shamiana

Warning : Don't read if you revere literary theory. Theory bashing in progress. Literary theory has been as old as literature itself. Aristotle probably enjoyed writing Poetics as he refuted Plato's charges on various levels. Sidney defended Poetry but added immensely to passionate ramblings on the nature of poetry. Dr Johnson guided by his Neo Classical inclinations tried hard to defend Shakespeare against more stricter Neo classical parameters. Wordsworth and Coleridge continued the hail nature, hail poet movement ahead. Pound took to Imagism while T.S. Eliot pondered over tradition and Individual talent. Russian Formalists set up a lab to test literary works and experimented with the idea of making literary theory, a science. Structuralism further made theory scientific. Post structuralism and deconstruction questioned language and the process of signification itself suddenly seemed precariously close to an untimely demise.Hermeneutics and reader response theories put the r...

Hello people, long time no see as the urban youth puts it. this is my first post post marriage so ..don't expect changes...I am married not matured like a willow. I wonder why people associate marriage with extreme opposites.marriage is supposed to either make you blissfully happy or drown you into a state of abrupt maturity. a pendulum swing in your life it seems. I do not accept the popular "you are not the same post marriage" belief. Firstly, why would I change? Secondly, how can I change ? Thirdly, everything around me has changed so the least i can do is remain unchanged! - the house, city, people (seeing someone for two hrs is not the trailer for the movie that follows) and of course language in my case. well, I have not changed. Neither do I wish to change. I am same the chirpy old big sham. My existence is a continuum of what it has always been. Change the bottle you may, dare not touch the wine ! btw, it was after a decade or more that I happened to listen ...