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Discuss the concept ‘Oedipus complex’ by Sigmund Freud

The concept ‘Oedipus complex’ was introduced by Sigmund Freud in his book Die Traumdeutung (1900), translated as The Interpretation of Dreams (1913). Here, Freud relates that in his clinical experience, the child’s relationship to its parents is the major determinant in the psychical lives of his more neurotic patients. This idea occurred to him a few years earlier…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Novels

Reflexive novel: Definition, Meaning and Examples

The reflexive novel is a novel in which the author calls the reader’s attention to the fact that he or she is writing (or has written) a novel. Thus, what Roland Barthes would call a ‘writerly’ novel. A classic and early example of such a work is Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy(1760–67), an attempt at autobiography in which…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Poem

Discuss Tennyson’s Tithonus as an instance of the dramatic monologue

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem Tithonus is a monologue of the single character of the poem, Tithonus. The mythological Trojan lover of the goddess of Dawn, Aurora, is found to speak here of his frustration and desperation even after enjoying the boon of immortality. The speaker here is one. He speaks of himself, with a part of…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Essay

Discuss about Parnassus Plays

Parnassus Plays is the name given to a group of three satiric comedies produced between 1598 and 1602 by St John’s College, Cambridge students. It consists of The Pilgrimage to Parnassus, The Return from Parnassus, and The Return from Parnassus Or the Scourage of Simony. The second and third plays are sometimes called Part One and Part Two…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Literary Terms

A short note on Anecdote: Definition and Examples

Definition and Meaning: An anecdote is a brief account of or a story about an individual or an incident. The anecdotal digression is a common feature of narrative in prose and verse. In the history of English literature and of literary characters, the anecdote has a specific importance. In his Dictionary, Johnson defined the term as ‘something yet…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Essay

Discuss about the Rise of Satire in English Literature and famous writers of Satire

Definition and Meaning of Satire: Satire, in general, means a literary composition, in verse or prose, to expose the vices or follies of some person or persons, to ridicule or banter them. But strictly speaking, satire is a poem, aiming to expose the prevalent vices or follies of a society or a section of society. The…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Literary Terms

What is Parody: Definition, characteristics and examples

Parody (Gk meaning ‘beside, subsidiary or mock song’) is the imitative use of an author's words, style, attitude, tone, and ideas to make them ridiculous. This is usually achieved by exaggerating certain traits, using more or less the same technique as the cartoon caricaturist. It is a kind of satirical mimicry. As a branch of…

April 28, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Author

Sarah Fielding (1710-1768); Biography and famous works

Sarah Fielding (8 November 1710 – 9 April 1768) was an English novelist and sister of the famous novelist Henry Fielding. She was born in Dorset and educated in Salisbury. For much of her life, she lived quietly in and around London, where she became part of Samuel Richardson’s circle, and later near Bath. She contributed…

April 26, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Author

William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) Scottish poet and his poetry collections

William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was a neo-romantic Scottish poet. He was born and brought up in Greenock. He studied structural engineering at Stow College, Glasgow, before winning a bursary to pursue a literature course at Newbattle Abbey, then a newly founded college for adult education, in 1938. After a long nomadic period in Ireland, and…

April 26, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity

Essay

A short note on the periodical Tel Quel by Phillipe Sollers

In 1960 the French novelist and critic Phillipe Sollers (1936-) founded the literary periodical Tel Quel, and later he outlined its objectives in his discourse Logiques (1968). The aims are basically ideological and activist, as well as aesthetic. One of its aims is to restore to language its original revolutionary power, and it advances the principle that ‘literature…

April 26, 20250Comments BySupriya Maity