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Re-reading Tagore’s The Home and the World: A Study of Contesting Modernities
Get PDFThe present paper attempts to focus the model of contesting modernities dealing with conceptual problems rather than the importance of logic and science. The Home and the World (1916), written by Rabindanath Tagore, a fictional autobiographical novel can be read as the model of contesting modernities. In the research article, it is an attempt to explore the textual responses to contesting forms of modernity in abstract ideas about the issues of nation and gender in the context of Swadeshi Bengal in the early decades of twentieth century. After re-reading the text, it can be applied to the larger question of formation of nation and true nationalist and liberty of women. The novel grows out of the anti-partition Swadeshi movement, the issues of the home and the world, the tradition and the modern approach of life. The novel focuses the battle of ideas between western culture and revolution against the western culture in colonial period. Two protagonists of the novel such as Nikhilesh and Sandip in the novel represents two kinds of ideas in the light of the spirit of the Modern age as revealed in Sabuj Patra. From their ideas reveal two types of nationalists’ project. Nationalism always can be viewed as a process of cultural invention. Nikhilesh is a logical man and supports for non-violence. He likes true mental freedom that can be achieved by the projects of nationalism full of humanism. At the other hand, Sandip prefers to aggressive political freedom and power after grabbing over other nations and national resources. Bimala, third protagonist, is ultimately disillusioned to the nationalist project of Sandip about the emancipation of gender. So Modernity, the recreated form of culture can be viewed with humanistic features such as love, co-operation, sympathy, sacrifice etc
Tracing Eastern Influences in The Fakeer of Jungheera
Get PDFThe paper aims at analysing various influences that Henry Derozio underwent in the composition of his Fakeer of Jungheera. The reviewers and commentators, while admitting some poetic merits in the poem, find it largely imitative of Byron and hence greatly wanting. However, a close first-hand study of the poem along with the poet’s notes alluded to it throws light on a number of facts related to its subject matter and style. It is revealed that far from being modelled on Byron's ballads like The Corsair or The Siege of Corinth or The Prisoner of Chillon, it is unmistakably Indian in conception and amazingly rich in local colours and imagery. Even the apparent similarity is superficial, and instead of being a fanciful tale, the Fakeer of Jungheera is the poetic recreation of a real-life episode heard by and believed in by the poet. The paper also examines the art of poetic diction and devices that the poet employs in the poem
The “Healing Touch” of Nature: Corresponding Elements in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Jibanananda Das
Get PDFThis paper endeavours to find resonances between Wordsworth's treatment and responses to Nature and Jibanananda's fascination with rural Bengal. A lecturer in English, he tried to bring the West to the Bengali psyche and consciousness utilizing the unique strategy of de-familiarizing the Bengali landscape. In effecting this achievement Jibanananda's familiarity with English poetry is of paramount importance. He has analogical and genealogical similarities with Keats and Wordsworth's particularly Wordsworth, in the celebrations of solitude, of nature
Role of Women Protagonists in the Short Stories of Mavis Gallant
Get PDFMavis Gallant was a well known Canadian short story writer. She wrote many stories, essays, reviews, plays. Gallant was deprived from the love of her parents in her childhood. After the death of her father and mothers remarriage, she was sent to seventeen different boarding schools. She had experienced a difficult childhood. She hated her mother the most and therefore after completing her studies she decided to stay alone. The mental trauma she faced made her very sympathetic in nature. She became very serious on the issues related to women. Gallant depicted the plight of women in the form of a story. Her many stories seem to be semi autobiographical but she denies completely. This paper is an attempt to bring forth few prevalent problems stated in the short stories of Canadian women. 
To demonstrate the Serial Learning-positioning among Early adolescents and Late Adolescents
Get PDFLearning is a process of living that enables us to move forward in life. Learning is much deeper than just recalling and memorizing. Learning done on a daily basis involves understanding, relating opinions and making connective links between the information learnt previously with the new information learnt recently. There are various forms in which learning can be practiced. The aim of this research is to study about the memory and learning ability of Early and Late adolescents with regards to the objectives set to be; to differentiate the learning ability of Early and Late adolescents as well as to adhere to the early psychological research that was done on the memory power of different stages of Adolescents. The hypothesis of this study is that there will be a significant difference in learning between Early adolescents and the Late adolescents. 60 samples were taken, 30 in each group. The methodology used in this study are ‘serial leaning and serial positioning’ which were used to demonstrate how individuals of different ages can recall information associated with time delay of 10 minutes between serial learning (orderly manner) and serial positioning (disorderly manner). The groups were Early Adolescents and Late adolescents from an educational institute located around the college campus. Adolescents with physical disabilities were not included in the study and all the adolescents in this study are from an English medium institution. For the results, Standard deviation and t-test were used to score. The study was proven that Late adolescents have higher memory recall ability compared to that of the early adolescents
Walker Percy’s Lancelot: The Riven Self Welded Whole By Logos
Get PDFWalker Percy, a Physician turned novelist’s Lancelot trumpets aloud the power of logos in the life of its protagonist Lancelot. Through language and intersubjectivity, Lancelot redeems himself from his malaise and angst. Fr. Percival like an alchemist transforms the life of Lancelot through his silent witness to everything that Lancelot narrates about his past
Goethe’s “Welt” poet in Bengal: The Influence of World Literature on Jibanananda Das and other Bengali Poets of the 1930s-40s
Get PDFoai:oai.thecreativelauncher.com:article/1This study aims to establish a link between the concept of “Weltliteratur” or World Literature, in terms of the free movement of literary themes and ideas between nations in original form or translation, and the Bengali poets of the thirties and forties who actively translated French and German poets. It identifies Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749-1832) concept of World Literature as a vehicle for the Kallol Jug poets. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of “Weltliteratur” in a few of his essays in the first half of the nineteenth century to describe the international circulation and reception of literary works in Europe, including works of non-Western origin. My emphasis will be on Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) arguably the most celebrated poet in Bengali literature who was well versed in the contemporary Western Canons of Poetry. Jibanananda’s defamiliarization of the rural Bengal Landscape, his use of exotic foreign images owe a debt to contemporary European poets. Interestingly, Jibanananda had reviewed an English translation of German author Thomas Mann’s novel “Dr Faustus’ for a Bengali magazine “Chaturanga”. In the Bengali review he states that despite prevalent misconceptions (some critics considering the novel to be superior to the original Faust epic by Goethe) Goethe’s Faust was the first text to capture the hope, despair and crisis in the modern world and articulate it in such a manner that “true” literature of the age was created in its new light. In Jibanananda’s estimation, Thomas Mann deserves credit for treating the Faust legend in a unique and creative way
The Elements of Supernatural and Magic Realism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Get PDFThe present research paper is a study of the elements of Magic Realism and the supernatural elements in the novel, Beloved by the Nobel laureate novelist Toni Morrison. The term Magic Realism was originally applied in the 1920s to the school of surrealist German painters and was later used to describe the process fiction of writers like George Luis Burges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie etc. These writers weave a sharply etched realism representing ordinary events and details together with fantastic and dream-like elements, as well as with material derived from myth and fairy tales. The German critic Franz Roz introduced the concept of Magic realism in 1920 and it was first used in paintings. The term was introduced in the book Post-expressionism, Magic Realism: Problem of the Most Recent European Paintings in 1925. The purpose here is to analyze the elements of magic realism in the novel, Beloved. We can see supernatural elements in Sethe’s house that bring chaos by haunting everyone through its mysterious presence, and making Sethe’s both the sons Howard and Buglar run away. It appears to be the ghost of a baby which was murdered by Sethe. The ghost causes the things in the house to break and shake mysteriously. In magic realism fiction the ghosts are the central characters generally. In the novel Beloved Morrison has portrayed the ghost as a living person. Thus, the dominance of a unique, mystical and gloomy atmosphere can be seen throughout the novel
A Study on Interdisciplinary Theories Regarding Maritime Nautical Literature
Get PDFMaritime or (Nautical literature) was ruling the period during the 18th century which was followed by 19th-century writers. These novels depict the effects on the environment, society and economy of the people. In this study, it is observed that the concept approach towards the Interdisciplinary theory with connection to the people’s thoughts regarding the sea, their religious or holistic approaches, and the gender description given to describe the sea were correlated with some famous nautical novel with notable incidents or theories to prove that the attributes of plots might be different but the themes relating to such sea novels/aquatic novels are more or less similar to each other and they serve some standard settings and motifs on the whole. The study reveals that maritime novels where written in distinctive plots but the themes are more or less focused on masculinity (gender roles) and heroism, social hierarchies and the psychological and holistic transformation during their hard existence in the sea. Ethical approach, the symbolism of sea and the gender roles are used in this regard of research dealing with interdisciplinary theory
An Overview of the Complexities in Indian Feminism
Get PDFThe paper aims to highlight the complexities that are dominant in Indian society. The variety of issues that makes Indian feminism different from western feminism is also explored. The present paper presents a brief overview of western feminism, however, a large portion discuss the Indian feministic concerns and issue. The paper is not limited to any particular writer or writing of an author but it is an eclectic approach to present the subtle difficulties of Indian feminism in the best possible way. The focus is largely on the third and fourth wave of feminism. Giving the increasing insecurities of women even in this digital era, the paper therefore is a humble effort in that direction to bring some of the merging issues and concerns of women in general and Indian women in particular to the forefront. An eclectic approach has been used for the evaluation of the issues and concerns therefore the paper highlights various feministic issues like cultural social, economic individual, Islamic etc. associated with different branches of feminism