A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
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 […]
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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From Silent Observer to Meaning-Maker—The Rise of the Reader in Literary Theory From The Professor’s Desk When the Reader Walked In: The Rise of Reader-Response Theory For centuries, literature was a monologue—written by the author, decoded by the critic, and quietly admired by the reader. The text was sacred, the author was sovereign, and the
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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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How Romantic visions transformed prose — shaping stories, essays, and Gothic imaginings that continue to haunt and inspire the modern world. From The Professor’s Desk he Prose Turn: From Poetic Lyricism to Narrative Depth If poetry was the heart of Romanticism, prose soon became its voice — deeper, more spacious, more capable of exploring the
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Byron, Shelley, Keats — the poetic rockstars of their age, who defied convention, embraced passion, and left behind verses that outlived their short, blazing lives. From The Professor’s Desk The story of the Romantic movement is not a gentle stream — it is a river that gathers force, carves new channels, floods its banks, and
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Red carpet entrance: Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1798 — Lyrical Ballads drops like a literary blockbuster. From The Professor’s Desk There are moments in literary history when one age does not simply end and another begin — rather, the new age arrives walking upon a red carpet woven by its quiet forerunners. So it was in
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