American Short Story A short story , a brief fictional prose narrative, usually of indeterminate length, is to be strongly distinguished from longer, more expansive narrative forms such as the novel, epic, saga, and romance. The growth and development of American literature short story journeys through the cultural …

Shooting an Elephant as a Postcolonial Essay Louis Cazamian in A History of English Literature declares George Orwell's work as a whole to be "the citizen's manifesto against the powers that be" . Even from his youth, Orwell rejected many of the accepted social and political conventions, a…

On the Modern Element in Literature is the inaugural lecture of Mathew Arnold delivered as a professor of poetry at Oxford in the year 1857. In this essay, he shows us how an age can rise above the false ideology of modernism by strictly following the rich convention of the past, especially those of ancient Gre…

Bertrand Russell surely disproves the common established notion about philosophers, that, they are absent-minded and always engage their heads in making speculations, when he meditates on the possibilities regarding " The Future of Mankind ". He has done so, because of his high sensitivity and deep con…

Addison's Prose Style in Sir Roger at Home Joseph Addison was a great essayist , a philosopher social reformer and a critic of his age. He followed prose style which was a class by itself and also which made his essays smooth and graceful. J.H. Fowler rightly opined the Addison and his friend Steele cou…

On the Modern Element in Literature Text It is related in one of those legends which illustrate the history of Buddhism, that a certain disciple once presented himself before his master, Buddha, with the desire to be permitted to undertake a mission of peculiar difficulty. The compassionate teacher represented t…

Indian Writing in English Poetry “The best Indo-Anglican poets have given us something which neither English poetry nor any of our English literature can give: in other words, they have effected a true marriage of Indian processes of poetic experiences with English formulae of verse experience.”   …