Vol 2 – Special Issue (May 2026)

This study analyses the observational narrative technique used by Annie Ernaux in Exteriors to represent everyday life in suburban Paris. Unlike her earlier works, which focus on personal memory and inner emotions, this text emphasizes external observation and present-time reality.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day explores the themes of nostalgia, alienation and emotional loss through the life of Stevens, an English butler who reflects on his past while travelling through the countryside. The novel is narrated through Stevens’s memories, which gradually reveal the sacrifices he made in the name of...

Subjective trauma is referred to as an individual experience. It is a unique, internal and psychological experience of adistressing event, and values the impact of the event as it is perceived, processed and captured by the individual. Falling as a novel, reveals maternal influences on this ground, and analyzed with female identity, it covers...

This paper examines Larissa Behrendt’s After Story through the dual lenses of Bibliotherapy and Narrative Medicine, exploring how literature and storytelling function as therapeutic practices to foster healing and resilience.

This paper explores the application of Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity to Zadie Smith’s novel NW. Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (self-hood) provides a framework for understanding the fragmented identities of Smith’s characters, who navigate the tensions between continuity and transformation in contemporary urban life.

This paper explores the application of Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity to Zadie Smith’s novel NW. Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (self-hood) provides a framework for understanding the fragmented identities of Smith’s characters, who navigate the tensions between continuity and transformation in contemporary urban life.

The pivotal character Beloved in Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a mysterious character. The other characters in the novel interpret Beloved as the ghost of Sethe’s dead daughter, restored in the form of a young woman who wants to take revenge on her mother for killing her. There is another interpretation that she...

Anxiety is considered one of the most persistent obstacles for beginners in learning a second language. The paper tries to elucidate the major cause of anxiety while uttering second language, and examines the actual reasons for effective barriers. The objective of the research includes how the cognitive factors are interconnected...

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian born Canadian writer. He is known for the portrayal of Parsi people in his fiction. He portrays the miserable condition of the common people of India in his work Such a Long Journey. A country’s growth and its freedom depend on the people who govern it. The...

This abstract examines the application of Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’ principle as a framework for psychological control in Veronica Roth’s Divergent. In the dystopian ruins of Chicago, the faction system functions as a macroscopic Panopticon, where the constant threat of being observed forces citizens to internalize societal norms and regulate their own...