Chetan Bhagat, recognized more as the youth emblem than just an author is the biggest selling English Language novelist in India’s record. He has opened the floodgates for a new movement in Postmodern Indian Writing. His name doesn’t polish any Booker list, but it is heard on the lips of every college student in India. While the global literary inhabit on the fiction of India‘s past, Chetan Bhagat has become India’s darling writer by embracing the present. He manages to keep his sense of humor despite
2.7.3 Jhaverchand Meghani (1897-1947) Jhaverchand Meghani, popularly known as a poet of powerful sentiments, tried his hand at writing historical novels too. He wrote historical novels like Samarangan (1938), Sorath Taran Vahetan Pani, Ra Gangajaliyo (1939) and Gujarat-no Jay (Part I (1939), Part II (1942)). Comparing Meghani with Munshi, Mansukhlal Jhaveri comments: “If Munshi’s major women characters are much-pampered adolescent daughters and Ramanlal Desai’s are charming beloveds, then Meghani’s
In literature, postmodernism is a term used to describe the writing style that authors, poets, and artists have been using since the 1940s. Although the word postmodernism is used quite frequently, the actual definition is hard to define. The postmodern era follows the modern era chronologically, however it completely reshapes the way that authors perceive and think about literature. According to PBS, postmodernism “stems from a recognition that reality is not mirrored in human understanding… relies
By the late 1970’s most styles of music had already been used to the point where some artist considered the idea, that anything that was worth doing had been done. This theory, that all discoveries had been discovered, lead to post modernism. Because no new styles existed, these post modern thinkers developed the concept of incorporating past styles in a variety of ways; utilizing scores and techniques that developed into a pseudo-neo-sound. Punch Drunk Love approached it’s scores by using the post
For more than centuries, the world's different concept and theories exist in line for having different perspectives. But the only thing is that, the concepts that evolved through years have the same meaning with different interpretations because of having relations or continuity from the past, since the concept itself cannot enter without being related to the past for the concepts rooted into it. If we are still part of the modern world, notwithstanding the perspective that it is such a merely continuation
Environment and Sociology Sociology can help us to understand how environmental problems are distributed in regions, countries and communities. For example although global warming will affect everyone on the planet, it will do so in different ways to different groups and communities. Flooding kills many more people in low-lying, poor countries, such as Bangladesh, where housing and emergency infrastructures are less able to cope with severe weather than in Europe. In richer countries, such as the
This literature review will explore the philosophy and life of the phenomenal architect "Mies Van Der Rohe" a German born architect largely regarded as the pioneering master of modern architecture, who reflected a new architectural style in the united states of america.This literature review looks at the development and growth of the "Less is more" architecture concept through Mies journey in America. Mies was largely the one who epitomized the most highly effective principles and the most distilled
Postmodernism is meta-fiction, it draws attention to itself as a work of fiction, and is self-conscious as being fiction. The postmodern authors are trying to expose the complicated relationship between fiction and non-fiction, by making the stories they tell all about fiction. Individuals are unique, original and authentic. The identity is a composite. It is constructed by the forces of culture around us. The typical form in postmodernism is science fiction, in which open forms, play, anarchy,
Postmodernists criticizes the modernists’ conceptions of society, history, and politics. These three areas are the issues that both the modern and postmodern thinkers tackled. Even though postmodern thinkers are challenging the modern ideals, they are advocating new approaches, discourses and practices. The issue on society comprises the nature of man, social order and community. Society therefore includes the discussion on man and his nature. Politics encompasses the discussion about the government
. According to Greg Lynn, writer of “Folding in Architecture”, Deleuze’s concept of the fold is of exact prominence for this analysis of the “addition of alterations within a continuous yet heterogeneous system” for it offers “a theory of synthesis and unity that maintains detail as a discrete moment that participates intensively in the construction of a new kind of whole”-Lynn. Furthermore, according to architectural theorist John Rajchman in his thesis “Out of the Fold” from Folding in architecture