The Critical Endeavour

EDITOR


Bijay Kumar Das PhD. D Litt (Utkal)

Former Professor of English,
The University of Burdwan, Burdwan (West Bengal).

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD


Professor Rupin W Desai PhD (North Western University),

Former Professor of English, Delhi University, Delhi.

Professor Rajnath PhD (Leeds),

Former Professor of English, University of Allahabad, Allahabad.

Professor C. N. Srinath PhD (Utah),

Director, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore.

Professor Jasbir Jain PhD (University of Rajasthan),

Former Professor of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

Professor C. R. Visweswara Rao PhD (S.V. University),

Former Vice-Chancellor, Vikrama Simhapuri University, Nellore (AP).

Professor Ramesh K. Srivastava PhD (Utah),

Former Professor of English, G. N. D. University, Amritsar.

Professor Shyamala A Narayan PhD (Mysore University),

Former Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR


Professor Ashok Kumar Mohanty

SOA University, Bhubaneswar.

THE RESEARCHERS' ASSOCIATION, ODISHA


THE CRITICAL ENDEAVOUR, an annual peer reviewed Journal devoted to World Literatures in English, Bhasha Literatures, Main Stream English Literature, Indian English Literature, Literary Theories and Translation Studies, is the Research Journal of the Researchers' Association, Odisha. It invites articles on any aspect of literature. Articles submitted for publication must conform to the format prescribed by the MLA Handbook (Eighth Edition) and be accompanied by CD. The same should reach the Editor by the end of September 2021.

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Contents


R.W. DESAI

John Betjeman's Poet Credo: Modernism Modified

RAJNATH

The Rise of Postcolonial Criticism and Theory

BIJAY KUMAR DAS

The Confluence of Cultural and Literary Thoeries in Marjorie Garber's 'Who Owns "Human Nature"?'

C R VISWESWARA RAO

Margaret's Hag-Seed: a Feminist, Postmodernist Tempest Rewrite

C.T. INDRA

Wordsworth, the Poet of the 'Less Fortunate'

MYTHILI KAUL

Revisiting Shudraka's Mircchakatika

M.S. KUSHWAHA

The Riti Theory: A Reappraisal

C.N. SRINATH

The Lost Tradition: Education in India - Then and Now

MOHAN RAMANAN

The Conservative Literary Mind

P. BALASWAMY

Negotiating between Two Worlds in Lakshmi Holmstrom's: The Inner Courtyard

S. VISWANATHAN

The Nirvana Sixsome: Negotiations Morph into a General Positive of Felt Blessedness

RAGINI RAMACHANDRA

Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: A Journey in Self-discovery

B.N. PATNAIK

Critiquing "Language Revitalization"

SIYA RAM RAI

Re-Appraisal of Sophoclean Trilogy As a Canonical Work of Work of Art

KARUNA RAI

Role of Sanatan dharma and Folk Bhajan, "Ram Dhun" in the Making of Mahatma Gandhi

UJJWAL DUTTA

Raja Rao's Kanthapura: A Postcolonial Reading

GRK MURTHY

Bhasa's One-Act Plays: A Textual Analysis

SHILPI BASAK

The Theme of Partition and 'Otherness' in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

PRASHANT K. SINHA

Is John Osborne's Luther Psychologically determined or is he open to Ethical Judgement?

ALOKA PATEL

A Mother's Perspective: Religion, Mortality and Slavery in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

SATYA SINDHU GHOSH

George Orwell: A Critic of Imperialism in Burmese Days

B. PARVATHI

Revisiting K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar's Australia Helix

ASHOK KUMAR MOHANTY

Mahasweta Devi's "Behind the Bodice": A Gricear Study

JASMINE A. CHOUDHURY

Not Children of a Lesser God: Women inEasterine Kire's A Terrible Matriachy

POOJA KHANNA

Techno-literacy: Revolutionizing the Teaching of english Language using ICT Tools

PRAVAT KUMAR MISHRA

Struggle for Black Identity in Maya Angelou's I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

SABITA TRIPATHY
N. SUMAN SHELLY

Tagore's Gora: An Expansive Vision of an Undivided Planet

SONALI DAS

Samskara: A Rite of Initiation

Book Review


JASBIR JAIN

Interpreting Cinema: Adaptations, Intersexualities, Art Movements

SUCHETHANA SWAROOP

Beyond East and West
Translator: N.S. RAGHAVAN

R. CHUDAMANI

The solitary Sprout: Selected stories of R. Chudamani
Translators: C.T. INDRA AND T. SRIRAMAN

RAMESH K. SRIVASTAVA

Man and his Work

SUSHEEL K. SHARMA

Unwinding Self

PROMODINI VERMA AND ANUBHAVA PRADHAN

Kipling and Yeats at 150

M.S. KUSHWAHA AND SANJAY K. MISHRA

An Introduction to the Study of Indian Poetics

SHYAMALA A. NARAYAN

Indian English Literature 2001-2015 A Critical Survey

BARACK OBAMA

A Promised Land

WALTER ISAACSON

Kissinger: A Biography

NOTES ON THE CONSTRIBUTORS

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