Subah Gautam Research Scholar School of Languages and Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, J&K, India. This study takes into account global debates surrounding women’s role in development and how gender inequalities perpetuate. This paper provides a theoretical framework for an examination of women’s empowerment. Mrs. Warren’s Profession, a play by Bernard Shaw challenged the…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
An Exploration of Man’s Search for God: A Postmodern Analysis of Ash- Wednesday
Annesha Mandal Research Scholar Department of Humanities & Social Sciences National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Durgapur, West Bengal, India Arindam Modak Assistant Professor of English Department of Humanities & Social Sciences National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Durgapur, West Bengal, India The Modernist movement gradually lost the eminence of the 1920s as a result of the…
Lost Truths
George L Stein, Indiana, USA It’s in the spontaneity of the wind when the tree, reluctant, bares it’s soul branches dance and leaves spin especially under extorts of fall there are no physics to this gift no predictive elements to seize the black frame glasses come tumbling off madam librarian awkwardly falls away oh, how…
Reflections of Shakespearean Echoes in the Turbulence of The Waste Land
Anila Chandran Research Scholar, Department of English, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. “No other author had ever so copious, so bold, so creative on imagination, with so perfect a knowledge of passion, the humours and sentiments of mankind. He painted all characters from kings down to peasants, with equal force. If human natures…
Text, Context and the Theory of Relevance
Shashwati Soumya Asst. Professor St.Vincent Night College of Commerce, Pune Maharashtra, India Abstract A boy is cheering up his friend who is upset. He asks, “Would you like to have some coffee?” The friend answers, “I don’t know.” In response, the boy buys two coffees. The conversation shows how an utterance under-determines thoughts as what…
On The Beach
Gerald Solomon USA That crazy storm we had last week broke roofs, broke our tree, took two young boys out to sea. Now needing to be sensible, some say all kinds of help are free. Thinking. Divining divinity. Could we have got it more wrong? Invention, mother of necessity. Truth, Houdini of meaning, questionable, if…
Religious Vision in the Works of Graham Greene
Alka Saroha Research Student Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (Haryana) & S. K. Vasishta Prof. (English), D.N. College,Hisar (Haryana) Abstract: A work of fiction is an aesthetic representation of the society and the author’s personality. The inner life of an author is reflected in his works. The author’s imagination embodies in his characters the fundamental conflicts of…
Social Realism in A River Sutra
Snigdha Mishra Gita Mehta’s novel A River Sutra (1993) develops through six subsequent stories narrated by people who come on Narmada pilgrimage. The novel is a rather noble approach to present an array of social realities of India together; such as, human greed and hypocrisy, widening chasm between rich and poor, women suffering, child abuse,…
Mapping Instability and Diversity of Diaspora: A Theoretical Perspective
Ashutosh Singh Research Scholar (UGC-NET) Department of English Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 221005 The term ‘diaspora’ has multiple layers of meaning in academic circles today. From the original meaning of large scale- migration of people due to religious persecution, it has now come to refer to any movement of people from one land to another….
George Bernard Shaw’s Puritanical Approach in Plays for Puritans
Md. Afrozuddin PhD Research Scholar JNTU Anantapur-515001 Andhra Pradesh India George Bernard Shaw’s puritanical approach is very pragmatic in nature. He preached what is good for the society and rectified the bad of the society with realistic approach. He believed in true confession of reviving the society through his erratic ideas and reformed the world…