Yeshwant Madhav Radhakisan Woman from Maharashtra was introduced to education which was her path to literature. The Marathi Autobiographies translated to English are the examples of the two different perspectives of Upper caste women and Dalit women. The critical reading of ‘I Follow After’ (Laxmibai Tilak) and ‘The Prisons We Broke’ (Baby Kamble) focuses on…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
POWER, LANGUAGE AND CONTEXT: THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF BILL CLINTON’S BETWEEN HOPE AND HISTORY
Uzoechi Nwagbara This paper explores the importance of language in gaining power as well as in appealing to one’s audience in diverse contexts. Thus, this paper will be considering Bill Clinton’s book, Between Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges for the 21st Century (1996) from a sociolinguistic perspective to underscore its significance in terms of…
English Giant Poets in First World War
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Keith Barnes (1934-1969) Tahir Mehmood Poetry! The gift of God, Poetry is the best way of expressing oneself and when a soldier writes poetry in war by describing the realistic scene of war it becomes a master piece. There are good reasons for looking at these two English poets together. Both…
Nature and Ecocriticism in Cry, The Peacock and Fire on the Mountain.
C.G.Shyamala The study of the relationship between literature and the environment has fostered human attitudes toward the environment as expressed in natural writing. In the essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism,” Rueckert defines ecocriticism as ‘The application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature because ecology (as a science, as…
Metaphor of Body in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Shamsoddin Royanian & Zeinab Yazdani The Edible Woman was written in the 1960s, when the society was dominated by men. In this period of time, post-war feminist movements were trying to conquer the patriarchal model of family and femininity and to distance themselves from the position of consumers. Traditional gender roles such as mother, wife,…
Gender Assertion in Colonial India: A Study of Paromita by Sumathi Sudhakar
Shalini Yadav Krati Sharma Sumathi Sudhakar’s novel Paromita sets in 19th century Bengal when revolutionary ideas were in the air. The concept of “equality” and “Feminism” were completely alien in the early nineteenth century until liberally exposed Western-educated Indians and social reformers introduced it. Feminism in India was initiated by men to uproot the social…
The Road To Wigan Pier: Labyrinth Of Poverty
Dr. N R Sawant George Orwell was the social rebel, and the ardent liberal. He personally experienced the pangs of the downtrodden. He toiled his whole life and career for their emancipation from their oppressors. He used his talent against injustice and totalitarianism. He aspired for common decency embedded in Democratic and Ethical Socialism. He…
Mahesh Dattani’s Thirty Days in September: A Study in the Treatment of Incest
Santosh Kumar Sonker Mahesh Dattani is an Indian English Sahitya Akademi Award winning playwright who has trained his critical gaze at depicting the ground reality of the Indian society which is often side tracked in spite of the fact that it is quite noticeable. In his play, Thirty Days in September, Dattani has dramatized the…
The Poetic Genius of Sudeep Sen: A Critical Perspective
The Professional World in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross
Sanchita Das Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), a play for which Mamet was awarded Pulitzer Prize actually concerns a group of real estate salesman whose company has imposed a ruthless regimen. The most successful will receive a Cadillac, the runner-up a set of steak knives; loser will be fired. It is a neat paradigm of a…