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Item Critique of British Aristocratic Values in Waugh’s Vile Bodies(Department of English, 2017) Khanal, NabinThis thesis entitled “Critique of British Aristocratic Values in Waugh’s Vile Bodies” satirizes the British aristocrats of the inter-war period for their hedonistic impulses and indifference towards the society. Waugh’s satirical novel of the emptiness of riches and fame has clear lessons for contemporary culture’s obsession with celebrity where the aristocrats involved in an endless and enervating round of parties, their every move and fashion innovation eagerly followed and swallowed by the public through gossip columns. Examining the so- called periphery of social stratum the thesis seeks every contemporary aristocratic issue via new historicism and finds the protagonist of the novel Adam a perfect representative of a contemporary British aristocratic society. Vile Bodies is an epic satire of English high society after the Great War written with the brittle wit, insinuating intimacy, and skittering attention span of a gossip column. In the very first chapter of the thesis, it is introduction of the topic and its justification. The second chapter is analysis of the text in relation to the context of inter-war period. The third chapter solely illustrates the new historicist reading of the text with sufficient examples and with contextual illustrations. Examining all the elements such as the position of the writer, his contemporary time, characterization, plot, setting and the historic periphery of the text itself, this thesis attempts to justify the topic as well as the thesis statement. The literary theory called new historicism is appropriate to analyze Waugh’s criticism of values of contemporary inter-war British society. Thus, analyzing the historical scenario of contemporary British society, its time and author, the thesis interprets the hedonistic impulses and aristocratic values of young British Aristocrats.Item Multiculturalism as an Antidote to East-West Despair in The White Castle(Department of English, 2008) Gyawali, MinaFerit Orhan Pamuk’s third novel The White Castle is characterized by a confusion or loss of identity brought on in part by the conflicts between European and Islamic values. The deep-rooted tension between East and West, traditional communalism and modern secularism often get elaborate treatment in Pamukian literature. They are often startling, disturbing and unsettling or even mysteriously exhilarating, as is the novel undertaken in this thesis. The present dissertation has the message that the survival of people from the different cultural and geographical domains is made possible by the ability in accepting differences as given which we need not try to obliterate. In the novel itself, a Turkish scientist successfully settles in Italy whereas a Venetian enjoys his life and post of power as a royal astrologer at the court in Istanbul. Actually the difference of cast, colour and creed are all man-made, therefore not essential to defining human life and existence. This is the liberal and reconciliatory message of the novel studied in this thesis.Item River as Sutra or, the Binding Principle in A River Sutra(Department of English, 2010) Rijal, NirojIn A River Sutra, Gita Mehta applies the same idea as she used in her previous works, Karma Cola (1997) and Raj (1989), the various cultures, communities and traditions. Her concern in writing is always focused on racial harmony, unity, peace, and prosperity of the people of various ethnic, cultural groups. The novel has a setting on the bank of India’s holiest river-the Narmada, amid “the constant traffic of pilgrims, archaeologists, policemen, priests and traders.” Gita Mehta represents Narmada River as both the physical entity and the multicultural construct, which became supplementary and complementary to each other. The human relationship within a community and with the members of other communities is closely associated with Narmada River which functions as ‘Sutra or the Binding Principle’, the binding force to different communities. Thus, the mythical, multicultural and spiritual concepts that the diverse social communities create about the Narmada associate them, as the basic source of such construct is the same. Mehta’s major involvement is with human subsistence in modern times.Item Working Class Culture in Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London: A Cultural Studies Perspective(Department of English, 2013) Bhattarai, PitambarAs the culture is defined as the total way of life - it encompasses varieties of lives. A life has to bear multidimensional conditions, circumstances, time and realities. It includes sophisticated, medium, lower, poor, rich, kings, beggars and tramps and so on. Every type has own way of life that is to say culture. Working class people and sophisticated people have different way of life which confirms their own typical culture. One cannot be opposed in expense of other. So this thesis dives to the depth of Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London only to unearth the total way of life of working class people in the dominated and handful control of capitalist world through the lance of cultural studies.