Nabarun Ghosh Research Scholar Department of English Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India The term ‘subaltern’ was first coined by the Italian Marxist critic Antonio Gramsci to refer to the marginalised classes in a society. He has also opined that the term is not restricted to the economically subversive subjects of the society; rather…
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Islam and the West: History of Misconceptions
Morsal Shaif Haidarah Yemeni Ph.D Research scholar in English University of Madras Chennai, India. Introduction There is a continual discursive struggle for hegemony as social groups attempt to articulate their particular vision of the nation as general, taken for granted, natural, and universalized reality for all through the media. (Gavrilos 431) The above quotation indicates…
Shelley’s Spiritual Atheism
Monika Lee Brescia University College (Univ. of Western Ontario) Canada – If the Abysm Could vomit forth its secrets: – but a voice Is wanting, the deep truth is imageless. (Prometheus Unbound. [2.4.114-16])1 In England Shelley was derided as an infidel and an atheist for much of the nineteenth century, both during his lifetime and…
Globalization and its Impact on Community in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance
P.S. Mary Christina P.hD Scholar English Karunya University Coimbatore. & Pauline Das Set in the mid-1970s India, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance contains a multi-layered plot with complex characters that are locally embedded and globally imaginable. The novels plot consists of incidents, such as experiences with the countries forced sterilization programme during the time of…
T. S. Eliot- A Modern Link with the Metaphysicals
Kuldeep Walia Assist. Prof & Head of Applied Sciences Department Rayat-Bahra Institute of Engg. & Nano-Technology Hoshiarpur. (146001) Punjab, India Eliot was generally influenced by the technique of John Donne. For Eliot, his techniques had energy, variety and wit. From him Eliot adopted conversational tone, a colloquial vocabulary, ironical conceits, surprising images, rapid connections of…
The Importance of the English Laboratory in Developing Communication Skills
J. Kavitha Assistant Professor, Department of English, SFR College, Sivakasi. Introduction: Communication refers to the exchange of thoughts and ideas with the intention of conveying information. As Robert Gately says, “Effective Communications starts with listening”. A teacher, who is able to communication well with students, can inspire them to listen and participate in class. Students…
Sri Aurobindo’s Critique of Science and Rationality
Jaspal Singh Head, Department of English, G.G.D.S.D. College, Hariana, Distt. Hoshiarpur, Punjab, (India) Pin-144208 Introduction: The beginning of the Twentieth Century was a period of intense disturbance and turmoil as a wind of change was sweeping the entire human civilization. The old order was giving way to the new. Mankind had never seen such drastic…
Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of Place
Iffat Maqbool Asst Professor Dept of English University of Kashmir. Despite the ascendancy of “Formalist” poetics in the second half of the twentieth century, a literature of engagement was increasingly offered from those emergent cultures that needed new paradigms to counter the modernist model offered by the western academia. Cultures like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,…
Cultural Complexity in Nissim Ezekiel’s Works
John Wesly Associate Professor of English, Dept of Science and Humanities, Loyola Institute of Technology and Management, Dhulipalla, Satenapalli, Guntur Distt,(AP) India. & N. D. R. Chandra Professor, Dept of English, Nagaland University Kohima Campu, Nagaland, India. I Nissim Ezekiel avails himself the composite culture of India to which he belongs, he considers himself to…
Naipaul’s India : A Wounded Civilization : A Political Perspective
Bhupinder Singh & JapPreet Kaur Bhangu V.S Naipaul born in Trinidad to parents of Indian descent is an eminent writer known for novels and works of non-fiction which include essays and travel writings. Winner of Nobel Prize and numerous other literary prizes, he has focused time and again on the legacy of colonialism of the…