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RELIGION AND LITERATURE : (TRANSLATION OF THE PAPER CUTTING ABOVE IN THE IMAGE ) Do not believe in God.  And I think I should see God retire now.  The idea of ​​God is a beautiful concept of a poet.  And it was useful at the beginning of human membership.  But now is the time to face the world with a completely logical approach.  There is no evidence of the existence of God for the last five thousand years.  And faith in events that cannot be scientifically proven is nothing short of superstitious.  There have been many inhuman transactions, atrocities and wars in the name of God.  It is not only our need to reject the notion of God, but also our duty.  Because it is a great injustice against humanity.  Only logical thinking has the ability to put people above everything else.  But when you believe in God, you lose that ability, and blindly accept what is said.  You make your intelligence inactive.  And then there...

=Hamlet through the lens of Cultural Study This two characters were marginalized in Hamlet , they are even more so in Hamlet , they are even more so in Stoppard's handling . if Shakespeare marginalized the powerless in his own version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , Stoppard has marginalized us all in an ear - in the eyes of some - all of us are caught up in forces beyond our control. Rosencranz and Guildernstern are two pawns used by both Hamlet and Claudios. The means of their name are garlend and golden star. They both studied with Hamlet and we can say treated as mere puppets. To His Coy Mistress : To His Coy Mistress" is a Cavalier poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best recognized carpe diem poem in English. Although the date of its composition i...

FRANKENPHEME IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN CULTURE :                         Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein has morphed into countless forms in both highbrow and popular culture , including the visual arts , fiction, and notification , stage plays , film , television, advertising , clothing, jewelry , toys , chains , coffee mugs, games , halloween costumes  comic books , jokes , cartoons ,pornography , academic costumes , fan club , web sites and even food.         if we look at contemproray indian culure we can find so many things as popular as Mary Shelly's Frankenstein FOR EXAMPLE : The recent Hindi movie  Kabir Singh : in current time Hindi movie kabir singh is talk of the town people are crazy about the movie the songs , the dialogues , even the beard  and sunglasses everything is so popular about this movie.even MENSXP has given detailed instructions on how to grow beard like KA...

What is cultural studies? Cultural Studies is not a tightly coherent unified movement with a fixed agenda, but a loosely coherent group of tendencies, issues, and questions.” FIVE TYPES OF CULTURAL STUDIES : BRITISH CULTURAL MATERIALISM : Cultural materialism emerged as a theoretical movement in the early 1980s along with   new historicism , an American approach to   early modern   literature, with which it shares much common ground. The term was coined by Williams, who used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and   Marxist   analysis. Cultural materialists deal with specific historical documents and attempt to analyze and recreate the zeitgeist of a particular moment in history. cultural materialism began in earnest in the 1950s with the work of F. R. Levis which was heavily influenced by Matthew  Arnold's bourgeois culture . Levis sought to use the education system to distribute literary knowledge and apprecia...

From Ages women considered as subalterns, weak, evil and so on. They were always controlled by Patriarchy. We know that when you torture someone constantly the person will definitely retaliate and the same thing happened with the subaltern or oppressed women a new turm emerged : Feminism,it  is a range of social  movements political movements  and ideologies  that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.  Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly within those societies.  Efforts to change that include fighting gender stereotypes and seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women that are equal to those for men. Spark asks whether men or women are in the driver's seat and whether the power to choose one's destroyer is women's only form of self-assertion.” Showalter e...

What is cultural studies? Cultural Studies is not a tightly coherent unified movement with a fixed agenda, but a loosely coherent group of tendencies, issues, and questions.” Cultural studies, interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of social institutions in the shaping of culture. Cultural studies emerged in Britain in the late 1950s and subsequently spread internationally, notably to the United States and Australia. Originally identified with the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham (founded 1964) and with such scholars as Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall, and Raymond Williams, cultural studies later became a well-established field in many academic institutions, and it has since had broad influence in sociology, anthropology, historiography, literary criticism, philosophy, and art criticism. Among its central concerns are the place of race or ethnicity, class, and gender in the production of cultural knowledge. Four Goals of ...

ECOCRITICISM AND ECOFEMINISM WHAT IS ECO- CRITICISM AND ECO-FEMINISM : Eco - Criticism  Eco - Feminism TOPIC KEY POINTS UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEORY ECO-CRITICISM Interdisciplinary point of views Eco criticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature. It takes an interdisciplinary point of view by analyzing the works of authors, researchers and poets in the context of environmental issues and nature. Some eco-critics brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation, though not all eco-critics agree on the purpose, methodology, or scope of eco-criticism.its  scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, televisi...