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Item Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in Tawfiq Al-Hakim‘s The Song of Death(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2015) Shrestha, RameshThe present research entitled ―Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in Tawfiq al-Hakim‘s The Song of Death‖ explores contradictions, conflicts and shows disagreements and disparity prevalent in the mid-twentieth century Egyptian society. The concept of younger and older generation of the then society comes in to clash in many aspects of their life such as thinking, behavior, treatment and lifestyle. The playwright takes character of new generation as agent to get exposure to the modern values, which he tries to apply in the traditional rural Egyptian society. In doing so, there arise problems of clash between two different values as well as in the life of the characters. University education, free life, individualism, social law and justice and some of the values are associated with modernity, which the main character adopts in his life but these values do not go with the conventions of the traditional rural Egyptian society. The consequence is further suffering. Older generation is represented by Asakir and Mabruka and younger generation by Ilwan and Simeida. Ilwan always hopes for new ideas and gives priority to social law and justice and modern way of thinking over the rural Egyptian orthodoxy culture and tradition. But older generation especially Asakir is against it and opposes Ilwan in many aspects of changes. Ilwan hopes to change orthodoxical thinking of the then society by adopting modern way of thinking and social law and justice. To study these issues, the research takes the support of primarily the theoretical concepts of modernity. The research explores how conflict comes in to existence among the people of the society because of modernization.Item Post-Modern Hyper Reality and Degenerated American Values in Shepard's Buried Child(Central Department of English, 2067) Sharma, JankiThis research attempts to depict postmodernism as a style in order to reflect he degenerated American values in Shepard's play Buried Child. As a postmodern drama, the play embodies ambiguity, discontinuity, pluralism, perversion, deformation, disintegration, deconstruction and difference. And all these features are parallel with the degenerated family values of Dodge's family. Dodge, the center of he story is the patriarch, and his wife, Halie, presenting the old-time chauvinistic portrayal of women being part whore, live in the same house ostensibly but are in fact part. Shepard's intention in the play to create a narrative which communicated and eflected the frustrations of American people but at the same time he presents the ituation in entertaining ways through the techniques of blends between myths and eality. The rhetorical technique of post modernism is used in order to trace the isillusionment with the American dream and the downfall of traditional patriarch. It eflects universal frustrations of modern American people though the setting is quite grarian. The postmodern style which Shepard uses incorporates surrealism and ymbolism in the realistic framework of a family drama. He is able to create images in he imaginations of people through the use of surrealism and symbolism, evoke and arness the experiences of his audience through its postmodern. Thus, regarding the tyle, Buried Child incorporates many postmodern elements such as the mixing of genres, the deconstruction of a grand narrative, and the use of pastiche and layering.Item Spirit of Experimentation in Nepali Modern Songs(Central Departmental of English, 2013) Ghimire, BipinThis research explores the changed patterns seen in Nepali songs due to the impact of modernity. Songs carry the new spirit in its concern with the issues of time and tech-consciousness, revolution in telecommunication, social and political change, awareness in people with public centered ethos, anti-tradition, globalization and new trends in fashion. The idea of ethico-political, capitalistic, technological and aesthetic-cultural modernity demonstrate the newness in the Nepali songs which introduce western thought patterns in to eastern through art, literature and culture.