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Assignment of paper no 5: Difference between Classicism and Romanticism To evaluate my assignment click here Name: Rudrika Gohel Course: M.A. English Sem: 2 Batch: 2017-2019 Roll No: 31 Enrollment No: 2069108420180015 Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU Email Id: rudrikagohel97@gmail.com Paper No: 5 Topic: Difference between Classicism and Romanticism Introduction :-                         Classicisms and Romanticists differed in their views of nature. Classicism was based on the idea that nature and human nature could be understood by reason and thought. On the other hand, Romanticists viewed nature as mysterious and ever changing. Classicist believed that “nature was, a self-contained machine, like a watch, whose laws of operation could be rationally understood.”  Romantic writes believed that nature is an ever changing living organism, who...

Thinking activity on contemporary issues Yes, everyday we confront with many debates related to  liberals', 'nationalism', 'populism', 'greatest challenge to Democracy', 'intellectual honesty', 'literature and morality', political correctness and freedom', and 'technology', in our cultural studies and many debates goes on, but no body has solutions. Mario Vargas Llosa is promotes liberal thoughts, but are we really liberal? Political correctness is enemy of freedom, if we praise them who are in the power and position it is political correctness  and it is the enemy of freedom, it also rejects honesty and authenticity. Mario Vargas Llosa   expounds on his theories of freedom and the individuals. The attacks on libral thought, it is the abserdity of political correctness. Liberalism defend some basic ideas freedom, individualism, the rejection of collectivism and nationalism. Thank you.... 

Cultural studies: media, power and truly educated person. Cultural studies believes that the 'culture' of community includes various aspects: economic, spatial, ideological, erotic, political. Culture is all about power, or culture is produced. Cultural studies focuses on mass or popular culture. The next question raises that what is power? Power is the ability to make others do what you would have them do. It can be family, work place, relationship.. The dynamics of power are never static. Power is not like evil, from which we have feel some anxiety, but it's like a fire.  Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding, set the scene for cultural studies of media ( his work on ideology, cultural identity and others are discussed). The essay argued that meanings within texts-songs, paintings, television soaps, are organised through the operation of certain 'codes'. ➤ 6 source of civic power:- 1. Physical force 2. Wealth 3. State action 4. Social norm...

 Thinking activity on Deconstruction Derrida used deconstruction, but he can not finally define deconstruction. ➲But we have question that why deconstruction is very difficult? Or it is a negative term. ➧ Derrida becomes very difficult to read and that is the one reason, why deconstruction was difficult idea to define or to understand. Derrida also says that deconstruction is not destructive activity, but an inquiry in to the causes of intellectual system, it is one impreasion not negative impression. ➤ Binay Oppositions which gives us worldview. Derrida point out that western philosophy is built on the different binary oppositions, like human language is built upon differences as Saussure point out. ➧Derrida combines two terms: differ and defer. In French one word is used to imply both. Derrida drawing attention towards difference between speech and writing. The word Difference, if we write it with A Diffarance and with E,  we can never pronounce it...