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Journal of intercultural communication, Jun 10, 2024

Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Dec 26, 2022

Arab World English Journal

There is literature and philosophy on viruses, plagues, epidemics, and pandemics. Earth Abides (1... more There is literature and philosophy on viruses, plagues, epidemics, and pandemics. Earth Abides (1949) is a masterpiece of the science fiction-post-apocalyptic subgenre by an American writer George R. Stewart. Earth Abides approaches the wake of civilization’s extinction in a very rational, functional, logical manner. This paper examines the novel as apocalyptic during the COVID-19 epidemic by looking Stewart’s network of scientific inspirations. Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that may cause anything from a common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Extreme Acute Respiratory Syndrome. In 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) found in Wuhan, China. The COVID-19 pandemic rocked the global economy, causing severe economic destruction across the globe. COVID-19 has inflamed divisiveness and politics worldwide, with heated disputes erupting about who should blame and who should assisted first. One of the concerns is the establishment of no-entry ...

is the Nobel Laureate in English literature has mostly written on the post war scenario. She is t... more is the Nobel Laureate in English literature has mostly written on the post war scenario. She is the most fearless novelist of the world. Her main themes of writing are communism, feminism, mysticism, etc. Her works are of wider scope since the day they were produced to till date. Lessing has produced most extra ordinary works addressing the current issues of love, man-woman relationship before and after marriage. The Golden Notebook published in 1964 is the considered as the revolution rather a sexual revolution. Lessing perfectly shows the themes of woman's breakdown since from the beginning of the novel. This breakdown is the backbone of the whole novel. From the very beginning of the novel, we find women all alone that leads to alienation and then mental breakdown, "The two women were alone in the London flat. 'The point is, 'said Anna, as her friend came back from the telephone on the landing, 'the point is, that is, that as far as I can see, everything's cracking up.'"(Lessing 25) This thought by the Lessing's protagonist Anna Wulf shows that she has been completely dissatisfied with her life and for her the whole world is cracking up. Her mind has been so much affected that it has an apocalyptical perspective in the perception of life. Anna Wulf always battles in her life. As a writer she battles for her writing block, as free women battlesfor life and as a mother and lover/wife battles for her personal desires. Her mind is always full of the thoughts of death and destruction and also goes the Jungian Psychotherapist. She feels the lack of feelings. She talks to her psychotherapist Mrs Marks that even in her dreams finds negative thoughts that more disturbs her life, "I took dozens of dreams to Mrs Marks today-all dreamed over the last three days. They are of the same quality of false art, caricature, illustration, parody." (Lessing 216) She doesn't need anything from life but only bothers about her daughter who is every treasure in her life. She has lost everything in her life: People are pleased to see her. But she only cares one person in the world, her daughter, Janet.. .. It seems to me that ever since I can remember anything the real thing that has been happening in the world was death and destruction. It seems to me it is stronger than life. (Lessing 216) The Anna's mental disability shows her effect of both the internal and external world on her psyche. There are so many reasons behind it but one of the reasons is her failure in her personal life, especially with Max Wulf. They married but their marriage was incompatible. Instead of love, she felt sexually repulsive from Max and after the birth of their daughter Janet, they divorced. Then she had a love affair with Micheal, a psychologist by profession. He also leaves her alone. Kumari and Prasannasree in their research article entitled as Between Spaces of Silence and Violence Re-Critiquing Doris Lessing's Anna Wulf from The Golden Notebook state it as: Her depression is aggravated by the abrupt end of love affair with Micheal, a medical practitioner. Abandoned by her lover and unable to get over him, Anna feels frightened, vulnerable and sick. Disheartened by unsatisfactory relationships with men.. .. Anna at forty feels life is cracking up.

Literature is mirror to society and reflects the reality of the society. The true meaning of lite... more Literature is mirror to society and reflects the reality of the society. The true meaning of literature is the written works in different forms, such as, novels, poetry, stories, plays, fiction etc. It may also consist of texts based on information as well as imagination. The history of literature dates back to the dawn of human civilization. Society acts as a role model for its writers. Literature combines both abstract thoughts with the concrete forms presents subjects like alienation and assimilation in society but also reflects the issues such as social, political, social and historical facts. The aim of the writer is to depict the reality of the society through a piece of literature. Literature and society are dependent on each other and are two sides of a coin. If we look at the history of any society, one will find that societies have changed from time to time and same is the case with literature. Societies changed their norms, styles and rules in the same way literature cha...

Literature has been an imitator of life for generations on this earth, this literature has voiced... more Literature has been an imitator of life for generations on this earth, this literature has voiced the voiceless. Recent contemporary and postmodern literary theories have catered to burgeoning notions of logic that go beyond human survival on the planet. Science fiction is a genre of fiction that encompasses imaginative concepts like futuristic scientific-technological settings, faster than light, past and future spatial time travel, the existence of parallel universes and extraterrestrial life etc. An outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The outbreak was declared as a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. During this crisis, literature also plays an important role and apocalyptic literature has shown the disastrous consequences if humans didn’t stop their behaviour and attitude towards th...

ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2014

Literacy is the ability to make and communicate meaning from and by the use of a variety of socia... more Literacy is the ability to make and communicate meaning from and by the use of a variety of socially contextual symbols. Within various levels of developmental ability, a literate person can derive and convey meaning, and use their knowledge to achieve a desired purpose or goal that requires the use of language skills, be the spoken or written. A literate person can mediate their world by deliberately and flexibly orchestrating meaning from one linguistic knowledge base and apply or connect it to another knowledge base. For example, knowing that letters symbolize sounds, and that those sounds form words to which the reader can attach meaning, is an example of the cognitive orchestration of knowledge, a literate person conducts. Literacy is "not in isolated bits of knowledge but in students’ growing ability to use language and literacy in more and broader activities"1

EXCEL International Journal of Multidisciplinary Management Studies, 2013

Indian English literature especially the Indian poetry in English has witnessed multiple social s... more Indian English literature especially the Indian poetry in English has witnessed multiple social struggles on various levels that motivated a number of poets to scribble their pen dipped in the ink of protest. They tried to explore the unexplored practices and beliefs which existed in the society. Indian woman has been facing many problems right from the beginning of history. Even before independence, they suffered humiliation and suppression in every aspect of her life. She was always chained by social beliefs and marital norms. A double standard always waited for her inside and outside the society. The sacrificial role of woman still continues even in this 21th century, though we claim equality for masculine and feminine genders. On the other hand, there were many women rulers who were epitomes of velour and vitality in the past. However true the history is, it is a pale truth that woman remains to be a mere woman. This evoked the curiosity, anxiety or rather frustration for the wr...

Excel International Journal of Multidisciplinary Management Studies, 2013

International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, May 31, 2013

Kamala Das born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar, Kerala. Das is one of the best known contemporary I... more Kamala Das born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar, Kerala. Das is one of the best known contemporary Indian Women Writers. Writing in two languages, English and Malayalam, Das has authored many autobiographical works and novels. Several well received collections of poetry in English, numerous volumes of short stories, and essays on a broad spectrum of subjects. Since the publication of her first collection of poetry, “Summer In Calcutta”(1965), Das has been considered an important voice of her generation, exemplified by a break from the past by writing in a distinctly Indian Persona rather than adopting the techniques of the English modernists. Her poetry is the most moving and tortured. Credited as the most outspoken and even controversial writer, Kamala Das earned fame as the ‘Voice of Women’s Sexuality’. Apart from writing in English, Das also wrote under pen name Madhavikutty in Malayalam before her conversion to Islam. Her popularity in Kerala was credited mostly to her short stories and the autobiographical ‘My Story’, which was translated into fifteen languages, a book where she openly discussed her unsatisfactory sexual life with Madhava Das, her husband. The poetess protest against the domination of the male and the consequent dwarfing of the female. The woman is expected to play certain conventional roles, and her own wishes and aspiration are not taken into account. The intensity of the protest, conveyed in conversational idiom and rhythm, make it symbolic of the protest of all womanhood against the male ego. she was married at the early age of fifteen, and that her marriage proved an absolute failure. It was the failure of her marriage that compelled her to enter into extra-marital sexual relationships in search of the kind of love which her husband had failed to give her. Her husband was a believer in sex as a matter of routine; and his wife was therefore by no means starved of the pleasure of sex. She, on the contrary, believed in marriage as an emotional and spiritual bond; and her husband’s coldness in this respect led her to feel acutely dissatisfied and discontented in life and, not finding real love even in her extra-marital affairs, she slid into a life of sexual anarchy, with one lover following another, and with her discontent becoming deeper and deeper till it assumed the form of utter despair. Her poetry is generally called confessional poetry because it is a record of her personal experiences, chiefly in the sphere of marriage and sex, though it certainly has a wider range and includes a few other aspects of life too. Kamala Das is always sincere, always true to herself both in her prose and her poetry. As a wife she was expected to look to the comforts of her husband, to minister to his needs, in short, to play the conventional role of a Hindu wife, and this has dwarfed and stinted her own personality. . It was her suffering that led her to seek place in another’s arm to knock at another’s door- “…yearned for a man from/another town”, as she writes in The Wild Bougainvillea. Das once herself said in an interview to the Warrior, “I always wanted love, and if you don’t get it within your home, you stray a little”. Kamala Das lived alone in her world with feelings of loneliness. During her childhood, Kamala, like other children in the Nair family, was almost completely neglected except her grandmother. She tells it in her autobiography.

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013

The 'Psychology' and 'Poetry' are two different fields. It is not easy to compare the two. Althou... more The 'Psychology' and 'Poetry' are two different fields. It is not easy to compare the two. Although they cannot be compared, but there is a close connection which undoubtedly exist between them. This connection arises from the fact that the practice of the art is a psychological activity and as such can be approached from a psychological angel. Considered in this light, art like any other human activity deriving from psychic motives is a proper subject for psychology. Art by its very nature is not science, and science by its very nature is not art, both these spheres of the mind have something in reserve that is peculiar to them and can be explained only in its own terms. Hence when we speak of the relation of psychology to art, we shall treat only of that aspect of art which can be submitted to psychological scrutiny without violating its nature. Psychology is the science of human mind, behavior, soul, consciousness, unconsciousness etc. As it is the study of behavior, it includes anything a person do which can be observed in some way. It also includes feelings, attitudes, thoughts and other mental processes. In the same way poetry represents thoughts, imagination, and awareness, experiences expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language in such a way as to evoke an emotional response. According to modern psychologists that the unconscious processes are more important than the conscious ones. It is these unconscious impulses that lead the poet or any artist to produce a poetical work or any other work of art. What poetry may refer to as the abyss, our wilderness or wild, psychology more likely refers as the unconscious. Poetry offers psychology its own perspective on the reaches of the realm, a unique repository not only of energy, but also of imagery, metaphor, paradox, inversion, contradiction, and often enough beauty. Poetry valorizes and embraces the resources of the unconscious. Kamala Das born on 31ist March 1934 in Malabar, Kerala. Indian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist, non-fiction writer, children's writer, and autobiographer. She is one of the best-known contemporary Indian women writers. Das has been called a poet in the confessional mode. The confessional poets deal in their poetry with personal, emotional experiences which are generally taboo. There is a ruthless self-analysis and a tone of utter sincerity. What a confessional poet gives us are the psychological equivalents for his or her mental state and it is such psychological equivalents, that we always get in the poetry of Kamala Das. She reflects almost all aspects of psychology in her poetry. So, thus by comparing the poetry of Kamala Das with the field of psychology, at the end can say that there is a close relation between poetry and psychology with special reference to the poetry of Kamala Das.

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2020

The teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is very interesting but at the same time is c... more The teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is very interesting but at the same time is considered difficult particularly for those students who have read most of the subjects of their courses in their mother tongue. The four skills viz, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are necessary for learning a foreign language and an imbalance in any skill can hamper the whole process. All the skills are important but during present pandemic situation listening skill is considered as a problematic skill particularly in a foreign language context where practice opportunities are limited because of the world pandemic COVID-19 that hampered all our teaching and learning process. This study aimed to explore the problems and challenges faced by EFL students because of the limited resources. An online survey method was followed to collect data from a group of Saudi EFL students (n = 100) using the Listening Comprehension Processing Problems Questionnaire. The results indicated that th...

Literature asserted itself to be an intellectual imitator to life for generations in this earth t... more Literature asserted itself to be an intellectual imitator to life for generations in this earth that has voiced the voiceless. The recent modern and postmodern literary ideas have changed the whole scenario of the literature. One of the contemporary issues is the gender inequality. Writers across the globe wrote about every burning issue of their times. One among such issues is gender inequality. Some of the writers had suffered with this menace of the society themselves and have lightened this menace very keenly and acutely in their works. This gender inequality was a result of illusions both in the family and society about its members. These writers remained an active reformist to bring a social change in the society. Throughout their journey they worked for this deprived classes of the society. This research paper attempts to bring out all the elements of gender inequality, the agony and the pain suffered by these members around the globe through the lenses of fiction.