Avijit Chakraborty A quest for permanence across the webs of the temporal is what a reader has to peregrinate through, if he seeks to traverse the scope of W.B Yeats’s ‘Sailing To Byzantium’, and the same apply to John Keats’s ‘Ode To A Nightingale’ as well. Despite the fact, that the two poems are separated…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Srimanta Sankardev’s Ankiya-Nat
(A New Dramatic Genre in Assamese Literature) Archana Bhattacharjee Social Scientist Linton said, “Culture of a society is the way of life of its members, the collection of ideas and habits which they earn share and transmit from generation to generation”. A culture however rich it may be fades in the long run unless practiced…
Anita Desai’s In Custody – A War
Treatment of Puranas in Raja Rao’s Serpent and the Rope
Dr. Alka Sharma Puranas are not merely fabricated stories .Puranas narrate a sacred history. In other words , Puranas tell us how through the consciousness , a reality came into existence-it can be a complete reality or only a fragment of reality . Infact , Puran is such a dynamic word which always revigorate the…
Intertextuality in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
Abirami.V. Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, is a brilliant example for intertextuality since it is a blend of fact and fiction. Atwood has reconstructed the nineteenth century historical fiction based on a felonious twin murder and this research paper delves into the historical and literary intertextuality focusing on the historical facts along with the fictional elements…
Making of the New Woman in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels
Dr. Abhilash Nayak Indian women, unlike their western counterparts, have always been socially and psychologically oppressed, sexually colonized and biologically subjugated against a male-dominant social set-up. Any attempt by a woman to rise above the oppressive forces rooted in the middle class margins has either been curbed mercilessly or ignored in the name of social…
Title: Indian Writing in English: Critical Perspectives Editors:Dr. Vishwanath Bite, Dr. Arvind M. Nawale Publisher:Aavishkar Publishers, Distributors Jaipur, 2011 Price 650/‐
176 pp. Reviewed By: Mrs. Madhuri Bite Editor, The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976‐8165 Indian Writing in English: Critical Perspectives is compiled of twenty well researched articles on various authors from the canon of Indian Writing in English. These articles contributed by scholars, teachers, academicians and critics of repute, study in depth…
Title: The Flame Unmasked
Editor: Sudhir K. Arora Publisher: Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly, 2010 Price: 200/- 230+VIII pp. Reviewed By: Mrs. Madhuri Bite Editor, The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976-8165 Stephen Gill, a well-known poet of the 21st century was born in Sialkot, Pakistan and brought up in India. He is an eyewitness of the forces of…
Title: A Study of Love, Sex and Marriage In Anita Desai’s Novels
Author: Vinay Dubey Publisher: Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly, 2008 Price: 95/- 116 pp. Reviewed By: Mrs. Madhuri Bite Editor, The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976-8165 Anita Desai, a well-known Indo-Anglian Novelist of Post-Independence era. Her contribution is considered as more significant in the development of Indian Novel in English. Most of her…
Title: The Concept of Anti-Hero in the Novels of Upamanyu Chatterjee
Author: R. P. Singh Publisher: Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly, 2010 Price: 225/- 158 pp. Reviewed By: Mrs. Madhuri Bite Editor, The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976-8165 Upamanyu Chatterjee is a social realist for whose creative endeavour the over-arching theme of identity and its plight in a hostile world forms what may be…