UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (Abstract) BA Programme in English under Choice based credit semester systemSchool of Distance Education/ Private mode- Syllabus in tune with Choice based credit semester System School of Distance Education regulations-approved implemented with effect from 2011 admissionOrders issued ……………………………………………………………………… GENERAL AND ACADEMIC BRANCHIV‘B’ SECTION No: GAIV/B2/9842/2010 Dated‚ Calicut University. P.O 01.09.2012 Read: 1.UO No GAIV/J2/3601/08 dated 17
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English Literature: Charles Dickens Who was Dickens? Charles Dickens was a classic english literature writer. He was born in Portsmouth‚ South England on the 7th February 1812‚ to parents John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was sent to school at the age of nine‚ when his father had found good fortune. Later on‚ Charles was sent to work in Warren’s blacking factory and had endured appalling conditions. After three years he was returned to school to educate and to be a journalist. Maybe a writer
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ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Romanticism is a complex artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe‚ and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part‚ it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature‚ and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music‚ and literature‚ but had a major impact
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The femme fatale can be described as an irresistibly attractive woman‚ often the love interest of the protagonist‚ who uses her sexuality as means to acquire what she wants and fulfil her own desires. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character‚ Irene Adler in A Scandal in Bohemia appears to be a prototype for this femme fatale figure which has become a feature in almost all texts of the Noir fiction world. The traits of the femme fatale are evident largely in the physical appearance of the women‚ the way
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Chapter III: Eighteenth Century English Literature LITERATURE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT (18th century) The 17th century was one of the most stormy periods of English history. The growing contradictions between the new class‚ the bourgeoisie‚ and the old forces of feudalism brought about the English Bourgeois Revolution in the 1640s. As a result of the revolution the king was dethroned and beheaded and England was proclaimed a republic. Though very soon monarchy was restored‚ the position of
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Jemima Nicole S. Francisco 2012-22524 BSE major in English Eng 22 Prof. Mike Falgui English Literature: Romanticism and Victorian I. Themes of English Romanticism in Literature "Romanticism" is a period‚ movement‚ or style in arts starting in the late 1700s and flourishing in the early 1800s‚ a time when the modern mass culture in which we now live was first taking form: the rise of nation-states as defining social and geographic entities‚ increasing geographic and social mobility
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May 3‚ 2011 British Literature II Defining Literary Techniques of 20th Century English Literature During the 20th Century‚ much advancement and change occurred throughout English Literature. All of the works we studied from this period were heavily influenced by current events in the world. The writers all examined the world around them and tried to express it through their writings. The three things that weave a common thread throughout all 20th Century English Literature are global warfare
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Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. The outburst of political activity brought on by the Great French Revolution of 1789‚ the bitter wars with Napoleon’s France that ravaged Europe for almost 25
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e questionsBrett Brown Dr. Heather Duerre Humann English Lit 206 30 November 2012 Questions of Gender Throughout time in Early Modern England‚ both gender hierarchy and the husband ’s patriarchal job as the sole leader of his family and household were believed to have been the wishes of God. These beliefs were instilled in the literature of this time period mainly due to this great religious influence. The patriarch’s role was sometimes even seen equal to the Hand of God himself‚ but more commonly
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first used in England only as late as the nineteenth century‚ means’ "re-birth". Broadly speaking‚ the Renaissance implies that re-awakening of learning which came to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Renaissance was not only an English but a European phenomenon; and basically considered‚ it signalised a thorough substitution of the medieval habits of thought by new attitudes. The dawn of the Renaissance came first to Italy and a little later to France. To England it came much later
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