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{"title":"Magic Realism in Flowers: Karnad’s Post-Modern World of Folkloric Fantasy","authors":"P. Kulkarni","doi":"10.34293/english.v8i3.2429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i3.2429","url":null,"abstract":"Magic realism” is a recent literary technique that contains a latent amalgamation of fantastic or mythical elements into an otherwise realistically narrated fiction. The theme and subject of such a literary work are often imaginary, somewhat outlandish and fantastic and always reflect into a dream-like reverie. It further marks the miscellaneous use of myths, legends and fairy tales, and an expressionistic description of an arcane situation leading to the element of surprise or abrupt shock. In literary discourses, the term is primarily associated with the post-modern novel of the Americas. Girish Karnad’s dramatic monologue, Flowers, however, bears all the elements of this literary phenomenon. This short play could also be labeled as a dramatized novel and is a simple tale of a priest caught in an agonized conflict between his devotion to God and his love for a courtesan. However, Karnad’s creative genius turns this conflict into a scintillating portrayal of the sexual urge of a priest interspersed with his feelings of religious devotion and familial duties through the technique of magic realism and, in the process, questions god’s authority in the postmodern world. The play is an attempt by Karnad for the first time in his playwriting career “to focus on male than a female desire.” It presents an interesting picture of the bizarre human world full of magic and its realistic social impressions. The present article attempts to shed some light on this aspect of Karnad through the thematic exploration of the flowers.","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"8 1","pages":"26-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45725321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Plight of Women in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy","authors":"B. Sugirthadevi, M. R. Rashila","doi":"10.34293/english.v8i3.3212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i3.3212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the plight of women characters in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy. It focuses chiefly on the colonial rule that the situation is even shoddier. Opium affects the life of all women characters in a straight line or in a roundabout way. It aims to tell in brief about the women characters with the extraordinary spotlight on the characters of Deeti, Paulette, daughter of a French botanist living in Calcutta; she respects Indian culture even though being a French woman and Shireen in particular. It represents exploring the emotional world of women, which helps the readers to connect and empathize with their situations. Through these characters, the lives of women are described and the survival of life with suffering and hardships.","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"8 1","pages":"57-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41714009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychodynamic Study on the Works of Cecelia Ahern","authors":"V. Meenakumari, P. Shelonitta","doi":"10.34293/english.v8i3.3170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i3.3170","url":null,"abstract":"Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in which Freud throws light into the “personality” of a human being. He gives a tripartite structure that involves a conscious (superego), pre-conscious (ego), and super-conscious (the ‘id’). These concepts and their explanations form the fundamentals of the psychoanalytical theory. This thesis will focus on “Resistance and Repression,” which is one among the many theories of psychoanalysis established by Freud. ‘Repression’ or also referred to as ‘Suppression’ by later psychologists, is the process of deliberately pushing out a painful thought, memory or feeling out of consciousness and becoming unaware of its existence, to which ‘Resistance’ acts as a safety measure by the mind in not giving entrance to certain painful memories into the conscious. This phenomenon plays a major role in the psyche of an average person as a “defense mechanism” to escape the anxiety that is caused by certain unacceptable concepts to the conscious mind. This thesis brings into light the psyche of the protagonist of Cecelia Ahern’s novel “Postscript,” who, throughout their life, represses painful events of the past, thus altering their decisions in life to a great extent. This work focuses on the behavioral patterns of the characters in the selected novels of study and the corresponding psychological traits that give an in-depth understanding of repression and its corresponding theories and their role in human life.","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"8 1","pages":"60-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44464175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exploration on Poetic and Supernatural Element in the Bride of Lammermoor By Walter Scott","authors":"D. Thamizhazhagan, D. Deviga","doi":"10.34293/english.v8i3.3194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i3.3194","url":null,"abstract":"This research article investigates the poetic and supernatural representation in the literature of Walter Scott. His teaching, and antiquarian skills into his investigation of the possibilities of the survival, of the supernatural elements. The ballads and an unlettered legends tradition that appear to confirm his position as a believer in superstitious and irrational practices. This article will argue that Hogg possesses a shrewd and sophisticated understanding of the authority of the supernatural. This is visible in his hard literary work to evidence and looks into various types of uncanny evidence when compared with those of Scott. Keyword: Poetic languages, Supernatural elements, Bride of Lammermoor, Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor is a tale which no man but a poet could tell, says Adolphus. Scott underway his profession as a poet. He engraved many ballads historical, traditional, and romantic. The Bride of Lammermoor is a ballad very much alike a primitive ballad. The paramount leitmotifs of the ballad are grudges between kings, electrifying escapades, household dissensions, wars, battles, and love. In this novel, there are three things – rivalry, clan dissensions, and love. Further, in an unenlightened ballad, there is no endeavor of moralizing, no stab of making it didactic. In this novel also Scott has no scruples to preach, no missive to give. It is more of a detached narrative. There is something expressive about this novel. The love offered in the medieval ballads is either acquitted or fierce, but it is always unassuming and intense. The two lovers in the novel love each other intensely. The gold coin given by the Master to Lucy is not a present of love; it is a tie between their love, and this association is only shattered when the two die. This overspill may not be inevitably in verse alone. It can be in prose also. This novel has sundry tracks in which is found a mien of spur-of-the-moment overflow. The Master’s words at the time of the interment of his father are a specimen of an elegiac expression. “Heaven do as much to me and more if I requite not to this man and his house, the ruin and disgrace him has brought on me and mine.” Again Lucy’s words, when she states about her premonitions, are worthy of note: It is decreed that every living creature, even those who owe me most kindness are to shun me and leave me to those by whom I am beset. It is just it should be thus. Alone and uncounseled, I involved myself in these perils – alone uncounseled, I must extricate myself or die. (BL 52) OPEN ACCESS","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"8 1","pages":"65-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48548908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study in the Short Stories of Kamala Das","authors":"Jai Tiwari","doi":"10.34293/english.v8i3.3225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i3.3225","url":null,"abstract":"The study has been able to ascertain and prove beyond doubt that Das’s prose works are of no less ranking than her poems and that she has effectively employed the short story form to present the predicaments of Indian womanhood and their quest for identity and self-assertion. The exhaustive evaluation and thorough scrutiny taking up various aspects of he stories right from her themes, structure and style, narrative techniques to her portrayal of Indian women, their status in society, and identity crisis have finally led to the emergence of the New Indian woman. Das’s feminist approach and overt outlook, along with the quest for a self-determined and self-affirmed identity for Indian women, have been well established through a methodical and exhaustive contemplation of the diverse women characters. The conclusion that emerges from this study undoubtedly corroborates and attests that Kamala Das’s name stands at par with the pioneer Indian woman short story writers. Das has efficiently and effectively used the short story genre as a document of social criticism and has established herself as a feminist crusader, campaigning to acquire for the Indian womanhood an independent identity and self-dignity. Das’s short story, with its innovative style and techniques, simple language, and concise form, has been brilliantly explored in discussing the problems facing Indian womanhood, especially her search for selfhood. Das has adeptly highlighted and presented her outlooks with the help of her characters. The fact that her English fictional work has remained obscure and un-honored is a sad story and a loss to literature.","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"8 1","pages":"37-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42135334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abscission of Familial Bonding in Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed","authors":"C. Joy Hepzibah","doi":"10.34293/english.v8i3.3197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i3.3197","url":null,"abstract":"Adoption is a beautiful thing in the world when it comes to giving life to abandon children. But as said often, “The only guarantee if a child is adopted is trauma,” the same adoption is so brutal when the child has been separated from the living family members and given for adoption. There is no worse pain than the pain of the children being separated from their birth family. This research throws light on abscission from the familial cohesion because of the critical situations in the family. Here, in this study, a young child is abscissed from her own family by adoption. The permanent separation from her biological parents creates the feeling of separation and longingness in the novel, And the Mountains Echoed, written by Khaled Hosseini. Pari, is the adopted child, and the protagonist of the novel was in her immature age when she had been separated from her family. The importance of familial relationships is shown very deeply in this novel through the plight of the protagonist, Pari. After the years of separation, the same child who became a mature woman gets reunited with her brother. But the traumatic experience that she had undergone can never be undone.","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"8 1","pages":"54-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42674568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revivalism and Modern Irish Literature: The Anxiety of Transmission and the Dynamics of Renewal. By Fionntán de Brún","authors":"Gregory Castle","doi":"10.1093/english/efaa006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efaa006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"69 1","pages":"189-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/english/efaa006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44313992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Springfield, Mexico. A Fan Fiction","authors":"J. Adcock","doi":"10.1093/ENGLISH/EFAA019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ENGLISH/EFAA019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"69 1","pages":"172-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/ENGLISH/EFAA019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42878901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Silhouetting the Self and Society: An Interview with Neelum Saran Gour","authors":"Chhandita Das, P. Tripathi","doi":"10.1093/english/efaa005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efaa005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The emergence of humanistic geographers like Tim Cresswell, Edward Relph, and Yi-Fu Tuan from the 1970s onwards redefined the meaning of ‘place’, through extensive emphasis on human experience within and beyond the physical landscape. Since then ‘place’ has stretched its domain and traversed the terrains of various disciplines, including literary study and production. Discussing ‘place’ in relation to how the acclaimed Indian writer Neelum Saran Gour represents Allahabad shows how she reframes the ‘cultural geography’ of the city. While decoding her literary spaces, this interview focusses on the multidimensional concept of ‘place’ from geographical and social–cultural perspectives and how Allahabad, or any other place like Allahabad for that matter, becomes an extension of the writer’s ‘self’ and its inhabitants. This interview also explicates how Gour conceives the invisibilities of multicultural North Indian society in terms of its various linguistic and gendered identities. In turn, Gour’s work moves from regional singularity to represent ‘Indianness’ more broadly.","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"69 1","pages":"178-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/english/efaa005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44593489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness. by Jonathan Kramnick","authors":"K. Rose","doi":"10.1093/english/efaa007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efaa007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42863,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH","volume":"69 1","pages":"192-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/english/efaa007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43733409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}