http://www.parabaas.com/translation
http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct
http://www.quietmountainessays.org
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~clj
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Raja Peary Mohan College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata,India.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Literary E Journals.............
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Hoshang Merchant's Shillong Suite
Today afternoon when I was just a little bit busy after finishing a workshop on script writing and filming, then a fast Friday Prayer and hurried lunch at guest house and then I was going to collect the donation for the upcoming Swaraswati Puja from the teachers at that time Hoshang Merchant called me in front of English Department and gave me his new collection of poems that is Shillong Suite. As nice the book looks in its hard cover the nicest its poems. I was delighted to read them after my dinner. It has nearly 30 poems and got published from Writers Workshop, Kolkata. It has poems like “At Ward Lake, Shilling”, “The Gigolo”, and “For My Lover from Bihar”. I loved to read all these poems. I had a great learning experience with the writer when I was there at Hyderabad Literary Festival in December 2010. At that time he narrated these things and in the poem I can see all his explanations. We had really good time together even Robin Ngangom was there. Please read it soon.Thanks and love you Hoshang.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Translation and the Postcolonial: Multiple Geographies, Multi-lingual Contexts...
Translation and the Postcolonial: Multiple Geographies, Multi-lingual Contexts
An international conference organized by the Leverhulme Network on “Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia”
June 8-9, 2011
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Susan Bassnett, Warwick University, UK
Professor Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Sherry Simon, Concordia University, Canada
Professor Robert Young, New York University, USA
This international conference seeks to explore the relationship between translation, location and canon. Translation has long played a key role in the construction of “world” literary canons, as well as contributing to the development of comparative literature not only as an academic discipline, but also as a literary practice. Writers are frequently bilingual, if not multi-lingual, and this heteroglot dimension to writing means that the boundaries of national literary canons are constantly transgressed and questioned. The conference looks at the practice and theory of translation in multiple geographical contexts, but we will have one dedicated day to papers focusing on South Asia. This conference is the culmination of the three year international research network, “Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia”, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. http://www.postcolonialtranslation.net/
We solicit proposals for papers on the following topics (these are suggestions, and we are happy to consider proposals along similar, even if not identical lines to the ones sketched out below):
· How translation contributes to the emergence of literary geographies not defined by the nation-state
· Translation and the idea of world literature
· Location, translation and gendered identity
· Geographies of coolietude and slavery, and how they are shaped by translation
· The role of translation in multi-lingual contexts and geo-political formations (e.g. India, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe)
· Political trajectories of translation: examples might include the role of the Cold War in fostering translation between specific languages, such as Indian languages and Russian.
· Translation through political channels of transnational circulation, for example the circulation of socialist literature in different languages and in translation.
· Translation and globalization (for example, the role of the publishing sector in fostering or hindering translation)
· Circulation and translation of ideas and cultural tropes
· The translation and circulation of drama and performances through transnational networks of communication
If you are interested in submitting a paper for this conference, please send an abstract of 300 words, plus a 50-word bio, to Dr Victoria Patton: victoria.patton@ncl.ac.uk
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 21, 2011
Third Two Day National Conference on New Directions in Comparative Literature
Third Two Day National Conference on
New Directions in Comparative Literature
9th and 10th March 2011
Host: Department of English
Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad
The Conference & Its Objectives
This National Conference on New Directions in Comparative Literature is the third Conference that the Department of English is hosting. In this conference the endeavour will be to erase linguistic, regional, national, ethnic, and religious boundaries; and to discover new directions which can facilitate an accord and understanding between literatures in various languages, regions, nations and cultures, and their manifestation in English. The effort is to develop a literary intelligence which, while honouring cultural dissimilarities, de-recognizes artistic barriers.
Comparative literature is the study of international literary relations. It extends beyond national and regional boundaries and focuses on cultures. It is indicative of its flexibility to adapt to external influences without losing its own individuality. Comparative literature leads to an intellectual renewal of literature and culture and provides a conducive environment for the cultivation of multilingualism. A comparative critical evaluation of literatures can be inter-genre and intra-genre, intercultural and intra-cultural and can also be a combination of all these typologies. A broad knowledge of several literatures is an accepted requirement for comparative literature. In multi-lingual India, plurality is not limited to language alone. It extends to other areas of existence social, religious, ethic, etc. Indian universities face a twofold challenge in terms of comparative literature- to study the element of the native literary tradition with reference to foreign influence and the various national literatures in the context of reciprocal influences.
The themes and sub-themes of this conference succinctly mirror the objectives of this Conference which are necessitated by research activism in the Department of English.
The Conference will strive to enable the participants to work towards an extension of sensibility and an enlargement of sympathy. It will also aim to expand their understanding and provide a fresh insight into both commonalities and differences in the many canons of literature. Comparative literature as a discipline will enable us to savour the richness of other literatures, while inculcating in us the ability to appreciate the ‘other’ leading to a discovery of similarities. This is essential, for a sizable area overlaps each other in literature leading to our understanding of what must remain ‘other’ to us and at the same time leading to a greater understanding of ourselves. These reflections and transmitting of common influences will be the primary focus of this conference along with other related trajectories that will ensue. A conference on comparative literature is the need of the day to develop a shared interest in the culture of the other which will in turn lead to a gradual increase in inter textual cross referencing which is so crucial in establishing a common discourse, more so in a world which has become a connected global village.
Theme
New Directions in Comparative Literature
Sub Themes
1) Comparative English Literature: possibilities and limitations
2) Erasing of boundaries and Intertextuality
3) East-West Interliterariness
4) The Question of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’
5) Vernacular, National and World Literature
6) Translation and Comparative Literature
7) Gender Issues Across Boundaries
8) Children’s Literature Across Boundaries
9) Centre and Periphery
10) Indian English Literature and World Literature
11) Exclusion and Inclusion
12) Reconciling the Irreconcilables through Comparative Literature
13) Familiarizing the Unfamiliar
14) Native Literature viz. Non-Native literature in English
15) Convergences and Divergences in World Literature
16) Contemporary and Classical Literature
17) Comparative Study of Urdu and English Literatures
18) Intercultural Studies
19) Music and Literature
20) Art and Literature
21) Enslavement Literature
22) Muslim Literatures in English
23) Culture and Gender
24) Comparative Literature and Language
25) The Literature after 9/11
26) Culture and Comedy
27) Regional & Cultural Identity, Globalization and Literature
28) Affinities between Cultures in Literature
29) Cultural/Social Transmissions and Interventions
30) Dialect Writing and Writing in standard Form
General Programme
Keynote Address/Invited Lectures
Distinguished scholars will be invited to speak on the theme of the Conference
Plenary Session
Eminent Scholars will address on various themes of the Conference in the Plenary Session.
Deliberations on Opportunities for Literature Students
Experts from various fields will deliberate on different areas where literature students can contribute; and can carve their career.
Paper Presentations
Papers will be presented on topics related to the sub themes by the scholars of English literature.
Creative Writers’ Session and Poetic Meeting
Budding creative writers will present their work. Poets will make recitation of their verses.
Panel Discussion
Eminent Scholars will participate in the panel discussion on Convergences and Divergences in World Literature.
Call for Papers
English Scholars and Researchers can present the papers on any topics or related topic listed above. The candidates who wish to present their papers are required to submit the abstract electronically at englishconference3@gmail.com in about 250 words before 20th February 2011. By 1st March 2011 they would be informed about the acceptance or rejection of the paper. In case of acceptance, the candidates are required to electronically submit the full paper at englishconference3@gmail.com by 5th March 2011. No paper should exceed 2000 words. The candidates are required to bring along with them in the Conference at least two hard copies and one soft copy of their paper. The paper must be written in MLA style sheet.
Application Form
A Two Day National Conference on
New Directions in Comparative Literature
9th and 10th March 2011
Host: Department of English
Organizing Secretary: Dr Shugufta Shaheen
Name:
Address for Correspondence
Telephone
E-Mail
Designation (Teacher/Scholar)
University/Institution
Address
Bank & Demand Draft No.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please send your completed application form with a DD of Rs. 500 payable to:
Head, Department of English,
MANUU, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
TA/DA will not be provided
Closing date for receipt of application: 1st March 2011
Registration can be done electronically at englishconference3@gmail.com
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
UGC NET December 2010 English Literature Paper II & III with Probable Answers…
UGC NET December 2010 English Literature Paper II & III with Probable Answers
Paper - II
Questions Probable Answers
1) Which is not a Revenge Tragedy – Dr. Faustus.
2) Keats said to his brother in a letter he writes what he sees and I write from imagination mine is the toughest one on whom Wordsworth/Byron - Byron.
3) Philip Larkin was going in train to London in that theme he wrote one poem–The Whitsun Weddings.
4) Origin of Species – 1859.
5) Iambic Meter got developed in which form – Sonnet.
6) Who was not in the Bloomsbury Group – Churchill.
7) Tabula Rasa – John Locke.
8) Wonder and Resonance – Brichet.
9) The New Criticism – C. R. Ransom.
10) Intentional Fallacy – Wimsatt & Beardsley.
11) Fatwa on Salman Rushdie for this work - Satanic Verses.
12) Diaspora writer – Meena Alexander and Kiran Desai.
13) Indian Philosophic Elements in the poetry of – T.S. Eliot.
14) Consonant Repetition – Alliteration.
15) Monosyllabic Ending Rhyme – Muscular Rhyme.
16) Prologue to Canterbury Tales written in– Ten Syllabic Line.
17) Who attacked to whom – Byron to Coleridge.
18) Which satirist praises and attack – Dryden.
19) The Double Dealer – Congreve.
20) A great exhibition, Architecture - Paxton.
21) Jerome’s Collier’s book Short View of Immortality in English Stage is attack on – Congreve.
22) Patrick White Voss’ Theme – On the Landscape.
23) Aston is character in Harold Pinter’s – The Caretaker.
24) Should I eat Peach is the statement of T S Elliot’s Hero – Prufrock.
25) Thou art bird is the line of which poem – Ode to the Skylark.
26) The phrase Sound and Fury taken from – William Shakespeare, The Macbeth.
27) Kipling written Victorian Resonance and Victorian Ode - III & IV.
28) Sexual Possessiveness is theme of which Shakespearean Drama- Othello.
29) Reader i married him – Jane Eyre
30) Deconstruction – Derrida.
31) Which Victorian poet hated his Middle name - Gerald Manly Hopkins.
32) Text is everything – Deconstruction.
33) Who brought printing Press in England – Caxton.
34) Seamus Heaney writes in English but his style is of – Irish.
35) The example of Angry Young text – The Portrait of an Artist as a young Man.
36) Juno and Peacock written by – Sean O Casey.
37) Frankenstein dedicated to – William Godwin.
38) Daniel Defoe got imprisoned for the writing of – The Shortest Way to Dissenters/Mall Flanders
39) The profession of the hero of Tamburlaine’s was – Shepherd.
40) The Piers Plowman attacks on the – Clergy.
41) He became famous by going against the Age- Charles Lamb.
42) A stands in The Scarlett Letter – I, II & III, (Adultery, Abel & Angel).
43) Gulliver saw the mountain like people in – Part II: the Voyage to Brobdingnag.
44) Silverman only read Browning – Metonymy.
45) Augustan Age was named because – The English writers of that time used to follow the Roman writers of Augustan Age.
46) Only Connect the concept was promoted by – E M Foster.
47) Which writer has declined the Aristotle’s theory of tragedy in real life- Bertolt Brecht.
Third Paper
1. Rethinking of home in Diaspora Writing.
2. The Demise of Grand Narrative.
Indian
3. Theme of urbanization in Ezekiel’s Poetry.
4. Middle Class Morality in Silence.
5. Use of History in The Shadow Lines.
ELT
6. Behaviorist Theory of learning in language learning.
7. Mother Tongue in English Language.
8. Audio Video aide in English pronunciation.
9. Indian writers and English language.
General
10. Ecological imagery in poetry.
11. Identity problem/crisis in modern drama.
12. Existentialism in European Novel.
13. Negative Capability.
14. Characteristic features of Picaresque Novel.
15. Role of Padma in the “Midnights Children”.
16. Significance of the final scene of the rainbow when the character enters with horses.
17. Johnson said Dramatist sacrifices virtue to convictions. Elaborate.
18. Pope said in the “Essay on Man” to vindicate the way of God to man elaborate.
19. Comparison of Aristotle’s and Plato’s mimics.
20. Characteristics features of Formalism.
21. What is carnivalesque?
22. V S Naipaul’s House for Mr. Biswas.
23. Chinua Achebe “Things Fall Apart”
24. Why Arnold has rejected personal and historical elements in poetry.
25. How words get multiple meaning in Modern Age.
26. And one question on Kafka.
Dear friends, these are the questions we have recollected means we wrote down soon after coming from examination. In this process three of my friends have helped me. Intaj and Subrata have contributed a lot. One or two others friends also helped me to do this.
Its really a tough thing to do because we have recollected almost 47 questions out of 50 and third paper almost all the questions. And the answers are probable because we are all students and we have tried somewhat and guessed the probable answers. So, thanks to all and if it helps you in any way we will consider our work worthy.
At last I want to say that if you want to modify or can bring any faults or suggestions you are most welcome…please do it…thank you all…Comments down...
Monday, January 24, 2011
UGC merged - National Seminar on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching
Chief Patron
Dr.Col. G.Thiruvasagam
Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras
Chennai – 600 005
Patron
Dr.P.Saravanan
Registrar
University of Madras
Chaiman
Dr.R.Rajkumar
Director,
IDE,University of Madras
Convener
Dr.P. Aruna Devi
Assistant Professor of English
Institute of Distance Education
University of Madras
Chief Consultant
Dr.KM.Prabhu
Associate Professor of English
Presidency College
Chennai
Advisory Committee
Dr.Saraswathy
Dr.N.Deivasundaram
Dr.Bharathi Harishankar
Prof .Vijalakshmi Srinivas
Dr.Armstrong
Dr.Alagarasan
Dr.K.Elango
Conference Coordinators
Prof.S.Balasubramaniam
Dr.R.Gowrishankar
Prof.R.Balamukunthan
Organizing Committee
Prof. Mohammed Ali
Dr.S.Kamakshi
Prof.P.Siddarthan
Prof.K.Kamalakannan
Prof .T.Vijayakumar
Prof. P. Asaithambi
Prof.Sadikul Ameen
Treasurer
Prof.Beena Anil
Dr.E.S.Latha
Last Date for abstract : 8 th Feb 2011
Intimation of Acceptance : 10th Feb 2011
Last Date for receiving DD
and Registration form : 25th Feb 2011
UGC merged -
National Seminar
on
Applied Linguistics
&
Language Teaching
15th & 16th March 2011
Organized by
Institute of Distance Education
University of Madras
Chennai – 600 005
Tamil Nadu, India
Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium
ORI – Parithimar Kalaignar Campus
University of Madras
Ph: 044 25613810
About the University
University of Madras is a prestigious institution established on 5th September 1887 and is looked upon as a mother of all old universities of southern India. This University has been growing from strength to strength widening its teaching and research activities. It has 43 extended research Institutions apart from the research institutes within the university. The University has produced two Nobel Laureates, Dr.C.V.Raman and Dr. Subramanya Chandrasehhar(Physics) in 1930 and 1983 respectively. The University is accredited to “five star Status” by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council [NACC] and UGC has conferred the title “University with Potential for Excellence” with great aplomb.
About IDE
University of Madras has developed an excellent Institute of Distance Education in 1981 to help learners to achieve their educational career and personal goals. It has completed more than 30 years of service in the field of Distance Education by reaching out students from nook and corner of the country and beyond.
Now the IDE is offering 22 undergraduate Courses, 14 Postgraduate Courses, 9 Postgraduate Science Courses, 5 Professional Courses, 16 Diploma Courses and 12 Certificate Courses.
About the Seminar
Language is multidimensional and language teaching involves various disciplines. Hence, a language teacher needs to be an expert in many fields. This seminar renders an opportunity to explore several disciplines that help a teacher to teach English effectively. English being a global language has become a second language in all most all the countries. What are the fields an English teacher should look into? Translation process -from mother tongue to English and vice versa- paves way for a good knowledge of both the languages. Technology and related disciplines like computational linguistics and corpus linguistics are potential areas of study. Similarly, since language is also experience based , cognitive linguistics play a major role in language teaching .The following are the thrust areas of the conference
Thrust Areas
Psycho linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Technology and Language teaching
Pragmatics
Corpus Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
ELT and Translation
Call for papers
Research papers are invited on any one of the given themes. Papers should be submitted in accordance with the following guidelines.
1. Full name as it should appear in certificate.
2. Designation & College Address with email.
3. Title of the paper.
4. Abstract (not more than 100 words) should be sent to
alltmar2011@gmail.com
alltmar2011@hotmail.com
Registration form will be sent along with the acceptance letter. Registration fee is Rs.750/-
For further details contact
Dr.Aruna Devi : 9444456378
Prof.Beena Anil : 9884471045
Prof. Balamunkuthan : 9841962220
Travel and Accommodation:
Participants are requested to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation. Accommodation can be availed at nominal charges from:
1. The World University Centre, No.18, Mayor Ramanathan Salai, Chetpet, Chennai-31,
Ph. 28364422 / 28362251.
All-India Students’ Seminar
The Real, the Magical and the Virtual :
The representation of reality and the politics of representation
All-India Students’ Seminar
ASIHSS
and the Department of English
Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032.
March 9-10, 2011
The representation of the ‘real’ in literature has engendered much debate and dialogue, leading to
discussions on the use of the magical and the virtual in the various genres of literature. While
realistic representation is broadly considered to be adhering to a set of empirical rules, the
magical and the virtual may be perceived as extending the perimeter of realistic representation by
delineating and juxtaposing multiple planes and dimensions of reality. The magical and the
virtual interrogate the defined and discrete spaces of the real, the illusory and the fantastic, and
create a dialogue within these conceptual spaces. The magical and the virtual could also facilitate
a deeper and more nuanced understanding of reality while suggesting alternative, de-centred
perspectives and subversion. These varied modes of representation may also lead us to probe the
politics of representation itself. Whether used as a trope or even a narrative strategy, the magical
and the virtual have at times, especially in the Post-World War II period, evolved as an essential
feature of all literature.
Abstracts of not more than 300 words are invited from graduate and undergraduate students
(abstracts from doctoral candidates will not be accepted). The papers may address but need not
be limited to the areas suggested below:
1) The politics of realism
2) The use of the magical in literature
3) Representation of the ‘real’ in Modern, Pre-Modern and Post-Modern Literature
4) The real versus the fantastic in literature
5) Creating the ‘virtual’ in science fiction
6) Magical realism in literature
7) Myth as the magical in literature
8) Graphic novels
Abstracts may be e-mailed, with “JU Student Seminar Abstract” as the subject of the mail, to
either Dr. Nandini Saha (sahanandini7@gmail.com) or Dr. Sutanuka Ghosh
(sutanuka.ghosh@gmail.com) by 29 January 2011. The deadline will not be extended. Applicants
will be informed through email by 10 February if their paper has been selected for presentation.
The seminar will be held on 9 and 10 March 2011. Students can mail these addresses for further
information, or phone the Department at (033)24146681.
A NATIONAL SEMINAR on NEW ENGLISH LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
A
NATIONAL SEMINAR
on
NEW ENGLISH LITERATURE
Sponsored by the UGC
&
The English Literary Association
08 – 09 March 2011
Annamalai Nagar – 608 002
Tamil Nadu
Department of English
The Department of English, one of the oldest in the university, is devoted to Post-Graduate studies and research in English, French, and American Studies. It has made significant contribution to knowledge in the areas of ELT, English Literature, American Literature, Indian English Literature, Spoken English, Comparative Literature, French, and English for Communication. It has signed an MoU with
New English Literature
Objectives
This UGC sponsored national seminar aims at examining how far the surge of creative and critical works in English in the decolonized countries could be called “New English Literature.” This may replace terms like “New Literatures in English,” “Colonial Literature,” “Commonwealth Literature,” “Postcolonial Literature,” etc. since the writings of the people of the colonized countries have made enough progress to seek an independent existence of their own. Altogether they form a single large corpus of literary out-put that reveals the urge for freedom of life, essential for human achievement. It represents the voice of the people of a large part of the world, who have used aptly the English language and its literary forms, once used as tools of oppression to deprive them of their identity as well as their very means of communication. New English Literature need not be treated merely “the other” of English Literature. It is independent and people-centred whose creativity is of myriad variety. New English Literature marks the renewed creative energy of the people who are adept at the use of English language. In other words, the seminar shall attempt to re-read the literature of the decolonized people to understand how far they reacted, resisted, complied with, collaborated, and were dehumanized, and hybridized before accepting English language and its literary forms for creativity. So let us find how New English Literature could exist by its own canons, values, and ways of appreciation. The following are the areas of thrust:
- The West-Asian literature.
- National Variety of English Language.
- Literature of the Decolonized Countries.
- Emergence of Women Writers.
- Resistance to Imperialism.
- Pride of Pre-colonized Life.
- Western Discourses of the Orientals.
- Dalit English Literature.
- African American Literature.
- Native Literary Forms and art.
Call for Papers
The research article, not exceeding six pages, should be related to anyone of the areas mentioned above. The abstract in hard and soft copies shall be sent along with the filled-in Registration Form to the Director of the Seminar on or before
Ø The paper shall be sent through the Head of the Institution.
Ø Seminar participants will be offered local hospitality.
Ø Presentation using LCD, OHP, etc. will be appreciated.
Ø Kindly make your own travel arrangement.
Ø Outstation participants shall pay an amount of Rs. 500/- for registration.
SEMINAR ORGANIZERS
Head of the Department: Secretary:
Dr. V. Thanuvalingam Dr. V. Vinod Kumar
Professor of English Assistant Professor of English
Mobile No.: 9486054423
E-Mail: vtlingam@yahoo.com E-Mail: drvvinodkumar@yahoo.com
Director: Deputy Secretary:
Dr. M. Anbanandam Mrs. R. Vijaya
Professor of English Assistant Professor of English
Mobile No.: 9894626243
E-Mail: manbanandam@yahoo.co.in E-Mail: rvijaya0501@gmail.com
Co-ordinator:
Dr. K. Palaniyappan
Professor of English
Mobile No.: 9443238235
E-Mail: Kpmvrediffmail.com
REGISTRATION
- Name Photo :
- Designation :
- Address: (i) Official :
(ii) Residential:
- Telephone (off.):
(Res.): (
(E-Mail):
- Total Yrs. of Service :
- Title of the paper :
- Accommodation Required :
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Head of the Department/Institution
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