Literary Memes

Hello friends,

We are living in the privilege era where everything is in the pocket. During the last several years, funny reality shows and special programmes on jokes were being organized. Now-a-days social media platforms have brought drastic change in the medium of entertainment. Jokes and memes are becoming a daily routine of people’s life. Of course, you may also find some of the elders advising or keeping on instructing not to waste our time on mobile phones and the internet. One might have heard, ‘Be careful, whether you use the internet or Internet uses you!’ But it would be difficult to find a person who is totally unaware of ‘mems'

Rahm Emanuel says, 

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." 

Same way, Memes are newer and interesting too to satire and also to laugh. 

This blog contains some interesting memes on literature and upon some particular  literary texts. 

What is a meme and who has coined?

Before You read interesting memes and about the memes, let me make you fresh with two or three memes on literary writing, literature classroom and literature's professor and discussion in classroom as literary person and literary critique sees and interprets each and everything much deeply with totally different lens. But as we know, 'To look differently at particular thing is always looked at differently, derogatory and differently which makes everyone laugh!

The internet meme has become a crucial part of online discourse as a mainstream vehicle for humor. The most popular form of the meme generates humor through the interplay of image and text. This manipulatable template of the text-image dynamic allows for fresh representations of existing tropes of humor. However, the anti-meme, a popular offshoot of the meme, has features that make it function differently.

If you are thinking that jokes and memes are the same let me make you clear on this. There is a slight difference between joke and meme.  A joke has humorous intent,and is not meant to be taken seriously. Meme is a word coined by Dr Richard Dawkins to represent an idea,that spreads from person to person within a culture—conveying a meaning. Generally of life, Meme, culture.

An Internet meme is a viral idea,which modifies as it spreads.Popularly it takes the form of a movie clip or scene with added subtext which has an altered context.

 

A joke could be a story or a prank or a meme. 

A meme need not be funny. It could be an astounding idea.

 

Memes on Shakespeare

Memes on Harry Potter

Memes on The Old man and the sea

Memes on Waiting for Godot

Memes on Doctor Faustus

Memes on Chetan Bhagat

I would also like to end this blog by adapting line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, 'To be, or not to be- that is the question!'. Because memes are not mere memes but

Read and watch my presentation on 'Feminist reading of Jokes' as a part of my MA sem-2. Click Here:

This paper will help you to read about 'ANTI MEMES'. Click here to read the paper.

Thank You.