ugc net Paper 2- December 2004: part 1
1. In Langlands‘ Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as : (A) Charity (B) The Holy Trinity (C) Jesus (D) The Good Samaritan Answer: C “Piers Plowman,” a Middle English poem by William Langland, is a quest that occurs within dream visions that satirize secular and religious figures corrupted by greed. The poem is divided into sections called passus , La…
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beautiful lines from literature- 1
Spring come to you at the farthest. In the very end of harvest - The Tempest by William Shakespeare Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever - From th…
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Edward Albee (1928-2016)
Edward Albee has written and directed some of the greatest plays of modern American drama. He won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award for ‘Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?’(1962) and went on to win three Pulitzer prizes, for ‘A Delicate Balance’ (1966), ‘Seascape’ (1975) and ‘Three tall Women (1994). In his early plays such as The zoo Story (1958) and …
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Patrick White (1912-1990)
Australian Poet, Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, was born in England. The first Australian writer to achieve The Nobel Prize for literature in 1973. Notable Novels Happy Valley (1939) The Living and The Dead (1941) The Aunt's Story (1948) The Tree of Man (1955) Voss (1957) Riders in The Chariot (1961) The Solid Mandala (1966) The Eye of The Storm…
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Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
List of works in chronological order · Things Fall Apart (1958) · No Longer at Ease (1960) · Arrow of God (1964) · A Man of the People (1966) · Anthills of the Savannah (1987) He is regarded as the founding father of modern African literature. His novels are noted for the effects of western customs and values on traditional African society. While his mother…
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