepontic. Nonetheless
English has evolved in various forms over the years and affected the world in many ways. For native speakers in one way developed for good but in another had their language modified. Wherein the non-English speakers didn’t understand the importance of speaking English, when they already have their own mother tongue. All the doubts and loses are always a mystery to human kind. This essay talks about the reasons for English being considered as a global language and how its history has impacted in today’s
“Politics and the English Language” is George Orwell’s critique of the shape that modern English is taking. He draws upon specific aspects of contemporary writing detrimental to the language including over-used metaphors, removal of simple verbs, use of passive voice and fancier, meaningless words, and “ready-made phrases” (Orwell 278). In his mind, this decay of language is correlated to foolish thinking, and thus its elimination is vital. Orwell picks on five passages, which range from essays of professors
The Spread of English Globalization made the world as a small village which needed a global language to enable people, from different places and cultures around the world, to communicate with each other. Nevertheless, one most important outcome of globalization is the increased spread of languages, particularly the English language. language Globalization can be defined as the correlations of global political, economic, cultural and environmental processes that modify present positions
next one he is faced with is Grendel’s mother who is seeking revenge after her son’s death. Beowulf defeats Grendel’s mother where Hrothgar is left with no treacherous monsters. This epic is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language. There has been many critics
Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976) and this has made her apply deconstructive strategies to a range of theoretical writings and textual analyses that also includes feminism, Marxism, literary criticism and post colonialism. Can the Subaltern Speak?” is an essay that was first delivered in 1983. This well known treatise established Gayatri Spivak among the ranks of feminists who include history, geography, and class when they think and write about the development of women. Spivak’s main effort in all her writings
Works on the Fiction Criticism of F.R. Leavis K.Eswara Reddy Asst.professor in English K.S.R.M College of Engineering Kadapa – 516003 A.P, INDIA K.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Asst.professor in English K.S.R.M College of Engineering Kadapa – 516003 A.P, INDIA Abstract We find the earliest criticism on the fiction criticism of F.R. Leavis in 1958 in George Steiner’s Language and Silence. George Steiner regards Leavis as a better critic of fiction than of poetry. According to him Leavis admitted