A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
A Satirical Journey Through Ancient Pride and Modern Vanity What ABS Believes Satire walks into a room quietly but exposes everything loudly. Jonathan Swift did not approach intellectual quarrels the way timid scholars did. He walked straight toward them with the confidence of a man who knew he was about to expose everyone. When he […]
THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS Swift Roasts Everyone In Sight. Read More »
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,
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
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
“Trophies for the Wordsmiths: When Literature Wins (and Sometimes Regrets It)” Read More »
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
“Sprung Rhythm: When Poetry Got Tired of Marching and Started Skipping” Read More »
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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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
“Curtain Call for Logic: A Backstage Pass to the Theatre of the Absurd” Read More »
Literature between War and Whisper: The Final Phase of Modernism (1939–1959) From The Professor’s Desk When literature walks through the fire, it seldom comes out unburnt.The years 1939 to the late 1950s represent not a neat ending, but a scorched continuum of modernism — disillusioned by one war, scarred by another, and finally entrapped in
From The Professor’s Desk The Great War did not only kill men. It mutilated meaning. The year was 1914. The sun never set on the British Empire, and across Europe, proud nations paraded their flags to the rhythms of certainty and superiority. It was a world—arrogant, armored, and unsuspecting—marching straight into its own unmaking. In
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HOME History of English Literature Prose, Novel & Fiction The Literary Scholar’s WitNotes Poetry Appreciation MODERNISM: Literature in a Broken World (Modern Literature from 1901 to ~1955 — shaped by War, Science, Psychology, and Disillusionment) From The Professor’s Desk “A New Century Dawns — But With Strange Clouds” “The year was 1901. Victoria, the great
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