Interaction with Vishal Bhadani

Vishal bhadani




Talk with  an author and translator Vishal  Bhadani.
       On 1st  January, 2019 in our department organisation of workshop on translation studies and talk with an author  Vishal Bhadani. We get much knowledge of translation and bright career in it. As an author to heard him it also opportunity for us.

The workshop was divided in to two sessions. In the first session he talk about his book of  short story collection Fictionalay and he read a few stories in his book . He send a story like..
   1. Mara hath nu vat nathi
      2. Museum of innocence
      3. Sansai and ranzana
      4. Spring
He is very good story teller . when he was reading his own work he was able to make his audience stick with their seats. His stories are full of variety. It gives amazing feeling of freshness and uniqueness to the reader.


TRANSLATION:

After the session of short stories we have Translation session in which Vishal Sir spoke about the job opportunities in the field of Translation. Translation is very tough as well as great work. we had done one task of translating phrase.

           In this way we get knowledge about how to write short stories and also about translation. He has also given some ideas to He has also given some ideas to work from home.

Thinking activity on Derrida deconstruction

Thinking activity on Deconstruction

1. What do you understand by Deconstruction ?

Derrida said about infinite play of meaning . We get only illusion , not final meaning of word . Meaning is something in mind. We assume that we understand actually stopped asking question on the meaning of the word. We never get final meaning but postpone it. So if we think we understand the things , we don't because language is constructed by full of figurative components.

We can say that literature creates multiplicity of meaning . It creates a kind of ambivalence . Language is not transparent medium of communication , mistaken of signifier for signified creates aesthetic illusion. De - constructive writing is most of the time ,' auto- critical ' questions itself , ongoing. Derrida critiques the whole tendency that language as speech rather than writing . Derrida wants to transformed the way people think by idea of Deconstruction.


2. Read an ad or TV serial or film or literary text as post structuralist critic , be brief , precise and to the point.

  In this advertisement of chocolate of “Snickers” we can find content is that before eating chocolate that boy transferred in girls and then eating after chocolate he transfer in boy. So that is a exaggeration. That is hungry. He feel weakness not push the car. And after eating chocolate he have a strength and then do it. It is used a girl is a symbol of physically weak.

So we can say that patriarchy in our society at every stage. It is difficult to remove it , the same thinking process rooted in minds of people. So it can deconstructed that patriarchy remaining major issue of society.

Thinking activity : structuralism

Thinking activity : structuralism and literary criticism

   Gérard Genette (born 1930) is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement .His best known in English through the section , " Narrative Discourse  : An essay on method. "

  In literary theory, structuralism is an approach to analysing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. For example, a literary critic applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of West Side Story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
common structure which can found every literary forms.

1) Language , Langue , Parole
2) Sign , Signifier , Signified
3) Diachronic vs Synchronic

1) Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog.



    In  T.v serial , most of Ekta kapoor 's serials have same stereotypes or structure , all have same basic content of relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in -law , their conflicts , dilemma , unity of family and struggle with outwards element. Same formula in all serials.

  Example :        Colors serial  “ SWARAGINI”        with theme of love , conflicts between all relationship , love as strong element and struggle of character to get their immortal love in their serials.  in
This serial religion make a vital roll. Both are belonging to different religion Bengali and Hindu family. So conflict for acceptance.

 I found here the similar structure in the movies :

1) suspense
2) Thriller
3) love , and conflict


In the film”  HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM”   we can  find the same story formula that boy and girl love each other  but girl's family have objection with their love and at the end resolution. Other example is HIROPANTI.

In film” SPECIAL 26” it is a thriller movie directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Kumar Margat and Shital Bhatia. It is must watch movie for everyone with decent comedy and an ultimate twist at the end. It is engages the audience till the end.it is a mixture of suspense and thriller. This movie based on 1987 Opera house heist where a group of posing as CBI officer executed an income tax raid on the jewellery shop in Mumbai .


 In literature
Significance of ' FIRE ' and ' ICE '
 1)Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
 2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser

Both poem in a comman thing fire and ice. we can see this thing as many ways like fire is a symbol of passion and Ice is a symbol of careless. Also Fire and Ice is symbol of the seasons of summer and winter. Also one is a symbol of anger and another is symbol of  calmness. The other side is both are dangerous .   Both have negative and positive strength.

Interaction with France professor

Interaction with France  professor

  On the date 22/01/2019 we had an interaction with the professors of  university of Lorraine, France . it was quite surprising visit of our department  there are two professors , pro.  Saeed paivandi .pro. Fontanini Christine they are on academic visite .

    They are talk on some topics like that social issues, Political trends and economical situation at them country. They also talk about the feminism and Ratio between the girls and boys in education and boys in the technical and engineering faculties. It's like situation of our country on this issues in the unemployment and education. Rich and poor people they also talks about the why this issues increase more because it's unequal distribution of wealth and you pay lesser salary an employee than you faced more difficulties with this kind of issues.

    So, it was an interesting interaction thanks to  Dilip barad sir for giving us opportunities to deal with scholars. 

Northrop Frye: Archetypes of Literature

Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature

Northrop Frye was Canadian literary critic. He wrote on “Canadian literature” . he  away from the crowd, holding tight to powerful ideas that would change the way people thought about literature.  He  best known  as a  most  important literary theorists of 20th century. Frye spent his entire professional life teaching at the University of Toronto. where he proposed the idea that all books are based on timeless myths.

1)What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?

Archetypal means ‘Original form'. Archetypal criticism depends heavily on symbols and patterns.  It refers to universal symbols,  theme , character, images. It repeated throughout literature. It is a term in which Frye 's archetypal criticism strictly categorise works based on their genres which determine how on archetype is to be interpreted in a text .
Archetypal Critic would suggest that all human experience is connected through literature and this experience is expressed again and again by using the same pattern throughout time and space. There are some universal truths that we can learn by reading .


2)What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'?

       Northrop Frye has given a very different idea about Archetypal Criticism by comparing the human emotions or human characteristics with the cycle of seasons.

◆. Comedy  - spring
◆  Romance – summer
◆  Tragedy – Autumn
◆  Satire – winter

Spring:-

     The spring season represents the Comedy. As per the genre of comedy is characterized by the birth of the hero, revival & resurrection. Spring also symbolizes the defeat of winter & darkness.

Summer:-

      The season of Summer indicates Romance because Summer is the culmination of life in the seasonal calendar, & the romance genre culminates with some short of triumph usually marriage.

Autumn:-

      Autumn season signify the genre of Tragedy. As the autumn is the dying stage of the seasonal calendar that's why the Autumn is parallels to the genre of Tragedy, because the genre of Tragedy is known for the fall on demise of the protagonist.

Winter:-

     season of winter denotes the satire genre because of it's darkness. It's a disillusioned & mocking form of the three other genres. It is notes for its darkness, dissolution, the return of chaos & the defeat of heroic figure.


.3)Share your views of Criticism as an organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

    Northrop frye says on the relation of literature with history and philosophy that literature is the central division of the Humanities, flanked on one side by history and on other side by philosophy and historian deals with events and Philosopher for ideas but critic use both wisdom of philosophy and action of a history. Thus, literature is a connected with history and philosophy both.

4)Briefly explain inductive method with illustration of Shakespeare's Hamlet's Grave Digger's scene.

   Inductive  method move from scientific to general  . We can say that from that scene there is many illustration derived , like Yorick  soliloquy , declaration of Love, Hamlet's struggle with Leartes , corruption , blind superstition , loses emotion and at the end universal truth that all human being are moral. so this illustration from that scene , from scientific to general.





5)Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to Music, Painting, rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method.


    Deductive method moves from general to scientific . some art move in time , like music, and painting. Literature seemed  to be intermediate between music and painting , It's words from rhythms with approach a musical sequence of sounds at one of its boundaries , and form patterns which approach the hieroglyphics or pictorial image at the other. Everything in nature that we think  of as having some analogy with works of art. Deductive method derived thinking process and reasoning like from general to scientific.


6)Refer to the Indian seasonal grid (below). If you can, please read small Gujarati or Hindi or English poem from the archetypal approach and apply Indian seasonal grid in the interpretation.

Thinking activity on study of poetry

Matthew Arnold

     Matthew Arnold 24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888.  He was an English poet and cultural critic. who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of  Thomas Arnold. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.

    The study of poetry Mathew Arnold was one of the foremost poet and critic of the 19th century. Arnold's most famous piece of literary criticism is his essay "The Study of Poetry."

        He could be called "the critic's critic", being a champion not only of great poetry , but of literary Criticism itself.

• Write about one idea of MATTHEW ARNOLD which you find interesting & relevant in your time?

   In our time Arnold idea of disinterested or detachment. It is interesting also relevant in our time. Mathew Arnold says about the first principle of criticism is the Disinterested and Detachment .Disinterested on the part of the critic implies freedom from all the prejudice, personal and historical. So the work of literature should be criticise or judged as the independent work rather than considering its effects on author or the reader. It should be free from all the prejudice either it historical or personal. It is very important thing for the fair judgement for the critic.

• Write about one idea of MATTHEW ARNOLD which you find out of date & irrelevant in your time?

      The idea of the "Touchstone" method given by Arnold is not appropriate in recent times. Arnold while giving his touchstone method makes reader aware about the fallacy in judgement. His   view that 'Historical fallacy' and 'Personal fallacy' marks the real estimate of poetry. The poet whose work is to be compared with the work of the great poets may differ in expression. So, this idea might create a difficulty to understand the real estimate of a work.

Thank you...

Thinking activity T.s Eliot "Tradisional and Individual talent

T.s Eliot 'Traditional and Individual talent”

1) How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?

        I agree with T.S.Eliot 's concept of tradition . He is not just following customs of given tradition but much more than that. He is not believed in slavish imitation of his tradition. Eliot thinks this thing positive way and says that The countries , Nations try to preserve their tradition as something  heritage as something which is essential part of their culture and necessarily has to be handed down from generation to generation. So poet has to write with awareness of litrary tradition of his nation.He should not merely imitate that tradition. Eliot also says that 'The writer writes with history in his bones." So Eliot sees tradition in very positive way rather than negative way.

2) What do you understand by historical sense?

    Historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"

    Historical sense involves a perception. It is not only pastness of past but how past is relevant to the present time.

    The historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.

   Historical sense is equal to common sense and it involves wider perimeters or we can say that process of selection. Historical sense is necessary for become a timeless work of art.


3) What is the relationship between 'Tradition' and 'Individual talent' according to the poet T.S Eliot?

   According to Eliot a new writer does not have anything their own and unique, tradition and individual talent both are not separate. Though individuals are not just imitating the tradition. New writers use their individual talent to expand or extent something new in existing tradition by keeping harmony with the tradition and give it more beauty and more meaning and also make their own place in the huge tradition. So tradition and individual talent both goes together.

4) Explain quote, "Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it. Shakespeare from plutarch than most men could from the whole british museum"

      This quote means, one who absorbs the knowledge becomes a great creative writer. Some may read a lot but are not able to create anything, while some just by using the power of their observation may become a great writer.

5) Explain "Honest criticism and sensitive appretiation is directed not upon the poet butupon the poetry."

    Eliot compares the theory with chemical process. the combination of  sulphuric acid , takes place only if the Platinum is present , Platinum has remained neutral and unchanged. the mind of poet is the shred of Platinum. Eliot says that emotion and feelings are the elements  which entering the presence of poet's mind and acting as a catalyst.we can say both elements important for experiment, same happened in great work of art . 

6) How would you like to explain Eliot's theoy of depersonalization? You can Explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, platinum.

7) Explain, "Poetry is not turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."


    In above given quote Eliot again talk about the depersonalization. He says that  whenever poet create something their own self should not reflect in their creative work. Poet should learn to be aloof or detach when they create something. Eliot says poetry is impersonal it is not for showing one’s own emotion or self it is about escape from that emotions and self. Poet’s own self should not reflect in their own poetry or work.

8) Write two points on which one can write critique on "T.S Eliot as a critic."

 two point as my point of view that one can write critique on T. S. Eliot as a critic :     

 1) "Poetry is not turning to loose of Emotions but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality but escape from personality. "         
  2) Tradition is matter of much wider significance it can't be inherited and of you want it you must obtain it by grate labour.