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The Role of Dream in the Realization of True self in Paulo Coelho’s novel, “The Alchemist” The Alchemist (1988) was originally published in Portuguese language by the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. This book became a widely translated international bestseller. Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist describes the expeditions of a young Andalusian shepherd, named Santiago who after having a recurring dream of a treasure, travels to Egypt and his personality develops with each expedition, exploration and experience and he becomes the true alchemist. The objective of this paper is to show how his recurring dream is a result of his suppressed desire that instructs him to follow his passion which is to travel the world and to discover one’s true self and finally the experiences of the journey that transformed him into an alchemist. In the journey Santiago was introduced with many people who guide him or teach him many life lessons in the journey, which helps Santiago to find his true...

Land and Language of Desire : Where Deep-ecology and Post-structuralism Meet The essay by Sueellen Campbell, “Land and Language of Desire : Where Deep-ecology and Post-structuralism Meet” which was published on the anthology The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cherylly Glotfelty, is an important contribution to both environmental and literary studies. Campbell in this essay very vividly traces the points of intersection between deep-ecology and post-structural theory.  SueEllen Campbell has identified several ways in which ecocriticism's relationship with other post-structural theories can be measured.  According to Campbell, ecocriticism shares a number of similarities with deconstruction. Both approaches seek to destabilize dualistic thinking by disrupting binary categories such as nature and culture, self and other, human and non-human. By highlighting the ways in which these categories are constructed and contested, ecocritics and decon...

Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis by Cheryll Glotfelty Overview: - Environmental Threats:  - Ecocriticism's Origin:  - Environmental Awareness through Literature - Literature's Power - Definition of Ecocriticism:  _ Challenges in Literary Studies - Neglect of Environmental Crisis - Evolution of Ecocriticism - Fundamental Questions in Ecocriticism - Connection to Physical World - Awareness of Limit.  - Human Actions' Impact  - Contribution to Restoration  - Disciplinary Inclusion of Ecocriticism: now part of different subjects like History, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy. - Three Stages:  kind of like how Elaine Showalter saw feminism developing. - Challenges and Future Directions - Boundary Redrawing   - Diversity in Ecocriticism - Impact of Glotfelty's Work  - Vital Area of Inquiry  Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis by Cheryll Glotfelty  During the last few decades, Env...

Pondering about our future give us chills, isn't it so? Although it is totally impossible to know how our future is going to look like, we are bestowed with the imaginative capability by the God. We don't fail to imagine and daydream about our future. So here's a letter that I have written to my future self. A Letter To My Future Self, 10 years from now Dear Future Self, I hope this letter found its way to you. This is you speaking 10 years from the past. It has been difficult for me to start with this letter because thinking about you, my dear, is increasingly mystifying. I am currently a 3rd Semester, Masters student at Dibrugarh University . For now my life is just a mixture of ups and downs. Now, at the age of 22, I am enjoying the University life, exploring and gaining new experiences, making new friends but, at the same time I am worried about what you would be like. Are you going to be the way I want you to be right now, or a totally different one? I am worried thin...

50 Important MCQs for PG Entrance (Part 2) FOR PART 1 (1-50) CLICK HERE  Read the excerpt given below and select the most appropriate option given in the next of our questions: Irish poets, learn your trade, Sing whatever is well made, Scorn the sort now growing up All out of shape from toe to top, Their unremembering hearts and heads Base-born products of base beds. Sing the peasantry, and then Hard-riding country gentlemen, The holiness of monks, and after Porter-drinkers' randy laughter; Sing the lords and ladies gay That were beaten into the clay Through seven heroic centuries; Cast your mind on other days That we in coming days may be Still the indomitable Irishry 51. The last three lines of the stanza look to the. future to shape the present future to shape the past past to shape the future past to shape the present Ans: (C) past to shape the future 52. By referring to poetry as a "tra...

50 Important MCQ's for PG Entrance (Part 1) This post aims to provide 50 important MCQ's for PG entrance and thereby also helping in attaining knowledge regarding the different question patterns of various entrance examination all over India, of different universities for pursuing Masters degree in English literature. This questionnaire was provided for the 2022 M.A. in English programme, Dibrugarh University. Here, I have provided fifty of the 100 questions and the other fifty i.e. the Part 2 has been provided in the link below: PART 2👉👉  https://literarysphere.com/50-important-mcqs-for-pg-entrance-2/ 1 . Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase 'spots of time'. (A) Coleridge (B) Keats (C) Wordsworth (D) Byron Ans: Wordsworth 2 . Select the correct author work' combinations from the follow...

This post is helpful in providing 50 Important MCQs on The Anglo Saxon Age of English Literature, moreover, this is helpful in the preparations of various entrance examinations and national examinations like UGC NET. The Anglo-Saxon age of English Literature begins from 410, and lasts till 1066 AD. This period is one of the most crucial period of English literary history since this is from where English Literature founded its roots from. 50 Important MCQs on The Anglo Saxon Age of English Literature 1 . In which period or age did the History of English Literature begin? a) The Medieval Period b) The Anglo Norman Period c) The Anglo Saxon Period d) The Neo-classical Period The Anglo Saxon Period 2. Beowulf, the only important piece of literature surviving since the Old English Period is a/an a) lyrical ballad b) Anglo Saxon epic c) prose narrative d) Classical epic Anglo Saxon epic 3. Which Germanic tribe came to England in the middle of 5th century? a) The Jutes b) The ...