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Literary Criticism as a Shared Set of Measurement

Naseem Achakzai, M.Phil.

Abstract

When I started working on Shakespeare's use of five senses, on Ph.D. level I felt as though I was nothing but an agent that merely activated the purpose of the author. Particularly, of that author who once had put a purpose in his works as a performing quality of a device. I stand nowhere in front of this giant of all times, called William Shakespeare, though I am merely an admirer of his text. I am just a worshiping soul of an 'intension' in the shade of his basic meanings. His fundamental implication had the command of poetry that grew to be the authority of each modern time in movement.

How far it is accurate, but I devotedly tried to re-articulate what I felt being existed in Shakespearean works in form of a reader and it was not easy to overcome the cultural and social distance I had with Shakespeare.

Above all, to interpret him in his historical, political and social montages, the only device that could enable me to come nearer to his signs was the universality he still holds in his works and his works would always synchronize or make a point of rendezvous of all social, political and cultural variations of the world. This is the reason that I did not feel any social or moral distance in working between the creative lines of his five tragedies and my single question. This task was full of pleasure.

I had to survive critics' opinions, showering terms and their shades of past and present, but the only skill that equipped me well was the 'scientific theory' I applied on Shakespeare, which gave a birth to this present research paper.

Introduction

A scholar is not as free as he was hundred years ago. He has to follow a few testified rules to justify his work in a specifically designed frame. A scholar has to attempt his single question with the help of a selected theory and methodology. It is not fashion but is the dress up of the discourse of community of knowledge to follow the etiquettes what Matthew Arnold and T. S. Eliot set up to value literature with.

This study in Shakespearean poetics will turn reader's concentration into a single word 'sign'. Sign, not only from its mythological attachment but from a technical viewpoint, will be dealt in this task. Its Linguistic legitimacy will also be promoted, which provides a source of arrangement to trace out the meaning of writing art in its theoretical bent of configurations: to find an ocean, though with its 'shifting' bent in a drop of sign what 'language' or 'word' in Linguistics means.

It sounds as though a scholar has to break an atom into pieces to find out the answer of a single inquiry: Does Shakespearean poetics, in its practical and cognitive dimensions, generate the value of thought through sensory perceptions? So, this systematic task will find scientific way around the riddle that a single question all over Shakespearean poetics creates.

A single grain or gravel of solitary inquiry makes hundreds of circles of myth, history, linguistics, philosophy, mental space theory, social phenomena and social mannerism.

Workings of Language and Developed Theories

A specific scientific mechanism in this undertaken task will also classify and analyze each communicating sense from Vision to Touch and Taste in its procedure from latent potentiality of sensory perceptions into patent signs of meanings, in Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear.

This responsibility will build up a bridge of values with the help of the studies and findings of the seniors in this specific field to move technically and transparently safe with the methodology of 'qualitative research'.

I'll try to cross the maze of philosophy, myth, linguistics and other methods to achieve the mode of expansive signs (with their meanings) of human manners, feelings and emotions within the frames of the means of perceptual ability. This whole tuning will be tested with a selected theory of cognitive poetics, showing how Shakespearean art synchronizes with the operative value and cognitive strength of thought in its concreteness and its link to the senses.

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