Uzoechi Nwagbara Greenwich School of Management, UK uzoechin@yahoo.com Abstract This paper critically examines the centrality of intertextuality in the production and appreciation of Chinua Achebe’s fiction, mainly, his political novel about militarism, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Intertextuality deals with relations among texts: no text is an island. The departure from monolithic, author-centred theory of…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
From Routes to Roots: Diaspora in the Novels of Salman Rushdie
Janmejay Kumar Tiwari Displacement has no replacement and this is the reality of diaspora. Since the inducement of humanity, people have been straddling throughout the world without having any theoretical knowledge of boundaries. He has always been suffering from the disease of alienation without realizing the actual outcome of migration. However, in the 20th century, the…
POSTMODERN TRAITS IN THE NOVELS OF AMITAV GHOSH
Prof. R. Chenniappan R. Saravana Suresh Research scholar Research scholar Paavai Engineering college Paavai Engineering college Pachal, Namakkal. Pachal, Namakkal. Indian writing in English has stamped its greatness by mixing up tradition and modernity in the production of art. At the outset, the oral transmission of Indian literary works gained ground gradually. It created an…
Using Internet in Improving One’s English Language Skills: 50 Informative, Educative & Entertaining Websites
Dr.Vangeepuram Sreenathachary Introduction Acquiring a good level of competence in English language today is a necessity, but not a luxury. Economic liberalization and spread of multinational companies, with a spurt in the use of English in the urban social communication as well as in the corporate world have opened many avenues in the field of…
Shiv K Kumar’s A River With Three Banks: Revisiting Partition
Dr. P.R. Shewale Associate Professor & Head, Department Of English, Shri Shahaji Chh. Mahavidyalaya, Kolhapur (Maharashtra). A River with Three Banks, the most ambitious novel by Kumar deals with the theme of the partition of the Indian subcontinent. Kumar has described the tragic consequences of the partition vividly in this novel. The merciless killing and…
Translating Amrit Lal Nagar’s Nachyo Bahut Gopal: Some Considerations— Casteist and Linguistic.
Sheeba Rakesh Department of English and Modern European Languages I What is Dalit Literature ? Pages have already been devoted to the definition and discussion of dalit literature . Such literature is nothing put an expression of a “new cultural life” (Dangle 241) of the dalit populace. It records the “shrewd rusticity” and “jolting experiences”…
Critical Review on the MLA Handbook (7th Edition)
Shahila Zafar (Corresponding Author) Asst Professor English Division School of Social Sciences and Languages VIT University, Vellore-632014 TN, India Zaved Ahmed Khan Dr K Meenakshi Introduction The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers presents a set of conventions to help a researcher in the written presentation of research. These guidelines follow current practices that…
ORWELL’S DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933) : A DOCUMENTARY ON HUNGER, STARVATION AND POVERTY
Dr. N. R. SAWANT Associate Professor & Head, Dept. of English, Shivraj College, Gadhinglaj. George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair 1903-1950) was the social rebel, ardent liberal who personally experienced the pangs of the down trodden and aspired for common decency embedded in Democratic and Ethical Socialism, is now acknowledged as one of the most significant…
Full Flowering of Faith
Pride, Pestilence and Annihilation: Destruction of the Family Idyll in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Oindrila Ghosh Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata Mary Shelley, the talented wife of the visionary poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, was the progenitor of a new literary genre – science fiction. Into this genre falls her best known creation – Frankenstein, which fascinates one and all, down the ages, for…