Ujjwal Kr. Panda Research Scholar, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Abstract: The paper throws light on the representation of displacement in the novels of Philip Larkin. Although known as one of the major poets of the ‘Movement’ in the 1950s, Larkin began his literary career with two novels – Jill (1946) and A Girl in…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Professionalism
Abstract Pallavi Gupta Assistant Professor (English And Professional Communication) IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad India What do you know about ‘professionalism’ when you say that you are a ‘professional’? Most of the people think if they have the jobs in their hands, they must be called professionals. They do not know the difference between an employee…
Shaw’s Career Heroine: An Analysis of Mrs.Warren’s Profession and ‘Major Barbara’
Dr. Niraja Saraswat SKIT, Jaipur While making woman the active participant in the love chase and the agent of Life Force, Shaw discarded the idea of her being dependent on men. The ideal of womanhood as expressed by Tennyson in his dictum ‘Man for the field, woman for the hearth’ appeared to Shaw as being…
MY FRAGMENTS
Neelam Saxena Chandra Something in me is shattered like broken pieces of mirror, something in me is wrecked like a ship lying worthless, something in me is destroyed like hay charred in sun, something in me is crushed like stones under a road roller, something in me has ruptured like a broken vein… fragments of…
A Story That is Not so ‘Simple’: Politics of Desire, Disruption and Education in Inchbald’s A Simple Story
Shaweta Nanda Assistant Professor (English) Department of English and European Languages Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India. “I see female fiction beginning with an analysis of female signs and masks, … effects of sexual desire and manipulation. It then proceeds to, preaching …rewarding self- sacrifice and restraint…” (my emphasis) —Janet Toddi “We do not yet…
Beyond Modernism: Kanyadaan
Nakul Research Scholar MDU, Rohtak, India Arundhati Banerjee’s opinion, expressed twenty years ago, “Vijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of not just Marathi but Indian theatre for almost forty years” (p vii), even today seems a pertinent and sincere statement on the dramatist, Vijay Tendulkar, who has achieved this colossal significance in the annals…
The Conflict between Worldliness and Spirituality in Siddhartha: Man of Peace
Dr.Basavaraj Naikar Professor Emeritus Former Professor and Chairman Department of English Karnatak University Dharwad 580 003(INDIA) The personality of Siddhartha or Bhagavan Buddha has attracted the attention of many artists and intellectuals all over the world. In India many novels and plays have been written in regional languages. In Kannada more than half a dozen…
Shiv K. Kumar : A Voice of Postcolonial Era
Dr. Meenal Rathore Assistant Professor Communication Skills Department Mahakal Institute of Technology Postcolonial Writings as we have observed, emphasize the process of strong resistance in the colonized societies and also put emphasis on contemporary reality of life. It deals with the literature written by the people of colonized countries that take the suffering and survival…
The Quest for Identity: Parsi Culture and Sensibility in the Works of Playwrights Gieve Patel and Cyrus Mistry
Dr. Maya Vinai & Dr. M.G Prasuna Department of Economics, Humanities and Languages. Bits-Pilani (Hyderabad Campus) Abstract This paper closely looks at the works of two Parsi playwrights namely Gieve Patel and Cyrus Mistry who are both candid, confessional at the same time sensitive towards their own community members who are still trapped and burdened…
Karnad’s Refuge in Myths, Folklores and History
K.Mangaiyarkarasi Assistant Professor of English, S.F.R.College, Sivakasi-626123 Virudhunagar (Dist) Tamilnadu. A vigorous vitality that combs the past for apt myths, legends and folklores to analyse the present has been the hallmark of Girish Karnad, the pre-eminent Indian playwright in Kannada and English languages. Girish Karnad is regarded as one of the three great writers of…