KMC – Kathmandu Model College

Humanities

Order of Mind and Society: Reading The Winter’s Tale vis-à-vis Selected Teachings of Buddha

-Shiva Rijal, Central Department of English and Kathmandu Model College, TU, Nepal Abstract This paper reads The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare and Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness collected mainly in The Middle Length Discourse of Buddha and The Dhammapada together. Unable is the human mind to predict the kind of thoughts it might experience next, […]

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Indeterminacy of Meaning in William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”

– Nabaraj Dhungel, Department of English, Campus of the International Languages and Kathmandu Model College, TU, Nepal Abstract This study attempts to make deconstructive reading of William Blake’s poem “The Sick Rose”. It also shows how the literary text can be interpreted from multiple perspectives deriving infinite meanings from the same text. The major motive

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Angst of Displacement in V.S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds

-Laxman Bhatta, Central Department of English and Kathmandu Model College,TU, Nepal- Abstract This paper aims to explore how Naipaul articulates dislocated and disjointed sensibility of the individuals drifting in diasporic location. Presenting precarious situatedness between ancestral and adopted homeland, Willy, the anti-hero of Magic Seeds, represents the problems of post-coloniality such as difficulties in discovering

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Mythical Association of Male Body in Baahubali Series

Kalpana Thapa, Department of English, Kathmandu Model College, TU, Nepal Abstract This study entitled as “Mythical Association of Male Body in Baahubali Series” explores how S.S. Rajamauli destabilizes the cinematic convention of the constructed female body in consideration of the male gaze in the Bollywood film industry. It investigates the entertainment industry’s presentation of the

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Transnational Ethos in Adichie’s Americanah

– Badri Prasad Acharya (Central Department of English and Kathmandu Model College, TU, Nepal) & Prabal Koirala (Department of English, Apollo International College, PU, Nepal) Abstract This paper analyses Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah as a transnational fiction that shows how transnational identity is formulated in a liminal space. The issues like trans-nationality, globalization,

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