Nilay's Assignments

    An Artist of the Floating World: Masuji Ono as an Unreliable Narrator Introduction: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “An Artist of the  Floating World”(1986) is a novel by  British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his reputation as a painter has faltered since Japan lost the war and the attitude of people has changed towards him and his paintings. The novel ends with the narrator expressing goodwill for the young white-collar workers on the streets at lunchbreak. The novel also deals with the role of people in a rapidly changing political environment and with the assumption and denial of guilt. The author's use of an unreliable narrator is one of the most fascinating literary devices used in storytelling. While there have been unreliable narrators dating back to the work of the Ancient Greek playwright, Aristophanes, the term was coined ...

  Age of Chaucer: Historical Events Name: Nilay N. Rathod Paper 105A: History of English Literature – From 1350 to 1900 Subject Code: 22396 Batch: M.A. Sem-1 (2021-23) Roll No: 18 Enrolment No:4069206420210030 Email Address: rathodnilay2017@gmail.com Submitted to: Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University The period between 1343 and 1450 is known as the age of Chaucer. The age of Chaucer is a significant period in the history of England. It marks the beginning of a new era, language, and new literature. W. J. Long introduce this age as ‘The New National Life and Literature’.  The 14th century is also known as the age of Chaucer. He was a great writer, not only of an age but of all ages. He is known as the father of English Literature. This was the age of transformation from medieval to modern times. During the middle age, the people of England were not much satisfied with the so-called religious, political, and social principles. Two great movemen...

  The Importance of Marriage in the "Importance of Being Earnest" Name: Nilay N. Rathod Paper 104: Literature of the Victorians  Subject Code: 22395 Batch: M.A. Sem-1 (2021-23) Roll No: 18 Enrolment No:4069206420210030 Email Address: rathodnilay2017@gmail.com Submitted to: Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University The Importance of Being Earnest, in full The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, play in three acts by Oscar Wilde, performed in 1895 and published in 1899. A satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, the witty play is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement. This play deals with the same theme as most of the writers were writing about in the Victorian era. The main character of the play Jack Worthing Is a fashionable young man who lives in the country with his ward. He has invented a fictional brother named Ernest whose supposed exploits give Jack an excuse to travel to London periodically to rescue h...

  Frankenstein and Science Name: Nilay N. Rathod Paper 103: Literature of the Romantics  Subject Code: 22394 Batch: M.A. Sem-1 (2021-23) Roll No: 18 Enrolment No:4069206420210030 Email Address: rathodnilay2017@gmail.com Submitted to: Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. The title Frankenstein creates confusion because people start to think that Victor Frankenstein is the Monster. People who have read R. L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Something like the m...

  Samuel Richardson: Life and Works Name: Nilay N. Rathod Paper 102: Literature of Neo-classical Period Subject Code: 22393 Batch: M.A. Sem-1 (2021-23) Roll No: 18 Enrolment No:4069206420210030 Email Address: rathodnilay2017@gmail.com Submitted to: Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Samuel Richardson, baptized Aug. 19, 1689, Mackworth, near Derby, Derbyshire, Eng.—died July 4, 1761, Parson’s Green, near London, English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the letterform (“epistolary novel”). His major novels were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48). Life: Richardson was born in 1689 in Mackworth, Derbyshire. His mother Elizabeth was a woman “not ungenteel” and his father was a tradesman from Surrey, described by his son as “of middling note." As a boy, he apprenticed in a printer’s shop, where he earned the nicknames “Gravity” and “Serious.” Indeed, by all accounts, Richardson was, from an e...