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Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe as a Travel novel Written by Sourav  Subscribe my YouTube channel Sourav Omnibus Travel literature of the eighteenth century was grounded on the act of journeying and the narrative format of the everyday Englishman stranded in a foreign land. It was felt that a man’s surroundings were what shaped his character. At the time trade was being expanded and more territory was being opened up abroad, influencing the travel narrative in terms of the themes it dealt with. It is nearly impossible to discuss the eighteenth century fiction and nonfiction without speaking of travel. Its protagonists’ journeys so often give impetus and form to their stories. The travels of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy come to mind when we speak about the eighteenth century English Literature. The spirit of the eighteenth century could best be seen in travel literature. English people began to travel throughout Europe for self-disco...

This Blog is written by Sourav Das - www.YouTube.com/Souravomnibus Subscribe my YouTube channel Sourav Omnibus for English literature.  Some aspects of Indianess as reflected in Nissim Ezekiel's 'Night of the Scorpion' and 'Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.' and A.K. Ramanujan's 'Ecology'.  ‘Night of the Scorpion' is one of the finest poems of Nissim Ezekiel and has been universally admired , for its admirable depiction of a common Indian situation , for its vivid and forceful imagery , for its bringing together of opposite , for it’s ironic contrasts , and for the warmth of human love and affection. It should that Ezekiel is a very Indian poet, rooted in the Indian soil ,and actually aware of the common human situation of  Indian life. The poet's mother stung by a scorpion is given multiple treatment, bringing in its sweep the world of magic and superstition, science , rationality and material affection. Let us begin by reading the poem. 'N...