The term ‘Ideology’ was coined by the French philosopher Antoine Destutt de Tracy, who conceived it in 1796 as the “science of ideas” to develop a rational system of ideas…
The Prague Linguistic Circle (PLC) was a group of linguists and scholars founded in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1926. It was initially formed by a group of…
In the English literature of the present century, Somerset Maugham is a big name. As a novelist, dramatist, and storyteller, his genius remains indisputable. His stories exhibit remarkably his inexhaustible…
Definition:
‘Tragi-Comedy’, as the very name signifies, is a mingling of the seriousness of tragedy and the pleasantry of comedy. It is both tragedy and comedy, padded together into one new…
In the novel Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, two narrative innovations are worth particular mention: Atwood’s unreliable narrator and her use of poetry in a work of prose fiction. Most of Atwood’s…
The Touchstone method, also known as the Touchstone technique, is a concept and approach used in various fields such as education, literature analysis, and self-reflection. It involves using a specific…
What is Pastoral Elegy?
A pastoral elegy is a special kind of elegy that represents the poet as a shepherd mourning the death of another shepherd. The term…
Definition of Black Comedy:
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor that makes light of the otherwise solemn subject matter, or gallows humor. The…
Definition:
Romantic Poetry refers to a literary movement that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, primarily in Europe. It was characterized by an emphasis on emotion, imagination, individualism,…
Peripeteia:
Peripeteia has been translated as 'reversal of fortune.' A peripeteia occurs when a person seeks to achieve a particular result, but the reverse of the result is produced.…