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Joseph conrad and his works

 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

✔Full name- Jozef Theodor Konrad korzeniowski

✔Polish-British writer

✔The setting of Conrad's novel and short stories is 🌊 the sea...

✔while in service, he completed Almayer's Folly, and later it was published in 1895

✔His unfinished novel is suspense

✔The Nigger of the Narcissus - 1898-first great novel- deals with the necessary corruption in human society

✔Lord Jim -1900-Poetic and tragic- the story of the young English man who deserts his ship and loses his honor- regains through heroic death at last- the first part of Lord Jim was inspired by the real-life story of SS Jeddah- the second part to some extent by the life of James Brooke - psychological novel and modernism

✔ Heart of Darkness- 1902- novella- voyage up to congo river into the congo free state in the heart of Africa - Charles Marlow (narrator) - tells the story of a successful ivory trader Kurtz- it's the inspiration for the movies apocalypse now - ship name is Nellie- Mr Kurtz expires, uttering the words "The Horror! The Horror!"

✔ Nostromo-1904- political novel- explored politics and economics threatens the integrity of human character and corrupt personal relationship - sets in the fictional place south American country of costaguna.

✔The mirror of the sea -1906- based on the experience and memories of the sea

✔The Secret Agent - inspired by the French anarchist Martial Bourdin's death

✔T.S.Eliot 's poem ' The Hallow men' quotes as it's the first epigraph a line from Heart of Darkness" Mistah Kurtz- he dead"

✔His unfinished novel is Suspense

Chronological order of Conrad's novel 

1895 - Almayer's Folly

1896- An Outcast of the Island

1897-The Nigger of Narcissus

1900- Lord Jim

1901- The inheritors

1902- Typhoon

1903- Romance

1904- Nostromo

1907- The Secret Agent

1911- Under western Eyes

1913- chance

1915- Victory

1917- The Shadow line

1919- The Arrow of God

1920- The Rescue

1923- The Nature of Crime

1923- Rover

1925- Suspense





Saturday, December 26, 2020

Coined terms

1. Objective Correlative by  T.S.Eliot

2. Dissociation of Sensibility by T.S.Eliot

3. Willing to Suspension of Disbelief by  William Coleridge

4. Negative Capability by John Keats

5. American Renaissance by F.O Matthiessen

6.Natyashastra by Bharata

7. Rasa concept by Bharata

8. Kavya Prakasha by Mamata

9. Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by Anandvardhana

10. Vakrokti by Kuntaka

11. Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman

12. Positivism by August Campte

13. Romantic by Friedrich Schlegel

14. Metaphysical Poets by Dr.Johnson

15. Upstart Crow is Robert Green

16. Cultural Materialism by Raymond Williams

17. Imagism by T.E.Hume

18. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

19. Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss

20. Strategic Essentialism by Gayitri Spivak

21. Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill

22. Incunabula means Books published before 1501

23. Tension by Allen Tate

24. Strong Lined Poetry by G.M.Hopkins

25.  Dictum 'Life Imitates Art' by John Ruskin

26.  Theatre of Cruelty by Jerzy

27. Epic Theatre by Bertold Bretch

28. Theatre of Oppressed by Augusto Bal

29. Expressionist Theatre by George Kaiser

30. The Guilded Age by Mark Twain

31. Ambiguity by William Empson

32. Intertextuality by Julia Kristeva

33. Heteroglossia by M.Bakhtin

34. Dialogic Imagination by M.Bakhtin

35. Sublime by Longinus

36. Carnivalesque by M.Bakhtin

37.  Jacobian Novel by Garry Kelly

38. Surrealism by Andre Breton

39. Decorum by Horace

40. The wasp of Twickenham by Pope

41. Theory of Avant Grade by Peter Berger

42. Chaucer of Scotland is William Dunbar

43. Poetic Justice by Rhymer

44. TouchStone method by M.Arnold

45. Pathetic Fallacy by John Ruskin

46. Theory of Population by Malthus

47. Provincialising Europe by Dipesh Chakravarthy

48. Egotistical Sublime is to William Wordsworth

49. Young Juvenile is Thomas Nash

50. Macabre element by John Webster

51. Sprung  Rhythm and Curtal Sonnet and Inscape and Instress are by G.M.Hopkins

52. Life Force by G.B.Shaw

53. Light of Asia is Admin Arnold

54.  Only Connect by E.M.Forster

55. Sports of Time by William Wordsworth

56. Orientalism by E.Said

57. Womanism by Alice Walker

58. Third Space by Edward Doha

59. Hybridity by Homi Bhaba

60. Reception aesthetics by Wolfgang User

61. Langue and Parole by Ferdinand Saussure

62. Interlanguage by M.A.K.Halliday

63. Difference and Defferecnce by Derrida

64. Signs by Saussure

65. Stock Responses by I.A.Richards

66. Deep Structure by N.Chomsky

67. Competency and Performance by N.Chomsky

68. Readerly and Writerly Text by R.Bathes

69. Ironic and Indexical by C.S.Pierce

70.Habitus by Julia Kristeva

72. Flaneur by Walter Benjamin

73. Chora by J.Kristeva

74. Simulacrum or Simulacra by Jean Baurdrillard

75. Subaltern by G.Spivak

76. Metahistory by Hayden White

77. Polyphony by M.Bakhtin

78. Hegemony by Antonio Gramsky

79. Theoretician of Sociability is Malcolm Braburry

80. New Historicism by Greenblatt

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Title and subtitles

*Books and their Sub Titles*
1 .Pamela- Samuel Richardson- Virtue Rewarded*
2. Twelfth Night- Shakespeare- What You will*
3. Vanity Fair- W. M. Thackeray- A Novel without a Hero*
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy- A Pure Woman*
5. Frankenstein- Mary Shelly- The Modern Prometheus*
6. The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole - A Gothic Story*
7. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad- A Simple Tale*
8. The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde- A Trivial Comedy for Serious  People*
9. The Medal- John Dryden- A Satire against Seditions
10. Alaster- P.B. Shelly- The Spirit of Solitude*
11. Absalom and Achitophel- John Dryden- A Poem*
12. Waverly- Walter Scott- 'T’ is Sixty years since*
13. Middlemarch- George Eliot- A Study of Provincial Life*
14. Thomas Carlyle- Sartor Resartus- Tailor Repatched
15. The Silent Woman- Ben Jonson- Epicone
16. The Unfortunate Traveller- Thomas Nash- The Life of Jack Wilton*
17. Clarissa- Samuel Richardson- The Adventures of a Young Lady*
‎18. Isabella - John Keats- The Pot of Basil*
19. Princess- Tennyson- A Medley*
20. Kangaroo- D.H. Lawrence - Thought Adventure*
21. Euphues- John Lyly- The Anatomy of Wit*
22. Citizen of the World- Oliver Goldsmith- Public Ledger*
23. The Prelude-William Wordsworth- Growth of a poet’s mind*
24. Joseph Andrews- Henry Fielding- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr Abraham Adams*
25.Mayor of CasterBridge- Thomas Hardy- A Man of Character

Joseph conrad and his works

 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ✔Full name- Jozef Theodor Konrad korzeniowski ✔Polish-British writer ✔The setting of Conrad's novel and short...