http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/221 2026-04-05T23:44:49Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3861 Manipulative Language of Advertising Maryam, Homaera This paper titled, "Manipulative Language of Advertising" is part of the course requirement for obtaining the degree of M.A in English from East West University. I made this study under the supervision of my teacher Mr. Asit Roy Choudhury, Associate Professor, Department of English, East West University. Since I did not come across many identical studies, I had to collect and analyze all available information Time constraint and paucity of resources compelled me to operate within a very limited area. However, I tried to make the best use of what I came across. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006-12-18T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3860 Problems of Diaspora in South Asian Writings Rahman, Mohammad Simon This dissertation analyzes the work of two renowned writers who know a thing or two concerning Diaspora and its effects. First, there is Jhumpa Lahiri, a Pulitzer Prize winner, who was born in London on 11 July 1967 of fudian (Calcuttan to be precise) parentage and grew up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. She now lives in New York with her husband and son. Her novel The Namesake concerns an fudian family that faces the cultural and generation clashes caused by their Diaspora in the U.S. Lahiri's visits to Calcutta with her parents was bound to have an effect on her writing due to the divided sense of identity and the clash of cultures and her writing materials concern her own diasporic experiences. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006-10-18T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3859 Pinter’s Use of A Room as a Setting in His Plays Islam, Shahina Harold Pinter (1930 -) is probably the subject of more academic commentary than any other living playwright. Born in Hackney in London's East End, he is the child of working-class Eastern European Jewish ancestry, and studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Central School of Speech and Drama. He is one of the most influential English playwrights of his generation. He is regarded as "a complete man of the theatre" (Bold, 7), for he is equally proficient as an actor, director or playwright. He has written in different genres and his work displays his expertise in 'various voices'. Using apparently commonplace characters and settings, he invests his plays with an atmosphere of fear, horror and mystery. The peculiar tension he creates often derives as much from the long silences between speeches which are ambiguous, yet vividly vernacular. His austere language is extremely distinctive. His plays frequently concern themselves with struggles for power in which the issues are obscure and the reasons for defeat and victory undefined. A common aphorism about Pinter's play is "A film with the final reel missing" (Copeland, unnumbered). This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006-10-18T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3854 The Shadow Lines: A Quest Beyond Borders Ahmed, Rubana We are born within boundaries of nations. The inevitability of territorial i dentity is a concept that has been challenged by the subjective needs for 'spaces' in recent years. Therefore, most studies reflect a natural tendency to give up on ' places' and focus on 'spaces'. Space inherently indicates a free-floating area which, unless given specific dimensions, is a flexibl e concept that accommodates any life. This space may give birth to hybridity, confusion, melancholy, disill usionment, continuity, interstitiality, creativity, diaspora, or even surrender of the sel f. In other words, this space offers absol ute freedom to steer identity to any direction that it chooses to al ign itself with, at any point of time. In a postmodern, postcolonial or rather de-col onized worl d, the self is relieved from the burden of specificities. What then forms identity? H ow does nationalism fit its moul d? Can identity be over and above fixed spaces? If so, is it the burden of hybridity that gives birth to diaspora? Is it the same burden that l eads to systematic repression, resilience, and finally, obli vi on? If ever the self chooses to live within the circle of l ife again, does it give birth to a new person burdened by history and in a state of "in-between-ness"? This essay will attempt to discuss these questions in the l ight of Amitav Ghosh' s novel , The Shadow Lines. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006-08-27T00:00:00Z