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Item Life of Piby Yann Martel: Parody in Art of Telling(Department of English, 2007) Gautam, SarojYann Martel’s Life of Piistypically a postmodern-parodic fiction, which not only aims to resist the singularity of the grand narratives, but also parodies all the existing tales and narratives. By offering to ‘believe in God’ through his fiction, Martel baits his readers with serious themes and trawls them into a sea of questions and confusion.Martel introduces an uncertainty principle throughout his plot of the story to promote the postmodern general concept like uncertainty and fluidity of meanings and truth. This fiction coincides with Lyotard’s concept of ‘meta-narrative’ and ‘little-narrative’, and Derrida’s concept of ‘play’, ‘differance’ and ‘deconstruction’.Pi Patel, the main character and narrator, proves him to be a liar and tells two different versions of the same story. Martel offers his readers to choose any of the versions, they think to be the better story, and readers are left confused and forced to question, what actually happened as well as to ponder different levels of interpretations and the meanings. So,Life of Piis a postmodern (parodic)‘mini-narrative’ because postmodern narratives are not evaluated in terms of their truth value.Item Strategies Used in Teaching Fiction(Department of English Education, 2008) Pokhrel, Tank PrasadThe present study entitled "Strategies Used in Teaching Fiction" attempts to present a survey study descriptively and find out the strategies adopted in teaching fiction at Master’s level, Faculty of Humanities, T.U. The study was carried out by using both primary and secondary sources of data. The major tools for collecting data were questionnaire and observation form. To accomplish this study, two sets of questionnaire were prepared and distributed to 15 teachers and 70 students. Similarly, two class lectures each of 10 teachers were observed. The data were analyzed and interpreted by using simple statistical tools and presented with the help of tables. Data were analyzed and interpreted to find out the strategies used in teaching fiction. It was found that the teachers had not adopted any fixed strategies in teaching fiction. The strategies were different from one teacher to another. Different strategies and activities were adopted in teaching fiction were not systematically exercised. The teachers were not clear and aware of the stages and strategies which are to be used to deal with the particular aspects of the fiction. The study consists of four chapters: introduction, methodology, analysis and interpretation and findings and recommendations. Chapter one introduces the study in terms of general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology applied to conduct the study. The sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study are included in this chapter. Chapter three includes the analysis and interpretation of the data elicited. Chapter four incorporates the findings and recommendations for pedagogical implication after the analysis and interpretation of the data.