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Language : Basic Concepts, Theories and Pedagogy, English in Use UGC NET /JRF UNIT V

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“Language Dynamics: Concepts, Theories, Pedagogy, and Practical Applications in English” Content Language: Definition and Key Components Phonetics: Study of Speech Sounds Vowels and Consonants: Types of Speech Sounds Vowels and Vowel Sounds: Articulation and Examples Table of Vowels: Short, Long, and Diphthong Vowels Table of Consonants: Voiceless and Voiced Consonants Morphology: Study of Word Structure […]

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“Prosody: The Music of Poetry”

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Prosody: The Music of Poetry — from classical meters and rhyme schemes to the liberated rhythms of modern verse. From The Professor’s Desk An Invitation into the Sound, Structure, and Subtle Science of Prosody When Language Learns to Dance “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful,” said Rita Dove. But behind that

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Stream Of Consciousness :“Mind the Gap: When Writers Started Transcribing Brainstorms Live”

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Stream Of Consciousness: The Literary Technique That Let Readers Eavesdrop on Thoughts They Never Asked For ABS Believes: Punctuation is optional. Logic is fluid. And narrative is just a nervous breakdown with literary footnotes. Welcome to the glorious chaos where commas go to die, and writers stop editing their brains. Imagine reading someone’s actual thoughts—unedited,

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Willing Suspension of Disbelief : When Dragons Make Sense and Dead Men Talk: The Art of Believing the Unbelievable

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A Literary Trick So Smooth, Even Ghosts Got Good Reviews There once was a man who believed you could have philosophical conversations with albatrosses, write poems about ancient mariners, and still be taken seriously by 19th-century readers in top hats. His name? Samuel Taylor Coleridge. And he had a problem. Not with laudanum (well, also

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“Trophies for the Wordsmiths: When Literature Wins (and Sometimes Regrets It)”

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Celebration of Prizes, Prestige, and the Publishing World’s Favourite Popularity Contest ABS Believes: A trophy doesn’t make a book timeless—but it does make it a bestseller for two weeks.Prizes are where literature meets marketing, and genius is filtered through judging panels with jetlag.But still—we cheer, we argue, we Google the winner (and promise to read

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“Sprung Rhythm: When Poetry Got Tired of Marching and Started Skipping”

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Hopkins, Nursery Rhymes, and the Great Metrical Rebellion ABS Believes: Poetic rhythm shouldn’t behave like a parade. It should behave like a toddler on sugar: unpredictable, adorable, and terrifyingly free. The Meter That Misbehaved There are two types of rhythm in this world: The kind that walks into a room, straightens its tie, and recites

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The Nobel Prize: From Dynamite to Drama

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Who wrote, who won, who refused — and why the biggest literary award is also the most controversial applause in silence. Once upon a ticking time bomb, there lived a man named Alfred Nobel — a chemist, engineer, weapons manufacturer, and accidental godfather of literary prestige. He invented dynamite, made millions off explosives, and then

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“Curtain Call for Logic: A Backstage Pass to the Theatre of the Absurd”

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From Godot’s Delays to Rhinoceros Rampages—Why Drama Finally Snapped ABS The Literary Scholar Believes: That when history becomes incoherent and coffee loses meaning, theatre must step in—not to explain, but to mirror the madness back with impeccable comic timing. Welcome to the Play Where Nothing Happens—and That’s the Point Let’s begin with a confession: this

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LIT Theory 010 Psychoanalytic Theory in Literature From Oedipus to Obsession and the Unconscious Between the Lines

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How Freud, Lacan, and the Inner Drama of the Mind Changed the Way We Read Stories, Symbols, and Silences From The Professor’s Desk There’s a certain thrill in turning a page and realizing that the story knows you better than you know yourself. It’s not just that Hamlet can’t act — it’s that he reminds

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LIT Theory 009 Bakhtin and Dialogism: When Voices Collide

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How Mikhail Bakhtin Turned the Novel into a Carnival of Clashing Truths and Talking Minds From The Professor’s Desk When Voices Collide: The Rise of Dialogism In the hushed intellectual corridors of early 20th-century Russia, amid the stifling airs of Stalinist ideology and the dry certainties of Formalist criticism, a quiet yet thunderous voice began

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