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Item Affirmation of Tradition against the Ruptures of Modernity in Brideshead Revisited(Department of English, 2013) Yadav, SantoshThis thesis makes a study of Evelyn Wangh's Brideshead Revisited recontextualizing the novel against the emerging post-war discourses. It explores and analyzes the affirmation of tradition against the ruptures of modernity by defining the terms tradition and modernity and showing the relation between them. The novel, in fact, is an exploration of the story of a traditional catholic family and the changing function of the country house. The action of the novel describes providence, grace, and the redemption through suffering of a jaded, often hilarious modernism. It explores these themes in the memory of a fictional narrator, Charles Ryder.Item Bridging the gap between romanticism and modernism: Transitional poetics of Matthew Arnold(Department of English, 2008) Sharma, Shiva PrasadMatthew Arnold belongs to the group of the reflective, thoughtful and intellectual poets of the Victorian age. He was a brilliant critic and man of letters who exposed the total dissatisfaction towards his contemporary lived world. In so doing his literary works and typically the poetry fuses the two great literary movements: Romantic and Modern. His use of symbolic landscapes like the beautiful resort of Oxford in “The Scholar Gipsy” and the sea images in “Dover Beach” resembles the romantic legacy of nature as the best place to escape the bitter disillusion of the aspirations expected. Whereas the style of doubting on the faith of human beings and the continuous affection to seek a perfect center or a ‘culture’ and nostalgia of it opens the way to interpret him in the modern frame. He is the bridge between romantic and modern ethos. What the present researcher is trying to do is to show that while blending romantic and modernist frame and describing the lived reality, he is proliferating his own ideology that appears irresponsible and dominating towards the ordinary classes for he valorizes the high culture as the sole property of aristocratic people. Moreover, the researcher attempts to critique his tendency to valorize the ‘high seriousness’ and ‘high culture’ practiced by the aristocratic people in his poetry and prose alike even if he professes poetry as the ‘criticism of life’ in his prose work “The Study of Poetry”.Item Evolution of Modern Woman in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse(Department of English, 2011-04) Baral, AnjanaNot availableItem Fusion of Ideals of Romanticism and Realistic Concerns of Modernism in W.B.Yeats’ Selected Poems(Department of English, 2019) Ghimire, PrakashThis research paperexamines the fusion of ideals of Romanticism and realistic concerns of Modernism in William Butler Yeats’ selected poems.It begins with a demonstration of Yeats as representative of Romanticism andexplanation of crucial romantic traits. The Romantic influence is reflected through the issues likesubjectivity, escapism, celebration of imagination, revival of myths, use of memory, valorization of nature, art and beauty.He inherits these themes fromhis Romantic predecessors like William Wordsworth, P.B Shelley and John Keats.Then, this papercontinues to exhibit Yeats as a Modernist poet who has romantic roots.His connection withthe changing face of literary culturein the early twentieth centuryled him to pick up the styles and conventions of modernist poetsin order to reflectthe turbulence of the world.This influencescaused his poetry to fulfill the demand of the age. But, he neverabandonsto reflect the romanticelements that provided essence in his earlier poetry.Though, hebelongs to the Modern period in literary canon. Yet, his poetry embodies Romantic featureswhichexplores theinteraction of art and violence.Item Globalization as a Diffusion of Cultural Identity in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss(Department of English, 2011-07) Adhikary, SushilaNot availableItem Illusion of Love and Marriage in Youths of Modern Society in Joseph Conrad’s Selected Short Stories(Faculty of English, 2020) Kandel, SamjhanaThis paper analyses Joseph Conrad selected short stories, ‘The Lagoon’, ‘Amy Foster’ and ‘Youth’. It examines the illusion of love and marriage in youths of modern society where the youths experience the different feelings and emotions. Providing stereotypical characteristics to characters, Conrad depicts the state of contemporary society which has picked fall marriage and love, addressing the lost immigrants, dreams of youth and struggle of youths for their existence. Conrad attempts to visualize the love and marriage that has been imagined and practiced through the modern society which has been affected by illusion. The paper contends issues of illusion which creates the clash of identity and human relation with the relation of modern society. The theme of the stories shows the consequences of modernism in youths in modern society. The central theme of these selected stories is that modernism creates illusion in which the youths neither totally avoid the traditional values and beliefs nor accept the modern norms and concepts. The characters undergo high level of illusion on the cultural and social myth, which limits and controls modern- day society leading towards upheaval and struggles in their life. In this way, this paper discloses new avenues examining a particular theme with special attention to contextual relations.Item Illusion of Modernity in Joseph Conrad’s Selected Short Stories(Department of English, 2021) Kafle, SumanThis research paper examines Joseph Conrad’s selected short stories, with a special attention to their representation of modernity. For this, the paper uses concept of modernist philosophy regarding marriage, love and youth along with “The power of Myth” as methods to cave into the narrative of the stories through analytical methodology. Conrad's stories reflect the ambiguous conditions of people and male heroism due to rise of modernity. With regard to this fact, this study assumes that due to initiation of modernistic prospective people fall in the contradict mood they cannot completely get rid of traditional norms and values, nor can they adapt to the purely modern situation. Unclear path can lead to intolerable or uncontrollable problems without knowing its further results. Thisproject hypothesizes that due to initiation of modernistic prospective people fall in the contradict mood they cannot completely get rid of traditional norms and values, nor can they adapt to the purely modern situation. Due to long lasting effects of modernity, they are unable to deal with such problems. So, to bring the issue of: marriage, love and youth of modern era into forefront, this paper highlights the isolated and ambiguous situations in the stories and then analyses them thoroughly. The stories are: “The Lagoon”, “Youth”, and “Amy foster”. Similarly the later part of the paper explores the socio-political circumstances and the author’s standpoint to depict the real condition of society. My entry point is concept about love, marriage and youth in modern era this took me to myth, male heroism along with colonial wave and it’s far reaching consequences. Thus, my central research concern is to examine how modernistic prospective creates illusion regarding love, marriage and youth in modern society. Key Words: Modernism, illusion, duality, myth, male heroism,Item Modernism and Decadence in Mann's Death in Venice(Department of English, 2006) Silwal, Khada NandaThis thesis makes a study of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice in term of personal decadence of an artist in modern society. It presents the artistic decadence of a modern artist who is menaced by his very love of beauty,and is always prone to forget his responsibility to himself, his kind, above all his society. The novel, in fact, is the unsettling story of deeply disturbed principal character, Aschenbach, portraying his soul rending conflict between art and life. Keeping his artistic career, social norms, values and responsibility at the bay, he is totally captivated by the beauty of the boy. He exposes his extreme passion for the boy that leads him to his tragic end.Item The Modernist Notion of Time in Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Path", Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time(Department of English, 2008) Bhattarai, AnodThe research entitled “The Modernist Notion of Time in Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Path", Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time” concerns modernism that conceives time as nonlinear and nonlocutionary phenomenon. Before modernism, time was understood as linear and fixed essence but modernist explosion has problematized the essentialist notion of time attributing time as nonlinear and disjuncture phenomenon. Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time shows how time is nonlinear. He shows neither present is succession of past nor it is followed by future. Time is a nondivisible whole: it cannot be divided into past, present and future. Salvador Dali's Painting The Persistence of Memory depicts distorted and scattered images of watches in a barren land which indicate the distorted image of time in the modern age. Jorge Luis Borges in the story The Garden of Forking Path explores time itself to be disrupted in modernism. Modern 'man' is understood as an individual who lives in infinite present without history. It is held that since time is not linear, human being cannot assemble his past in its wholeness to constitute history.Item Modernist Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Novel Mrs. Dalloway(Central Department of English, 2010-06) Paudel, Bhumi RajNot AvailableItem Modernist Sense of Loss in Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun(Central Department of English Kirtipur Kathmandu, 2016-03) Shahi, Chakra BahadurThe Present Research Entitled “Modernist Sense Of Loss In Haruki Murakami's South Of The Border, West Of The Sun" Analyzes The Novel From The Modernist Perspective And Reveals That The Novel Is A Milestone In The Study Of Modern And Postmodern Theories. The Research Argues That It Is The Separation, Loss, Alienation Of The Characters Which Does Not Let Them Live A Happy Life. The Post War Effects Of The Sino-Japanese War Also Add The Pain In Their Life. Thus, Examining The Effects And Sentiments Caused By The Horror During The War Time, The Characters Are Seen Physically Abnormal Too. It Is The Product Of Modernism That Hajimi And Shimamoto Are Dissatisfied With Each Other. The True Love Has Gone Away From The Reality. Later On When Murakami Portrays Hajimi Lamenting On The Loss Of His Youthful Days, It Vibrates The Modern World Where People Are Dissatisfied, Disillusioned, Suffering And Being Separated And Alienated. Towards The End Of The Novel, We Examine Hajimi Admitting Himself As A Patient; Perhaps A Psychologically Weak Mentality Of His Own Leads His Life Into A Tragic Track.Item Quiet Desperation of Modern Life: A Study of Beckett’s Happy Days(Faculty of English, 2007) Thapa, SarikaNot availableItem Rituals, Performance and Modernity: A Study of Temple Prayer Practices of the Kathmandu Valley(Faculty of English, 2013) Thapa, AbhijeetA community bearing its own cultural heritage and practices has its ways of dealing with the bodily disorders and ailments. Even in the current context of globalization and modernity, local values, norms and rituals retain their religious values in several communities of the Kathmandu Valley. Gods in the temples of the Kathmandu Valley are also taken as doctors though they do not speak and prescribe. Locals believe that idols in the temples and shrines are mute but not deaf. They listen to our pain and problems. They are inside us, and also outside in temple. Therefore, going to them is also reaching to our own inner parts and elements of our body. This belief is performed through offerings of libations, incense, fruits and other victuals. Such humble prayer practices and similar performances held in the temples are supposed to heal diseases of several orders. With sincere ethnography, the research unleashes some local prayer practices of healing the bodily disorders in the Kathmandu Valley. The research also analyses the roles and significance of such practices in the modern capital city of the nation. Locals go and offer prayers to the non-living symbolic entity to heal their diseases or bodily disorders (sometimes after the failure of doctor’s medication) like those of ears, tooth, skin, sterility and the list continues. Such humble methods of seeking comeback from illness, in real ground, seem very exotic in the twenty first century. Surprisingly, Kathmandu as the chief city with most of the traces of modernity in Nepal has still a majority of people developing deep faith upon healing powers of gods and goddesses. The researcher has himself participated in one of the esoteric healing rituals for the authenticity of the research. During the fieldwork, several photos and interviews were taken to give a wide exposure to this unique belief culture. Temples in the Kathmandu Valley are not only homes to the gods but are also the sites of locals’ performance. From the perspectives of performance theories, these healing practices embody the day-to-day life patterns of the locals of the Kathmandu Valley. This research concludes that Science limits its periphery to the laboratory tests. Doctoral medications are important to rule out diseases and to relieve the patients, but beyond that, science too has no access. One cannot live in a completely Science governed life. Mystery in our life and in this universe is universal. Healing gods and our faith and performances associated with them can be taken as our efforts to live in this mysterious world.Item Tradition versus Modernity in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge(Department of English, 2022) Kapri, NirmalaThis study deals with the issues of tradition and modernity which brings ongoing tension in Thomas hardy’s The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886). Michael Henchard, a man of traditional force exhibits himself as a man of utter power and dominance over the people of his locality but he fails to continue his old conventional system in the hand of changing socio-political scenario. Mr. Donald Farfrae a versatile Scottish young man is familiar with modern tools and techniques outdoes his master, Michael Henchard in every respect and undoubtedly becomes successful to transform the rigid root of tradition of the town Caster bridge into flexible one. Henchard’s old and outdated way of dealing with business and relation falls in risk after the arrival of Farfrae who is synonymous to the ideologies of modernism. Tension arises in the world of Caster bridge ad life of some characters due to the two heroes contrasting way of dealing things. Along with these two main characters’ persistent attitude and manner to promote their own system, this research work somehow tries to excavate historical context of the then English society, which was welcoming change despite many obstruction.