Tales of Prison Life Marie Josephine Aruna Prison writing, a literary genre in itself, has often been considered as an act of political resistance. Oscar Wilde and Sri Aurobindo though belonging to different countries were implicated by the same power, that of Imperial England, but were incarcerated for various reasons. Wilde was imprisoned for his…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Narration and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison’s Jazz Mahboobeh KhaleghiResearch Scholar, Department of English,University of Mysore, Mysore, India“I am the name of the soundand the sound of the name.I am the sign of the letterand the designation of the division.”(“The Thunder, Perfect Mind”, The Nag Hammadi)“The persona of the novel is mysterious, and it is not…
Postcolonial Subalternization in the Plays of Girish Karnad
Dr. Krishna Singh Associate Professor of English, Govt. P.G. College Shahdol M.P. (India) In the postcolonial theory subaltern studies occupy significant place; it derives its force from Marxism and Post-Structuralism. Subaltern studies is primarily concerned with socio- cultural and historical aspects of the society incorporating the entire people that is subordinate in terms of class,…
Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich like Us: A Thematic Analysis
Dr. Kiranjeet Kaur Bedi Asstt.Prof. [English] Dept.of Humanities & So. Sciences NIT Raipur The novels of Nayantara Sahgal deal with a wise gamut of themes ranging from personal dilemma and problems, joys and sorrows fulfillment and frustrations of female protagonists to the political upheavals that India has experienced since Independence. Her proximity to political power…
SOUL-BODY CONCEPT IN THE SELECTED NOVELS OF R.K.NARAYAN
Jothilakshmi.R & Dr.G.Meenakshi Sundaram Department of English CSI College of Engineering Ketti Post Ketti – 643 215 The Nilgirs District Tamil Nadu, India R.K. Narayan has a very strong background firmly fixed on the Vedic injunction. Narayan never fails to extol the Vedic perspectives in his novels. How he impregnates the essential concepts of Vedic…
PROVERBS IN POLITICS
Prof.Dr.Manana Rusieshvili Head of English Philology Tbilisi State University Georgia Halis Gözpınar Akhaltsikhe University Lecturer Tbilisi State University Master Student Present research explores a number of proverbs employed in speeches of several well- known politicians of today and and also looks at the specific use of proverbs and their pragmatic function. It is a well-known…
Human Relationships and Moral Goodness in Iris Murdoch’s Novels
Dr Dinesh Panwar Assistant Professor Department-Applied Science& Humanities Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College Ghaziabad (U.P.) Among the philosophers and novelists of the last half- century, Iris Murdoch is remarkable for her preoccupation with the conception of morality. In her fictional and philosophical work Murdoch can be regarded as a great supporter of the perspective of…
The Pivotal Role of Dictionary in Translation.
Mr D. L. Deshmukh. Assistant Professor, V.P.’s College of Education Baramati Introduction: A convenient and valuable source of linguistic information is a standard dictionary. It is easy to use, and, if used intelligently, very informative. Essential to any study of words is the effective use of dictionary. Far from being a dull dry reference book,…
An Ecocritical Commentary on the Posthuman Condition in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction
Debarati Bandyopadhyay Associate Professor, Department of English, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. This is the age of mechanical gadgets and virtual reality. Machines seem to have become an extension of our bodies and brains. Organ transplant facilities and considerable progress in biotechnology have practically obliterated the boundary between the self and its (biological and mechanical) other….
Derrida’s Deconstruction of Jean-Luc Nancy
Chung Chin-Yi National University of Singapore In On Touching Jean-Luc Nancy, Derrida brings together many phenomenological themes . I will discuss the condition of possibility for phenomenology in this paper as iterability, differance and the quasi-transcendental. Derrida discusses his notion of aporia as fundamental to his conception of phenomenology. Thus while Jean-Luc Nancy privileges touch…