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Item A Critique of Capitalistic Exploitation in Charles Kingsley‘s Alton Locke(Central Department of English Tribhuvan University, 2016-03) Upreti, SattalThis research is a study on Charles Kingsley‘s Alton Locke (1850), a historical novel that takes us through the journey of the life experience of Locke, the protagonist. In the novel, Kingsley basically depicts the plight of the poor working class in London whose lives are scorched by the flames of discrimination, exploitation and overwork in dilapidated conditions. This thesis work centres on the analysis of repressive and ideological state apparatuses in the novel used in sustaining the capitalistic system of that era when this novel was written. This research basically applies the neo Marxist theories of Louis Althusser and Antonio Gramsci but is not just limited to them. The novel has been analysed on light of various critical theories from neo Marxism. It has been found that the poor workers are fleeced by repression of the state and more than that by the ruling ideologies widely circulated by the people in power to keep them as poor as ever and help sustain the capitalistic economic system based on exploitation. It has been found to be an important social document of the time when Chartism, the movement that was based on egalitarian spirit demanded equal rights for the poor working class, was at full swing and some people like Crosswaithe and Locke in the novel were beginning to be aware of the exploitation and injustice concealed in the capitalistic economic system that sustained itself by the use of state power and ruling ideologies. Moreover, what makes his work a social document of his time is his careful and minute exposition of capitalistic mechanism of exploiting the poor working class by means of the ruling ideologies interwoven with the repressive state apparatuses that ultimately serves the purpose of the ruling class: the reproduction of the conditions of productionItem Strategies Used in Teaching Novel(Faculty of Education, 2013) Bhattarai, RameshThe present study entitled ' Strategies Used in Teaching Novel ' is an attempt to find out strategies used by the lecturers of Bachelor level (B.Ed) while teaching novel. The main objective of the study was to find out the strategies employed by EFL teachers at the Bachelor level in teaching novel. Moreover, it also tried to discover the effective strategies for teaching different aspects of a novel, for example, vocabulary teaching, diving the text. The major tools of data collection were questionnaire and interview. The primary data was collected from 40 English teachers of bachelor level who were teaching English as major subject of Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts. They were selected purposively. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted using simple descriptive and statistical tools. The study found that the strategies mostly used in novel teaching were, contextualization, chapter division, summarizing, guessing the plot, characterization, video playing, and use of mother tongue occasionally, reading comprehension and project work assignment, simplification of plot. Moreover, most of the teachers focused on the language of the novel rather than plot. Among 12 strategies used by the teachers while teaching novel, ‘Briefing the background of the novel’ was the mostly used strategy whereas ‘providing the books of Foreign writers’ was the least used one. Furthermore, novels were found to be used for the enhancement of learner’s linguistic competence and at the same time language related problems were found to be the one causing difficulty in novel teaching and learning. The research consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with the study of the general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Second chapter deals with the methodology that consists of sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study respectively. Similarly, third chapter deals with an analysis and interpretation of the data collection. The fourth chapter deals with the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications. In the final part of the thesis, references and appendices have been included systematically.Item A Study on the Cultural Translation of the Novel Setobagh: Techniques and Gaps(Department of English Language Education, 2009) Bhusal, ChiranjibiThis thesis entitled ‘A Study on the Cultural translation of the Novel SETOBAGH.Techniques and gaps’. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the techniques of translating cultural words and to find out the gaps in them. The data for the study were collected from both Nepali and English versions of the novel.The data consisted of 250 cultural terms which were categorized into five groups.Findings of this study show that nine different techniques were used in translating cultural words of the novel. There were many instances of the use of non-corresponding meaning components, which lead gaps in translation. So, the gaps existed between the SL terms and TL terms. This study is divided into four chapters. Chapter one introduces general background of topic, literature review, objectives and significance of the study.The second chapter i.e. methodology enlarges on the sources of data, process of data collection and limitation of the study. The third chapter interprets and presents the data. Descriptive and analytical approaches are used for the purpose. Chapter four presents the findings of the study on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of data. On the basis of the findings some recommendations are drawn. The references and appendix are the concluding parts of the study.