Philo-Lit

Philo- Lit   “Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies” by Judith Halberstam (Now known as Jack Halberstam)   It is the first chapter of the book ‘Queer Time and Place’ Introduces the concept ‘Queer Time’ and ‘Queer Space’ Concept of Queer time came out in and around 20 th century- when gay communities were affected by AIDS epidemic The author mentions two examples: 1.       Mark Doty’s poem about his lover’s death- “I have been living with a constantly diminishing future” The concept ‘diminishing future’- author highlights- this says about the importance of present/ here  2.       Thomas Gunn‘s “The time of the Pague’: He talks on compressed time and impending morality Queer time- it is compressed as well as completely annihilated. Not only that queer time is completely a life where everything is unscripted. In literatures also, these kind of new temporalities have emerged only along with AIDS epi...

Philo- Lit “New Criticism and Beyond” by David Ayers   New Criticism - Theory that focuses on the analysis of literature by reading the text of it alone. This essay is the second chapter of the book Literary Theory: A Reintroduction by David Ayers published in 1960   ·        The Literary Critic I. A Richards had a background in Philosophy, Aesthetics, Linguistics and Psychology apart from Literature, so, when he provided a basis for how to study English, it had a multidisciplinary approach. He had a huge influence on the development of New Criticism in the US. ·        He is best known for the idea of ‘Close Reading’ of a text- known as ‘Practical Criticism, which turned into the backbone of Formalism. ·        But this is only one among many studies promoted by Richards. Others include:  Principles of Literary Criticism  Science and Poetry o    I...