Dr. Dhananjoy Roy Introduction Since its earliest days, the city has always been considered as, to quote Raymond Williams, “an achieved centre: of learning, communication, light” (Raymond Williams, 1) and of culture and employment as well. There can hardly be any controversy to this view. But there is another important factor that the cities have…
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Concept of Honour Killing: A study of Manjul Bajaj’s Come, Before Evening Falls
Dr Randeep Rana During the last few years extensive reports have appeared in Newspapers and Television channels all over the country about the brutal killing of young boys and girls in the name of ‘ Honour Killings’. The practice of murdering young boys and girls, who fall in love or tie nuptial bonds, against the…
Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A study of Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger.
Ram Bhawan Yadav The politic of literary representation is supposed to be deliberate and complex in its nature and approach. The motivation, intent and agenda that direct such endeavor often result in domain of conflict, which leads to the crisis of literary, social and political representation. As Simon Featherstone points out, “In postcolonialism it [the…
Mulk Raj Anand’s Humanistic and Bold Portrayal of His Protagonists
Rajni Tiwari Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, through his rare prolificity, bold experimentation and aesthetic sensibility, has made immense contribution to Indian as well as world literature in English. His choice of unconventional subjects and characters has been determined by his Dickensian humanistic philosophy. He set up new trends by introducing negative hero/anti—hero in his novels….
The Village by the Sea: An Ecocritical Reading
Raj Kumar Mishra Ecocriticism is a conscious-raising phenomenon about environment. To the students or scholars of literature, ‘ecocriticism is a critical development to spread consciousness about ecological concerns. It is a multidisciplinary approach. Numberless development programmes are being executed not being with ecology instead at the cost of ecology. Ecocriticism as a literary ecological philosophy…
The Zeitgeist of the Second World War Society in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
M. Preetha The contemporary world is filled with the echoes of chaos and disruptions effectuated by the process of colonisation. The dismayed social and economic conditions of the colonised countries embody the savagery of the colonisers who posed threat to the serenity of the world by exercising their power and money to dominate the colonial…
The Theme of Isolation in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker
Dr. H.B. Patil The human being in modern life has become victim of frustration, loneliness, loss of communication and isolation. Harold Pinter, the British playwright reflects exactly this state of human being in his play The Caretaker. His well known plays are The Room, The Homecoming , The Birthday Party, etc. But his real breakthrough…
Delineation of inner turmoil in Female Protagonists of Margaret Atwood and Shashi Deshpande (A special reference to The Handmaid’s Tale and That Long Silence
Dr. Nishi Bala Chauhan The comparative method of studying a piece of work invites a host of associations involving a great scope. A comparative study of literary works casts a qualitative impression on the readers and touches the fringe of their hearts. The variety of literatures reflects a regionally diverse and multicultural society. Atwood’s The…
Robert Frost’s Conception of Poetry
Dr. Neena Sharma Every poet has his own idea of writing poetry. This paper focuses on the conception and twin purpose in the poetry of Robert Frost. In his concept, poetry displays marriage of mind and emotion. The combination of mind and emotion is deepened in to the poet’s mind. In his conception of poetry,…
Language, Character and History in Postmodern Drama: Towards Formulating a Poetics
Mufti Mudasir The present paper is an attempt towards formulating a poetics of postmodern drama, based on the theoretical insights of some of the foremost postmodern critics and dramatists. It seeks to underline the importance of a poetics of postmodern drama keeping in view that unlike other genres of literature, especially the novel, postmodern drama…