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A Critical Study of the Autobiographical Elements in the Fictional Works of R. K. Narayan
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R. K. Narayan contemporary critical perspectives
No full textThis collection of eighteen essays is the first major work to evaluate the contributions of India's foremost literary figure writing in English, R. K. Narayan. His fourteen novels and nine volumes of short stories are centered almost exclusively in the fictional south-Indian town, Malgudi. Narayan, who began to acquire an international reputation in the second half of this century, reveals the India of his experience by focusing on the details of the lives of the characters who live in this complex community. Representative of the general field of Narayan criticism, Contemporary Critical Essays provides a balanced assessment, but also contains new interpretations of Narayan's work that are drawn from the latest developments in literary theory, feminist and cultural studies, as well as investigations into the implications of colonization and decolonization. As a result, these essays offer fresh insights, explore new directions, and reveal the nuances of an established literary criticism
Familial Crisis in the Novels of R. K. Narayan
No full textR. K. Narayan is an award winning author of more than a dozen novels and short stories, instead of these, he is popularly known for his Malgudi Days. He was born on 10th Oct. 1906 in Madras British India (now Chennai Tamil Nadu, India). His full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami. The life of R.K Narayan is reflected in all his works. The life of middle-class Indian society is the focus of his most of the novels, and each main character goes through a crisis and transformation of some sort, maybe it is an identity or spiritual one. It is important to note that R. K. Narayan wrote solely on his own experiences as a middle-class Brahmin of the fairly high caste-a privileged position that was not the norm of India
A conceptual model and rapid appraisal tool for integrated coastal floodplain assessments
No full textLow-lying coastal zones are high-risk areas threatened by flooding due to extreme coastal events and rising sea-levels. The coastal floodplain system includes elements such as near-shore waves and water levels, inter-tidal beaches and coastal habitats, natural and artificial sea defences and multiple inland floodplain features. Flood risk studies generally achieve an integrated assessment of these elements using multiple numerical models for different floodplain elements. However fundamental choices of floodplain description and the appropriate data, methods and models can vary widely between different sites and flood risk studies. A comprehensive conceptual model is needed to describe the floodplain system and help inform these choices in each site. However a descriptive conceptual model for coastal floodplain systems does not exist at present. There is a bias in flood risk studies towards the direct use of numerical models with limited use of conceptual models – existing models are implicit and do not describe the coastal floodplain system.This thesis addresses this gap by developing, applying and testing a rapid appraisal tool that conceptually describes the coastal floodplain as a system of interacting elements. The tool is developed in two parts – i) a quasi-2D Source– Pathway – Receptor (SPR) model that provides a comprehensive qualitative description of the floodplain; and ii) a Bayesian network model that uses this description to quantify individual elements as sources, pathways and receptors of flood propagation. The quasi-2D SPR is applied in 8 diverse coastal zones across Europe 4 of which include nested case-studies. It is an effective way of gathering and describing information about the floodplain from stakeholders across multiple disciplines. The Bayesian network model is applied to two contrasting floodplain systems in England – Teignmouth and Portsmouth. The network model is effective in pinpointing critical flood pathways and identifying key knowledge gaps for further analyses. The two models together provide a comprehensive understanding of the coastal floodplain system that can be used to inform and target the use of more detailed numerical models.Hence this thesis provides a conceptual model and tool to improve flood risk assessment. It makes conceptual understanding of the floodplain explicit and stratifies quantitative analysis by application of a rapid assessment tool before the use of detailed numerical models
Language and Style in the Novels of R. K. Narayan
No full textR. K. Narayan holds a distinctive place in the contemporary Indian-English fiction writing. He is counted as one of ‘the Big Three’ in this realm. Mulk Raj Anand is usually remembered for his socialist leanings and Marxist attitudes and Raja Rao is acclaimed as the most vociferous exponent of Indian religious thoughts and metaphysics. R. K. Narayan is generally considered as a pure artist free from all social, political and religious botherations. The greatest contributions of Narayan to Indian English fiction is his humour. Humour is a gift that flourishes in a native tongue, but shrivels up with the touch of a foreign language. With Narayan however, it flourishes in a foreign tongue and tends to disappear in a native tongue
R.K. Narayan: Straddling Metropole and Malgudi
No full text“In her essay ‘Resistance through Sub/Mission in the Novels of R. K. Narayan,’ Hyacinth Cynthia Wyatt argues that ‘among Indian authors writing in English, R. K. Narayan was among the first to resist Western cultural dominance’…
Levels of Reality in the Novels of R. K. Narayan
No full textR. K. Narayan (Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami) is now regarded as one of the greatest of Indian authors writing in English. He is the more artistic of the Indian writers, his sole aim is being to give aesthetic satisfaction to his readers, and not to use his art as a medium of propaganda or to serve some social purpose as is the case with Mulk Raj Anand. Narayan is a pure Artist and not a writer with a message. He minutely observes the life around him, and presents it objectively and artistically. Narayan keeps very close to reality, for his aim is to reveal the tragic- comedy implicit in ordinary life. His picture of life is always true to facts, but to those facts only at which a reasonable being can be expected to smile
The Technique of Double Narration of R. K. Narayan's The Guide
No full textAbstract R. K. Narayan is one of the three important Indian novelists i
Minor characters in the select short stories of R. K. Narayan: A critique
No full textR. K. Narayan is regarded as one of India’s great short story writers. He portrays
his characters in the background of local towns and its surrounding environment. Initially,
they seem mundane but as the story progresses they emerge as representative of Narayan’s
ideology. This is clearly reflected in the case of both major and minor characters. The minor
characters in Narayan’s stand tall along with their peculiar qualities such as enduring
personality, witty dialogues, positive approach and amicable behaviour and attitude. This
research paper is based on descriptive research and discusses importance and contribution
of minor characters in the select short stories of R. K. Narayan
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