Volume 12 Issue 1&2 July-August 2023

Contributors

Volume 12 Issue 1&2 July-August 2023

Table of Contents

S.No.

Title

Page No.

1

The Grotesque Fool in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Caliban, the Monster, and his Linguistic Misadventure

Fayaz Sultan & K. Sripad Bhat

1-13

2

The Modern Fairy Tale: The Origin of a Genre

Megha Sharma

14-24

3

Myth, Fiction and the Abstract: Influences and Representations of Greek Art and Mythology in Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea

Mercy Vungthianmuang Guite

25-40

4

Locating ‘Country’ and ‘City’ in Ireland: A Con(textual) Reading of The Playboy of the Western World and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Anik Das

41-54

5

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Deconstructing the Ageing Narrative

Jushna Baruah

55-64

6

Tracing Displacement and Alienation in Thrity Umrigar's If Today Be Sweet

Gunjan Choudhary & Anupriya Roy Srivastava 

65-83

7

Women with Conditions: Locating Mental Illness in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects

Gandhali Sawant

84-90

8

Mothball Wishing to be a Butterfly: Studying Joan's Eating Disorder in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle

Yashasvini Rathore & Sucharita Sharma

91-103

9

Anthropocentric Representations of Fauna: A Critique of Aravind Adiga's Last Man in Tower

Sandhya K. Mavelil

104-114

10

Altering 'Ancestral Legacies': Parent-Child Interactions and Ecological (Re)Considerations in Emmi Itaranta's Memory of Water

Tessa Jose

115-127

11

Writing Space and Body: The Postcolonial Intersections of Spatial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills

Abhilash Kaushik & Merry Baruah Bora

128-140

12

Representation of Magic through Body-Parts in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Dimpy Shrivastava & Jaya Tiwari

141-148

13

Performative Progressivism in Madam Chief Minister

Juhee Prasad

149-159

14

Female Agency versus Loyalty to an Islamic Theocracy: A Critical Study of Manal Al Sharif's Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Sharshina Swastyaneek

160-178

15

Jakdi: Haryanvi Women's Negotiations with Systematic Subordination in a Hegemonic Family Institution  

Puneeta & Bhumika Sharma

179-196

16

Anonymous Narrators' Journey with Silence: Observations on Shashi Deshpande's "The Liberated Woman" and "The Intrusion"

Rashmi Yogi

197-205

17

Voice for an Anonymous Woman in K.S. Maniam's In a Far Country

C. Narmada

206-213

18

Breaking the Linguistic Binaries: Deconstructing Signs and Reconstructing Gender in Flora Nwapa's Cassava Song and Rice Song

Biswajit Mondal

214-222

19

Representation of Gender Reality and Identity-formation of Indigenous Naga Women in Easterine Kire's A Respectable Woman

L. Priyadharshini & B. Padmanabhan

223-233

20

Delineation of Third Gender Identity in the Indian Epics and other Ancient Indian Texts

Savita Boral & Divyabha Vashisth

234-247

21

Postmemory and Identity in Postcolonial Writings: A Study of Bapsi Sidhwa and Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Fictional Works

Shivali Dhaka &  Rani Rathore

248-262

22

Exploring Lily Briscoe's Journey from Being to Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Nitisha Seoda &  Devendra Kumar Sharma

263-275

23

Global Currents in Local Harbours: Zulfiqar, Re-Orientalism and Otherised Muslims in Bengali Culture

Abin Chakraborty

276-287

24

Homecoming, Culture and Nostalgia: The City in Kushanava Choudhury's The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta 

Pooja Sharma & Rimika Singhvi

288-295

25

Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Study of Distinct Annihilations through Hermeneutics

Dimple Dubey

296-304

26

Exploring the Agony of the 'Other': A Critical Study of Selected Dalit Short Stories from Bengal

Anup Kumar Rakshit

305-316

27

Re-defining Terror in Contemporary Short Fictional Works from Assam

Dharmendra Baruah

317-329

28

A Study of Freud’s Dual Instinct Theory through the Selected Works of Ruskin Bond

N. Haripriyalakshmi & A. Selvalakshmi

330-343

29

Beyond Humanism: Exploring Posthumanism in Wall-E and Avatar

Sruthy Shaji & Sheeba C

344-361

30

Portrayal of Characters in a Hindi Film and Audience-Reaction: A Discourse Analysis

Pulkit Jain, Ruhi Lal & Gauri Shankar Raina

362-377

31

378-384

32

385-395

33

Exploring Interlinguistic Mediation in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages in Indian Universities

Priy Bharti

396-413

34

Role of Multimedia for English Language Learners

Chandni Chhattani

414-422

35

Are Tweets Antagonistic to Standardized English Language and Print Media? An Investigation into Twitter's Role

Poonam Sethi

423-436

36

OTT as an Emerging Platform: The Changing Ecology of Entertainment

Babita Sharma

437-445

37

Advergaming: Assessing the Presence of Branded Content in Video Games

Sugandha Gumber

446-455

38

Recognition and Recall of Chocolate Brand-Commercials among Teenagers

Kenstina Sharon Nigli & P.E. Thomas

456-487

39

An Empirical Study on Consumer Buying-Behaviour towards Athleisure

Jasleen Kaur & Anu H. Gupta

488-504

 

Book Reviews:

 

 

Khanin Boro

505-506

 

Oishi Pattanayak

507-511

 

Rajkumar Jackson Singh

512-515