Volume 2   Issue 1

June 2015

Table of Contents

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1.  Are Blogs Paving the Way for Collaborative Professional Development of English Teachers in India?
By

Ms. Atiya Khan
M.Ed. Researcher, Department of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1-17 PDF
2.  A Study of Alienation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
By

Ms. C. Padma Priya
Researcher, Department of English, Bharathidasan University Constituent College, Orathanadu, Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. N. Gejeswari
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bharathidasan University Constituent College, Orathanadu,
Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, India
18-29 PDF
3.  Quest for a Meaningful Life in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice
By

Ms. Punam V. Barabde
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
30-37 PDF
4.  Striking but Stifled: Ethan Frome in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
By

Ms. Seetha Balakrishnan
Language Instructor, English Language Centre, Jazan University, Jizan, Jizan, Saudi Arabia
38-43 PDF
5.  Politics of Text: New Directions in Marxist Reading
By

Ms. Ujjal Jeet
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sri Guru Angad Dev College, Khadur Sahib, Tarn Taran, Punjab, India
44-53 PDF
6.  Negating and Celebrating Roots: Negotiating Dialectical Ways of Identity Formation in Two Postcolonial Bildungsroman - Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
By

Mr. Arindam Ghosh
Junior Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
54-71 PDF
7.  Exploring the Dynamics of Family: A Study on Rupa Bajwa’s Tell Me a Story
By

Mr. Subhadip Konar
Junior Research Fellow, Department of English, Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

Mr. Debayan Banerjee
Researcher, Department of English, Gourbanga University,
Kamarpukur, West Bengal, India
72-82 PDF
8.  Re-situating Irony in Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala
By

Mr. Pintu Karak
Erstwhile Student, Department of English, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
83-92 PDF
9.  Ecofeminism: A Study of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
By

Ms. C.M. Dhanyashree
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government First Grade College, Vijayanagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
93-98 PDF
10.  Search for Authentic Selfhood in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
By

Ms. M. Archana
Researcher, Department of English, Government Arts College, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India
99-104 PDF
11.  Waking up the Z Generation Students through Newspapers
By

Ms. C. Chitralega
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University, V.O.C. College of Engineering, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. Kanna Muthiah
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sadakathullah Appa College,
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
105-115 PDF
12.  Digital Research in Literature
By

Mr. Showkat Hussain
Researcher, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
116-127 PDF
13.  Man and Nature: An Ecocritical Study of Wordsworth’s Poems
By

Mr. Subhadip Konar
Junior Research Fellow, Department of English, Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

Mr. Debayan Banerjee
Researcher, Department of English, Gourbanga University,
Kamarpukur, West Bengal, India
128-136 PDF
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