Languages and Comparative Literature-Mphil Thesis
Recent Submissions
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Ecocritical concerns in tracks by louise erdrich and the stone carvers by Jane Urquhart.
(Central University of Punjab, 2017)Ecocriticism is a new approach to literature and an ecological criticism that examines the human representation of nature. Humans try to dominate the whole Earth and its inhabitants. The Ecocritical theory distributes the ... -
Construction and Treatment of Social Taboos in Contemporary Indian Cinema with Special Focus on Sexual Taboos
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Diasporic Spaces: A Comparative Study of Selected Diasporic Fiction
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)This study is an attempt to do the comparative analysis of three novels by three Indian English women writers, The Namesake, Jasmine and Born Confused by Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee and Tanuja Desai Hidier respectively. ... -
Tribal concerns in literature: A comparative study of things fall apart and the ancestor
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)'Tribe' means a group of people living at a particular place from times immemorial. Tribes are named differently at different places according to their geographical positioning, their social stratification in the society ... -
Domestic space: A comparative study of born confused and queen of dreams
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)Within a variety of academic disciplines, diaspora has gained a stupendous magnitude over the times. Dispersion of an established system brought about by the crisis coercion, catastrophe and other forcible movements is ... -
Comparative study of Shiv Kumar's birha tu sultan and Jaishankar Prasad's kamayani the perspectives of the theory of alamkara
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)Unlike western critical theories, Indian Poetics focus more upon aesthetic aspects rather than didactic approach to literature. Among the most discussed critical theories of Indian Poetics Alamkara has a unique and ... -
Engendered subjectiveness: Construction of queer idenity in vijay tendulkar's a friend's story and mahesh dattani's on a muggy night in mumbai
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)The present study deals with comparative analysis of Vijay Tendulkar's A Friend's Story and Mahesh Dattani's On a Muggy Night in Mumbai with respect to treatment of queer issues, their repression and social stigma faced ... -
Female identy in partition literature: A comparative study of Bapsy Sidhwa's ice candy man and Amrita Pritam
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)Partition of India was the great historical event in 1947. Partition affected the millions of people and changed the whole scenario of the sub-continent. Women were most affected in partition era. Feminism as a movement ... -
Struggle for identity comparative study of cry, the peacock and home
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)The present dissertation scrutinises the construction of female identity in Indian society in Anita Desai's novel Cry, The Peacock and Manju Kapur' novel Home. It has been divided in four chapters. The first chapter deals ... -
Socio political protest : a comapartive study of selected plays (Har ik nu jion da haq chahidaye and savere di lo) of gursharan singh and selcted poems of sant ram udasi
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)The present research is based on the comparative study of two Punjabi writers Gursharan Singh and Sant Ram Udasi. If one is famous for his poetry the other is equally famous for his plays. There are similarities in the ... -
Dalit experience in autobiography: A comparative study of government brahmana and mudrahiya
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)Dalit Autobiography, a recent offshoot, introduces a new world of experience in Indian literature. It widens the range of expression and makes use of the language of the Dalits who have been excluded from the mainstream ... -
A filmic historic mapping of 1857 : A comparative study of styajit ray's shatranj ke khiladi and shyam benegal's junoon
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)The representation of history through the medium of film has been an important trend in the filmic world. While concerning with the different issues raised by the cinematic representation of a historic event, the films ... -
Depiction of dalit explotation and remonstration: a comparative study of salaam and muktiparva
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)Dalit literature sheds the light on the whole society. Dalit literature depicts the suffering and pain of the Dalits. In Dalit literature, short story and novel writing both the genre has important place. By presenting ... -
Search for female self: A comparative study of jasmine and that long silence
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)Bharati Mukherjee and Shashi Deshpande are two prominent Indian writers who portray the plight of Indian women - their hopes, joys, aspirations as well as frustrations and fears. Shashi Deshpande is an Indian writer living ... -
Revisiting history and the question of idenity: a comparative study of the shadow lines and tamas
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)Identity is the central issue in contemporary literary discourses. The reason behind such centrality lies in the identity crisis faced by individuals or groups due to political and historical movements. In the postmodern ... -
Critiquing anthropocentrism in amitav ghosh's the hungry tide and j.m. coetzee's disgrace
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)Rapid degradation of environment is an important concern facing all disciplines of knowledge and man centeredness known as anthropocentrism is believed to be one of the major causes behind this. In literary sphere, approach ... -
Historico-mythical analysis of girish karnad's tugh laqhlaq and swarajbir's krishna
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)The present study proposes to do the comparative analysis of two plays- Tughlaq by Girish Karnad and Krishna by Swarajbir. Both the playwrights go back to ancient sources to conceive their plays. Karnad exploits the history ... -
An Ecocritical Study Of Gita Mehta's A River Sutra And Arundati Roy'S The God Of Small Things
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)Ecocriticism is one of the most recently emerged interdisciplinary field of literary criticism. It refers to a study of literary texts involving the physical environment. The novels, A River Sutra By Gita Mehta and The ... -
Ecocentric vision in the works of J.M. Coetzee and AND Amitav Ghosh: A comparative study of life and times of MICHAEL K AND THE GLASS PALACE
(Central University of Punjab, 2014)Environmental destruction has been a burning issue from the last few decades. The ego-centric attitude and rational thinking of man has led to the imbalance of the entire environment and its surroundings. The novels selected ... -
Filming of fiction: A comparative study of bapsi sidhwa's ice-candy-man and1947 earth
(Central University of Punjab, 2012)A visual adaptation of a literary text is a complex phenomenon, involving the basic paradox of word and image, so some sort of compression, omission is natural when the linguistic signs are converted into visual signs. The ...