Farheen Javed Department of English, Roorkee Engineering & Management Technology Institute, India Introduction English is a West Germanic language related to Dutch, Frisian and German with a significant amount of vocabulary from French, Latin, Greek and many other languages Approximately 341 million people speak English as a native language and a further 267 million speak…
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Ecocritical Reading of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
Deepali Yadav Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India) “Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten” Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’ justifies the irony behind the stated proverb….
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Dissent and Resistance in Dalit Literature: A Study of Om Prakash Valmiki’s Selected Short Stories
Dr. Vinod K. Chopra Lecturer in English, GGSSS Hamirpur, (H.P.) India 177 001 In Indian society caste system is still deep rooted even after more than sixty-five years of independence. Caste system in India is not only the age-old and depth oriented socio-cultural phenomenon but it has also been working, since time immemorial, as the…
Ideological Import of Names in Lineage Panegyrics in Yoruba Films
Ogunkunle Victoria Oluwamayowa Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye- Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. ABSTRACT It is well known that language use in cultural productions is not ideologically free. This is especially true of Yoruba language usage. The Yoruba people as a group believe in encoding their experiences, values, customs and so on…
Desires and Exiles in James Joyce’s Exiles
Tanmay Chatterjee Research Scholar Department of English Banaras Hindu University Varanasi – 221005, U.P., India. Abstract: Exiles (1918) is the only existing play by James Joyce. He wrote this play while finishing his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and beginning work on Ulysses (1922). Joyce was much influenced…
The Clash of Mundane and Spiritual in R.K. Narayan’s Novels
Dr. Sujata Asst. Prof. in English, Department of Humanities and Management, FET, MRIU, Faridabad (Haryana), India Abstract: The paper probes the role of spiritual in communicating Narayan’s overall life vision. Narayan is a mature artist who has his feet firmly rooted in his social and cultural ethos. His chief protagonists, though leading the most ordinary…
Gender Reformation in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren Profession
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…
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…
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,…