Dilip Bera

  Hegemony Hegemony, the dominance of one group over another, often supported by legitimating norms and ideas. The term hegemony is today often used as shorthand to describe the relatively dominant position of a particular set of ideas and their associated tendency to become commonsensical and intuitive, thereby inhibiting the dissemination or even the articulation of alternative ideas. The associated term hegemon is used to identify the actor, group, class, or state that exercises hegemonic power or that is responsible for the dissemination of hegemonic ideas. Hegemony derives from a Greek term that translates simply as “dominance over” and that was used to describe relations between city-states. Its use in political analysis was somewhat limited until its intensive discussion by the Italian politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s discussion of hegemony followed from his attempts to understand the survival of the capitalist state in the most-advanced Western countrie...

  CULTURAL STUDIES 1. Defining Culture & Culture Studies 2. Elements of Culture 3. Types of Culture 4. Ideal Vs Real Culture 5. Cultural Globalization 6. Mall Culture 7. Media Culture 8. Consumer Culture THEORISTS 1. Birth of Cultural Studies 2. Early Theorist 3. Stuart Hall 4. Stephan Greenbalt 5. Raymond Williams 6. Antonio Gramsci 7. Louis Althrusser 8. Frederick Jameson

  American Literature  Early American Literature  Introduction to Early American Literature  Founders of America  American Writers of Romantic Age  Fredrick Douglass  Harriet Beecher Stowe  Herman Melville  James Cooper  Louisa May Alcott  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Edgar Allen Poe  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Henry David Thoreau  Washington Irving  Emily Dickinson  Walt Whitman  William Cullen Bryant  American Writers of Victorian Age Henry James  Mark Twain  Jack London  Stephen Crane  Charlotte Gilman Perkins  Theodore Dreiser  Kate Chopin  Edith Wharton  American Writers of Modern Age  William Faulkner  Ernest Hemingway  F.Scott Fitzgerald  Gertrude Stein  Sinclair Lewis  Tennessee Williams  Arthur Miller  Eugene o'neill  Susan Glaspell  Robert Frost  Wallace Stevens  Ezra Pound  William Carols Will...

  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sources :# Raphael Hollinshed’s Chronicles of England , Scotland , and Ireland (1577) – King Lear , Macbeth and Cymbeline .  # Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives ( “The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans “) – Antony and Cleopatra , Julius Caesar , Timon of Athens , Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus .  # Edward Hall’s “The Union of two noble families of Lancasters and Yorks “ (1547) –for Historical Plays . ( War of Roses and established Tudor Monarch )  # Ovid’s Metamorphosis (tl. By Arthur Golding 1567) – Tempest Midsummer Night’s Dream and Titus Andronicus .  # Arthur Brooke’s The Tragic History of Romeus and Julius (1562) – Romeo and Juliet .  # Boccaccio’s Decameron- The Winter’s Tale (Robert Greene’s Pandosto ) , All Well that Ends Well , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Cymbeline and Othello .  # Matteo Boiordo’s Orlando Innamarto- ‘ Fountain of Head ‘ and ‘ Garden of Ardenne ‘ as ‘Forest of Arden in As You Like It ...

  Postcolonialism and Climate change in Literature  Introduction                                                                                                                With the term “Postcolonial”, understood not as limited to the implicit temporal marking of the “Post”, but as the sign of a critical orientation, and representation of experiences the colonial encounter, including those of slavery, oppression and resistance migrat...