Madhavi A. Moharil Dept. of English Rajkumar Kewalramani Kanya M.V., Nagpur. A sensitive mind possesses a capacity to feel the pains in the society. Literature is the mirror image of the social set up. Literary Theories and Criticism are the results of the continuous speculation of the talented and matured minds. A man is the…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
The Myth
Bhadauria Manish Singh Ahmedabad, Gujarat The myth, the illusion…. The loose sand which grabbed in palm Vaporized through closed fist Leaving behind particles of salty memories Still, the rock left naked Breathes through invisible pores And stares nude and cloudless sky When heat opens its million thirsty mouths Moisture cracking wars of wood And load…
Transgressing Territories: Depiction of Lesbianism in Literature
Dr. Maneeta Kahlon Assistant Professor English Shanti Devi Arya Mahila College Dinanagar, Distt -Gurdaspur Punjab Literature has been rather conservative in exploring lesbianism. No doubt Ismat Chugtai’s Lihaaf (1941) set the trend but it was written long back and should have set the trend for writing and bringing into the open more lesbian novels, stories…
Ecological Imbalances in A.K. Ramanujan’s A River and R. Parthasarathy’s River, Once
Dr. A. Linda Primlyn Assistant Professor of English Scott Christian College (Autonomous) Nagercoil 629001 Indian verse in English emerged in the mid- twentieth century from the mainstream of English literature and made its appearance as part of Indian literature—Indian in sensibility and content, and English in language. Post-Independence era is qualitatively different from that produced…
Homosexuality as Trope of Race: Revisiting E.M. Forster’s Maurice
Munejah Khan Assistant Professor Department of English IUST,Awantipora J& K (India) The paper analyses E.M. Forster’s posthumously published novel Maurice to show how the author drew an analogy between sexual and racial difference. The paper explores Maurice as a narrative conceptualizing a relationship with members of ones own race. Heterosexuality to Maurice Hall, the protagonist…
Entrenching Identity: Beneatha in Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun
Gursimran kaur Assistant Professor Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, sangrur Punjab, india The colored woman represented in the African American Literature has set an image of her own and paved a new way to liberate her from subjugated world controlled by man. This idea is portrayed by the reputed and leading playwright Lorraine…
Vampire in Transition: Tracing the Genealogy of Vampire Films with Reference to Dracula, Lestat and Edward Cullen
Shradha Kabra Guest Lecturer Zakir Hussain College, Delhi University Counselor at IGNOU Bram Stoker published Dracula (originally titled as Undead), his demonic Count, in 1897, whose creation and portrayal was inspired by obscure stories about Vlad V, called the Empaler, who ruled in the fifteenth century as Prince of Walachia (southern Rumania). As conceived and…
Black Feminist Consciousness: Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
Dr. T. Jeevan Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College (M), Anantapur – 515 001. Andhra Pradesh. India. Though women constitute more than half of the world’s total population today they have been relegated to a secondary note and men have been considered superior. In fact to be a woman is a curse in…
MY DREAM
Jaydeep Sarangi It’s my dream, My hungry heart can swallow The whole world Of poems and rhymes. I can arrange the dreams Of Indian youth In indigenous ink, A narrative that lay bare to readers. I don’t know how what you feel And what makes you weep. I only reconstruct your stories And flimsy history.
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus : The Post-Renaissance English Tragedy
Janesh Kapoor Dept. of English Govt. College, Shimla-171004 (Affiliated to H.P. University, Shimla) This paper is foregrounded in the premise that Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, one of the towering tragic protagonists in English Drama over the ages, is a singular character who embodies in his being the spirit of inquiry and revolt with the purpose…