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Item A Countercultural Study on Kerouac'sThe Dharma Bums(Department of English, 2007) Sigdel, Madhu SudanThe present research work is a study to see Jack Kerouac's novelThe Dharma Bumsas counterculture manifesto. The study focuses on the aspects of the novel that directly oppose the contemporary American capitalistic norms and values of the 1950s. The people that the novel talks about are the beatniks who involve themselves in the practice of excessive wanderings, Zen Buddhism, jazz music, haiku, sexual indulgences, drug use and stealing to subvert the values of the mainstream culture. It celebrates unchecked self-expression and serves a heavy blow to the values of decency and decorum of the polite society. So, the present study opens the door to see the text as a countercultural one. The researcher's sole intention is to show how its author is challenging the established culture for the eternal freedom.Item A Quest for Human Existence in Paulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage(Department of English, 2009) Paudyal, Umesh PrasadPaulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage fore grounds the main narrator's apparent spiritual journey which, in turn, delves into an existential journey of authentic being. Once the narrator has possessed a remarkable sword charged with indecipherable mystery, he happens to lose it. The loss of this sword throws him into the world of despair, desperation and despondency. To overcome the despair emerging from his hollow existence the narrator starts his journey to Santiago, one of the renowned centers of spiritual holiness where he regains his lost sword. The entire spectrum of his existential being shines brightly, making him aware of the authenticity of his own being and existence, once he regains his lost sword. Thus the present research work contends his journey as an attempt for existential quest and fulfillment.