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Item Discourse in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago(Department of English, 2007) Pathak, ChakrapaniPresenting pre–and post revolutionary Russia, Boris Pasternak's historical novelDr. Zhivago portrays the picture of a doctor, poet and philosopher whose life is eventually destroyed by various discourses and counter-discourses practiced by monolithic state and its agencies. Yearning for the betterment of society and family, protagonist Yury Zhivago experiences war and revolutions the state faces but loses all of his hopes and beloved ones and achieves nothing more than utter poverty and death on the street. Thus, Yury loses his pursuit of freedom, individuality and becomes a victim of power exercise.Item Male Gaze upon Gender Roles: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner(Department of English, 2023) Dahal, SunilKhaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner is the depiction of masculine Afghan society where males bear the superior authority. In the novel, male characters like Amir, Baba, Rahim Khan and Assefare in the main roles who make discourses on gender role that masculinity is greater than femininity. As discourse is created by society with the use of language, Hosseini’s characters also make manipulative use of language to claim masculinity as the superior gender and a person must have masculine characters to be a real man. The research takes various dialogues and speeches of characters in the novel as discourse created by them, especially males, and makes precise analysis of it to investigate the intention of such characters. The novel is analysed from different theoretical perspectives but the analysis of its language through Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the gender roles is untouched. This research makes analysis of The Kite Runner through Critical Discourse Analysis and investigates how Hosseini’s characters have manipulated the language to readdress the stereotypical gender roles, keeping masculinity at the superior position of it. Key Words: discourse, language, gender roles, naming, prioritizing, ideology, manipulationItem Reflection of Western Ideology in the Textsof Western Literature and Mass Media: An Althusserian Notion(Department of English, 2007) Kafle, SanjeebThis dissertation is about the operation and reflection of western ideological hegemony in the texts of western literature and western mass media. Thisresearch presents the argumentthat literature reflects western ideology of supremacy over the east by inferiorizing the latterand its people. And, this hegemonic tendency, later on, isevencarried and sustained by the mass media of the west. The research selects a wide range of textsfrom thecanonical to pop cultural.The canonical literary texts have limited audience. Colonialand colonialist textHeart of Darknessand colonial autobiographical textShooting an Elephanthavingselected readershipreflectthe western ideological hegemonic tendency, but they do not have lesser impacts,and have reflected and shaped occidental mindsets. Pop cultural communications, on the other hand, have unlimited audience which too have hegemonized East from economic domains to epistemological ramifications.Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,two months editorial of theTimemagazine,BBC Have Your Say2000 program topic,Associated Pressare taken as the pop cultural communication texts that have unlimited audience. The study uses wide ranges of tools like ideology, hegemony, power, discourse,Orientalismto support the central ideas of the thesis.