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 2020.

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Contents


R.W. DESAI

The Politics of W.B. Yeats and Rudyard Kipling: Comparisons and Contrasts between two outstanding authors born in 1865

Pg. No.: 1

RAJNATH

Homi K. Bhabha's Ambivalent Speculations

Pg. No.: 19

JASBIR JAIN

from Madness to Violence: In Pursuit of Modernity

Pg. No.: 35

C R VISWESWARA RAO

Autobiogrphical Discourse: Narratological Diegesis

Pg. No.: 53

G.N. DEVY

The Post-Memory Imagination

Pg. No.: 68

BIJAY KUMAR DAS

The Elusive Concept of Translation

Pg. No.: 86

MOHAN RAMANAN

Reflections on Gandhi

Pg. No.: 102

B. PARVATHI

The Magic of Mahatma Wanes to Gain

Pg. No.: 116

S. VISWANATHAN

Smilitudes in Tyagaraja's Lyrics

Pg. No.: 128

M.S. KUSHWAHA

The Alankara Theory: A Reconsideration

Pg. No.: 148

GRK MURTY

The Idol Wept: A Portrayal of Clashing Ideas and Crashing Ideals at the Altar of Radical Humanism

Pg. No.: 156

RAGINI RAMACHANDRA

On Re-visiting Ruskin Bond, the Maverick Writer !

Pg. No.: 178

SONALI DAS

Anthropocentrism in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island

Pg. No.: 189

PRABHAT K. SINGH

Dattani's Dramatic Strategies in Final Solutions: A Psychoanalytic Reading

Pg. No.: 198

B.N. PATNAIK

On two Information - Centric Theories of Verbal Interaction and their Limitations

Pg. No.: 207

PRASHANT K. SINHA

Robert Bolt's Portrayal of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons: A Study in Retrospect

Pg. No.: 220

SABITA TRIPATHY

Sir Aurobindo and Nationalism

Pg. No.: 248

ASHOK KUMAR MOHANTY

Contrapuntal Reading of E.M. Foster's A Passage to India

Pg. No.: 262

SATYA SINDHU GHOSH

Decendants of Debendranath Thakur in Sunil Gangopadhyay's First Light: A Critique

Pg. No.: 270

PRAVAT KUMAR MISHRA

Nationalistic Fervour in Gopabandhu Das's Bandira Atmakatha and Other Poems

Pg. No.: 279

UJJWAL DUTTA

Nationalism in Tagore's Gitanjali: Song Offerings

Pg. No.: 286

BRAJA KISHORE SAHOO

George Orwell and the Limits of Empire: A Study of Burmese Days

Pg. No.: 296

C.N. SRINATH

Akka Mahadevi

Pg. No.: 305

SIYA RAM RAI

Mahatma Gandhi as a Character in Major Indian English Novels

Pg. No.: 313

Research Notes


BIJAY KUMAR DAS

Where is the Mahatma we have lost in our Ignorance?

Pg. No.: 326

Book Review


BIJAY KUMAR DAS

Professional Lives of Ten Illustrious Teachersof English

Pg. No.: 332

INDIRA PARTHASARATHY

Three Plays

Translators: C.T. INDIRA & T. SRIRAMAN

Pg. No.: 342


BIJAY KUMAR DAS

Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature

Pg. No.: 347

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

Pg. No.: 351

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