Browsing by Author "Islam, Syed Manzoorul"
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Bollywood’s representation of Shakespeare, a postmodern Study: Macbeth-Maqbool ,Othello-Omkara, Hamlet- Haider
(BRAC University, 2017-12-06)Shakespeare plays are illustration of the success and failures of human responses to order. These illustrations are very well captivated and displayed on silver screen. This paper is an attempt to study the Indian adaptation ... -
The evolution of the writing artist : from a portrait of the artist as A Young Man to Midnight’s Children and in the Light of What We Know
(BRAC University, 2015-08)The dissertation seeks to examine the artist as a sentient entity whose evolution might be traced through structural argumentations that set a work of literary work apart. It is also about the transition from the modern ... -
The fairy tales of oscar wilde and the gain of suffering
(BRAC University, 2012-04)This thesis aims to study the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde and draw a conclusion as to why he incorporated so much pain, suffering, sadness and death in his stories. In other words, my aim was to study the "gain of suffering ... -
Film and postmoden culture
(BRAC University, 2014-12)The relationship between postmodernism and film within the scope of visual culture is threefold: the form and style of a film can be postmodern, the subject matter of a film can be postmodern, and the way of film is ... -
From "Now-here" to "Nowhere" : the spatial aesthetics of postmodernism
(BRAC University, 2010)With the waning of the age of modernism, time has ceased to have a primary role in shaping people’s psychological and cultural expressions. Time has given way to space and a new understanding of spatiality, which has been ... -
Let down your hair Mrs. Maas: interpreting Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
(BRAC University, 2014-04)My paper examines the idea that in the novel The Crying of Lot 49, the obscure plot is mostly interpreted as the post modern adoption of a world famous fairytale Rapunzel. In The Crying of Lot 49, there is an odd sense ... -
Media, representation and false consciousness in our time
(BRAC University, 2015-12)The Media plays a significant role in everyday life. People depend on newspapers, television and also new media to get information of whole world. Though media is supposed to represent the whole truth as from media people ... -
Modernism and postmodernism: a study of three contemporary postmodern novels
(BRAC University, 2014-08)This thesis aims to shed light on the much discussed feature of modernism and postmodernism. Through a close reading of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five and Thomas Pynchon’s The ... -
Nationalist Identity in Postcolonial Bengali Literature (1850-Early 1900s)
(BRAC University, 2013-11)Identity is one of the central areas of interest in literature, particularly postcolonial literature. Postcolonial literature and literary theories deal with the issue of identity, the dimensions of identity and identity ... -
Old made new : a postmodern investigation into Mario Vargas Llosa's El Hablador and Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49
(BRAC University, 2009-12)Postmodernism is relatively recent phenomenon that has influenced the works of many contemporary writers. this paper seeks to look at how the postmodern culture is presented in EI Hablador by Mario Vargas Llosa and The ... -
A postmodern study of politics, language, magic realism and oral tradition in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(BRAC Univeristy, 2017-04)This paper will discuss on two of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children and Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Firstly a brief introduction about postmodernism is given along with how its ideas clashes with modernism’s ... -
Postmodern study: analysis of themes and techniques in the crying of Lot 49, slaughterhouse-five and disgrace
(BRAC University, 2016-12)Postmodernism is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary world. This term has influenced authors so that they choose it as their subject of writing. Mainly this paper aims to discuss themes and techniques, of the ... -
Postmodernism, community building and online communication: -"Are virtual communities 'real' communities?"
(BRAC University, 2009-07)This paper serves to analyze the relationship between postmodernism, community building, and the development of online communication. Special emphasis is put on investigating how virtual communities such as facebook have ... -
The representation of Language, Race and Ethnicity in Shakespearean tragedies
(BRAC University, 2013-04)Language, race and ethnicity are the leading themes of William Shakespearean’s time. He portrays these aspects in his great plays. Shakespeare shows us the colonial problems in many ways but the presentation of language; ... -
Representation of women in electronic visual media: Bangladeshi context
(BRAC University, 2014-12)Stereotyping based on gender is a very common phenomenon around the world since early days of civilization. Physical difference might be the basic reason of male-female division, but the distinction evolved into an ideological ... -
The Tempest: a postmodern reading
(BRAC University, 2016-04)The works of William Shakespeare have a universal influence and are considered the representatives of ‘all time and all ages’. Critics, scholars, academics and students have been rereading, reexamining, retelling and ... -
Time in postmodern novels: A study of slaughterhouse-five, time’s arrow and the sense of an ending
(BRAC University, 2014-04)The study attempts to illustrate how Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Amis and Julian Burnes depict time in keeping with postmodernist practice and the three novelists present a new aspect of time . In the introductory part, the paper ... -
Tracing the Mythic Journey in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses
(BRAC University, 2017-04)This thesis is an attempt to illustrate the mythic dimension of James Joyce’s works. Two of his novels The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses have been taken for the study of this thesis. This thesis mainly ... -
Using educational thoughts as a policy of decolonization
(BRAC University, 2016-08)Rabindranath Tagore was a prominent thinker in his time. He was not only a great poet but also a great educationalist. He did not write any educational treatise. His experiment at Santiniketon was the root of his educational ...
