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LIT Theory 007 Ecocriticism in Literature: Reading Nature as Text

From Pastoral Reverie to Planetary Grief—How Literature Listens When Nature Speaks From The Professor’s Desk The Roots Beneath the Text Literary criticism, for centuries, has walked through drawing rooms, courtrooms, battlefields, and broken hearts—but seldom through forests. While love, power, identity, and rebellion have commanded the interpretive spotlight, the rustling of leaves, the groan of […]

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LIT Theory 006 Queer Theory in Literature: Unraveling Gender, Identity, and the Evolution of LGBTQ+ Narratives

Exploring the Disruption of Gender Norms, the Fluidity of Sexuality, and the Rise of Queer Narratives Across Literature and Society From The Professor’s Desk “Gender is not something we are, but something we do.” The Evolution of Queer Identities in Literature and Society For centuries, society lived under the invisible rule of the male/female binary,

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LIT Theory 005 Feminism in Literature: Voices, Bodies, Power

Challenging Patriarchy through Text and Form from Woolf to Cixous From The Professor’s Desk Opening: Feminism in Literature – A Revolutionary Voice Against Patriarchy For centuries, literature has been largely shaped and controlled by male voices, with male authors dictating the narratives, moral values, and structures of storytelling. From Homer’s Odyssey to Shakespeare’s tragedies, to

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LIT Theory 004 : Postcolonialism in Literature: Reading from the Margins

Empire Writes Back—And the Center Can’t Handle It From The Professor’s Desk There was a time when literature came wearing a powdered wig and spoke only in the accents of empire. Its maps were colored red, its characters were explorers and missionaries, and its readers were taught to see the world through the monocle of

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LIT Theory 003 : Deconstruction in Literary Theory : Breaking the Text, Bending the Truth

From The Professor’s Desk The professor often wonders why meaning, that most cherished possession of readers and critics, behaves like a well-mannered ghost: present enough to be sensed, but never quite caught in full. Literature, once thought to be the house of meaning, turns out to be haunted by absence, difference, and instability. And the

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LIT Theory 002: Poststructuralism in Literature

The Literary Rollercoaster with No Center, Only Play From The Professor’s Desk The Age of Uncertainty Begins There was a time—let’s say, mid-20th century—when we believed texts had stable meanings. Words behaved, authors ruled their pages like monarchs, and critics arrived with a magnifying glass and a firm belief in objective interpretation. That time is

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LIT Theory 001: Structuralism and the Science of Stories

(from the series: Literary Theory Explained) From The Professor’s Desk What if stories didn’t mean what they seemed to mean?What if literature wasn’t a mirror of reality or a confession of the author’s soul—but a kind of language machine, structured by rules we don’t even realize we’re following? Welcome to the sharp, angular, and brilliantly

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Fiction & Short Stories in English Literature

Quick Access To the Four Master Scrolls Drama and Theatre in English Literature  Poetry in English Literature  Fiction and Short Stories in English Literature  Non Fiction and Prose in English Literature The Origin and Rise of Fiction in English Literature Fiction in English literature has a rich and varied history that spans centuries. Its origin

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Non Fiction & Prose in English Literature

Quick Access To the Four Master Scrolls Drama and Theatre in English Literature  Poetry in English Literature  Fiction and Short Stories in English Literature  Non Fiction and Prose in English Literature Essays and the Art of Argument: From Bacon to Orwell Non-fiction prose is a form of writing that presents factual and verifiable information, ideas,

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