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I would like to know the recent trend in English Literature research
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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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
Looking at the challenges faced by educators when teaching 19th century novels in a contemporary classroom.
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.
In English or any other literature, rather than Toni Morrison's Beloved.
could researchers working in the field ofEnglish literature help me finding new concepts regarding women resistance in Afghanistan ?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Kindly suggest some scopus indexed and UGC approved literary journals. Thank you.
New critical bibliography of E. M. Forster - message me if your works are missing! Any missing works published after 1975 are welcome!
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?
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?
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.
They used almost the same dramatic conventions and techniques. According to you, in what way is Shakespeare different from Christopher Marlowe?
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 ?
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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Fatemeh
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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.
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
Thank you
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?
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.
I am interested in developing a greater understanding of US 'high stakes' assessments in literature for 16-19 year olds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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!
Thanks in advance.
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?.
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?
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.
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.
I will be grateful if you can share the name of some good journals relating to English Literature.
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?
Thanks a lot.
Journals includes both of them, Please share your opinion if they are different.
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.
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.
Thanks
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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
Dr Charles Mansfield
Plymouth University
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.
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).
Hello,
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?
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?
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?
Can Lady Macbeth be shown as misrepresented as she was a woman
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.
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?
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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For my research, I'm looking for a rich corpus in English literature. is there anybody knows a good one?
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
I would be interested in any kind of published or unpublished article for my current research project.
Thanks in advance!
Doing preliminary research into Charles Dickens and the method he used to write his stories.
My new research is on Challenges faced when teaching English literature in an ESL class room
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
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.
Thanks in advance.
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.
Regards,
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? .
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. .
Regards,
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
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?
can someone recommend some scholarly texts tabout visual analysis?
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?
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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
Review of Andy Merrfield artical.