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Post-Modernism in Muriel Spark’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie “

  Post-Modernism in Muriel Spark’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie “   By   Suparna Sinha   ABSTRACT   Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is one of the finest works in contemporary Scottish literature. It was published in 1961, and depicted the period between WWI and WWII. In 1998, Modern Library, New York chose this book to be in the top 100 best English Language novels of the 20 th century, and in 2005 the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. This book is about a school teacher who taught a set of six girls in a school at Edinburgh. She is often shown to cross over the bounds of the subjects she is teaching into territories that opens the minds of her students. The story takes place before the advent of the Second World War. It can be classified under Postmodernist literature as there are entwined themes, repetition of sub-themes, subjectivism, convoluted ...
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Shelley’s Philosophy of Life

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  Shelley’s Philosophy of Life Man’s ability to imagine a divine nature is often the central idea of many of Shelley’s poems. Hope is often one of his themes of his poetry, and the personification of hope could only be God. Making freedom a reality, was God’s job according to Shelley. God was not omnipotent or a creator. Man’s rule over himself is true sovereignty. Atheists found this to be too religious. They liked his Mont Blanc but disliked his Intellectual Beauty, whereas believers thought his belief to be too independent. So, it is clear that both were bothered by it. The deities of Shelley’s poems were not very steady and dependable. The god of Intellectual Beauty “visits with inconsistent glance each human heart and countenance”. This poem gives a superhuman and supernatural account of moments of joy and satisfaction. The temporariness and not very kind nature of Shelleyian deities make us ponder if they are gods indeed. The diety of Alastor beckons the poet with s...
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A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON JHUMPA LAHIRI’S WOMEN IN the “INTERPRETER OF MALADIES”

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  A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON JHUMPA LAHIRI’S WOMEN IN the “INTERPRETER OF MALADIES” by Suparna Sinha ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to analyze some of the women characters of Jhumpa Lahiri’s book, “Interpreter of Maladies” and infer whether her stories could also be termed as feminist literature. The trials and tribulations of the female diaspora some of who left their own country due to marriage or Partition, have been carefully examined in this article, and compared with the tenets of Feminism as outlined in Mary Wollstonecraft's `A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’. A humble attempt has been made to study the characterization of seven female characters of seven stories of the book. The women are diverse in age, education, financial status, marital status, country of origin and attitude. They are immigrants in Boston, like Mrs. Sen in “Mrs. Sen’s” and Mala in “The Third and Final Continent”, first generation immigrants like Mina in “Interpreter of Maladies” an...
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