Janneker Lawrence

English Axis: A Review of Literature and Language ISSN: 3107-362X (Online) English Axis: A Review of Literature and Language, is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal that focuses on the critical and scholarly study of Literature in English and the English Language. The journal aims to publish articles that explore different aspects...

Vol 2 – Special Issue (March 2026) - Table of Contents

The Malayalam film Innale, directed by P. Padmarajan, exhibits a subtle representation of trauma, and shows the internal disruption it causes. This paper examines how trauma is portrayed in a subtler way,rather than through any violent actions. This paper presents how the film uses more nuanced and subtler film narrative to show acomplex psychological theme, through clear and minimalistic story telling.

Chinese literature has often portrayed women as figures of sacrifice and care rather than active decision-makers. In contemporary Danmei (gay) literature, attention is usually focused on male–male relationships, cultivation power, and sect politics. This paper examines, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù,...

More than a classic children’s novel of revitalisation, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden isa proto-therapeutic text that anticipates modern bibliotherapy․ The garden is a space of transfiguration, trauma, illness, and isolation, giving way to growth, strength, and relational healing․ The text challenges to see bibliotherapy not as a supplement to psychology, but as a re-visioning of how stories themselves heal. 

The aim of this paper is to postulate the idea of ‘catastrophic time’ as a vast psychic split in the cultural memory framework.

The Namesake presents a compelling exploration of diasporic identity and the psychological complexities of migration in a globalized world. This paper examines how Jhumpa Lahiri portrays cultural displacement and generational tension through the experiences of the Ganguli family, particularly Gogol Ganguli’s struggle with his name as a marker of fractured identity.

Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929) presents a narrative through which the protagonist Frederic Henry navigates choices that correspond to the philosophical stages articulated by Søren Kierkegaard. This article examines how the novel structures Henry’s progression from a detached participant in war to a committed lover, from a deserter to an isolated survivor, demonstrating parallels with Kierkegaard’s aesthetic, ethical, and religious spheres of existence.