Literature – in a restricted sense – is a body of w ritten work possessing artistic merits; but beyond this rudimentary definition, lit erature is also a significant marker of the cultural health of a society. Different peri ods and movements of a society get represented through its literature in various modes from realistic to fantastic; and, conversely, literature too holds the potential to b ring about remarkable changes and developments in the society by influencing the clim ate of thought of
David Russell in Literature for Children: A Short Introduction (1946) makes an interesting point when he traces the origin of children’s literature to that of literature itself. He assumes that since all literature began orally, children’s literature too began its journey in the rudimentary beginnings of literature itself. His assumption is that all Greek and Roman children would have known Homer, Virgil or Ovid and this proves children’s enjoyment of adventures and fantasies. The middle Ages saw
including those gathered from literary works. Every literary piece is a tale in i tself and any good tale creates universal appeal to the readers even if it is out o f an individual experience and evokes 171 a local essence. Travel writing is one such genre which portrays experiences of an individual but when they are put on paper they blen d into observations and perceptions of lived lives in one culture or the ot her. A study involving more than one work for comparison indeed calls for two different
Many scholars like Paranjape, David McCutchion, and Herbert McArthur have always depreciated the canonical status of the Indian English fiction on the basis of its reliance on the western form, its inability to speak to the large Indian masses, and its failure to be desi in its outlook. Paranjape’s arguments have often proved the Indian English fiction a mediocre to English fiction. In his work Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel (2000) Makarand Paranjape asserts (anti-)colonial ancestry
and meaning of genre. Literary generic categories, as we understand them in the United States, have existed since the nineteen thirties, although dedicated scholarly attention began only in the nineteen seventies. Frederic Jameson’s article Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre argued that ‘genres are essentially contracts between a writer and his readers; or rather … they are literary institutions … like other agreements or contacts’. This declaration of the nature of literary genre was an addition
Ali further argues that at the head of the charge of men from the North on the field of Nigerian literature is the figure of Abubakar Imam Kagara who is a paterfamilias (The male head of a family). His works primarily Ruwan Bagaja and Magana Jari Ce, published in 1934 and 1939 respectively, were a link that binded the old tradition of Northern Nigerian literature and the modern tradition. Seeing that the time was changing swiftly, he had the vision not to write in Arabic or the popular ‘ajami’ (Hausa
journey of Indian English literature in the form of novel “The rise of the novel in India was not purely a literary phenomenon.It was a social phenomenon as much, rather the fulfillment of a social need’’.1 Writes K.S.Ramamurti in his book Rise of the Indian Novel In English . Of Course, fiction can be called a new branch, a new attempt in comparison with poetry, prose and other treatises but today we can claim that it is the most popular genre of Indo-Anglian literature. Although in the beginning
are printing every day. In this report, three Chinese translations of Hamlet, by Ching-Hsi Perng(2001), Tung-Chi Lin(1982) and Zhu Shenghao(1994). As mentioned, Shakespeare’s plays are regarded as the greatest western literature. Translating Shakespearean plays, compared with other genres, translators are required to be highly skilled with superior language artistry and deep cultural understanding of Shakespearean time. The three Chinese versions of Hamlet focused on this paper, translated directly
excellence in writing prose, all of them taking the budding Indian English literature of British India, to heights of excellence and merits. Nehru is however particularly remembered for his Glimpses of World History, Discovery of India and an Autobiography. Indian English literature till 1970 made up a rather viable industry as it captured the mood of the changing times. Apart from the three greats of Indian English Literature, Mulk Raj Anand , R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao, a number of other prominent
Literature is the mirror of world that has no end, but it is the reflection of human life. Literature is the broadest sense of writing. It is the writing of art form with intellectual value. Literature represents a language of a people, culture and tradition. Literature is more important than a historical or a cultural artifact. Literature introduces people to new worlds of experience. Literature is the term derived from Latin word, “literature/litterautra”, which means ‘writing formed with