Teaching Language through Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapan Rath ◽  
Arun Behera
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Teaching Language

Literatures in general and English literature in particular have been used for generations to teach language. It has been proven many times that language can be effectively taught using literature. Literatures, in effect, help shape our thoughts and ideas, learning and using language effectively, and affecting our moods and emotions. We have, in this paper, attempted to show how teaching of several genres of literature, e.g. prose, poetry, drama, short stories etc. help students learn language really well.

GEORGE EGERTON'SKEYNOTES: NIETZSCHEAN FEMINISM ANDFIN-DE-SIÈCLEFETISHISM

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Brown
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Good Life ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Sexual Relations ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Radical Engagement

The title of George Egerton'sfirst collection of short stories,Keynotes(1893), announces a concern with the beginnings of sequences, the first principles from which larger patterns are orchestrated. The stories introduce premises from which new social and sexual relations may be engendered and individual existential choices made, a philosophical intent that harks back to the preoccupation in classical Greek thought with the nature of the Good Life and how to live it, which Friedrich Nietzsche renews for modern Western philosophy. Egerton's broad but nonetheless radical engagement with Nietzschean thought can be traced through the references she makes to the philosopher inKeynotes, which are widely credited with being the first in English literature. Indeed, such allusions are, as Iveta Jusová observes, “the most frequent literary reference[s] in Egerton's texts” (53). They were also recognised and mobilised against her by some of her earliest critics.

scholarly journals In a Melting Pot of Autobiography: Pickthall’s With the Turk in Wartime and the Cause of Islam

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-16
Author(s):  
Ebtisam Ali Sadiq
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary History ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive

Marmaduke Pickthall, a half-forgotten British novelist of the early twentieth century, has come back to the spotlight over the past few years. His Near Eastern novels and short stories have started to receive attention in contemporary scholarship but not his two autobiographies. This essay aims at tackling the more neglected piece of the two, With the Turk in Wartime, that deserves attention because of its intricate amalgamation of several features of the genre of autobiography as manifested across its history within the tradition of English literature. Analysis finds that Pickthall’s autobiography has some Romantic, Victorian, and Modern elements as well as some old characteristics of the genre elaborately interwoven into its structure. The study also traces the use that Pickthall makes of this unique autobiography and how the commingling of diverse elements allows him to turn a usually subjective genre into a public cause and dedicate it to the service of Islam. This essay highlights both the diversity that the literary history of the genre lends to Pickthall’s autobiography and the socio-political service it renders to the faith that the author has long esteemed and will ultimately convert to not long after writing this autobiography.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Short Novel

Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged…I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.’ Stevenson’s short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. The respectable doctor’s mysterious relationship with his disreputable associate is finally revealed in one of the most original and thrilling endings in English literature. In addition to Jekyll and Hyde, this edition also includes a number of short stories and essays written by Stevenson in the 1880s, minor masterpieces of fiction and comment: ’The Body Snatcher’, ’Markheim’, and ’Olalla’ feature grave-robbing, a sinister double, and degeneracy, while ’A Chapter on Dreams’ and ’A Gossip on Romance’ discuss artistic creation and the ’romance’ form. Appendixes provide extracts from contemporary writings on personality disorder, which set Stevenson’s tale in its full historical context.

Literature in Britain and Ireland: A History

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helge Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Studies ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature

Literature in Britain and Ireland is a survey of literature on the British Isles since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Despite this wide angle, the linguistic, regional and ethnic differentiations in each particular period are being emphasised. Because of its combination of traditional and innovative components of English Studies, this history of literature is useful as a study book accompanying courses as well as an incentive for discoveries while reading. The chapters are systematically structured to allow profiles along the history of genres. In addition to poetry, drama, short stories and the novel, different forms of non-fictional prose are being highlighted, too. Innovative tendencies in teaching English literature are taken into account beyond the consideration of popular and contemporary literature.

scholarly journals The English Language and Global Literary Influences on the Work of Shahnon Ahmad

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37
Author(s):  
Harry Aveling ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
British Literature ◽  
World Literature ◽  
English Language ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Colonial Literature

Postcolonial literary theory asserts that the colonial literature provides the models and sets the standards which writers and readers in the colonies may either imitate or resist. The major Malay author Shahnon Ahmad received his secondary and tertiary education in English and taught English at the beginning of his career. Drawing on his collection of essays Weltanschauung: Suatu Perjalanan Kreatif (2008), the paper argues that Shahnon was influenced at significant points in his literary development by his reading of literature in English and English translation–nineteenth century European and American short stories, the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner – but not by English (British) literature itself. Through his creation of original new works, focused on Malay society and directed towards Malay audiences, Shahnon was not a postcolonial subject but a participant in, and contributor to, the wider flow of world literature. Keywords: postcolonial, Shanon Ahmad, English literature, literature in English, world literature.

scholarly journals An analysis of the writings of female short story writers of Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Rahat Afshan
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Urdu Literature ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
The Way

The age of Short Stories in Urdu may be shorter than other branches of Urdu literature, but even though of its short-lived life, but the success and accomplishments of short stories is unlike any other form of the Urdu Literature. There is no doubt in the fact that Urdu Short Stories may have a root from English Literature, but our Writers of the short stories included the country and society and hence the true identity of the short stories came up to the surface. The way the female writers of Urdu Short Stories highlighted the new topics with new techniques is beyond compare and deserves appraise. They have presented their feelings and emotions in a way unique and new manner, which highlights the reference of their specific thinking, and they presented it in a highly spontaneous manner. Through their Short Stories, they have highlighted the presence of Women, their Value, their mental and emotional complexities, their needs and their silences are voiced. The women writers not only through their abilities to discover wrote about the political and societal difficulties, rights and equalities, women issues and against the cultural mindsets, but also through their works, they highlighted the time to time changing aspects of life. We are rightful to say this that the women taking part in the success and development of the Short Stories in Urdu Literature. Looking at their thoughts, it is not difficult to say that in the upcoming times, the women short story writers and their new and unique thoughts will account for the success of this branch of Urdu Literature.

scholarly journals In a Melting Pot of Autobiography: Pickthall’s With the Turk in Wartime and the Cause of Islam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebtisam Ali Sadiq
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary History ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive

Marmaduke Pickthall, a half-forgotten British novelist of the early twentieth century, has come back to the spotlight over the past few years. His Near Eastern novels and short stories have started to receive attention in contemporary scholarship but not his two autobiographies. This essay aims at tackling the more neglected piece of the two, With the Turk in Wartime, that deserves attention because of its intricate amalgamation of several features of the genre of autobiography as manifested across its history within the tradition of English literature. Analysis finds that Pickthall’s autobiography has some Romantic, Victorian, and Modern elements as well as some old characteristics of the genre elaborately interwoven into its structure. The study also traces the use that Pickthall makes of this unique autobiography and how the commingling of diverse elements allows him to turn a usually subjective genre into a public cause and dedicate it to the service of Islam. This essay highlights both the diversity that the literary history of the genre lends to Pickthall’s autobiography and the socio-political service it renders to the faith that the author has long esteemed and will ultimately convert to not long after writing this autobiography.

Reflection Of Indian English And Philosophy In Writings Of R.K Narayan In English Literature

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 494-497
Author(s):  
RAJESWARI SURISETTY ◽  
M. MARY MADHAVI
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Real Time ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Indian Soil ◽  
Indian English ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Middle Class People

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, a well-known South Indian writer, creator of a fictional town ‘Malgudi” developed a sense of interest among middle- class people in India to read short stories in English. He is the spell caster of encompassing Indianism into English literature through his writings. This celebrated Indian novelist brought an aroma of Southern Indian Coffee into English and indianized it through his fictional stories which connect with real time situations of a common Indian. This distinguished writer captivated readers through his meticulous mastery over foreign language on Indian soil. His short stories are the best paradigm to understand Indian English that is entangled with beliefs, traditions, culture to an extent superstitions existed in the routes of Indian lives. Contrast between the lives of Western and Indians’ lives in various aspects are illustrated through his short stories and novels. The present paper tries to highlight Indianized contexts into English literature by this outstanding writer. It also attempts to show how characters in the short stories of Narayan are related to Karmic philosophy.

scholarly journals Quest and Assessment for Self-Identity in the Select Novel of Arun Joshi

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-86
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Key Factor

Literature is one among the fine arts like painting, sculpture, and music which express emotions, feelings, humour, and happiness using language as a medium of communication through different sorts of the genre like prose, poetry, drama, and novel. It reflects the items that happen within society and life. It deals with human being’s personal experience, nature, war, culture, imagination, history, etc. Indian English literature is that the outcome of the works written by the Indian author who writes in English. In India, there are numerous languages and different literatures. Arun Joshi deals with a very difficult situation of a modern man and is sensitively alive to the various dimensions of tortures, exerted by the difficult character and demands of the society in which same age man is destined to live. The heroes of his novels are helpless outsiders and the harsh strangers. The consciousness of man’s rootlessness and new feeling and the major search for a meaningful self is the key factor of Joshi’s novels.

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