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 Mohan Ramanan PhD (BITS, Pilani),

Former Professor of English, Hyderabad University, Hyderabad.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS


Professor Ashok Kumar Mohanty

SOA University, Bhubaneswar.

Dr Sonali Das PhD (Utkal)

Associate Professor of English, F.M. University, Balasore, Odisha.

THE RESEARCHERS' ASSOCIATION, ODISHA


THE CRITICAL ENDEAVOUR, an annual peer reviewed research 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 of 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 Hard Copy. The same should reach the Editor by the end of September 2022.

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Contents


RAJNATH

Literature, and Society : The Use of Reason and The Limits of The Aesthetic Dimension

BIJAY KUMAR DAS

Who Owns a Literary Text?

MYTHILI KAUL

How Racism Works: A Reading of Othello

C R VISWESWARA RAO

ELT, Technology and the NEP-2020

MOHAN RAMANAN

Some Aspects of Nineteenth Century Indian English Prose

GRK MURTY

Sita in Uttarakânda of the Râmâyana : An Intertextual Analysis of her Characterization by Valmiki, Dinnâga and Bhavabhūti

C. N. SRINATH

Personal Reflections : Academic and Otherwise

B. N. PATNAIK

Critiquing “John is Easy to Please"

SONALI DAS

A Critical Reading of Female Bildungsroman in To Kill A Mockingbird

GARGI BHATTACHARYA

The Concepts of Language and Space in Postcolonial Literature: Interpreting Shanta Acharya and Bharati Mukherjee

PRASHANT K. SINHA

From the Agrarian to the Industrial and from the Rural to the Urban: The impact of this Transition on the Condition of the Poor and on Ecology: Its Reflection in Relevant Literature

RAGINI RAMACHANDRA

"A Story to make you believe in God" : Yann Martel's Life of Pi

SATYA SINDHU GHOSH

Time in "Ode on a Grecian Urn": A Reading

RIMA GHOSH

Spiritual Journey of Keats: A Comparison with Arjuna

BINDU NAIR

Viewing the Female Subaltem Body : Cultural Discourse and Sexual Violence in "Behind the Bodice: Choli ke Pichhe"

UJJWAL DUTTA

An Exploration of the Self in A. K. Ramanujan's Poetry in the Light of Modernism and Postmodernism

BRAJA KISHORE PALL

Concept of 'Home' in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanjuan

SIYA RAM RAI

Theme of Obsession with Womb and Tomb in Philip Larkin's Poetry

B. PARVATHI

Story of a Life Divine The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

PRAVAT KUMAR MISHRA

Immigrant Experience of Exile, Silence and Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's The Last Gift

Research Note


BIJAY KUMAR DAS

The Death of the Reader and the Disappearance of the Printed Book

Book Review


BIJAY KUMAR DAS

Ashis Nandy's 'Exiled at Home': Theory and Praxis

BIJAY KUMAR DAS (Editor)

A Memorial Volume in Honour of Professor M.Q. Khan and Professor D. K. Ray

BIJAY KUMAR DAS (Editor)

The Critical Endeavour, Vol. 27, No. 2, July 2021: Special Number on John Keats

A. A. MANAVALAN

Ramayana : A Comparative Study of Ramakathas Translators : C.T. Indra & Prema Jagannathan

RANJIT HOSKOTE

Hunchprose

RAGINI RAMACHANDRA

The Incredible Web of Maya and Other Essays

PANCHALI MUKHERJEE

The Salad Bowl: The Role of Language in Creating an Indian English Identity

MOHAN RAMANAN

My Son's Father Confessor

RAMESH K. SRIVASTAVA

A Man of Gold and Other Stories

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

BILKESH PARVEEN

The Critical Endeavour Bibliography : 2017-2021

BOOK REVIEW (2017-2021)
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

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