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Metropolis and Modernity

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Henrik Ibsen: The Father of Modernism in Theartre Modernism in itself is a broader term it is a movement that along with cultural trends and changes brought transformation in modern society in late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Modernism explored with the growth of industrialization with growth of city, societies rejecting the religious belief and enlightenment thinking. Henrik Ibsen brings out the examined realities that lay behind many facades it was a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. Ibsen is often called as “the father of realism” and founder of modernism in theatre. Many of his works received prestige including ‘A doll’s house ranked as truly great playwright a profound poetic dramatist the best since Shakespeare. Rank, deadly pessimistic, evil to be deprecated, a disease which is beyond imagination referred to describe the work of the man who swept modernism into theatre his life was not to envy. We can see a...

The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemingway

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This review will take readers to a journey to understand how, a gathering among some friends creates a beautiful memory of undecided voyages packed with some exciting interactions along the way🏂 ‘Migration’ as a contact between people in the novel “The Sun Also Rises” ‘The Sun Also Rises’ is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway, who wrote it when the couple moved to Paris and he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of modernist writers and artist of 1920s “Lost Generation” expatriate community. Hemingway’s writing style as he called it the iceberg theory coined by himself focused on surface elements rather than underlying themes which functioned to distance himself from the characters he created, the book was published by the publishing house Scribner’s and a year later London publishing house Jo Nathan Cape published it with the title of Fiesta. The basis for the novel was Hemingway’s 1925 trip to Spain where the unique an...

Folklore of Native America

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                       Native American Folklore        Native American folklore is a part of human culture since the evolution of the earth for Native American Indian tribes. Traditional Native American narrative types are fiction, tales, legends, myths and personal narratives. The section Native American world and worldview deals with the life, culture and myths of the Native American tribes in the Americas. The tribes here being talked about are Cherokee, Eskimo ,Gros ventre ,Seneca and Yupik. We have here the folktales of these tribes and the point of views of the anthologist Mc Michael, Karl Kroeber and John Miles and these folktales are associated with the creation of the world how the earth came into existence. Some other representative examples of the folklore tradition of major native North American geographic and cultural areas are northeast ,southeast ,and southwest, California, plains, nor...

Tales from Northeast India

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                           The Offspring    Written by the Assamese writer scholar and professor Indira Goswami, who also received Sahitya Akademi award, a celebrated writer of contemporary Indian literature and did translated her works into English from her native Assamese which includes:  ‘The moth eatenHowdah of the Tusker’, The man from Chinnamasta. Her writing attempt’s to structure social changes, referring herself as an “Observer” of the peace process. Her biography shows that herfamily was deeply associated with sattra life of the Ekasarana Dharma, which the author mentions in her work Sanskara or The offspring which appeared in her collection of short stories set in Assam in ‘The shadow of Kamakhya’ a Novella. Indira Goswami and many other female writers discusses about violence, humiliation who possesses the female body.   It is largely an uninvestigated issue to look upon the wo...

The conflict of good and evil in The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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About the Author: Every work of an artist is a psychological construction of his life experiences thus, Clive Staples Lewis born in twenty nine November 1898, a very prestigious figure who was a poet, novelist, essayist, theologian, lecturer and Christian apologist narrates his experiences through the book The Chronicles of Narnia which has been his most famous work which got popularity over stage, cinema and T.V. Lewis childhood gives reader a glimpse of his surrounding and upbringing which shows that he learned mostly under the guidance of William T. Kirkpatrick who was his father's tutor and former headmaster of Lurgan college, he studied privately with him because he found school socially competitive. But his experiences in First World War made him an atheist, later he converts himself to Christianity which gravitated his interest towards Christian theology, his religious attachment can be seen in his works, Lewis mentions the difference between good and evil and sprea...