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kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

literary quiz

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kothad your answer is correct patronus. now its ur turn to ask the question.

23 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad the answer is The Waste Land, by T.s Eliot. This poem is called the bible of the modernist movement. next question: Name the novel written by Conrad which was accused as a racist work by the African writer Chinua Achebe?

20 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad ok. lets proceed assuming that he will come up with the correct answer to his question. now the next question who wrote these lines and identify the poem "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of dead land, mixing Memory and desire..."

16 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad taface412, your turn to give the answer... no one seems to know.

13 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad as no one was able to answer my question... let me give you the correct answer. the novel was "Tin Drum" by Gunther Grass

13 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad i dont think my question is properly understood... those were clues to my question not choices. all you have to do is to identify the novel and the author.

11 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad it was a good question but the clue made it too simple!! the answer is ozymandias by shelley my question 1)it is a novel 2)author is a nobel prize winning german novelist and playwright 3)magic realism 4)1978 film adaptation 5)hero can break...

8 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad ok guys... as nobody posted the next question here it comes who wrote these lines " life, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity" options: a) wordsworth b) t.s eliot c) keats d) shelley

6 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad any way we got the answer...that was the point. but can we actually decide which book is better? who is the judge? and what is the yard stick? my point is judgement of a book is possible only in the personal level.so it is better not to argue. there would be...

5 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 17 Mar 08

This is for the people who are interested in some serious literary discussions. Here we can share our knowledge on some relevant literary theories. I wish to start with structuralism which was an intellectual movement began in...

structuralism

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kothad And then he argues that meaning of words are relational. No word can be defined in isolation. The meaning of the word "hut" depends on its position in a syntagmatic chain(hovel-hut-house-mansion-palace) Mansion is a dwelling bigger and grander than a house...

18 Mar 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 17 Mar 08

This is for the people who are interested in some serious literary discussions. Here we can share our knowledge on some relevant literary theories. I wish to start with structuralism which was an intellectual movement began in...

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kothad The signifier and the signified...here we come to Saussure, the linguist. His arguments are primarily on three points. Firstly he argued that the meanings we give to words are purely arbitrary, that is the meanings are maintained by conventions only. There is...

18 Mar 08

jezzikabret @jezzikabret (245) • United States 13 Mar 08

Why do you read? Is it relaxing, to get away, just love it or what? I read to relax at night after a long day of taking care of my little one. Does anyone have a particular genre or book that really relaxes them? Do you prefer...

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kothad simulacrum is a word used by the postmodernist thinker Baudrillard. it is roughly a shadow without an object.when you buy an original dvd you realize that there are more than one "original" that is the copies of the original become legitamized as original(s).

16 Mar 08

Fidget @Fidget (291) 3 Feb 08

I studied 'Lord of the Flies' for my English Literature GCSE. Initially, I really did not enjoy the novel. I'm not sure if it is because the task of reading the book was forced on me, or that I rush-read and did not take it all...

english gcse

english literature

lord of the flies

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kothad the thing is that the novel challanges our believes about humanity and human nature. we are so narcissistic that we want to believe man as inherently good and cultured.just like Wordsworth assumed that the human child carries the heavenly glory with him...the...

15 Mar 08

Bd200789 @Bd200789 (2994) • United States 10 Mar 08

What is your favorite book, or series of books? I don't have a favorite since I'll read nearly anything. If I did have to choose, I would pick "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. What would you choose, and what is it about?

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kothad hei ther is a buk i just completed...its an old one in fact...the title is jonathan livingston seagull...simply superb

14 Mar 08

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