University : DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITY Broad Field of Research : Fiction (Indian English Literature) Title : The Theme of Alienation in the Novels of Arun Joshi. Name of the Supervisor: Dr. R. Gandhi Subramanian. M.A.‚ M. Phil.‚ Ph.D.‚ THE THEME OF ALIENATION IN THE NOVELS OF ARUN JOSHI INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION Literature has said something always fascinating. It is to man’s advantage that he has always
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THEME OF ALIENATION IN ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS WITH REFERENCE TO ‘CRY‚ THE PEACOCK’‚ ‘VOICES IN THE CITY’ AND ‘FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN’ Alienation is one of the greatest problems confronting modern man. The 20th century Especially the postwar period has been called the ‘Age of Alienation’. Edmund Fuller remarks that in our age man suffers not only from war persecution ‚ famine and ruin‚ but from inner problem a conviction on isolation ‚ randomness ‚ meaninglessness in his way of existence. There are
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Patricia Smiley is an American author best known for writing the Tucker Sinclair series of novels. The Tucker Sinclair series features Tucker Sinclair a management consultant who finds herself embroiled in murder mysteries necessitating that she become an amateur sleuth. Her other series of novels is the Pacific Homicide series of novels that is still ongoing. Smiley was born in a Washington‚ in a small agricultural town where her mother taught her to love books. It was during her childhood that
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John Gardner’s novel‚ Grendel‚ takes place in the fourth century A.D. in Denmark. The novel is about Grendel‚ a monster that lives in a cave with his mother who is unable to communicate with him due to her lack of ability to speak‚ and fails to fit in among humans‚ causing him to live a secluded life. Grendel was written in order to help people understand the very nature of mankind. Summary: In the very first chapter of the novel‚ Grendel is being introduced as any ordinary monster you could imagine
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Fade is an interesting novel‚ and can be quite confusing at times. The book starts off with the main character‚ Paul Moreaux living in his hometown "Frenchtown" he always called it‚ in Massachusetts. The book takes place somewhere in the 1920’s. Paul lives a normal but poor life‚ when he finds out that he has the ability to "fade"‚ which is the ability to disappear or become invisible. The ability is passed on from an uncle in the family to a nephew‚ and Paul’s uncle Abelard teaches it to him. Once
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Turning the first page into this novel‚ Not Wanted on the Voyage by author Timothy Findley‚ I noticed all the religious excepts from the King James version of the Bible. This mere detail fascinated me‚ and gave an excellent leap into the chapters that so fourth proceeded. The novel commences with a very slow passing of events.. We‚ as the reader‚ are introduced into his figment imagination: the exaggerated setting and characterization of the bible. Though the use to re-read many of the passages
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uphold. She is the great niece of the famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. In the novel Victoria also known as Tori has gone through a very abnormal experience with her three best friends Ben‚ Hi‚ and Shelton. This novel is very different from others because it is in Tori’s point of view. This is very atypical because forensic science is very complex and something that takes time and when the novel is in a 16 year old’s point of view it can lead to some uncertainties. Tori and her friends
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Explore the use of setting in the novel ‘The Road’ The novel ‘The Road’ opens after great disaster has struck leaving many barren lands and few living beings. Within the first few pages we are introduced to this on-going long road of travel which will supposedly lead them to safety in the south‚ although the two main characters of this novel - the man and the boy – encounter very low temperatures and scarce necessities (food‚ water‚ clothing and shelter) they do not seem to find danger just yet
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Victorian Novel’ Joseph W. Childers highlights the role of information to the industrialism in Britain in the early Victorian period. Information was crucial to understand the structure of the industrial culture. Moreover‚ widely accepted ideas were starting to be questioned and as Childers points out people ‘were existing differently’. Accordingly‚ novelists as Gaskell‚ Dickens‚ Disraeli‚ Kingsley‚ and Frances Trollope provide specific examples of progress. Childers indicates that the novel is a good
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Epiphany The experience of one being awakened to unforeseen thoughts or ideas is generally known as an epiphany. Many of Flannery O’Conner’s writings which comprises of tragic events that eventually lead his characters into appalling situations‚ ultimately serves as an example of some sort of revelation or epiphany to the character. One example of O’Conner’s writing that depicts such theme is the short story‚ “Everything That Rises Must Converge‚” which tells of the story of a recent college student
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