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  • Poem: Far Away from the Madding Crowd

    Naren Verma[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF   Oft were the valleys hush and green My cheeks felt the gentle touch of the wind, And my dear friend, everything was calm and serene While people await the beloved spring.   Lost are the days, When the villages were gay The sky is dark…

  • Dreams of Desire, Deeds of the Dead: a Review of Anirudh Deshpande’ Dreamt Lives

    K.B.S. Krishna[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF  Author: Anirudh Deshpande Publisher: Solar Books Pages: 208 Pp: 299   What constitutes a life? Is it a monotonous going through of various motions such as eating, sleeping, waking, and mechanically surviving, or does it comprise something more? Anirudh Deshpande’s debut novel Dreamt Lives deals with…

  • Crafting the Silence of the Masses into Words: Perspectivizing Kashmir in Akhtar Mohiuddin’s Stories

    Sunil Kamal[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF The previous ten years are a landmark period in the augmentation of writings on Kashmir. Memoirs, novels, essays, short stories, poetry etc., all genres in all respects have contributed to the literary treasure of Kashmir. Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi, English, etc., have been the vehicles of ideas,…

  • Not Two Sides of the Same Coin: An Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

    Sutanaka Ghosh Roy[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF  Abstract In Dattani we have a playwright who creates a potent combination of Indian theatrical conventions and the textual rigor of western models like Ibsen and Tenesse Williams. He is a theatre practitioner who is a class of his own, to echo Stanislavsky’s words—“loves art…

  • Gender Hierarchy in Gogu Shyamala’s Father May be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But…

    Archana Thakur[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF Abstract Madiga is one of the largest schedule caste communities in India, known by different names in different states. Gogu Shyamala’s collection of Dalit stories Father May be and Elephant and Mother only a Small Basket, But… offers glimpses of life of Madiga community in a…

  • The Life and Afterlife: Adaptation of Shakespeare in Bollywood Films

    Sumi Bora[*] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF Abstract The present article will analyse the Bollywood adaptation of some Shakespeare plays, showing how Shakespeare has been ‘glocalized’ to suit the contemporary audience. This will help to situate the Bard in a dialogic relationship within the Indian context where he was once used as the…

  • Re-presenting Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Vision of the Orient’ in Madama Butterfly

    Riti Agarwala[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF Abstract The rising interest in interdisciplinary studies in English Literature departments has brought Opera into the ambit of literature study, and forces one to reassess the usage of literary terms and theory. Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, an opera that was first performed in 1904, is a…

  • Spectral Attraction through Ominous Gaze in Henry James’ Turn of the Screw

    Vincent Pachec[1] Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF Abstract  Criticism on Henry James’ Turn of the Screw is predominantly psychoanalytic in nature with critics examining the Governess’ encounters, narrative, and motive. However, it seems that recent criticism on the novel focuses too much on the pedophilic aspect of the Governess’ rather than her interactions…

  • The Sinking Sublime and Reflections on Wordsworth’s ‘Lycoris’ Poems

    Shouvik Narayan Hore[*]        Volume 5, Number 1, 2019 I Full Text PDF Abstract In this paper, I shall explicate upon the phrase ‘sinking sublime’– its application and subsequent interpretation of Wordsworth’s lesser known but revealing Lycoris poems. I proceed with a study of his fragmentary “Essay on Morals” and derive the philosophical basis of my critical discussion.…

  • Editorial: Volume 4, Number 1, 2018

    Krishna KBS Editor-in-Chief. Email: chiefeditor [AT] springmagazine.net        Volume 4, Number 1, 2018 I Full Text PDF The current issue of Spring Magazine for English Literature has, as its focus, Jane Austen. She was dismissed for a great number of years as a writer of “domestic novels,” or “novels of manner”, depicting the mores and conditions…