(Extra-10)Quizzing English Lit-3(300)
251. Basic English is the way to acquire language. Its about rules & grammar. It is simplified and fundamental framework of English was formulated by I. A. Richards & C. K. Ogden.
252. Anita Desai wrote In Custody.
253. Nayantara Sahgal wrote Rich Like Us. Sahgal was niece of Jawaharlal Nehru.
254. Arun Joshi is proponent of existentialism in India. He wrote The Last Labyrinth.
255. Kamala Markhandaya wrote The Nowhere Man.
256. The Great Gatsby was written in 1925. It tells about the Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Prohibition Act, hollowness of English society, etc. It's an American novel.
257. Beloved by Toni Morrison was written in 1987. Its an American novel.
258. The American Pastoral by Philip Roth was written in 1997. Its an American novel.
259. Sister Carrie by Theodere Dresseir came in 1900. Its an American novel.
260. The plot of South African writer Coetzee's novel Life and Times of MMichael K. unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation never taking sides. Its a touching book.
261. Anna Barbauld (Corsica:An ode in 1768), Laetitia Elizabeth London(The Wrecked and The Frozen Ship) , Charlotte Smith,(known for her Elegiac Sonnets of 1784) Mary Robinson (Known for her poems)and Felecia Hemans (wrote Casabianca) are women poets of the Romantic age. We are redefining canons. There are anti-canonical theories. There is re-territortizions.
262. Women in Romanticism was written by Meena Alexander. 3 women Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, as well as Dorothy Wordsworth are mentioned in this book. Meena is known for Poetics of Dislocation too.
263. Tom Stoppard's Travesties is set in Zurich. He was with James Joyce & Tristram Tsara at that time. The Real Inspector Hound, Night & Day & Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead are his other plays.
264. Congo is center of Africa. In Darkest African Henry Morgan Stanley refers to Congo. In 1888, he crosses Congo river.
265. In terms of literature, the civilizing poison used for colonial purpose or imperialism was Search And Occupy Mission which was exploitative in nature. Imposition of European culture led to hierarchy which was pointed by Edward Said too which led to his Orientalism.
266. H R Trevor in 1963 was talking about sense of history in colonial narratives. He talks about history. To him, history actually starts with the arrival of the colonizers. He said, perhaps in the future we can teach some African history. He only stressed that history was just about Europeans. But, reality was we know how Berlin Conference of 1884-85 led to Europe divide & Scramble for Africa began.They cut the map. 1000 African tribes became just 49-50 countries to the whites. Losophone African Literature in Portuguese, Anglophone African Literature in English Francophone African Literature in French came up, as a result of colonization by Europeans.
267. Account of District Magistrate in Things Fall Apart was Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. History is written by people in power. Pacification, taming- these words usage show their objectification of humans.
268. Like Europeans, others also started Mimicry and started creating their own environment.
269. John Locke studies about behavioural studies. For example, a child knows that night is bad because he has been told the same. People dress as cops to raid. We became subjects as per Louis Althusser.
270. Early African Novel writers were Joseph Hayford who wrote Ethiopia Unbound:the emancipation of race in 1905; Odualah Equiano wrote The Interesting Life of Odualah Equiano. Thomas Mofolo wrote Chaka in 1925; Solomon Platjee wrote Mhudi in 1935. Peter Abrahams wrote Song of the City.
271. Phoenix was a bird in Egyptian, Persian, Jewish or Graeco-Roman mythology. It could cover its own body with fire & rise from its own ashes back to life. It symbolizes resurrection & immortality.
272. In the1940s very tranaformatory thing happened the Pan African Movement was coming. It was social & literary movement. Collective Self was stressed. Leopold Senghor came up with Negritude--- which celebrated pride & honour of the Africans. The University of Ibadan produced Achebe, Thiongo. It became a center point for political thought processing.
273. In the 1950s, Amos Tutuola a Nigetian wrote a novel in 1952 named The Palm of the Wine Drinkard. Cyprian Ekwensi and Chinua Achebe also wrote in the 1950s. There was global recognition.
274. In the 1960s dissolutionment came among the African writers. Their countries were getting independence and replaced by dictatorships & totalitarianism which worsened the situation. This decade was filled with discontent. Armah wrote The beautiful are not yet born in 1968. Wole Soyinka received Nobel in 1986. He wrote Interpreters.
275. In the 1970s African Literature, they are going back to the native roots, because inferiority complex had taken over. Season of Enemy was written in 1973 by Wole Soyinka. Armah wrote Healers.
276. In 1980s African Literature there was more global recognition. In 1986, Achebe received Nobel. Doris Lessing also received the same Nobel.
277. Caribbean Novels.
🔵Geographical area of all Caribbean territories.
🔵French, Dutch, Spanish, English, Creoles- written in many languages.
🔵West Indian literature is particularly English Literature in West Indies & came to be known as Caribbean literature. West Indian Literature was popular in 1950s. BBC came up with a Caribbean show.
🔵HG de Lisser, Jane: A Story of Jamaica (1913) was important book.
🔵1929-33- flourishing of literary tradition in Caribbean.
🔵Claude McKay's poetry was very popular. He also wrote Ginger Town & Banana Bottom.
🔵Literary Journals like BIM, focus-in 1940s. Naipaul, Sam Selvon, George Lamming - all migrated to UK or US. Lamming wrote In the Castle of my Skin.
🔵First major immigration movement was in 1949.
🔵In 40s, the University of the West Indies was founded.
🔵In 1966, Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea (prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte).
🔵Edward Kamau Braithwaite was a Caribbean poet. His Mother Poem, Sections of The Arrivants and Middle Passages are very popular. Odale's Choice (1967), Rights of Passage (1967) & The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, The Arrivants - a triology, are his other works.
278. The Civilizing Poison is about Search and Occupy Mission which was exploitative in nature.
279. Henry Morton Stanley wrote In Darkest Africa.
280. H. R. Trevor in October 1963 made derogatory remark on history - that history started with colonizers. He says, perhaps in future Africans may have history.
281. The Berlin Conference is also called Scramble for Africa.
282. Losophone literature is from Portugal.
283. Character Magwitch goes to Australia. Great Expectations also comes under convict literature.
284. Christina Stead wrote The Man who loved children. The novel is about the Pollits family which was dysfunctional.
285. Peter Philip Carey wrote Oscar and Lucinda in 1988. It won Booker. The protagonists are compulsive gamblers.
286. Jack Magg is reworking of Great Expectations. It is convict literature.
287. True History of the Kelly Gang got Booker in 2001.
288. Ngugi wa Thiongo wrote The Trial of Dedan Khumati.
289. Dario Fo wrote The Accidentally Death.
290. Markus Clarke wrote For the Term of his Natural Life in 1874.
291. Henry Lawson was a native, early Australian writer.
292. Banjo Paterson is another Australian writer, poet & journalist. His poem Waltinz Matilda. Its like the unofficial national anthem. The Man from Snowy River & Clancy of Overthrow in 1895.
293. Cultural Studies is associated with Frankfurt School.
294. Metaphor is alien to the similarity disorder. Metonymy is alien to the continuity disorder.
295. Mikhail Bakhtin defines novel as "a form multiform in style and variform in speech and voice.
296. Barbara Johnson wrote A World of Difference.
297. T. S. Eliot articles are in Notes Towards the Definition of Poetry.
298. Charles Kay Ogden and I. A. Richards created 'Semantic Triangle.'
299. Marsh McLuhan coined the term feefforward.
300. I. A. Richards says Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention give meaning to Feeling.