DUJES Volume 30 | March 2022 | CONTENTS



Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) Vol. 30 | MARCH 2022 | CONTENTS

Editors

Lakhipriya Gogoi            Lakshminath Kagyung




EDITORS' NOTE

Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES, ISSN [Print] 0975-5659, ISSN [Online] 2581-7833) volume 30 marks a significant moment in its journey that coincides with the glorious hundred years of some seminal works of the Modernist intervention in English literature, namely, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (1922), to name but a few. Taking this as an opportunity to revisit the Modernist movement in literature and its trajectory till the present time through a spectrum of literary works, this special volume primarily focuses on reading modernism from contemporary critical trajectories. Besides revisiting the particular historical juncture, this issue of the journal remembers the life and contribution of Professor Dilip Kumar Barua (1933–2021), a key figure in the inception of this journal. We fondly remember Professor Barua’s significant contribution to the growth of the journal, then titled Gleanings (1976–77). Moreover, Professor Barua, as a connoisseur of Modernism, translated Eliot’s The Waste Land into Assamese as Chan Pora Mati (1998). This volume of DUJES commemorates along with hundred years of modernism Professor Dilip Kumar Barua’s contribution to the growth of English studies in this part of the region.

DILIP KUMAR BARUA (1933 ‒ 2021): A TRIBUTE
K Narayana Chandran
Professor,
Institution of Eminence Research Chair in Literary and Cultural Theory,
Department of English, University of Hyderabad

Madeleines, Memories, and Mental Reconstructions: The Art of Modernist Fiction
N Rama Devi Murru
Professor,
Department of Indian and World Literatures,
The English and Foreign Languages University

Reading Modernism in The Waste Land: Eliot’s Use of Montage and Collage
Himadri Lahiri
Professor of English,
School of Humanities, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata

The Spiritual Dimension of The Waste Land Considered in Terms of markata kishora nyaya and marjara kishora nyaya
Sanjeev Kumar Nath
Professor,
Department of English, Gauhati University

Have You Arrived Yet? Attempting a Disambiguation of the Modernist-Postmodernist Dichotomy
Seema C
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomous)

Reconceptualising Love in the Context of Modernism: Comparing Neruda’s “Tonight I Can Write” and Faiz’s “Do Not Ask From Me, My Beloved, Love Like That Former One”
Dhurjjati Sarma
Assistant Professor,
Department of Modern Indian Languages & Literary Studies,
Gauhati University

Sartrean Existentialism and Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream
Smita Banerjee
Associate Professor,
Department of English,
Delhi College of Arts & Commerce,
University of Delhi

Modernist Dramaturgy: The Dream Play Technique of August Strindberg
Nisha M
Associate Professor,
Department of English,
Government College, Malappuram,
University of Calicut

“The mind is its own place”: A Psychological Interpretation of Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones
Rishav Paul
Research Scholar,
Department of English,
Savitribai Phule Pune University

Aldous Huxley, Freud, and Sexology: The Figure of Trans Femininity
Silba Rangsa Marak
Research Scholar,
Department of English,
North Eastern Hills University, Tura Campus
&
Dwijen Sharma
Professor,
Department of English,
North Eastern Hills University, Tura Campus

Like a Tangerine: Despair, Death, and the Poetic Self in Jibanananda Das’s Select Poems
Animesh Bag
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
K.K. Das College, Kolkata

Making New the Language of Love: A Comparative Study of Select Works of T. S. Eliot and Haruki Murakami
Anish Bhattacharyya
Assistant Professor,
Department of English Language and Literature, 
Adamas University

“Lift we our ears, eyes of the darkness”: Making “soundsense” of Joycean Word-matter
Rishiraj Pal
Research Scholar,
Department of English,
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan

Ethos/Pathos in Transformation: The Ambiguity of Existence in Margery Williams’ The Velveteen Rabbit and David Garnett’s Lady into Fox
Suvam Nath Sharma
Research Scholar,
Department of English,
Assam University, Silchar

Modernism, Memory and Time: A Reading of Louis MacNeice’s ‘Prayer Before Birth’, ‘The Sunlight on the Garden’ and ‘Star-gazer’
Saurabhi Sarmah
Associate professor,
Department of English,
The Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat

Comprehension and Care of the Ailing Mind: Modernity’s Predicaments in Interpretation and Representation of Madness
Bini B S
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad.

Crisis and Paralysis of Masculinity in James Joyce’s “The Dead”: A Reading
Payal Jain
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Cotton University, Guwahati

“Fact and fiction are so interwoven”: Corporeal Reimagining of Siegfried Sassoon as Poet and Patient in Pat Barker’s Regeneration
Basil N Darlong Diengdoh
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh

Mulling Over Madness in Literature: Representation of Female Insanity in Graham Swift’s Waterland
Meena Sharma
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh

Ajit Barua’s “Introduction to “The Waste Land” - An English Translation
Sultan Ali Ahmed
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
B.H. College, Howly