Davide Trame Autumn in the countryside, half past five, already dark. I’ve come to my childhood place by chance, looking for a bunch of keys I need from my old uncle. Here by the house of my first summers, deckchairs under the garden grapes by the water pump, caressing the grass, parents, grandparents, in the…
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Cento For Daddy
David Groulx Who gave me the atom bomb twisted water into mercury perverted God and Godzilla I love you baby who loved my mother until Tecumseh was slaughtered by Locke on the plains of Abraham and buried here on the prairie beside Patrice Lumumba Oh baby you left me waiting for the revolution on the…
The Black Performance’: Traditional and Contemporary Practices of Australian Aboriginal Drama
Prasenjit Das Ph.D. Research Scholar, Dept of English, Ranchi University, Ranchi You see, we’ve always been acting. Aboriginal people are the greatest actors in the world…We’ve acted up before magistrates, we’ve acted up before the police, we’ve acted up before social workers; we’ve always done our own mime…—Jack Davis. (as qtd. in Shoemaker 235) It…
Recalculating Words’ Worth
Louie Crew, USA Emeritus Professor at Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey Up! up! my Friend, and quit your screen; Or surely you’ll grow double Up! up! my Friend, and safely wean. Why all this toil and trouble. These CRTs bring endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet. How sweet its music! on my…
SANDSTORM
Members Are Sunflowers
The Scarf
Barnali Saha You are as light as a thin strand of white hair, as invisible as a common face. The back seat of the Honda where you rest is hardly perturbed by your weight. The wind smelling of rain- soaked frondescence sets you adrift in a procellous stone-strewn water body with perilous waves. You are…
Listening : An Important Skill and Its Various Aspects
Babita Tyagi Dept.of Professional Comm., RKGIT, GZB Abstract Listening skill is key to receiving messages effectively. It is a combination of hearing what another person says and psychological involvement with the person who is talking. Listening is a skill of Language. It requires a desire to understand another human being, an attitude of respect and…
The ‘Condition of England Novels’ and Victorian Women Novelists
Ameera.V.U Research Scholar English Department Calicut University Kerala India. ‘Condition of England’ novels sought to engage directly with the contemporary social and political issues with a focus on the illustration of class, gender, and labour relations, as well as on societal turbulence and the growing animosity between the rich and the poor in England. Even…
Seeing Herself through Literature: Martha Quest’s Reading Habit in Doris Lessing’s The Children of Violence
Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed Assistant Professor and Head Department of English Language and Literature International Islamic University Chittagong Dhaka Campus, Bangladesh & Sultana Jahan Assistant Professor Department of English Northern University Bangladesh Abstract: Most of Doris Lessing’s female protagonists are widely read and they frequently think in literary, especially fiction, terms. Martha Quest, the protagonist of…