Dr.Anupama.D.Deshraj Associate Professor in English, GVISH,Amravati. India is a land which is deeply religious in belief . Such is the profound faith in God that His presence is felt in every living entity. The unique feature of Indian faith is that God exists in multifold forms and yet H e is one. Worship of deities,…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Faction in Wale Okediran’s Tenants of the House
Oguntoyinbo Deji Department of Languages, Faith Academy, Ota. Since the publication of Kole Omotosho’s Just Before Dawn (1988) which is generally believed to be a faction, there have been groundswell of Nigerian writers gravitating towards this narrative mode. Literature, according to these writers, is one of the greatest tools in the representation of reality. They…
Indian Writing in English: A Cultural Alienation
Vijay Kumar (Senior Lecturer) DIT School of Engineering, Greater Noida & Jyoti Jayal (Research Scholar) The English and Foreign Languages University Lucknow Campus Indian writings have absorbed at least three major currents: the mid European Aryan, the Muslim and the British, “three cycles during each of which a strong and creative influence provided the primary…
ALONE
Davide Trame Dorsoduro 2090/B Venice-Italy That’s where I’m stranded, having lunch, sitting at the huge table in my kitchen with a cluttered mess that seems to accumulate like forgetfulness on life’s strand, bottles, cutlery, all the manners of gears that seem by themselves to have dropped here… I am listening to the honest ripeness of…
Identity Crisis in Eugene O’neill’s The Hairy Ape
Umadevi Associate Professor, Department of English, S.F.R. College for Women, Sivakasi-626 123. Virudhunagar District. TamilNadu. India. Identity crisis or the quest for identity is basic to the live of human beings. It is innate in every man. So search for identity is an archetypal and universal motif in the literature of all ages. At the…
Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out! A Satire on the Enlightened for their Intended Darkness
Dr. Dashrath Gatt Assistant Professor (English) IG Govt College Tohana (Fatehabad) Haryana, INDIA Today man lives in a time when there is a rapid increase in urbanization and industrialization, along with a revolution in the field of IT sector, leading to an unprecedented increase in job opportunities for the people—skilled or unskilled, educated or unlettered…
T.S. Eliot and Sri Aurobindo as Mystics and Critics
K. Ujjwala Associate Prof of English K.L. University Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh India The modern age has been described as the age of anxiety, the age of interrogation, the age of disintegration and the age of spiritual crisis. The mystical element is as vital an element in English poetry of this age as it was in…
(Dis)homing Texts: An Interrogation of Ideological Perspectives in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Guha’s The Bounty of The Goddess
Dr. Saswat S. Das Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. & Dr. Bipasha Som Lecturer, Madras Christian College, Chennai. . . . So that my India was just that: ‘my’ India, a version and no more than one version of all the hundreds of millions of possible versions. (Rushdie, Imaginary 10)…
Revisit, Revise and Rewrite:V.S. Naipaul
Mohd Shafi Dar Research Scholar Barkatullah University Bhopal (M.P), 462008. Writers have been visiting India off and on, and projecting their views and visions on Indian life and manners. The first Englishman known to have visited our country was a Jesuit priest named Thomas Stephens who came in 1579. He was the first European to…
Violence in Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Leucian Cristiana Teacher of English and French Liceul Teoretic “Traian” Deva The literary panorama of the late 19th century and of the 20th century reflects the complexity of the contemporary thoughts, the whirlpool of ideas, offering an overall image of the changes that have occurred in the mind of the individual due to several events: the…