Dr. Ruby Rani & Prof. Ambuj Kr. Sharma On the morning of October 12, 1917, two plain-clothes detectives, the local police sergeant, and an officer arrived with a search warrant at the home of D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda in Cornwall, England. Without any explanations, the Lawrences were told that they were to pack…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Postmodern Poem with a Postmodern Hero
Annesha Mandal Research Scholar Department of Humanities & Social Sciences National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Durgapur, West Bengal, India & Arindam Modak Assistant Professor of English Department of Humanities & Social Sciences National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Durgapur, West Bengal, India Abstract The political and economic crisis of the 1930s diminishes the stature of Modernist…
Lalon, Lalon Geete and Society: A Humanitarian Socio-Philosophical Discourse
Anirban Mondal Research Scholar, Department Of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India. Tradition bound India’s heart is its folk culture. Through the folk culture we can observe the breath of real India and its people’s psychic graph. Multicultural theme and multi-religious philosophy are the bases of this folk tradition. In Baul tradition of Bengal, a…
The ‘Condition of England Novels’ and Victorian Women Novelists
Ameera.V.U Research Scholar English Department Calicut University Kerala India. ‘Condition of England’ novels sought to engage directly with the contemporary social and political issues with a focus on the illustration of class, gender, and labour relations, as well as on societal turbulence and the growing animosity between the rich and the poor in England. Even…
Inner Peace…A Satire
Hrishikesh Roy Asst Professor (Dept of Humanities) Siliguri Institute of Technology, West Bengal, Siliguri Darjeeling, (India) Hello, knock knock, is there anybody there? Who are you looking for? I am looking for peace. Do you know where peace is? Some say there s peace in the reconnection of god that we have left long, some…
The Unfortunate Recorder
Robert A. Vella San Francisco To save his family, an enigmatic father must sacrifice his future by disobeying galactic orders. Renna Mercelli sat motionless as he absorbed the telepathic message from his distant relations. When the meaning became clear, his worst fears had been realized. He lowered his head into trembling palms, but shook off…
Treatment of Classical Myths by the Modernist Poets: W. H. Auden’s The Shield of Achilles
Md. Akbar Hosain Lecturer, Dept. of English University of Information Technology and Sciences (UITS) Chittagong, Bangladesh. [Abstract: The pivotal figures of paleo-modernism in English poetry have consistently expressed a profound fervor for the classical mythic world- a world that is deeply real and vivid to them. The appeal of mythic world to these poets is…
Against Sexual Subalternity in Shobha De’s Novels
Richa Nehra Research Scholar CDLU, Sirsa, Haryana, India In order to avoid sexual exploitation or eroticization of women as mere a sex object, Kate Millett in Sexual Politics advocates a society having a single standard of “sex freedom” (62) for men and women without which the equality between them will remain ephemeral. In our double-standard…
Rokeya’s Reverse Thoughts: Sketch of Male Characters in Sultana’s Dream
Md. Mohoshin Reza Assistant Professor, Department of English Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) Rupnagar, Mirpur 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh Abstract: Characters of the male folk in Rokeya’s Sultana’s Dream impart images of men with no human characteristics and tendencies. They only physically resemble as humans but are indeed idle, unpunctual, arrogant, selfish, dominating and…
Seeing Herself through Literature: Martha Quest’s Reading Habit in Doris Lessing’s The Children of Violence
Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed Assistant Professor and Head Department of English Language and Literature International Islamic University Chittagong Dhaka Campus, Bangladesh & Sultana Jahan Assistant Professor Department of English Northern University Bangladesh Abstract: Most of Doris Lessing’s female protagonists are widely read and they frequently think in literary, especially fiction, terms. Martha Quest, the protagonist of…