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Item Clash between romantics political aspirations & philosophy of art and aesthetics(Research Journal of English Language and Literature, 2016) Rida Sarfraz; Sadia RiazThe paper extensively studies the philosophy of art and aesthetics with reference to the Romantics’ Poetry. The paper aims at exploring the English Romantics’ rapturous refuge of imaginative experience for the creation of Plato’s inspired ideal world and their flight away from stark reality. The paper unravels the ways in which Romantic poetry, especially, of William Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, bears marks of prevalent socio-politico condition. The study scrutinizes the tug of war between the Romantic aesthetics of “art for art’s sake” with its God-like dreamland of imagination and the Romantics’ pragmatic political ethos which causes the split. Consequently, the gnawing gap is created in the Romantic soul where both the world of reality and the imagination battle to conquer. The paper aims to shed light on such Romantic fissure, it is divided into four portions: the first part deals with the Romantic aesthetics, the second section highlights their political ethos mirroring in the Romantics’ poems, the third portion studies the underlying connection between the Romantic aesthetics and the Romantics’ political aspirations and the fourth part brings out the inherent contradictions between the two. This is a qualitative study based upon hermeneutic theory of in depth artistic analysis. The paper concludes the two contradictory traits: one, their desire to remain intact with the current political situations that breed political aspiration thus forming a part of this world of reality. And secondly their desire for mystical experiences and flight into the world of imagination, which according to the Romantics is more real than this reality, through their poetry. These two traits become antagonistic because the world of imagination also constructs an ideal world where every individual is happy. In other words it creates a utopia that stands in sharp contrast with the political aspirations because it lacks pragmatism. The paper is contextualized in Romantics’ Poetry for a better comprehension of the schema of art and aesthetics.Item Comparison between Shaw�s and Brecht�s treatment of political consciousness(Language in India, 2015) Sadia Riaz; Rida Sarfraz; Farhan Ebadat Yar KhanThe German Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Englishman George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) were socially and politically active, innovative, progressive, radical, controversial, and “problem” playwrights who wrote in tradition of political theatre. Most active during the first half of the Twentieth Century, both were revolutionary social critics who shocked their contemporaries with the unpopular activist philosophies of their plays and other writings. Their political philosophies stemmed from the same fount of Marxism. Brecht adopted communism and Shaw espoused socialism. In their dramatic works, their political consciousness reflects in their dramatic characterization, thematic concerns, and stylistic organization and devices. This paper aims at examining the treatment of political consciousness in these master political playwrights of political consciousness through comparison and analysis of their art of characterization, thematic patterns, and dramaturgical techniques. Interestingly, their characters become their mouth pieces by manifesting their creators’ political conscious through ironic tone or through morally negative consequences of the idealist behaviour of their heroines. Moreover, both cloak their political thematic patterns in dramatic devices which will also come under scrutiny. However, they were different temperamentally which somehow shaped their respective dramatic visions and intentions somewhat differently.