Which Russian critic's Morphology of the Folktale (1928) identified 31 narrative functions common to all fairy tales?
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12%
Boris Tomashevsky
37%
Viktor Shklovsky
7%
Yuri Lotman
43%
Vladimir Propp
📚 THIS DAY IN LITERATURE — April 25
On this day in 1719, Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe. It is often called the first English novel. ✍️
The story is simple: a man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and survives alone for 28 years. Defoe wrote it in the first person, making it feel like a real diary.
But here is why it matters so much. 👇
Robinson Crusoe is the second most translated book in history, after the Bible. It inspired an entire genre called the "Robinsonade" — survival stories on islands. Without it, there would be no Swiss Family Robinson, no Lord of the Flies, no Cast Away.
One book. Published on this day. And it invented a genre that is still alive today. 🔥
"I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York."
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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On this day in 1719, Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe. It is often called the first English novel. ✍️
The story is simple: a man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and survives alone for 28 years. Defoe wrote it in the first person, making it feel like a real diary.
But here is why it matters so much. 👇
Robinson Crusoe is the second most translated book in history, after the Bible. It inspired an entire genre called the "Robinsonade" — survival stories on islands. Without it, there would be no Swiss Family Robinson, no Lord of the Flies, no Cast Away.
One book. Published on this day. And it invented a genre that is still alive today. 🔥
"I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York."
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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Jack Halberstam's concept of 'queer time' proposes what alternative to normative temporality?
Anonymous Quiz
3%
Accelerated capitalist time
85%
Lives not organised around longevity, reproduction, or accumulation
5%
Circular time
6%
Time structured around reproduction
Which feminist theorist's Gender Trouble (1990) argues that sex itself — not just gender — is discursively constructed?
Anonymous Quiz
12%
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
5%
Joan Scott
12%
Donna Haraway
71%
Judith Butler
📚 THIS DAY IN LITERATURE — April 26
On this day, we celebrate the legacy of Shakespeare's baptism — he was baptized on April 26, 1564, which is the first recorded date of his life. ✍️
But today we also remember Indian English literature and the great Mulk Raj Anand. His novel Untouchable (1935) was one of the first Indian novels in English to deal with caste discrimination.
Here is the powerful connection. 👇
Anand's Untouchable follows one day in the life of Bakha, a young sweeper. The novel was rejected by 19 publishers before E.M. Forster wrote a preface for it and helped get it published in London.
Forster called it "a true picture of life." Anand proved that Indian stories deserved a place in world literature. 🔥
"The barriers of caste are getting broken daily."
— Mulk Raj Anand
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On this day, we celebrate the legacy of Shakespeare's baptism — he was baptized on April 26, 1564, which is the first recorded date of his life. ✍️
But today we also remember Indian English literature and the great Mulk Raj Anand. His novel Untouchable (1935) was one of the first Indian novels in English to deal with caste discrimination.
Here is the powerful connection. 👇
Anand's Untouchable follows one day in the life of Bakha, a young sweeper. The novel was rejected by 19 publishers before E.M. Forster wrote a preface for it and helped get it published in London.
Forster called it "a true picture of life." Anand proved that Indian stories deserved a place in world literature. 🔥
"The barriers of caste are getting broken daily."
— Mulk Raj Anand
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Which Tamil Sangam anthology is known as 'The Ten Long Poems' (Pattupattu)?
Anonymous Quiz
9%
Tirukkural
17%
Ettuttokai
49%
Tolkappiyam
26%
Pattupattu
Gerard Genette's taxonomy of narrative time — order, duration, frequency — appears in which work?
Anonymous Quiz
10%
Paratexts
73%
Narrative Discourse
12%
The Architext
5%
Palimpsests
📚 THIS DAY IN LITERATURE — April 27
On this day, we remember the birth of New Historicism — a literary theory that changed how we study texts. ✍️
Stephen Greenblatt, the founder of New Historicism, showed us that literature cannot be separated from the time it was written. A Shakespeare play is not just a work of art. It is also a product of Elizabethan politics, economics, and power.
Here is the key difference from old criticism. 👇
Old historicists saw history as background. New Historicists see history and literature as intertwined. Both shape each other. Greenblatt's book Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980) changed Shakespeare studies forever.
For UGC NET, remember: New Historicism treats literature as a window into power structures. 🔥
"There is no literature without history, no history without literature."
— Stephen Greenblatt
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On this day, we remember the birth of New Historicism — a literary theory that changed how we study texts. ✍️
Stephen Greenblatt, the founder of New Historicism, showed us that literature cannot be separated from the time it was written. A Shakespeare play is not just a work of art. It is also a product of Elizabethan politics, economics, and power.
Here is the key difference from old criticism. 👇
Old historicists saw history as background. New Historicists see history and literature as intertwined. Both shape each other. Greenblatt's book Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980) changed Shakespeare studies forever.
For UGC NET, remember: New Historicism treats literature as a window into power structures. 🔥
"There is no literature without history, no history without literature."
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Which Anglo-Saxon poem contains the lines known as 'The Wife's Lament'?
Anonymous Quiz
20%
Beowulf
40%
The Exeter Book
28%
The Junius Manuscript
11%
The Vercelli Book
Homi Bhabha's concept of 'mimicry' in colonial discourse describes what phenomenon?
Anonymous Quiz
77%
A resemblance 'almost the same but not quite', both resembling and menacing the coloniser
13%
The coloniser imitating native customs
2%
Literary parody of imperial texts
9%
Natives perfectly copying colonial culture
📚 THIS DAY IN LITERATURE — April 28
On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She grew up next door to a boy named Truman Capote. They became lifelong friends. ✍️
Lee published only one novel in her lifetime that she actively promoted: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). It won the Pulitzer Prize and has sold over 40 million copies. It is still taught in schools around the world.
But here is what few people know. 👇
Lee based the character of Atticus Finch on her own father, a lawyer in Alabama. And the character Dill was based on her childhood friend Truman Capote. She later helped Capote research his book In Cold Blood.
One novel. One voice. And it changed how America talked about race. 🔥
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She grew up next door to a boy named Truman Capote. They became lifelong friends. ✍️
Lee published only one novel in her lifetime that she actively promoted: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). It won the Pulitzer Prize and has sold over 40 million copies. It is still taught in schools around the world.
But here is what few people know. 👇
Lee based the character of Atticus Finch on her own father, a lawyer in Alabama. And the character Dill was based on her childhood friend Truman Capote. She later helped Capote research his book In Cold Blood.
One novel. One voice. And it changed how America talked about race. 🔥
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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