Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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Tracing the gender misrepresentation in South Asian movies and its consequences in reality
(Brac University, 2023-01)Women have historically been treated as secondary and inferior to men. Media has a great impact on female representation. “Various components of human psychological functioning, such as emotions, learning and memory, ... -
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 ... -
Tracing transnationalism and neocolonialism in Zia Haider Rahman’s in The Light of What We Know
(BRAC University, 2015-12)Rahman‟s Debut novel has contributed in the literary world at a great extent. His novel talks about contemporary geopolitical issues and an individual being subjected by its atrocity. Rahman‟s main character Zafar discovers ... -
Tracingcolonialism in the nineteenth century British novels
(BRAC University, 2016-08)The aim of this paper is to map out aspects of colonialism and embedded colonial spirit in the works of the Nineteenth century British novelists. To do so I have chosen three quintessential English novels, Jane Austen’s ... -
Trajectory of women's writings from fragmented identity towards creative schizophrenia
(BRAC University, 2015-04)Trajectory of Women’s Writing from Fragmented Identity towards Creative Schizophrenia is the study of articulation of sexual identity through language and genre of women authors. Through the literature review of theories ... -
The transition from online to offline classes: Students’ benefits, challenges, and strategies to overcome the challenges in a new normal environment based on private university students in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2023-01)The present study sought to explore students’ benefits, challenges, and different strategies to overcome a new normal environment due to experiencing the transition period through the perspectives of students implementing ... -
Transition from tradition to modernity: a reading of Ashapurna Debi's novels
(BRAC University, 2012-04)At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the colonial Bengal experienced a contradictory and radical change in terms of society, politics and family life. These changes influenced every sphere ... -
Translations of Shakespeare: his texts and theatre in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2006-11)Translation of Shakespeare has a long history in the region of Bengal. It began in 1809 when Charles Monckton, a student of Fort William College, translated a few excerpts from Tempest into Bangla. Since then, there have ... -
Transnational feminism and literature : a study of women’s realities in The Lowland, Burnt Shadows and The Good Muslim
(BRAC University, 2015-12)Feminists of today believe in working collaboratively to form transnational alliances and to inspect a wide range of issues that intersect with the lived experiences of the woman. The contemporary paradigm of transnational ... -
Trapped in desire: Feminine desire and interracial complexities
(BRAC University, 2008-12)This paper seeks to look at the complexities related to feminine desire as racial issues get combined with it. I will focus on how white female sexuality copes with race issues by looking into two novels and a play. I hope ... -
Trauma, Betrayal and the Resistance: a marxist analysis of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Weep Not, Child and Matigari
(Brac University, 2022-05)This paper aims to discuss Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels, Weep Not, Child (1964) and Matigari (1986), by examining the class exploitation of the Kenyan people both during the colonial rule, and in the postcolonial Kenyan ... -
Treatment of time and history in the narration of postmodern literature: Kurt Vonnegut’s slaughterhouse- five, Martin Amis’s time’s arrow and Tim O’Brien’s how to tell a true war story
(BRAC University, 2017-08)Postmodernism is considered as one of the broad terms in contemporary cultural domain. Literature is perhaps the most familiar aspect where postmodernism can be understood. The issue of time and history is a vital aspect ... -
Twentieth century women's literature: exploration of female-identity and expressions of independence, autonomy and self-assertion
(BRAC University, 2012-08)Having studied women's literature of the previous centuries, it appeared to me that the most astounding change in women's writing has taken place in the twentieth century. This paper examines how writing has change through ... -
Twentieth-century dystopian novels: a reflection of the making of the modern world
(BRAC University, 2016-08)The first half of the 20th century marks a critical transition from the Victorian to the modern era paving the way to dilemmas of the postmodern age. This period saw the colonies and feudal systems breaking up, and ... -
The unbearable heaviness of being: Analyzing Bigger Thomas from Richard Wright’s Native Son as a character beyond good and evil
(Brac University, 2022-01)Published in 1940, the reputation of Native Son as one of the most significant African-American literary texts is due to its fascinating plotline that follows the story of an unusual protagonist named Bigger Thomas living ... -
Understanding the discursive context: Production of muslim women as invisible in the written history of colonial Bengal
(Brac University, 2019-12)This paper studies the social milieu that produced Muslim women as “invisible” and “backward” in the written history, shaped by Hindu/Brahmo dominated nationalist discourse in Bengal. It questions the political atmosphere, ... -
Unfinished processes: Acting out trauma and working through postmemory
(Brac University, 2020-04)This thesis expands on the concepts of trauma and postmemory portrayed in the graphic memoirs Maus by Art Spiegelman and The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. Both memoirs constitute an intimately evocative family story, ... -
Urban Structures and Human Psychology: A geocritical study of J.G Ballard’s Highrise and Cocaine Nights
(Brac University, 2020-09)In postmodern era, the idea of space, its related concepts and practices such as spatiality, mapping, topography, deterritorialization, and so forth have become a key term for literary and cultural studies. After the end ... -
Use of English beyond the classroom wall: a study of undergraduate students' out-of-class English learning activities
(BRAC University, 2013-08)The principal objective of this paper is to find out and discuss about the experience of 60 undergraduate students have regarding out of class activities. This paper will focus on some important issues like do they have ...