MA in English Language and Literature: Recent submissions

  • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Thakurmar Jhuli 
    Billah, Md. Masum (East West University, 4/16/2013)
    Storytelling has occupied an important place through time in cultures across the globe and, in each, has attained an important conduit of expression of their integrated socio-cultural ethos (Mitra 2007: 77). Bruner (1990) ...
  • In Search of “Self" in The House on Mango Street 
    Sultana, Rajia (East West University, 6/12/2012)
    This dissertation studies Esperanza Cordero’s search for a “self” that would establish herself as a writer. In her quest she found that she had to take some revolutionary steps to reach her goal. At the same time, she also ...
  • Gender Representation in Rock Music 
    Samadi, Rownak Jahan (East West University, 2/7/2012)
    What does it actually feel when we hear the word ‘Rock’ and how is it really perceived when we listen to the ‘rock music’? The matter of fact is that as a genre of popular music, rock music has always been most fascinating ...
  • The Shadow Lines as a Political Novel 
    Alam, Nasih Ul Wadud (East West University, 11/21/2012)
    Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, published in 1988, is a political novel that focuses mostly on nationalism, the meaninglessness of partition and the 1964 communal riots which occurred in Calcutta, Dhaka and Khulna. This ...
  • The Shadow Lines as a Political Novel 
    Alam, Nasih Ul Wadud (East West University, 11/21/2012)
    Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, published in 1988, is a political novel that focuses mostly on nationalism, the meaninglessness of partition and the 1964 communal riots which occurred in Calcutta, Dhaka and Khulna. This ...
  • Possession: A Romance as a Postmodern Novel 
    Akter, Sabrina (East West University, 12/12/2011)
    Possession: A Romance (1990), by A.S.Byatt, is indeed a romance, but also a mystery, a satire, a detective story and a fairy tale, a novel about English Departments and both a historical and contemporary work of fiction. ...
  • English Medium Schools: Do they lack native culture 
    Zaman, Shammi (East West University, 4/17/2011)
    In this research the researcher is trying to show how the English Medium Schools impede the development of the country. The research sites were located at ten English Medium Schools in Dhaka city. The research objectives ...
  • A Translation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye 
    Matin, Walima (East West University, 10/30/2011)
    “A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment (Morrison,1970,1994:162) This extract has been taken from Toni ...
  • English in Bangladesh as a Corporate Language: Problems and Solutions 
    Hasan, Mohammad Mahmudul (East West University, 8/23/2011)
    In Bangladesh a number of foreign languages like Arabic, French, Japanese, Persian, etc. are used for various purposes. Besides, for a number of reasons only one foreign language i.e., English is taught as a compulsory ...
  • Translation of three different texts types from English to Bengali 
    Rahman, Muhammad Shafiqur (East West University, 9/15/2011)
    A translator attempting translations from one language to another is confronted with many linguistic and cultural problems, which he or she needs to tackle effectively. Both linguistic and cultural factors can cause problems ...
  • Common People in the Poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth in the Romantic Period 
    Choudhury, Tahmina Akter (East West University, 8/7/2011)
    Inclusion of the common people through introducing simple language that represents the ordinary life style of the marginalized, ignored as well as deprived section of the society in the late 18th century and early 19th ...
  • Heart of Darkness and its Critics: Controversies and Assessments 
    Habib, Sadia (East West University, 12/12/2011)
    Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a magnum opus of twentieth century literary studies. No longer confined to the category of modern literature the novel has become a source of versatile criticism. After Achebe’s indictment ...
  • A Study on Teacher’s Competency in Context of Facilitating Teaching Learning Progress at Secondary Level in Bangladesh 
    Khan, Touhida Mehjabin (East West University, 12/11/2011)
    Bangladesh, a unitary and sovereign People’s Republic achieved dependence on 26th march, 1971 and came into existence after 9 months liberation war-proved devastating (Feroza, 2007). With a density of 977 persons per sq ...
  • Stereotyping of women as a domestic being in Bangladeshi television commercials: A critical study of discourse 
    Haq, Abu Reza Nurul (East West University, 8/2/2011)
    Traditionally it is believed that men and women have different sets of gender roles (Giddens, 2006; Schaefer, 2010; Miaji 2010; Spencer, 1997; Rao, 2007). Parsons and Bales, two Functionalist theorists, say (in Schaefer, ...
  • CLT in Theory and Practice 
    Peyar, Ahmed (East West University, 8/2/2011)
    English is taught as a compulsory subject in our country from class I to XII but after twelve years of learning, English remains a fearful subject among the students. Still most of the students fail in English in SSC and ...
  • Methodological Differences of English Language Learning in Class 1 of English Medium and Bangla Medium School 
    Ferdousi, Farhana (East West University, 8/2/2011)
    The research is intended for teachers and researchers interested in English language teaching and learning. It might give them an overview with data to understand the situation of teaching practice and the methodology used ...
  • Representation of the Subaltern in Elias’s Novels 
    Akter, Sultana Nazia (East West University, 6/1/2011)
    This study engages with the idea of the representation of the subaltern in Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s two novels, Chilekothar Sepai and Khoabnama. The idea of the subaltern is a complex one and both Gramsci and Gayatri ...
  • Post Modernism in kurt Vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5 and cat's cradle 
    Rahat S. Wahid (East West University, 4/1/2005)
    My major focus in this study is to show how Kurt Vonnegut in his fictions Car’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five parodies conventional ways of thinking and transports us to the postmodernism world of hyper-reality where the ...
  • Dissertation on Translation Studies 
    Rahman, Mahatabur (East West University, 12/1/2005)
    Born in 1861, Rabindranath was one of the key figures of the Bengal Renaissance. He started writing at an early age, and by the turn of the century had become a household name in Bengal as a poet, a songwriter, a playwright, ...
  • Teachers' and Lerners' awareness of Psychological disposition towards communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh 
    Andalib, Alina (East West University, 1/5/2005)
    The topic for this study is teachers’ and learners awareness of and psychological disposition towards communicative language Teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh. Positive and negative attitudes towards a pedagogic approach are ...

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