01 - Understanding the formation of linguistic relativity: A Structuralist Analysis o
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).0110.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).01 Published : Mar 2024
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The Handmaid’sTale is a dystopian fiction which has caught attention of many critics and metafiction readers for its stylistic and thematic approaches. The structuralist theory was morphing into post-structuralist theory at the time the novel came out. Thus, it is necessary to undergo the structuralist and linguistic relative analysis of this metafiction. This research paper attempts to unde... Details
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Linguistic Relativity, Structuralism, Metafiction, Feminist Resistance
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(1) Syed Waqar Hussain Shah
Graduate Scholar, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, The University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan.
(2) Arooba Choudhary
Undergraduate Scholar, Institute of English Language and Literature, Government College University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
02 - Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).0210.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).02 Published : Mar 2024
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The primary intent of this research is to investigate how fiction especially fantasy series like those of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, offers to be a means to escape from the postmodern existential and pragmatic anxieties. Postmodernism is characterized by intertextuality and subjectivity in every domain of life leaving human beings in an abyss of searching for mean... Details
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Harry Potter, Hobbit, Postmodernism, Fantasy
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(1) Waniya Masood
Graduate Scholar, Department of English Literature and Language, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
03 - Gendered Spaces and Female Agency in Selected South Asian English Dramas: A Femi
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).0310.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).03 Published : Mar 2024
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This paper investigates how gendered spaces shape female agency in contemporary South Asian English-language theatre. Playwrights such as Mahesh Dattani (Tara, Bravely Fought the Queen), Manjula Padmanabhan (Harvest), and Poile Sengupta (Mangalam) depict women negotiating domestic, social, and tokenized spaces constrained by patriarchal power. Drawing on feminist literary criticism and spatial the... Details
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Gendered Spaces, Female Agency, South Asian Drama, Feminist Theatre, Postcolonial Criticism
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(1) Kainat Taj
Undergraduate, Department of English (Literature), Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Kainat Janat
Undergraduate, Department of English (Literature), Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Sanam Tariq
Undergraduate, Department of English (Literature), Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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