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Item Adiga's Implicit Euro-Centricism: The White Tiger(Department of English, 2015) Tajpuriya, Jagadish PrasadThe White Tiger written by Arvinda Adiga exposes India as a dark place. This novel has only brought in light the negative sides of India in religious beliefs, tradition, culture, human behaviour, economy, geography and governance system. It is all because of Adiga's intention to show India as the place of barbarism, and unique in comparison to western countries like America. Adiga has studied India on the basis of the Western culture, religious beliefs, rites, etc. which comes under oriental study. By presenting dark side of India Adiga has been presented himself as an Eurocentric. He has represented Indian geography as dirty, Indian woman as brutal, unkind, money-minded etc. and the Indian government as a failure government to manage corrupt employees. Thus, such depiction of India by Adiga is a clear proof for claiming Adiga as a Eurocentric.Item Fascination with Western Culture in Taslima Nasrin's The French Lover(Department of English, 2011) Koirala (Dhungel), IndiraCreating a vast gap between western and non western culture, Taslima Nasrin shows her heroine's attraction with western culture and bitter experience within her own cultural root through the book The French Lover Her heroine is shown as rebel who wants to fight against the Indian socio- cultural construction. Nila, the heroine shows her blind attraction to the French culture and desires to be merged into the same culture Nila, therefore dismantles her cultural boundaries by leaving her husband Kishanlal in foreign land. She finds lots of obstacles in her root culture which directly hampers for women's progress. Nila embraces the foreign culture so that she can live her life at her will. In terms of imitating new culture, Nila faces with many difficulties for example, Benoir Dupont, her French Lover deceives her badly Danellie, her lesbian friend shows her disinterest when Nila is in great danger. Even in such a situation Nila doesn't cry for her root, She rather vows not to return to India from France. Nila's dissatisfaction with her origin shows that her own root culture is more discomfortable as well difficult than western culture, where she finds the space for opportunity. Hence, the research focuses on dissimilarities between French culture and Indian culture dealing with the reasons of heroin's attraction with French society.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 Orientalist Representation of Muslims in Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen(Department of English, 2013) Limbu, Bhuwan SIngThis research makes a cursory exploration through an English novelist Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with the spotlight of Orientalism in order to uncover Orientalist representation of the Muslims and Yemenis and also elucidates the reasons and motives behind his orientalization. The preliminary issues in the research query, in specific, are the motives behind showing Sheikh Muhammad’s faith as the cause of the initiation and failure of the salmon fishing project in the Yemen hiding money mindedness of Europeans and the British Blarite government’s political interest on Yemen, and in general, the reasons and motives after depicting Muslims and Yemenis as exotic, impatient, lecherous, debaucherous, malleable, terrorists, and barbarians. The major finding of the research is that Torday writes from positional superiority and strategic location for strategic formation to gain strength and power tied to the powerful and pervading corporate institution of Orientalism. Therefore, intentionally or unintentionally he happens to orientalize the Muslims and Yemenis. And hereafter, the inference this research makes is the reaffirmation of Said’s assumption that the narcissistic Western ideas about the Orient changed in time but not their character.Item Schizophrenic Characterization in The Golden Bowlby Henry James(Department of English, 2010) Sharma, PrativaThis thesis analyses Henry James’s Novel The Golden Bowlvia schizophrenic characterization. Money is at the centre of the novel; hence, we find the reciprocal relationship amid the characters. Money evokes multiple desires in these characters which are never to be mitigated. Characters are the desiring machines that are after their desires, be it social, professional or erotic. James very cunningly postulates the failure of family life in the Western Culture because of extreme capitalism. Every character is schizophrenic and paranoid having unlimited desires. The character like Charlotte is haunted by her erotic instinct as well as money. Amerigo, the main protagonist is also multi-dimensional who betrays all his well wishers. This is to say that Henry James presents schizophrenic characters that are crushed into the capitalistic mode of production; for this reason, they are multifaceted and unstable.