Amirthavalli Asokan Research Scholar, Bharathiar University. Coimbatore The American novel, right from its early days, had its provinces worked out and defined by integrating the element of romance. This element of romance has been far more conspicuous in the American novels than in the English novels. It enjoyed an implicit freedom from the ordinary novelistic…
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The Choreographed Narrative: Recontextualising the Narrative Strategies in Chetan Bhagat’s Fiction
Prasun Banerjee Assistant Professor Department of English Kabi Joydeb Mahavidyalaya Illambazar, Birbhum West Bengal. While working on a write-up for a UGC national seminar on ‘popular culture’, the word ‘popular’ has drawn my attention as it is often used to demarcate the ideological difference between those novels which has found a place into the university…
The Darkness in William Shakespeare’s Play Macbeth: A Study
Abhinandan Malas Research Scholar (BU), Guest Lecturer in English, New Alipore College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. William Shakespeare’s world-famous tragic play Macbeth resides in darkness. This darkness forms a psychological domain where we see tremendous interaction occurring between the individual and his or her conscience. We can say that Macbeth is more a play of…
The Deconstructive Process: The Theoretical Speculations and the Fate of Reading beyond Formalism
Pravin Kumar Patel Ph.D. Research Scholar The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad – 05 The objective of this paper centers on two fundamental issues, that is, to formulate some strategies of the process of “deconstruction,” and to explore what kind of function, beyond the realm of philosophy and linguistic concerns, it asserts in terms…
Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud: A saga of Gangu’s injured self
Dr. Priyanka Sharma Associate Professor Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities K.I.E.T. Ghaziabad (U.P) India “Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” i (Tolstoy: 1991: 06) The Indian English Literature is richly dipped in hues of its native cultural ethos. It gives…
The Impact of Parents Education on Students Vocabulary
V.Rajasekaran Assistant Professor & Head Department of English Faculty of Engineering Ebet Group of Institutions Natahakadaiyr, Kangeyam 638 108 Dr.P.Selvakumar Assistant Professor Department Of Linguistics Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore Introduction Words are building blocks of communication which is being quint essential part of professional qualification. Much damage in communication is happening due to student’s poor…
George Bernard Shaw’s art of characterization
Dr. P. Sreenivasulu Reddy Head, Department of English V.R. Institute of P G Studies Nellore -1 Andra Pradesh George Bernard Shaw with his tall and erect figure, straight like a ramrod, and his grey beard, has almost become a legend. He was undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary, and the most complex personalities of modern…
The Inseparable Union of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Rizvana Parveen Research Scholar Dravidian University Kuppam. The Victorian period is dominated by women novelists, among them the prominent were Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and George Eliot. Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ is unique in English literature. Emily Bronte seeks to penetrate into the motives of life and shows how people affect each other….
Jason Currie as the Father Figure in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel
Mrs. Sajeena Gayathrri Assistant Professor of English, R.M.D. Engineering College, Kavaraipettai. Thiruvallur district. Pin: 601206. Margaret Laurence in her novel The Stone Angel, one of the five works set in the Canadian prairie town of Manawaka, presents the life of Hagar Shipley, a ninety year old woman, whose life seems to be completely governed by…
Sexuality: A Path to Self-Actualization in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt”
Shagufta Naaz Farooqui Assistant Professor Techwords, WGVS, College of Engineering, Roorkee “It is we sinful women Who are not awed by the grandeur of those Who wear gowns Who don’t sell our lives Who don’t bow our heads Who don’t fold our hands together.” (Ahmad 1991:31) These powerful lines a sort of manifesto of feminist…