Dr. V. B. CHITRA M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Dept. of Humanities Jawaharla Nehru Technological University – Anantapur Anantapur Dist.515002. Before one thinks of post-modernist trends it’s not out of place to think of modernism first. One cannot but think of Peter Faulkner’s caution that one should use it with care and precision….
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Margaret Atwood: Twenty-Five years of Gothic Tales
Dr. Behzad Pourgharib Assistant Professor of English English Department Golestan University, Golestan, Iran Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I’ve found: but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. (The Blind Assassin 508). It may seem paradoxical that with all Margaret Atwood’s sex experiments with different narrative genres and her emphasis…
Exoticism in L. H. Myers’ THE NEAR AND THE FAR
Dr Balasaheb M Ladgaonkar Associate Professor & Head, Dept.of English Y.C.Warana Mahavidyalaya,Warananagar Maharashtra, India The Anglo-Indian Literature is no less interesting today than that it was during the British Raj in India. The Anglo-Indian Fiction, in the words of Bhupal Singh; an Indian scholar, ‘describes the life of English men in India’.1. It covers the…
TWO OF A KIND: THEMATIC, IDEOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC CONVERGENCES IN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURES
Ayo Kehinde Department of English University of Ibadan. In her inaugural lecture entitled The Nature and Functions of Literature: The Comparatist’s Perspective, Aduke Adebayo (2010) convincingly enunciates and exemplifies the tenets and utilitarian functions of Comparative Literature. To her: The advantages of studying and practising Comparative Literature are many…In studying and practicing Comparative Literature, the…
Comrade Kirillov : a Critique of the Communist Strain in the Composite Mind of Raja Rao
Anurag Bihari Research Scholar University Dept. of English TM Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur A close look at the fictive output of Raja Rao would reveal that all his novels are concerned with the different ,autobiographical facets of his composite mind and culture. Rao’s mind is not the mind of a partisan. It is next to impossible…
Comparative Stylistics Prof. Dr. Anand Patil Pune, India. Renowned critic of Marathi and Indian English Literature Comparative imagination and dialogic modes of thinking are necessary for the comparative cultural study of postmodern writer’s style. We live in the age of terror and translation, interculturalism and internationalism. The greatness of the work of art will be…
AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF ROBERT FROST’S SELECT POEMS
Dr. S. Ambika, Asst. Professor of English, S.T. Hindu College, Nagercoil – 2, India Literary eco-criticism is motivated by environmental activism and focuses principally on representations of the physical environment, especially of nonhuman nature. The dualistic separation of human from nature, promoted by Western Philosophy and culture as the origin of environmental crisis, demands a…
Hope and Despair: A Carnivalesque Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
Dr. A.R.Hanuman Assistant Professor of English, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. The main concern of Vonnegut’s novels is to attack a set of beliefs that men surrender themselves to, thereby, causing misery to themselves. The significance man attaches to artificial constructs like race, nationality, even national dogma,…
From Mutiny to Mutinies: A Post-colonial Study of Naipaul’s Indian
Trinity Ajay k chubey Assistant Professor Dept. of English BBDNITM, Lucknow Since 1857, the date of the first official mutiny in India, the nation has perceived various socio-political, cultural, economic and historical upheavals, and the upturns have not only affected the nation and its discourse but at times the globe. Race, moment and milieu have…