Though the Hollywood Film Musical is conventionally centred on a heterosexual couple with antithetical attributes and attitudes, they are very often surrounded by supporting actors who join the singing and dancing almost spontaneously. Group singing and dancing had been a structural requirement in the case of backstage musicals that flourished in profusion in the genre’s infancy. This article...
On 20 February 2022, Leo Bersani, who has been one of the leading philosophers, literary critics and intellectuals in gender and sexuality studies, passed away at the age of 90. In this essay, I shall draw attention to Leo Bersani’s theoretical oeuvre and attempt to offer a critical assessment of his major contributions to the field of LGBTIQ+ studies. The essay reveals that Bersani’s ideas...
Poetic language includes three key components: sound, shape, and sense. However, every poem has its own context and is an intertext with other poems. Therefore, the substantial use of alliteration, rhyming, lyrical expression, and clichés, as well as other language devices that bring attention to words, sounds, or other device decorations, is a necessary tool and trick in the scientific production...
Poetic language includes three key components: sound, shape, and sense. However, every poem has its own context and is an intertext with other poems. Therefore, the substantial use of alliteration, rhyming, lyrical expression, and clichés, as well as other language devices that bring attention to words, sounds, or other device decorations, is a necessary tool and trick in the...
For an internationally acclaimed Indian English poet, Debasish Lahiri, time is a recording of the lingering of light, in nature, in the mind. His recent collection of poems, Tether that Light (2022) is an attempt to follow that trail of light left in selected Indian miniature paintings, particularly Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, and Deccani paintings. The intricateartworks...
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