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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 6 , ISSUE - 4  ( JULY - AUG  2020 )

DR. NILISH A. TARE

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The origin of the sociological approach to literature dates back to the early Greek thinkers. Sociological Criticism starts with the simple conviction that relations of arts to society are vitally important and that the investigation of these relationship may organize and deepen one’s aesthetic response to a work of art. Art is not created in a vacuum, it is a social product and hence a proper understanding of any art including literature is bound up with a study of the particular social system that has given shape to it. The  Sociological Critic is primarily interested in exploring the social milieu and the extent and the manner in which the artist responds to it. Although the sociological approach to literature has been widely used by critics in the earlier years, it was with the spreading of  the ideas of ‘Karl Marx’ that this approach become a scientific method of literary interpretation. 

ABHIJIT CHOUDHURY

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This paper is an attempt to depict the demolition of nature due to the Second World War. Nature takes an integral part in the lives of people. The paper, by using the drama waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, illustrator how the unavoidable relationship between man nature are fragmental during the Modern Era. In this paper I have tried to show Beckett’s duality in representing nature through Vladimir and Estragon; Firstly, it reveals the exploitation of nature, and secondly, it precariously exposes the disintegration of modern society.

Keywords : Vladimir, Estragon, Exploitation, Disintigration.

DR. RUBINA VERMA & BUSHRA KHANAM

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The human journey is full of different colors that influence its physical, and psychological state. India has consistently been dignified and remembered affectionately as the country of symbolic colors. Color, in essence, has largely been a part of the Indian consciousness. Colors in India are associated with different religions, dialects, customs, conventions and worldliness.  They play a significant role in the way Indians perceive and interact with others. Variety of colors are incorporated into festivals and ceremonies of India which makes it a land of vibrant colors, thereby underlining the concept of “Unity in diversity”. As an enormous and diverse country, India serves as the home to myriad interpretations and representations of Symbols and Colors. However, in particular colours are an inseparable part of women’s life specifically as they are a feeling of womanhood that beguile their life in a mysterious way and are indivisible. The poem taken for study i.e. “The Bangle Sellers” portrays the origination of Indian ladies in a customary social set up. Three phases of an incredible progressions are given reference to the shades of her bangles. Each of these shades are firmly related to the delights and distresses of every one of these stages. This study will concentrate on the essentialness just as the key relationship of women and colors. The study will likewise focus on the poem in the light of modernism. As today no specific shade of bangle is bound to be wore among a confined age group of women. As of now the contemporary time centers around the opportunity of women so it is progressively significant for them to feel free and live with colors that satisfies their spirit irrespective of their age group.

R. NAVIN KUMAR & DR. L. RAVI SHANKAR

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Listening is a significant skill which has to be developed for learning any language. Even though the other skills such as reading, speaking and writing are also essential to develop language proficiency, listening contributes primarily for language expertise. Since listening is the gateway for any learning. That is why, the skill of listening has taken the first position. Despite its importance, language learners consider listening as the most difficult skill to acquire and hence often overlooked both in importance and practice. Of course, the listening skill varies from person to person. We can find some passionate listeners, while others are not.  The span of attention also does vary. The listening comprehension plays a major role in language teaching and has been repeatedly emphasized. Yet many teachers do not pay enough attention to its importance in their classes. In this paper, we are to review some important issues concerned with listening skill and to discuss various factors which provide a basis for developing listening skill. It starts with a definition of listening, the need for enhancing the skill, tips to be a good listener and various obstacles which mar one’s attention and ways to improve Listening skill.

DR. P. PRABHAVATHY

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Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in current scenario is drawing a lot of learners’ attention in learning and gaining knowledge of multiple tools available in the computer. Nowadays, computer literacy is becoming more important. Computer Technology improvises Teaching - learning simulation interestingly in which the learner as well as the teacher can witness the ‘reality’ of the work. The modern technology like Information and Communication Technology (ICT) been using to guide language learning and teaching in mixed ability of large groups. Interactive and very useful tools likes Google Classroom, Moodle (Gnomio) etc., make students to work in groups, physically active and collaboratively. Role Play, Mind Mapping, Brainstorming, Story Telling etc., allows each student to speak and expose their creativity in a safe zone which develops their soft skills too. Thus, CALL and ICT and its principles certainly enhance language teachers’ to design the course, plan the team activities etc., at this pandemic situation in order to develop language skills among the learners’ with varieties of methods, approaches and techniques with interactiveness. Individuals are motivated to learn in order to develop them physically and psychologically and to satisfy the need of an hour.

Keywords: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Google Classroom, Moodle (Gnomio), collaborative learning.

KARPAGAM R.

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An interesting aspect of the modern Indian enlightenment has been the creative release of the feminine sensibility. Women in modern India have not only shared the exciting and dangerous burdens of the struggle for independence but also articulated the national impulse and the consciousness of cultural change in the realm of letters. In the personality of an individual like Sarojini Naidu, the temper of Indian womanhood achieved its comprehensive synthesis; she was not only the lark of the Indian political awakening but also the nightingale of the Indian imagination. If a plunge of the Indian womanhood into politics had been almost a common occurrence in the days of the freedom struggle, the literary enterprise too, held out its fascinating, if not always rewarding, attractions; in the development of the Indo-Anglican novel, the feminine sensibility has achieved an imaginative self-sufficiency which merits recognition in spite of its relatively later manifestation. Thus, Markandaya’s literary sensibility projects itself in her novels as an acute, if unsolved, perception of the different and distinct forms of national consciousness, which propel the individual’s progress in the modern world. It is possible to trace out in her novels an intelligible pattern of ideas, that reveals her aesthetic assimilation of a long-established tradition under the disturbing impact of modern, “spiritual, or more strictly, religious” as embodied in A Silence of Desire

Keynotes:- Self-assertions, self identity, socio economic oppression 

DR. NITIN V. GOHAD

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Shashi Deshpande is undoubtedly an outstanding Indian English novelist.  She occupies a significant place among the contemporary women novelists who concern themselves with the problems of women. Her work reflects the whole gamut of Indian cultural issues, the thickly populated  world of her novels, the working out of relationship within families and marriages, the fine insight into human character as  well as her boldness in the treatment of sex and class barriers which have been the major concern of her fiction. Her work provides a pointer to the catatonic status of woman in the tradition bound, male dominated middle class society of contemporary India, the present paper is an attempt to analyze her protagonist in a brief way.

DR. S. CHELLIAH

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As an intellectual achiever and an American genius. Robert Penn Warren had established himself as an prolific writer with a significant contribution to American literature by publishing a major work almost every year and jointly authoring a good number of books.  Hailing from Kentucky in the Southern region of America, he had a bright university career and joining the “Fugitive” group, he participated in all types of intellectual discussions and got well-versed in every genre. His growth as a literary artist and his literary stances won him the Belington Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. His early literary works were found to be rather derivative but his later literary creations did bear the distinctive and individual stamp of the author.

DR. C. RAMYA

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T. S. Eliot may best be called a literary crusader. The impact of the various theories he has expounded in poetry, drama and criticism has been remarkable. Numerous monographs, critiques and profiles published on Eliot during the last four decades speak amply of his legendary reputation. Eliot’s interest in and preoccupation with socio-literary activities was as much the result of his birth and breeding as of the intellectual climate of the times in which he grew and matured. His work and personality as a whole have their full meaning only in the larger context of the cultural traditions of  Europe. Eliot is both Westerner and New Englander. In fact, to follow the growth of the literary artist in Eliot is to follow the core of Western as well as Eastern cultures. As D.E.Jones puts it, “one trying to understand Eliot may find oneself reading anybody from Heraclitus to Bradley in the realm of philosophy or from Aeschylus to Anouilh in the realm of drama”.

J. KAVITHANJALI

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This research article at the outset written with an aim to explore the essential techniques, skills and elements of communication process. This article further proceeds with the steps that is used to tackle the barriers of effective communication. And it insists the point that the process of communication is a significant thing in one's life. And this research article ends up with the fact that a person with good communication skills becomes a leading personality both academically and professionally in his life.

Keywords:skills, communication, effective, process, elements, sender,  receiver, message,  decode, encode.

DR. ANITHA J. MATTAM

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Sylvia Plath with her various experiences as a poet, a feminist and a deeply suffering self, has a wider range of knowledge which has helped her to explore life from different angles. But her poetry resists any sort of ratiocination preferring to be elusive. The key to her poetry is the charge that Plath says too much at the same time. She is more than one person, a split personality.  What holds her together is the synthesis of her multiple experiences is her poetry and ambiguity is the essence of her style. Being a very conscious poet, Plath wrote with careful consideration. She is an insatiable artist, ambitious to master all the forms of poetry adhering strictly to the rules but soon finds her way out through a process of self-questioning.

N. PADMAPRIYADHARSHINI

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This paper is an attempt to present George Orwell’s novels as the perfect revelation of his idealistic and romantic notions of political expediency. Analyzing his novels, this paper presents how he designed his characters and plot in a way to criticize and mock his contemporary political affairs. His structuring of stories and the reasons for his story lines were justified in this paper by analyzing his mentality and courageous presentation. Thus, this paper glorifies Orwell for his courage, individuality and timely criticisms.

Key Words: Individuality, social consciousness, political problems, socialism, criticism.

N. KAUSHI REDDY

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines tragedy as “a play or other literary work of a serious or sorrowful character, with a fatal or disastrous conclusion”.  In ancient Greece, it was used with reference to lyric songs and later to dramatic pieces meaning “That branch of dramatic art which treats of sorrowful or terrible events in a serious and dignified style opposed to comedy”.  According to Aristotle, tragedy is to depict the fall of a great person from a high position and the fall to be brought about by ‘hamartia’ or ‘tragic flaw’.  With the many upheavals and drastic changes, it appeared that tragedy had disappeared in the twentieth century.  Joseph Wood Krutch in his “The Tragic Fallacy” points out that tragedy is not an expression of despair but the means by which the people of the great ages saved themselves from depression.

M. JAYASHREE

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‘Problem Play’ is a form of drama that emerged during the 19^th century as part of the wider movement of realism. A very characteristic feature of the problem play is that it deals with problematic social issues through debates between the characters on stage, who typically represent conflicting points of view within a realistic social context. Far from being plays with fatal flaws, as one might imagine from the name, problem plays are actually plays which are designed to confront viewers with modern social problems. Typically the theme of the play is socially relevant, and the characters confront the issue in a variety of ways, presenting viewers with different approaches and opinions. After seeing a problem play, one is supposed to be filled with interest in the topic at hand and hopefully inspired to enact social change.

DR. JABA KUSUM SINGH

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The present paper has tried to unfold the common but serious problems that one faces as ateacher-learner and student of English language. The article highlights the issues and also puts forth suggestions that may make Learning, Reading, Writing and Speaking English easy and beneficial for the academic and economic growth of the students.

Keywords: Pedagogy, FirstLanguage, Second Language, Learner, Teacher,Performance,   Competence.