Anjali Rathod

    Cultural Study                       Unit 3&4  This blog is written on the ground as a task assigned by H.O.D Dilip Barad sir Department of English M.K.B.U. In this particular blog  write about Cultural study is applied in the reading of the novel “Frankeinstein”.  Cultural study Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry that emerged in the late 20th century and encompasses a wide range of topics related to culture, society, and power. It draws on theories and methods from various disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, literary theory, media studies, and cultural anthropology, to analyze and interpret the ways in which culture shapes and is shaped by social, political, economic, and historical factors. Cultural study is applied in the reading of the novel “Frankenstein” Cultural Studies, as an interdisciplin...

  Cultural Study Unit 2 Welcome readers! This blog post is a response to a thinking activity assigned by Dilip BArad Sir from the Department of English at MKBU. This blog is about New Historicism.                                              New Historicism New Historicism, a literary theory influenced by Stephen Greenblatt and Michel Foucault, asserts that understanding literature requires examining both the historical context of the author and the critic. It acknowledges the reciprocal influence between a work of literature and the circumstances of its creation, as well as the impact of the critic's environment, beliefs, and biases on their interpretation. In the New Historicist approach, literature is scrutinized within a broader historical framework, exploring h...

                                        Cultural Study                                  Unit 1  Welcome readers! This blog post is a response to a thinking activity assigned by Dilip Barad sir , from the Department of English at MKBU. This blog is a part of our thinking activity.                                    Power in Cultural Studies What is Cultural Study ? Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines and analyzes the ways in which culture, including popular culture, media, literature, art, and everyday practices, shapes and is shaped by...

  Digital Humanities This blog is a task assigned by Dilip Barad sir. In this particular blog I am going to discuss Digital Humanities.   Introduction The definition of the digital humanities is being continually formulated by scholars and practitioners. Since the field is constantly growing and changing, specific definitions can quickly become outdated or unnecessarily limit future potential.  The second volume of Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016) acknowledges the difficulty in defining the field: "Along with the digital archives, quantitative analyses, and tool-building projects that once characterized the field, DH now encompasses a wide range of methods and practices: visualizations of large image sets, 3D modeling of historical artifacts, 'born digital' dissertations, hashtag activism and the analysis thereof, alternate reality games, mobile makerspaces, and more. In what has been called 'big tent' DH, it can at times be difficult to determine with any ...

    Thinking activity  The Future of Postcolonial Studies This blog is a task assigned by Dilip Barad sir. In this blog I am going to deal with Ania Loomba's two articles, and try to summarise and describe my overall understanding here in this blog. Here I describe my understanding in Postcolonial Studies, Globalization and The Future of Postcolonial Studies. What is Postcolonial Study? Postcolonial studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry that emerged in response to the historical legacies of colonialism and imperialism. This field examines the social, political, economic, and cultural implications of colonial encounters and seeks to understand how colonial histories continue to shape contemporary societies and identities.  Postcolonial studies originated primarily in the context of literature but has since expanded to encompass a wide range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and more. Key Fi...