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Scholarly Talk Series; Lecture- 2 "Eliot at the New Critical Turn of Literary Criticism" by Dr. Aditya Ghosh

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Scholarly Talk Series; Lecture-2; posted by Tapas Sarkar; The lecture was delivered by   Dr. Aditya Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, ICFAI University, Tripura , on the topic "Eliot at the New critical turn of Literary Criticism".  ◼️Date: March 30 (Thursday), 2023. ◼️Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM ◼️Platform: Google Meet and YouTube (recorded) ◼️YouTube video link:  https://youtu.be/jvQSEfno-hw ◼️For enquiry  Editor and Host: Tapas Sarkar   Mobile:  9609622754 E-mail:  scholarlychronicle@gmail.com

Call for Book Chapters; Book Title: Postmodern India: Literature, Film, and Drama

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Notification; Tapas Sarkar;  Call for Book Chapters Book Title: Postmodern India: Literature, Film, and Drama Concept Note   The word ‘postmodernism’ comes across in varied facets, straying the readers and speakers from its specific interpretation and meaning. Jean-Francois Lyotard, in his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), defined the term with the statement, “Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” It means disbelief in ‘any grand theory’. Lyotard suggests that we should not just listen to one story or one narrative, because there are multiple stories behind a story. Therefore, we should listen to small narratives and not just metanarratives. In this context, mind must be open to all form of stories and narratives of knowledge. Today, India is one of the very few nations which can call itself a true ‘postmodern’. We, in India, celebrate diversity and heterogeneity of ideas, philosophy, literature, lang...