IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature

1-8

Authors: SNIGDHA NAGAR

Following on the footsteps of writers like Louis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl’s nonsensical verses create a realm of semiotic confusion which negates formal diction and meaning. This temporary reshuffling of reality actually affirms that which it negates. In other words, as long as it is transitory the ‘nonsense’ serves to establish more firmly the authority of the ‘sense.’ My paper attempts to locate Roald Dahl’s verse in the field of literary nonsense in as much as it avows that which it appears to parody. Set at the brink of modernism these poems are a playful inditement of Victorian conventionality. The three collections of verses Rhyme Stew, Dirty Beasts, and Revolving Rhyme subvert social paradigms through their treatment of censorship and female sexuality. Meant primarily for children, these verses raise a series of uncomfortable questions by alienating the readers with what was once familiar territory.

13-18

Authors: SEIDIKENOVA A, ORYNBAYEVA U & ZHANTYLEUOVA G

The article describes the concept “own and alien” in Kazakh, French and English culture. We tried to analyze importance of concept “own and alien”. In addition, was made a comparative analysis of Kazakh, French and English proverbs relating to “own and alien”. The relevance of this study is determined by the following factors: The concept of “own and alien” refers to the most important landmarks of human behavior; it is one of the leading concepts of the psychology of interpersonal relationships; Identification of the national linguistic characteristics of proverbs and a comparison of this concept in Kazakh culture with the same characteristics of the same concept in French and English culture give a chance to present the system of value priorities more clearly.

27-30

Authors: M. ARTHI &.C. ARUL THERESA

In the contemporary society one of the latest burning issues is, various crisis in the family. Today both men and women adhere to free modern life style and so they hate to live under marital roof. Both are also conscious of their personal salvation and individuality, so to attain an independent status they shatter the marital norms and run to seek their roots. In this way, the main intention of this conceptual paper is to bring out how Anita Nair, an outstanding Indian literary writer has brought out the issue of today’s marriage, with particular reference to her novel Lessons in Forgetting.

39-54

Authors: JYOTI MISHRA

When people migrate from one land to another, they take with them their culture, their traditions and their religion, which demarcates them as the ‘other’ and at the same time is the marker of their identity. But what happens to the Gods in the foreign land? Do they transmute from spiritual and religious figures to cultural symbols and then finally merges into popular culture to their death and eventual ‘re-avatarization’? I use the term ‘re-avatarization’ to signify the reimagination of ancient accepted views of certain ideas, in this case, the idea of Gods with all its associated power and omniscience to something created out of human imagination more connected to current times. Neil Gaiman’s American Gods talks about the migration of these Gods with their people into the ‘new land’ America where they either became lost as their followers dwindled and lost belief, or became transmuted into other avatars due to their re-imagination by the people. Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid series introduces many such Gods, Gods lost from memory and ones still remembered, from all over the world. Terry Pratchett in his Discworld series talks about the power of belief which sustains and gives power to certain entities to be Gods. What I am interested is in the re-imagination of Gods from powerful religious and symbolic figures to popular icons through their dissemination in literature, notably fantasy fiction. Gaiman and Hearne have taken Gods from various cultures and pantheons and in this article I would like to map their transmutation and re-imagination in popular culture. As an offshoot, I would also like to analyse this similar transformation with regard to the Hindu Gods from India. It seems to me that with Hinduism, the philosophical, the spiritual and the didactic aspect has been popular for some time with our global export of so called “Indian spirituality” at the hands of myriad spiritual gurus. But with regard to Hindu Gods, there are different politics at play. The portrayal of Hindu Gods in Gaiman and Hearne’s books for instance is fascinating as it gives off vibes of the ‘Exotic Orient’ from the point of view of the ‘West’. There are many subtle variations in their depiction which I would like to ponder over with all its resultant implications and politics. I believe that through this study we can get an idea of subtle cultural processes at work that assimilates elements of one culture into another while preserving its sense of the ‘other’ and the ‘exotic’ but sanitizing it to an acceptable level for the dominant host culture. It seems to me that it is important to maintain this duality to attract people to its exotic allure and at the same time to tone down its essential ‘alienness’ so as to not detract the audience. Because of the settings of both Gaiman and Hearne’s books, the US has become the fantastical grounds where I will be analysing this process of assimilation and re-avatarization of various Gods from around the world and from America itself, that is the Native American Gods. What does it all signify? Does it indicate the elevation of religious figures and the importance of religionor does it signify a kind of death by their transmutation into pop icons? These are few of the questions that I would like to use as my analytical framework as I seek to interrogate the process of cultural migration over time.

61-68

Authors: ZAHRA SONIA BARGHANI

This paper studies Decameron written by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio under Althusserian Theory. Louis Althusser’s neo-Marxist theory makes the notion that Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) exist in societies and unknowing rule the members of that society. For this study three stories of Decameron, which are told by the character Dioneno, are scrutinized and the ISAs present in the stories are recognized. These ISAs are then analyzed in relation to the historical, cultural and social setting of Boccaccio’s 14th century Italy. The study reaches the results that Boccaccio has employed Dioneo has a speaker for himself in the tales and uses the stories to shed light on the norms of his society and often, in disguise, stand up against them.

81-88

Authors: V. PURENDRA PRASAD & B. ANVITHA

Safety Management, Safety Climate, Safety Performance In the twentieth century, as technology grew by leaps and bounds; associated hazards also grew with it. This resulted in collective efforts and thinking in the direction of controlling work related hazards and accidents. Thus, safety management developed and became an important part of industrial management. While considerable research has been reported on the topic of safety management in industries from various parts of the world, there is scarcity of literature from India. It is logical to think that a clear understanding of the critical safety management practices and their relationships with accident rates and management system certifications would help in the development and implementation of safety management systems.

95-108

Authors: KHANSAA HASSAN HUSSAIN

The quality of teaching depends on the dedication and devotion of the teacher towards the subject of the knowledge. This study aims at identifying and classifying Iraqi teachers’ attitude toward using communicative approach as a teaching method for '' Iraq Opportunities Textbook ''. The study is restricted to the teachers (males and females) of the first, second, third, and fourth year secondary schools in Iraq during the academic year 2013-2014. In this study, 40 female teachers and 40 male teachers are included. Sixty teachers are chosen randomly to represent the main sample of the study. In order to collect the necessary data, a Checklist is applied as the instrument of this study. The Results indicate that there are statistically significant differences at
0.05 in the teachers’ attitude toward using CLT as a teaching method for '' Iraq Opportunities textbook''.