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A.K. Ramanujan's Theory and Practice of Translation (Image Source: Google) Vinay Dharwadker was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1954. He pursued his B.Sc.(Honors) in Physics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India in 1974, and M.Sc. in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Delhi in 1976. He did his PhD in "The Future of the Past: Modernity, Modern Poetry, and the Transformation of Two Indian Traditions" from the University of Chicago, Illinois. He is a professor of English, World Literature, and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is also a member of the Affiliate Faculty for the Center for South Asia and the Center for Visual Cultures. He was awarded the Translation Prize in English in 2007 in 2008 by Sahitya Akademi for "Kabir: The Weaver's Songs". Vinay Dharwadker- AK Ramanujan's Theory and Practice of Translation (Image Source: Google) "Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practic...

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Mahadevi Verma “Links in the Chain” is a powerful and thought-provoking anthology of essays that speaks to the interconnectedness of men and women in society . By exploring the idea of interconnectedness, this essay will analyze the various ways in which women's lives are impacted and explore the connections between these perspectives. About Mahadevi Verma : Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1907 - 11 September 1987) is renowned as one of the four most prominent figures of the Chhayawadi period in Hindi literature. She was an esteemed Indian poet, essayist, short story author, and a significant figure in Hindi literature. Mahadevi Verma is highly respected in Hindi literature and is often referred to as the 'Modern Meera' by her fans. She was talented in music and art and was a skilled translator. Mahadevi Verma assumed control of the prominent women's magazine 'Chand' and contributed to it. She was an exceptional champion of women's rights and is viewed as the le...

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Notes in Bullet Points | BA, MA, TGT, PGT, UGC-NET

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Macbeth: an Introduction Dramatist - William Shakespeare Genre - Tragedy First Performed - 1606 First Printed - 1623 Full Title - The Tragedy of Macbeth Written in Reign of - James I Literary period - Jacobean Age (24 March, 1603- 27 March, 1625) Published in - Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies , also known as First Folio Also known as - Shortest and Bloodiest Tragedy by Shakespeare Theme - Ambition for Power Total Male Characters - 21 Total Female Characters - 3 ( Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, a gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth) Total Witches - 3 Total Thanes - 8 (Thane of Ross, Thane of Lennox, Thane of Menteith, Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Fife, Thane of Angus, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Caithness) Sources of Macbeth Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) Daemonologie by King James I (1597) Rerum Scoticarum Historia by George Buchanan (1582) Historia Gentis Scotorum by Hector Boece (1527) Discovery of Witch...

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decrease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee. Explanation of Sonnet 1 Line 1: From Fairest ........................increase, The sonnet sets a eugenic proposition from the first line. The speaker proposes that it is the responsibility of the fairest beings to reproduce themselves. The phrase 'Fairest creatures' refers to th...

Ideology, On the Construction Of Different Anne Franks

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Anne Frank (Image Source : Google) Translation: Ideology, On the construction of different Anne Franks by Andre Lefevere Andre Lefevere was a translation theorist. He obtained his Ph.D. in "Prolegomena to a grammar of literary translation: An investigation into the process of literary translation based on an analysis of various translations of Catullus' 64th poem" (1972) . His most important contribution is in comparative literary studies and translation studies in particular. He theorized translation as a form of rewriting produced and read with a set of ideological and political constraints within the target language, and cultural system. Andre Lefevere (Source - Google) Translation: Ideology, On the construction of different Anne Franks About Translation Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Frame : "Translation Rewriting and the Manipulation Of Literary Fame" talks about Translation Studies as a separate discipline. In the Preface of the book, the a...

The Backwoods of Canada - Letter IX by Catharine Parr Traill | Summary

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The Backwoods of Canada - Letter IX by Catharine Parr Traill | Summary Catharine Parr Traill was a 19th-century English-Canadian author who wrote mainly about life in Upper Canada. She started writing at the age of 16, and her first work was "The Tell Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories (1818)". She started writing about Canadian life when she moved to Upper Canada after her marriage. She also wrote a guidebook for the new settlers of Canada, to provide the necessary information needed to start a comfortable life in the bushland, namely "The Female Emigrant's Guide(1854)". She was also a naturalist and wrote several works such as Canadian Wild Flowers(1868), and Studies of Plant Life in Canada(1885). Catharine Parr Traill Image Courtesy: Google The Backwoods of Canada, is an anthology of letters and journals written by Traill to her mother and family, describing her voyage and life in Canada, the people of Canada, her neighbors, the r...

A Mark of Resistance by Adrienne Rich

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A Mark of Resistance by Adrienne Rich Stone by stone I pile this cairn of my intention with the noon’s weight on my back, exposed and vulnerable across the slanting fields which I love but cannot save from floods that are to come; can only fasten down with this work of my hands, these painfully assembled stones, in the shape of nothing that has ever existed before. A pile of stones: an assertion that this piece of country matters for large and simple reasons. A mark of resistance, a sign. Adrienne Rich’s poem " A Mark of Resistance " emphasizes the power of defiance and resilience in the face of oppression and societal expectations. The central idea revolves around creating a symbolic "mark" that stands as a form of resistance to the forces that seek to erase individuality, creativity, and freedom. Rich portrays resistance as an act of self-preservation and empowerment , symbolized through the physical and emotional act of creating a circle of stones. This act ...

Yarrow Unvisited (1803) by William Wordsworth

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Yarrow Unvisited (1803) by William Wordsworth From Stirling castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said my "winsome Marrow ," "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside, And see the Braes of Yarrow." "Let Yarrow folk, frae Selkirk town, Who have been buying, selling, Go back to Yarrow, 'tis their own; Each maiden to her dwelling! On Yarrow's banks let her herons feed, Hares couch, and rabbits burrow! But we will downward with the Tweed Nor turn aside to Yarrow. "There's Galla Water, Leader Haughs, Both lying right before us; And Dryborough, where with chiming Tweed The lintwhites sing in chorus; There's pleasant Tiviot-dale, a land Made blithe with plough and harrow: Why throw away a needful day To go in search of Yarrow? "What's Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under? There are a thousand such el...

# 1 : Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep At a Tale of Distress (1787)

# 2 : It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free (1807)

# 3 : Written in very Early Youth (1807)

# 4 : Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening (1798)

#5 : Left upon a seat in a Yew-tree (1798)

#6 : The Reverie of Poor Susan (1800)

#7 : 1798: A Night-Piece (1815)

#8 : Resolution and Independence (1807)

#9 : I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

#10 : My Heart Leaps Up (1807)

#11 : Ode to Duty (1807)

#12 : The Solitary Reaper (1807)

#13 : Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm

#14 : London, 1802 (1807)

#15 : The World is Too Much With Us

#16 : Yarrow Unvisited (1803)

#17 : Yarrow Visited (1814)

#18 : Yarrow Revisited (1831)

#19 : To the Skylark (1825)

#20 : The Fountain, a Conversation (1800)

#21 : Lucy Gray (1800)

#22 : Strange fits of passion have I known

#23 : She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways (1800)

#24 : I Travelled among unknown men (1807)

#25 : Three years she grew in sun and shower (1800)

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