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Love and Spirituality in Anita Desai’s ‘Cry, the Peacock’ and Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Breezy April’
Get PDFRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first non-European and the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was awarded the prize for Gitanjali. Tagore was a multi-faceted personality who not only composed poems, verses, short stories, novels etc but also sketched and painted with equal brilliance. As a flag-bearer, he presented the best of India to the West and vice-versa. In Breezy April, Tagore combines romanticism with spiritualism. On the other hand, Anita Desai (born-1937) is the youngest among the women novelists of eminence in India. The spiritual aspect of human life is at the centre of attention in her works. Women protagonists of fragile exterior and strong interior take the lead in Anita Desai’s works of fiction. Spirituality is an integral part of most of her works. In her first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963), Desai minutely depicts both love as well as deep spiritual intricacies
A Lexical Analysis of Words Signifying Happiness in Dickens\u27 Novel Oliver Twist
Get PDFBeing a transient state, happiness extends from the highest degree of pleasure to the lowest one. It differs from one person to another. Lexically, happiness can be fulfilled by using certain words that are used to describe this feeling. The existing study tries tofind answers for the subsequent queries:
What are the most common words uttered to express happiness in Dickens\u27 novel Oliver Twist?
Is there a distinction between happiness and other negative feelings in the texts above?
Do they all have the same indications of happiness?
This paper aims at:
Examining the semantic aspects of words denoting happiness in Dickens\u27 novel Oliver Twist.
Identifying the correlation between happiness and other negative feelings in the text above.
3.Investigating the implied meaning of that words used in this particular novel.
 
Desire as The Harbinger of Good and Evil in Matthew Lewis’s ‘The Monk’
Get PDFDesire is a feeling which gives different shades and hues to a human being’s personality. It transforms him either as good or bad depending upon how much can a person cope up with his or her feelings. Mathew Lewis’s Gothic novel or rather a thriller ‘The Monk’ is a blend of desire with the narrative structure which has been appreciated by both the readers and the critic regarding the skilful handling of the theme by the author. This has been seconded by Theodore, the personal servant of the protagonist, Raymond in the following lines: “Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong; and you might as easily persuade me not to love, as I persuade you not to write.” [Lewis 204.
A Study on \u27English Language Teaching\u27 (ELT) in Telugu Speaking States
No full textThe importance of the English language in the educational field is clear from the fact that many countries have made English an official language. Consequently, English language teaching (ELT) has become one of the significant growth industries around the world in recent years. The English language teaching tradition has been subject to tremendous change, especially throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps more than any other discipline, this tradition has been practised in various adaptations in language classrooms all around the world for centuries. While the teaching of Maths or Physics, that is, the methodology of teaching Maths or Physics, has, to a greater or lesser extent, remained the same, this is hardly the case with English or language teaching in general. As will become evident in this short paper, there are some milestones in the development of this tradition, which we will briefly touch upon, in an attempt to reveal the importance of research in the selection and implementation of the optimal methods and techniques for language teaching and learning
The Concept of Liberation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions
Get PDFThe great Indian Epic Mahabharata celebrates the battle between Pandavas and Kauravas and signifies Draupadi as the fundamental cause of it. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni unwrapped this belief and made Draupadi a powerful woman with great determination and courage. The Epics all over the world has portrayed woman as pale shadows of men, and men as great warriors. This silence of women has triggered Divakaruni to retell the epic in female voice. Literature always tried to share the changes in society. Unveiling the perfect lady images to the woman, modern female writers made their own literature. This paper goes through the life of an epic woman who has strong cravings of liberation. Also tries to find out whether a female protagonist can undergo inclinations in the life of Male characters who always hold the seal of divine figure, who always live for the warfare
Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali: Wailing Motherhood
Get PDFMahasweta Devi’s Rudali has gained critical responses for raising the voice on behalf of the silenced subaltern individuals and communities. However, this paper attempts to analyse the text through the gendered lens of ‘motherhood’. Rudali not only delineates the struggles and exploitations of the lower caste people and the outcastes, but the text also divulges the condition of mothers and their struggles of mothering. Mahasweta Devi, true to her strong writing agendas, has not written in favour of the mothers belonging only to the subaltern communities; she has taken into account of those mothers who are wealthy and belong to respected families as well as those who are defamed and disrespected and belong to the marginalized, red-light areas of the society. All the ‘mothers’ portrayed in Rudali have undergone similar ecstasy, agony, humiliation, dejection and rejection. The text leads us through motherhood as a ‘community’ and not just a biological attribute conferred with a namesake social status
Indexing and Reviewing: Concept and Its Practice
Get PDFIndexing is a crucial factor that helps journal to reach out a larger audience and achieve reputation by standing out from the rest that are crowding in publication space. This article helps gaining an understanding on the concept of indexing, its history, its practices, the major indexing agencies and the indexing parameters. The paper also discusses on the different review methods adopted by journals and the concept of open access journals
Dullness Versus Vivacity: A Study of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
Get PDFAn ideal marriage is a state of being equal in every way which is built on a healthy dose of admiration, on understanding, dedication, trust and loyalty. French novelist Gustave Flaubert has raised the same issue in his most discussed work Madame Bovary. Flaubert was most notable for being the leading exponent of literary realism in French literature. There were writers before Flaubert who tried their hands at realism but not all of them, as was the case in the work of Flaubert. The fiction Madame Bovary is a dedication to its heroine’s sentiments. Though she has been tagged, adulterous, a failed wife and failed mother, we feel pity for her. She really demands our sympathy since she was unable to achieve that eternal pleasure throughout her whole life. Her mere guilt was her sensible nature which shattered all her dreams. The present paper is an attempt to study her innocence by analysing her nature, sentiments and imagination in depth
Effects of Globalisation on the English Language
Get PDFScholars, academicians, economists have given different definitions of globalisation, highlighting mostly the economic and political consequences of globalisation. However, this paper aims at shifting the attention from the much talked economic and political consequences of globalisation to its effects on the English language concerning the Indian context. In other words, this paper aims to trace the various effects of globalisation on the English language. After going through relevant literature survey, the researcher has come up with the answer that globalisation has resulted into the further spread of the English language by changing its role in the global affairs, has given birth to indigenous varieties of English and to a new medium of communication which is neither speech nor writing but shares some of the characteristics of both
In the Image of Lucifer
Get PDFThe image of Judge Holden evokes the image of a sinister seven-foot-tall, completely hairless man, who is the arch-nemesis of humanity. A man of vast erudition, Holden is also the most savage of the lot riding alongside John Joel Glanton. The figure of Judge Holden has drawn comparisons to the character of Captain Ahab and the great white whale, Moby Dick.
But Judge Holden also brings to mind the character of Lucifer. Both of them emerge as enemies of humanity and appear awe-inspiring even in their fallen state. It must not be forgotten that they had possibly glorious pasts. But they made choices that led them to become sinister and malevolent characters. Their depravity and fallen state are in stark contrast with their intellectual refinement. Lucifer features prominently across the myths of different cultures. In most representations, he appears as the “bearer of light.” A celestial figure, close to God, Lucifer becomes a damned and fallen figure, the avowed enemy of humanity