Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Subject "History"
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History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The aim of this paper is to examine how postmodern novels self-consciously synchronize history in fiction. To be more precise, how and why history has been used in metafictional dimension as a postmodern discourse. In order ... -
A history of scars: An examination of how war and trauma changes people and the stories they tell
(Brac University, 2021-01)This paper will attempt to analyse the effects of war, intergenerational trauma and selective persecution on the human psyche, and how that is reflected in literature through the theoretical frameworks of New Historicism ... -
History through the pages of literature: A displacement theory in the post-colonial era
(Brac University, 2022)This thesis will focus on Displacement theory in the Post-colonial era. Through this paper I tried to bring forward the struggles and challenges faced by POC in the era after colonization. This includes, displacement ... -
Revisiting the past: nostalgic postmodernism in British literature
(Brac University, 2019-04)There are more than five hundred novels published during the Victorian era still many British postmodernist writers recreate the Victorian setting, theme and characters in their works. The Victorian Era without a doubt is ...