Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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Portrayal of women in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke
(Brac University, 2019-08)In my thesis, I will illustrate the portrayal of women in Amitav Ghosh’s novels Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke. Manifestation of women in Amitav Ghosh’s novels explores the emotional world of women with a historical ... -
Post-method pedagogy: a survey of the English medium schools in Dhaka
(BRAC University, 2015-08)This study explores the implementation of postmethod pedagogy focusing on the secondary level of various English medium schools in Dhaka. Over the years, dissatisfaction has been expressed with using methods in the ... -
Postcolonialism in the Tempest & Oroonoko : issues of race and power
(BRAC University, 2015-03)This paper analyses William Shakespeare‘s The Tempest and Aphra Behn‘s Oroonoko in the context of Postcolonialism. It is an attempt to analyze issues such as subjugation, dominance and language in relation to power. It ... -
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 ... -
Postmodern worldview: the depiction of our time in Don DeLillo, Will Self and Salman Rushdie
(BRAC University, 2017-04-06)Postmodernism is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary world. It embraces various kinds of approaches to art making. It is a mixture of different artistic and popular styles and media. The term “postmodernism” ... -
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 ... -
Power and position: exploring the post-colonial women and men in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
(Brac University, 2022-06)Women have always been the object of oppression from the very beginning. Due to men and women having different natural biological structures, it is believed that they are assigned with different roles in society. As ... -
Preference towards modern day teaching and traditional teaching aids among the Bangladeshi tertiary level students
(BRAC University, 2016-04)The aim of this paper is to investigate the comparison between teaching aids in terms of how they are engaging learners in a language class and which teaching aid is considered as significant towards young learners. Since ... -
Preschool teaching and learning: a case study exploration in Dhaka
(Brac University, 2022-09)This case study investigates preschool teachers’ strategies to regulate a successful learning environment in preschool. These are manifest through an observational journey in a preschool located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The ... -
Prevailing non-normativities: exploring gender norms, transgressive desires and identities in literature by Muslim women writers of the subcontinent
(BRAC University, 2014-08-14)Prevailing Non-Normativities: Exploring Gender Norms, Transgressive Desires and Identities in Literature by Muslim Women Writers of the Subcontinent is an exploration of essentialist gender norms, transgressive desires, ... -
Private tuition in English in Bangladeshi secondary education: reasons, necessities and outcomes
(Brac University, 2021-05)Private tutoring in English (PT‟E) is a staple in Bangladesh. However, how much it actually benefits the stagnating English education system – due to many factors such as the priority of grades over skills – in the country ... -
Productivity of verb inflections in Bangla-speaking pre-school children
(BRAC University, 2016-08)This study attempts to find out the productivity of verb inflections of Bangla speaking preschool children. It focuses on the spontaneous speech samples of 30 children aged 2 to 4, to explore the developmental sequence ... -
A Psychoanalytical reading of the body In Jeanette Winterson’s sexing the Cherry
(BRAC University, 2015-08)The role of the body in determining and destabilizing the subject‟s position within a given framework has been discussed with concentrated effort in feminist academia with a view to understanding the dilemma of sexual ... -
Psychological trauma exploration of immigrants on Samuel Selvon’s novels The Lonely Londoners and Moses ascending
(Brac University, 2021-09)This dissertation is an opportunity to explore Samuel Selvon’s novels that discuss the psychological experience of Trinidadians, Jamaicans, and people from the Caribbean after immigration that has never been spoken much ... -
Psychosocial alienation as dehumanization: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy revisited
(BRAC University, 2014-12)In the world of philosophy, psychosocial alienation is a well-known concept. It is a notion that represents the psychic torment of an individual who experiences the feelings of isolation, despair or anguish and gradually ... -
Purpose and needs of private tuition in English for Bangla medium school students in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2021-01)The necessity of learning English is much more important in Bangladesh and to learn English more naturally private tuition plays a major role for the education system in many parts of the country where English is being ... -
Pursuing Islamic spiritualism: a journey from Rumi to Nazrul
(Brac University, 2021-09)Islamic spiritualism has travelled many lands and through a long time. It has been told through many poetries and music. Firstly, It was popularized by Rumi and manifested in Bengali poetry by Nazrul. However, the name ... -
A qualitative exploration of Bangladeshi STEM graduates’ English speaking
(Brac University, 2022-01)English speaking skills especially in the ESOL context like Bangladesh, STEM graduates are facing many challenges in terms of English speaking. Many of them are not proficient to speak in English well as they face many ... -
A qualitative exploration of English-speaking sessions’ influence on writing skill of Bangladeshi rural students
(Brac University, 2021-09)This qualitative multiple case study inspected the influence of three rural ESOL learners’ exposure to a series of 12 one-to-one speaking sessions via mobile phone on their speaking skill as well as writing skill. The ...