Theory & Literature Simplified
The socio-political state of 14th-century England deeply impacted the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and his contemporaries. Thus, a historical and social background is indispensable to fully understand the Age of Chaucer. Fourteen-century English literature and society were impacted by three major historical events - The Hundred Years' War, the
There are few theorists and philosophers in the world who are as monumental, controversial, and complex as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). He was a thinker who attempted to embrace all varied philosophies and perceived history as a process toward complete freedom. Hegel’s dialectical method is among his most
Marxist thought primarily critiques capitalism. It was founded by the renowned German philosopher, theorist and revolutionist Karl Hein Marx (1818-1883) and Fredrich Engels. Besides being a globally adapted and practised social and political theory, Marxism has influenced prominent modern literary theories like historicism, feminism, deconstruction, postcolonialism and cultural studies. This
Medieval Indian literature begins from the 7th century when Alwars and Nayanmars, a group of devotional poets appeared in South India. These devotional poets developed a literature completely different from classical literature in Sanskrit and Tamil. We can divide medieval age in Indian literature in two major phases: * Early Medieval
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a celebrated postcolonial, feminist, and post-structuralist critical thinker well known for her English translation of Jacques Derrida’s ‘’Of Grammatology”, and the groundbreaking essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”. She is also known to have coined the term ‘Strategic Essentialism’. This blog will help you understand the
