Browsing Department of English and Humanities (ENH) by Author "Mahbub, Dr. Rifat"
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Digital poetry: reading Jim Andrews’ “Seattle Drift” and “Arteroids”
Habiba, Ummay (BRAC University, 2017-04)Digital technology is reshaping literature and literary creativity. Digitisation of traditional texts is a common practice now, and reading digitally is widely deemed as convenient and time effective. While such changing ... -
An exploration of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings: Mary, a fiction and letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Guho, Shejuty (BRAC University, 2017-12)Mary Wollstonecraft (1756-1796) is the pioneer of western feminist tradition,whose influence crossed all national boundaries. As a popular feminist writer, Mary Wollstonecraft has been very influential in her writings as ... -
An exploration of the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘faith’ in Rabindranath Tagore’s the religion of man and Gitanjali
Chowdhury, Zaian Fatema (BRAC University, 2016-11)The main functions of religions are often undermined in today’s mainstream discourse. It falls under the shadow of epistemological questions of whether God is real, or met with violent intolerance just as it is used to ... -
An exploration of “home” in postcolonial context: a close study of V.S. Naipaul’s a house for Mr. Biswas and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s children
Zumara, Zannati (BARC University, 2017-08)Home has always been a persisting topic in literature from the Early Victorian time to the present postmodern time. In literature ‘home’ has always occupied a central position be it as setting, symbol or metaphor, or to ... -
An investigation of nationalism through the writing of W. B Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore
Nadia, Ishrat Rahman (BRAC University, 2017-12)Nationalism is a complex term, torsade with the forces of colonial and postcolonial witness. It is a quite difficult idea to be explained, as today every nation bears the sense of nationalism but not everyone is getting ... -
Negotiating spaces for women in society by retelling fairy tales
Ferdous, Syeda Tahmina (BRAC University, 2016-11)This thesis explores the ways in which fairy tales affect our socio-political realities, and how by manipulating these tales we are able to manipulate the roles we actually play in the society. This paper believes that ... -
A portrayal of violence, obstacles and agency of Muslim female characters in the novels, Woman at Point Zero and My Feudal Lord
Meem, Tabinda (BRAC University, 2017-08)This thesis is based on the feminist theory of patriarchy. My theoretical base is Deniz Kandiyoti’s theory, “Patriarchal Bargain”. I will also relate the theories of Western feminism, post-colonial feminism, Muslim ... -
Traces of First and Second wave feminist thoughts in the writings of Adrienne Rich, Doris Lessing and Caryl Churchill
Zaman, Tanzina (BRAC University, 2015-12)The thesis aims to develop a dialogue between feminist theoretical traditions and literary texts by women writers from the mid-20th century western tradition. The thesis will focus on the first and second waves of Feminist ... -
Translating words to images: adaptation in practice
Samiha, Maisha (BRAC University, 2017-12-06)A film critic asked me recently if you should read the book first and then see the movie, or see the movie and then read the book. I told him they don't have anything to do with each other. There are all kinds of movies ...