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Whether you view them as general trends or specific theories in literary studies what would you recommend as the best reading (assuming a researcher but one unfamiliar with the topic) on the development, theory, and practice of Historicism and New Historicism?

There is much left to explore in Indian English Poetry, especially modern Indian English poetry. After studying some researches in Indian English poetry and the works of poets like Keki Daruwalla, Jayanta Mahapatra, AK Ramanujan, Arundhati Subramanian, it appears to me that some splendid poems by these poets never makes it to papers. Perhaps, there is some kind of obscurity. However, there is no denying that these poems do communicate long before they are understood. Probably, what is lacking is a literary criticism to illuminate such writings. Literary criticism of Indian English poetry, as I opine, places more emphasis on interpretations that the literary experience.

With my baby steps into cognitive literary approaches, I do feel what is termed as 'cognitive poetics' will help in communicating the literary experience of poetry along with meaningfulness, which might possibly account for a sound literary criticism.

Therefore, I am keen on knowing about the kind of cognitive literary research that is happening in India, especially with respect to Indian English poetry.

Fish points to the importance of the structure of the reader's experience in opposition to the Formalist's emphasis on locating meaning in the forms and linguistic relations in the text, Fish argues that readers, or at least competent readers, belong to “interpretive communities” which are “made up of those who share interpretive strategies not for reading (in the conventional sense) but for writing texts, for constituting their properties and assigning their intentions.” These strategies, he points out, exist prior to the act of reading and therefore “determine the shape of what is read.”

this is a literary study, and I was wondering if such approach would be acceptable. 

TS Eliot's The Waste Land is ending in the form of an Upanishad: Shantih Shantih Shantih. The Upanishad are not only a religious book, but also a legal code. So the final formula could concern the Law.

Besides, the whole poem is about a wounded King whose body is to be restored in order to put again his lands in order: to overpass the state of exception restoring the wounded flesh of the sovereign.

This paper argues that archives play a significant role in fostering three elements essential to Cambodia’s recovery: accountability, truth, and memory. First, archives have an enduring power to hold the regime accountable because they were the catalyst for an international human rights tribunal, as shown by the relentless activism of the archives’ director, international efforts to preserve Khmer Rouge records, and the correlation between indictments and documentary evidence. Secondly, this paper posits that archives make a significant contribution to the establishment of truth because they have epistemological validity over the testimony of survivors, as seen repeatedly throughout the tribunal. Finally, this paper argues that the archives are succeeding in constructing memory of the Khmer Rouge era because it is forcing Cambodia to deal with its uncomfortable past by giving voice to survivors, creating textbooks, and conducting outreach. This paper is rooted in the field of archival studies within the discipline of library and information science, but draws on history, Cambodian studies, and legal studies. Employing transcripts of the ongoing tribunal, NGO reports, and newsletters as primary sources, the paper argues that while archives have been successful in holding the Khmer Rouge accountable, establishing truth, and creating memory, only a tribunal can administer justice.

Should the poet, as an omniscient narrator in a novel, explain the meanings behind the images he is presenting or otherwise, should he only describe what he sees and leave the reader to conclude and understand the meaning?

It is said that experimenting with more subjective modes of expression was one of the reasons behind the emergence of Romanticism in Germany (Sturm and Drang movement), where writers like Goethe presented works with a character who is ardently following his passion and individual creativity (like Faust). Faust in the play attempts to come up with a subjective interpretation (his own theory perhaps) of the Bible, disagreeing with theologians. how did this work influence the emergence of romanticism as a literary theory?

Presentism is a new trend in contemporary literary criticism. It succinctly explores the representation of the present in literary texts. Seen thus, presentism is totally different from historicism which addresses the articulation of the past in literature.

Thank you in advance

Hasan Saleh

I am will be discussing the ways college student seek information through use of the internet rather than the library.