LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

HOME PAGE

BOOKS FOR YOU TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FREE!

REFERENCE MATERIAL

BACK ISSUES

  • E-mail your articles and book-length reports in Microsoft Word to languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Contributors from South Asia may e-mail their articles to
    B. Mallikarjun,
    Central Institute of Indian Languages,
    Manasagangotri,
    Mysore 570006, India     mallikarjun@ciil.stpmy.soft.net.

  • PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES GIVEN IN HOME PAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LIST OF CONTENTS.

  • Your articles and book-length reports should be written following the APA, MLA, LSA, or IJDL Stylesheet.

  • The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, or suggest modifications to the articles submitted for publication, and to make suitable stylistic adjustments. High quality, academic integrity, ethics and morals are expected from the authors and discussants.

Copyright © 2010
M. S. Thirumalai
Custom Search

Women Characters in Arun Joshi’s Novels - An Embodiment of Human Values

Shivani Vashist, Ph.D.

Arun Joshi and His Novels – Emphasis on the Senselessness of Contemporary Life

Arun Joshi’s literary career began in 1960’s. He produced 5 novels and a short story collection The Survivor. His novels emphasise the absurdity and senselessness of contemporary life in which technological domination has reduced man to a marionette caught up in life’s chaotic surge with no avenue to escape. Almost all his protagonists represent common man’s disenchantment with materialistic aggrandisement. The novelist shows the hollowness of relationships and the absence of any ameliorating vision in a world order dominated by technology through several incidents.

Arun Joshi’s Female Characters

Much emphasis has been given to Joshi’s male characters, but his female characters too need due recognition. His novels are replete with association and interaction of protagonists with women characters who are the torch bearers to the ones caught in the labyrinth.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Shivani Vashist, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean-cum-Assistant Professor
Lovely Professional University
Jalandhar
Punjab
India
drshivanideepak@yahoo.co.in
deepshivktk@gmail.com
Custom Search
  • Click Here to Go to Creative Writing Section

  • Send your articles
    as an attachment
    to your e-mail to
    languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Please ensure that your name, academic degrees, institutional affiliation and institutional address, and your e-mail address are all given in the first page of your article. Also include a declaration that your article or work submitted for publication in LANGUAGE IN INDIA is an original work by you and that you have duly acknowledged the work or works of others you either cited or used in writing your articles, etc. Remember that by maintaining academic integrity we not only do the right thing but also help the growth, development and recognition of Indian scholarship.