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MA In Sanskrit: Course, Fees, Admission, Syllabus, Career

The MA in Sanskrit is a post-graduate program that focuses on examining the linguistics and ancient history of India. Sanskrit, prominently known as the conventional language of Hinduism with ties to Buddhism, has its origins dating back to 1200 BCE. This language serves as the original medium for religious texts and Vedas in Indian culture, offering an extensive study of these ancient subjects.

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aimlayworldwide · 6 months

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What is PhD thesis in English literature?

A PhD thesis in English literature represents the culmination of years of academic research and is a significant milestone in the life of any aspiring scholar. This lengthy and intricate document serves as a testament to the candidate's expertise, dedication, and contribution to the field of English literature. In this 1000-word essay, we will delve into the essence of a PhD thesis in English literature, its purpose, structure, and the journey that leads to its completion.

A PhD thesis in English literature is an extensive research project that aims to make a substantial and original contribution to the field. It is the final step in a doctoral candidate's academic journey, and it demonstrates their ability to conduct independent research, think critically, and engage with the existing body of literature. The thesis serves as a platform for scholars to explore, analyze, and advance the knowledge in their chosen area of interest within the realm of English literature.

Purpose of a PhD Thesis in English Literature

The purpose of a PhD thesis in English literature is multifaceted. First and foremost, it is a means for the candidate to showcase their expertise in the subject matter. This expertise is honed through years of rigorous study, coursework, and, most importantly, the extensive research conducted during the doctoral program. The thesis allows the candidate to demonstrate their mastery of the subject, including their understanding of literary theory, research methodologies, and critical analysis.

Furthermore, a PhD thesis is a contribution to the existing body of knowledge. It should offer fresh insights, innovative perspectives, and new interpretations of literary texts or themes. Scholars are encouraged to explore uncharted territories within the realm of English literature, shedding light on overlooked works, authors, or themes. In this way, a thesis adds to the ever-evolving discourse in the field.

Structure of a PhD Thesis in English literature

The structure of a PhD thesis in English literature typically follows a well-defined pattern. While there may be some variations depending on the university's guidelines and the candidate's specific focus, the following elements are generally included:

Introduction: This section provides an overview of the research topic, its significance, and the research questions the thesis aims to answer.

Literature Review: A comprehensive review of existing literature and scholarship related to the research topic. This section serves as the foundation for the candidate's research, demonstrating their knowledge of the field's current state.

Theoretical Framework: Here, the candidate outlines the theoretical framework that will guide their analysis and interpretation of the literary texts.

Methodology: A description of the research methods employed, including data collection, data analysis, and any other relevant procedures.

Chapters or Sections: The body of the thesis is composed of several chapters or sections, each addressing a specific aspect of the research topic. These chapters may include critical analysis, close readings of literary texts, and discussions of themes or motifs.

Conclusion: The final chapter summarizes the main findings, discusses their implications, and suggests avenues for future research.

Bibliography: A comprehensive list of all the sources, both primary and secondary, used in the research.

Appendices: Any additional materials, such as transcripts, questionnaires, or illustrations, are included in the appendices.

The journey towards completing a PhD thesis in English literature is arduous and demanding. It begins with the selection of a research topic, a process that can take considerable time and thought. Candidates must choose a topic that both excites their intellectual curiosity and offers a significant contribution to the field.

Once the topic is chosen, the candidate embarks on an extensive literature review, delving into existing research to identify gaps and opportunities for their own contribution. They formulate research questions and hypotheses, develop a research plan, and select the appropriate methodology for their study.

The data collection and analysis phase can take several years, as it involves reading and analyzing literary texts, conducting interviews or surveys, and critically engaging with the materials. This process demands a high level of dedication, as scholars must balance their research with other academic responsibilities, such as teaching, coursework, or publishing.

Throughout this journey, candidates often receive guidance and feedback from their advisors or supervisory committees, who help refine the research and ensure it aligns with the highest academic standards. The process culminates in the composition of the thesis, which can be a daunting task in itself.

In the end, the completion of a PhD thesis in English literature is a momentous achievement, reflecting not only the candidate's academic prowess but also their perseverance, critical thinking abilities, and contribution to the field. It is a testament to the vitality of the discipline and the enduring quest to uncover new insights and interpretations within the rich tapestry of English literature.

Conclusion

A PhD thesis in English literature is a significant undertaking that represents the culmination of years of rigorous study, research, and critical thinking. Its purpose is to showcase the candidate's expertise, contribute to the field's body of knowledge, and provide fresh perspectives on literary texts and themes. The structure of the thesis follows a standard pattern, with an introduction, literature review, theoretical framework, methodology, chapters, conclusion, bibliography, and appendices. The journey towards completing a thesis is a demanding one, requiring dedication, intellectual curiosity, and the guidance of mentors. Ultimately, the completion of a PhD thesis in English literature is a testament to the candidate's academic prowess and their enduring commitment to advancing the discipline.

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eighteenthcenturyfiction · 1 year

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Special issue of the journal

I'm working on production files for the upcoming special issue of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction entitled "New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808)." A sneak peek: screencap of my layout program, the table of contents pictured here. This ECF issue will be published in January 2023. #18thCentury #WhatWeDo #19thCentury

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midgardmaiden · 4 years

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[10/22/20]

A weathered well loved copy of Paradise Lost, and a new one for my literature course on Transgressions and Atonement this semester. The previous owner seemed to really enjoy Satan’s character, and I must admit I like him too.

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literarystudies · 6 years

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• 4 October 2018 •

Started reading Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and I’m trying to find an analysis that isn’t centred on the psychological and philosophical aspects of the underground man. Folks. The struggle. I’m more interested in how he shapes our perceptions as the narrator, but I can’t seem to find anything. Hopefully I‘ll find something in the depths of JSTOR.

(hmu if you know of something interesting about narrative POV in Dostoevsky’s novels.)

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linguistics-studies · 6 years

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mon • october 1st, 2018

08/100 days of productivity

sorry for my unannounced hiatus, life + school + work drain me all week. on other news, i have the first exam of the semester today and tbh i didn't study much (i crammed instead) but I'm trying to stay positive. wish me luck!

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anoceanofweaknessesandfears · 6 years

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May this be just the beginning of something bigger. Thanks Anita, it was a wild ride. Thanks Laurell K. Hamilton, it was a weird summer. Thanks Dr. Murphy, I will never forget this experience. The Trinity College Adventure ends today. #Dissertation #TCD #laurellkhamilton #guiltypleasures #AnitaBlake #AnitaBlakeseries #mphil #trinitycollegedublin #humanities #popularliterature #literarystudies #finalthesis #master #book #urbanfantasy #mythology #vampires #witches #shapeshifters #monsters https://www.instagram.com/p/BnIsQCIH2fP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mp6960zklyjg

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generallygothic · 6 years

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Time to roll up your black, velvet, elaborately laced sleeves! 📷 Repost from @irishgothicjournal . #generallygothic #gothic #gothicliterature #gothicfiction #irishgothic #irishgothicjournal #gothicacademic #gothicism #callforpapers #academic #conference #conferencepaper #monstrosity #fear #comparativeliterature #englishliterature #literature #literarystudies #literarycriticism

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sonkido · 4 years

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magikalgaming · 4 years

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Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing show up at the door after an “extended leave of absence.” You make them lead the toast. They don’t know what the party’s for.

Drink of choice: Vacation Juice

You (player) may have more in common with Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge’s (TMoC) Micheal Henchard than you think. Have you recently gotten drunk on rum soaked oatmeal and sold your wife and child to a passing sailor for five guineas? No? Have you decided to run from your problems and into the warm embrace of leadership and success that is being the mayor of a town? Great! You and Micheal Henchard have an understanding.

One of the best things video games have going for them is the ability to temporarily embody a character in a virtual story. Nintendo’s Animal Crossing series is famous for its unstructured and vague protagonists (human despite the town’s villagers being sentient animals in houses), as well as its domestic, pastoral aesthetics. Though most of the games in this series do not have a set of end goals, the overarching push is to pay off your house loans, better the town, and welcome new residents. Collectible mini-games like catching fish and bugs, as well as buying clothes and furniture, aim to keep the player busy while they raise enough money for projects. For the sake of simplicity, this analysis will focus on Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (AC: NL / NH).

Both TMoC and AC: NL / NH feature protagonists whose pasts are unknown to the new communities they join. Though Henchard works his way up to become mayor, AC’s protagonists are handed the responsibility of revitalizing and gentrifying the land with little to no qualifications (aside from enthusiasm). Both games likewise touch on the relationship between capitalism and personal identity. Henchard’s debts cause him to sell his wife, an action that haunts him into his wealthy new life. AC’s debts exist with the start of the game, as it is impossible to avoid taking out a loan from the business tycoon, Tom Nook, in order to build a home. Once this loan is paid in full, Nook offers an expansion, and then another expansion, and another, until paying it becomes normalized.

Though AC is a stylistically charming and child-friendly game, certain qualities can spark anxiety, stress, and even horror. Ashley Brown’s “Animal Crossing: New Leaf and the Diversity of Horror in Video Games” posits:

[t]he NPCs’ desire and admiration for space and symbolic wealth, combined with the loans involved in house expansions since they cannot be made in cash beforehand and only in credit afterwards, evokes anxiety and create a sense of ineffectualness simultaneously. The goals successful adults are meant to achieve, such as being debt-free homeowners, are always just out of reach. (12)

Torn between funding a new bridge and paying off their never-ending mortgage, the loan becomes an addictive, haunting feature of this series. The capitalist desire for what is bigger and better lures players the same way gambling and drinking lures Henchard into debt. (In fact, a feature new to the AC series allows players to play a stock market of turnips. The prices fluctuate according to day and island, encouraging players to buy turnips up at low prices and wait to sell when the exchange rate is high.)

In a sort of manifest destiny or John Lockean philosophy, AC relies on the idea that the natural word and its creatures are available for anyone to catch, kill, or take. Ian Bogost’s “The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing” asserts “pastoralism and capitalism coexist perfectly” within the gameplay and game narrative. Unlike past games, AC: NH features the colonization of an uninhabited island. Aside from manicuring, decorating, and even terraforming your island, players are able to visit other uninhabited islands with a Nook Miles Ticket. The Nook Miles Ticket can be purchased only with Tom Nooks reward points. You can earn these points by doing anything from changing your clothes to catching a ton of bugs. The Nook Miles Ticket is intended to provide players an opportunity to pillage a new island of its resources and return home. In this way, the rewards system for gentrifying your island leads to the decimation of another.

Do you see where I’m going with this? While Henchard certainly doesn’t discover Casterbridge nor pillage a neighboring village for resources, Casterbridge serves as a rural, agricultural hub on the verge of being manufactured. Henchard’s interest and business growth brings wealth to the town, and although that wealth does not last, it and his reputation are enough to attempt to repair his past mistakes. As a “man of character” would do, he asks his ex-wife (who has found him) to remarry. At the same time, a Scotsman on the way to England with great knowledge of his business offers game-changing advice, for which Henchard begs him to come work alongside him. Farfrae (the Scotsman) and Henchard enter a relationship not dissimilar to Tom Nook and the player. Both are entirely tied to the growth of their towns and businesses.

In this way, the development of the town/island in AC and the business in TMoC is more important than character development. The towns, as systems, operate within a structure of authority that place the protagonists at the top. The characters interact with the town capitalistically and with a Lockean philosophy in order to alter it and themselves. For Henchard, this is to become a “man of character.” For AC players, it’s for virtual creation and control. Are not both attempts to have power over a community and reify self-worth? Are we not always trying to recreate ourselves?

Credits and Sources

Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Nintendo 3DS, 2012.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Nintendo Switch, 2020.

Bogost, Ian. “The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing.” The Atlantic, 2020.

Brown, Ashley. “Animal Crossing: New Leaf and the Diversity of

Horror in Video Games.” DiGRA, 2015.

Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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1. Joshalynne Finch, https://www.howtogeek.com/664088/how-to-get-started-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons/

2.goodreads.com, https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/56759.The_Mayor_of_Casterbridge

3. Se7en.ws, https://se7en.ws/animal-crossing-new-horizons-money-grinding-how-to-earn-lots-of-bells-fast/?lang=en

4. Dave Thier, https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2020/05/03/calculator-lets-face-it-turnip-prices-are-totally-broken-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons/#20ededf462a8

5. Louis Chilton, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/games/feature/animal-crossing-new-horizons-earth-day-nature-acnh-update-nintendo-a9478156.html

6. wikiwand, https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Mayor_of_Casterbridge

7. Joshalynne Finch, https://www.howtogeek.com/664195/how-to-restart-your-island-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons/

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maripinion-the-literatunista · 5 years

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(Part Three) Becoming-Minor: Ballard Revisited Through Deleuzo-Guattarian Lenses - Maripinion

UNIVERSE SIDE WITH ME! ANCESTORS WORK YOUR MAGIC! 🙏🏻

Literatunistas, the wait's over! Part Three is finally out:

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Part Three focuses on Ballard's book "Crash" (1973) and outlines a new, productive theory of psychopathology in a highly technologised culture.

"Crash" straddles the division between the natural, perceived as human life, and the cultural, determined as technological, recasting the notion of psychopathology into a more positive diagnostic basis. Given that car accidents and their ensuing wounds offer new possibilities for the sterile, uneventful sexual lives of the characters, Part Three redefines both trauma and the bodily approach to perversity. Following Deleuze's theory of symptomatology, this final section disentangles psychopathology from the false group of pathological symptoms revealing the new, creative portrait of desire and libidinal investment.

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drcisko · 5 years

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Jonathan Culler - Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (2011) These little Oxford introductions are pretty great, I'll read them about any subject whatsoever, but in this case it is actually quite a useful one. Literary theory draws its ideas from pretty much all areas in the humanities and is also influential in not only literary studies but beyond in the way we interpret culture and look at works of art, be they texts or films etc. Culler takes an interesting approach here. Instead of going through the different schools of thought he prefers to address subjects and side-step thinkers and schools. Of course these are here as well and there's a handy appendix at the end with all the different schools of thought with short descriptions, of course you also get the names of some of the more influential figures in the field, like Foucault, Judith Butler, Lacan or Derrida. What Culler does is take a subject like "What is Literature" and give disparate perspectives on it without actually committing to any answer, these perspectives map on to different schools of thought, but if you want to find out about that you will have to go somewhere else, this is an introduction after-all. Nice and useful little book. (4/5) #bookcover #bookgram #bookstagram #bookporn #bookworm #literarytheory #jonathanculler #literature #literarystudies #theory #oxford #nonfiction #bibliophile #booknerd #veryshortintroduction #oup (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxTwKTGlzDE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hz77hy1jmrlv

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midgardmaiden · 5 years

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[5/17/19]

Working my way through the first book of The Faerie Queene during a quiet breakfast.

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derstudienfreund · 7 years

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#tbt und #studytip #studyhack Im #Bachelorstudium musste ich einen #Lektürekurs belegen und mit einer #Klausur abschließen. Damit man die vielen Epochen, Strömungen und Autoren auch gut im Kopf behält, habe ich mit #komillitonen eine #Lerngruppe gebildet. Zusammen haben wir aus unseren #notizen #mindmaps erstellt, die ich dann noch am Computer verschönert habe. Und #voila , das mit dem Lernen hat super geklappt. Einige #Eselsbrücken sind mir bis heute im Kopf geblieben. 😊 📚📚📚📚📚 -- #study #studying #lernen #studentlife #studieren #germanistik #literarystudies #derstudienfreund #studyblr #studygram #prettynotes #klausurvorbereitung #lerntip #mindmap #prettymindmap

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oldenglishpoetry · 5 years

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A look inside Graves's The White Goddess. I had not heard of this book until recently, but it ended up being a linchpin of influences. Composer John Williams has quoted it in an interview, and it is in fact where he got the text for "Duel of the Fates", a Welsh poem called "Cad Goddeu" or "Battle of the Trees" (but translated to Sanskrit for the musical piece). #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #robertgraves #thewhitegoddess #cadgoddeu #battleofthetrees #duelofthefates #johnwilliams #johnwilliamsmusic #starwars #poetry #mythology #welshmythology #literarystudies @fsgbooks (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtipodJgDgg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yljawyf158n1

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