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Item Disruption and Subversion of Patriarchal Normativity in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things(Faculty of Arts in English, 2010) Siwakoti, Devi PrasadThis research work is an attempt to analyze the subversion and disruption of the patriarchal normativity in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Various critics have interpreted the novel in different ways. Most of them study it as a story of love laws. Some others study it as a story of children whose innocence is shattered by the hypocrisies of adults. But most of the critics have ignored the subversive and disruptive nature of the novel as well as its other major issues like gender, class and caste that are represented in it. In such a context, this researcher mainly deals with the question of how Arundhati Roy has tried to dismantle the oppressive patriarchal normativity by showing the love and relationship between two characters belonging to different social strata.Thus in spite of the multiple interpretations of the novel from different perspectives, it is quite surprising to note that the critics have failed to deal with the issue of the subversion and disruption of the patriarchal normativity which is quite dominant in the novel. That is why, the issue of patriarchal normativity and Roy's attempt to undermine it is the main contention of this research.Item Du Bosian Double Consciousness in Morrison’sThe Bluest Eyeand Ellison’sInvisible Man(Faculty of Arts in English, 2010) Poudel, Til PrasadDouble consciousness,defined by Du Bois as the African American's sense of always looking at himself through the eyes ofWhite Americans, is examinedin the present thesis, in the light of two African-American novels; Ralph Ellison'sInvisible Manand Toni Morrison'sThe Bluest Eye.The locus of the researchis that double consciousness is indeed a source of frustration for a large number of the fictional characters, but that it doesn't always result infrustration and alienation. This is due tothe fact thatsome of the protagonists are not only capable of minimizing the anxieties that double consciousness sometimes produces, but of avoiding them altogether.Toni Morrison’sThe BluestEyecalls attentionto the media and American standards of beauty as factors that create a sense of twoness among African-Americans who see themselves as a mark of ugliness and abnormality. In Ralph Ellison’sInvisible Man, the protagonist’s quest to make American way, andhis growing identification with his community, reveal double consciousness as a desire to transcend a state of liminality and achieve union in community.Item Intersection of Gothic Economic and Fearin Little Dorrit,Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, andDracula(Faculty of Arts in English, 2011) Gurung, Gol ManBoth the gothic novel and political economy belonged to a wider discourse of panic that pervaded the Victorian age as it struggled to come to terms with the terrible convulsions that had regularly racked the then commercial world. Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker are important for the ways in which their writings capitalize on economic panic. Dickens’Little Dorrit, Steven son’sDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Stoker’s Dracula constitute a privileged site wherein the hybrid languages of economics and the gothic come together to capture the bank erization panic that had engulfed the Victorians. The gothichaunts finance capital’s sober discourse, a spectre that it ceaselessly conjures up and is thus powerless to exorcise.Item The Journey from Worldly Absurdism to Spirituality in Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums(Central Department of English, 2019) KC, DewakiThis research examines the mode of a journey from worldly indulgence to spirituality in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. This research explores the difficulty of selfhood as it affects to individual identity and subjectivity in American culture and consciousness. The novel tells the story of Ray Smith and his adventures as a hitchhiker, mountaineer, and aspiring Buddha. The novel opens with Ray Smith meeting an old bum while traveling on a freight train in California. Inspired, he calls the man a Dharma Bum and then begins to recount a series of adventures that he has undergone with other such free-spirited people. Ray attends a rowdy poetry jam at "Gallery Six" in which a number of his friends perform, but he is more impressed by the forthright poetry of Japhy Ryder. This research uses the psychological effects of absurdist condition, search for alternative sexuality in relation to the oppression of human beings by technology. The novel Dharma Bums explore the influences of media, Spirituality and Buddhism on selfhood. The text presents a distinct model for addressing the possibility for self-transformation or inherent self-limitation as encouraged by these influences. The research explores the anxiety caused by the Second World War, capitalism and the growing consumerism in America during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Buddhism provided the Beats with an escape, the ascetic lifestyle providing a way out of the conformity and absurdity of a consumer society that Kerouac encountered.Item Traumatic Experience in Ernest Hemingway'sA Farewell to Arms(Central Department of English, 2008) Jnawali, Ganesh PrasadThis present dissertation on A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway attempts to show a vivid portrayal of traumatic experience of modern life triggered by the violence of the World War I. This novel identifies modern world’s rootless ridge, World War and its destruction and frustrated world view where spirituality is defeated in surge of the materialism leading toward the traumatic dread. Here, Hemingway portrays and explores the doomed way of human psyche and the dark side of human life which is reflected in the form of flashbacks, nightmares and other repeated phenomena thoroughly. The characters of this novel go to different places in order to get relief from suffering; but their suffering does not get over, and then they are beset with their traumatic experiences.