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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 4 , ISSUE - 6  ( NOV-DEC  2018 )

DR. RAJKUMAR M. LAKHADIVE

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Robert Browning is not merely a poet but a prophet. We can seek in him, as in Isaiah or Aeschylus, a solution, or a help to the solution, of the problems that press upon us when we reflect upon man, his place in the world and his destiny. He has given us indirectly, and as a poet gives, a philosophy of life. He has interpreted the world anew in the light of a dominant idea. Browning had certain definite opinions about the spiritual function of love. This opinion was striking and solid, as was everything which came out of Browning's mind. One of his great theories of the universe was what may be called the hope which lies in the imperfection of man. Browning expresses the idea that some hope may always be based on deficiency itself; in other words, that in so far as man is a one-legged or a one-eyed creature, there is something about his appearance which indicates that he should have another leg and another eye.

SHIVAKUMAR G. MANATURAGIMATH
DR. ARAVIND V. KARABASANAGOUDRA

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In this study an attempt has been made to compare the two types of instructional strategies i.e., traditional learning is compared with web based learning in terms of scholastic achievement of Secondary School Students in Biological Science. In this study, 100 students studying in IX standard for the academic year 2018-19 were drawn as sample using purposive sampling technique. The students of the control group were taught by traditional method and the students of the experimental group were taught by web based learning. Selected topics from Biological Science were taught to the students of both the groups.  Learning outcomes in Biological Science of students who learnt from traditional learning and those who learnt from web based learning were measured with the help of academic achievement tests (pre-test and post-test) which are constructed and validated by the researcher. The collected data were analyzed by using differential statistics. The results revealed that, the students of Control and Experimental groups have similar Pre-test scores of Academic Achievement in Biological Science and the students of Control and Experimental groups have different Post-test scores of Academic Achievement in Biological Science.

Key words: Traditional learning, web based learning, academic achievement, secondary school students, Biological Science etc.,

MOHAMMED SAGHER MUTAHAR & DR. RAJKUMAR M. LAKHADIVE

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Globalization has driven English into the throne of the most important and widely used languages all over the world. It became an essential tool for communication in all around the world. It has been the target for many learners in different parts of the universe. It is being studied and learnt for different purposes and through various methods. One of the best ways that teachers use while teaching English is exposure into either real situations or real-like English situations. The current paper concentrate on the significant role that exposure to English language situations play in the process of learning English. It will start by defining the meaning of exposure. Then it will highlight the importance of exposure and its benefits as a non-traditional way of acquiring English. Its role in arising the learners’ motivation, in developing the skills and in acquiring the target language culture will be explained in this paper.

DR. ABHA TIWARI

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Rabindranath Tagore is a prodigy of the nineteenth century Bengal Renaissance and is a versatile genius, who besides a poet, dramatist, essayist, musician and painter also distinguishes himself as a prolific writer of fiction. His novels and short stories often deal with some or the other social problems, more particularly ones related to women, like illiteracy, child marriage, dowry, mismatched marriage, etc. Tagore seems to be deeply concerned with the plight and predicament of women under patriarchy, which renders them prone to various kinds of oppressions. He has, therefore, strongly impressed in his narratives upon the need of women’s emancipation, self-identity and independence. In the light of the above, the present paper explores the various strands of Tagore’s feminist perspectives based on some of his Fictional Works

Keywords: Bengal Renaissance, Colonial, Patriarchy, Emancipation, Feminist perspective, etc.

KAMALAKAR BABURAO GAIKWAD

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John Dryden (1631 –1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. He received the recognition of England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He was one of the dominating literary writers of Restoration England which is ultimately known as ‘Age of Dryden’ among literary circle. Therefore Walter Scott calls him as ‘Glorious John. The prime objective of this paper is to focus on the blending of mock epic, fantasy and irony in John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe.  The researcher has elaborated the several aspects of Dryden and his skill of introducing mock epic genre. ‘A mock- heroic poem employs the ceremonial components which characterize the epic genre to depict a trifling situation. It thus creates a difference between the form and content that results in a satiric and absurd effect, ridiculing the characters in the plot and their actions. 

AJITESH KUMAR SINGH

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When one thinks of the word “Crime” a series of questions regarding the place, type, legal agency, cause and consequence emanate simultaneously. The habitat is an important index to gauge the cause of crime and thereafter initiate measures to control its spread. In crime fiction, the scene of crime is mostly the point from which the narrative moves forward and therefore the exercise of investigating the crime-scene is actually a plunge in the past. In this article there will be a discussion on the domain of crime i.e. the city and how Dickens’ treatment of London as a sanctuary of crime has influenced Chandra’s modeling of Bombay in Sacred Games. Also, an attempt will be made to underline the extent to which the writers have explored the idea of city as a subject in their novels.

DR. M. F. PATEL

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Rabindranath Tagore’s novels reflected man and woman crushed under the yoke of foreign imperialism and poised on the threshold of the modern age. The British rule ushered in an era of bourgeois capitalism and bourgeois culture. The woman embodied the values of a nation and acted as a repository of its heritage and culture, while at the same time, was a pivot around which the entire family revolved. Therefore, it became necessary to eradicate the barriers that imprisoned the Indian woman by educating and reinstating her so that she could preserve the spiritual and national heritage of the country. 

DR. KAVITA TYAGI

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Women's Drama provides new perceptions of gender roles and shows a shifting sense of gendered space. They revise the self/other dynamic and destabilize the self/world/reality configuration by asserting the possibility of change. The debate about Indian Drama in the past decades has been dominated by the issue of identity – national/regional, traditional/modern, realistic/anti-realistic, urban/folk, colonial/ postcolonial, and western/ indigenous. But rarely ever any cognizance has been taken of Indian Women's Drama as a separate entity. The contribution of Indian women playwrights has generally either been glossed over or subsumed despite the fact that they have added to the dramatic canon those aspects of women's experiences that had not found visibility. Though an in depth survey is not possible within the limited scope of this paper and some narrowing of a potentially enormous field becomes inevitable but to name only a few, playwrights like Tripurari Sharma, Dina Mehta, Manjula Padmanabhan, Mrinal Pande, Malini Bhattarcharya, Nabaneeta Dev Sen have carved a niche for themselves in this sphere. Therefore, an attempt has been made by the researcher to analyze Tripurari Sharma’s play, Bahu and explore the hidden identity of women.

Keywords: Angry, Desire, Dignity, Gender, Image, Loss, Patriarchal, Passionate

K. SUKUMAR & DR. K. MANGAYARKARASI

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Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) is a unique work of Zora Neale Hurston. She blends Afro-American folklore, religion, and humor in this novel. This novel has created one of the most intriguing works in the annals of Afro-American literature. Moses, Man of the Mountain is also recognized as her second best novel which is followed by Their Eyes Were Watching God. In this novel, Hurston recreates the biblical story of Moses from the Old Testament. She develops this concept in her eloquent style with modern interpretation. The story of Moses has been dealt with his imprisoned life in Egypt from Hebrew. Moses' story is developed by various writers with different notion. This article also deals with the view point of Hurston's enlightened of using the Negro idiom through the story of Black-Americans and their continuous combating for their own identity.  Moses, Man of the Mountain is a satire on the whole belief of race and racial transparency. Hurston deeply explores the philosophical study of the African spirit towards their self-empowerment and freedom in this novel. 

DR. S. D. MAHAJAN & VIJAY P. SHIRSATH

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Today, English languages has been playing various roles as lingua franca, language of computer and Information and Communication Technology, library language, language of trade and commerce, global language and so on and so forth in all over the world. It is a language of the globe. It is a language of the elite. But moreover it is the language of opportunities. It has created several opportunities for its learners all over the world. While stressing the importance of English, Randolph Quirk and H. G. Widdowson have rightly observed, “English is the language on which the sun does not set, whose users never sleep.” (qtd. in N. Krishnaswamy and Lalitha Krishnaswamy 1) Again K. R. S. Iyengar in his monumental book “Indian Writing in English” has said, “English is the veritable Suez Canal for intellectual intercourse between the West and the East.” (15) Today’s era is considered as the age of Information Technology.

DR. SHAHAJI RAJARAM KARANDE

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Women's Drama provides new perceptions of gender roles and shows a shifting sense of gendered space. They revise the self/other dynamic and destabilize the self/world/reality configuration by asserting the possibility of change. The debate about Indian Drama in the past decades has been dominated by the issue of identity – national/regional, traditional/modern, realistic/anti-realistic, urban/folk, colonial/ postcolonial, and western/ indigenous. But rarely ever any cognizance has been taken of Indian Women's Drama as a separate entity. The contribution of Indian women playwrights has generally either been glossed over or subsumed despite the fact that they have added to the dramatic canon those aspects of women's experiences that had not found visibility. Though an in depth survey is not possible within the limited scope of this paper and some narrowing of a potentially enormous field becomes inevitable but to name only a few, playwrights like Tripurari Sharma, Dina Mehta, Manjula Padmanabhan, Mrinal Pande, Malini Bhattarcharya, Nabaneeta Dev Sen have carved a niche for themselves in this sphere. Therefore, an attempt has been made by the researcher to analyze Tripurari Sharma’s play, Bahu and explore the hidden identity of women.

Keywords: Angry, Desire, Dignity, Gender, Image, Loss, Patriarchal, Passionate

G. M. MADHAVI

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Slave Narrative is a genre of literature that was written mostly between the mid 1700s and the late 1800s. Slave narratives are mostly autobiographical. From 1760 to the end of the Civil War; 1861-65 in the United States, approximately 100 autobiographies of fugitive or former slaves appeared. After slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, at least 50 former slaves wrote or dictated book-length accounts of their lives. The Slave Narratives started were about the hardships of fugitive or freed slaves in a time of racial prejudice. They further developed into retrospective fictional novels. This paper makes an attempt to give a brief account on the history of Slave Narratives from 1700s to 1800s and helps the scholars of the area to gain the basic knowledge.

Key Words: Slave narrative- genre- African American Literature - autobiographical- hardships of slavery- fictional novels.

ALI JAL HAIDER

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Material production is regarded as the ultimate determining factor of social existence and class struggle is viewed as the central dynamic of historical development. Eagleton is aware of the highly mediated and complex relation between Base and Superstructure but his aptly Marxist insistence on the primacy of material production can be seen to be the basis of virtually all his attacks on non- Marxist literary theory.

Key Words:  Base, Superstructure, Dialectical, Form , content etc. 

SUMIT GHAYAL

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Today there are a number of modes of criticism /interpretation available to us, and that we can apply while analysing any work of art or any piece of literature. One important fact to notice in these modes of interpretation is that each mode of interpretation has got its own area of focus or concentration. When we go back to the time of Plato; we find that Plato judged a particular work of art by applying certain norms or criteria. He was a utilitarian and he believed in the doctrine –“art for life’s sake”. For him practicality and utility were the sole criteria to judge the value of a work of art. He could not conceive of art as divorced from morality.

Key Words:  New Criticism, Practical Criticism, 

DR. V. SIVA PRASANNA KUMAR

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Toni Morrison is an outstanding novelist and all most all his novels there is woman genius in her literary products .her works are marked by creation Complexities. They present to the reader a rousing conscience of men of right sensibility and also for promoting the right kind of woman. Toni Morrison the outstanding major African American woman genius is the renowned for her women-centred literary products. .her works serve as a mirror to highlight vividly the problems of the woman and they are marked by complexities. they are meant for the rousing of conscience of men and women of right sensibility and also for promoting the right kind of woman consciousness according to Toni Morrison men and women’s experiences are at the centre of analysis.