Volume 1   Issue 4

September 2014

Table of Contents

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1.  The Impact of Colonization in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions
By

Dr. A. Padmashini
Assistant Professor, Department of English, A.N.J.A. College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
1-6 PDF
2.  Dream Vs Reality: A Thematic Analysis of Kavery Nambisan’s The Hills of Angheri
By

Ms. R. Kaliswari
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Arts College, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. K. M. Sumathi
Assistant Professor, Department of English, M.V. Muthaiah Government College,
Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India
7-12 PDF
3.  Power and Domination in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
By

Mr. Santosh Vishwanath Bhagat
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Humanities, Konkan Gyanpeeth College of Engineering, Karjat, Maharashtra, India
13-20 PDF
4.  Visualizing Marriage as a Curse in Disguise in Kavery Nambisan’s Mango-Coloured Fish
By

Ms. R. Kaliswari
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Arts College, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. K. M. Sumathi
Assistant Professor, Department of English, M.V. Muthaiah Government College,
Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India
21-26 PDF
5.  Romantic Quest in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
By

Ms. Priyanka Pandey
Researcher, Department of English, Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India
27-36 PDF
6.  Women’s Quest for Identity: A Global Perspective
By

Dr. Md. Firoz Alam
Lecturer, Department of English, Magadh Mahila College, Patna, Bihar, India
37-48 PDF
7.  Expatriate Experience in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting
By

Ms. P. Chitra
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
49-61 PDF
8.  Conrad’s Literary Techniques in Lord Jim
By

Ms. M. Revathy
Assistant Professor, Department of English, RVS College of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
62-75 PDF
9.  Voice of Resistance in Ashapurna Devi’s At Sixes and Sevens
By

Ms. N. Leela
Assistant Professor, Department of English, A. M. Jain College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
76-81 PDF
10.  A Critique of Modernist Absurdism in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
By

Mr. Mudasir Ahmad Mir
Researcher, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Dr. Gulfishaan Habeeb
Associate Professor, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University,
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
82-95 PDF
11.  A Reading of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities in Psychoanalytical and Marxist Perspective
By

Ms. M. L. Eileen Brisha
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
96-102 PDF
12.  Racial Prejudice in Flannery O’ Connor’s Short Story, “The Artificial Nigger”
By

Dr. Mallika Tripathi
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Humanities, Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
103-109 PDF
13.  Evolution of the Scenographic Designer in Theatrical History
By

Mr. JS Jahangir
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Iqbal College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
110-117 PDF
14.  Challenges in Teaching English in the Government Schools of Bihar, India
By

Ms. Rachita Rani
Researcher, Department of Linguistics, Delhi University, New Delhi, Delhi, India
118-125 PDF
15.  Posting the Hysterics: Re/Telling Reality in Postmodern Fiction
By

Ms. Neha Dubey
Researcher, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
126-139 PDF
16.  Emancipation and Selfhood in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee
By

Ms. D. Sarulatha
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
140-152 PDF
17.  English Grammar: Significance, History, Kinds and Teaching Methods.
By

Ms. M. Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor, Department of English, DBS Institute of Technology, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
153-162 PDF
18.  Technical English and Enculturation: Need for a New Paradigm in English Curricula in Engineering Education in Tamil Nadu
By

Dr. V. Christopher Ramesh
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Arts College, Melur, Tamil Nadu, India
163-173 PDF
19.  Silence as Metaphor in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence
By

Ms. Linet Thomas
Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
174-185 PDF
20.  Polyphonic Resurrections: Violence against Women in Dina Mehta’s Getting Away with Murder
By

Ms. Surbhi Saraswat
Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of English Studies & Research, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
194-201 PDF
21.  Ecofeminism: A Comparative Study of Judith Wright and Oodgeroo Noonuccal
By

Dr. Anita Sharma
Associate Professor, Department of English, Rajiv Gandhi Government Degree College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India

Ms. Bhavna Sharma
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Institute of Information Technology and Management,
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
202-215 PDF
22.  An Analysis of Immigrant Characters in Indira Ganesan’s Novels
By

Ms. T. Anita Caroline
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The American College, Madurai, , India
186-193 PDF
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