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DR. S. CHELLIAH

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This article is an attempt to lay focus on Somerset Maugham’s narrative skill and his depiction of truth and human nature in his works and he has created new combinations of characters and events are presented in a crystal clear manner through his writings. He has shown his mettle in his writing style with clarity, simplicity and euphony, he by analyzing such themes as God, love, hatredness, wealth, pride and also deals with philosophical thought in a stylistic way.

Key words:      Usage of Language, Narrative technique, Style, Human Nature.

DR. C. RAMYA

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This paper is an attempt to present William Saroyan’s dramatic skill in creating the characters who crosses the borders with a hopeful heart. Analyzing the plays written by Saroyan, it is shown how he proved the possibility of living from extracting the courage and spirit from the soul. He compares the hopeful hearts with wandering clouds which easily crossed the horizons in the sky. The themes and plot constructions of Saroyan reveal that he was motivated by the study of humanistic psychology and the dynamic potential for self-actualization. Thus, this paper portrays how he eliminated the problems and the element of tension through his plays.

Key Words: self-actualization, humanist psychology, psychology, philosophical concerns, sentimentality, existence.

J. KAVITHANJALI

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This paper projects Sri Aurobindo as a poetic creator of supreme originality, whose creations are the beacon lights for the intellectual society and his writing creates the emergence of super mind to control over the thought and action. The greatness of a work of art depends not only on the poet, but on the spiritual, intellectual aesthetic tradition and environment.

DR. A. VANATHI

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This paper evidently projects the aesthetic vision of Virginia Woolf by displaying her fantasy of life through her novels; bringing home the point that there is concrete order and selection in her novels, whereas form and pattern are imposed by her vision of life and shows how she wants to paint a real picture of life with her own vision of ultimate beauty of life and emphasises on Woolf’s delight in beauty that makes her acutely conscious of the frailty and transience of life attesting to the fact that life-fleeting and changing like a cloud which results in sadness and bewilderment. Anyhow, she has succeeded in imposing form and order in her novels step by step.

Key Words:     Consciousness, sensibility, aesthetic experience, myriad impression, mutability, subjectivity. 

DR. P. AISHWARYA VIDHYA

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This paper examines Jayanta Mahapatra’s conception of poetry and treatment of themes depicting the various images of women by bringing out the themes of love, sex, death, exploitation, male-lust and loneliness which occupy the major part of his poetry. It also describes poverty and the sufferings of the people especially treatment of women as victims of lust and love in a patriarchal society imparting tragic touch to Mahapatra’s poetry.

Keywords : conception , treatment , poetry , poverty , victims , tragic vision

T. SARAVANAPRIYA

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This paper establishes Kamala Das as a notable poet projecting simplicity and spontaneity as the hallmarks of her poetic Diction and versification and examines how such qualities get reflected in her poetical works.

Keywords : simplicity, spontaneity , poetic diction , versification , hallmark