Dr.Y.Mercy Famila Head & Assistant Professor Department of English Yuvakshetra College Mundur Palakkad Kerala India. An existential crisis is a stage of development at which an individual questions the very foundations of the life, whether the life has any meaning. It is often provoked by a significant event in the person’s life like, marriage, separation,…
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Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas: A Universal Myth of Primitivism
Mrs.V.Navaneethamani, India(Tamilnadu) Arun Joshi is an Indian English novelist who has attempted to grapple with the predicament of modern man. He has created an enviable space for himself in the community of Indian novelist. His main thrust is on the individual psyche of the protagonists imbued with an instinctive urge to define their identity. His…
A Critical Study of Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner
Prof. Malshette Yogesh Trimbakrao Assistant Professor Dept. of Humanities & Basic Sciences Abhinav Education Society’s (Pune-46) College of Engineering & Technology (Polytechnic) Wadwadi-412801 Ms. Shete Sonali Shivraj Abhinav Education Society’s College of Education, Pune 46. In Arun Joshi’s first novel The Foreigner itself, Joshi analyses the problem of meaninglessness in life. The protagonist Sindi’s alienation…
Marginal Existence: A Study of Sindi’s Search for Identity in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner
– Dr. Arvind M. Nawale, Head, Dept. of English Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Udgir, Dist: Latur (M.S.) Over the past two decades, the term ‘marginality’ and ‘identity’ have received much critical attention from the scholars in various disciplines. Marginality refers to something that pertains to the edge, border or boundary. Something that is on margin or close…