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At the crossroads of physical reality and an imagined, temporally & spatially unperturbed reality... more At the crossroads of physical reality and an imagined, temporally & spatially unperturbed reality lies the category of nonfiction literature. Over the years, the credibility, the method of delivery, and other elements of nonfiction literature have been contested on various grounds. In an attempt to understand the fictional universe of nonfiction literature, as well as create a base to further study the cognitive effects and affects of the same, this paper aims to study three texts that are embodiments of three distinct styles of nonfictional narrative. One, a compilation of letters situated in the 1940s and 50s, exchanged between V.S. Naipaul and his family; the second, a memoir of an author – Joan Didion, in the form of new journalism, which recounts in a nonfictional manner, the fictional dilemmas of her late husband; finally, the third, another exchange of letters, however, based on ideas of insurgency and strewn with multiple perspectives on acts societally understood as ‘illegal’. It can be said, at the onset, that nonfictional narratives are diverse fields in which the mind is allowed to wander, yet still stay restricted within the space. These texts will serve to primarily create a reference point through which theoretical bases on narrative, representation, identity, and writing styles will intercept the multiple layers within the texts and bring about a roughly defined idea of the relationship between the humanities, the human, and nonfiction literature. In an exploration of this, and other concepts associated and intermittent, the paper aims to resolve one pertinent question on the ability of nonfictional literature to manifest in the minds of readers as fictional, while resting on the thesis that nonfictional literature is a means to creatively and explicitly express the real world that its writers and readers inhabit. It is not a form that is unchanging in the temporal sense, rather, one that moulds itself to creating an understanding of the current world we inhabit through the lens of a world that did exist.
Understanding Genre In Music
Understanding and Situating Indian Children's Literature within the Culture Studies Context
The Discover India Program (Initiative of FLAME) by Karan Kumar
This report was created for the Discover India Program 2014-15, at The Foundation for Liberal And... more This report was created for the Discover India Program 2014-15, at The Foundation for Liberal And Management Education, Pune. It documents and analyses a ritualistic art form indigenous to a community known as the Theeyadi Nambiars in Kerala. It traces it's historical development, the socio - cultural and religious impacts of the ritual.
All Intellectual Property Within This Belongs To The Authors And The Foundation for Liberal And Management Education, Pune.
At the crossroads of physical reality and an imagined, temporally & spatially unperturbed reality... more At the crossroads of physical reality and an imagined, temporally & spatially unperturbed reality lies the category of nonfiction literature. Over the years, the credibility, the method of delivery, and other elements of nonfiction literature have been contested on various grounds. In an attempt to understand the fictional universe of nonfiction literature, as well as create a base to further study the cognitive effects and affects of the same, this paper aims to study three texts that are embodiments of three distinct styles of nonfictional narrative. One, a compilation of letters situated in the 1940s and 50s, exchanged between V.S. Naipaul and his family; the second, a memoir of an author – Joan Didion, in the form of new journalism, which recounts in a nonfictional manner, the fictional dilemmas of her late husband; finally, the third, another exchange of letters, however, based on ideas of insurgency and strewn with multiple perspectives on acts societally understood as ‘illegal’. It can be said, at the onset, that nonfictional narratives are diverse fields in which the mind is allowed to wander, yet still stay restricted within the space. These texts will serve to primarily create a reference point through which theoretical bases on narrative, representation, identity, and writing styles will intercept the multiple layers within the texts and bring about a roughly defined idea of the relationship between the humanities, the human, and nonfiction literature. In an exploration of this, and other concepts associated and intermittent, the paper aims to resolve one pertinent question on the ability of nonfictional literature to manifest in the minds of readers as fictional, while resting on the thesis that nonfictional literature is a means to creatively and explicitly express the real world that its writers and readers inhabit. It is not a form that is unchanging in the temporal sense, rather, one that moulds itself to creating an understanding of the current world we inhabit through the lens of a world that did exist.
Understanding Genre In Music
Understanding and Situating Indian Children's Literature within the Culture Studies Context
This report was created for the Discover India Program 2014-15, at The Foundation for Liberal And... more This report was created for the Discover India Program 2014-15, at The Foundation for Liberal And Management Education, Pune. It documents and analyses a ritualistic art form indigenous to a community known as the Theeyadi Nambiars in Kerala. It traces it's historical development, the socio - cultural and religious impacts of the ritual.
All Intellectual Property Within This Belongs To The Authors And The Foundation for Liberal And Management Education, Pune.