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Revisiting Reader Response Theory
Get PDFThe role of readers in literary studies was not prominently recognized and actualized in the conventional practice. The focus was on the writer both as the creator of literary texts and interpreter of literary texts. The writer was the source of creative writing and its meaning. The reader was totally sidelined and was at the receiving end throughout the Middle Ages. It was not until the first half of the modern period that the reader’s role started getting attention. The reader-oriented criticism gained currency in Europe and America during 1970s. However, it is significant to note that it had its origins in antiquity and the ancient masters had attended upon the role of readers with varying emphasis. The present paper is an attempt to explain the resurgence of interest in the role of readers in modern theoretical parlance and the readers’ prominence in meaning making process. It illustrates the trajectory of readers’ role in literary studies and shows how readers became increasingly important in the consideration of literary texts. 
The Portrayal of Domestic Conflicts in Manju Kapur’s Novel A Married Woman
Get PDFThis research specifically examines Kapur’s literary works that expose the lack of harmony prevalent in Indian homes. Manju Kapur skilfully emphasizes the protagonist’s familial difficulties in her stories. While women in general lack autonomy, educated women actively want to achieve it. Kapur’s paintings exemplify the oppressive nature of traditional Indian culture towards women, restricting their autonomy and agency. Patriarchs and society exert significant influence over every element of women’s life. Women’s emotions, whatever of their nature, are dismissed and they are compelled to hide them. Due of this pressure, women have initiated a rebellion. Nevertheless, when Kapur’s female characters are compelled to disobey their older family members, they have difficulties in managing the situation. The researcher’s examination of each of Kapur’s books is crucial in illustrating the characters’ autonomy in decision-making. In the novel A Married Woman, the main character challenges traditional male-dominated standards and societal regulations to establish her uniqueness. However, this behaviour also creates complications in her personal life at home
Empowering Through Emotion: The Voice of Dissent against Gender Biasness as Delineated in the Film Adaptation of The Queen of Katwe
Get PDFWithout literature, it is impractical to imagine the genesis of cinema. Cinema is considered a subset of literature and has long been one of the most fascinating academic subjects with a profound impact on human psychology. Film adaptations can take several forms, ranging from precise replicas of the original source to innovative story telling. Biographies have had a major influence on movies in recent years. These book-to-film adaptations share the real-life accounts of strong women who demanded positive change as well as the stories of trailblazing women who influenced history. This research paper unveils the brilliance of a modern masterpiece, The Queen of Katwe, a book that has gardened widespread acclaim and seamlessly transformed into the cinematic gem. The film uses a moving narrative to spread the message about gender equality, women’s empowerment, and girls’ education throughout the world. This study explores the film’s narrative strategies, portrayal of major themes, and how well it works as an agent of social change
Gender, Culture and Countering Narrative: The Fiction of Arupa Patangia Kalita
Get PDFRaymond Williams states that towards the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century, certain words gained currency in the English language and one of them was “culture.” Williams goes on to explain that during this time, the meaning of the word accrued certain changes and began to mean ‘“a general state or habit of the mind,” having close relations with the idea of human perfection,’ “the general state of intellectual development,” of a society as a whole, “the general body of arts,” and finally as a “whole way of life, material, intellectual, and spiritual.” Thus, the materiality of culture, its close relationship with literature, society, politics, history was established. In a paper titled “Gender, Culture and Countering Narrative: The Fiction of Arupa Patangia Kalita,” one seeks to examine Kalita’s novels titled Dawn and The Story of Felanee, along with some of her short stories to demonstrate how Kalita’s fiction complicates one’s understanding of Assamese history, society and culture. The paper will explore how the viewpoint of marginality put forth by Kalita’s stories and choice of protagonists challenge a homogenous construct of Assamese society and illustrate its polyphonic voices. The paper will endeavour to study how characters who occupy marginal and interstitial spaces challenge and reshape one’s understanding of dominant history, politics and culture of Assam. The fiction chosen for perusal will thus offer not just a gendered perspective on Assamese society and therefore a critique of a patriarchal viewpoint, but also make an intervention in terms of foregrounding perspectives arising out of one’s ethnicity or community. The paper will thus hope to establish that Kalita’s fiction by focusing on the continuities as well as the discontinuities of Assamese society succeeds in capturing the divergent and polyphonic voices and concerns of the people who come to be known as the Assamese. 
Shedding the Metaphors by Nandini Sahu
Get PDFShedding the Metaphors by Nandini Sahu, Publisher: Black Eagle Books, ISBN: 978-1-64560-348-1, Pages: 258
Exile and Resistance in Palestinian Literature by Shamenaz Bano and Ahmed Saad Aziz
Get PDFExile and Resistance in Palestinian Literature by Shamenaz Bano and Ahmed Saad Aziz, Notionpress.com. ISBN 9798888699768, price- 275/-
Legal Literature: A Descriptive Analysis
Get PDF‘Literature is the reflection of life.’ Thus, studying "Literature" is beneficial for one\u27s spiritual renewal in addition to intellectual goals. The use of literary texts in language classes can foster the development of young students\u27 critical thinking skills. The present paper emphasizes the value of "Literature" in a “Legal English” course. The "Bar Council of India" agrees that literature is important and has suggested that “Legal English” should be a compulsory subject in law schools. The authors have described how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, first-semester law school undergraduate students performed a dramatization of William Shakespeare\u27s The Merchant of Venice using a "Virtual Platform" (Zoom). Upon completion of the class activity, the classroom goals of group scaffolding, creative use of literary language, and cross-cultural understanding were attained
