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About the Poet Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist linked to the early 20th-century Imagist movement. Her writing frequently delves into themes like gender, identity, mythology, and spirituality. Drawing significant inspiration from Greek mythology, she used it to reflect on modern issues. Analysis Helen of Troy is a central… Read More »Helen by H.D. Analysis

About the poet Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist linked to the early 20th-century Imagist movement. Her writing frequently delves into themes like gender, identity, mythology, and spirituality. Drawing significant inspiration from Greek mythology, she used it to reflect on modern issues. The poem Eurydice was first published in… Read More »Eurydice by H.D. Summary

The History of Sexuality is a four-volume work by French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault that explores the concept of sexuality in Western society. In this study, Foucault investigates how “sexuality” emerged as a distinct discursive object and became a separate sphere of human life.  Foucault challenged the idea that sexuality was repressed during the… Read More »Repressive Hypothesis by Michel Foucault

In her influential work Can the Subaltern Speak?, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak examines how marginalized groups, particularly women, are silenced by systems of power. She highlights two types of representation. The first, “representation as speaking for,” involves political advocacy, where a leader or figure speaks on behalf of the oppressed. The second, “re-presentation,” refers to the… Read More »Story of Bhubaneshwri Bhaduri in Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak?

In his essay Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasia Disturbances, Roman Jakobson argues that language has a bipolar structure, shifting between the poles of metaphor and metonymy.  Some people have a condition called ‘selection deficiency’ or ‘similarity disorder,’ where they struggle to pick the right words and rely heavily on the context… Read More »Metaphor and Metonymy according to Roman Jakobson

Defamiliarization is an artistic technique that presents ordinary things in a strange or unfamiliar way, encouraging audiences to see them from a new perspective. This concept has influenced 20th-century art and theory, shaping movements like Dadaism, postmodernism, and epic theatre. The term “defamiliarization” was first introduced in 1917 by Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky in his… Read More »Defamiliarisation by Viktor Shklovsky