📚✨ TERM OF THE DAY ✨📚
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📅 October 9
🔤 CHRONOTOPE
🖋️ Mikhail Bakhtin
💭 The way a novel fuses time and space into a specific, meaningful setting, such as the road or the drawing room.
📝 Bakhtin analyzed the road chronotope in the picaresque novel, where chance meetings drive the plot forward.
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📅 October 9
🔤 CHRONOTOPE
🖋️ Mikhail Bakhtin
💭 The way a novel fuses time and space into a specific, meaningful setting, such as the road or the drawing room.
📝 Bakhtin analyzed the road chronotope in the picaresque novel, where chance meetings drive the plot forward.
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Which Malayalam novelist wrote Oru Desathinte Katha (The Story of a Land)?
Anonymous Quiz
13%
O.V. Vijayan
46%
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
34%
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
7%
S.K. Pottekkatt
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Which theorist developed 'Actor-Network Theory' (ANT), treating non-human objects as active participants?
Anonymous Quiz
27%
Donna Haraway
40%
Gilles Deleuze
14%
Karen Barad
19%
Bruno Latour
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📚✨ TERM OF THE DAY ✨📚
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📅 October 10
🔤 DIALOGISM
🖋️ Mikhail Bakhtin
💭 The idea that a novel's meaning emerges from the interaction of many independent voices, none of which fully dominates.
📝 Bakhtin read Dostoevsky's novels as dialogic, letting characters' worldviews argue with each other without authorial resolution.
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📅 October 10
🔤 DIALOGISM
🖋️ Mikhail Bakhtin
💭 The idea that a novel's meaning emerges from the interaction of many independent voices, none of which fully dominates.
📝 Bakhtin read Dostoevsky's novels as dialogic, letting characters' worldviews argue with each other without authorial resolution.
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Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985) proposes the cyborg as a figure that dissolves which three boundaries?
Anonymous Quiz
72%
Human/animal, organism/machine, physical/non-physical
12%
Self/other/world
9%
Past/present/future
7%
Male/female/non-binary
Which Hindi writer authored Godan (The Gift of a Cow), considered the greatest Hindi novel about peasant life?
Anonymous Quiz
7%
Jaishankar Prasad
13%
Phanishwarnath Renu
13%
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
68%
Premchand
📚✨ TERM OF THE DAY ✨📚
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📅 October 11
🔤 FOCALIZATION
🖋️ Gerard Genette
💭 The perspective through which narrative events are filtered, distinct from who actually narrates them.
📝 Genette distinguished a story told through a child's limited focalization from one narrated in an adult's own voice.
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📅 October 11
🔤 FOCALIZATION
🖋️ Gerard Genette
💭 The perspective through which narrative events are filtered, distinct from who actually narrates them.
📝 Genette distinguished a story told through a child's limited focalization from one narrated in an adult's own voice.
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Paul Gilroy's concept of 'the Black Atlantic' proposes what?
Anonymous Quiz
6%
African diaspora cultures are purely African
15%
The Atlantic slave trade was economically insignificant
5%
European modernity is racially neutral
73%
Black identity is a transnational, hybrid formation — not rooted in a single national tradition
Which African-American critic's The Signifying Monkey (1988) theorises a Black literary tradition rooted in vernacular practices?
Anonymous Quiz
50%
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
19%
Cornel West
23%
bell hooks
8%
Houston Baker
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📚✨ TERM OF THE DAY ✨📚
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📅 October 12
🔤 DIEGESIS
🖋️ Narratology
💭 The internal world of a story's events and characters, as opposed to elements addressed directly to the audience.
📝 A character's aside to the audience breaks the diegesis by acknowledging the play is being watched.
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📅 October 12
🔤 DIEGESIS
🖋️ Narratology
💭 The internal world of a story's events and characters, as opposed to elements addressed directly to the audience.
📝 A character's aside to the audience breaks the diegesis by acknowledging the play is being watched.
Which Anglo-Saxon poem contains the lines known as 'The Wife's Lament'?
Anonymous Quiz
19%
Beowulf
42%
The Exeter Book
28%
The Junius Manuscript
11%
The Vercelli Book