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'Deconstruction'

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As a Post- structuralist critic, As a part of our study we learn Deconstruction I read the movie as  as post-structuralist critic . This blog task is a part of our co-curricular activities of our department which is given on this blog Jacques  Derrida  says about Deconstruction that it cannot be defined “what Deconstruction is not? Everything of course what is Deconstruction? Nothing of course”.                                                                    By- Jacques Derrida This term it is very difficult to understand because it has no proper crystal clear definition. In general, Deconstruction means a close and critical reading of a written text to uncover the ways of thinking that constrains our impression or conceptualization of the world. First of all Deconstruction is not a destructive activity, but it is an inquiry into the foundations of everything. Deconstructionist critics goes deep into the foundation of text and t

A Short Summary of Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"

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A Short Summary of Charles Dickens "Oliver Twis t" Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and the Sowerberry became angry with him. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London. Outside London, Oliver, starved, and met Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London

SURVEY OF ENGLISH & GUJARATI MEDIUM SCHOOL STUDENT’S APPROACH TOWARDS ENGLISH LANGUAGE

         SURVEY OF ENGLISH & GUJARATI MEDIUM            SCHOOL STUDENT’S APPROACH           TOWARDS ENGLISH LANGUAGE English Medium School- The KPES English Scho ol Gujarati Medium School - Shree Divyjyot Primary School SUBMITTED FOR THE FIRST GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN ENGLISH STUDIES: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ORGANISED BY THE GLOBAL ASSOCIATION OF ENGLISH STUDIES Prepared by Urvi Dave dave.urvi71@gmail.com Divya choudhary choudharydivya400@gmail.com Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Bhavnagar, Gujarat India                                           ABSTRACT How do we empower the learner to become an active creator of knowledge and to acquire and develop new skills? What are the barriers in this process? These are the key questions that this paper tries to seek answers to. The paper tries to illustrate ways in which a bias in favour of English Medium possesses series problems

STRUCTURALISM

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If I were a Structuralist, As a part of our study we learn structuralism and how structuralist do their work. This blog task is a part of our co-curricular activities of our department which is given on this blog Gerard Genette , who was French literary theorist. He was also highly concern with narrative technique. In his essay his he discuss five aspect of narratology, that are like          1) Order   2) Frequency   3) Duration   4) Voice   5) Mood             Order: This order concept totally the circumstances and the situation take place in the narration. Frequency: Frequency’s concept his according to the different order and different film text and etc. Duration: The separation between an event and narration means that there is  discourse time and narrative time. Voice: voice is concerned with who narrates, and from where. This can be split four ways.  MOOD: Distance of the narrator changes with narrated speech and reported speech.