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Impact of Broken Homes on Children’s Psychology in Indian Writing in English 破裂家庭对印度英语写作中儿童心理的影响

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.10.1.06

P. Singla

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Legislation, Reaction and Ecological Degradation: An Eco-Critical Analysis of John Grisham’s The Appeal 立法、反应与生态退化:约翰·格里沙姆《呼吁》的生态批判分析

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.10.1.03

Preethika S, Chitra Sivasubramaniam

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(Re)Visiting the Traumatised Indian Matriarch Through Contemporary Retellings: A Psycho-Cultural Exploration (续)透过当代重述访问受创伤的印度女族长:一种心理文化探索

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.10.1.12

Abhirami S, Smrutisikta Mishra

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Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines 差异的制图:阿米塔夫·高希的《影子线》中的发明差异

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.02

Suravi Roy

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Cultural Expectations and Gendered Roles: Identity Formations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland 文化期望与性别角色:Jhumpa Lahiri的《低地》中的身份形成

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.05

Damini Bhattacharya

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Decipher Symptoms of Asperger Syndrome: Role of Early Intervention in Colin Fischer 解读阿斯伯格综合症的症状:早期干预在科林·费舍尔身上的作用

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.06

P. M

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Borges’s Library of Babel: Consciousness Assaults the Universe 博尔赫斯的《巴别塔图书馆:意识攻击宇宙》

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.07

Alfonso J. García-Osuna

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Mapping the Motif of the Wandering Jew in Salim Kumar’s Karutha Joothan 描绘萨利姆·库马尔《卡鲁塔·乔丹》中流浪犹太人的主题

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.03

Jeslinmery John, Asha Susan Jacob

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Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses 普里蒂·蒙加传记体小说《其他感官》中的视觉障碍与对正常的追求

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.04

G. Kowsalya, C. Dhanabal

{"title":"Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses","authors":"G. Kowsalya, C. Dhanabal","doi":"10.22492/ijah.9.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"For Ancient Greeks, beauty was a characteristic of individuals and actions that they considered to be morally good. Greek statuary and art in general project beauty based on the assumption that outward appearance reflects personal virtues (Tytler, 1982, p. 36). Pythagoreans, for example, held that ugliness expressed confusion and turmoil, and that beauty was a material expression of universal truth. In more modern times, and in many ways envisaging today’s materialistic societies, Kant expresses a certain perplexity that beauty is perceived primarily as a pleasurable response to exterior form (2000, p. 111). In this sense contemporary culture, with the increasing visual refinements of its graphic products and virtual reality, has set new metrics for defining the value of beauty. Our televisions, for example, broadcast images of heroes who are physically beautiful while being morally suspect and socially abrasive. The unstable value of beauty is reflected in literature. In Indian literature disability has been represented, but these representations have lacked significant scholarly diagnostic treatment. The Disability Rights Movement has recently begun to change this situation. This paper strives to examine a disabled individual’s struggle for integration through Preeti Monga’s autobiography The Other Senses. It also analyses how the disabled create subjective normality and the process by which they attain it. By tracing the roles of sexuality, dependency, and interpersonal relationships in the lived experience of Preeti Monga, this research aims to reveal the significance of the quest for normality in shaping personal identity.","PeriodicalId":270323,"journal":{"name":"IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133778620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is an Explanation a Reason? 解释就是理由吗?

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.9.2.01

P. Rastall

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