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You wrote: "Now a days nobody wants to correct the typos because everybody is quite comfortable to typos" (I'll resist correcting your answer!)
As a referee for some humanities journals, I sure don't want to spend time correcting typos. If there are too many typos or grammatical infelicities I'll just refer the matter back to the editor, who will decide whether to reject the article or ask the author to resubmit after having the article proofed. Unfortunately not all journals have the staff or resources to thoroughly screen articles before sending them to referees. I have noticed some journals that do publish articles riddled with typos; such journals are no credit to their editors and authors and are not considered respectable.
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I would like to know the recent trend in English Literature research
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Need Kind Suggestions!!
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Try Taylor and Francis journals.
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Micro aggression tends to be usually felt in our every day life.In literature, we can find many examples for it.I think that it is tackled mostly in modern novels and drama genres .
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In the mid-twentieth century, English literature faced several post-colonial challenges as a result of the decline of the British Empire. Authors from former colonies started to gain prominence and began challenging the traditional Western perspectives prevalent in English literature. They brought their own unique cultural backgrounds and experiences into their writing, offering alternative narratives that questioned colonial ideologies and power structures. Some key issues that emerged during this period include the reevaluation of colonial history, the representation of indigenous cultures, identities and the impact of imperialism, racism, and societal inequalities on literature. Authors such as Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, and Derek Walcott are examples of writers who addressed these post-colonial problems in their works, contributing to a more diverse and inclusive literary landscape.
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Post-Colonial literary scope is a very broad term which encompases different subjects .Diaspora might form the most referred to,among their concerns.Godspeed in your work.
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I am a PhD student in English Literature
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Comparative literature draws on literary theory (old and new), literary traditions across the world (not only Western discourses), literary translation studies, media studies, environmental humanities, decolonialism, gender studies and feminism, cultural studies and all sorts of intersections with other scientific research areas (medicine, history, law, psychology, philosophy, etc.).
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Dear Researchers!
I'm here asking a very pertinent questions related to my study. Please help me sort out. Which research approach/methodology should I adopt to carry on research in developing appropriate English Language Pedagogy for school students?
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Vidyanand Malik I recommend using the mixed-method, and the intervention pedagogical approaches such as: (1) arts-based learning, (2) research-based learning, (3) project-based learning, (4) outdoor nature-based learning, (5) inquiry-based learning, (6) cooperative/collaborative learning, and others as they emerged interactively in the learning/teaching environment/s.
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Looking at the challenges faced by educators when teaching 19th century novels in a contemporary classroom.
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As you are looking into the 19th century, some of the major issues would be literature from colonial times, and of course the format of the Novel. Assuming you are concerned with literature in English, the discussions will likely take turns into pre-colonial or even postcolonial issues, and it would also require you to look into the history of the novel, subsequent development of literature with the advent of printing techniques, during the transition from 19th to 20th century. This all depends on which grade or standard of class you are teaching and in what method of teaching; which will unfold the dynamics of the discourse (or challenges) that the teacher, or the students, are likey to face.
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The International E. M. Forster Society invites you to take part in a conference celebrating the centenary of the publication of A Passage to India. The conference will take place in June 2024 in Olsztyn, Poland. All the necessary details are included in the attached call for papers.
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In English or any other literature, rather than Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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What about Barbie film story!?think of this too.Godspeed
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could researchers working in the field ofEnglish literature help me finding new concepts regarding women resistance in Afghanistan ?
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You could read related articles that link between woman and religious fanaticism
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digression is thought to be a literary technique whereby a writer makes a shift of the main subject to describe other details or subjects. Is it more of a modern aspect than a traditional one, considering that modern poetry is more experimental and free.
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The Bible is full of such digressions that are supposed to be didactic when Jesus uses a story to explain his point of view on a subject. Nothing new there. Flashbacks and flashforwards are also digressions in time and they have existed in the cinema for maybe not centuries but at least many decades. I would even go farther. In my research practice, I often NEED digressions to make the point I want to make, otherwise, my thinking becomes a routine, a humdrum procedure that cannot change. There is no research without a constant NEED for change. So Poetry...? It has always used digressions to make deeper meaning understandable.
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I am from English Literature background. I have written several papers on English literature. Recently I am conducting a research on Bangladeshi folk literature and find it very interesting. If I would like to do my PhD on this field in any reputed UK university, is it possible? Will I get scholarship and supervisor in this regard? Kindly suggest me what to do.
Thanks in advance for your inspiring contribution.
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Write a proposal and start contacting professors in these universities, if anyone accept to work with #, then you u can contact the univ and register. good luck
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My dissertation is entitled," A Psychoanalytic study of the Hybrid Protagonists in Rodolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima and Dereke Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain. How would I outline my dissertation?
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In my opinion, you must see the rules of your University and also, talk to your Director.
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I would like to get prepared for pursuing my PhD. I am reading different theories as much as I can but I am not getting any unique, useful and demanding topic. I am seeking your kind support about how to choose a suitable and unique topic for thesis. Topics can be from English Literature, Cultural studies and any other field related to my discipline.
If you have any new idea in your mind, share and cooperate me to finalize a topic.
Kindly help me.
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Thank you, dear Suvashree Suvadarshinee for your suggestion. I have fascination for folk literature but it is a little bit difficult for me to do as I am from English literature background. Again I love cultural studies but getting no areas where I can work. Would you please suggest me some areas of cultural studies where I can put my fingerprint?
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Kindly suggest some scopus indexed and UGC approved literary journals. Thank you.
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New critical bibliography of E. M. Forster - message me if your works are missing! Any missing works published after 1975 are welcome!
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Galli Mastrodonato, Paola Irene. 1996 .“Le due Indie: E. Salgari e E. M. Forster”, in ID. Ai confini dell’Impero: Le Letterature emergenti. Manziana (Roma): Vecchiarelli Editore, pp. 23-34.
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Classic literature drawn from the canonical collections which are the mainstay of the English literature curriculum often incorporate the discussion of ethical issues. The examples of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Samuel Butler and Jane Austen are typically utilised in moral education programmes. Since such works reflect ethical principles which belong to pre-modern society and culture, how legitimate is it to use them as vehicles for moral learning and teaching?
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I agree with you about universal values and would offer the following from C.S. Lewis’s Introduction to On The Incarnation by Athanasius:
"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books. All contemporary writers share to some extent the contemporary outlook - even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it. Nothing strikes me more when I read the controversies of past ages than the fact that both sides were usually assuming without question a good deal which we should now absolutely deny. They thought that they were as completely opposed as two sides could be, but in fact they were all the time secretly united - united with each other and against earlier and later ages - by a great mass of common assumptions. We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century – the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it, and concerns something about which there is untroubled agreement between Hitler and President Roosevelt or between Mr. H. G. Wells and Karl Barth. None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true, they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false, they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us. Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction. To be sure, the books of the future would be just as good a corrective as the books of the past, but unfortunately, we cannot get at them."
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I am an MA and working as a lecturer of English at a university. I have written and published some papers since last year of my student life. As I have no PhD or MPhil and have done no formal research under any professor, I am only to depend upon my reading. What can I do or what should I read if I want to conduct some heavy-weighted literary researches that have really impact on the existing knowledge, even before I seek for a PhD?
Another thing is that I would like to find a specific field of research for my PhD and for the sake of preparing myself, what can I do? How can I anchor on a specific field of literature?
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Thank you so much, Ghadah Marie for your kind inspiring suggestion.
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Mostly Jim Corbett is been discussed as an Man Eater Hunter. I am interested in this second segment studying him by humanistic point of view.
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You have a good biography by BOOTH, Martin. Carpet Sahib: A Life of Jim Corbett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
There is another book that I have never accessed by GUPTA, Reeta Dutta. Jim Corbett: The Hunter-Conservationist. New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2006.
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They used almost the same dramatic conventions and techniques. According to you, in what way is Shakespeare different from Christopher Marlowe?
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For one thing, the depth, breadth, and sheer density of William Shakespeare's entire performative oeuvre from historical to tragic to comedic dramatic works provides the most remarkable and striking contrast to Christopher Marlowe's work, which nonetheless epitomizes the best of the English Renaissance revenge play. In some respects, it might be stated that Shakespeare is a magna cum laude graduate of the Universal School of World Dramatic Texts, while Christopher Marlowe is a summa cum laude graduate of Great Britain's School of Drama!
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For my thesis of English literature, I want to do a comparative study between Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides To Die And Bessie Head's A Question of Power on the theme of insanity. I want to analyse how society deems individuals (in my case, the characters of the novel) to be insane. In order to achieve this study, which approach should I follow ?
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You should first raise your central claims then decide on an approach to investigate "madness". The choice of the approach is yours and ought to be explained. Many theories could fit in with your study (psychonalysis, narratology, political readings, gender studies etc.). Also, check the comparative studies schools. Good luck
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Hi everyone. I am looking for a rich corpus in English literature, a one which includes literary prose ( e.g., novels or short stories) . can anyone propose a good one?
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The Norton Introduction to Literature
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I am looking for a theoretical scholarly full definition for the concept of "theatrics". Any books? any names? any articles?
Thank you so much in advance.
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Dear Zied Ben Amor,
I am sending the definition of the term/concept "theatrics":
  • Как и любой вид искусства, театр имеет свой собственный выразительный язык, свой собственный способ познания окружающего мира, свое собственное образное мышление. Спектакль – это и особое действие, и особое образное мышление. Процесс работы над спектаклем состоит в перенесении драматургического текста на сцену. В результате литературное слово становится, словом сценическим. Сценическое пространство указывает место действия, историческое время, национальный колорит. С помощью пространственных построений можно указать даже настроение персонажей. Для того, что бы все компоненты сценического пространства «заговорили» необходим художник-декоратор.
  • 7. Вместе с научной мыслью человечества развивалась и театральная техника. От простейших «адских машин» - подъемных механизмов и свечей до современных механизмов, лазерных установок и компьютерных технологий. Еще в античности сформировались два типа сцены – сцена-коробка и сцена-амфитеатр. Сейчас в мире используются оба типа. Современная техника позволяет изменять театральное пространство – устраивать помост посреди зрительного зала, сажать зрителя на сцену, а спектакль разыгрывать в зале и т.д. Усилить эмоциональное воздействие на зрителя помогает музыка.
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I have a couple of research articles that I would like to send to Journals. I am looking for an appropriate Journal to send my articles to.
1. Methods of teaching English literature/ To improve language and linguistic competence
and the other
2. Storytelling to motivate EFL students
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Thanks a lot @ Nancy Ann Watanabe. I really appreciate it. Thanks for your response and the details with the table of contents.
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Literature is not a documentary. However, biographical traces do exist in many literary works. Apart from depicting "real" events, experiences and characters, can we consider the feelings or emotions associated with these experiences as biographical traces, even though authorial factors changed the original events that instigated these emotions?
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It is important that you consider the genre of the novel that you have at hand.
A testimonial novel, a autofiction, or a historical novel tend to be based on 'true' facts or biographical data of the author.
Even in the testemonial novel, the biographical lie is totally condemned. Do you know the story of Binjamin Wilkomirski's novel Fragments? See: https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/oct/15/features11.g24
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I need to have an interview with some English Literature teachers for my project 'Teaching Literature interactively. Could you please let me know if anyone is interested in sitting for interview. The interview maybe online on skype or on any messenger or any online forum.
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I don't teach English anymore but I do have a BA in English education and certified to teach both English and literature in secondary and primary schools.
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I am interested in developing a greater understanding of US 'high stakes' assessments in literature for 16-19 year olds.
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i don't know anyone like that but this is a research I will be looking out for.
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This is so far the procedure I was trying upon and then I couldn't fix it
As per my understanding here some definitions:
- lexical frequencies, that is, the frequencies with which correspondences occur in a dictionary or, as here, in a word list;
- lexical frequency is the frequency with which the correspondence occurs when you count all and only the correspondences in a dictionary.
- text frequencies, that is, the frequencies with which correspondences occur in a large corpus.
- text frequency is the frequency with which a correspondence occurs when you count all the correspondences in a large set of pieces of continuous prose ...;
You will see that lexical frequency produces much lower counts than text frequency because in lexical frequency each correspondence is counted only once per word in which it occurs, whereas text frequency counts each correspondence multiple times, depending on how often the words in which it appears to occur.
When referring to the frequency of occurrence, two different frequencies are used: type and token. Type frequency counts a word once.
So I understand that probably lexical frequencies deal with types counting the words once and text frequencies deal with tokens counting the words multiple times in a corpus, therefore for the last, we need to take into account the word frequency in which those phonemes and graphemes occur.
So far I managed phoneme frequencies as it follows
Phoneme frequencies:
Lexical frequency is: (single count of a phoneme per word/total number of counted phonemes in the word list)*100= Lexical Frequency % of a specific phoneme in the word list.
Text frequency is similar but then I fail when trying to add the frequencies of the words in the word list: (all counts of a phoneme per word/total number of counted phonemes in the word list)*100 vs (sum of the word frequencies of the targeted words that contain the phoneme/total sum of all the frequencies of all the words in the list)= Text Frequency % of a specific phoneme in the word list.
PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND A FORMULA ON HOW TO CALCULATE THE LEXICAL FREQUENCY AND THE TEXT FREQUENCY of phonemes and graphemes.
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Hola,
Para el cálculo de la frecuencia léxica de unidades simples o complejas, se suele utilizar WordSmith o AntCon.
Saludos
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This is so far the procedure I was trying upon and then I couldn't fix it
As per my understanding:
- lexical frequencies, that is, the frequencies with which correspondences occur in a dictionary or, as here, in a word list;
- lexical frequency is the frequency with which the correspondence occurs when you count all and only the correspondences in a dictionary.
- text frequencies, that is, the frequencies with which correspondences occur in a large corpus.
- text frequency is the frequency with which a correspondence occurs when you count all the correspondences in a large set of pieces of continuous prose ...;
You will see that lexical frequency produces much lower counts than text frequency because in lexical frequency each correspondence is counted only once per word in which it occurs, whereas text frequency counts each correspondence multiple times, depending on how often the words in which it appears to occur.
When referring to the frequency of occurrence, two different frequencies are used: type and token. Type frequency counts a word once.
So I understand that probably lexical frequencies deal with types counting the words once and text frequencies deal with tokens counting the words multiple times in a corpus, therefore for the last, we need to take into account the word frequency in which those phonemes and graphemes occur.
So far I managed phoneme frequencies as it follows
Phoneme frequencies:
Lexical frequency is: (single count of a phoneme per word/total number of counted phonemes in the word list)*100= Lexical Frequency % of a specific phoneme in the word list.
Text frequency is similar but then I fail when trying to add the frequencies of the words in the word list: (all counts of a phoneme per word/total number of counted phonemes in the word list)*100 vs (sum of the word frequencies of the targeted words that contain the phoneme/total sum of all the frequencies of all the words in the list)= Text Frequency % of a specific phoneme in the word list.
PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND A FORMULA ON HOW TO CALCULATE THE LEXICAL FREQUENCY AND THE TEXT FREQUENCY of phonemes and graphemes.
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It will help if you use a suitable and powerful qualitative research software as Atlas.ti (https://atlasti.com/) or equivalent. This software allows you to introduce and research large amounts of text, written or oral, images, videos, etc. Then, you can select diverse research techniques, including frequencies, correlations, modulations, structures, and several other tools.
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The electronic form of it does not exist anymore on the Internet. I even contacted Polygon publishing house and they told me they don't sell it anymore. A year ago, I bought " The Burn" (another collection by James Kelman ) and now I regret I did not buy "The Good Times" with it for it was available then. Anyway, i am hoping that sb have the ebook.
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Dear mate, Unfortunately I could not find this version in my ebook collection. I got only this book about this writer:
The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature). http://93.174.95.29/main/C14EA2288DFF14829EAA5C191F20B351
Hope this helps!
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Lately, we noticed that there is not a specific description of English literature. There is not a united mood of the writers. So I am questioning the nowadays title of this period.
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You can usually refer to literature as world literatures, but every country has their canon and therefore has distinctions between them. There is no consensus between the writers so as to resist hegemonic cultural knowledge production. See Gayatri Spivak for more information.
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Can you think of a research work OR a way to prove that "a certain bag of words has more value / worth / creativity than other set of words" !
For example: Enjoy is more proper than chill OR Observe has more weight than See.
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I am not sure that you can prove that one word is better than another, but you can set criteria to judge against.
For example, in the context in which you use it, "chill" is slang and "enjoy" is not. "Observe" is more elevated vocabulary than "see." Elevated vocabulary that is not slang could be among your criteria for evaluating language.
But which vocabulary is best depends on the situation. In some situations, "chill" may be arguably better, or more appropriate, than "enjoy."
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What sorts of things does imaginative literature teach us? Is imaginative literature a luxury or an essential aspect of the human experience? Should the teaching of imaginative literature be included in educational curricula as a required subject, or, at least, an elective?
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It is a simple fact that everything we feed is growing. And a second simple fact is that we only become to know what we are able to believe in. So it is very important to deal with imaginative literature to feed our Imagination!
The process of becomming able to to things is: Conception (Imagination) followed by perception, followed by action(radius).
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Esteemed Researchers and readers of English literature...
what are the focal roles played by the various types of fallacy in shaping a literary work, and how do they impact on readers' understanding and reception of a certain specific literary product?
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Although the question is not as clearly and coherently stated as it might have been, I venture to suggest that the most relevant "fallacy" might be "the intentional fallacy," which is not really a term that pertains to the authorial creation of a literary work, but, rather, "the intentional fallacy" is a term utilized in the domain of literary criticism. A research paper in which the writer proceeds to discuss a literary work, e.g., a novel, by assuming, and indeed asserting, that everything in the literary text may be traced to the author's intention is an example of the researcher committing or falling into the trap known as "the intentional fallacy," which should be avoided, particularly when the literary work belongs to a period in literary history after, say, 1800 or so. Much more could be said about "the intentional fallacy"; however, I proceed no further until Amjed L. Jabbar or another respondent speaks to the term "the intentional fallacy"! The question is certainly a good one; however, it just needs to be clarified a bit more.
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Hey there,
I am currentliy Developing my subject for my graduation work (M.A. E-Learning and Media Education).
At the moment I am mostly interested in looking whether and how the live-streaming platform "twitch.tv" can be effectively used to provide education in any way, form and context.
The subject has to specified though, but the decision to work on this subject mostly depends on the question whether there are some researches and/or scientific works regarding this thematic field. My recent searches didn't provide the best results, which is why I am now trying to ask you guys for a little help or some hints.
Maybe there is someone out there, who already did some research in this thematic field and can name some important frame works, researches and articles to read or at least good websites/search engines to search for resources. Any advice and suggestion will help me.
Sorry for my not so perfect English, but I am from Germany. So german or english literature will be the easiest to work with for me.
Any questions? Feel free to ask me!
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I guess this could help:
Katherine Carl Payne, Mark J. Keith, Ryan Schuetzler, Justin Scott Giboney, Examining the Learning Effects of Live Streaming Video Game Instruction over Twitch, Computers in Human Behavior (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.08.029.
Please find this paper attached.
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English Literature is a common discipline in the universities in South Asian countries. Quite often, the practitioners in the field and the learners as well are faced with an irritating question of 'relevance' of literature in general and English literature in particular in the shaping of national identity. Our query is does literature have a pragmatic impact on the national and societal lives of the people? Do the literature Depts contribute to the development of the nation and if yes, how?.
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I think that's a very good question. Obviously, being an Australian of Irish descent, I can only draw direct experience from looking at how it has informed the various traditions of countries that are closely related to my own culturally.
However, in saying that, with reference to your question I feel like it would be helpful to draw on some of our neighbours in the Oceanic region. In the general region of Melanesia, the emergence of written literature in countries like Vanuatu, Fiji and Papua New Guinea (though not, perhaps, necessary in shaping the culture up until its fairly recent emergence, largely due to the prevalence of oral literature) I believe may have an important role in shaping the future of the cultures there.
Now, while all of these countries don't perhaps have a prevalence of exclusively English literature (with many being in native languages, pidgins, creoles, Hindi and French as well) English is the most commonly spoken language in all three, and therefore, also the most commonly read (although popular literature and print media is usually quite balanced in its split between native languages and English).
As in a lot of the literature of colonised regions, a lot of the new literature coming out of the Melanesian region is postcolonial and is in many ways grappling with the shock and trauma of colonialism. For this precise region, I believe it will be integral in shaping the culture moving forward. While the university systems there, which have been integral in fostering these literatures are fairly young, as are the literatures themselves, the writing is beginning to diversify in terms of publications as well as emancipate itself somewhat from academia, leading to more widespread adoption of writing.
While Melanesia has a rich cultural history that does not in any way "need" developing, and likewise there is no "need" for the English language or literature unto itself, in terms of making use of what is already there, I believe that given its widespread adoption (which thankfully has not led to extinction of the native languages) and likewise the adoption of the written form CAN have a pragmatic effect on their cultural development as it is, to some extent, a lingua franca and can assist in the ease of sharing stories.
As for how literature departments at universities have, given that they were integral in developing a written tradition, I would say that at least in the case of Melanesia, the relevance of the literature department cannot be dismissed.
Now certainly this cannot be applied in all cases, and to all non-native-English-speaking nations, developed or otherwise, I believe that the South Pacific region does show a way in which the relevance and pragmatic capacity of literature can be argued for.
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I am currently doing a structural analysis of the folktales of the Kurichyan tribes in wayanad in Kerala, India. I propose to revise Propp's model by incorporating Ochs and Capps Degree of Linearity. How relevant is a revision of Propp's model now?
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Regarding Stuctural Linear analysis very interesting - Following !
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English Literature is widely taught discipline in the universities of the world, but surprising enough, literature pedagogy is little discussed, dealt with and research on. The question seeks to invite the scholars/expert in the literature pedagogy area to describe the existing pedagogy and recommend the pedagogy to be taken up.
We also look forward to having references to the existing scholarships/ papers/ articles/ dissertations/ books on the literature pedagogy.
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Teaching techniques should be varied to allow each type of learner access to the information being taught. While it is virtually impossible to cater to each student's learning needs, diversity in teaching is necessary. I have some objection to certain methods of literary critique, such as Feminist and Marxist, if only because they are too narrow in their points of view to apply to all literature. As for deconstruction- well, if literature means nothing, why bother teaching it at all? At the very least these methods of critique should not be the only method in a literature class (unless, of course, you're specifically teaching a Marxist of Feminist literature class). However, I believe many of the other lenses should be utilized in combination in the classroom so that students can get as much possible out of any given work. Methods such as Reader-Response, Archetypal, and New Criticism are all methods that offer varied ways of interacting with literature. Because literature is one of those subjects where sometimes there is one answer and sometimes there are 50 answers, there needs to be room for students to look at a work from as many angles as possible. As for choosing one literary theory above the others I don't know that I would pick any single theory to use for all works of literature.
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Recently, I have received the reviews of one of my article. One of the reviewer was suggesting to cite more number of articles and make introduction more comprehensive. while the other reviewer is suggesting reduction in number of references, Presently article is having 67 references.
Many a time the opinion of reviewers are conflicting to each other. I welcome your suggestions, how to respond on such conflicting opinions.
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Agreed with Dr Subir
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I will be grateful if you can share the name of some good journals relating to English Literature.
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The Journal of English Literature
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I am planning on writing my thesis on instances of auto-cannibalism or self-eating in English literature. Has anyone some ideas on where and if to find articles/books/information about that?
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It's a wonderful conceit on narcissism. I devoured myself. I was delicious.
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Journals includes both of them, Please share your opinion if they are different.
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Different journals have different ways of naming it.
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I'd like to become familiar with the methods used for research in English Literature. I know how to use them in practice, but I am not familiar with them in theory, e.g. I don't know whether the research I am doing is descriptive or explanatory research, whether it is inductive or deductive and whether qualitative or quantitative among others.
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Do you guys find it applicable and/ or acceptable to adopt a non-literary approach in a literary study?
For example, applying a Readers' Response approach (which is used mainly in education and classroom related research) on literature published on social media. (I wonder if you have other examples in your mind).
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It may sound illogical and I am hesitant to ask this, but sometimes I feel that "I have seen a few moments/location already in-advance before I was actually live/see them". I have shared same with a few friends and a few of them said they also experience same. However, logic behind why is beyond imagination at this point.
Have u felt this ?
Or it just something that our mind Imagine !
Your experience, advice, and comments will be appreciated.
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Maybe strong intuition, in mt country, we call it the sixth sense. Amazingly, not all people have this sixth sense.
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Novel has considerably replaced drama. Some amount of drama is found only in a different genre - film. I think Television, Video and Film restrain people from going to the theatres. Theatre gives enormous scope to dramatic literature which other media cannot. I would like to know and be connected with modern English playwrights in Britain and USA. Some experiments are made in India, but they are not worth the salt.
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The mass society is only interested in degraded comedy. The drama belongs to high culture. High culture that is in decline, of course.
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Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN) and Metabolized Energy (ME) are the typical methods used to calculate livestock feed demands and nutritional value of feed in Australia, Europe and the US. I am trying to find out if that is also the case in China but I couldn’t find any English literature on the topic. Are there any official guidelines for nutrient requirements of livestock in China and if so which methods are used to calculate them?
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I'm planning to apply for a PhD program (literature, cultural studies or cinema) to some American or Canadian universities and I need to know if there are worthwhile employment opportunities after graduation so I can apply for a permanent residency and not be forced to leave the host country. I already have an MA in English literature and an associate's degree in electronics. Please share with me your experiences or insights.
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Thank you dear @Wulf Rehdar. I'm actually taking for granted that I can get a full scholarship already so I'm not worried about the tuition and the expenses. And the idea of having two countries in mind is because of the US-Iran fuss. But I understand that employment can be tough. So do you think it'd be better for me to instead continue with my other branch of study, that is, electronics so I can get a better chance of employment?
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I am looking for specialized sources on Jungian archetypes in the novels of Charles Dickens. I have more general sources that outline Jungian archetypes but I was hoping to get help in finding sources that are specific to Dickens.
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I am looking at the effectiveness of Exit Passes as formative assessment in my classroom. I am an initial teacher in Secondary Schools in Scotland, UK. My classes are ages 11 - 15. I am particularly looking at improving literacy, though the questions I am asking are on the topics I am teaching - texts in poetry, prose and drama, and writing creatively and persuasively. Can I do both? That is get answers to how my classes are understanding the texts and topics we are looking at in each class AND use exit tickets to correct language and grammar issue? I then use them to plan short language discussions and tasks at the start of the next lesson - while also going over answers given which should recall information therefore add to there learning (hopefully mostly correct as they are answering lessons taught - Chistodoulou, D. (2017) Making Good Progress Chapter 7,'). I have only done a short enquiry but seem to have some success and certainly gain knowledge about the students literacy by looking at the short answers they give - one or two sentences and thinking about them in terms of Understanding, Skill and Ability. What do you think? Have you tried Exit Tickets - how do you use them?
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In and of themselves, exit slips have value as a reflective piece for students. However, they are most useful as a tool to informally assess your in a formative way especially if you have the stamina to read through them all and give thoughtful feedback. You might consider creating a rubric that contains both the writing skills that you wish to reinforce and the content criteria that will guide students to demonstrate their understanding. Using the exit slips at the beginning of the next lesson is an excellent method of activating prior knowledge. The answer to your question is yes as long as you thoughtfully prepare for exit slips based on the lesson objectives, create and share with your students the evaluation criteria, and give timely and meaningful feedback.
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Studying travel writing often means analysing the work of established authors but has anyone worked on developing their own travel writing or taught travel writing as part of a tourism or English Literature module, please? At postgraduate and PhD level has anyone heard of practice-led research in the researcher's own blogging or travel writing practices. Finally, has anyone seen published articles linking place-making or place branding and the role of the blogger or travel writer, please?
Thanks in advance for any help or refs.
Warm wishes
Charlie
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Thank you. Very useful.
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I'm interested in it because I would like to write a play about this woman, who lured the poet Ted Hughes away from his wife Sylvia Plath.
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Maybe it is too late, but I read your question and I found her memories in Amazon:
By the way, It looks like a very interesting project.
Cheers.
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Kindly share your opinion/prediction about
the progress of scientific research,
mode of research,
elements of future research,
accomplishment of a research (development of scientific law).
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Future scientific researches will be far more dependent on technology. In the field of Biological Research, use of living animals for testing of some drugs or as some models may be stopped very soon, within 10 years. Animal/animal body part models will be replaced by software based models.
In other branch of Science, I think same thing may happen. I can not say the possible changes as it require very deep knowledge about the research procedures running presently.
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I am working with a colleague on a paper exploring the representation of the mother in law in English literature. Does anyone know of any research/published work(s) on the same or close topic?
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Your topic is very impressive. Try Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: The Man of Law's Tale. Try also some English translations of the Arabian Nights. Good luck.
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English literature is taught for a variety of reasons around the globe. Language acquisition has turned out to be the first of the target for teaching literature. Apart from linguistic aspect, what aspects might a literature teacher aim to achieve while teaching literature to university students at the Dept of English?
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Individual teachers will look for different goals to achieve--e.g., I work on achieving an advance in emotional intelligence in a course called Literature and Psychology; but in a digital literary studies course, I'm looking for more semantic awareness, etc. It's really the Department as a whole that might help define overall goals--clear writing, close reading, etc. If interested, I can send my department's overall learning goals.
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English literature is taught for a variety of reasons around the globe. Language acquisition has turned out to be the first of the target for teaching literature. Apart from linguistic aspect, what aspects might a literature teacher aim to achieve while teaching literature to university students at the Dept of English?
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Dear MTHS,
Literature first and foremost, (like most art subjects) teaches learner to be humane and humanistic in approaching other people. It also teaches empathy through the experiences of others. But above all, the very many topics in literature are aimed at building creativity, imaginative and critical thinking, art of expression, act of writing, etc in the learners.
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Can Lady Macbeth be shown as misrepresented as she was a woman
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The usual tack here is to identify the witches as marginalised female figures, pushed to become the sinkholes of a failing society, and inhabiting the fringes of human ecology (swamps, marshes, the uninhabitable but ecologically invaluable); and then to detect homologous characteristics in Lady Macbeth's behaviour, turning her murderous ambition into a case of demonic possession at the behest of an abused natural world. I find such reworkings of the play strained, verging on the bizarre.
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I have to choose one novelist and their use of archetypal literary criticism for my dissertation and I'm not sure which writer to choose because it has to be a writer we haven't studied in the first and second year. I only have one Summer to do this and I don't want to finish reading a novel only to find that there isn't enough primary evidence for a 9500-word dissertation.
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Explore Virginia Woolf's publishing of Freud and her use of symbolism which enables you to see her in Jungian or archetypal critical perspectives instead of Freudian.  Her agnosticism or atheism is not compatible with her hints of "something" that gives coherence to her works as a whole.   What makes the chair creak in "Jacob's Room" and what is the Lighthouse?  Not a phallic symbol.  When Mr Ramsay looks into the hedges, what is he seeking?   In what sense does Mrs Ramsay identify with the light from the Lighthouse?  And who is Percival in "The  Waves"?  I think Virginia Woolf is a great psychologist, but like Jung, she resists our attempt to reduce her to a 'system of logic'.  Her logic is of the soul and of the groundings of human relationships.  She is a difficult challenge, but she is also a truly great and original literary artist.  
(The great danger is that you may read into her works, not read out of them, as you develop theoretical insights by applying theories or hypotheses from her narrative consciousness into her novels rather than reading her and letting her create what only her unique vision captured and contained in her novels. 
Stick with genius.  Do not waste your time on writers who are not 'authors'.
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The Greek root word bio means 'life.' Some common English vocabulary words that come from this root word include biological, biography, and amphibian. One easy word that is helpful in remembering "bio' is biology, or the study of 'life'.
while we, the livestock and agricultural products, as well as others call 'bio', when they are staples, products and by-products not be 'bio', because they aren't in or with "life"... that repeat my question here, made earlier:  Is it fair to the manufacturing of everything called bio products?
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Dear Dr. Nauman Nazir
I thank you very much for your helps, given to us!
If I need your helps again I will send a message or I will call you again  I
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I think  the present  writes are following  the current trend which is really reading fiction  the taste of the 21st century reader.As the novel is also reflecting the present society as a mirror  of awful truths might be one of the reasons. 
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Josefina,
You can write in Spanish or in Catalan which I understand but the language of exchange here is English. The issue is not your ability to capture nuances in another language but the lack of nuances in your thought. I gave you a thoughtful and detailed response and you maintain a rather simplistic view of the matter at hand.
Philosophical fiction exists and the line between philosophy and fiction has nothing to do with the skills of the writer in question but is in itself a philosophical question. I gave you examples of outstanding writers who are each of them masters of both literature and philosophy: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Camus and Sartre, to which we may add many others. 
You are either unable or unwilling to address this issue which is relevant for both literature and philosophy. For this reason, I bring this exchange to with you to a close. 
Vincenzo Di Nicola
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For my research, I'm looking for a rich corpus in English literature. is there anybody knows a good one?
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(My answer assumes that you are referring to computer corpora of literary texts. I hope I have not misunderstood you.)
I am not familiar with specific literary corpora: I know they exist, but I do not know their size or composition. However, you might do well to bear in mind that a number of the main general corpora, including the OEC, the BNC and the COCA have a literature subcorpus.
Whether you would be better off with a smaller specific literature corpus or a larger general corpus which includes literary texts will depend on the nature of your research. If you are looking above all for a large amount of texts, then you might be better off with a mega corpus such as the OEC or the Coca: even though literature is not the mainstay of their composition, the sheer overall size of these two corpora (around 2 billion words in the case of the OEC and around half a billion in the case of Coca) will ensure that you are not short of literary texts. However, you would need to examine the composition of the literature subcorpus in these corpora, to see if it fits your purposes. If you require more information than that supplied with the corpus, you could always try contacting the corpus compilers.
The BNC is available on both SketchEngine and the Brigham Young University platform. You would need to check if it's the same version on both platforms, as it wasn't at one time. The OEC is also available on Sketch Engine, if you obtain prior permission to use it from the publishers (Oxford University Press.) Coca is available on the Brigham Young University platform.
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I am researching the British detective novel from the 1890s to the 1990s. I am interested in how the crimes the detectives investigated reflected society at the time. Additionally I am interested in why the detective novel became so popular. If anyone knows of any research on this topic I would be grateful if they could share it 
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I think that W.H. Auden's essay "The Guilty Vicarage" does much to explain the appeal of the classic British detective story.  For an American equivalent see Raymond Chandler's "The Simple Art of Murder."  
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I would be interested in any kind of published or unpublished article for my current research project.
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We have a collection of Indian adaptations of Shakespeare at the open access MIT Global Shakespeares digital video archive: http://globalshakespeares.org/
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Doing preliminary research into Charles Dickens and the method he used to write his stories.
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Aristotle, an admirer of the tight narrative structure of "Oedipus Rex" and of a clear beginning, middle, and end of a mythos (plot), would have been quite puzzled by the rambling, episodic structure of a Dickens novel such as "The Pickwick Papers" or "Martin Chuzzlewit." Dickens's plotting became much tighter in the later novels such as "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations," but he was consistently much more interested in such "non-mythos" matters as character, atmosphere, and setting. However, despite the picaresque structure that Dickens favoured in the first half of his career, he did organise his narrative material in the cause-and-effect relationship that Aristotle advocates in "The Poetics." Because he deployed multiple plot lines in the bigger novels, he had to take considerable pains with the opening and closing (denouement), but the complication often seems a bit of a muddle rather than a middle.
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My new research is on Challenges faced when teaching English literature in an ESL class room
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Dear Sandamali,
As the question shows, you need to have a questionnaire for your research. I believe that prefabricated, already existing questionnaires,  may not serve your purpose due to problems of validity and reliability. As a consequence, you can prepare your own questionnaire by following appropriate steps. The book by Zoltan Dornyei (2003)  on how to construct questionnaires can really be helpful.
Best regards,
R. Biria 
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What is assessment for you as a teacher. How do you improve your students learning? Which assessment way do you follow?
Now a days, I'm teaching "literary pedagogy" subject to my BS-4 students. I have prepared a teaching program and have divided my few lectures into two-two phases. In my last class, I involved my students into different works, including group discussion to judge their capacity to work in team, leader participation to judge their role as a leader, written task to evaluate their writing ability and critical thinking.. as well as I focused on their minor grammatical mistakes in writing  and speaking etc. After one phase, I gave feedback to the works of my students. I gave them scores on the basis of group discussion, leader participation, individual participation and their critical thoughts.
How do you assess your students' task..
I welcome you to join this discussion and  I thank you, in advance for your intellectual contribution.  
Best Wishes,
Sabah Zaib
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Dear Sabah,
I work with discursive approach (oral and written text production) in order to not hygienizing the observed subjects’ ways and desires.  This assessment supports pluralities: this practice becomes effective social work. This perspective is called "fourth-generation qualitative assessment"
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The aim of my study was to see the effectiveness of my selected literature teaching method in my classroom. There were 24 students in class so I divided them into four groups of six members each. I narrowed down my purpose and gave to my students several tasks to see the effectiveness of this method with regards to 1. students' creative writing skills 2. their Critical thinking strategy, 3.their other language skills like reading, discussing, 4.  and their general opinion about this method. The response of my students are open ended. I first noted down the response of my students collectively with respect to their groups as "Group A said about this method "fantastic", G-B, innovative, etc. I also got their individual responses.
Now the data provides me in-depth knowledge. I'm confused how should I analyse my data systematically.
I need your guidance to analyse and interpret my data. 
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Dear Sabah Zaib,
The French Discourse Analysis (Pêcheux, Les Vérités la Palice) uses the method of Carlo Ginzburg (Clues, Myths and historical Method), with a research strategy  based on reading clues and traces that reveal hidden information.
I wish you success in your search!
Dionéia Monte-Serrat
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Teaching of literature in language classes has became a fashion. Commonly, teachers use literature for the development of the four skills of language as well as for providing knowledge of the world.
These days three models are used to teach literature in EFL/ESL classroom as 1. Cultural model--by which student learn about several cultural and ideologies other than their own, 2. language model-- where students learn to use language and vocabulary, etc. 3., personal growth model--where learners learn to engage with the text to enjoy reading pleasure.
Now, I'm in search of some effective methods of teaching literature (Literary Pedagogy)I appreciate you to participate in this discussion.
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I am interested in the life and works of the 19th century English poet Alexander John Evelyn, the author (among others) of English Alice and Lyrics of the Sea. Unfortunately I have found no biographical info by Google searching; perhaps someone here happens to know about him? .
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Mr. Owen:
             Thanks for the page you attached; didn't know that he might have been an stage actor as well.
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Many novice students do not like the subject of history. They do not show their interest in reading about the past and therefore often get low marks in this subject.
Now, from August I have to start the teaching of history subject (in particularly history of English Literature and Linguistics) to my students of BS and MS level. This history subject is foreign to my students who often feel difficulty to memorize the English names of writers and scientist, their books and time periods, date...etc.
I'm an inexperienced person. I have no idea to motivate my target students for this subject. How should I make my teaching effective, motivated, interesting for my students. 
Kindly assist me with your great ideas and further guide me to complete the course in the short duration of 4-5 months with at least 3-4 periods of 50 minutes' each per week. . 
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Perhaps, you could do storytelling in your teaching and make your teaching more hands on like getting students to do a role-play based on a particular historical context . Besides that, bring in video clips to enhance their understand. Graphics too can help promote their interest.
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I was wondering which theories I could use or look at as a start to analyzing anthropomorphism in:
1) English Literature
2) Children's literature
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It may be useful to look into cognitive studies - the famed experiment by  Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel could be a point to start from. In addition, I suggest evolutionary criticism as it deals with the human predisposition to anthropomorphize and to attribute agency to natural phenomena - which may also be seen as one of the origins of religion and the anthropomorphization of nature. And finally, metaphor theory may be of interest, as  the "metaphors we live by" are very often anthropomorphic.
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A while back i came across the comedies Busybody by Jack Popplewell and Out of Order by Ray Cooney. I know they both are british and that they were great successes in the theater. However, i was unable to find out anything more about them, even using google. Is anyone familiar with them?
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Cooney was hugely successful in the popular theatre. His plays were the modern equivalent of Feydeau, the 19th century French playwright. The plays also hark back to the British restoration period of the 17th century, with people like Wycherley (The Country Wife) and John Dryden (Marriage a la Mode). The Restoration plays were also called Plays of Manners, and usually involved sexual antics, affairs, wives been cheated on, and men being cuckolded. Cooney's plays did not get the critical attention that the 17th century playwrights did but many were hugely successful - Run For Your Wife particularly. I think the reason was not artistic snobbery on the part of the critics, but the slightness of Cooney's plays. Perhaps we might compare them to a lot of the Carry On series of films.
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can someone recommend some scholarly texts tabout visual analysis?
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Great question, but like Lode and Aline comment, it definitely depends on the lens. There is not an ultimate approach to visual analysis. Most of the books listed here apply sociological lens to their analysis. If you map the influences of most of this works, they rely pretty much on:
  1. The perceptionists: Marr, Gibson, Gestalt, etc...
  2. Previous works on visual grammar. For example, Kress and Van Leuween rely a lot on the work of Donis Dondis. They also rely on the work of art theorists like Arnheim or Gombrich. 
The problem that I find with these works is that they are quite limited and tend to ignore factors that come with production expertise in favour of inherited theoretical perspectives (this is the case of Kress, for example, a scholar that has been criticised to be almost evangelical about the work of Halliday). Rose tries to prevent this situation on her framework, but I personally think that a general "visual analysis" is really hard to do. Another important element to mention is that this approaches to visual analysis are based on visual perception models that have been already revised (spotlight vs scattered attention) and tend to ignore other very rich semiotic traditions (Charles Peirce, Morris, etc.). 
If I was you, I would try to look for approaches in predominately visual disciplines (design, arts), I would look for semiotic analysis (not just "social semiotics" that is just one approach) and then I would look for a framework (e.g., Rose). 
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What is meant by intimate cartography in literature? How could it be applied then to representations of space and place in modern poetry in particular? Or does 'intimate' simply bias towards the positivity on the portrayal of different places?
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Mohammed sir,
First of all Thanks a lot for your Question because You enlighten me with answers. Ahmad Gholi sir
Your answers were really helpful for me with Regards.
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Terry Eagleton had tried to critique the liberal humanist argument that literature makes us better persons as well as the socialist argument that we must make that which we gain from literature concrete and practical. And also Lord Byron had postulated at a time that England was sick, therefore English Literature must save it. This implies that there is something that literature does to us. My take is that literature can also make one a bad person; that if indeed we want to believe that it makes us better persons, then it must be because humanists believe that life on earth is very valuable and must be cared for. Any way you look at it, if Somebody becomes a serial killer by reading a novel that deals with the life a serial killer, that person has definitely been made a bad person by literature!
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There is no doubt that literature develops better understanding about life, about relationships. Whether literature makes you a ‘better person’ or not, can be argued and counter argued with loads of examples.  The point is not changing into ‘better’ or ‘otherwise’ person; rather the point is that literature affects you. It certainly exposes you to the myriad lanes and by-lanes of life. Literature not only sensitizes you to important issues but it certainly makes you realize your own level of sensitivity and insensitivity. It ignites a spark in you. There are certain habits, behavior, unique ways of doing things which are very insulting or humiliating to others but we keep doing them unknowingly. Literature shows us the mirror
Yehuda Amichai, Israeli  Poet became a writer by discovering the latest London poetry in an Egyptian desert  where he was stationed as a soldier (Ludwig Pfeuffer)  in British Army. He admits: ´ There had been some kind of storm, and one of the mobile libraries had overturned into the sand, ruining or half-ruining most of the books. We came upon it and I started digging through the books and came upon a book, a Faber anthology of modern British poetry, which I think came out in the late thirties. Hopkins was the first poet, Dylan Thomas the last. It was my first encounter with modern British poetry—the first time I read Eliot and Auden, for example, who became very important to me. I discovered them in the Egyptian desert in a half-ruined book. This book had an enormous impact on me—I think that was when I began to think seriously about writing poetry.
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Does anyone know anything about the French translator Georges Labouchere? I don't know exactly when he lived, but i think it was some time in the late nineteenth century or early twentieth century. He translated H. Rider Haggard into French. There is nothing about him in the french wikipedia.
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I'm doing research (M.Phil research study) on the issue of subalternity constructed in the lives of selected fictional and real rural women of Sindh. My study incorporates both fictional and real data together to reach to the truth. To support my study I need references of those research studies that collected data from fictional and real life both. For more clarification, I'm pasting here an abstract of my own conference paper in which I incorporate real and fictional characters in a single study. I need more particular references of such research studies. Kindly make my way easy...
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In ethnographic research it is not uncommon to have to disguise or alter details of case studies to protect the parties involved while trying to preserve the essential properties of the case. One very well known case from the Britain was Richard Hoggart's book 'The Uses of Literacy' in which many examples of popular writing were actually invented by Richard Hoggart at the request of his publisher who feared that real quotation might lead to legal action.
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I'm a junior research candidate (M.Phil in English literature). I presented my first seminar on 8th of February, 2016. My one teacher pointed out my language specially my words and clauses like "disclose", "to voice the voiceless woman" and "study endeavors"  . I'm pasting here two points of my presentation slides. Kindly clarify my idea regarding the use of language in literary research.
The present study aims to voice the voiceless rural women of Sindh portrayed in the selected fictional and real short stories.Following theoretical insights of Guha (1983) and Spivak (1988) the study endeavors to:
1.disclose the oppressive factors against the target rural women by critically analysing the process of construction of subalternity in their (the women) lives.
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What should be the language of research?
Think there is no fixed language for research.  But language used should fit for its purpose in the article / thesis / conference proceeding / presentation / audience and can be different from discipline to discipline like engineering, social sciences etc.  For example, language used in conference presentation might focus on keywords rather than structured / proper grammar English as in article writing even though both of them derived from the same contents.
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Brian Moore who is an Irish Canadian novelist has written almost 20 novels in his life and  had the citizenship of three countries Ireland , Canada and America. The types of female characters he explored in the novels. How much realistic approach he has in respect of female characeters.
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Surely this is a question for the implied reader? Fictional writing is not deterministic in that it claims to always offer a 'correct' model, or imagines it even needs one. The author (however gendered) is creating a written image, much as a visual artist uses colour. Just as one cannot (nor should attempt to) demand a specific or quantifiable production of 'rightness' from a visual artist (consider the works of Picasso, for example), neither should such a demand be levied upon an author. Mr Moore was free to write gender as he pleased, but it is up to the reader to decide how that representation resonates with their own weltanshauung.
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 The questions are very large and not exactly in the same field.
I can share with you a rough list of selected books on literary space.
On literary space (theory and description)