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The Department of English is proud of your exceptionally meritorious performance. The students and faculty feel honored in your active participation which brought recognition & respect to the Department. Wish you all the best for your academic progress.

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Literary Criticism in the age of information

The literary theories and criticism has witnessed several shifts in 20th Century. Beginning with 'New Criticism', it ran through 'Reception Theory', 'Stylistics', 'Russian Formalism', 'Structuralism', 'Marxism', 'Psycho-analytical school', post-structuralism', 'Feminism'; along with voices of Modernism, Post-modernism, post-colonialism, cultural studies, new historicism . . . and what not.

What is the reason of such turns and twists in the 'studies' of the study of literatures?

Well, what John Wain (though said with some other context) wrote in 'Strength and Isolation: Pessimistic Notes of a Miltonolater' in Frank Kermod's The Living Milton (1960: Routledge) may have some answer to this shifting paradigms of 20th century.
He wrote: "The modern sensibility works in naturally with a medium like the cinema, with its endless fading in and fading out, its tracking, panning and all the rest of the devies for keeping dimension and angle in a continually shifting state . . . Symbolism on the one hand, the cinema on the other; concentration and discontinuity ..."

How far can we blame cinematic habit to these scenario is a debatable issue. But if it has a grain of truth, then what can we think about the sensibility of the man in the age of information - in an era of internet - amidst flood of information and constantly changing world? And what sort of theories and critical practices are we to confront in the 21st century?

Any idea? Please share by commenting . . .

About Myself

Dr. Dilip Barad is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Bhavnagar University.
He did his schooling from Carmel Convent School in Junagadh city of Gujarat state – India. He studied in this school till 1988 – the year in which he passed standard Xth examinations. He joined Bahauddin Arts College in same city for his Bachelors of Arts with English Literature. He complete his bachelors in 1994 and joined Bhavnagar University for Masters in Arts – English Literature to complete it in 1996. He completed his doctorate research in January 2006. He published his research work in book form under the title – Women Characters in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (2009).
At present, he is teaching English Literature and Language to the Post Graduate students of the University. He has 13 years experience of teaching to students belonging to various faculties like commerce, management, computers, humanities and social sciences. His area of interest is CALL, innovative use of ICT in teaching English and Literary theories. He has conducted workshops on use of Web tools for teaching in national and international conferences. He has penned books and articles on Thomas Hardy, Kamala Das and Web tools for English teaching. Recently Ministry of HRD (Govt. of India) has awarded special financial assistance for e-Content development and he is working on UGC research project on ‘Technology and Teaching English’. He has recently completed online course from Univeristy of Oregon, USA on Web Skills for Teachers with 94%.