Dr. Neena Sharma Asst. Professor of English Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities) Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) India Introduction Intercultural communication is a form of global communication. It is used to describe the wide range of communication problems that naturally appear within an organization made up of individuals from different…
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Innovative Methods in Teaching English for Rural Students
Ch.Nagarjuna Asst.Prof in English L.B.R.C. Engineering College Mylavaram, A.P, India There is lot of demand and importance of English, in almost all the states of India, English is taught as a compulsory language and from the very first standard, and even then the outcome is unsatisfactory. Why because? The simple reason is the native language…
Campus Fiction and David Lodge
Jan Mudasir Gul Lecturer (English), Department of Education, Kashmir, J&K, India. The campus novel is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. This sub-genre dates back to the late 1940s and may describe the reaction of a fixed socio-cultural perspective (the academic staff) to new social attitudes…
Fallen Woman in Victorian Society: Eliot’s Adam Bede and Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd
Morteza Jafari English Language and Literature Department, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Abstract R. of IRAN In Victorian’s society, the woman who was not considered to be completely pure and untainted fell into the category of the fallen woman. This paper studies the notion of the fallen woman as presented in two novels of the period:…
Resurgence of the Female Self
Monishikha Mukherjee Assistant Professor, Department Of Humanities Budge Budge Institute Of Technology, (Wbut India). She was not a feminist. She operated within a religious tradition that believed an exceptional person from any level of society might receive a divine calling. She was …. Joan of Arc. A Dame Who Denied Dame-hood: Doris Lessing Doris Lessing…
Use of Images, Metaphors and Symbols in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock and Voices Of The City
Monica Balyan Dahiya Ph.D. Scholar Department of Humanities, D.C.R.U.S.T . Murthal (Sonepat) Haryana- 131027. Abstract This present paper attempts to explain Anita Desai’s superiority over her contemporaries in balancing the aspects of image metaphor and symbols in her novels. The range of images is one of the special features of these two novels, Cry, the…
Victorious
Mojisola Bakare Lagos, Nigeria It comes like a shadow Its silhouette threatening Its formless form crosses the meadow Every dark night, my mind remembering My train of thoughts cripples My face, taut with countless freckles Legs underneath me, move in wobbles Agitation washes through this mind, ‘Cos I know not where this feeling comes from…
Destabilizing the Typology: A Study of Some Contemporary Indian Women Poets in English in the Light of Postcolonial Theory
Mithun Bhattacharya Counsellor Partner Institute of IGNOU , Maharaja Nandakumar Mahavidyalaya , Purba Medinipur, West Bengal . Femininity is a social construct. The body polity of this construction of gendered identity positions women in some definitive roles in a male chauvinistic social reality. This imposed definitiveness of certain role play constructs the collective unconscious, in…
The Dalit Vision and Voice: A Study of Sharan Kumar Limbale’s Akkarmarshi
Mini Babu Assistant Professor of English Govt. College for Women Thiruvanathapuram. Kerala, India. Writing is a form of therapy: sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation. (Graham Greene 9) Sharan Kumar…
Bathroom Alchemy
Mike Woodham Somerville, Massachusetts, Elvert stood in the shower, lukewarm water splaying over his shoulders and splatting flat against the fiberglass floor, transfixed by the lone hair that curved gently against the bar of soap in his right hand. Elvert found every hair on a bar of soap to be utterly repulsive, regardless of whether…