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Locate Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age

Chaucer’s preface to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age, is the first work of these opening lines to provide a physical setting and thus an inspiration for the Canterbury pilgrimage. Chaucer’s original plan, each pilgrim had two stories told because of Canterbury and two more on […]

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What do you understand by the term renaissance? Examine Spenser’s Prothalamion as an example of both renaissance writing as well as a nuptial song

What is renaissance The Renaissance, (French: “rebirth”) was organized in European civilization shortly after the Middle Ages and traditionally characterized by an increase in interest in classical scholarship and values. Renaissance writing as an example of Renaissance writing is also in the form of a new song, the Renaissance also saw the invention and exploration

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Examine any one poem by Donne or Herbert or Marvel as an example of metaphysical poetry

Spiritual poetry The term “metaphor,” for seventeenth-century English and continental European poets, was employed by Augustan poets Dryden and Johnson to repeal those poets for their “unnaturalness”. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “unnatural, that too is natural,” and thus metaphorical poets must still be studied for their depth and originality. Together with similar but

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Critically examine Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the Romantic Age

Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the romantic era. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as forerunners of the Romantic Era Poet, painter, printmaker and visionary Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Although during his lifetime

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Who were the Pre- Raphaelites? Critically appreciate any one poem of this age/movement and highlight the characteristics of the movement

Who were the Pre-Raphaelites? Critically appreciate any poem from this age / movement and highlight the characteristics of the movement. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of young British painters who banded together in 1848 in reaction to what they saw as the unimaginative and artificial historical painting of the Royal Academy and who allegedly seek to

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What is post-structuralism? Examine Derrida’s theory of ‘deconstruction’

Introduction         Post structuralism is based on a member of basic assumptions/positions. These include: 1) putting all phenomena under one explanation, 2) there is a transcendental reality which overarches all other reality. Post structuralism is also critical of the concept of man as portrayed and developed by Enlightenment thought. The Enlightenment view that the individual

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Discuss Karl Marx’s perspective on class.

It was in the nineteenth century that class as a category came to be recognized as a relevant concept in explaining social theories, ideologies, social movements, social structure, and social change. The heuristic potential of ‘class’ was particularly important in the context of social stratification. In fact, class was identified as one of the most

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Discuss the roles and functions of civil society in a democracy

“Civil society retains a distinctive character to the extent that it is made up of areas of social  life—the domestic world, the economic sphere, cultural activities and political interaction—which are organised by private or voluntary arrangements between individuals and groups outside the direct control of the state.” Functions of Civil Society in Democracy Throwing light

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What is entrepreneurship? Explain the perspective of Schumpeter on entrepreneurship.

Introduction There is some unresolved controversy in the meaning of entrepreneurship. Although, there is some consensus also about the entrepreneurship which includes a part of administration and its function in decision making process for regulating some types of organisation. Some scholars refer to the term 175 for strategic or innovative decisions while others apply it

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