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In modern times, the purpose of writing a (literary) text has observed a sea change. In Aristotelian frame of criticism loosely extending up to late 19 century, it was believed that the writer writes to appease the emotional realm of one’s audience. However, number of works surfacing after the advent of twentieth century has opened up a new frame of writing wherein an act of writing, could be a voice of resistance and a way to develop neo-liberal consciousness among the readers. There are texts that mainly converse with the historical blocks and address the issues of perennial significance for the development of democratic ideals for the generations to come. The texts under the inquiry are of these categories. Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha and Manubhai Pancholi’s Socrates are the texts that foreground the historical marvels in order to bring modern set of ideals into their respective time-frames. The present paper is an attempt to look at these changing trends within the domain of literary and cultural studies. Apart from that, the paper also tries to look at the loopholes which the very idea of post-modernist style of criticism brings in and briefly present a critique of Roland Barthes’s claim prophesying the ‘death of the author.’
Historical time frame, resistance, democratic zeal and post war period.
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