Thesis, B.A. (EL)

Women in gothic fiction and their critics

Islam, Prathama Shuddha (Independent University, Bangladesh, 2025-12)

Gothic novels have developed a reputation of featuring a certain stereotype of women to the extent that the "damsel in distress" is considered a Gothic trope. In this paper, I re-assess the fairness of that analysis by ...
Upward mobility and the naturalization of household norms in Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar

Oishee, Nurjahan (Independent University, Bangladesh, 2025-12)

This thesis examines the relationship between economic transformation, class mobility, and ideological change in Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghochar through a Marxist theoretical framework. The study explores how the family’s transition ...
Exile and Isolation: Transformation in Oedipus at Colonus

Sakhawat, Jafna Binte (Independent University, Bangladesh, 2025-12)

In the second play of the trilogy, Oedipus the King, Oedipus, solves the riddle of the Sphinx, saves Thebes and becomes its king. Proud and nonchalant, he openly criticized the person who is the cause of pollution and ...