GRADE 4 6 ENGLISH

Library, Department of English, Vivekananda college, Madurai Dr.S.BHARATHIRAJA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR & HEAD(i/c) 8870518474

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The basis of this paper is a research project that studies the struggle between classes in Henry Fielding's novel Joseph Andrews. It has been carried out during the second semester of the academic year 2019-2020 at the

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Lecture -16 The Augustans Age Hello, and welcome back to NP-TEL, The National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning, a joint venture of Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science. As we are aware, these lectures offer students in the IITs and other engineering colleges, the role of humanities and social sciences is quite significant, in the curriculum of engineering students. Why literature; we may ask that why it is so important for the study of engineering. We think that a course on humanities and social sciences, sensitizes a student's vocabulary; not only that, and interface between society, between shared individual experiences and ultimately, the aesthetic proportions of sharing other experiences, and individual thoughts and ultimately, leads to a different interface of studies. Well, I am Krishna Barua. I have been teaching English at the department of humanities and social science at IIT, Guwahati, and we are presently, in the lecture series; language and literature, and this is module 3 after series title history of English literature, and we are in lecture 4 of this module titled, The Augustans age. Let us recap of what we have done in lecture 1. (Refer Slide Time: 01:55)

2015

Abstract: Sherwood Anderson occupies a distinctive position in the history of American letters. He was the first American novelist of consequences to break firmly away from the tradition of gentility that had dominated the writing of fiction in the United States. He was a leader in the movement to revitalize the stream of literary naturalism by demonstrating a concern with inwards, psychological reality rather than the journalistic, documentary recording of outward experience. Anderson’s substantial body of work is now being revalued from many points of view particularly his most reputed novel Winesburg, Ohio. Much is being said about the way Anderson develops his stories around shafts of vision that become pivotal points around which the stories revolve. Some of his admiring critics subjected his work to the most penetrating analysis, disseminating a great deal of information and coming up with unique interpretations that all his characters are types to be found in any society or c...