Dr. Bishnu Prasad Varma B. Ed, M. A., M. Phil,Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hojai College, Hojai Nagaon, Assam-782435 Introduction Language is a means of communication which is used not only to convey the thoughts and views of the speaker but also to perform certain actions by use of words. Actions performed via words…
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Challenges in Teaching English Language to Engineering Students: Solutions through Computers
Uttham Kumar. N Assistant professor Department of English Adhiyamaan College of Engineering (autonomous) Hosur Introduction There is no revolution that can be capable of bringing out without an adaptation in the teaching style. Right now, our teachers look as if worn out with the methods and techniques of teaching. In our day our teachers and…
Violation of Maxim of Quality in Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility
Introduction Sunayana Chowdhury M. A., M. Phil. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hojai Girls’ College, Hojai Nagaon, Assam-782435 Language, at core, is an analytical study of linguistics. The study of language makes use of different branches of linguistics that deal with the use of language or meaning of a sentence or utterance. Pragmatics is one…
The Language of Gitanjali: the Paradoxical Matrix
Dr Sukriti Ghosal Principal MUC Women’s College Burdwan, West Bengal India In his essay the ‘The Imagination’ I. A. Richards points out that in a poem impulses are organized by a poet in two ways — by exclusion and by inclusion. In the structure of poems where impulses are organized by inclusion one comes across…
“The Other” In the Life of Pi
Sugandha S Singh Asstt. Professor, Deptt. of English S.M.P. Govt. Girls’ P.G. College, Meerut Yann Martel was awarded the 2002 Booker Prize for his novel “Life of Pi”. It was his third book , the earlier ones being “The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios” (1993) and “Self” (1996). Yann Martel was born in Canada in…
Lost in Adaptation: A Study of the Filmic Representations of Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction
Sucharita Sarkar Assistant Professor Dept. of English D.T.S.S. College of Commerce, Malad (E) Mumbai – 400097, India Agatha Christie is widely regarded as the highest selling author ever, outselling even the Bible and Shakespeare. She has long been heralded variously as the Queen of Crime, a Publishing Phenomenon and the “First Lady of Crime” (Keating,…
Textualizing Postcolonial India: Gita Hariharan’s Siege and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Dr. Smriti Singh Dept. Of Humanities and Social sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, New Government Polytechnic, Patliputra colony, patna-13. The emergence of Postcolonialism as an important critical tool has led critics to question certain concepts and ideas which were taken for granted, especially the notion of ‘nation’ and ‘citizenship’. This in turn has led…
Reframing the Land and the Native Self: Interdisciplinary Observations in Contemporary Postcolonial Texts
Dr. K.N. Shoba Assistant Professor, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India. Rob Nixon, a postcolonial ecocritic, poses a critically crucial question: “What would it mean to bring environmentalism into dialogue with postcolonialism?” (233). The paper makes a modest attempt to address a few issues that would in turn help answering the question. Environmentalism or ecocriticism, which…
An interview with Ron Starbuck, poet/author, and publisher.
Aparna Mukhedkar Wheels Turning Inward New and Selected Poems FreisenPress ISBNs: 978-1-77067-112-6 (Hardcover) 978-1-77067-113-3 (Paperback) (eBook) What inspired you to write this collection of spiritual poems? These poems are simply a reflection, an echo even, of my relationship with the Divine discovered through my relationships with and through others, through community, through silence and stillness,…
English in A Globalized World
Amit Narula English has undoubtedly emerged as the most preferred Global Language in the last century. In the last 25 years, its character has changed significantly because of its use in the newly discovered means of communication and the resultant large-scale assimilation from other languages rooted in varied cultural contexts. According to an estimate, one-third…