Welcome to TUCL Repository

  • Access to a vast collection of academic theses and dissertations
  • Wide range of scholarly journals and articles
  • Search and browse functionalities for easy discovery of resources
  • Accessibility to digital resources anytime, anywhere
  • Facilitates research and learning endeavors of TUCL community
  • Promoting open access to knowledge and research findings
  • User-friendly interface, ensuring ease of navigation and accessibility for users of all levels of expertise
  • unique persistent identifier (such as DOI or Handle) to facilitate citation, tracking, and long-term preservation, ensuring the integrity and longevity of scholarly contributions
 

Communities in DSpace

Select a community to browse its collections.

Recent Submissions

Thumbnail Image
Item
Traumatic Memory in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone
(2011) Poudel, Bikash; Yam Prasad Sharma
Not available
Thumbnail Image
Item
Subversion of Gender Relation in Shobhaa De‟s Surviving Men: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Staying on Top
(2012) Kumal, Dinesh Bahadur; Mahesh Paudyal
This thesis demonstrates that the gender crisis by questioning long established gender norms and behaviours in Shobhaa De‟s Surviving Men: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Staying on Top. This study explores not only the subversion of gender role, but also reflects the shifting gender relationship. This study is to bring feminist discourse with hegemonic representation of women, critical analysis and establishing the importance of women‟s role in the society. Moreover, De uses the power of fiction to criticize dominant patriarchal structures by questioning and subtly reversing patriarchal discourses to serve a feminist cause. My investigation into potential to overcome traditional conceptions of gender roles is based on theoretical ideas on sex, gender, power and sexuality put forward by the 20th century scholars Michael Foucault and Judith Butler. According to Foucault, power always produces and therefore encounters resistance, and in this sense literature can be seen as a warning sign of and interference to a long era of suppression fostered by patriarchal structures and its institutional arrangements of power. This thesis is Foucault‟s and Butler‟s assumption of the constructedness and hence flexibility of gender identities in the analysis of gender subversion.
Thumbnail Image
Item
From Emma to Aisha: An Art of Adaptation and Appropriation
(2011) Upadhyaya, Padam Prasad; Bal Bahadur Thapa
This dissertation discusses the relation between nineteenth century novel Emma by Jane Austen and its film adaptation Aisha (2010). The film has revived the Victorian story in the cosmopolitan city of India in order to depict the way of living of wealthy Indian families. Taking reference from the novel, the film highlights the attitude and behaviour of upper class people which is full of artificiality, manipulation and hollowness. The research exposes the close affinity that the film and the novel have in order to address the values of the society. In short, it examines how far the film Aisha has been loyal to its source text; which common elements are transferred as accurate as in the novel; and which are adapted so as to make them fit in the film medium. Thus, it comes to the conclusion that Aisha, regardless of its spatio-temporal difference with Emma, is a faithful adaptation to its source text.