This document provides information about Kunvarani Nidhi K's literary theory paper on diaspora, psychoanalytical criticism, Marxist criticism, and eco-criticism. It defines key terms like diaspora, provides an overview of psychoanalytical criticism including Freudian examples, explains Marxist criticism and its aims, and defines eco-criticism and provides an example of its application. It also includes bibliographic information about M.H. Abrams and cites a poem by Sujata Bhatt as an example of diaspora literature.

1. NAME: KUNVARANI NIDHI K
PAPER: LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
TOPIC : DIASPORA,PSYCHOANALYTICAL
CRITICISM,MARXIST CRITICISM,ECO-CRITICISM
S .T. D : M.A-(SEM.2)
ROLL.NO:11
ALLOTTED TO: RESPECTED SIR, DR. DILIP BARAD
H EENABA ZALA &
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH.
MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVSINHJI
UNIVERSITY.
BHAVNAGAR.

2. M. H. Abrams the great
writer of criticism.
He was the member of the
English Department at Cornell
university.
‘A Glossary of Literary Terms’
the great work of him. And, it
is first published in 1957.
This book used in discussing
literature, Literary history, and
literary criticism

3. What is the meaning of
‘Diaspora’???
 ‘ Diaspora’ is the word come from
Greek (Egypt) word
διαςπορά(‘Diaspora’). It means
“scattering dispersion”. it is related with
the story of ‘Jews’ in the Hebrew bible.
 It is movement of migration in which
people has to migrate from their
homeland to host-land. Though people
crave for their motherland that is called
‘Diaspora’.
Homeland
Host-land

4.  Search for My Tongue
-By Sujata Bhatt
‘you ask me what I mean
by saying I have lost my tongue.
I ask you, what would you do
If you had two tongues in your mouth,
And lost the first one, the mother tongue
And could not really know the other
The foreign tongue.
You could not use them both together
even if you thought that way.
And if you lived in a place you had to
Speak a foreign tongue,

5. Conti…
Your mother tongue would rot,
Rot and die in your mouth
Until you had to spit it out.
I thought I spit it out
but overnight while I dream,
It grows back, a stump of a shoot
grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins,
It ties the other tongue in knots,
The bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth,
It pushes the other tongue aside.
Every time I think I’ve forgotten,
I think I’ve lost the mother tongue,
It blossoms out of my mouth.’

6.  what is psychoanalytical criticism?
 In 1920s psychological literary
criticism has come to be as a
psychoanalytical criticism.
The word established by sigmund
Freud (1856-1939).
‘psychoanalytical criticism means
analysis and therapy for neuroses,
but after developments and practices
in the history of civilization, including
warfare, mythology and religion as
well as literature and other arts also.
What Freudian psychoanalytic
critics do??
Freudian psychoanalytic criticism:
example=
1. ‘Hamlet’

7. What is Marxist Criticism?
 The Marxist Approach is based on the theories of
the philosopher Karl Marx(1818-83). These theories
were developed specifically to analyze how society
functions where there is constant change.
German philosopher Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels Were joint founder of this school of the
thought.
Aim of Marxism:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Bring about a classless society
M eans of production
Distribution
Exchange.

What Marxist critics do?

An Example of Marxist Criticism:.
1.
Twelfth Night

8. What is the meaning of
‘Eco-criticism’?
Eco-criticism known as Environment criticism or Green studies.
Eco-criticism is a study of culture and cultural products that is in
some way connected with the human relationship to the natural world
.Eco-criticism heralded Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm in 1990.
What Eco-critics do?
An Example of Eco-Criticism:
1.
Thomas Hardy’s poem :’In time of “The Breaking of Nations”.