This study is an examination of James's attitude to affluence and leisure. Concentrating upon James's two major novels- The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove- this study is an attempt to study the two facets - affluence and leisure-in all the shades as taken by Henry James. Affluence and leisure play a major role in almost all the novels of Henry James. The characters that James deals with belong to the affluent class having nearly total leisure. They are the sophisticated ones possessing fine intelligence and manners. Even the situations in the various works arise and take place...
This study is an examination of James's attitude to affluence and leisure. Concentrating upon James's two major novels- The Portrait of a Lady and The...
Diasporic literature produced by the writers of Indian diaspora exposes problems and diasporic life. Writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Meena Alexandera and many others have tried to present India not of present time but the time they had spent in their native land. They present India of their imagination, its history, identity, culture and religious notions.This study is an attempt to highlight the love and attachment of the diasporic writers to their 'homeland' even after many years of resettlement....
Diasporic literature produced by the writers of Indian diaspora exposes problems and diasporic life. Writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Bharat...
The New Woman or the emerging image of women was a feminist idea that emerged in the final decades of the nineteenth century in Europe and North America.The woman has always been the sub altern across cultural boundaries. Woolf's feminism did not advocate the claims of women to political, social and economic equality with men. Her feminism was a deep rooted desire surging inside from adolescence to create a new world for women writers to write fearlessly, and to challenge cultural codes reinforcing the myth of an obscure invisible woman - writer.Woolf's novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the...
The New Woman or the emerging image of women was a feminist idea that emerged in the final decades of the nineteenth century in Europe and North Ameri...
Ted Hughes is a versatile genius.He is famous as a poet of violence. Violence is essentially one of his obsessive themes in his poetry. Hughes seems to equate violence with vehement activity, a destructive one.This study mainly takes up poems from his first two collections The Hawk in the Rain and Lupercal. It is an attempt to understand the interconnection between animal imagery and violence. In fact, the early poetry of Ted Hughes is the poetry of animal world. Violence is often implicated in his celebration of the instinctual energy symbolized by animals.We find that the poetry of Ted...
Ted Hughes is a versatile genius.He is famous as a poet of violence. Violence is essentially one of his obsessive themes in his poetry. Hughes seems t...
