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Item Attack on Bourgeois Conservatism: A Reading of Madame Bovary(Department of English, 2008) Bam, Bhumi PrakashEmma Bovary is a victim of circumstance to the extent that her experience of the world is socially constructed. What has to be understood is that she cannot simply run away from home and make her way in the world alone. Men can do that in nineteenth-century France, but not (respectable) women. Her response is to attempt to shape her experience based on radical misconceptions of how the real world works. Her preconceptions of what married life will be like are the stuff of adolescent fantasy, informed by the 19th-century equivalent of mass-media messages of romance and adventure. Written against the background of the collapse of French aristocracy and rise of the middle-class after the French revolution, Flaubert in Madame Bovary depicts a middle-class female character Emma and her extramarital adventures, but her affairs are treated with a subtle irony. Flauberian irony destabilizes the univocal certainty of linear narrative by continuously introducing the possibility of multiple and often contradictory interpretations. This research deals with Flaubert’s treatment of the middle class character epitomized by Emma. Her romanticism with a touch of irony reflects the novelists attack on the moral conservatism of the bourgeois.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 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.