Dr. P. Bagavathy Rajan Assistant Professor (SS), Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology,Pollachi. Tamilnadu, India 642 003 Literature is an imitation of life. Among the literary genres, drama has a distinctive feature. In drama, the purpose of literature is arrived at even by those who cannot read and write. They get entertained and educated…
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Beyond Modernism: Kanyadaan
Nakul Research Scholar MDU, Rohtak, India Arundhati Banerjee’s opinion, expressed twenty years ago, “Vijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of not just Marathi but Indian theatre for almost forty years” (p vii), even today seems a pertinent and sincere statement on the dramatist, Vijay Tendulkar, who has achieved this colossal significance in the annals…
Shiv K. Kumar : A Voice of Postcolonial Era
Dr. Meenal Rathore Assistant Professor Communication Skills Department Mahakal Institute of Technology Postcolonial Writings as we have observed, emphasize the process of strong resistance in the colonized societies and also put emphasis on contemporary reality of life. It deals with the literature written by the people of colonized countries that take the suffering and survival…
Karnad’s Refuge in Myths, Folklores and History
K.Mangaiyarkarasi Assistant Professor of English, S.F.R.College, Sivakasi-626123 Virudhunagar (Dist) Tamilnadu. A vigorous vitality that combs the past for apt myths, legends and folklores to analyse the present has been the hallmark of Girish Karnad, the pre-eminent Indian playwright in Kannada and English languages. Girish Karnad is regarded as one of the three great writers of…
De-Stereotyping Hybrids/Half-Breeds: A Postcolonial Reading of In Search of April Raintree
Lahari Behera Ph.D. scholar, Dept of English Pondicherry University Kalapet Puducherry “But you’re not exactly Indians are you? What is the proper word for people like you?” one asked. “Women,” Cheryl replied instantly. “No, no, I mean nationality?” “Oh, I’m sorry. We’re Canadians.” (Culleton 1984: 91) What should be an appropriate answer to this question…
The Modal Verbs: A Speech Act of Request in the Speech of the President of the United States Barak Obama
Khalid Wahaab Jabber Misan University College of Basic Education English Department Iraq & Zhang Jinquan Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Foreign Languages English Department China, Wuhan Abstract Speech is a power in itself. The most significant thing in the speech is the message that the speaker wants to convey. When the hearer…
Implicit and Explicit Voice of Protest in the Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan
Dr. Kalyani Dixit Asst. Prof. in English DAVPG College Lucknow. A. K. Ramanujan is the author of fifteen books that include verse in English and Kannada, among them The Striders was a Poetry Society Recommendation, and Speaking of Shiva was nominated for a National Book Award. He was honored with the Padma Sri in 1976…
Stylistic Analysis of Leo Tolstoy’s Short Story:God Sees the Truth, but Waits
Jyoti Jayal (Research Scholar) The English and Foreign Language University Lucknow campus. Work in stylistics pertains the in-depth analysis of individual literary texts or extracts, usually in order to relate specific linguistic choices and patterns to potential meanings and effects. Such kind of work represents one of the main strengths of the stylistics tradition: for…
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew Compared with the Expectations of Elizabethan Marriage
Jessica Asay United States of America The year was 1623 and England was still enjoying a glowing Renaissance. It was during this time that the theatre flourished and playwrights, including William Shakespeare, enjoyed relative prosperity from their controversial plays, such as The Taming of the Shrew. At this play’s end, the main character, Kate, exhibits…
The Nothing that Returned
Jeffrey Williams It was to return Mightier than ever With vengeance and determination To destroy all that dares question it All that disobey its ruthless abandon I remain stubborn Intensely stubborn No fear for this mortal I stood in its path Arms stretched Eyes clinched tight Waiting for its wrath Then it came with the…